Night Fire Lingering

Chapter 329 My Conscience Is Uneasy

Jiang Xing pursed her lips, unsure of what to say for a moment.

She raised her hand to take off the diamond ring. But as soon as she made the move, Lou Qi pressed her down and stopped her.

"If you don't want it, then what are you looking for?" Lou Qi stared at her expressionlessly, unusually showing no restraint in his oppressive aura when facing Jiang Xing.

He would no longer give her any chance to escape or back down.

“I don’t know much about jewelry, but I can guess that this diamond ring is at least six figures.” Jiang Xing smiled. “Six figures is a drop in the ocean for Young Master Lou, not even enough to buy a bottle of wine. But for me, it’s a lot. I feel guilty for losing six figures because I said ‘no’.”

Lou Qi unconsciously tightened his grip on her wrist: "Jiang Xing, are you reminding me again of the so-called class differences you've been talking about?"

Jiang Xing felt a slight pain in her wrist, but the ninja didn't cry out.

"I'm just stating the facts." Besides feeling guilty, Jiang Xing also had a strange sense of resignation, knowing full well that Lou Qi didn't want to hear what he was saying but still insisting on saying it. "Don't be angry, Lou Qi."

Don't be angry?

How dare you say something like that and then tell me not to be angry?

"Jiang Xing, you're just hoping I'll get angry, aren't you?"

"You think too much."

"..."

Lou Qi felt a stifling frustration, like punching cotton.

"You're overthinking it"—isn't that what he used to say to those women?

"Thank you for bringing me the medicine." Jiang Xing didn't want to argue with him anymore. "Could you move aside for a moment? I need to go to the restroom."

Lou Qi reluctantly turned to the side.

When Jiang Xing reached the bathroom door, he spoke again: "Jiang Xing, you are different from Luo Beiqing. Luo Beiqing can run away to a foreign country without saying a word to avoid He Tingchuan, but you won't."

—Because Jiang Xing is a person of her word, she promised to serve Gu Yanci for ten years, and she will definitely keep her word.

Jiang Xing realized that Lou Qi's words were a threat to her: she could not leave this country, or even leave this city, so she could not escape him!

but it does not matter.

She didn't believe that someone as proud as Lou Qi could hold out for more than a few days.

……

Jiang Xing took the diamond ring off and put it back in the jewelry box.

For the next week or so, Jiang Xing and Lou Qi barely communicated.

Lou Qi goes to get off work and leaves work normally every day, without overtime or social engagements. Sometimes he even gets home earlier than Jiang Xing, a working-class man.

Jiang Xing treated him as an unfamiliar roommate, except that this roommate was rather impolite and would deliberately try to make his presence known from time to time.

For example, he might 'accidentally' use the wrong water cup and drink water infused with ginger.

For example, they would deliberately have a private restaurant deliver dishes that Jiang Xing didn't like. In such cases, Jiang Xing would only eat plain rice, and her dinner would be normal again the next day.

For example, when Jiang Xing's department had a dinner party and he came home late, he would sit on the sofa in the living room and watch TV commercials, like a mute recorder.

For example, he would pull Jiang Xing into his arms while he was sleeping at night, holding her so tightly that she couldn't break free. The culprit would then get up early the next day before Jiang Xing woke up, as if nothing had happened.

That day, in the afternoon.

Jiang Xing went to the president's office to deliver documents to Gu Yanci. He paused slightly as he entered the office and met Lou Qi's gaze.

After Jiang Xing finished delivering the documents and left, Gu Yanci asked with a half-smile, "Are you still arguing?"

Mr. Gu is about to become a father, and he's in high spirits with joy. He's clearly gossiping with a spectator's mentality.

"No." Lou Qi lit a cigarette in frustration and said self-deprecatingly, "We can't get into an argument."

—How can we make a fuss if she doesn't say anything?

Gu Yanci chuckled: "Who said that wise men don't fall in love?"

Lou Qi: "Oh, I'm an idiot."

Not a wise man.