Chapter 126 - A Favor For Favor

"So, business circle and the aristocratic society is curious to know that who won the golden prize." Chen Yuling gave him a small smile. " Meaning which lucky lady got you." 

"Then let them be curious. My wife is oddly not a very big fan of Beijing's socialites," Long Jie immediately said. He seemed to have paused for a moment, probably lost somewhere, and then added, "And I don't think she will be coming forward to clear their doubts."

"That's odd," Chen Yuling's expression was unchanged but he secretly knew she was surprised. . "Your mother is..." 

Her astonishment was justified, what woman wouldn't want to show off a man such as Long Jie as her husband? Even if she was not a member of high society, just being his wife would open up the gates for her to high society.

"One of the top socialites," Long Jie finished." Too bad both of them are sworn enemies." 

Since Chen Yuling was related to Liu Shishi, Long Jie knew that Chen Yuling was aware of the happenings in the Long family. He'd admit that the former was a hundred times better than the latter. 

If Yuan was marrying Chen Yuling, he wouldn't have been so opposed to the idea of Yuan's marriage but he chose Liu Shishi instead. The woman Yuan despised to the core. 

Never mind, it was none of his business. 

He finished the coffee and glanced at Chen Yuling again who was lost in the stupor.

"You still have not decided yet? " Long Jie asked. 

Fifteen years. He had been asking her the same question for fifteen years. And her reply still not had changed. He owed her a favor and he was hell-bent on returning to her. 

"You owe me nothing," Chen Yuling said softly. "I get it. We are not friends. We are not even acquaintances. We just meet every month, you ask me the same question and I give you the same reply I've been giving you for years. It has to stop somewhere. " 

"We are nothing but familiar strangers to each other who know each other little less than friends do and little more than strangers. That's why I want to return the favor I owe you." Long Jie said and stood up. 

Since the beginning, a lesson had been ingrained in his brain, 'Never to forget the favors he owed to someone' or 'A favor always demands a favor in return.' They are just like borrowings, meant to be returned one day. The more you delay, the more interest you have to pay. And this interest can be in any form and sometimes you have to pay a very hefty price which you'd have never ever imagined.

"A favor for a favor, Yuling." And with this, he was gone leaving a miserable Chen Yuling behind. 

If one believed that he was not aware of Chen Yuling's feelings for him, then they are wrong, very very wrong, he was too well familiar with her obsession with him but he never said anything because he had no reason to. But now it was different, he was a married man, he had a wife at home and he would never give Chen Yuling mixed signals which indicated she had a chance. She never had one, to begin with, and wouldn't have ever.

He had vowed to Zhenyi that there was only one woman in his life and that was her. 

Holding onto his past was a losing game. All he knew was that he had to make Zhenyi believe that she could trust him again.

'Just a little longer Zhenyi. Let me find Esma then I will come clean to you'. 

Esma was the cause of his constant headache. She vanished into the thin air. He knew why she was back -- Revenge. But she had to understand it was neither the accurate time nor the accurate place. 

He strode out of the Café and outside Gu Tian was waiting for his Master. To be honest, since the time Long Jie had entered the Café, he had been parading around in uneasiness. Gu Tian never had any decent impression of Chen Yuling, according to him she was a shrewd and manipulative woman who had entangled his master in her trap of favor.

He couldn't understand why his master was so persistent in settling the debt between them. To him, it was a ridiculous notion.

"Master," Gu Tian came forward and opened the door to the car. " Where to?"

"To the office, Gu Tian." Long Jie sat in the car and asked his assistant, " Any update on Du Zheng?"

"He's fanning the rumors that the blast was a militant attack. Now that a terrorist organization has claimed that they were behind the attack, the media is in frenzy. He purposely hid the fact that it was Xins. He is hellbent on provoking Mrs. Long," Gu Tian reported. 

Long Jie chuckled. "Too bad he will never be successful in provoking her. Zhenyi is impatient and occasionally reckless too. But she knows how to enjoy and savor the war like her wine and Du Zheng is the source of her recent entertainment. So, it's little difficult for him to evoke her wrath this time." He paused and added," Then again, he must touch her bottom line, and then it will be very hard to control her, and everyone associated or unassociated with them will be caught in the scronching flames of revenge. And Zhenyi can stoop to any level to avenge people she held dear." 

Gu Tian agreed. Zack was brutally murdered by Zhenyi because he touched someone she was close to and considered her family. And it was unfathomable what Zhenyi would do to Du Zheng if he ever touched her bottom line. 

"Master Xin called to ask you to join him for the lunch tomorrow."Gu Tian spoke after some time.

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