Chapter 315: Exhausting and Scary
"If you ever co at that way again, I will leave. We will just call it quits with this whole thing because I am not going to put up with that."
He nodded. "I understand."
"I have seen you do this before with that female employee. You tried to physically intimidate her. And you tried to physically intimidate into submitting to you. That was wrong of you."
He nodded. "Yes, it was."
"You scared ."
She finally felt her eyes beco hot with tears. The newly composed expression of his faltered, too. He looked pained, regretful.
"I know. I am so sorry. I feel horrible. I know the look in your eye. I have seen it before."
"I thought…" She blinked a few tis, really trying not to cry. "I thought you were going to hit ."
His face crumbled. His eyebrows ca together as he felt nausea take over.
"I… I would never."
She sighed and sat back down on the be.
"I know you grew up seeing your father treat your mother poorly. And I know it changed you. You might not have done it intentionally, but you were conditioned to lose your temper when soone questions you, when things don't go your way." She stopped. "I can't keep going back and forth with you. It's exhausting and it scares ."
He sighed as he crossed his hands over his chest.
"Can you not stand over like that right now?" she asked, not wanting to feel like he was trying to assert dominance over her.
So, he crouched down in front her instead. His hands were on the sides of her knees, so that she was the one looking down at him. She crossed her arms over her chest, not wanting to touch him.
"Qian ng, I am an asshole. I knew I was going to fuck this up at so point. Several points, actually. This morning, I was dealing with so stuff and then it just mounted until you accused . It just set off. But that is not an excuse. I have no excuse for scaring you like that." His head bowed.
"You are right. You have no excuse. You can ignore and be irritated. I don't give a fuck. You are allowed to have a lot on your mind. But I am going to deal with you coming at physically or shouting at . Don't ever do that again."
The way he looked at her, he looked like Mo Qingchen from the night before. He was the warm Mo Qingchen, and not the one who didn't want anyone near him. She could see the regret in his eyes, and she believed him when he said he was sorry.
But she continued. "You should have just told what was going on with you this morning. You shut out like you told I was doing. What I told you might have sound bad, but I ant it."
"I just didn't know how to tell you what I was up to. I was sure you would look at differently." And he looked sincere.
"Why did Bai Ye Qing call you?" she asked without delay.
"I had already spoken to him before. He was calling to bitch at , probably. I would have called the jail after I was sure he had cald down," he stated.
"You are not answering the question, Mo Qingchen. What was the call about?" she pressed. When he didn't answer, she sighed. "If you think keeping secrets from will protect , you are wrong. It ans that I have no idea what I am stepping into. And I will know you are keeping secrets and think the worst-case scenario," she explained. She was calr now, so she could speak without accusing him.
"Bai Ye Qing has been having a hard ti in jail. So, he thought it had sothing to do with ," he told her. He sat down on the ground and waited for her verdict.
"And was he correct? Did it have sothing to do with you? Tell honestly." She could see the hesitation on his face.
"Before I answer that, I have to say sothing to you." Qian ng looked at him expectantly.
"About Bai Ye Qing?"
He shook his head. "About Bai Ye Qing and the guy who tried to hurt you." He gulped. "I tracked them down."
Qian ng shook her head. "I'm sorry. You need to tell one at a ti. The guy who followed . What happened with him?" Bai Ye Qing was already a prisoner, so she didn't feel threatened him.
"I tracked him down."
She gasped. She stared at him for a long mont, trying to comprehend what she was hearing. "How did you do that? Even the police didn't find any leads."
He licked his lips. "I found out all the footage and tracked him down manually. I got a private investigator too." He looked at her sheepishly.
"What are you trying to tell , Mo Qingchen?" she demanded.
"I got the private investigator to track down the guy and give every little information he could possibly find on the perpetrator."
"And when did this happen?" she asked.
"I got all the information yesterday."
"Yesterday? When you told you were finishing things before deadline?" she cried out.
"I am telling you now."
She glared at him. "You could have told yesterday, Mo Qingchen. What about the gun?" she inquired.
"Our alarms went off in the house and the person trying to break in ran away. It was the sa guy. I wasn't sure if there were people following us, so I had a gun on ."
Qian ng searched in her eyes to see that he was telling the truth. "Why didn't you tell earlier?"
"Because I didn't want you to be scared again."
Qian ng hid her face in her palms. "You tracked down the man who was trying to hurt and you are casually telling you found him now? Like we are talking about the weather?"
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