Chapter 1191: Chapter 1190: Having This Intention

But since Li Shengxiao had asked, she had to seize the opportunity to make her stance clear; otherwise, she feared it might become difficult to bring it up again.

After thinking it through, she was not shy. She looked directly into the man’s eyes and made her demand, “We’ve already been intimate, I request marriage.”

We’ve already been intimate, I request marriage!

The secret marriage between Li Shengxiao and Rong Yan was concealed through connections, making it hard for ordinary people to find out. It was normal for Chu Xi not to know.

He hadn’t expected Chu Xi to make such a request.

In the midst of the tension, he didn’t know if he was more annoyed by Chu Xi’s impudent request, or if he found her request to be utterly foolish. Surprisingly, he cracked a smile, but his eyes, sharp as a hawk’s, held no trace of laughter, shattering Chu Xi’s plans with his icy rebuke, “Impossible.”

“Why?” Chu Xi almost let her emotions get out of control in her haste. She quickly calmed herself down, reined in her urgency, and said, “I’m not necessarily asking you to take responsibility for me. If nothing had happened, you have a girlfriend, we could talk it over, maybe let it go. But it did happen, and as the disadvantaged party, my request is not unreasonable. After all, I am not like the other women by Mr. Li’s side.”

Her implication was that her status was sufficient to match Li Shengxiao’s, and she was making this request from an equal standing, not begging or pleading with him.

But her high-and-mighty attitude was useless. The man, who had gotten up from the bed and donned a bathrobe, did not deign to consider her seriously and coldly said, “Not every woman who throws herself at me gets my attention, and I don’t believe what you say happened last night. Your words are one-sided and don’t obligate me to believe you.”

Chu Xi clenched her teeth in anger, “Li Shengxiao!”

Yet Li Shengxiao did not change his expression for a moment; he remained utterly cold from start to finish, “You are welcome to complain to the Chu Family, but I won’t change my stance!”

The Chu Family?

Gu Ming was taken aback.

He had caught the key point.

Chu Xi, the Chu Family. Could it be that this Chu Xi was a member of the Chu Family?

He vaguely recalled hearing rumors that their president actually had a fiancée from one of the four great families, a lady of exceedingly noble status.

Could it really be this Chu Xi?

He pondered and felt it was highly likely, yet he also felt that Chu Xi didn’t quite fit the lofty reputation of that rumored fiancée.

It wasn’t that Chu Xi wasn’t beautiful or elegant; it’s just that compared to Lin Zhiya, who also hailed from a prominent family of the four great houses, Chu Xi had an air of pettiness about her.

Even if she concealed it well, true temperament can never be hidden.

A drawn pie, no matter how beautifully sketched, is still false. That incongruous feeling can’t fool anyone.

Chu Xi was incensed. She had never expected Li Shengxiao to reject her marriage proposal so flatly. Her cheeks flushed with embarrassment, her eyes filled with indignation, her fists clenched tightly as she raised a mocking smile, “What do you mean, Mr. Li, eat your fill and then deny it? I thought you were different from ordinary men, but it turns out you’re even less responsible than the average man!”

“Say what you will,” Li Shengxiao said as he rose to go to the bathroom.

Halfway there, perhaps recalling that Chu Xi had just used this bathroom, he blatantly ignored it and went to another bathroom outside.

As he walked, he ordered indifferently, “Gu Ming, show the guest out!”

Gu Ming snapped back to reality and, with polite yet distant courtesy, extended his hand to Chu Xi, who was clad in just a bathrobe, “Miss Chu, please, this is not your room. Don’t make the mistake again next time.”

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