Chapter 57: Deep Roots of Love

Chapter 57

After Li Chunfeng left, Bai Yin picked up the cup. The ginger tea in the cup had already turned cold.

She kept thinking about Li Chunfeng's last words. Fiind updated novels at novelhall.com

Could this be true?

Does Chen Huaixiao love her?

Bai Yin was half believing and half doubting, but it was a fact that Chen Huaixiao had just saved her, and it was also a fact that he was jealous, and it was also a fact that he clearly said he didn't care if she went crazy the next second...

No way! Is this real?

Just as Bai Yin was confused, she received a phone call from Sun Lili—

"Dear! Are you okay? I saw the video, it was too, too, too thrilling! I didn't expect Su Anning to really make an all-out effort!"

"I'm fine, don't worry. I exercise every day, I have pretty good lung capacity."

"You really shouldn't have confronted her head-on. You can't swim. If no one had jumped into the water to save you, wouldn't you have lost your life?" Sun Lili was both worried afterwards and angry at the same time. She gritted her teeth and said, "Su Anning...I will definitely sue her to the end! She must be punished as she deserves!"

Bai Yin calmly soothed her, "Su Anning grew up spoiled by Su Yecheng's love and favor. She has had smooth sailing in the entertainment industry all the way, has never suffered any setbacks. In her eyes, there is a huge gap between me and her. She is the little princess, and I am Cinderella who is not even worthy of untying her shoes. So my threat really touched her most intolerable sore spot, causing her to lash out desperately, even wanting me to disappear from the world forever, this kind of reaction is foreseeable."

"Does that mean it was foreseeable that she would push you into the water?"

"I didn't expect that. I thought she would just slap me to vent her anger, or something else. I didn't expect her to actually want me dead." Bai Yin shook her head.

Su Anning must have really been spoiled. The protective walls built by Su Yecheng's capital protected her too well, making her completely unaware of where the bottom line was.

"When adults act on impulse, they have to take responsibility, but she...doesn't seem to have grown up yet."

"When she pushed me into the water, I didn't really have no room to resist." As Bai Yin recalled the situation at that time, she said lightly, "But at the moment when she pressed me against the railing, when I saw the raging anger burning in her eyes, I was very confused."

"Confused about what?"

"She occupied my nest, causing my family to be broken up, and took away my life... Why was she angry? What right did she have to be angry?"

Sun Lili sighed and said, "I guess she never realized she was wrong, and thought everything was justified."

"That's right." Bai Yin stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the shimmering ripples on the lake surface, and said in a deep voice, "So at that moment, I decided to make the best of the situation. Since Su Anning doesn't recognize her own mistakes, let her spend the rest of her life paying back everything she took away from me in the past decade."

Sun Lili was so surprised that she couldn't speak: "You mean...you could actually resist, but you didn't..."

"I want to make her...never be able to get back up again."

...

Bai Yin didn't know that when Li Chunfeng left, the door was not closed, but was left ajar.

Chen Huaixiao returned to the room in a very bad condition, with bloodshot eyes.

All the worries, distress, despair of almost losing her just now...it was all like a joke.

In the past, she had used herself as a bargaining chip and won this marriage.

And now, she was gambling against death with her own life. All this...was just to trample the daughter of her enemy into eternal damnation.

This woman didn't even care about death, how could she care about him?

The suffocating feeling of seeking but not getting was about to swallow him whole.

Such a woman was clearly the type he hated and detested the most. For a long time, Chen Huaixiao really thought he disliked her.

Especially that night of their college graduation, when she said those words to him when he woke up.

Whenever Chen Huaixiao recalled it, he hated it so much that his heart felt like it would explode.

But it was precisely in the midst of his uncontrolled, day-after-day longing for her that he realized his heart had been gripped tightly in her hands, powerless to break free.

Chen Huaixiao had never been the kind of person who confused desire and love, but with Bai Yin, he could no longer distinguish what was passion and what was love.

There was both, and both came with incredible intensity and turbulence.

Perhaps it was not only that night in college, but a long, long time ago, it was her calling him brother countless times, her accompanying him every year to get through the most difficult day, her tough and stubborn look...that had made him "not know where the feeling started, but go deeper and deeper" long ago.

Chen Huaixiao knew that Bai Yin had always misunderstood him as seeing her as a substitute.

In fact, what substitute?

In his heart, she was forever one and only.

But she loved everything—she loved money, loved making a scene, loved arguing and tearing into others—everything except...loving him.

This was probably Chen Huaixiao's greatest resentment in this life.

*

At night, Bai Yin brought ginger soup to Chen Huaixiao's presidential suite next to the hotel.

Chen Huaixiao opened the door but didn't look at her. He turned and went back to the desk, reading a book.

"Brother."

Chen Huaixiao's voice was icy cold: "Get out."

"I just wanted to come thank you for saving me."

"Not necessary."

Bai Yin put the steaming hot ginger soup on the desk: "Anyway, you saved me, and I'll remember it in my heart. In the future if I get a chance to repay you, I will."

She really underestimated Chen Huaixiao!

She had long heard that the third young master of the Chen family had been doing things like moving clouds and rain these past few years, using his thunderous methods to merge several groups and become the dominant force in the entertainment industry.

Bai Yin never thought there would be a day when she could personally experience being calculated by the man beside her pillow.

She was so angry she could burst, she couldn't wait a minute longer, she had to find Chen Huaixiao to get to the bottom of this.

Bai Yin charged furiously into the office. She saw two Frenchmen in suits talking with Chen Huaixiao at the desk about a potential partnership.

She suppressed her anger and sat quietly on the sofa.

These two Frenchmen with high nose bridges and blue eyes were Chen Huaixiao's clients. They did not know Bai Yin's identity. Seeing her so reckless, their expressions changed slightly.

Chen Huaixiao explained to them in fluent French, "She is my wife. She has a bad temper."

The two French clients glanced at each other and smiled knowingly. "Madame Chen is very beautiful, like the endless lavender fields in Provence."

Chen Huaixiao seemed to be in a good mood, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly. "She's not the lavender of Provence, she's the little grass growing in my heart."

Shen Bin, who was standing silently nearby, understood many languages. When he heard Chen Huaixiao's last sentence, he tried his best to hold back his urge to laugh. He glanced at Bai Yin.

Bai Yin had also been listening carefully to the conversation between Chen Huaixiao and the French. Although she could not understand it, she felt that his elegant French accent was quite nice.

Suddenly seeing Shen Bin look at her, Bai Yin looked at him warily. She mouthed to him, "Is Chen Huaixiao scolding me?!"

Shen Bin shook his head repeatedly. He mouthed back, "Mr. Chen is praising you."

Seeing his teasing smile, Bai Yin did not believe his words at all. She stuck her tongue out at him.

Chen Huaixiao noticed the interaction between Bai Yin and Shen Bin. He turned his head and asked Shen Bin in French, "Are you very familiar with my wife?"

Shen Bin's expression changed drastically. "No, no, no! We are not familiar at all."

Chen Huaixiao just warned him casually. He did not pay more attention to it. Shen Bin clutched his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

Damn, he's even jealous over this kind of nonsense.

Mr. Chen really loves Madam deeply without realizing it.

*

Half an hour later, Chen Huaixiao and the two Frenchmen got up and shook hands. Shen Bin escorted them out of the office.

Bai Yin was still sitting properly on the sofa, looking over the script for her movie and silently memorizing her lines.

During Chen Huaixiao's meetings, no matter how important her own matters were, she would not disturb him rudely.

Only those who are favored have the privilege of being willful. Bai Yin had lived dependent on others since she was young, she always knew her place and when to advance or retreat.

Of course, this was also why, when they were alone, no matter how she teased and played with him, Chen Huaixiao always indulged her.

He was willing to spoil her a bit more, to prevent her from being so sensible all the time.

Bai Yin waited until the two Frenchmen had walked far away before putting down her script. She went up to Chen Huaixiao and leaned her hands on his desk, getting right to the point. "Give Su Shi Entertainment Media back to me."

Chen Huaixiao twirled his black enamel pen leisurely. "With your little bit of money, you could only buy Su Ye Cheng's shares, but my money was enough to buy the whole group. So...what do you mean, give Su Shi Entertainment Media back to you? It never belonged to you in the first place."

"Chen Huaixiao, how could you buy Su Shi at such a cheap price?" She looked at him coldly, "It was bought with my life."

Bai Yin could still remember the frozen lake now.

She had seized that chance at the cost of her life, thoroughly crushing that family of three. But just when she was about to happily enjoy the fruits of her revenge, Chen Huaixiao suddenly appeared to snatch them away.

It was so annoying.

Chen Huaixiao was unmoved. He stood up and hooked Bai Yin's chin with his fingertips, gently tilting her face up. "But don't forget, your life was saved by me."

Upon hearing this, Bai Yin deflated.

Indeed, that day on Heart Island, only Chen Huaixiao had jumped into the frozen lake to save her without any hesitation.

A life-saving grace outweighed anything else. Without Chen Huaixiao, it would be hard to say if Bai Yin could even be standing here now.

The frozen lake

Bai Yin sighed softly. She gritted her teeth, "Forget it, just consider Su Shi Entertainment Media as repayment for your life-saving grace. From now on, we owe each other nothing!"

Having said that, she turned to leave.

"Wait." Chen Huaixiao suddenly called out to stop her.

Bai Yin lazily glanced back, dragging out her words dissatisfiedly, "Mr. Chen, do you have anything else?"

"Su Shi Entertainment Media, I'm not that interested in it. You can have it."

Bai Yin could not believe her own ears. She looked at the cold-looking man before her. "You're willing to give Su Shi Entertainment Media to me?"

"I can sign it over to you right now."

"Why...why would you do that?"

Chen Huaixiao desperately tried to restrain the urge in his heart, but he could not help it. He could not control the surging tide of emotions. "No owing each other, no, Bai Yin. I want you to owe me your life forever."

"..."

Chen Huaixiao looked steadily at the woman before him. He knew her too well.

She was vengeful, but at the same time, she would repay a drop of grace like a surging spring.

Chen Huaixiao wanted her to owe him, to owe forever, so that perhaps one day, when she wanted to leave, he could still use this pathetic reason to...keep her.