You Owe Me, My Love novel Chapter 293

Chapter 293 I Only Care About Whether I Can Be With You

Bai Rong awkwardly turned around, facing away from Mingchen. “I… I think I must have eaten something weird,” she stammered.

He wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her into his embrace. “Lu Xingzhou drugged the herbal tea we drank.”

Shocked, she turned to look at him.

His face was a hair’s breadth away from hers, and her lips accidentally brushed against his when she turned her head, sending what felt like an electric shock throughout her body.

Forcing her noisy heartbeat to calm down in order to think straight, she argued, “But we weren’t the only ones who drank the tea; Lu Biao drank it as well. Lu Biao is Lu Xingzhou’s son, there’s no way he would harm him.”

Mingchen just stared silently at Bai Rong.

Detecting the determination in his gaze, Bai Rong guessed out loud, “Was that guy just now also acting upon Lu Xingzhou’s orders?”

He nodded. “Should be. He used a room key to enter the suite and probably intended on taking pictures of us together. When he couldn’t find you, he lied about writing for a newspaper, and then ran away when I said I wanted to call the cops on him.”

“But why did he do that? What benefit would pictures of us…” Bai Rong trailed off, scared to verbalize the idea in case it triggered flashbacks from the car again. “…What good would it do him?”

“Even though I never publicized my past incident, people can find out as long as they try hard enough.

“Lu Xingzhou believes that the land I put in a requisition for has some sort of treasure hidden on it. Besides that, he suspects that I came here to investigate Xiaojiu’s case, so he wants to chase me away.

“As for you, he just wants to get rid of you because he thinks you’re too smart. He had purposefully asked us if we were seeing anyone during lunch just now to check if his plans were still viable.

“If he got pictures of us, then he would be able to blackmail and threaten us to ensure his own safety,” Mingchen finished.

“So Xingzhou wants to get rid of me because he’s worried that I know about him murdering Chunxia’s family, as well as killing the hitman he’d hired for the job,” concluded Bai Rong solemnly.

“Xingzhou killed Chunxia’s family? What evidence do you have?”

“I don’t, it’s all just an assumption. Xingzhou made the hitman take a video on purpose so the police would focus their attention on the hitman instead of Lu Biao. But, he didn’t expect that Lu Biao would return to the scene of the crime to take his phone.

“The police arrested Lu Biao, but he didn’t tell them anything, and no traces of the video were found at the scene. So, Xingzhou guessed that the phone was already in Lu Biao’s possession.

“He understands Lu Biao’s personality and habits, so he found the phone that Lu Biao had hidden and saw the video.

“Then, he ordered someone else to kill the hitman and then wrote down the entire process of the crime, thus clearing Lu Biao of any suspicion,” Bai Rong explained.

“But he can’t be charged without solid evidence, can he?”

Bai Rong thought back to Xing Bachuan and Su Xuyan.

They had committed so many evil acts, but had not received their deserved punishment.

She had done nothing wrong, and yet she had to constantly fear for her life.

She pushed away Mingchen’s arm around her waist. “I need to go back.”

“You still refuse to be with me, Rong?” He stared down at her.

His last sentence had been near-fatal for her heart.

His eyes clearly shone with pain and sincerity when she looked up at him.

She could give up her body and her heart to him, but she could never stay with him.

Her fate was in someone else’s hands.

Every day that she was with him was another day of pain and suffering for the both of them.

“Mingchen, I’m sorry. Thank you for loving me up until now, but I don’t want to be with you.

“I don’t need more trouble or worries in my life. Anytime I stumble upon something frustrating or painful, I become mentally unstable. When I’m with you, I need to take medicine and sleeping pills every day. I can’t take this anymore.

“After leaving you, my condition stabilized, and I didn’t need medicine nor sleeping pills anymore. I know this is selfish of me, but I prioritize my own health over being with you,” asserted Bai Rong, standing her ground.

“What if I could create a safe haven for you?” Mingchen suggested.

She went on to say coldly, “I might consider it if you actually manage to accomplish that, but I advise you to not waste your energy. And to be honest, we don’t know each other all that well. Ten years of feelings are easy to forget, let alone the fleeting emotions we shared.”

The phrase “fleeting emotions” stabbed through Mingchen’s heart like a knife.

He knew that his feelings for her were definitely not “fleeting”. He had fallen deeply in love with her to the point that he wanted to give everything up just to be with her. He was willing to quit his job as a military general and move to another country with her. He was willing to get a normal corporate job and work hard to earn money for their children.

Leaning forward, he held the back of her neck with one hand as he pressed her forehead to his, their noses brushing together. “… Till death do us part.”