Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

Three days later.

At first, Alix had refused to entertain Jin's lunacy. There was no way he would stay rotten in a custody room with such a grave accusation on top of his head. After all, it wasn't only his personal reputation on the line but also his family and the company's. He might be an enemy of himself but not of his family and company for them to unnecessarily suffer in this crossfire.

So Alix waited. She only considered this as his fruitless pressure tactics to make her come to talk to him. And she wasn't going to budge.

That was until at present - three days later when the situation had taken a nosedive into the worst possible outcome. From the headlines she could gather, Jin's CEO position was on the line and if nothing was done, then there were high chances of his silence to be taken as his admittance, especially by the mounting pressure to give justice to the victim.

Who the hell is that woman in the first place?

Alix didn't know. She knew his family would have found out about her identity by now but she had nobody to talk to.

So Alix was now standing before the police bureau, biting down on her lower lip.

This is completely ridiculous. I have no business being here.

Alix caught Jun's figure stepping out of the bureau and she swiftly walked over to the other side, avoiding to cross his way. Accompanying him were the twins who shared the look of frustration that was on Jun's face. They stood at a distance with Alix quickly hiding behind a car's frame.

"This is not helping us. That idiot just won't talk," Jian pressed his brow.

"Will he seriously let Wang Xia win?" Nian's gaze darkened. "He is practically giving her the permission to ruin everything for him."

Alix blinked twice.

Wang Xia? Where is she coming-

She swallowed back her question, her expression turning solemn.

Don't tell me…Please don't tell me that it was her…

"We cannot talk to her either," She heard Jun's voice next, who seemed like he was ready to go on a murder spree.

"She has literally asked police protection for us to not even talk to her, much less touch her," Jian said.

"Clearly, she knew what consequences would await her because we all know it's a farce. She knew we would come for her."

Alix's eyes slightly widened.

That brainless woman thought that far ahead?

"That idiot! Mom and everybody else is getting worried sick for him. He has been acting like a zombie in these past months and what is he doing now? I need to teach him a lesson," Nian's expression cracked with viciousness.

Jun quietly said, "That will come later when he will be out. But he won't let anybody come near him except…"

A beat of silence dropped at the unsaid words.

"...Will she do anything?"

Jun said, "I don't know. But it's not right to rely on her and put this burden on her. Jin is being an idiot here. We should figure this out on our own."

Alix heard their steps fade away in the distance and her head rested back against the car in a quiet moment. She couldn't quite gauge if the brothers knew of her truth or not.

If Liu Jinhai knows then why would it be kept a secret from the rest of the family?

She closed her eyes and drew out a deep breath. Standing back on her feet, she headed straight inside the bureau.

—

Alix tapped her right heel while her fingers played against each other. It wasn't her first time she was seeing Jin, yet a feeling of nervousness gripped her as if she was walking on a thin rope.

Maybe I am being too narcissistic. Maybe he meant some different person and not-

The doors opened on the other side and her breath came to a half as Jin walked in. He wasn't approving anybody's request to meet him, yet he was now in front of her without a moment's delay.

Alix stared at his haggard look and his tired eyes that, for the first time in four months, lit up as his gaze fell on her.

'He has been acting like a zombie in the past months and what is he doing now?'

Four months of dread and sorrow had vanished into thin air as if nothing had ever gone wrong in the first place. It needed only one look at her. One look into her eyes and the smile had returned on his lips as if it had never left.

A shiver escaped her body at that mere thought.

"You came."

A glass wall was mounted as a partition between them. On one side was the visitor and on the other side, the accused. Staring at him seated on that side of the glass erupted an immense fury in her chest. She held tons of questions in her mind, but she took a deep breath and calmed down.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"Watching you. It's been four months and six days."

She stared at him blankly.

"I am not asking about this moment," she gritted her teeth, "I am asking about that bar night's incident."

"I have nothing to say about that."

"Why not?"

"Can we talk about us?"

She blinked at him rapidly. "Us?"

"You and me. Together. Us. Our future."

Alix's lips parted, dumbstruck. She couldn't figure out the heads and tails of where this conversation was going.

"Am I getting crazy or am I hearing things wrong?"

"Wrong?"

"Yeah, I am asking why the hell you would keep mum about something like say..a sexual assault charge but you are going on a different tangent here altogether."

"Different?" He stared at her. "I haven't taken even a fraction of a step away from this tangent since the last four months. I don't want to. Not until I see the future I have envisioned."

"What is this future?" she grimaced.

His slightly tipped chin rested loosely on fingers as he stared dead straight into her eyes.

"The future where you are Mrs. Liu."