eurekapd Chapter 234 No Guarantee
Chapter 234 No Guarantee
Xie Shiqian enveloped her in his gaze, and upon hearing the words, he raised his lower lip for a rare moment, but there was still no discernible emotion in his eyes.
"You can think so."
As he spoke, he crossed his long legs, leaned back, and gestured, "Sit down."
After being in the officialdom for so long, no matter what this man says or what tone he uses, it is hard for people to have the desire to resist.
Jiang Wan pursed her lips, thinking of her encounter with Xie Heng during the day, and walked up to him and slowly sat down.
Her slender white legs were slanted together and her sitting posture was a little stiff. Her attitude could hardly conceal her alienation, so that the atmosphere became even more silent and subtle, and extremely quiet.
However, the other party seemed unaware and pushed a celadon porcelain teacup with steam rising from it in front of her.
"Miss Jiang, what do you want to say to me?"
A very calm tone without the slightest doubt.
He was asking her a question back.
Jiang Wan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she cursed inwardly that this man was always hard to see through, but he could always see through others easily.
But she really couldn't do anything about it, so she could only say, "I'm afraid the decision-making power really wasn't mine when you came to me last time."
Xie Shiqian fixed his gaze on her face, and raised his eyelashes calmly when he heard her words: "What do you mean?"
Jiang Wan held the teacup in both hands, pondered for a moment, and lowered his eyelashes: "Brother Heng came to see me this morning, and then..."
"I just got off Ji Xingjing's car."
This was the first time she took the initiative to mention Ji Xingjing's name in front of Xie Shiqian, which was somewhat of an admission that she and Ji Xingjing were closely connected.
But in front of the man in front of her, there was actually no difference between saying some things and not saying them. However, inexplicably, when she spoke the second half of the sentence, her tone gradually became weak.
The atmosphere had become a little stagnant without her knowing. She dared not look up at the man's expression, and whispered word by word, "I have said what I should say. I cannot guarantee what will happen next."
There is a limit to how cruel one can be. Xie Heng's later words stopped her from saying anything more outrageous.
She had been a bad person once, and she had no right to be one a second time. It was impossible for her to tell Xie Heng in person that she really didn't even want to be friends with him.
If you really want to say that, just from the fact that he has been accompanying me during the live broadcast for so long, he is already heartless enough.
And just as the other party said, it was not what she wanted to become a stranger to someone who had been so kind to her from the beginning to the end.
All she could do was to keep as much distance as possible and let Xie Heng know that she was not worthy, that's all.
Even if she was afraid of Xie Shiqian, she could only do this much.
However, unexpectedly, after she finished speaking, she did not get a response from the man for a long time.
When Jiang Wan couldn't help but look over, his eyelids suddenly twitched and even his heart skipped a beat.
Xie Shiqian was staring at her slowly and quietly with his eyes slightly closed. It was hard to tell what emotion was in his eyes, but the moment they looked at each other, the air around them clearly became extremely depressing and dull.
The huge private room was so quiet, and the stuffy atmosphere lasted for a few seconds, until she couldn't help but speculate that Xie Shiqian might be dissatisfied with her answer that he couldn't guarantee it. When she was about to open her mouth to make up for it, the man withdrew his gaze.
The vague displeasure seemed to have disappeared, and the man's voice was as gentle and deep as before: "Since Miss Jiang has done what she should do, naturally no one will embarrass you."
That being said, no one can predict what will happen in the future...
Jiang Wan lowered her eyelashes slightly, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "What if it gets difficult in the future?"
As if somewhat surprised by her question, Xie Shiqian narrowed his eyes modestly, and after two seconds of silence, he stated a fact in a calm voice.
"I have no obligation to make any promises to Miss Jiang, just like the answer you gave me cannot be guaranteed."
Jiang Wan's thick eyelashes trembled, and she wanted to refute something, but she opened her lips and fell silent in an instant.
This man knew how to exploit people's weaknesses and vital points through minor details. She had no chance to fight back against him.
It was hard to tell whether embarrassment or anger prevailed more. Jiang Wan pursed her lips, turned her head away, looked at the rain that continued to fall in the courtyard, and said nothing.
Unexpectedly, not long after, I heard a man's voice that was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry: "It seems that Miss Jiang has a lot of complaints about me?"
Complain?
This question really came quite suddenly.
Jiang Wan's back was stiff, and after a while, he said in a muffled voice: "I dare not complain to you."
She still didn't look at him, so neither her expression nor her tone served as a denial. Instead, it sounded like she was admitting something.
Xie Shiqian raised his lower lip slightly, looked at her quietly for a few seconds, and suddenly said something that was gentle in tone but frightening in content.
"Ms. Jiang is such a liar."
Jiang Wan's pupils suddenly shrank, and before she could react she heard him say, "I'm different from some people. I don't like to hear words that are 70% true and 30% false."
"Yes, yes. No, no."
"Of course, Miss Jiang has no reason to complain about me. If I really intend to do something to you, what do you think I can do?"
As the last word fell, Jiang Wan's face turned pale in an instant.
The man's tone remained steady, but the gaze he fixed on her made her feel for the first time as if a knife was pressed against her throat, terrifying and even suffocating.
She clenched her fingertips, unable to understand why Xie Shiqian suddenly stopped leaving her any room for maneuver, and spoke so piercingly to her heart, and with the utmost attitude, he easily and silently destroyed the fortress she had built.
She tried her best to remain calm, but the corners of her eyes were already misty because of the man's sudden words, and she spoke without thinking: "Dean Xie is right, if you want to deal with me, I have no room to resist, I might as well just accept it."
She couldn't help but change her name, and even said something full of meaning in a fit of anger, but unfortunately the instigator was not moved at all, and just frowned and said in a deep voice: "Why are you being so arrogant?"
"If you can't even handle this verbal threat, how can you have the guts to deal with Shao Ting and Ji Xingjing?"
These words hit Jiang Wan's sore spot directly.
She couldn't hold back her anger any longer and her eyes turned red, but she stubbornly refused to shed tears. "What does my relationship with others have to do with you? I didn't do anything to you. Director Xie, don't you think you are meddling too much and overstepping your boundaries..."
A string of words almost came out of her mouth, but were interrupted by a few emotionless words uttered by the man.
"Jiang Wan."
"Think carefully about whether this has anything to do with me before you speak."
The surroundings were almost dead silent. The man's voice pierced through the sound of the rain, and Jiang Wan was almost instantly pointed out the sharp and cruel truth.
The tears that had been hanging in the corners of her eyes finally fell, and after a while, she met his gaze as quiet as the abyss.
"So what? Be it maneuvering or seducing, if Mr. Xie hadn't taken the bait willingly, he wouldn't have anything to do with me, and I wouldn't be sitting in front of you now..."
But this time, she realized something halfway through her words, her heart skipped a beat and she suddenly stopped talking.
She said the wrong thing.
Now is not the time to point out certain things.
But she seemed to have been tugged by an invisible thread since she entered the door, losing her mind bit by bit, until she was completely swallowed up bit by bit by the invisible and airtight cage.
The man's next words also confirmed this.
"Jiang Wan, I remember I told you that I can't guarantee the next time."
Jiang Guan's breathing had become extremely stagnant. Her instinctive fear of danger made her unable to even think of arguing. After a moment's silence, she stood up, picked up her bag and wanted to escape.
"Anyway, I did speak out of turn tonight, and it's getting late, so I'd better not bother you any more."
But before she had taken two steps, she was grabbed by the waist and pulled into his arms.
As their breaths intertwined, the man's hot big hand grasped the back of her neck, forcing her to raise her face and look directly at him. His voice was very low and faint: "Come."
He spoke word by word: "Now that the words have been spoken, let me see how you seduce me."
"I don't know how I was able to take the bait."