COLD CEO AND ARROGANT WIFE, VOLUME 5 - Season 8 Episode 81

To be honest, Shui Xian wanted to walk away and pretend like he didn’t even hear her calling him. But wasn’t that much of a jerk so he couldn’t just walk away. Taking a deep breath, he tried to calm himself enough to face the person who called out to him but just once was not enough. So, he took several deep breaths before turning around.

Tang Hebe was standing not far from him right now while her eyes were glued to him.

However, Shui Xian was glad to see that he didn’t see that deeply infatuated look in her eyes this around. It was nauseating the last time he saw it. The person who broke his heart looked at him like he was the center of her world after shattering his heart into smithereens. He found it funny how her brain so conveniently chose to forget about the pain she gave him and gave herself a clean chit.

What a joke!

So what if she gave herself a clean slate? Was he also someone who lost his memory? No! He remembered every single thing. He remembered every single word she said to tear open his heart. His heart which he left with her to protect and left himself in a very vulnerable position.

“Yes?”

Tang Hebe found his estranged manner to be quite uncomfortable. She already figured out a lot of things since yesterday but what she didn’t figure out was what happened between her and Shui Xian. She was not willing to believe that they actually went so far apart in these years.

How did it happen?

“You’re acting like we are strangers,” she pointed out.

“But we are,” he replied. “I don’t think with your intelligence you haven’t figured it out yet that we are no longer together.”

Tang Hebe’s eyes showed the pain she felt when she heard those words coming from him. He didn’t even mince his words and went straight to hurt her.

“I was keeping a hope that my conjecture was wrong,” she told him.

“There is no need to keep such a pointless hope,” he told her. “Because the truth is, we are nothing to each other anymore.”

“Then Justin…”

Before she could continue, he interrupted, “Don’t even try to associate your son with me. He has nothing to do with me. He never had anything to do with him. I haven’t even met your son. I don’t know how you got him but I know that he isn’t mine.”

Tang Hebe bit her bottom lip trying to understand everything once again. She was trying to convince herself that if she had a child, then it definitely had something to do with Shui Xian. And because of a child, they’d still be connected even if they had separated.

But now, it seemed she had to wake up to reality.

There was nothing connecting her to Shui Xian anymore. Nothing at all. So, Shui Xian was right. They were just strangers once again. Familiar strangers, but still strangers.

She didn’t know how to feel about this at all.

“You have learned to speak your mind,” she said. “You used to avoid saying hurtful things to people. And now, you’re not even considering that I’m sick.”

“Because I’ve realized who are the people I’m supposed to protect,” he answered. “I don’t need to mind my words with people I have nothing to do with. And Ms. Tang, you’re really someone I have nothing to do with anymore. You of all people should know, that once you’re no longer a part of my life, I won’t even care about you.”

It took him a long time to realize it but he had learned his lesson. It was pointless to act gentlemanly and kind to strangers. He could just use that energy to do something for the people who really mattered in his life. He had to stop being the nice guy so that people would stop taking him for granted all the time.

Maybe Tang Hebe also took him for granted.

But he wasn’t willing to be that guy anymore.

Tang Hebe looked at his eyes deeply and inquired, “You’re not even willing to pretend anymore? Am I that hateful?”

“I don’t know,” answered Shui Xian honestly. “I don’t know if you’re hateful or not. Even if you’re the reason our relationship crumbled, I still won’t blame you for everything. Because I know, I am not perfect as well. So, most probably I have done something to let you down as well. And that’s why I can’t decide if you’re hateful or not.” He took a deep breath and added, “But I can assure you, I don’t hate you anymore. I might have had some resentment. However, it’s all gone now. Flowers of love don’t bloom in the heart that is filled with resentment. So, I let my resentment for you go. It wasn’t worth it.”

Tang Hebe actually felt like she didn’t know this Shui Xian at all. When did he start talking like this? He was always a gentle, smiling, and caring person. But now, he had walls around him. And she definitely wasn’t allowed to cross those walls and get close to him.

And yes, she believed it when he said he didn’t hate her. She could see it in his eyes. There was no hate for her in those eyes but the love that she always found in those eyes for herself was also nowhere to be found. He had removed herself from his life and his heart. Now, she didn’t even deserve his hate.

“The doctor did ask me to pretend as nothing changed between us, but I can’t do that. I have never been a good actor. That’s what you used to say. I might be a good musician but my acting sucks. So, I couldn’t put on an act and pretend like the last 5 years didn’t even happen at all.” His heart won’t allow him to put on that act. Whether he was good at acting or not had nothing to do with it at all.