Chapter 68 - How Long Do You Plan To Hide From Me?

"I…I might have come here before. Just didn't remember before. After all, this place is near my hometown."

Mo Roulan avoided He Jian's eyes and answered his question.

He Jian continued to stare at her silently and a moment later, he stepped closer.

"How long do you plan to hide from me?"

Mo Roulan swiftly raised her head to look at him.

There was a helpless smile on He Jian's lips. He wanted to wait for her to tell him by herself. However, seeing her alienation, he could feel that his wait would never end if he himself didn't end it.

"You know."

Mo Roulan said breathlessly.

Everything suddenly became so clear.

She had her doubts from the first time He Jian helped her.

Mo Roulan knew He Jian very well, or that was what she thought.

Why would the cold and aloof man help her so many times?

He would have passed by her side indifferently without even giving her one glace if he hadn't known her. That was what Mo Roulan thought.

It was true for her past life and she thought for this life as well.

It was the only reason behind her covering her face that night. In her past life, he had found her only because of that.

She didn't want him to find her in this life so she covered her face.

She erased the chances of their meeting in this life.

However, she had not expected that she would not be able to avoid him no matter what she did five years ago.

"Lanlan…"

Her breath hitched in her throat when she heard him calling her. She looked at the gentleness in those blue eyes.

It was not her illusion before. He had really called her by this name.

But suddenly her eyes went cold and she said harshly to him.

"Don't call me by this name." 

He Jian only smiled seeing his kitten angry.

"Alright, we will talk about it later."

He then took out his phone and called the driver. The car was there after a few moments. He Jian opened the door for her and signed her to sit inside but Mo Roulan didn't move even an inch.

She looked at the car and then at him.

He knows everything. Remembering the things that followed after this in her past life, she suddenly didn't wish to go inside.

"I will just walk from here."

She said in a daze and turned to walk away but her wrist was suddenly grasped from her behind.

The warm touch on her cold skin seemed a little familiar and yet unfamiliar.

"Mo Roulan"

This was the first time she had heard him calling her complete name in this life. He had called her like this in her last life too so Mo Roulan knew that when he called her like this, he was very serious and meant whatever he says.

"Get inside the car. I'll not leave you here alone."

She turned and looked at his cold and serious face.

He looked just like this when he had asked her to get out of his car in the last life.

"Sit inside or both of us will walk to wherever you want to go."

He said firmly again.

She jerked his hand away and went to sit inside the car leaving He Jian sighing helplessly.

He really doesn't know what wrong he had done to make her this angry.

After He Jian sat inside, the driver started the car and drove it away to Wenhua town.

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One and half hour later, Mo Roulan stepped inside the jewelry shop she had come to five years ago.

The jeweler saw her and fixed his glasses while looking at her curiously.

"Mo girl?"

He asked with an uncertain tone.

Mo Roulan walked further inside and said to the jeweler

"Yes Uncle, I'm Mo Roulan."

The jeweler nodded his head and smiled.

"So much time has passed since I last saw you. Are you here to take back your necklace?"

Mo Roulan's fists were clenched when she heard the jeweler.

She had five years' time to give back the money she had borrowed from the jeweler in exchange for her mother's diamond necklace. Today was the last date of that period of time.

"Uncle, I don't have any money to give you and free the necklace."

She said stiffly.

The jeweler frowned and Mo Roulan felt her heart sinking more. She wanted her mother's necklace but all the money that she and her mother had collected was now spent on her college, Mo Chen's school, and buying that apartment in City H.   

So she doesn't have any money to pay the jeweler.

She could also understand the jeweler's worry. After all, he had not profited even a little from the money he gave to her.

"Then according to the agreement, Mo girl, I can sell that necklace now."

The jeweler didn't have any problem if he could sell that necklace. He could earn all the money he had given to Mo Roulan in one go if he sold it.

But Mo Roulan quickly shook her head making his frown deeper.

"Uncle, I'm here to request you not to sell that necklace."

"But Mo girl…"

Mo Roulan interrupted him and continued.

"Uncle that necklace is very important to my mother. I promise you that I'll give back all the money I have borrowed in one year. Uncle, please give me that much time. I will be grateful to you always."

She pleaded.

The jeweler looked at her for a few seconds. He actually knew that now Mo Roulan studied in the City and she was a very intelligent student.

Maybe she would get a job and pay back the money slowly and even if she didn't, he always had that necklace to sell and have his money back.

Thinking all this, the jeweler sighed and asked the working boy to bring him a pen and paper.

"Mo Girl, I'll give you one more year. If you couldn't pay me back in one year, I will sell that necklace no matter how much you will plead at that time."

Mo Roulan instantly nodded her head and signed her name on the paper.

Stepping out of the jewelry store, Mo Roulan sighed heavily.

The amount that she had collected in five years; she would now have to earn in one year.

It was not easy.

But as long as there was hope, she would do everything within her reach.