PFC Chapter 655: I Didn't Lie to You
Chapter 655: I Didn't Lie to You
Chapter 655: I Didn't Lie to You
He appeared calm and composed, but his eyes suddenly darkened when Mu Xiaoyu asked that question. However, he concealed it very well, and given that Mu Xiaoyu seemed somewhat emotionally unstable at the moment, she didn't notice.
Li Chenxu was certain that Mu Xiaoyu knew something, but he was certain that Mu Xiaoyu had no idea what it was.
Even now, Li Chenxu himself is unsure whether keeping the fact that Xu Sulin hasn't left from Mu Xiaoyu is a good thing.
However, he has already come this far and knows very well that there is no turning back.
No one knew better than Li Chenxu how much Mu Xiaoyu hated being kept in the dark and being deceived. If he had told Mu Xiaoyu about this from the beginning, things might have been better.
Unfortunately, he went down the wrong path from the very beginning. Now, there's no turning back; he can only keep it a secret forever.
Mu Xiaoyu fell silent instantly. In fact, she wasn't very good at hiding her emotions in front of Li Chenxu.
I don't know if Li Chenxu has noticed anything amiss, but it doesn't matter anymore.
She was genuinely unhappy, even sad. She didn't know what Li Chenxu was hiding from her, and why he wouldn't tell her even now.
She had previously suspected that the person Li Chenxu and the others were talking about might be Xu Sulin, but she wasn't sure; it was just a suspicion, and not much of a suspicion at that.
But now, things are different.
The moment Li Chenxu denied deceiving her, she was almost certain that the person Li Chenxu was looking for to find a job must be Xu Sulin.
If that's really the case, then Li Chenxu was actually deceiving Xu Sulin about leaving the country.
The more Mu Xiaoyu thought about it, the heavier her heart became.
I don't know if this is a common problem for pregnant women, but I tend to overthink things.
Mu Xiaoyu felt so bad that she didn't want to see Li Chenxu at all.
After a long while, she suddenly pointed towards the door and said in a hoarse voice, "Go out."
Li Chenxu waited for a while, thinking that Mu Xiaoyu was going to say something, but unexpectedly she directly told him to leave.
He was a little taken aback, staring blankly at Mu Xiaoyu for a few seconds before taking her hand and saying, "Xiaoyu, didn't we say before that we shouldn't keep things to ourselves and should talk about them?"
"Yes, we did talk about that. But as I just said, it was your own unwillingness."
Since things had already come to this point, Mu Xiaoyu decided to give up and stop guessing.
She stared intently at Li Chenxu, pursed her lips, and tried to control her emotions, speaking in a calm voice as she could: "I just asked you if you were hiding something from me, and you said no. But Li Chenxu, even if I didn't hear the whole thing Lin Zhu said to you when he came in, I still caught some of it. You are indeed hiding something from me, aren't you? I'm asking you now, are you going to tell the truth?"
Mu Xiaoyu said so much at once, but she didn't see the panic she expected from Li Chenxu. It seemed that the more this happened, the calmer Li Chenxu became.
He still held Mu Xiaoyu's hand, his eyes, darker and deeper than those of an ordinary person, staring straight at her: "Xiaoyu, you told me before that if Xu Sulin stayed, you would leave, right?"
"Correct."
Mu Xiaoyu answered without hesitation. If Xu Sulin was truly unimportant to Li Chenxu, then he would definitely choose her over Xu Sulin without hesitation.
Before today, Mu Xiaoyu was very confident that Li Chenxu would choose her.
But now, she is wavering.
Looking at Li Chenxu like this, she felt increasingly uncertain.
Li Chenxu remained silent this time; he wasn't an irresponsible man. Xu Sulin was threatening him with the photos; in the past, he would never have cared about such things.
After all, even with photos, it's not certain that some things have actually happened.
He's a man. If he really had a relationship with Xu Sulin back then, even if he was drugged, he would have felt something.
But afterwards, he felt nothing at all.
If Mu Xiaoyu is not pregnant, he will take the initiative to be honest with her about everything.
However, Mu Xiaoyu is currently pregnant. If she finds out about the photos, her emotional state will fluctuate too much, which would not be good for either her or the baby.
What Li Chenxu least wanted to see was Mu Xiaoyu get into trouble.
Otherwise, that would truly be playing right into Xu Sulin's hands.
In a short moment, Li Chenxu had already made up his mind.
He grasped Mu Xiaoyu's hand, ignoring her struggles, and kissed it before saying, "I do have something to hide from you. After sending Xu Sulin abroad, I didn't abandon the Xu family. You know the Xu family's situation. After Xu Sulin got there, he wasn't satisfied with the money I gave them before; he wanted an easy, high-paying job. Assistant Lin mentioned this when he came in."
At this point, Li Chenxu glanced at Mu Xiaoyu, his deep eyes subtly observing her emotions. Seeing that she seemed to be doing well, he continued, "I know Xu Sulin has always been a knot in your heart. I didn't want to tell you about it because I didn't want you to overthink it. Anyway, Xu Sulin is gone, and we won't see each other again. I don't think you need to worry about this anymore. Xiaoyu, sometimes I don't tell you certain things not because I really want to deceive you, but simply for your own good."
Mu Xiaoyu used to hear the phrase "for your own good" all the time, but those words contained far too much. They included concealment, deception, and self-righteousness.
Whether in the past or present, Mu Xiaoyu dislikes hearing these words.
But the person who said these words was Li Chenxu, the person she cares about most right now, so she didn't want to blame him for these few words.
So she took a deep breath, looked steadily at Li Chenxu, and asked, "You...you really aren't lying to me?"
Li Chenxu shook his head: "No."
Mu Xiaoyu looked at him, hesitating whether or not to trust Li Chenxu this time.
In fact, after so many years together, Li Chenxu has rarely lied to her.
This man usually tells the truth, and he almost always keeps his promises to her.
In the past, even if Li Chenxu didn't tell her about some small things, she wouldn't think it was a big deal.
But now, it seems that the better their relationship is, the more they start to nitpick over things.
They care deeply about even the smallest things.