My Sexy Female CEO

77: Chapter 77: Rejecting to the Face 77: Chapter 77: Rejecting to the Face After sending Su Qingqing to the car, Lin Yifan drank some water, then drove off.

In the car, Su Qingqing shyly asked, “Mr.

Lin, do the words you said the other night stand?”

“Pfft!!!”

Startled by the question, Lin Yifan spat out the water he was about to swallow.

Some water got trapped between his windpipe and esophagus, forcing him into a violent cough.

“Cough!

Cough!”

At this point, the car had already been brought to a stop.

Seeing this, Su Qingqing patted Lin Yifan’s back and asked with concern, “Mr.

Lin!

Are you all right?”

“I’m fine, cough!

Cough!”

After coughing a few more times, Lin Yifan finally began to calm down.

Su Qingqing started to feel disappointed and asked, “Mr.

Lin, why did you react so strongly?

Was what you said that night just a joke?”

How could he answer this question?

If he said no, it meant being irresponsible to Zhou Jiajia; if he said yes, it meant being irresponsible to Su Qingqing.

Lin Yifan thought this day would never come, but sometimes, things happen so suddenly, and you just can’t block them.

What’s coming will come; what must be faced will be faced; decisions that must be made will be made.

“Ah!”

With a sigh, Lin Yifan earnestly answered, “No.”

Before he knew Zhou Jiajia liked him, he indeed had feelings for Su Qingqing; the words he said that night were also sincere; so he couldn’t bear to hurt Su Qingqing with a lie.

However, now he had Zhou Jiajia, and so he had to make things clear to Su Qingqing.

“I need to be honest with you about something.

Just yesterday, a girl who likes me confessed her feelings, and thinking that there was no possibility between you and me, I chose to accept.

So I am sorry!”

One moment, Su Qingqing was secretly delighted; the next, her mood plummeted as if facing the end of the world, utterly despairing.

The atmosphere at the scene was extremely awkward, particularly for Su Qingqing; she had not expected her first confession to be rejected like this, and it was truly hard to bear.

“It’s okay, I didn’t take those words to heart anyway,” Su Qingqing replied with a smile.

But that smile was very stiff, and anyone could tell it was forced.

A powerful sense of guilt welled up inside Lin Yifan; such a beautiful and pure girl, and he had deeply hurt her, which really wasn’t right; moreover, her heart had just been hurt, and his additional hurt made it even worse.

“I’m sorry!

I really am sorry!”

Lin Yifan kept apologizing, filled with guilt.

Now, aside from this, it seemed he could do nothing else.

“You don’t need to apologize to me.

Everyone has the right to pursue love.

If I missed it, who else can I blame?” Su Qingqing felt somewhat self-reproachful.

That night, she had rejected him upfront, and finally set a condition for him to wait a year, maybe then she could agree; it was normal for him to see no hope and for things to turn out this way, which was unquestionable.

Happiness, like a gentle breeze, comes quickly and leaves just as swiftly; if one doesn’t seize it well, the one left heartbroken and regretful will be oneself.

Lin Yifan didn’t want to discuss this topic further, so he changed the subject, asking, “Where do you live?

I’ll take you back.”

“Xiguan Village in the city,” Su Qingqing answered, holding back tears.

“Do you also live there?”

Lin Yifan was somewhat surprised, because he used to live in the Xiguan Village in the city, what a pity that the two had never met.

“Yeah, what about it?

Did you live there too?” Su Qingqing asked.

“I used to live there, but moved away the day before yesterday,” Lin Yifan replied.

“Oh!

It seems we really aren’t fated to meet, to not have bumped into each other like this,” Su Qingqing said somewhat self-deprecatingly and despondently.

“As strangers to each other, who would pay attention to one another?

Perhaps, we may have brushed past each other without even knowing,” Lin Yifan replied.

Then he consoled her, “Don’t be disheartened, there are many men better than me in this world, and you will definitely find your happiness.”

“Really?” Su Qingqing asked back; in fact, she had already set her heart on Lin Yifan.

“Yes, you must have confidence in yourself,” Lin Yifan continued to comfort.

“I hope it’s as you say,” Su Qingqing said, before turning to look out the window at the scenery.

Throughout the journey, she was preoccupied with Lin Yifan’s image, obviously infatuated.

Lin Yifan drove with a guilty heart, focused on taking Su Qingqing to the Xiguan Village.

Following the route directed by Su Qingqing, he pulled up at the building where she rented her apartment.

That’s when he noticed that Su Qingqing’s residence was actually right across from his former rental, an extremely curious coincidence.

“It turns out that we were only separated by one window before!” Lin Yifan said with a bitter smile.

“You were the tenant on the fourth floor opposite?” Su Qingqing was astonished.

If that was the case, their lack of encounter was really something; living so close yet not knowing each other.

“Yes!

I used to be the tenant in Apartment 401 across the street,” Lin Yifan answered.

“It seems we truly are fated but not destined,” Su Qingqing said, utterly disheartened.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward again.

Lin Yifan changed the subject, “Do you have a bank card?

I’ll transfer An Huaixing’s money to you.”

“The reason you extorted so much money from that bad person, I think you must really need money, right?

Here’s what we’ll do, to repay you for saving my life, just give me half,” Su Qingqing answered.

At that moment, although she was panicked and scared, she had guessed the reason why Lin Yifan did not want her to report An Huaixing.

“She actually guessed it right.”

Undoubtedly, Lin Yifan did need the money; in order to give Zhou Jiajia a happy life, he had to find a way to gather a large sum of money for entrepreneurship.

But that was only part of the reason; another part was indeed for Su Qingqing’s sake.

The An family was wealthy and influential, surely able to hire very good defense lawyers; if it came to trial, and Su Qingqing couldn’t provide evidence, then An Huaixing would be acquitted; moreover, he could sue her for defamation, and then she would end up worse off than before.

Even with evidence, with a defense lawyer’s eloquence, they could ensure the sentence would be reduced to the minimum; so rather than that, why not extort several million to make oneself feel better?

Having selfish intentions, indeed an apology was in order, so he confessed, “I’m sorry, I did have selfish intentions; but that’s only part of the reason, another part was indeed for your sake.”

“I understand your actions, and I don’t blame you,” Su Qingqing responded.

“Thank you for your understanding,” Lin Yifan was very grateful.

“Don’t be so formal, if it weren’t for you, I don’t even know what kind of humiliation I’d be suffering right now; so really, there’s no need to blame yourself,” Su Qingqing persuaded.

“All right then!

Give me your card number, and I’ll transfer the money to you now.”

Lin Yifan returned to the matter at hand, instructing Su Qingqing to give him her bank card number.