197: Chapter 158: You Can Only Be Mine 197: Chapter 158: You Can Only Be Mine The kitchen lights were turned off.

In the sink, water flowed ceaselessly.

Tang Xi’s fingers slightly trembled as she lowered her head, turned off the faucet, and watched the overflowing water, yet all she could think of was that glimpse she had just witnessed.

The image of Fu Tingzhou embracing that woman intimately.

Tang Xi’s hand tightly gripped the porcelain bowl she was holding, using all her strength, yet unable to hold on.

Dishes fell to the floor, shattering into pieces, and as she looked at the broken bowl, she sighed softly and bent down to clean up.

He fancied someone else, provided for other women; what did it have to do with her?

Since it had come to this, she should make a clean break.

Every night, when Tang Xi busied herself in the kitchen, she could almost always see Fu Tingzhou and that woman’s silhouettes in the apartment across.

Initially, her heart would sting, but after watching time and again, she became numb.

She even thought Fu Tingzhou might be doing it on purpose, letting her see.

Purposely letting her witness their intimate embrace.

Tang Xi’s emotions were calm, almost without a ripple.

Nie Xiaoyun also faithfully reported Tang Xi’s situation to Xu Ze.

She even told Xu Ze about how Tang Xi would wash dishes calmly by the window after dinner.

On the other end, Xu Ze grasped his phone, looking at the man working not far away, contemplating how he should report that Mr.

Fu had been visiting Tang Qianqian these past days, all to make Miss Tang Xi jealous.

Yet, who would have thought Miss Tang Xi could not care less…

After hanging up the phone, Xu Ze walked over, thought for a moment, and said, “Nie Xiaoyun mentioned that Miss Tang misses her family and has been in low spirits lately…”

Fu Tingzhou had the habit of wearing glasses when working; he now lifted his hand to remove them from his nose bridge, pinching his brow and bridge of his nose, his voice hoarse and carrying a hint of tired indifference, “Hasn’t she already taken it upon herself to visit the orphanage?”

Xu Ze knew about this.

Nie Xiaoyun didn’t dare hide it from Xu Ze.

But Xu Ze took it upon himself and didn’t tell Fu Tingzhou; he was afraid that Fu Tingzhou would punish Nie Xiaoyun because of it.

Yet he didn’t expect that even though he kept it a secret here, Mr.

Fu still knew.

Xu Ze felt a chill down his spine as he lowered his head, “I apologize, Mr.

Fu.

Nie Xiaoyun had informed me in advance…

I thought it wasn’t something that violated any rules…”

With a single glance from Fu Tingzhou, Xu Ze instantly fell silent.

“Xu Ze, I’ve said that I won’t agree to any of her requests.

If she doesn’t obediently admit her mistakes, she’ll spend her whole life inside Qingfeng Garden,” Fu Tingzhou’s voice was stern, “Xu Ze, there will not be a next time.”

“Yes.”

For the first time in his 30 years of life, Fu Tingzhou felt his dignity trampled by a woman.

She carried another man’s child; he could have forgiven and forgotten, but unexpectedly…

she pretended to be obedient and sensible on the surface, while behind the scenes, she was thinking about how to calculate against him, how to escape and leave North City with Xu Yiran, how to elude his bodyguards and secretly meet up and book a room with Xu Yiran.

She even used the lousy excuse of being drugged and schemed against to fool him.

What Fu Tingzhou found most intolerable was that his presence was completely absent from her heart.

Fu Tingzhou lacked no women.

There had never been any accidents with women around him, and Tang Xi!!

would not be one!!

He wouldn’t let himself get entangled in emotional difficulties, wouldn’t leave behind any weaknesses, and would not be foolish as before.

The moment Fu Tingzhou rejected the Shu Family’s marriage proposal, he truly considered spending a lifetime with Tang Xi.

Perhaps she had always been such a greedy and vain woman; only, he had misjudged.

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Fu Tingzhou had been frequently visiting Tang Qianqian these past few days, but he didn’t do anything.

He only held Tang Qianqian on the balcony in a posture feigning intimacy, without understanding why he was doing this.

What frustrated him even more was that Tang Xi, seeing all this, seemed utterly indifferent.

After leaving Tang Qianqian’s place, Fu Tingzhou went to the underground parking lot to smoke.

After smoking several cigarettes in a row, he suddenly felt an inexplicable restlessness washing over him, causing his brows to furrow tightly.

–

Tang Xi was about to go to bed.

After taking a shower, she lay in bed when it started drizzling outside.

Unable to resist, she got out of bed and walked to the window to watch the raindrops, opened the window, and reached her hand out.

It was cold but carried a natural essence.

Suddenly, there came a loud knocking sound.

Tang Xi walked barefoot to the living room to check through the peephole.

Who could be knocking at the door?

It’s so late already.

When she saw a familiar face, Tang Xi was stunned for a few seconds.

Then she slowly, opened the door.

The moment she barely opened it, the door was pushed open by an outside force, and a man in a black coat entered, carrying the chilly air from outside with him.

“You…” Tang Xi’s wide eyes focused on the face in front of her, both strange and extremely familiar, “Fu Tingzhou, what are you here for…?”

“What do you think I’m here for?” The man lifted her chin with his hand, and Tang Xi resisted slightly, trying to slap away his fingers, and said coldly, “How would I know why you would come over?

Aren’t you the one who said you would never trust me and never planned to come in your life?”

Looking at the woman’s serene features and her indifferent, hoarse voice, Fu Tingzhou frowned unpleasantly and mocked her, “Disappointed that I came?

Who were you hoping for?

Xu Yiran?

He probably won’t be able to come in this lifetime, the Xu Family’s issues are enough to keep him busy.

All thanks should go to you; without you, he could still be a carefree young master.”

Tang Xi bit her lip, “What did you do to him?

What did you do to the Xu Family?”

She struggled and resisted, but no matter how hard she tried, she could not break free from the man’s embrace.

In her panic, she knocked over a coat rack on the side, which clattered loudly as it hit the ground.

That startled Nie Xiaoyun, who lived across from her.

Nie Xiaoyun opened her door and came over, “Tang Xi, are you okay—”

When she saw Fu Tingzhou, Nie Xiaoyun froze for a moment, then immediately bowed her head and respectfully greeted, “Mr.

Fu, sorry, I didn’t know you were here.”

From deep within the man’s throat came a word, icy and chilling, “Leave!”

Nie Xiaoyun didn’t dare to resist, but she was worried about Tang Xi’s safety.

Seeing Tang Xi resisting, Nie Xiaoyun hesitated but couldn’t help saying, “Mr.

Fu, Miss Tang, she…”

Before she could finish, she was cut off by Fu Tingzhou’s rebuke, “Get lost, or I’ll have Fu Chenyun take you to Africa!”

Fu Chenyun was her adoptive father, and Fu Tingzhou should call him uncle by seniority.

Nie Xiaoyun dared not to defy, glanced at Tang Xi, then reluctantly returned to her room.

Fu Tingzhou bent down to pick up Tang Xi and tossed her onto the sofa.

Before the woman could get up, she was forcefully restrained by him.

Fu Tingzhou bit her lips aggressively, his hoarse voice filled with intensity as he pressed against her ear.

“Too bad, even if you like Xu Yiran, you are destined to be under me for the rest of your life, taking pleasure in it.

Even if you hate me, scheme against me, you can never hope to leave my side!!

Tang Xi, you can only be mine!”

No one can take you away from me!