Under the pressure of the cold, the maple leaves fell one by one.
Autumn in Canada was as beautiful as a painting, but Rosa was not in the mood to appreciate it. After a long period of hard work, she was able to completely abandon the auxiliary equipment and support her weight with her feet. She could walk freely.
But now, she felt weak all over. Although she was still standing, the dizziness could make her faint at any time.
" It's impossible... It's impossible..." She had already muttered these words many times. Her voice was sometimes loud and sometimes soft, as if she was convincing herself, but also as if she was assuring Mrs. Ouyang and Ouyang Shaojie.
Her small face was pale and her lips were trembling. She held the Chinese Daily tightly in her hand as if she could erase the report that would break her heart.
"I called your uncle and asked him. He said that the news was correct. The lady he was engaged to was the third lady of the Kawaguchi Group in Japan, Kawaguchi Masako. The date reported was also correct. Lingling, I think he really gave up on you and wants to get married this time.”Madam Ouyang felt relieved. This way, Masayoshi Saitou would not bother her Ling Ling anymore.
"Mom!" Ouyang Shaojie signaled his mother to shut up with his eyes because Rosa's face was getting paler and paler.
"Oh my god! Ling Ling, don't tell me you really like Masayoshi Saitou? He has a strange temper and is as cold as ice. He doesn't suit you at all. He only knows how to lock you up all day long. He's stupid enough to think that this is love!”
"Mom!"
Ouyang Shaojie had no choice but to raise his voice again to stop her, because at this moment, Rosa was like a maple leaf outside. She fell weakly on the sofa and then began to sob.
"Oh my god!" Madam Ouyang covered her mouth in disbelief. "Lingling, you!"
Rosa cried silently as she stared at the newspaper in a daze. Her tears kept rolling down, wetting the newspaper until the column reporting on Saitou's engagement became blurry.
"Ling Ling!" Mrs. Ouyang walked over and took the newspaper from her hand. She knocked on the photo of Saitou Masayoshi on the newspaper and said," He is a selfish, tyrannical, and cruel person. You can't even escape from such a person in time. Now that he wants to marry someone else, you should be happy. At least this means that he has completely given up on you!”
The last sentence caused her to cry even more heartbroken tears.
" He won't. He must not know that I'm here. He must think that I'm missing again, or he thinks that I left without saying goodbye..." She speculated on various possible reasons, but she was unwilling to admit that he did not love her anymore.
How could he not love her? When she regained her memories, she was clear about her feelings for him. He was indeed selfish and unreasonable, but she loved him!
Ouyang Shaojie couldn't bear to see her being swallowed by sorrow, so he decided," Your feet should be able to walk very far, right?”
Rosa raised her teary eyes and nodded.
"Let's go to Hong Kong to look for him. Since he has decided to get engaged in Hong Kong, he will stay in Hong Kong to prepare.”
In fact, Ouyang Shaojie had tried to contact Saitou Masayoshi many times to tell him about what had happened to Rosa in the past few months. However, the Star Scorpion traveled between ports and did not stay for long. Therefore, when Ouyang Shaojie tried to contact him after knowing the port he was docked at, he was usually a step too late.
"You're not allowed to go!" Mrs. Ouyang looked at her son threateningly. "I object to you bringing Lingling along. That's basically sticking your warm face to someone else's cold buttocks. Please! She's getting engaged. What's the meaning of bringing Lingling along? Beg him to turn back? Didn't this prove that Lingling was abandoned? We, Lingling, have all kinds of men. As long as she recovers from her foot injury and reappears in society, which man won't fall for her?”
Ouyang Shaojie made up his mind not to listen to his mother's opinion this time. He asked again,"Do you want to go?
”
Rosa raised her face, wiped away her tears, and nodded firmly.
" Alright, we'll leave tomorrow, but…" He looked at her fragile body worriedly." It's best to be mentally prepared."”
"Hey, wait!" Madam Ouyang looked at the two of them nervously." Are you serious?”
"Mom, Lingling is willing to go. Do you still think she's not serious about Masayoshi Saitou?”
Mrs. Ouyang thought for a while and suddenly complained like a cannon,"In that case, how could that guy get engaged to another woman? Our Lingling fell in love with him first! I think I should call your uncle first and let him make arrangements. If I can't make it in time, I'll ruin his engagement ceremony first…I might as well go too! It's easier to do things with more people."
The heavy rain washed away the stuffy air in Hong Kong's downtown area. The water on the road that had not receded reflected the dazzling neon lights.
Rosa waited on the sidewalk in front of the hotel. The cold and damp air after the rain blew into her thin clothes. She couldn't help but cross her arms and continue to wait.
According to Zhuang Xuan's investigation, Masayoshi Saitou was temporarily staying at this hotel. This hotel would also be the place where he would hold his engagement ceremony. She insisted on not letting anyone follow her and waited in front of the hotel alone.
When Saitou Masayoshi's tall figure stepped out of the silver Mercedes, she immediately recognized him.
"Zhen Yi!" Trembling with excitement, she crossed the deserted road and called out to him at the foot of the hotel's semi-circular stairs.
Masayoshi Saitou turned around and saw her. There was shock, anger, and even more attachment to her in his eyes, but he quickly erased that part.
He stood on the stairs and stared at her coldly like an iceberg. He had to struggle to stop himself from embracing the body that was shivering with the cold and dampness.
" Zhen Yi…" She called out to him expectantly.
His cheeks were obviously sunken, and his usually bright eyes lost their luster. His high and mighty posture seemed to be even more isolated from the world. What made her afraid was that the intense emotion in his eyes had disappeared. He looked at her as if she was a stranger he had never met before.
She could clearly hear her own uneasy heartbeat, his cold silence was more frightening than his rage, but she had to go forward, she had to explain!
However, she was stopped by a soft voice as she stepped onto the first step. It was a woman who came out of the car at the same time as Saitou Masayoshi. She was obviously Kawaguchi Masako. She naturally put her hand into his arm and said a series of Japanese words, looking at him warily from the side.
"Nothing!" Saitou Masayoshi replied in Japanese.”Then, he deliberately put his hands around Kawaguchi Masako's waist and hugged her intimately. When he saw the obvious pain in Rosa's eyes, he felt a sense of revenge.
Climbing up many stairs was a difficult task for her legs that had just been reconditioned, but she did not intend to watch him turn around and enter, so she quickly explained!
"I've been kidnapped!" She succeeded in seeing his footsteps come to a sudden halt. "At that time, the Ouyang family paid a sum of money to look for me. For that money, the brothers in Taiwan's underworld started to snatch me away. We had a car accident in the tunnel. I was seriously injured and my legs were broken. Mrs. Ouyang brought me back to Canada for rehabilitation, so I didn't come back to look for you.”
She said it all in one breath. She knew that she was talking in a mess, but she believed that he could understand.
He turned around, but there was no passion in his eyes that she had expected. Her heart fell to the bottom.
"Zhen Yi?" She looked at him like an abandoned puppy.
"Are you done?"
She was shocked. She had imagined all kinds of possible outcomes, but this was not the one.
Although he was willing to believe what she said, the vengeful factor in his blood made him unable to let go easily. He remembered what the employee had said at that time. She had gone out without permission. If only she had stayed in the reception room obediently. However, she refused to give up the opportunity to challenge his authority.
And he couldn't forget how she smiled brightly in Ouyang Shaojie's arms when he went to Canada to look for her. That scene was like a fire, burning in his mind all the time. If she would be in pain because of his engagement, then he had the right to make this pain worse, so he was extremely ruthless in his words.
"If you think you can redeem yourself by saying that, then you're too stupid.”His eyes flashed with a cruel light.
The blood drained from her face, and her body trembled in the wind. Tears flashed in her eyes, and she tried her best not to let them drip.
" Zhen Yi... Zhen Yi..." She didn't know what else she could do other than calling his name sadly.
As if possessed, he was determined to make his words more lethal.
"No matter what happened in the past, I hope you know that the pain of you leaving me again and again can no longer hurt me. The reason why I got engaged is because I know very well that I…no longer love you!”
Lightning struck down from the sky. She could no longer tell if it came from the sky or from the bottom of her heart. Tears poured down like rain, and despair was colder than the passing wind.
Even so, she still looked at him firmly.
"I love you!" She did not care about his indifferent expression. If this was a death sentence, she would at least appeal for herself. "Whether you believe it or not, what supported my legs to stand up again was not my confidence, but your deep love.”
It was only then that Saitou Masayoshi noticed that it wasn't the wind that made her tremble.
She couldn't hold on any longer. She fell weakly on the stairs and looked at him with a sad expression. " Zhen Yi..." She panted and called out his name in a low voice as if she was taking a final gamble.
His heart tightened. The iceberg that he thought was solid had long been melted by Rosa's tears. He turned his feet and prepared to go down the stairs, but he saw Ouyang Shaojie rush out from the other side of the road.
"Lingling, are you alright?" He helped her up, and a look of hatred appeared on his usually gentle face. "If we go back, you still have us!”
"No, I can't! Zhen Yi…" She tried to call him back in Ouyang Shaojie's arms.
Seeing Ouyang Shaojie, Saitou Masayoshi's inexplicable jealousy burned wildly again. He didn't even want to look at them anymore. He hugged Kawaguchi Masako and disappeared from their sight.
"Zhen Yi!" She cried out in despair, but she could no longer call him back.
"This is too much!" Madam Ouyang said indignantly," I've told you before. That guy is a selfish, cold-hearted person!”
She paced back and forth in the living room angrily. Seeing that Rosa was as lifeless as a withered leaf and that tears were still hanging under her eyelashes, she, who had always refused to admit defeat, could not swallow her anger.
She looked at Zhuang Xuan. He quickly hid the jade in his hand in his suit pocket to avoid being implicated again.
"Tell me, is there any way to cure him?”
"Sister, love is something that both men and women are willing to do. Saitou Masayoshi doesn't love Lingling anymore, so what's the use of punishing him?”
When he said this, Rosa's tears flowed again.
"You bastard, you can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth." Madam Ouyang cursed.”Her mind spun quickly. "Lingling, don't cry. You're not the one who will regret it!”
Mrs. Ouyang began to pace again. She looked at Ouyang Shaojie and then looked at Rosa. Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind.
"Right! I've thought of it." She announced her idea happily. "If he can get engaged, so can our Lingling! No, I have to be stronger than him." She clapped her hands together." It's marriage!”
Everyone was confused.
"Please!" Zhuang Xuan shouted," Can you think of something practical?!"”
"This is the most practical way!”
"Marry…who?" Ouyang Shaojie had a bad premonition. Then, he saw his mother looking at him strangely and hurriedly called out. "Mom, don't do anything rash!"
"What nonsense! Isn't Lingling good?"
"No, she's my sister!" He begged.
"Mom." Rosa saw how serious Mrs. Ouyang was and began to get nervous. "I've always treated him as an older brother.”
"So what? In ancient Egypt, siblings married each other, not to mention that they were not biological siblings!
”
"Sis, stop fooling around!"
"I don't care." She flung her long dress and sat down heavily on the sofa." How is our Shaojie inferior to that eccentric Saitou Masayoshi? Moreover, our wedding ceremony will be held a day earlier than his, and it will be held at the hotel where he got engaged. He's so angry that he'll vomit blood!”
"Mom, have you ever thought about how everyone in Hong Kong will think of us if we get married like this? Lingling and I are still siblings in name.”
"Have you never heard of a declaration? We can declare that she is not Ouyang Shaoling, but Rosa! There was so much news happening in Hong Kong every day. Who would care about this piece of news!”
" This..." Ouyang Shaojie was speechless. It was strange that he could not argue with his mother.
"Anyway, I've already decided."
Ignoring everyone's objections, Mrs. Ouyang excitedly prepared for the wedding and announced the news to the public. She even dragged Rosa around to try on dresses and order wedding dresses. She looked serious to the end.
Of course, Saitou Masayoshi wouldn't miss this news. Although he pretended to be nonchalant on the surface, his heart was already boiling.
As his good friend, it was not difficult for Ah Shou to see through his thoughts.
"The two of you are using your marriage as a tool for revenge. In fact, you know better than anyone else who will be hurt in the end.”
Masayoshi Saitou put down his pen and looked up seriously." What nonsense are you talking about?”
"Zhen Yi." When Ah Shou called him by his name, it meant that he was talking to him as a friend. "Take your mask! Between self-esteem and lifelong happiness, which was more important? I don't want to see you regret your life. You still have a chance to redeem yourself when it's not too late.”
He was speechless, and his chest felt as if it had been hit by a heavy object.
She didn't know why she was standing here, wearing a sacred white dress and receiving the congratulations of the guests. She no longer had the ability to fight for anything for herself. It seemed that ever since she was born, she had been living under someone else's arrangements. Even this wedding was no exception.
"Trust me, Masayoshi Saitou will appear!”Ouyang Shaojie whispered in her ear.
He thought that this was an opportunity to win. He was like her, believing that Saitou Masayoshi still loved her deeply, but his stubbornness made him unwilling to bow down easily.
The priest's testimony and the noise of the guests had nothing to do with her. She looked anxiously at the door, waiting for his figure.
"Um…this…please exchange rings.”The priest looked at the two absent-minded rookies and reminded them dutifully.
"Ring?" Ouyang Shaojie's eyes widened as if he didn't know what he was talking about.
"That's right! It's the thing you're going to put on the bride's finger.”the priest explained patiently.
"Oh! Ring! Yes, I know…but are you sure you've finished your speech?”
The priest was also stunned by this sudden question. He awkwardly pushed up his presbyopic glasses and thought carefully. Perhaps he was old and might have missed something.
"It's okay. Think about it slowly. We have plenty of time.”Ouyang Shaojie was also anxiously looking at the door, cursing in his heart why Masayoshi Saitou had not appeared yet.
Madam Ouyang was about to vomit blood as she watched from the side. How could she not know what these two were up to? She cleared her throat, stared at Ouyang Shaojie, and said patiently,"Quickly put the ring on me!”
Ouyang Shaojie played with the ring in his hand and dilly-dallied, refusing to put the ring on Rosa's hand. Rosa's hands tightened as well. She looked at him for help. He had once said that if Saitou Masayoshi did not appear at the last moment, he would choose to run away from the marriage. Now that it was clearly the last moment, she wanted to confirm with him whether he still intended to do so, and then she saw the determined light in his eyes.
At this moment!
"Rosa!"
Hearing this voice, the two of them heaved a sigh of relief. Saitou Masayoshi walked towards her with an imposing manner.
"You're not allowed to leave me!"
Only God knew how happy she was to hear this. She was delighted to find that his eyes were shining with a fiery light again. It was the light that would appear every time he looked at her.
" Zhen Yi..." Tears of grievance flowed down her face.
"Mr. Saitou, I don't remember inviting you.”Mrs. Ouyang asked him to leave without hesitation.
Ignoring everyone's surprised gazes, he walked straight to Rosa and grabbed her hand in an overbearing manner. "Follow me!"
She was so emotional that she shed more tears." You…Why did you only come at this time?”She wanted to scold him and hit his chest hard, but once she smelled his scent, she could not do anything. She was born to belong to him.
Saitou Masayoshi gently lifted her face and stared at her intently. He whispered the words that he thought he would never say in his entire life,""I'm sorry. Can you forgive me?"
Rosa threw herself into his arms.
Ouyang Shaojie generously gave up his seat and then said to the priest who was at a loss,"Now you can read the wedding speech again. The groom is Mr. Saitou Masayoshi.”
"Shaojie!" Madam Ouyang shouted angrily.
"Mom." He put his arm around his mother's shoulders and comforted her." Be happy. You're still marrying your daughter off! Moreover, she was marrying the person she truly loved.”
"What about you?" She asked unhappily.
"Me? Just help me find it again!"
"You said it yourself!" She smiled as a new plan formed in her mind.
Rosa lay leisurely on the lounge chair on the deck, admiring the gradually retreating clouds in the sky.
"Rosa!" Masayoshi Saitou shouted as he walked over from behind her.
Although he would still be shocked by this sudden roar, it had already become a sweet burden. She slowly sat up and before his figure approached, she broke into the most charming smile, ready to listen to his series of scolding.
"Who told you to come here, you!”His lips were sealed by Rosa's soft lips. This was the best way to resolve his anger. " In the future…" His aura dropped when he received her kiss." You're not allowed to do this again, do you understand…"
"Hmm…"
He was still domineering, unreasonable, and possessive, but she was willing to enjoy the love of this Scorpio man!#
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