It wasn't Mark?
She stiffened. She has always doubted that possibility but it is said that sometimes expectations hurt you the most. That's why she never investigated it just in case it was him but who could have thought Mark was innocent all this while.
"You were young and immature back then; it wasn't your fault. We all have gone through that age where we were indecisive, we just tend to run away from the problems instead of trying to solve them. It happens, don't blame yourself," He has always known that she will blame herself for it but Mark was rather important to her as a friend and he could see it that the man has no ulterior motives, so it's better to tell her the truth.
Tang Li nodded and leaned back into his embrace. He is right, at that time, she was too immature, she was easily frightened and became anxious. Even though she was the CEO of Tang Corps back then and her decisions in business were steady, but as a person, she was very fickle in her life.
She was taught in the hard way for that, she had to shoulder plenty of responsibilities and face multiple backstabbing to become the person she is today.
"Will he blame me for it?"
"As a person, he should blame you. It's been years, yet you never tried to contact him or find out the truth," Mo Yuhan could see through her bittersweet emotions as he continued "But as your friend, he won't blame you. You were just seventeen, it's hard to stay calm in such situations."
Maybe only she has the ability to talk make this man talk like this much.
No matter how composed and confident she looked today, Mo Yuhan knew her real self. The cheery little girl from years ago who was stubborn, would fight with him for little things, would act clingy with him was the real her. She would get anxious over small things but had a great courage at other times.
Mo Yuhan has always been like the way he is today, cold and ruthless, a devil. Though people admired him, no one had the guts to get closer to him, other than his friend, Qin Jingze. But Tang Li would always follow him like a little tail, no matter how impatient he was with her.
He thought back to the moment when he irritatingly asked her 'Why must you follow me?'
'Because you are big brother,' she said, innocently blinking her doe like eyes. But don't go on that 'naive' look, how could the sister and granddaughter of a fox fall in any other category than them?
The fourteen year old Mo Yuhan sighed, he was getting a headache here, he coldly spoke 'Aren't you afraid of me? There are many big brothers here, go to them.'
'Afraid? Humph! You're the most handsome one. I must keep clinging, he has taught me that rule.' she was stubborn as ever, leaving him not to know whether he should laugh or cry.
"What are you spacing out for?" Mo Yuhan snapped out of his thoughts at her voice.
He poked her forehead "Who taught you that you must keep clinging?"
Tang Li furrowed her brows.
"Don't you remember the first time we talked, you said I was the most handsome big brother and..."
"I must keep clinging...." Tang Li completed the sentence awkwardly "I was just 12 years old; you can't bully me with that."
Mo Yuhan looked determined. He had to know who was the one misleading his wife back then. Lucky that he was the handsome big brother, what would have happened if it wasn't him? Sigh!
Tang rubbed her neck awkwardly "It was brother and grandpa."
Mo Yuhan: "_" He should have known.
"I had once seen a pair of shoes, it was HSN's cindrella glass slipper encrusted with gems, there was only two in the whole world. I loved it the moment I laid my eyes on it. But it was expensive, something like a few billion dollars. Grandma refused to buy it for me, she also asked grandpa not to spoil me so much. But Grandpa sneakily bought them for me and said 'If you want something very much, wait for the right time and make it yours, you must keep clinging, don't give up on it over small obstacles.' Brother also sold his perfumes and gadgets to get that for me while teaching me 'No matter how many beautiful things you desire, snatch it away. If you can't, brother will help his princess.' So, I seem to misinterpret their words at that time..."
Mo Yuhan chuckled. So, she confused the beautiful things with beautiful big brother when it came to him and adding it to Grandpa Tang's advice, she kept clinging to him.
Tang Yichen would have never known that he shot himself in the foot while pampering his little sister. He just asked her to serve herself on the silver platter, with a pink ribbon tied, to Mo Yuhan's doorstep.
Tang Li blushed. How embarrassing was that!
And just like that Mo Yuhan crushed away her self-blame and guilt without even letting her know it.