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Table for Two - Chapter 105

Published at 13th of November 2018 07:33:57 PM


Chapter 105

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The man Xiu Ling hoped Lin Kang had become was different from the man he actually was. Then again, hope was hope because it was not reality. It was Xiu Ling's own fault for falling for her own false hope.

Lin Xi wiggled in his booster seat as if bored that he was trapped in there for so long. He wanted to get down and move around.

Xiu Ling caught her son's movement from the corner of her eyes. She turned to look at the child that she shared with the monster whom she called her lawfully-wedded husband.

Lin Xi smiled innocently at her and the feeling of hopelessness and powerlessness Xiu Ling felt at the beginning of this contractual marriage came surging back to her. Right then, she did not find it hard to believe that the new image of a better Lin Kang was nothing more than a dream she had conjured up for herself to survive in this loveless marriage. In other words, they were a manifestation of her self-defense mechanism.

With this news provided by Joann, Xiu Ling was forced to pull back the cognitive blinders and face the truth. Xiu Ling did not blame Joann for yanking her out into the harsh reality, if anything, she was thankful that her best friend was there to help her see the truth.

However, if Xiu Ling was truly honest with herself, if given the choice, she would rather continue to slumber in the fairytale she had constructed around her. Sometimes, ignorance truly is bliss.

After all, one only built a false reality when the real world alternative was much harder to deal with.

Xiu Ling reached over and pulled Lin Xi out from the booster seat and into her own embrace. Her son's physical presence gave Xiu Ling the comfort that she needed at that moment.

'No matter what, at the end of the day, I have you out of this whole sick arrangement and that is everything I could have asked for.' Xiu Ling held Lin Xi close to her heart.

Right at that moment, Xiu Ling heard the front door open. She was sitting facing away from the front door but from the way her son wiggled and tried to escape from her grasp, Xiu Ling knew that Lin Kang had returned home.

The maid moved to set up the place setting for Lin Kang. As Lin Kang took his place at the front of the table, Xiu Ling stood up from her seat and prepared to move away.

She was making it obvious that she did not wish to share the table with Lin Kang.

This defiance irked the man and when Xiu Ling almost reached the door of the dining room, Lin Kang cleared his throat audibly. The maids froze before quickly retreating.

Xiu Ling stopped at the threshold of the door, holding Lin Xi in her arms.

Just as she was debating whether to turn back to the table or just walk away, Lin Kang questioned from behind her, "Where are you going?"

Xiu Ling turned to face Lin Kang and smiled a smile that did not reach her eyes. "I wish to retire to my bedroom already." Xiu Ling did not mean it that way but her following sentence sounded like a challenge to Lin Kang's ears, "Is there a problem?"

'Yes, there is a very big problem so sit down and listen to my explanation!' was what Lin Kang wanted to say but he realized raising his voice at Xiu Ling was not going to solve any problem. That was a healthy improvement on Lin Kang's part. At least he had learned to see things from his wife's perspective.

Therefore, Lin Kang chose to move to a more neutral ground. "But you have not even finished your dinner yet."

Lin Kang pointed at Xiu Ling's dinner plate that still was three quarters full.

"I don't have the appetite." Xiu Ling answered. 'The thought of eating at the same table with you makes me lose the little appetite that I have,' was the answer that she did not finish.

Being spurned by his wife made Lin Kang lose his patience and he was already not a patient man to begin with. The man did not like being challenged or ignored, that was simply his nature. Screw tact, he was going to go for aggression.

From this angle, Joann was right, a tiger doesn't lose his stripes that easily, at least not overnight. Love was not some kind of miracle potion, it did not change a person's personality just a snap of the finger. Real life did not work that way.

As mentioned before, Lin Kang was working towards accepting the truth and working was the operative term here, he was a work in progress.

And being given the cold shoulder by Xiu Ling definitely did not help his progress, if anything, it had nudged him several steps back.

"Why? Is it because of me?" Lin Kang challenged openly.

Xiu Ling knew her husband was trying to get a rise out of her. If this was yesterday or any day before the big revelation by Joann, Xiu Ling would have gone back obediently to her seat and continued to fulfill her role as the submissive wife.

However, the combination of her disgust at Lin Kang and the expose of his real behavior via Joann drained Xiu Ling. At least in that moment, she was tired of pleasing the man.

Xiu Ling knew going against the man came with serious repercussion but this time, she decided to throw caution to the wind. If the man dared to make such revolting proposition to her best friend, then she had the courage to go against the man.

"You…" Xiu Ling started to say when Lin Xi in her arms started to cry. Xiu Ling was reminded of the reason why she had persevered for so long. She was close to wasting all of her effort on an urge to get even with the man.





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