Chapter 60: From Hatred to Love?

  "Where are we going?" Jingyun asked Wu Tian, who was driving. Since getting in the car, Wu Tian hadn't said a word and had been driving for over half an hour without stopping. They had passed by several hospitals, including some top-ranked ones. Although half an hour's drive wasn't unusual in a big city like Beijing, where it often took one or two hours to get home, Wu Tian was heading towards the suburbs, not the city center. They had already left the sixth ring road behind, and the high-rise buildings along the road were becoming fewer, replaced by sanatoriums, farmhouses, and pick-your-own orchards. Jingyun's unease grew, and she couldn't shake off the feeling that she had gotten into a kidnapper's car.

  "Don't you think Beijing has changed a lot in recent years?" Wu Tian said while driving, "I remember in the 90s, outside the Second Ring Road was all countryside. Now we have up to the Sixth Ring Road. Who knows if there will be Seventh, Eighth, Ninth or even Tenth Ring Roads in the future." Wu Tian glanced around and didn't answer where they were headed.

  "You haven't answered my question yet," Jingyun said, Wu Tian's nonsense didn't divert her attention.

  "We usually come and go in the hustle and bustle of the city, breathing in fresh car exhaust all day long. In recent years, the number of hazy days has increased, giving us a sense of being in a desperate situation. The exhaust relies on the wind to disperse, and the haze relies on everyone. You say that relying on these 20 million people, when can we finally breathe cleanly?"

  "What exactly do you want to say?"

  "The weather is nice today, I'll take you for a stroll and we can breathe in some fresh air!"

  "Aren't you supposed to take me to meet your connections? How did it turn into a wild goose chase?" Jingyun furrowed her brow, this wasn't the purpose she had followed him for.

  "I do have connections, but I didn't say I'd go find them for you!" Wu Tian said with a smile. The things he said in the company were just to trick Jingyun out and brag about it. Although he really did have connections, he would absolutely not help Jingyun because helping Jingyun was equivalent to helping Chenchen. He wouldn't be able to see the good show that was about to unfold within the marketing department.

  "You... thank you for bringing me out, but now I want to go back." Jingyun said calmly, her calm surface hiding the depression in her heart. She chose to believe rather than not believe, but the result was that she was deceived by the other party and taken out for a ride. Jingyun regretted following this man out.

  "My fuel is just enough to move forward, but not enough to retreat."

  "You can park and drop me off."

  "You want me to throw you, a woman, out of the car? I, Wu Tian, can't do such an impolite thing."

  "I want to go back, there are many things waiting for me to do in the company!"

  "The sky is clear and cloudless, what a great weather for spring outing!"

  “……！”

  When Wu Tiandong dragged Xi to talk, he absolutely refused to discuss the matter of going back. Jingyun was completely speechless. She knew that since she got on, this thieving car would not be easy to get off, and fate seemed to have been grasped in the other person's hands.

  Looking at Jingyun who was no longer speaking, Wu Tian smiled and slowed down the already slow speed even further. Even an elderly woman riding an electric bicycle easily overtook him.

  At this time, Jingyun's mobile phone rang, she took out her mobile phone and looked at the incoming call display, involuntarily trembling all over, then turned her head to glance at Wu Tian, and then pressed her body tightly against the car door, as if trying to avoid Wu Tian, and answered the phone.

  "Hey, Chenchen... Yeah, I'm investigating outside and will probably be back this afternoon... Alright, got it..." After a brief conversation, Jingyun hung up the phone, her chest heaving violently as she let out a sigh of relief.

  "Haha~~!" Wu Tian burst out laughing and took a glance at Jingyun in the passenger seat.

  "What are you laughing at?" Jingyun put away her phone and turned to look at Wu Tian with a puzzled expression.

  "Did you feel like, when you answered the phone just now, it was as if you were a woman having an affair?" Wu Tian said with a smile, his eyes gazing at Jingyun with ill intentions, as if they really had some sort of unacknowledged relationship.

  Upon hearing Wu Tian's words, Jingyun's face turned red and her cheeks felt hot. She probably thought she had been seen through by the other party and didn't want Wu Tian to notice her embarrassment, so she quickly turned her head, pretending to look at the scenery while saying, "It was just an ordinary phone call!"

  "Really? Then should I call Chen Chen now?" Wu Tian reached out and took out his mobile phone, ready to dial the number.

  "Don't...!" Jingyun hastily grabbed Wu Tian's hand, her face tense with anxiety, but when she saw the sly smile on Wu Tian's face, she immediately understood that she had been tricked again. She let out a soft sigh, released Wu Tian's hand, and looked at him with a bitter smile, saying, "What do you want to do? Do you have to destroy the friendship between Chenchen and me completely before you're satisfied?"

  "What are you talking about?" Wu Tian put away his phone and asked with an innocent look.

  "Stop pretending, from the moment you told Chen Chen that you liked me, to being alone with me for twenty minutes, and then publicly hugging me and showing off your affection... aren't all these actions aimed at ruining my relationship with Chen Chen?" Jingyun said.

  "Stop joking, my encounter with you was originally a fate, and has nothing to do with Chenchen. Besides, there is no relationship between me and Chenchen. And liking you is my own business, how can it ruin the relationship between you two? Is it...?" Wu Tian looked at Jingyun with a surprised expression and asked, "Is she also in love with you? There's no illicit affair between you two, right?"

  "Although I don't know what your attitude towards Chen Chen is in your heart, but based on my many years of understanding of Chen Chen, she... seems to have taken a liking to you."

  "Squeak!!"

  A sudden brake, the Beetle stopped in the middle of the road, and Wu Tian's head almost hit the steering wheel.

  "Don't talk nonsense, although I know I'm infinitely charming, but not to the point where everyone loves me at first sight." Wu Tian patted his chest and turned to look at Jingyun, saying, "This matter can easily lead to loss of life." As he spoke, the car got back on the road. Several cars whizzed past the Beetle, blaring their horns in anger at Wu Tian's reckless driving, narrowly avoiding an accident.

  "Since she was young, many men have pursued Chenchen, and she has never pretended to like a man who likes her. However, recently I've noticed that she often mentions you in front of me, although much of it is said in anger, but I've never seen Chenchen get so angry over a man before. And the fact that she's angry, precisely shows that you're on her mind." Jingyun leaned back in his chair, looking straight ahead and continued, "I also noticed that recently, the way she looks at me has changed, always asking how I feel about you, how could I not know what's going on in her heart? Even if she doesn't say it, I can still tell. Sigh~!"

  "Maybe she just simply hates me, after all I've been quite free lately, even having more time to annoy her." Wu Tian explained.

  "The deeper the love, the more bitter the hatred." Jingyun said calmly.

  "What you said is that love breeds hatred, which is normal. However, I've never heard of hating someone and then falling in love with that person." Wu Tian said with a smile, not taking Jingyun's words to heart.

  "No matter what you say, I know Chenchen has you in her heart. So, don't provoke me again, okay?" Jingyun turned to look at Wu Tian, and there was even a hint of pleading in her eyes.

  "Will you hate me if I say no?" Wu Tian asked.

  "It will be fine." Jingyun nodded firmly.

  "Then will you turn from hate to love?" Wu Tian asked again.

  "No, because the one I loved is already dead, so I won't love again."

  "I wouldn't mind dying once either, just to see if you would fall in love with me."

  "It definitely won't!"

  "Really? Then I'll make you hate me for the rest of your life!"