i loved you so much

Chapter 17: You Don't Need to Be Strong in Love (3)
The moment Li Xiaoan saw her, he was stunned for a moment, but he soon returned to normal, with a faint smile floating on his thin lips.

"Looking for me?" His voice was unexpectedly gentle.

She nodded numbly.

Wu Lixuan rubbed his nose, and stepped out of the elevator door first: "You guys talk, I'll make another appointment for you with the client."

"No need."

Wu Lixuan looked puzzled.

Li Xiaoan went out: "If Miss An is looking for me for business, please make an appointment with my secretary first. If it is for private matters, then the time and place of your appearance are wrong."

As he talked, he passed by, not staying for a moment for her. She stood where she was, and couldn't help sighing.

Leaving the mansion, An Xiaoduo went to Mingzhu Villa. Auntie Cen was not there, so it was inconvenient for her to enter the house, so she had to sit in the gazebo opposite and wait.Unexpectedly, the wait lasted all afternoon, when night completely enveloped the ground, Li Xiaoan's car broke into her sight and stopped at the gate of the villa.

She walked down the stone steps, the rear lights flashed, as if signaling something, she quickly walked to the driver's seat, the person inside rolled down the window, the light was very dim, she could hardly see his face clearly , but his star-like eyes let her know that he was smiling at her.

"I forgot to tell you that Aunt Cen hasn't come back from the shore of Molan Lake." His voice was the same as during the day, as gentle as a lover, "but why don't you go in and wait? You know the password."

"It's the same as waiting outside." She responded to him with a wooden face, tired and hungry so she couldn't mobilize her facial expressions, and he couldn't see clearly in such a dark anyway.

When Li Xiaoan got off the car, his cell phone rang, and while he was answering, he walked to the study on the second floor, and An Xiaoduo followed in silently.

Li Xiaoan came out after talking on the phone for more than ten minutes, and saw her condescendingly sitting on the solid wood floor facing the door, with her head lowered, as if she was looking at her hands on her knees, her bent neck was so thin that it seemed to be folded. will break.

He was staring at her like this, but she didn't notice it at all, until he said in a neutral tone: "Are you waiting for me to carry you in?"

An Xiaoduo seemed to wake up for the first time, turned around in a panic, and explained like a child who has done something wrong: "There are no slippers in the shoe cabinet..."

In the middle of her speech, she suddenly fell silent, because she remembered that today is Wednesday, and on this day every week before, the hourly labor union would come to clean the house, clean the slippers in the shoe cabinet, and then take them to the roof to dry.

Under Li Xiaoan's sneering gaze, she took off her shoes, went upstairs barefoot, and walked up to him: "I came to you to ask you something."

"Oh?" Li Xiaoan pinched her chin, forcing her to look at him, "About your father?"

An Xiaoduo bit her lip, and said after a while: "I want to visit my father."

"Didn't I answer you last night?"

"He is very ill. Even if this incident hadn't happened, his body would have been almost destroyed," An Xiaoduo's voice trembled, "I heard from Wang Jian that the doctor once advised him to be released on medical parole. It will only aggravate his condition, I hope you can help me because of his serious condition..."

Li Xiaoan interrupted her: "Are you joking? I wish he would die, he deserved what he deserved."

The air conditioner seemed to be turned on in the room, and the cold air seeped in through the pores. An Xiaoduo gritted her teeth to restrain her fear, rushed over and grabbed his wrist, and said in a low voice, "Please, my father has already been punished, so he will receive medical treatment." He won't live for a few more years, so let him go!"

A look of disgust appeared on Li Xiaoan's face, he threw her hand away forcefully, and let her fall heavily on the ground, he sat on the sofa, gracefully crossed his legs: "You have pestered me many times in this matter Yes, you come and go just a few words. Want me to let him go? You should die as soon as possible! An Xiaoduo, my patience is limited, I will give you one last chance, if you don’t have any fresh words Tell me, then get out."

An Xiaoduo stood still.

Li Xiaoan stretched out his index finger and hooked it, An Xiaoduo leaned over hesitantly, he leaned down, sniffed at her cheek, his voice was low and full of charm: "You really don't know what I want to hear?"

She looked at him blankly.

Li Xiaoan's palm rested on her neck, slowly moved down, across her collarbone, and then stopped.

She trembled violently, and her eyes showed deep sadness.It turned out that this feeling was so bad that even though she had made psychological preparations before coming, once she stood in front of him, no matter how strong her psychological defense was, it would collapse inch by inch.

She still couldn't stand it, couldn't stand this man humiliating herself like this.

Just when she was dying of shame and anger, he withdrew his hand and smiled maliciously: "I'm just talking casually, you don't want to give it to me, An Xiaoduo, go and look in the mirror by yourself, as long as you are honored now It's really not worth my troubles for you."

She closed her eyes, a teardrop rolled down from the corner of her eye.

"Li Xiaoan, will you be happy for humiliating me like this?" When she said this, there was a layer of water in her eyes, but the confusion and fear faded from those dark pupils, "If you are happy, I don't care what I do, You like the way I used to be, don't you, I'm just too thin, and I can recover by eating well."

"The appearance can be restored, can the dead come back to life?" Li Xiao looked at her calmly, and raised the corners of his mouth for a long time, "Whether it's you now or you in the past, I'm not interested anymore."

He raised his wrist to look at the time: "Okay, I still have something to do, please go ahead."

There was strong despair in An Xiaoduo's eyes, and she said it again persistently: "Please."

Li Xiaoan looked at her without any reaction.

An Xiaoduo was so pierced by his cold gaze that she could hardly stand still. Thinking of her father's situation, she felt sore in her heart. Tears welled up and blurred her vision, and then she felt a sharp pain in her eyes.

There was a wine cabinet standing behind the sofa, and the glass door on the cabinet reflected her embarrassed appearance at the moment. She had already humbled so much, and she didn't want to be seen by him again, so she stumbled towards the entrance.

Li Xiaoan stared at her snow-white neck, and suddenly his eyes flashed: "Where is that ring?"

An Xiaoduo turned a deaf ear to it, she was frantically putting the canvas shoes on her feet, her waist suddenly tightened, and her body was grabbed by a force, she heard Li Xiaoan speak very slowly: "Didn't you wear them all the time? is it on?"

An Xiaoduo didn't expect that he would suddenly ask this. Under his stern gaze, she clutched her chest in panic.

This action confirmed Li Xiaoan's conjecture, a trace of anger flashed in his eyes, and the hand around her waist increased his strength: "Sell it?"

"no……"

"Where is that?"

"I... I lost it." It was really lost, and she couldn't find it when she came back from the prison that day, but she was sure she didn't fall in the prison, because when she came out to take a taxi, she clearly remembered the necklace with the ring on it Still on the neck.She recalled it and thought that the thing might have been dropped in a taxi, but at that time she was so busy thinking about her father that she was in a daze and didn't notice the license plate number at all.Later, she went to the taxi company to ask, and found the driver who took her that day, but the driver said that he had never seen it, and she had nothing to do with him without evidence.

"The things I gave you, you can throw them away if you want, that's fine." His expression could no longer be described as bad.

"I was too careless, sorry." She explained weakly.

Li Xiaoan laughed back angrily, with dark clouds in the depths of his eyes: "I forgot, why would you take a mere ring in your eyes? If you had thrown yourself into Old Tang's arms back then, I think he would have been more generous than me."

Tears rolled in her eyes, An Xiaoduo tried her best to keep her eyes wide open, not to let them fall.

"You're right, Old Tang... You reminded me, I can ask Old Tang to help me. He helped me last time. If I beg him more this time, he should agree to me."

"Do you think he will offend me for you? You think too highly of yourself."

"I can pester him, you know he's always soft-hearted."

"An Xiaoduo, do you still want face?"

An Xiaoduo smiled slowly: "No, for my father, I can kneel down to you, there is anything I can't do."

Li Xiaoan's face turned pale, and he clenched his teeth tightly.

The ceiling began to rotate again, she laughed subconsciously, the darkness slowly enveloped, before she closed her tired and sore eyes, she vaguely saw a trace of panic passing across Li Xiaoan's rigid and stern face.

He must have misread it. How could he be worried about her?

Endless nightmares entangled her, and suddenly opened her sweaty eyes, the sky outside was bright, and the sun came in from the bay window through the gauze curtain, leaving mottled light and shadow on the begonia-colored wooden floor.The memory before fainting gradually came to life, and she found herself lying on the familiar big bed.

She lifted the quilt and sat up. When she saw that she was wearing a nightgown, she was stunned and her eyes darkened. These were not her clothes. Of course, she didn't dare to hope that there were still her own things in this big house.Opening the door and going out, the corridor was very quiet, with her bare feet stepping on the wool blanket as soft as clouds, she suspected that she was in a dream.

"woke up?"

Li Xiaoan's voice brought her back to reality, and she walked over following the sound.

Li Xiaoan was sitting on the leather sofa against the wall in the study room, holding an empty wine glass in his hand. He was wearing a slightly loose light gray long-sleeved T-shirt paired with khaki cloth pants, and he looked very comfortable and at ease .

"You had a fever last night." His voice was flat and without any emotion.

Thinking of the confrontation last night, she felt disheartened for a moment: "Just pretend I never came, I'm leaving, thank you for not throwing me out last night."

She turned to leave, but heard him say lightly: "Come here, let's talk about conditions."

She was stunned and stared at him in disbelief: "Will you help me?"

"I'll help you, but on one condition."

She asked in a low voice, "What do you want?"

"I can let An Zhengran be released on medical parole, but you have to sever the father-daughter relationship with him and never see each other again in this lifetime. Even if he is about to die, you are not allowed to see him."

The air seemed to stagnate after he said this, she didn't respond, just remained silent.Li Xiaoan was not in a hurry at all, he watched her with great interest, with a hint of playfulness in his half-smile.

"I can't." She finally said.

Li Xiaoan was not annoyed, and smiled: "You can do whatever you want, I have already set out my conditions, it is up to you whether you accept it or not."

"My dad is a nice guy."

Li Xiaoan's face seemed to twitch, he grabbed a magazine beside him and threw it at him: "An Xiaoduo, I warn you, if you don't want An Zhengran to die too quickly and painfully, don't challenge my patience any more."

In order to avoid the magazine, she took a sharp step back and bumped her waist against the corner of the table, causing a burst of pain, but her face didn't show it at all, she just looked at him calmly: "I know you don't believe it, but I still want to say, He was not the one who kidnapped Yuan Yuan."

"You don't need to make up such absurd excuses if you want to blame An Zhengran. It's not him? Then tell me who it is? I'll believe you if you can tell."

An Xiaoduo shook her head: "I don't know now, you let me meet him, I have a way to make him tell."

Li Xiaoan stood up, put his hands in his trouser pockets, as if he had heard a cold joke: "If you want to see him, do as I say, otherwise we won't talk about it."

An Xiaoduo's hand resting on the edge of the table accidentally touched the switch of the desk lamp, the light suddenly turned on, she turned around hastily, and saw the orange light sprinkled thinly on the desk, it was her favorite warm light , but at this moment she felt cold, very cold, very cold, like being in a cold night.

She went downstairs in a daze, and when she reached the entrance, she remembered that she was still wearing a nightgown, so she had to go back to her room to find clothes.She found her skirt in the laundry bag in the bathroom, and hurriedly put it on, only to find a large yellowish stain on her chest.She was stunned, thinking back to last night, it seemed that someone forcibly gave her medicine, a spoonful of bitter medicine, a spoonful of honey, she dodged left and right, and vomited all over the other person. At that time, her consciousness was very vague, thinking it was in a dream .

After An Xiaoduo left, Li Xiaoan returned to the desk, wanting to continue reading the documents that he hadn't processed in time the night before, but his thoughts were confused and his mood was restless, and he couldn't calm down, her pale face kept flashing in front of his eyes , with tears in his big eyes, and his pale lips tightly pressed together, his frail and stubborn appearance made him unable to stop his heartache.It shouldn't be like this, why did she dare to come?Dare to intercede for An Zhengran?As soon as she opened her mouth, he couldn't control his anger, he couldn't see her pleading for An Zhengran, that kind of scum is not worthy.

(End of this chapter)