Chapter 289: Explanation
He knew that she had misunderstood him last night.
“I did not lie to you.”
However, his frankness was a form of pain to Zuo Weiyi.
He told her not to watch the television last night because he was afraid that she would find out that he would be getting engaged to Tengtang Xi. However, he did not know that she was at his engagement banquet last night.
Zuo Weiyi felt as if a sharp dagger was piercing through her heart when she thought about his deceit.
She could not stop the tears from rolling down her cheeks.
“You told me that you would never put a ring on another woman!”
“I did not!”
“You are lying!” Zuo Weiyi yelled out immediately.
She saw it with her own eyes but he was still denying it!
s.h.i.+ Yuting felt as though someone was crus.h.i.+ng his heart when he saw that she was in so much pain.
“I did not lie to you!” He repeated himself, word by word, as he looked into her eyes. He had never felt the need to explain anything so clearly in his twenty-eight years of life. He needed her to trust and believe in him.
“No, you are lying to me! I saw it myself. You were exchanging rings with her…”
As she thought about the scene that she witnessed last night, Zuo Weiyi felt as though she was already suffocating.
“Did you stay back and watched everything all the way to the end?”
Zuo Weiyi refused to believe him, and s.h.i.+ Yuting could not help but feel extremely helpless and distressed.
As soon as she heard his words, Zuo Weiyi could only blankly stare at the man standing before her.
No, she did not stay all the way until the end of the engagement banquet. They had already taken out the rings and were already prepared to exchange rings with one another. Was he really that cruel to expect her to stay to watch them do that?
Was it not enough that he was deceiving her? Did he really expect her to watch him putting on the engagement ring on Tengtang Xi’s finger?
As she thought about it, Zuo Weiyi felt even sadder and her heart ached even more. She could not stop the tears from flowing down her cheeks.
s.h.i.+ Yuting was also in a lot of pain when he saw her crying so pitifully.
He stretched out his hands as he embraced her tightly in his arms.
“Even if I have to give the whole world up, I would never lie to you.”
His voice was very calm and composed with a trace of hoa.r.s.eness but Zuo Weiyi felt even more hurt after listening to his words as she leaned against his chest.
“But you obviously…”
“No, I did not. Since you already came, why didn’t you stay until the end?”
If she had stayed until the end, she would not have misunderstood him, and her heart would not be aching right now.
As he thought about how Zuo Weiyi must have felt when she left last night, s.h.i.+ Yuting felt so many regrets, and he really wanted to punch himself in the face.
Stay until the end?
Zuo Weiyi finally calmed down in his arms.
Was he telling her that the result would be different if she had stayed until the end of the banquet?
Zuo Weiyi pushed him away as she stared at him and asked, “So, you are not engaged to Tengtang Xi?”
“No.”
“But…”
“I am telling you, no!”
s.h.i.+ Yuting looked at her with a very firm expression on his face.
Zuo Weiyi was at a loss for words.
She could tell that s.h.i.+ Yuting was not lying at all. So, was he really not engaged to Tengtang Xi?
What happened last night?
Zuo Weiyi had a blank expression on her face as she stared at the handsome man standing in front of her.
s.h.i.+ Yuting completely ignored the presence of others as he raised his hands and cupped her delicate face with them, before putting his forehead against hers as he spoke to her very gently.
“I would never lie to you. Trust me.”
His voice seemed to be very magical, and Zuo Weiyi did not know what to think anymore.
She could not doubt the man standing before her.
“Cough! Cough!”
At this time, Zuo Yi who was standing nearby, cleared his throat to remind the couple that there were still other people in the room.