A Stern Mistress from the Ancient Past Becomes the Cannon-Fodder in a Wealthy Family

Chapter 223: Confession

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

The car stopped in front of Lin Xi’s house. Shi Xiao realized that this seemed to be the first time he had come to her house. After he returned to the country, he had been brought to the No Man’s Land by Li Ci. Right on the heels of that, all kinds of things happened, so Shi Xiao had no time to care about Lin Xi.

Even this house was found by Zhao Mian for Lin Xi. It was an apartment with three bedrooms and two living rooms in the most luxurious district by the river. According to the housing prices in the city, this house was worth five million yuan. Shi Xiao felt that this was already enough to repay Lin Xi for saving her life.

Shi Xiao was a businessman and had never been stingy with problems that could be solved with money.

The car had stopped for a while. Seeing that Lin Xi had no intention of opening the door and going out, Shi Xiao reminded her, “We’re here. You can go up now.”

Lin Xi gritted her teeth and gestured with sign language. “Aren’t you going up for a cup of tea?”

Shi Xiao rejected her directly. “It’s already very late, so it’s inappropriate for me to go up. Don’t worry, I’ll wait downstairs for you to enter before leaving.”

Lin Xi wasn’t discouraged by Shi Xiao’s rejection. Instead, she became emboldened and even turned her entire body towards Shi Xiao. The dim light from the street lamps shone into the car. Lin Xi was wearing a white dress today. Under the weak incandescent light, she looked very charming.

Coupled with her gentle appearance and pitiful gaze, no one could bear to reject her.

She gestured in sign language. “I want to talk to you alone.”

Shi Xiao frowned slightly and thought about it carefully. Then, he got the chauffeur to get out of the car and the two of them stayed in the car alone. “Tell me.”

After Lin Xi placed her hands on her legs and grabbed the hem of her dress tightly, the white and smooth hem of her dress had a few creases from her grip. Then, her hands loosened before gripping it again and again. Shi Xiao was already running out of patience. Only then did Lin Xi finally raise her hand and continue gesturing.

She gestured each word slowly, for fear that Shi Xiao wouldn’t understand. “I like you.”

Shi Xiao’s gaze was sharp, and he wasn’t touched by the sudden confession at all. He only looked at her indifferently. After a while, he asked, “Is there anything else?”

Lin Xi was shocked. For a moment, she didn’t understand what he meant by asking this. Then, she gestured anxiously with sign language. “Don’t you understand?”

“I said I like you.”

“Or do you understand but don’t want to give me an answer?”

“I thought you were—”

Before Lin Xi could finish gesturing, Shi Xiao replied. He originally wanted to pretend that he didn’t understand and let this matter drop so that the relationship between the two of them wouldn’t be too awkward. However, it was obvious that what Lin Xi urgently needed now was a definite answer.

Hence, Shi Xiao interrupted her, “1 understand, but you should know that I’m already married. This is a country with monogamy, so it’s impossible for me to divorce my wife.”

Lin Xi was stunned. Shi Xiao’s words were already very clear, but Lin Xi didn’t want to give up so easily.

She gestured. “What about everything in Africa? If you knew that you had a wife and didn’t want to divorce her, why did you provoke me?”

Lin Xi pulled up her skirt, revealing a small part of her calf. In the dark night, it was impossible to see anything clearly in the car, but her actions made Shi Xiao understand what she was trying to express.

There was a burn on her calf. That day, Lin Xi went to deliver meat soup to him, but she was frightened by Zhao Cheng and overturned the meat soup. The hot soup that splashed out scalded her calf.

Later on, when Zhao Cheng went to work while Lin Xi was taking care of Shi Xiao in the house, he carefully massaged her legs and blew on them. With such flirtatious actions, how could he say that it was impossible for them to get a divorce?

If he had known that it was impossible for him to get a divorce and be with another woman, why did he flirt with another person? Moreover, he did it irresponsibly..