Chapter 62 - FIFTEEN YEARS OF LONGING YOU (1)

"Yes."

I froze on the spot after Meng Bao said yes so lightly. As if he didn't think twice to say it. 

As if he was very sure about his word, and he wouldn't regret anything, and it scared me, it scared me that I…

I might have the same feeling in my heart.

I wanted to say that I also felt the same. The only person that could make me so assured of saying yes without thinking twice was Mengmeng. That little girl kept on insisting that she'd marry her Batman-Jie and would make her Batman-Jie happy forever. 

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'Batman-Jie, remember that you must marry me in the future, okay? If you marry someone else, then…' Mengmeng paused for a moment. Her gaze darkened like a predator that was ready to rip her prey's body.. She wasn't like that cute Meng Bao that I knew.

'Then I will make your husband disappear, like… poof! Then you will marry me!' Mengmeng said. I got scared for a moment, thinking that Mengmeng really had violent thought even at such young age, but it was expected after I saw him smashing that frog mercilessly. 

I just didn't expect the cute and gorgeous Mengmeng to really maintain that kind of thought, 'But what if Batman-Jie loves another man or woman? Will you make them poof also?'

…

Mengmeng stared at me with such a deep gaze. She grinned mysteriously, 'Batman-Jie cannot fall in love with anyone but Mengmeng. If someone dares to take Batman-Jie, Mengmeng will make them disappear, poof, and turn them to ashes!'

'Eeeh… fine, Batman-Jie will not fall in love with anyone else but you,' I said, as I was afraid that Mengmeng would really become a criminal just because I dated someone else. 

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'I wonder if Mengmeng still remembers all her antics when she was just a kid. Will she kill Meng Bao if I said that I have fallen in love with Meng Bao?' I wonder in my heart. 

Meng Bao was like a storm in my peaceful life. In only three days, I felt like I had fallen in love and been familiar with him for more than fifteen years, just like how I kept my promise to Mengmeng that I wouldn't fall in love with someone else.

In fifteen years, this Batman-Jie, who had fallen in love with a girl named Mengmeng and kept my love for fifteen years…

Might have fallen in love with someone else, a man named Meng Bao. 

I didn't know how could my heart abandoned something that I kept for years, only to get swept in the count of days by an obvious playboy called Meng Bao.

'Am I a cheap woman?' I wondered. 

Perhaps, I had been too frustrated about not having any romantic relationship with anyone for my entire life, so I fell in love with the first person that approached me, which was Meng Bao. 

I wasn't exactly a nun who could keep her chastity forever, I knew. I just… didn't expect it to be this easy and cheap. As if Meng Bao was the one that I've been searching for in my entire life. 

'Aish, why am I like this, really? I'm not someone who's easily swayed and illogical. Falling in love with someone like Meng Bao, despite his cuteness, Meng is was a dangerous man. Even with only a split second after he unleashed his true nature to other people, I immediately sensed that he is dangerous.'

'And he is my boss' son, whose wife is… Madam Evelynn Yang…' I shuddered whenever I remembered Madam Yang. She was really ruthless about her comment about everything. She even commented on my working blazer and said that it was so cheap, she could see the flea from far away. 

'Aish, Meng Bao is nothing but trouble ah. Shi Ying, it's really not good to fall in love with him. He is too dangerous and unpredictable, and his background is too much for me anyway.'

I took a deep breath and stared at Meng Bao, I didn't know if he was serious or not with his confession before, but I couldn't let this happen. 

I couldn't let this feeling went too wild, or I would get eaten by it. I didn't even know if he really loved me or not since he already lied to me once about not having a girlfriend. 

"Meng Bao…" I called his name.

"Yes, Jie?" Meng Bao's cheery smile melted my heart. It made me almost forgot that he actually murdered someone before.

"Do you… really love me?" I asked. 

"I do!" Meng Bao replied sincerely. "I've fallen in love with you, Ying Jie!"

"But… do you have a girlfriend outside?"

"I don't!" Meng Bao replied again.

'Lies.' I said in my heart. The lie coming from Meng Bao's mouth somehow hurt me more than it should be. As if I had been stabbed with a knife in my heart. 

But I hid my pain and asked again.

"If you really love me… then what about your childhood sweetheart? Is it that easy for you to leave her after you promised her? How can I trust someone who can't even keep his promise?"

…

Meng Bao silenced as if he finally found a stumbling block in his smooth confession. He looked down as if he was considering something really serious. 

I sighed, knowing there was nothing I could do. I said, "You can sit on the couch. I will get you something to drink."

I walked to the kitchen and poured a glass of milk mixed with strawberry syrup. Meng Bao said to me during our grocery shopping that he liked something sweet, so I was immediately reminded of Mengmeng, who also liked sweet stuff. Her favourite was fresh milk mixed with strawberry syrup.

I glanced at Meng Bao, who sat in a daze on the couch, 'I wonder what's in his brain right now.'

I went back to Meng Bao and put the strawberry syrup milk on the table, "This is for you, Meng Bao."