The only reason was that she loved him, so she couldn’t let go of him, which is why, even though she knew it was wrong, she still ran back to be with him.
But she couldn’t say these words at all. Her feelings for Shi Che were wrong, forbidden. The slap from her elder sister that day had already sobered her up enough.
She didn’t know why he was asking her these questions, she only knew that her only answer was, "I saw in the newspaper that Madam was critically ill; I went back to see her."
To see his mother... Shi Che clenched his hands slightly, "Then why did you go back to the villa? To see mom, it would have been enough to stay in the hospital."
Shi Che stared intensely at her, not missing a single expression on her face, and Ling Chuxia unconsciously lowered her eyelids before slowly speaking again, "Elder sister said you were very upset, had drunk a lot of alcohol, so she asked me to go and comfort you."
"Elder sister?" Shi Che’s eyes flickered, his voice suddenly deepening, "It was Ling Yunshu who sent you, not your own wish to come??"
It was elder sister who had sent her, but she also... wanted to go.
Ling Chuxia answered him very seriously in her heart, word by word, but what came out was, "Yes, elder sister sent me, it wasn’t my own wish."
The light in Shi Che’s eyes instantly froze, he looked at Ling Chuxia, listening to her answer, each word piercing into his heart like fine, dense needles.
How fast his heart had beaten when he heard from Sister Hua that she had come back that day, how badly his body trembled when he saw her returning to the villa in the surveillance footage.
How his heart fluttered when he dreamt at midnight of their intimate entanglement.
Now, with just one sentence from her, his hopes were shattered.
He couldn’t believe it, he couldn’t believe that she had absolutely no feelings for him, he couldn’t!
Shi Che abruptly grabbed Ling Chuxia’s shoulders, staring fixedly into her eyes, his lips parted slightly, his voice carrying a barely noticeable tremor, "You say you didn’t want to come, so why then were you willing to be intimate with me that day?"
Ling Chuxia had always been frightened and repulsed by such acts; if she didn’t have feelings for him, how could she possibly do it rather than push him away?
That intimate encounter, for Shi Che, was beautiful, but for Ling Chuxia, it was a disgrace, a mistake that should not have happened.
As Shi Che brought it up, Ling Chuxia’s mind involuntarily replayed her elder sister’s anger and disappointment; she violently shook her head, her voice inadvertently rising, "It wasn’t my wish! It was you... you were drunk, so... so..."
She couldn’t continue her words.
And Shi Che, struck by her fierce declaration of unwillingness, completely extinguished his last glimmer of hope.
She went back for Mrs. Shi, she went to the villa for her elder sister, and she was intimate with him because he was drunk and forced her...
From beginning to end, everything she had done had nothing to do with him. From beginning to end, it was still him being delusional; she really had no feelings for him whatsoever.
So that day, she slept with him but let her elder sister take off her clothes and lie beside him, trying to mislead him into thinking he was sleeping with Ling Yunshu, not her, right??