"From now on, don't do such foolish things again." Ye Fan said earnestly, implicitly referring to the confrontation just now.
"Aren't you foolish too?" Fire Phoenix happily retorted.
"I had no choice, didn't I?" Ye Fan said indifferently.
"Do you think I had a choice?" Fire Phoenix said bitterly.
Neither of them had a way out, and they both had unavoidable reasons to take such extreme actions.
"You could have persuaded me, but you didn't." Fire Phoenix said sourly, "If you had told me about your childhood experiences, or reminded me that I went through the same thing as you, with my family perishing at the hands of the God Organization and becoming an orphan and a part of them, I would have listened to you and not taken out the gun."
"But you didn't do that; you were afraid that if I changed, I'd follow you stubbornly, cling to you, so you went along with my plan, thinking that dying under my gun would somehow make up for what you owed me in your heart."
"I have feelings for you, and you know that very well, just as I know your intentions. I couldn't understand why you rejected me before, but now I finally know. You have the seed of revenge buried in your heart and don't want to implicate or burden me."
"But don't you realize, this is a classic case of personal heroism, to put it nicely, but frankly, it's just being a jerk, thinking of bearing everything alone, is it an explanation? What you did was too bastardly, plotting in secret, and then planning to leave after things are done. Have you considered the feelings of others?"
"Now that you have Chu Mengyao, you want to draw a clear line with me, not saying or explaining anything."
"You know you've let down my feelings too, so you thought about dying under my gun. But you never thought that I might want to die under your gun too, otherwise, we wouldn't be sitting here chatting ."
"I can tell you this, even if you marry Chu Mengyao, I will still live in your heart, I want you to owe me, let you remember me forever, that's why I came up with that plan just now."
"Who would have thought, haha, that it would end just ."
Fire Phoenix laid bare the unsaid words, reminding Ye Fan to speak before she drew the gun, even if not about feelings, advising would have been good too, but Ye Fan said nothing, naturally filling her with extreme disappointment. What Ye Fan did was a sign of drawing a line with her, how could she not be hurt?
So, that's why she said Ye Fan would regret it, but who knew Ye Fan's intentions were similar, disrupting everything.
"Why did you have to spell it all out? It was a tiny matter, piercing it suddenly makes it weird." Ye Fan said.
"Stop pretending to be calm, acting like nothing happened. Matters of life and death are not child's play. Is this a small thing? Where is it small? You tell me." Fire Phoenix reproached. Follow current ɴᴏᴠᴇʟs on 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡•𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚⚫𝙣𝙚𝙩
"I was just speaking casually, no need to deliberately pick faults with me." Ye Fan said helplessly.
"I insist on picking faults, what can you do about it? I've already prepared to face death, can't I express my feelings a bit?" Fire Phoenix said resentfully, "I'm not like you, liking someone but never saying a word. You'll suffocate yourself sooner or later, just wait and see, you'll feel terrible. Now you have Chu Mengyao too, let's see how you choose. You want three wives and four concubines, I curse death upon you."
"No need to be that harsh, curse me to death? Besides, who said I like you, how does this relate to having three wives and four concubines? I have my principles for how I live and do things, stop trying to make things difficult for me." Ye Fan spoke with frustration.
"I don't have the energy to make things difficult for you; if you're having a hard time, it's because you brought it on yourself; being so outstanding attracts too much attention." Fire Phoenix smiled, mysteriously saying, "You just said, who said I like you. Now I'm telling you, you just said you like me. I filtered out the words 'who said,' leaving the four words, 'I like you,' didn't I? You're confessing to me; whether I accept it or not, I won't say."
"You've learned to be a rogue too, is this good?" Ye Fan shook his head in frustration.
"Exactly, I'm just being a rogue. You're a rogue, who else would I be a rogue with if not you?" Fire Phoenix said proudly.
"Do you believe I'll hit you?" Ye Fan said harshly.
"You can't bear to." Fire Phoenix replied softly.
Ye Fan was utterly exasperated, feeling both amused and helpless, bitterly saying, "You're the unreasonable one, the one who argues nonsensically, you're really not letting me go, are you?"
"I am a woman; this is my right. Who let you bully me, trying to ditch me?" Fire Phoenix mumbled in grievance, then, with a shift in her gaze, she rebuked, "Not letting you go, are you calling me a dog?"
Seeing Fire Phoenix was about to use her soft tactics again, Ye Fan hastily conceded, "Alright, consider me yielded, okay? Let's tone it down and talk about something serious."
"Aren't we talking about serious matters right now?" Fire Phoenix laughed playfully, though on the surface she was fooling around, in reality, she calmed herself and became more composed.
"I've looked into your background. Want to hear it?" Ye Fan inquired.
When he dismantled the God Organization's elite forces, before deleting the top-secret files, he naturally looked into the past of Fire Phoenix and the Butcher, as these two were the ones he cared most about, so naturally, he wanted to understand their backgrounds.
"How unfortunate is it?" Fire Phoenix's eyes became calm as water.
"Compared to me, even more unfortunate. Your family situation is somewhat special; your parents divorced and during the tragic event, relatives around you, including your mother, grandfather, and grandmother, died. However, there's a younger brother following your father. Your original surname is Zhao, from Jiangnan, Huaxia." Ye Fan revealed several important pieces of information.
"How I wish to find just a bit of the pain of losing family, but there's none. Everyone isn't born from a crack in a stone; who doesn't have family? But we all know that the training system of the God Organization ensures each child in the initial phase carries the pain of losing family. Sometimes, we don't even understand what losing family means; all we know is crying and helplessness before being harshly trained. So, I dearly wish to feel what having family is like, but it's an impossible luxury because family, to a killer, is a shackle. Without knowing when, we have forgotten everything, forgotten who we are, only knowing that orders from the God Organization are everything," Fire Phoenix murmured very sadly.