"It's been 5 years, yet you have remained all incapable of erasing all traces of the things that have happened five years ago. To whom are you flaunting your baseless powers? I have now known it all well that you are simply not capable of anything", Zhen Qinrou shouted at the top of her voice, looking all viciously at the middle-aged lean man in front.
Her breath caught in her throat as she huffed and puffed with her words. Her aged fair face was already red in agitation but her temper only multiplied to get doubled when her eyes caught the nonchalant smile playing on the man's face. "What are you smiling at? With your growing age, have you also gone senile?" She added, fisting the leather sofa seat, she was sitting on.
But at her words, instead of erasing his smile, the man burst into a loud chuckle that further infuriated the lady. "Oh RouRou, you are still as beautiful as you were 5 years back and even before that. Your beauty has yet not changed. I can still look at you for hours without feeling any sleep. But even after me feeling that way, the truth will not change that you have also grown old in age and your skin is also getting dull".
"Pan Hong! Mind your words and tone", the woman yelled but again it didn't bring any change in the man's attitude. He still remained all eased in front of her. "It's already more than a decade for the story you are mentioning and I have no interest in sitting at this foul place for your entertainment. I am just here to ask you how are you going to clear the mess you have created?"
The man instantly clicked his tongue at her words as he said in some dissatisfying tone, "No, no, no, honey! You are wrong at that point. I was not the one to create the mess 5 years ago. It was you who wanted me to create one for your sake. For the sake of our forgotten love. So, you better don't blame me now".
The woman was all stunned at his words. Though she knew it was the truth, still she never expected the truth would be slapped this way on her face. After all, the man has always promised to keep her secrets to be secrets.
"You … What do you mean by that. Though I have asked you to do all that for me but didn't you say that you would never put my name in front if we get caught. Then why are you bringing that up now? Don't say you are shrugging off the blames from your shoulder and pushing it all at me?" She said, getting all panicked.
Looking at her that way the man simply shook his head before saying, "Honey, I will still say the same. But now I feel like I should get the conditions a little changed for you to understand the things better." He paused as he pulled out a stick of cigarette from his platinum pack and lit it up putting out his mouth. "Leave your lousy husband and come back to me. The problem will be solved on its own".
"Pan Hong, don't joke around!" Zhen Qinrou instantly retorted back, getting all edgy at his sudden audacious suggestion. "We have already discussed the things back then. I don't want you to repeat the same things. Furthermore, I am already happily married and have a daughter"
"Happily married! Haha! Whom are you fooling, RouRou? Do you think I will believe that?" The man let out a horrendous laugh that almost made the woman give in to his words.
"What are you saying? That's misinformation you have got. I … I am happily married and …", she said but was superciliously cut off from the middle of the sentence as the man's words echoed in the room all darkly.
"If you have truly been happily married then you would have never been insecure regarding your position in that family even after making me murder the former Madam Feng. If you have been happy then you have never done that heinous thing that you have committed five years ago with your own stepson. If you have been happily married then you have not been here in front of me today?"
Zhen Qinrou instantly got tongue-tied at his words. She wanted to retort back but could not get any words to retaliate as she knew that the man was right at his every word. "Pan Hong, stop it!" she urged with some request.
The man also sighed at her defeated tone before saying, "RuoRou, you have struggled a lot. Now don't struggle anymore. Come back to me and I will cherish you the way none has ever had! Especially that old man Feng. I can bet that he still loves his dead wife while toying around with you. If his wife had been alive then in no way, he would have cared to give you the title. So, I am saying come back to me". He said looking all expectantly at the woman but his brows only frowned when saw a disdainful smile surfacing her lips.
"Come back to you? What do you have to give me? Even living with insecurity, I am still living all lavish life there. Can you afford to give me such life here" Zhen Qinrou said with a mocking smile.
Pan Hong gritted his teeth at her words but still tried his best to control his anger before saying, "I have earned a lot in these years, RouRou. You won't lack anything with me".
"You are lying to yourself, Pan Hong. There is no way you would be able to satisfy me. Just accept it, in no way you are capable of matching even Yu Hao's shadow" she said before adding, "You can't even do a simple task properly. How do you want me to trust and respect you?"
"Zhen Qinrou!"
"What? Am I lying? Decades ago, you weren't able to kill Yun Yuchun. She is still alive. Want me to prove you?"
All this time the thing that was was terrifying Zhen Qinrou the most was nothing else but that woman's life. Why was she still not dead? Why is she still breathing life somewhere? Was she still keeping her eyes on her?