Feng Qing's struggling suddenly stopped. Her face was suffused with a deep anger. Soon, she began to struggle even more violently, pounding on Sheng Yan as she did so. Sheng Yan winced in pain, and his hold on her loosened a bit.
Feng Qing finally managed to back out of Sheng Yan's embrace.
Due to all the intense movements just now, her evening dress had slipped down quite a bit. Feng Qing, fuming with rage, tugged at the collar of her dress, trying to pull it up. She scurried as far away from him as possible in the car.
If the car weren't still moving, Feng Qing would probably have jumped out of it by now.
"Don't make yourself sound like a savior," Feng Qing said, tidying up her disheveled clothes and hair. Her tone was urgent and aggressive, completely out of control. "I'll only marry the person I love, and the person I love will never deceive me!"
"Deceive," Sheng Yan chuckled. Unlike Feng Qing's disheveled state, Sheng Yan still looked noble. "You turn a blind eye to all the good I've done for you, but you keep harping on about this one thing. Feng Qing, you really do remember the bad but not the good."
"Yes, I do remember the bad but not the good. You deceived and hurt me once, and I'll make you pay for it for the rest of my life!" Feng Qing glared at him with wide eyes, which looked a bit terrifying in the dim car interior.
She would never have been like this before. She would never have been so hot - tempered with others. But now, she had completely lost the image she had always painstakingly maintained. She wasn't mature at all. She argued with Sheng Yan over trifles and was determined not to let him win, even verbally.
Sheng Yan looked at her and, for some reason, suddenly fell silent. He just stared at Feng Qing, his eyes inscrutable.
Feng Qing didn't want to see his face. She quickly rolled her eyes at him and turned around, facing away from Sheng Yan with her face towards the car door, motionless.
Sheng Yan also looked out of the window. The glass reflected Feng Qing's back. Even though he was not willing to show weakness, he still stared blankly at her reflection on the window.
She was curled up in the corner, looking thin and small, as if showing her defiance to him with her back.
She used to be a proud cat, but now, she was a biting one.
***
Although the relationship between Sheng Yan and Feng Qing was almost "broken", they still had to see each other frequently.
The tension between them was palpable. Logically, Assistant Qi should have found it more difficult to handle the situation, but unexpectedly, he was the most care - free one.
The entire president's office could feel the low - pressure atmosphere between Feng Qing and Sheng Yan. Everyone wished they could turn into ostriches and bury themselves in the ground, afraid of accidentally being called into the office. But Assistant Qi had no such concerns at all. He swaggered in and out of the office, even more frequently than before.
Feng Qing used to be suspicious of Assistant Qi. But after she discovered that Sheng Yan had secretly bought shares, she suddenly thought that Assistant Qi was someone she could trust.
When she placed her bet on an outsider because of her distrust, Assistant Qi had always been diligent and dedicated. Although she might not blindly trust Assistant Qi in matters related to the company, she still thought he was a good person to make friends with.
The fact that they always got together would also make Sheng Yan's face turn as black as the bottom of a pot. After Feng Qing noticed this, she felt a sense of balance in her heart.
It took her some time to gradually accept Assistant Qi's words that "deception is a double - edged sword" and gradually put it into action.
Even if Sheng Yan's annoyance and anger were feigned, Feng Qing admitted that she would feel happy seeing it.
Since he had deceived her, he had to bear the discomfort she brought to him.
Assistant Qi wasn't oblivious to Sheng Yan's reaction. But since he was a few years older than them, he couldn't help but think that such "fights" were too childish.
"Are you two going to keep being so awkward?" In his opinion, their "tit - for - tat" was just like children playing house. Immaturity was indeed contagious.
"What can I do? You've seen it too. I have no way to deal with him. If I really anger him, I don't know what else he'll do." Feng Qing was also very unhappy. This timid character wasn't supposed to be hers. It was all Sheng Yan's fault!
The thing in Feng Qing's hand was wrinkled by her tight grip. Assistant Qi couldn't stand it anymore. He took the thing out of her hand, smoothed it out a few times, and then put it aside.
"I can tell that he still has feelings for you. What about you?" Eighty percent of the love - hate relationships could end well.
Anyway, he was an experienced person. If he could really give her some advice, it would be a good deed.
Feng Qing didn't answer him directly. According to her personality, if she had feelings, she would admit it; if not, she would say so. There was no room for hesitation. But she hesitated this time.
"The past is in the past. I've never been one to live in the past," Feng Qing said firmly after hesitating for a while.
Those brief two months would only become a small thing in her numerous past experiences.
"Since you didn't marry the mother of your son, it means that there are other kinds of feelings in this world. I never think that what Sheng Yan did was because he loves me. On the contrary, it's because he hates me that all these things are happening now."
Sheng Yan hated her and couldn't let go of her sudden departure five years ago. Even from the first day he appeared in front of her, the seed of revenge had been sown.
Betraying her trust was indeed the best way to hurt her.
Assistant Qi's movement paused for a moment, and then he quickly regained his usual confident posture.
"The reason you feel hurt is that you give him the chance. If you don't want to be hurt by him, nothing he does will affect you." He stood up and straightened his clothes. "There are indeed many kinds of feelings in this world, and love is no exception. But first, you need to understand what love is."
After saying that, he left Feng Qing's office. If one couldn't figure something out on their own, no amount of advice from others would help.
He thought he had given Feng Qing enough reminders and advice. If she still couldn't get the point, he really didn't know what else to do.
Feng Qing sat there in a daze. For the first time in her life, she was asked what love was, and she was really stumped.
Since childhood, she had been in many relationships. When the love was intense, she would say "I love you". But it wasn't until the last alumni reunion that she realized that she had never really loved anyone.
The answer she couldn't give when Sheng Yan asked her was that she had never loved Sheng Yan.
What kind of emotion love was, she still wasn't very clear about. That's why she couldn't answer such a question.
She was lost in her own thoughts and didn't notice Sheng Yan entering the office. When she came to her senses, she heard Sheng Yan's sneer.
"What? Can't you even resist a man with a child? Do you want to take him under your wing?"