Miss Si's feigned innocence went too far, and the aloof Mr. Bo was easily swayed.

Bo Yusen gave Si Yuan and Lu Xiao a meaningful look, then turned and left without saying a word.

Si Yuan didn't have the courage to look at Bo Yusen again. In fact, she didn't need to look to know that he must have thought that she had bewitched Lu Xiao and made him fall madly in love with her, which was why he chose to confess to Gu Yinhe on her birthday.

Anyway, in his mind, she was never a good person.

Si Yuan suppressed the bitterness in her heart, took a deep breath, and looked at Lu Xiao seriously. "I'm sorry, I thought you asked me to come here to help you practice. I didn't know you liked me."

Upon hearing the word "sorry," Lu Xiao's heart sank, and a bad premonition welled up inside him.

"Ah Yuan..."

He instinctively tried to grab Si Yuan, but Si Yuan dodged him.

Si Yuan stepped out of the heart-shaped arrangement of candles, and Lu Xiao's hand went empty, leaving his heart empty as well.

"Like I said before, thank you for liking me, but my feelings for you... are just platonic, not romantic. I'm sorry... I can't be with you..."

Lu Xiao's expression froze for a moment, his mind going blank.

He was rejected.

A-Yuan rejected his confession.

Si Yuan smiled slightly at Lu Xiao, "If you're willing, we can still be friends. If you don't want to see me, I can find a way to avoid appearing in front of you..."

"No……"

Lu Xiao's eyes immediately reddened.

Even at a time like this, A-Yuan was still considering his feelings, when clearly it was he who should be doing these things.

"I'm the one who should be apologizing..."

"You were just expressing your feelings; you didn't do anything to wrong me..."

Lu Xiao had a crush on her for so long that he even thought of a name for their child.

As a result, her attempt failed miserably; she was rejected as soon as she confessed her feelings.

Before the pieces were even placed, the game was already lost.

He couldn't stop crying, but Lu Xiao didn't want to cry in front of Si Yuan.

"Is it because of my cousin?"

"what?"

"I know you and my cousin like each other, but I don't know why you two aren't together. I thought I could..."

"stop--"

Si Yuan, who had felt a little embarrassed for rejecting Lu Xiao, was speechless upon hearing this.

"Lu Xiao, Jiang Shao and I are innocent. I don't like him, and he probably doesn't like someone like me either..."

"what?"

Lu Xiao looked completely bewildered. "You and my cousin have no relationship? How could that be?"

Si Yuan: "...I don't know what Jiang Shao and I did to make you misunderstand that we like each other, but I can tell you clearly that we are not attracted to each other."

Si Yuan previously thought Lu Xiao was very sincere and enthusiastic, but this is the first time she has discovered that he is a bit silly.

"Furthermore, my rejection of you has nothing to do with Young Master Jiang; it's simply because I'm not attracted to you either."

Lu Xiao was happy for a second because Si Yuan said it had nothing to do with Jiang Zhe, but the next second, knives were plunged into his chest.

He sniffed. "Ah Yuan, are you always this decisive when you reject people?"

Si Yuan didn't want to hurt someone who genuinely liked her.

However, if you don't go straight to the point, and the other party still harbors illusions, it will hurt them even more.

Si Yuan knew that she herself wasn't entirely rational.

Her mother told her to get close to Lu Xiao, and if she were smart, she should have immediately accepted Lu Xiao's confession.

To reassure my mother, I will stop keeping an eye on her finding a boyfriend.

If Lu Xiao were a playboy, she could take advantage of him and have some fun with him.

But this person is too sincere; he has no scheming or calculation whatsoever.

There's no good outcome in betraying someone like that.

Si Yuan apologized again and finally expressed her blessings.

"Lu Xiao, you are a good person and deserve someone better. You will definitely meet the right person in the future."

Upon hearing this, Lu Xiao knew that he had no chance at all.

But he didn't want to give up so easily. He sniffed and said pitifully, "Then can you please stop avoiding me? Even if we can't be lovers, we can still be friends."

Si Yuan nodded. "Okay, then... I'll be going now..."

Lu Xiao nodded, forcing back tears as he watched Si Yuan leave, before finally squatting down and bursting into tears.

So this is what heartbreak feels like?

My chest hurts so much, it feels like I'm about to die.

After leaving the stern, Si Yuan let out a heavy sigh, feeling utterly exhausted.

Bo Yusen's mocking and disdainful look just now felt like a knife slowly torturing her heart.

Just thinking about it makes her feel a sharp pain in her chest and difficulty breathing.

Si Yuan felt very upset and wronged.

Why did he look at her like that?

Didn't she and Gu Mingyue also leave the crowd and come to the stern of the ship?

He used her to provoke Gu Mingyue, and after the two reconciled, they couldn't wait to meet at the stern of the ship.

Why can't she be liked or confessed to?

She was even worried that he wouldn't win the game and get the prize, so she specially made a doll and put it in his room.

That's true, they already have Gu Mingyue's comfort, so they probably don't need the dolls she made.

At this moment, Bo Yusen should be whispering sweet nothings to Gu Mingyue—

Si Yuan rushed straight to Bo Yusen's room.

The doll was still on the bed; clearly, Bo Yusen hadn't returned.

Si Yuan picked up the doll, turned around and left—

The next second, he abruptly stopped in his tracks.

Bo Yusen was standing at the door, looking at her with no expression.

Si Yuan didn't expect to be caught red-handed, but she wasn't in the mood to explain.

Si Yuan had to go through the door to get out, but Bo Yusen was blocking the doorway.

You can't squeeze it out.

Si Yuan approached the door step by step, and then she got close to Bo Yusen.

She clutched the doll tightly in her hand, lowered her head, and said, "Mr. Bo, could you please move aside?"

Bo Yusen remained motionless, looking down at the top of Si Yuan's head. "What is Miss Si doing in my room?"

Si Yuan: "..."

Since we've been caught, no excuse seems plausible.

Si Yuan then told the truth, "I've come to retrieve what I left behind."

"Why would Miss Si leave something in my room?"

Si Yuan didn't know what was wrong with her. Logically speaking, she should have been able to handle this situation calmly.

But now her mind is filled with Bo Yusen using her to provoke Gu Mingyue, and she has become a part of their play, so she can't be calm.

"I went into the wrong room and accidentally left it behind..."

"Or perhaps I initially felt guilty for not letting President Bo win the prize and wanted to compensate you with something, but then suddenly I didn't want to anymore..."

"There are many reasons, and Mr. Bo can believe whichever he chooses. Now, please step aside and let me out..."

Before she could finish speaking, Si Yuan was suddenly pushed.

She was caught off guard and almost fell, but her waist was grabbed by a strong force, and then she was picked up and thrown onto the bed.

The beds on the cruise ship are all custom-made, with good elasticity and softness.

Si Yuan bounced up several times after landing on the bed.

As she steadied herself and tried to get up, Bo Yusen leaned over her, pressed her legs down with his knees, and pinched her chin with his hands.

His eyes were cold and terrifying, and the chill and oppressive aura emanating from him instantly made the atmosphere in the room tense.

"You're the one who got confessed to by Lu Xiao, and you're also the one who came into my room without my permission to put things in and take things out. I haven't even held you accountable, yet you're getting angry with me?"

Si Yuan's nose stung terribly. The two of them were so close that she could smell the women's perfume on Bo Yusen.

That was Gu Mingyue's scent.

Thinking back to how Bo Yusen had hugged and even kissed Gu Mingyue goodbye before returning to his room...

Her heart was in so much pain it felt like it was going to burst.

"Who confessed to me has nothing to do with President Bo... It was indeed wrong of me to go into your room, what will it take for you to let me go?"

Bo Yusen stared intently at Si Yuan's pale face. "It's alright? Lu Xiao is the spokesperson for Huanyu Group. His contract stipulates that he cannot date for a year. Lu Xiao is risking paying three times the penalty for breach of contract to confess to you. It seems that Miss Si's methods of bewitching people have become even more sophisticated..."

Si Yuan had no idea about this.

"No matter what, Lu Xiao is the only son of the Lu family. You don't think that by winning him over, you can win over the Lu family and successfully marry him, do you?"

That's exactly what he thought.

That's true, that's normal. After all, that's the image she left in his mind back then.

Why am I still so sad?

Si Yuan closed her eyes tightly, suppressing all the bitterness in her heart. "President Bo is right. Lu Xiao is in the prime of his career. I shouldn't be a stumbling block for him, nor will I let President Bo earn three times his breach of contract fee for nothing... I will refuse him and let him focus on developing his career first, is that alright?"

Every word Si Yuan uttered was hitting Bo Yusen's sore spots like crazy.

Bo Yusen laughed angrily, "Miss Si, you care so much about Lu Xiao, your affection for him really touches me..."

"Then please let me go, Mr. Bo."

"How can that be... I haven't even settled accounts with you for breaking into my room and stealing my things..."

Si Yuan frowned deeply. "I didn't steal anything."

Bo Yusen snatched the doll, dressed in a suit and looking just like him, from Si Yuan's hands.

"This ugly thing, once it's brought to my room, it's mine. What else is taking it but stealing?"

Si Yuan was speechless with astonishment.

It turns out that even the dignified CEO Bo Xilai can use robber logic.

"Okay... then I won't take it, I'll leave now..."

Si Yuan struggled to get up, but Bo Yusen pressed her back down. "A thief broke into the homeowner's room to steal, was caught red-handed by the homeowner, and returned the items to their rightful owner. Does that mean it's not stealing? What kind of robber logic is that, Miss Si?"

Si Yuan, having reached her limit, demanded, "So what exactly do you want?"

Bo Yusen suddenly leaned down and whispered in Si Yuan's ear, "Sleep with me for one night."

Si Yuan stared wide-eyed in disbelief, never expecting such words to come from Bo Yusen's mouth.

"you……"

"What about me?"

Si Yuan was speechless, but her mind was perfectly clear.

She didn't know if Bo Yusen was just being malicious or if he wanted revenge for how she had schemed against and used him.

She would never be a third party.

"Impossible... Even if you kill me, I won't sleep with you..."

Bo Yusen sneered, "Kill you? Dream on... Here with me, you're only fit to wish you were dead."

They cannot live, nor can they die.

Si Yuan knew that Bo Yusen hated her, but she didn't expect him to hate her this much.

In fact, she is now living a life worse than death.

Si Yuan suddenly laughed, "President Bo... you love clean people so much, don't you find it disgusting to be with a woman like me who's wicked to the core?"