Peach Passion Chapter 10

“Why did you come here?”

In Xiang Ti’s office, her back was to him, and he saw it had become significantly thinner.

In the past, she was full of energy, motivated, and an ambitious woman.  Now to see her so pale and weak, he was pained.

“You’ve lost weight, have you not been eating well?”

His gentle and distressed tone, suddenly awakens her anger.

“You stood outside shouting to me, only to say such nonsense?  If so, then you can go back.  I have to eat, and it has nothing to do with you.  We’ve already broken up!”

Zheng Leng looked at her sadly for a moment.  “Of course it does.  I was the father of the child, and we were going to get married, and raise him.”

“Yes!  But he’s gone now.  He was cunningly killed by me.  Did you forget?”  Xiang Ti yelled sarcastically.

“No, I know you didn’t do it on purpose.  I have wronged you.”  Zheng Leng confessed, hanging his head.

“How do you know?”

“I’ve been to the shop and talked to the proprietress.”  He admitted.

Xiang Ti didn’t think he would go there.  “What did you ask her?”

“About the baby products you purchased and about what you discussed together that day.”

After talking, he realized he was wrong about her!  She really did want the child, and was also planning to buy even more baby products.

But, when she was going to tell him, the accident happened.

After the accident, he not only did not comfort her, but also cruelly blamed her.  Accusing her of maliciously murdering their child, and didn’t believe she was truly sad about losing their child.

His eyes were red with shame.

“Is that it?  So now you know.”  Her words were cold, breaking his heart.

He would rather she viciously curse at him or beat him up.  But to speak in that icy tone, as if they were irrelevant, and he was nothing to her.

“I’m sorry!  Xiang Ti, I was too outrageous.  I was wrong to doubt you, and should’ve believed you.”

His face was full of remorse and repentance, but she turned a blind eye, looking indifferently.

“If you’ve come to say these words, it has no meaning.  Would you please go back?”  She icily ordered her guest to leave.

“How could there be no meaning?”  Zheng Leng says anxiously, “As long as you are willing to forgive me, then we can –”

“How can I?”  Suddenly turning around, her eyes full of resentment.  “Do you know how much you have hurt me?  How can you think an apology can just erase all that humiliation?  Did you know how happy I was to call you and tell you I wanted to keep the child?  But what were you thinking?  That I murdered my child?!”

Her eyes misted with tears, but she wiped them away.

“No!  In fact, in the beginning I did not think so, but someone suggested to me that, that you……”

He didn’t want to say these words, because it sounded like he wasn’t taking any responsibility.  No matter who misled him, he should’ve stood firm and not be swayed, but he was……

“That’s enough!  You can push all the blame onto others all you want, but you should know, what really hurt me the most was your att.i.tude!  Why didn’t you trust me?  Why?  Was I not worthy of your trust?”

“I…  I’m sorry!  Xiang Ti, I have nothing to say.  I know it was my fault.”

“It’s good that know.  Now please go back!”  She didn’t want to see him.

He really regretted his actions.  He knew it, he had nothing to say, but he didn’t want to lose her!  He’s still in love with her, really love her.

“Xiang Ti, could you please give me another chance.  From now on, I will trust you a hundred percent, and will never doubt you.  All I ask is for your forgiveness!  I love you!”

Zheng Leng threw away his pride and begged on one knee, but her heart has turned cold.  The love was dead.  She didn’t want to be enamored with him anymore.

He confessed his true feelings, only to be turned away.

“Please leave now, I don’t want to see you again!”

So the so-called “end of the world”, is this kind of feeling.

Zheng Leng understood the resentment.

But who was he to complain?  He believed the gossip, and didn’t listen to Xiang Ti’s explanation.  It was his fault.

He sighed and retrieved the doc.u.ments on the desk, making his way towards the meeting.

Zheng Leng was in the meeting room next to the conference room when he inadvertently heard strange sounds coming from inside.  He immediately stopped.

It shouldn’t be in use at this time!  How can there be anyone inside?

He listened and heard a “smack” sound.

“No!  Don’t…”

The sound of a cry seemed to belong to Secretary Zhou.

“What’s the matter?  It’s not like it’s the first time.”

The voice belonged to Zhang Jin Tang, his mother’s nephew, also his cousin.

“I don’t want to go on like this.  Don’t pester me again.”  Min Jing couldn’t stand the endless hara.s.sment anymore and started crying.

“You want to dump me?  Aren’t you afraid I’ll expose our relations.h.i.+p?  Also, I bet that b.a.s.t.a.r.d Zheng Leng would be interested to know who was responsible for leaking the secret of his birth out to our compet.i.tors.  And also the one who made the slide show to play in public!”

“I beg you, please…”  She’d had enough.

“There’s more!  Don’t think I don’t know, it was also you who purposefully sowed dissension between Zheng Leng and Liu Xiang Ti, destroying their relations.h.i.+p.  Do you think he’ll like you after he knows the facts?”

“Please!  Don’t tell him.”  She couldn’t face Zheng Leng’s look of contempt.

So it turned out she premeditated their break up!  Zheng Leng is speechless.

“If you don’t want me to tell, then be obedient and serve me.  Now, come over here and remove my shoes and socks.  Ha ha ha!”  That shameless laugh, even Zheng Leng couldn’t help but be nauseous.

He angrily threw open the door of the conference room, startling the two people inside.  Zhang Jin Tang jumped up, shrinking away from Min Jing.

“Manager Zhang.”  Zheng Leng coolly greeted.  In fact, he wanted to shout: Manager Zhang is a dirty motherf.u.c.ker!

This contemptuous and despicable man!

“Secretary Lin, what are you doing here?”  Zhang Jin Tang asked in a flurry.

“I just happened to be pa.s.sing by and found myself privy to a dirty and shameful act.”

He heard Secretary Zhou sharply inhale and watched her complexion turn from flushed to completely white.  He learned that she had no heart, so she might as well be dead.

He turned to her and simply advised, “Why do you let him threaten you?  There is no better shame in this world than knowing your mistakes and not learning from them.  Why do you soil yourself and let him do whatever he wants?”

Min Jing immediately began to sob, regretting too late.

“What did you say?!  Don’t think just because you’ve been acknowledged now, you can act arrogantly.”  Zhang Jin Tang continued to act recklessly.

“I will inform the Chairman instead and let her decide.”  Zheng Leng turns to leave.

Although Zhang Jin Tang’s arrogance is high, and they are relatives, but he has also endured a lot.  But he did not expect Jin Tang to go so far as to threaten a female staff member into doing these things.  How can he continue to endure this behavior?

“How dare you?!”  Zhang Jin Tang loudly shouted.

“Even if Secretary Lin does not report this matter, I will not spare you!  If you have the guts to do such things, then you should have the guts to accept the punishment.”

The owner of the voice belonged to Lin Sheng Nan.

“Aunt…’Chairman’.”  Seeing her, Zhang Jin Tang turned from cat to mouse, shrinking his neck not daring to look at her eyes.  “No, no one forced Secretary Zhou.  It was voluntary.”

By now, he was trying to deny.

“Secretary Zhou, were you really willing?”

Min Jing’s answer was to cry.

Looking at her crying, Zheng Leng’s remorse was no less than hers.

Why did he believe in the words of a total stranger but refused to believe the one he loved?  At that moment, he has never hated himself more.

— He was the real idiot!

 

Xiang Ti emerged from her office building after a day’s work, and waiting outside was Zheng Leng.

She had moved, so he didn’t know her new residence.   The only option was to wait for her outside her work.

After thoroughly understanding his own ignorance, he was determined to make up for it.  But before that, he first had to win back her heart.

And he knows it’s not going to be easy!

He hurt her deeply.  Not to mention she had a traumatic upbringing, and he’s only contributed by adding a new scar.

If she doesn’t forgive him, then he won’t blame her.

“If there’s important business, please contact the office during working hours.  After work, I don’t talk business.  You and I have no business to talk about, so please don’t bother me!”

She walks past him without glancing at him once.

“I know you’re mad at me, but I will never give up.  I will come to you until you forgive me.”

“Suit yourself!”  If he thought she would soften, then he underestimated her.

After that day, Zheng Leng visited her every day, but did not engage with her.  He would silently wait for her, watch her safely get in a taxi, then leave.

He was always there but not too close, Xiang Ti wanted to curse at him several times, but the words always stuck in her throat.

Zheng Leng couldn’t count how many times he’s watched her receding figure and could not get her to smile even in greeting, but he is still happy.

All he can do is try to make it up to her, but she still angry with him.  That means he has not done enough, and must work harder.

It’s just that… He is human after all.  Seeing other pairs of lovers walking together on the road, the loneliness was unbearable.

Looking at his dejected figure hiding in the shadows, Yi Xuan and Cheng Long begin to whisper.

“That Zheng Leng, Yi Xuan, do you want to help him?”  Cheng Long was touched by his sincerity.

“That rotten stone broke my heart too.  Didn’t I forgive him?  Now we love each other dearly, and are inseparable!”  Yi Xuan’s “rotten stone” was her fiancé Jin Dafu.

“Then you are in favor of Xiang Ti getting back together with him?”

“Of course!  Xiang Ti, do you think she’s happy?”

“No, she is not happy.”

Anyone with eyes can see she is not happy.  She no longer smiles, and even her enthusiasm and vitality, is almost gone.

“So, we should push her hand.  I think she is very willing to forgive him.  She just doesn’t know where to start.”

“That how should we help her?”

“We stage a coup!”  Yi Xuan laughs dangerously, causing all of Cheng Long’s hairs to stand up.

If she also encounters this type of problem in the future, is this how Yi Xuan will also deal with her?

Well, she is really afraid!

Ding dong!  Ding dong!  Someone rang the doorbell rapidly several times.

“Coming.”  Walking to door, Zheng Leng wondered if there was a problem.

Opening the door, Xiang Ti anxiously rushes inside, inspecting him from head to toe.

“What’s wrong?  Are you alright?”

“Xiang Ti…”  Zheng Leng’s eyes nearly popped out.  He never thought she would take the initiative to seek him out, but he was very delighted.

“You –” Xiang Ti stopped suddenly.  Her panic receding, but now she’s squinting at him.

“Are you alright?”  His healthy complexion told her he was more than alright.

“I am.  What’s the matter?”  Zheng Leng was baffled.

“You were not hurt by Yi Xuan’s fiancé?”  She heard he was badly beaten and even vomited blood.

“Ah?  No!”  He was beaten?  There was no such thing!

“But Yi Xuan said…”  She suddenly understood.  “Mu Yi Xuan –” I’ll strangle you!

Xiang Ti was spitting fire.  She’d been lied to!

Zheng Leng had already guessed what had happened.  He ought to grasp this rare opportunity.

“Would you like to come in and sit down?  I’ll cook your favorite omelet for you.”  He gazed at her with loving eyes.

“No!”  She relentlessly refused, and wanted to get away.  “I have to go.”

“Don’t go –” Zheng Leng reached out and hugged her.

“What are you doing?”  Xiang Ti tried to struggle, but the strange thing was, she could not shake off his scent.

Perhaps, she simply didn’t want to struggle!

For so long she held onto her anger, but when she learned about his “injury”, she was close to tears.  If she still hated him, would she be this worried?

But she knew, she still loved him.

She blames herself for being so weak and useless.  Why can’t she stop loving him?

“Xiang Ti, I was wrong and I’ve reflected.  Can you please forgive me?”

The first step to reconciliation, a sincere apology.

“Humph!  Don’t think all is forgiven just because you apologized.”

“I know I was stupid, but I’ll never make the same mistake again.  If I do, then you can tell me to go to h.e.l.l.  Even if I miss you, I won’t complain.”

The second step to reconciliation, vow up and down and swear an oath.

“Humph!  Stop playing games.”  She is not so easy.

“I love you, Xiang Ti.  Without you, how will I live?  I can’t live without you!  Look at me, I haven’t been living well.  Without you, how am supposed to eat and sleep well?”

The third step of reconciliation, confess your love and pour on the sweet talk.

Xiang Ti was still angry but her expression softened.

“Why haven’t you been taking care of yourself?”  She blamed him, blame him for making her feel this way.

“I’ve been thinking of nothing but you!”  Holding her in his arms again, he didn’t want to let go.

“Oh really?  When you deliberately pushed me away?”  She also wanted him to suffer a little.  Why shouldn’t he?

“Of course!  Are you feeling better?  Is there anything wrong?”

He had been very worried about her because she refused to see him.

“I’m okay, I’m well!”

The last visit to the doctors, he said, “You are very healthy.  If you want to have children, you can start!”

“I’m sorry you had to suffer.  I’m a b.a.s.t.a.r.d to have wronged you.”  He hugged her tighter.

“Let’s forget about it.”

She knew he misunderstood her, because she too have wronged him in the past.

“You forgive me?”  Zheng Leng is overjoyed, and couldn’t stop kissing her cheeks.

“Hmm.”  Xiang Ti shyly nods.

“Come inside and sit.  I promise I’ll be good.”

Zheng Leng the ‘wolf’ finally got the prey into his lair.

Before long, shrill screams could be heard coming from Zheng Leng’s bedroom.

“Zheng Leng, did you use any protection?!”

“Well, I – I’m sorry!”  He was too preoccupied to think of protective measures.

“You, you!”  A fist pounded his chest.  “Why didn’t you?!”

“I’m sorry, I’ll take responsibility.”

“Who asked you to?  If you get me pregnant, you just wait and see!”