COLD CEO AND ARROGANT WIFE, VOLUME 5 - Season 8 Episode 82

“You’ve changed,” Tang Hebe muttered softly.

“Change is the constant in life,” Shui Xian told her. “We should always be prepared for it.” He took a deep breath and added, “Now, just look at me. I wouldn’t have thought I’d be staying in a hospital just two days ago. But things changed. It doesn’t always go according to our plan.”

And neither did he think when he came out of Raelle’s ward that he’d be running into Tang Hebe. If he knew, he’d have rather just stayed inside to avoid the trouble of seeing her.

“Even if for the sake of our old friendship, you could have come to see me,” said Tang Hebe. “Because I’m pretty sure whatever changes between us, you are not someone who’d forsake the friendship we once had.”

Shui Xian found it rather funny. Yes, what she said was true. He wasn’t someone who’d forsake their childhood friendship. He never planned on doing it.

“I have my priorities,” he replied. “If it was just you in the hospital, I might have come to see you for old times’ sake.”

“But now your current wife is here as well?” she questioned but she sounded certain. “Now, someone else is Mrs. Shui. No, I should say, now the rightful owner of the title of Mrs. Shui is here. At her right place.”

Shui Xian’s brows furrowed up before he sighed, “You’re right actually. She was really the rightful owner of the title of Mrs. Shui. It always belonged to her. It was just you and I struggling with fate. But when had anyone been able to win against fate?”

Tang Hebe placed her hand on the wall and slowly sat down on the chair in the hallway. She looked up at him and asked, “Like your mother, you also think that I wasn’t the right partner for you? You also think Raelle Xiang is the perfect partner you needed?”

“I never thought that way before but you proved to me that you weren’t the right person for me. No, I should say, we both weren’t right for each other.”

Tang Hebe snickered, “I fought with my whole family for your sake and you’re telling me we were not right for each other?”

“Don’t ever tell me what you had to give up for me,” retorted Shui Xian with a stern look. “I lost my mother! I’m the one who gave up the right to inherit my Shui family business. I’m the one who even left my home for you! In the end, who is the one wronging whom? If you had your memories right now, I’d also love to ask you for once, what did I do to deserve what you did to me? All I did was love you! That’s my only fault but do you even realize what prize I had to pay for that love?”

He was suddenly really mad. Everything he learned yesterday, only infuriated him even more. Before that, he could still just let it all go. He never even tried to look for Tang Hebe for answers. But now, he really wanted some answers. He wanted to know if she even loved him at all or not? Or was she just like her own father who didn’t even hesitate before betraying his own brother?

Tang Hebe found it difficult to breathe under his barrage of questions. She felt so stifled.

That look in his eyes was so unsettling to her. So uncomfortable that even she wanted to ask herself what had she done to hurt him? What did she do?

She held her head, trying to remember but everything was blank. Her whole head was blank. She couldn’t recall anything.

Seeing how she held her hand, he stopped himself from continuing. No matter what, he didn’t want to worsen her condition. It wasn’t worth it. He rubbed his forehead and turned to leave.

“Xian!”

He stopped when he heard her calling him again but didn’t turn around waiting for her to continue.

“Did you marry her because your mother chose her?” asked Tang Hebe.

Shui Xian turned around and looked into her eyes, “No. Before marrying her, I didn’t even know she was the person my mother always wanted me to marry.” He didn’t want to tell her that he married Raelle because that woman said, love wasn’t all you needed for marriage.

She was someone who made him understand that if a relationship is solely built on love, it eventually crumbles down. Because we need a lot more than just love in life.

He noticed the flicker in her eyes and added, “Oh, and let me tell you something else. I don’t know why you hate Raelle but she never had anything to do with our relationship. I only met her last year for the first time in my life. But it seems I never realized that you’d been keeping her between us as an invisible rival. So, let me ask you, was it worth it?”

“I don’t know,” she replied to him. “But shouldn’t you know why she was the invisible rival between us? Your mother never wanted to accept me but she accepted her wholeheartedly. She admired her and genuinely loved her. How could I not be jealous of her? She had what I craved for!”

Shui Xian laughed at that, “She had what you craved for? You didn’t even know her at all! You don’t even realize that you had a lot more than she ever did.” He took a pause and added, “Whether you have your memory or not, keep in mind. Stay away from my wife. Although I trusted your character, after knowing that you hated Raelle, I’m starting to doubt whether I even knew you at all.”

With that, he left her there. She continued to stare at his back as he left her sight without any hesitation. He didn’t even turn back to look once. He was really that kind of a person. Once he walked away from you, he’d never look back.