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CHAPTER 350
"You would remarry. You would divorce Ye Cheng and Marry Kim Fan."
"Grandfather!"
Her lips remained parted and her eyes narrowed. At first, Li Jing was shocked by what he said that she was left speechless for a minute.
She had thought he was beginning to see things her way but now…
She balled her fists at her side and then closed her lips. She had enough of how he treated her. He should let her make her own mistakes and if he wanted to scold her then, then yes but even at that, it was her life and she was happy with whatever her choices were.
"Fine. Do not blame me for saying this grandpa but I will. I hated the fact that you blamed mother all those years for running away and getting missing whereas you had been the cause of this family's problems."
"Li Jing."
She raised her right hand to silence him. "Let me finish, grandpa. Even though it ached to hear you speak that way, I still remained loyal to you and only you. Never once did I blame you or complain about all the things you did, but no more would I pamper you. I would tell you the bitter truth you deny your heart from hearing."
His eyes dimmed further at her words and his brows furrowed together, creating a deep V in between his brows.
The burning flame he saw before came back in full force.
"Mother made the right decision to some extent in leaving you but you were just too stubborn to see that your controlling attitude actually made you lose your most precious jewel while allowing your family members to drive a wedge deeper between you and leave you with no heir whatsoever."
Li Jing paused, allowing her words to sink into his head before she continued.
"You still blame her for following her heart and it was out of her love for my father that she birthed me and here I am today. Do you still think she was stupid to have done what she did?"
She swallowed, trying her best to hold back the tears that burned her eyes. "If you think so then perhaps you should go and check why all searches of her for the first five years after she disappeared proved abortive. Your very own terminated all of your searches because they wanted her no more."
"What?"
"I shouldn't be telling you this but then, you should know that her disappearance wasn't all that normal but then your pride and anger made you blind to the truth, and now you want to do the same thing to me."
"Li Jing, it is different. I need to avoid…"
"Stop! Just stop, grandpa. Stop with that silly excuse of saying you are protecting me. I am old enough to care for myself and secondly, unlike mother, running wasn't the answer. I can see that now as she escaped it but you ended up pushing it to me, her grandchild."
"It is what is best for …"
"For you, gramps," Li Jing interjected. "What is best for you and not me. I wouldn't run away from you. I won't leave you but that does not give you the right to decide my life and who I am to marry. I can give up your company to you at any time.'
"Li Jing I never said you should."
"No you didn't but you might have as well done so. If you still push with this nonsense of my divorce then I would leave you and you can go find another grandchild or better still impregnate a lady that would bear you an heir. Then you can control the life as you wish but let me warn you, not everyone would seat for it."
"What are you saying, Li Jing?"
"I guess I was pretty clear enough. Dig in deep and find out the truth then while at that, stay away from my personal decisions, grandfather. This is my life, my future and my marriage. If anything goes wrong you wouldn't live the life for me, I would suffer it alone. So let me make my choice and I choose Ye Cheng. I hope you would respect my decisions in the future."
Li Jing did not give him a second to reply and turned around on her knees as she stormed back out of the living room.
"I hope you know that I love you." She stopped when he suddenly spoke.
Without turning back, she responded to his words of love.
"I hope you know that it is no longer love when you cage me and take my free will, you only end up birthing rebellion and loneliness. Choose wisely what you want. If it is I, support me, and if not hmm, I always was alone. I can go back to that."
That was it and before Lin Zian could say Jack Robinson she was already out the door. By the time she got outside the building, Li Jing paused and inhaled deeply before releasing her breath slowly.
It was one heck of a threat or being brave to stand up for what she wanted for her. She just had to let it out. It had been eating her from within but now she felt like a weight had been lifted from her chest.
She was free to live her life. She knew that her grandfather was stubborn and would not rest until he achieved his goal but he tried the wrong girl this time around.
She felt for him. He had lost the two most important people in his life and lived more than twenty-five years in loneliness. It was truly an aching feat.
She never wanted to live him but to stay close so that he knows there would be someone there for him but his behavior was killing her and she just had to threaten him.
"It is alright Li Jing. Grandpa would be alright. Just give him some time to understand that things have changed. Meanwhile, I think I need to focus on how to grow my business and not wait for Ye Cheng's love again." She smiled to herself then made her way to her car.