Chapter 564: 564: Slapping Her Once_1

Ruan Tianling sat down beside her, pulled the thin silk quilt over her body, and gently asked her, “Are you tired? If you’re tired, close your eyes and sleep.”

“Do you really intend to imprison me forever?”

“Of course not.” Ruan Tianling denied adamantly.

Jian Yufei sat up, her emotions visibly agitated, “When will you let me go? Ruan Tianling, I don’t owe you anything, you have no right to hurt me!”

Ruan Tianling’s gaze deepened, a contemptuous smile tugged at his lips, “I’ve been so good to you, even when you drugged me and planned to escape. You owe me too much, probably a lifetime’s worth.”

“I didn’t ask you to treat me well, and I am not interested in your kindness! Why must I accept you just because you’ve been kind to me? Does this mean I should accept any man who treats me nicely? Alright, even if I had to accept the kindness of men, why should I accept you? Others don’t hurt me like you do, I have every right to accept them instead of you!”

“Moreover, were you really nice to me? You gave me a little bit of love when you fancied me, but you were cold and heartless when you didn’t. I’m sorry, but I am not generous enough to forget the pain you caused me, nor am I foolish enough to accept a man like you!”

“You are simply despicable. When I loved you, you did not love me. When I stopped loving you, you started acting nice towards me. You miss Yan Yue when she is away, yet ignore her when she is back. You’re not a man who can comprehend love. And I could never fall in love with a man like you, especially not one who only knows how to take and never respects others!”

“Smack—”

Ruan Tianling smacked her in anger.

Jian Yufei turned her head sideways, feeling a burning pain on her cheek.

His force wasn’t very strong; it was clear that he had held back the moment his hand contacted her face. But due to inertia, his hand still ended up striking her.

This was the first time Jian Yufei had been slapped by a man, and it was Ruan Tianling.@@novelbin@@

She turned her head back, her eyes cold as she looked at him, “Do you feel better now? I don’t care how many times you hit me as long as you let me go!”

Ruan Tianling tightened his hand, the veins on the back of his hand pulsating visibly.

If he hadn’t been so angry, he wouldn’t have lost his temper and hit her.

Regret engulfed him immediately after he hit her; he had never hit a woman before, yet he struck her…

He struck a woman who deeply affected him, a woman who mattered a lot to him.

Ruan Tianling wished she could hit him back, but the damage was done and regret was useless.

“Jian Yufei, you are the first to trample on my sincerity!” Somehow, he blurted out these words.

Jian Yufei’s eyes flickered as she slowly said, “Then you should hate me, despise me.”

Then stay away from me and never ever see me again.

“That’s right, I hate you now! You asked when I would stop imprisoning you? I’ll tell you, as soon as you stop trying to escape, I’ll stop jailing you!” With that, he turned and strode out of the room.

He said once she stopped trying to escape, he would stop imprisoning her.

What did ‘stop trying to escape’ mean?

Voluntarily staying? Or losing the instinct to escape and becoming a compliant puppet?

The answer is undoubtedly the latter.

The door was slammed shut with a bang, and a panicked Jian Yufei quickly got up, rushing to pull at the door.

The door was bolted from outside, she couldn’t open it no matter how hard she tried.

Jian Yufei ran to the balcony, pulled open the floor-to-ceiling curtain, and despairingly noticed the cold safety net outside.