Chapter 26: Stubborn

She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.

“I’ll try my best to avoid you in the future. I hope Mr. Lu will be magnanimous and let me go. If it really doesn’t work, I’ll cut off contact with Yaoyao.”

Was she trying to force him?

Lu Jingchen walked closer, “Look up.”

Qin Ruyan stubbornly refused to look at him.

“Heh,”

Lu Jingchen chuckled, but she felt the air around them getting colder.

“Aren’t you afraid that I’ll make things difficult for your uncle?”

Qin Ruyan turned her head, her voice calm, “Because of me? A company as big as Mr. Lu would be thrown into chaos because of one woman? Mr. Lu has a high reputation in the industry, don’t ruin your reputation because of someone insignificant like me.”

Qin Ruyan was furious. How dare he kiss her?! That was her first kiss! And he was threatening her with her uncle.

Lu Jingchen looked at her, her eyes red like a rabbit’s, tears welling up, but she was trying hard not to let them fall. He frowned slightly.

“Why did you delete my WeChat? I’m not very patient. You promised to think it over carefully, but you deleted my WeChat right after? Is that how you think about it?”

He reached out and covered her eyes, using the warmth of his palm to try to relieve the discomfort in her eyes.

Qin Ruyan reached out and tugged at his hand, but couldn’t pull it away. She gave up struggling.

“Isn’t my meaning clear enough?”

Lu Jingchen scoffed.

“Who was the one who promised me to think it over carefully yesterday?”

He removed his hand and lifted her chin. He leaned down slightly, looking straight at her.

“You promised to think about it carefully, but you deleted my WeChat right after, you didn’t reply to my text messages, and you locked me out when I came to find you? Yan’er, I like you, but you’re treating me like this, isn’t that a bit too much?”

Qin Ruyan wasn’t affected by his words in the slightest.

“Lu Ge, from my perspective, you are my best friend’s brother, and I call you brother along with Yaoyao. You said you knew me for a long time and liked me, but that’s your business. To me, you are my friend’s brother, someone I just met recently. I admit it was wrong of me to delete your WeChat, I was just avoiding it, I don’t want to date, I just want to get my clothing studio up and running. But what you did to me just now, what was that? If it wasn’t because you were Yaoyao’s brother, that slap would have landed on your face.”

Lu Jingchen looked at her, and it took him a while to understand what she meant.

“Don’t want to date? Fine, we can get married directly. I’m ready to get the marriage certificate anytime.”

He consciously ignored Qin Ruyan’s rejection, his tone flat.

Qin Ruyan pursed her lips, taking a deep breath. “Brother Lu, what exactly do you want?”

Lu Jingchen looked at her, still composed even now, and made a concession.

“You don’t want to date, fine, but pursuing you is my freedom, you can’t stop me. Add me back on WeChat, I promise, I won’t do things like today again, I won’t touch you without your consent.”

Qin Ruyan didn’t speak. She was afraid that once she agreed, things would get complicated later.

“Yan’er, this is my bottom line. You should have heard about my methods. If I really want to tie you to me now, I have plenty of ways. But I’m not thinking about just a day or two, I want to be with you forever. You don’t have feelings for me now, we can start as friends. But you can’t disappear, you can’t block me, would you do that to your friend?”

Qin Ruyan’s lips were tightly pressed together. She was indeed a bit confused now, she didn’t know what to do.

In terms of scheming and tactics, she was no match for Lu Jingchen. But she didn’t want to let someone else control her.

“Three months. For these three months, I won’t ignore your messages, I won’t disappear, if after three months I still don’t like you, you can’t bother my life anymore, and you can’t threaten me with my family.”

Lu Jingchen breathed a sigh of relief.

“Okay.”

He took out his phone, opened WeChat, and sent a new friend request.

“Add me back on WeChat first.”

Qin Ruyan took out her phone and accepted the request. Then she looked up and added.

“Also, don’t kiss me like that again.”

Lu Jingchen frowned. “Then if you like me, I can’t kiss you either?”

Qin Ruyan blushed. “I mean, before I like you, you can’t do anything intimate to me.”

Lu Jingchen smiled. “Then I’m at a loss, Yan’er. What if you like me but don’t admit it, what do I do?”

Qin Ruyan thought for a moment before speaking. “No. If I have feelings for you, I will tell you.”

Lu Jingchen raised an eyebrow. “Alright, Yan’er, you better keep your word.”