Chapter 152: Liu Jinhai's confession, once again

Jinhai paused just for a fraction of a second, but he said nothing.

Nana waited patiently.

“Why not?”, he asked back, “I know she was deliberately creating problems for you. Now, you don’t have to worry about her.”

“I…appreciate your gesture. But your help was not right after…what happened. It will only cause more misunderstandings.”

Silence.

“I knew she was lying. She wouldn’t have been able to kick us out. And even if worst comes to worst, we would have left. I have some savings. I could have set up a new place for Natsukashi. It would have taken time, but I could have managed it.”

Jinhai walked around his desk and pulled out some papers.

“Here. This is the agreement of that place. I’m giving it to you. Read and sign it. It will be yours now.”

She widened her eyes.

“I just said you don’t need to help me. This will be too much. I cannot afford to buy the place. I will not be able to pay the debt.”

“You don’t owe me anything.”, he said.

She said in frustration, “Please don’t help me anymore! Why are you so nice to me!” she lowered her head with tears threatening to fall.

Jinhai inched closer to her. He cupped her face in his palm and said,

“Because I simply love you.”

She looked into those penetrating, unblinking eyes resolutely expressing his love.

“Last night’s confession wasn’t a lie. But you may think it was the drug talking. So today, once again, in all my consciousness and senses, I Liu Jinhai confess that I have fallen in love with you.”

His words shook her heart.

He caressed her cheek, “If I won’t be nice to you, then to whom will I?”

She stuttered, “I-I don’t want to know anything. Please …don’t involve yourself in my problems anymore…”

He smiled amusingly, “Why? Are you afraid that you will fall for me even more than you already have?”

Nana froze.

“W-what?”

As Jinhai stepped closer towards her, she nervously started stepping back. Her back hit the wall, and she got trapped between it and him.

“You…please keep your distance Liu Jinhai.”, she said, sensing dangerous proximity.

“Distance?” he raised his eyebrows. He came even closer, now their faces being only centimeters apart. He whispered in her ear, “I think we had already breached every sense of distance last night.”

Her face flushed furiously.

“You!”

He chuckled softly.

“What do you want?” she asked. She thought that she had made a grave mistake of entering a lion’s den.

“The answer to my confession.”, he said, looking straight in her eyes.

She looked at him, stunned. “You…I don’t have an answer for you.”

“Trying to escape from your feelings?” He tilted his head, “You can run away from me, but how will you run away from your heart that has feelings for me?”

She pursed her lips.

“I want to leave. Let me go. Thank you for your time Mr. Liu Jinhai.”

She quickly tried to escape, but he just as promptly entrapped her in his arms. He held her chin and narrowed his eyes, “I already said to drop the salutation. Call me by my name.”

“There is no need.”

“Call me by my name.”, he repeated.

Suddenly a secretary knocked from outside. “Sir. The meeting will start in ten minutes.”

Nana secretly sighed in relief; that didn’t go unnoticed by Jinhai.

“Cancel it.”

Nana was stupefied. “You are busy. I will leave.”

“Don’t disturb me and don’t let anybody in until I say otherwise.”, He coldly said.

“Y-yes, sir.”, the secretary was confused but left.

Why are you so stubborn! Nana thought.

“Let me go!”

“My. Name.”, he enounced each word. “You are not going anywhere until we set that straight.”

She felt exasperated. “Liu Jinhai…”, she mumbled softly.

“Louder.”

She gritted her teeth. “Liu. Jinhai. Are you happy now?”

He smiled, satisfied. “En.”

She once again tried to leave, but he didn’t budge. She took a deep breath.

“What now?”

“I still didn’t hear your answer to my confession.”

Silence.

She couldn’t say yes and complicate the already complicated matter to a whole another level. She couldn’t say no either and lie to herself and him.

“Please…don’t force me to answer that.”, she sadly said.

He stared at her hard. He smiled faintly. “You may not say anything, but I got my answer.”

He gently pulled her in his embrace and kissed her hair. “I’m sorry.”

She bit her lips hard.

“But, I mean it. Take the agreement and sign it.”

“I’m sorry. It is not a matter of a few Yuan. I cannot exploit your goodwill and accept such an expensive place for free. My pride won’t allow that.”

“Then you can pay me back; however it is comfortable for you.”

“But I cannot. What I earn is spent mostly in the twin’s school fees and other household expenditures. It will take too much time to return this big amount.”

His eyes sparkled secretly. Bingo!

“Alright, then. I have an idea.”

“What?”

“Just like last time, start working with Liu Corps again.”

She was shocked.

“How much ever you earn here will solely be used to return the money. And you already know by working in the past that the pay is very high. It won’t take much time to repay it fully.”

“How can I do that!? Work here after so much has happened? No.”

He smiled. “Your choice. I’m adamant about giving the plot to you. You cannot convince me otherwise. I also said that you don’t owe me anything. If despite that, you wish to pay back, then this is the only option.”

She was stuck.

Once again, fate has brought them together. She thought that both of them would go back to living their lives just like before. They will never cross paths again.

But this…

“I-I…please give me some time to think.”

He squinted his eyes. “Okay. Whenever you have made the decision, just come again. I will be here.”

She weakly nodded.

He finally moved and let her go.

Without wasting any second further, she immediately dashed out.

After she left, Jinhai went back to his desk. He opened the bottom-most drawer and took out an exquisite chess set where all the pieces were already arranged on some squares. It looked like it was the middle of a game.

He saw the Queen three rows ahead and lifted it to put her beside the square where the King stood.

He smiled, “My Queen…you can run away as much as you want, but your King won’t let you. He will bring you back to where you truly belong. Your place was, is, and will always be beside the King standing with him with your head held high.”