You Owe Me, My Love

You Owe Me, My Love Chapter 293

Chapter 293 I Only Care About Whether I Can Be With You

Bai Rong awkwardly turned around, facing away from Mingchen. “I… I think I must have eaten something weird,” she stammered.

He wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her into his embrace. “Lu Xingzhou drugged the herbal tea we drank.”

Shocked, she turned to look at him.

His face was a hair’s breadth away from hers, and her lips accidentally brushed against his when she turned her head, sending what felt like an electric shock throughout her body.

Forcing her noisy heartbeat to calm down in order to think straight, she argued, “But we weren’t the only ones who drank the tea; Lu Biao drank it as well. Lu Biao is Lu Xingzhou’s son, there’s no way he would harm him.”

Mingchen just stared silently at Bai Rong.

Detecting the determination in his gaze, Bai Rong guessed out loud, “Was that guy just now also acting upon Lu Xingzhou’s orders?”

He nodded. “Should be. He used a room key to enter the suite and probably intended on taking pictures of us together. When he couldn’t find you, he lied about writing for a newspaper, and then ran away when I said I wanted to call the cops on him.”

“But why did he do that? What benefit would pictures of us…” Bai Rong trailed off, scared to verbalize the idea in case it triggered flashbacks from the car again. “…What good would it do him?”

“Even though I never publicized my past incident, people can find out as long as they try hard enough.

“Lu Xingzhou believes that the land I put in a requisition for has some sort of treasure hidden on it. Besides that, he suspects that I came here to investigate Xiaojiu’s case, so he wants to chase me away.

“As for you, he just wants to get rid of you because he thinks you’re too smart. He had purposefully asked us if we were seeing anyone during lunch just now to check if his plans were still viable.

“If he got pictures of us, then he would be able to blackmail and threaten us to ensure his own safety,” Mingchen finished.

“So Xingzhou wants to get rid of me because he’s worried that I know about him murdering Chunxia’s family, as well as killing the hitman he’d hired for the job,” concluded Bai Rong solemnly.

“Xingzhou killed Chunxia’s family? What evidence do you have?”

“I don’t, it’s all just an assumption. Xingzhou made the hitman take a video on purpose so the police would focus their attention on the hitman instead of Lu Biao. But, he didn’t expect that Lu Biao would return to the scene of the crime to take his phone.

“The police arrested Lu Biao, but he didn’t tell them anything, and no traces of the video were found at the scene. So, Xingzhou guessed that the phone was already in Lu Biao’s possession.

“He understands Lu Biao’s personality and habits, so he found the phone that Lu Biao had hidden and saw the video.

“Then, he ordered someone else to kill the hitman and then wrote down the entire process of the crime, thus clearing Lu Biao of any suspicion,” Bai Rong explained.

“But he can’t be charged without solid evidence, can he?”

Bai Rong thought back to Xing Bachuan and Su Xuyan.

They had committed so many evil acts, but had not received their deserved punishment.

She had done nothing wrong, and yet she had to constantly fear for her life.

She pushed away Mingchen’s arm around her waist. “I need to go back.”

“You still refuse to be with me, Rong?” He stared down at her.

Recalling the incident in the car, her cheeks flushed as she lowered her head, replying quietly, “I hadn’t intended for the incident on the car ride here to happen. So forget about it. You’re getting married soon, anyway.”

His eyebrows furrowed together. “You still believe that lie?”

Confused, she glanced up at him. “What are you talking about?”

He stroked her hair gently, telling her, “Xuyan is making you suffer because of me. If I get married and distance myself from you, you’ll have some breathing space.”

Realization dawned upon Bai Rong.

Everything Mingchen was doing was for her sake. Her heart clenched within her chest as her sight grew blurry with tears, everything she wanted to say to him getting stuck in her throat.

He had no future with her.

“I’m already dating Xuyan,” she forced out.

“But I know you have feelings for me. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t rush to my side the moment I got injured, and you wouldn’t stay by me even when facing off an assassin,” insisted Mingchen.

“I rushed to your side when you got injured because I’m a doctor. I stayed beside you when facing off an assassin because I think that being your side is the safest place to be,” she defended, feeling so guilty that she could barely look him in the eye. Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

“If you think that by my side is the safest place to be, then why can’t you stay there?

“Do you know how unsafe and insecure I feel without you? I think of you and what you might be doing with Xuyan every hour of the day! And every time I do, I get so angry that it gets hard to breathe.

“Rong, let’s stay together, just like what you said to me. We can brave whatever storm comes our way. I don’t care for reputation or profit. I only care about being with you.”

Bai Rong was trembling as she listened to Mingchen’s confession.

His last sentence had been near-fatal for her heart.

His eyes clearly shone with pain and sincerity when she looked up at him.

She could give up her body and her heart to him, but she could never stay with him.

Her fate was in someone else’s hands.

Every day that she was with him was another day of pain and suffering for the both of them.

“Mingchen, I’m sorry. Thank you for loving me up until now, but I don’t want to be with you.

“I don’t need more trouble or worries in my life. Anytime I stumble upon something frustrating or painful, I become mentally unstable. When I’m with you, I need to take medicine and sleeping pills every day. I can’t take this anymore.

“After leaving you, my condition stabilized, and I didn’t need medicine nor sleeping pills anymore. I know this is selfish of me, but I prioritize my own health over being with you,” asserted Bai Rong, standing her ground.

“What if I could create a safe haven for you?” Mingchen suggested.

She went on to say coldly, “I might consider it if you actually manage to accomplish that, but I advise you to not waste your energy. And to be honest, we don’t know each other all that well. Ten years of feelings are easy to forget, let alone the fleeting emotions we shared.”

The phrase “fleeting emotions” stabbed through Mingchen’s heart like a knife.

He knew that his feelings for her were definitely not “fleeting”. He had fallen deeply in love with her to the point that he wanted to give everything up just to be with her. He was willing to quit his job as a military general and move to another country with her. He was willing to get a normal corporate job and work hard to earn money for their children.

Leaning forward, he held the back of her neck with one hand as he pressed her forehead to his, their noses brushing together. “… Till death do us part.”