On the other end of the phone, the assistant continued to ask in confusion, "Assistant Jian, Assistant Jian, did you hear me? Where is Zexiao? Hurry up and have him come back to shoot! Assistant Jian, Assis—"
Yet Yu Zexiao was suddenly pushed away by her, abruptly grabbed her phone, hung up without a word, immediately turned it off, and threw the phone aside.
Jian Anning also took this opportunity to quickly get up, grabbed the bedsheet to wrap around her body, and looked at him with deep wariness.
When Yu Zexiao stepped forward, Jian Anning retreated. The two of them began a cat-and-mouse chase in the small room.
"Yu Zexiao, if you dare come any closer, I’ll......."
"You’ll do what?" Yu Zexiao didn’t care at all, looking at her with arrogance, "Call the police? Do you think, even if you call the police, they would believe you?"
"Even if they don’t believe me, you can’t stop me from leaving after such an incident has occurred!"
Yu Zexiao frowned, somewhat incredulous. But then, the next second, he laughed, "Aren’t you afraid that our affair will be exposed?"
"If you’re not afraid, what do I have to be afraid of!" She was ready to risk it all; at worst, she would leave Huaxia Country and go to Australia, the United Kingdom, or somewhere else! She refused to believe that in this vast world, she, a woman, couldn’t escape!
"I won’t let you go." Yu Zexiao had never imagined that Jian Anning really wanted to leave! "Don’t forget, you promised me last time that as long as I don’t request it, you would never leave my side!"
"But you also promised me last time that you would definitely not touch me!" Jian Anning grew angry as well, "I am a person, not a toy! You amuse yourself with me when you feel like it and kick me away when you’re done!"
"When have I ever kicked you away!" Yu Zexiao was baffled.
"How can you say you haven’t! The bruises from where you grabbed me yesterday are still on my shoulder!" Jian Anning was holding the bedsheet over her chest, but her shoulder was exposed. The bruised marks, in shades of blue and purple, were clearly visible.
Yu Zexiao glanced over, and the bruise-like marks on her normally delicate, snowy skin, resembling blooming plum blossoms in the snow, were shockingly bright. Yesterday... he had mistakenly thought she was that woman, hadn’t he? When she said she hadn’t been to Caesar’s Palace Hotel, he got angry in the moment and........
Now, looking at the bruises on her shoulder, they indeed appeared quite shocking, especially against her pale skin, making the aftereffects of mistreatment all the more pitiful—indeed, it was the kind of sight that could stir a man’s impulsive desires even further!
Yu Zexiao shifted his gaze away, not wanting to let himself get carried away again and make the situation even more unmanageable. His face turned towards the window, his voice ethereal, but his words shocked Jian Anning to her core!
"Yesterday... I thought you were that person. I was too impulsive. Sorry."
Jian Anning was about to bulge her eyes out and drop her jaw in astonishment! Had she heard wrong? The haughty Yu Zexiao, apologizing?
Truly, really, he had just apologized! Although he didn’t look at her, and his attitude didn’t seem very sincere, he had indeed said "sorry"!
She really wanted to look outside the window—was the sun rising from the west?
Or perhaps Yu Zexiao had overslept and it had made him a bit foolish?