“Do you know how to make someone fall in love with someone else?”
“…”
“I don’t know. However, I know how to make someone unable to leave me ever again.”
“Hmm?!”
Ye Moran’s heart skipped a beat for no reason. Her lips moved slightly as she slowly spat out two words.
“Continue.”
“CEO Ye, let me tell you a story. It’s a story about a little boy and a little girl.”
“Very well, sit down and tell it.”
Qin Siyu smiled. The two of them walked over to the sofa in the reception area and sat down.
Ye Moran picked up two bottles of wine.
“There are no glasses, so let’s just drink like this.”
“Alright, CEO Ye.”
Qin Siyu picked up the wine bottle and took a small sip. The taste of the wine was strong with a hint of sweetness, gradually stirring up her memories…
There were once a little boy and a little girl. They grew up together and had known each other since they were wearing diapers.
The girl was older than the boy. Since they were young, the boy followed her around, and she took great care of him. The adults from both families said they would get married in the future and have children together.
…The little girl took it seriously. Back then, she was so very happy. She grabbed the little boy’s face and gave him a heavy kiss!
The little boy was silly and didn’t know what that meant. Seeing the little girl smile, he began to smile along with her!
They were both very happy that day.
However, that kind of happiness did not last long.
When she reached this point, Qin Siyu’s tone wavered, but it quickly returned to normal. She took another sip of wine and continued.
It lasted until they were four years old and started kindergarten. The little boy stopped pestering the little girl. He started revolving around other girls instead. There were many girls around him.
Everyone liked him. They gave him the best food immediately, while the little girl became the most unremarkable one in the crowd.
The topics of conversation between the two grew fewer and fewer. In the end, even when they met, they could barely say a few words.
The little boy stayed away from her. He had more companions around him who gave him delicious food, toys, and things that the little girl couldn’t provide!
The little girl could only stay alone in the shadows, watching the little boy gradually disappear from her life!
She watched the little boy smile so happily while being chased by the other girls, and her heart felt miserable.
One day, the little girl finished school as usual and waited for her parents to pick her up. She watched as the little boy was quickly picked up by his parents, leaving her all alone to wait in the cold wind.
But she waited for a very, very long time, and her parents never came for her. She cried. That was the first time she had ever cried so sorrowfully.
She walked home alone. The journey was long and lonely… and her mood sank lower and lower.
But as she approached the door to her house, she heard the rapid sound of a siren. She panicked and ran into the house with all her might…
…Only to see her home surrounded by police tape.
…
…
The police officers stopped her and covered her eyes to keep her from looking, but she still saw her mother being taken away in handcuffs through the gaps between their fingers.
Afterward, the little girl learned from others that her father had betrayed her mother. In a fit of rage, her mother killed her father!
She cried for a very long time back then. She couldn’t understand why her father would betray her mother. Her mother had always been so good to him, so why did he do it?
It wasn’t until many days later, after she saw the little boy, that she understood why.
It was because she wasn’t good enough. She wasn’t good enough, so the little boy left her. Her mother wasn’t good enough, so her father left her!
But what counts as being good enough?
It’s not enough. It’s never enough. Even if you give him your all and provide the very best, the thing he wants most, he will still feel it’s not enough!
As long as there is someone else who can give him something better, he will follow that person!
She stared at the little boy, and a thought gradually popped into her head!
If she couldn’t give him something better, she would drag him down!
Drag him down from the clouds, letting him fall deep into the mire, never to crawl out again. That way, he wouldn’t want anything better!
So, she did one thing!
She lied to the little boy and tricked him into a Hell!
Afterward, she studied desperately and worked with all her might. Finally, she had the power. She transformed into light and brought the little boy out from… that Hell!
“That’s the story I wanted to tell!”
Ye Moran fell silent for a long, long time after listening. Finally, she raised her head and stared intensely at her.
“You’re hurting him by doing that!”
“But he hurt me too, didn’t he, CEO Ye?”
“The little boy was the one who betrayed their friendship first. Ever since he had those girls around him, he began to loathe the little girl!”
“That day, the little boy’s parents originally wanted to take the little girl home with them, but the little boy stopped them because he hated having contact with the little girl!!”
“But this is causing harm…”
“Yes, it’s harm. But from now on, he will never betray me again. His heart and eyes only have room for me!”
Qin Siyu looked up, and a spark of light erupted in her eyes—a light that Ye Moran was all too familiar with!
She knew that light well because she possessed it too!
“Go back and get some rest. I’ll give you tomorrow off…”
“…”
“Alright, thank you, CEO Ye.”
After Qin Siyu left, Ye Moran rubbed her aching head and closed her eyes deeply, but she didn’t fall asleep.
After Qin Siyu told that story, her heart was moved. It was racing as an emotion called excitement spread through her chest!
‘Heh, Little Fellow, I can’t do it. I can’t be that cruel to you, nor can I let you go completely. Tell me… what should I do?’
‘How can I make you accept me completely and fall in love with me?’
She gazed at the night scene outside the window, a bitter smile playing at the corners of her mouth. She had never felt like a failure before; she had always been successful in everything she did!
But regarding the Little Fellow, she had actually failed miserably. Her original plan had been to lock him up so the two of them could live together!
But in the end, it changed. It turned into simply locking him up, and then it changed again. One time after another, she was always changing.
She made up her mind again and again, only to abandon all her plans because of the Little Fellow’s tears.
The night outside was so thick it wouldn’t dissipate, much like her current thoughts that were sinking to the bottom of her heart while simultaneously surging frantically.
She was someone who stood above the clouds, a woman who could turn her hand to summon clouds and rain. There was nothing she couldn’t obtain, and no one had ever been able to leave her feeling this helpless.
But it just had to be him.
It was that Little Fellow with stubbornness in his eyes and fragility hidden beneath.
She could be ruthless and cold to the whole world. She could be like Qin Siyu, dragging a person into the abyss, breaking their wings, and locking them by her side, never letting go.
She clearly had countless ways to make him afraid, to make him behave, and to make it so he could never escape again.
But every time she met those reddened eyes, as long as she saw him feeling wronged, all her ruthlessness, all her calculations, and all her prepared restraints would collapse instantly.
Ye Moran gently tightened her arms, as if she wanted to knead the only remaining scent of him in the air into her very bones and blood.
…”Just what… should I do with you?”
The low murmur dissipated into the silence.
Qin Siyu said that if you drag someone down from the clouds into the mud, they can never leave again.
But she couldn’t bear it.
She couldn’t bear to let him suffer even a little bit. She couldn’t bear to make him afraid, and she certainly couldn’t bear for his eyes to hold nothing but fear when he looked at her.
“What exactly must I do…”
Ye Moran closed her eyes, her voice trembling slightly.
“To make you… fall in love with me… of your own free will…”
After a long time, she slowly opened her eyes. The paranoia and Tenderness intertwined in the depths of her gaze were too thick to dissolve.
“I won’t let go. Never.”
“You don’t have to love me. You can hate me. You can run.”
“But even if you flee to the ends of the earth, I will find you and bring you back.”
A morbid flame burned in her eyes, as if it wanted to incinerate his very sanity!