Flash Marriage: He is a Wife-pampering Addict

Chapter 1742: Chapter 1741: That Night, You Were Together

The dishes were served, and Meng Ke thoughtfully helped Bai Xiaoxiao with her food.

Bai Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and gently stopped him, ”Meng Ke, don’t busy yourself with serving me food. I have something to tell you.”

”Whatever it is, let’s talk after we’ve eaten our fill.”

Meng Ke always had a gentle smile on his face.

This made Bai Xiaoxiao a bit frustrated.

Moreover, he seemed very busy, as he took two work-related phone calls during the meal.

After finishing the calls, Meng Ke apologized somewhat sheepishly to Bai Xiaoxiao, ”Xiaoxiao, I’m sorry, I’ve been getting a lot of calls these past couple of days.”

Bai Xiaoxiao smiled and put down her chopsticks.

”Right, you said earlier that you had something to tell me.”

Meng Ke noticed her putting down her chopsticks and hadn’t forgotten what she mentioned earlier.

Bai Xiaoxiao wiped her mouth, gathered herself, and looked at Meng Ke seriously, saying calmly, ”Meng Ke, let’s break up.”

”...”

The food that Meng Ke had picked up fell back into the plate.

The hand holding the chopsticks froze in mid-air, and the smile on his face couldn’t be retracted in time.

He was just frozen like that.

Completely unable to believe that what Bai Xiaoxiao said was true.

There was a moment of stifled air.

Looking at Meng Ke’s frozen expression, a trace of sadness crossed Bai Xiaoxiao’s mind. She knew that Meng Ke had always been good to her.

When she was abroad, Meng Ke often visited her. Across the Pacific Ocean in a long-distance relationship, they could be called lovers, all because Meng Ke was proactive.

”Meng Ke.”

A trace of apology flickered in Bai Xiaoxiao’s eyes, and she said softly, ”Before, it was my momentary impulse. I shouldn’t have wasted so much of your time.”

”No, it was my choice. You told me back then, you didn’t like me, but I thought that as long as I treated you well, there would come a day when you’d forget about that person and see the good in me.”

Meng Ke smiled wryly.

His world seemed to suddenly lose its sunlight, leaving only a patch of gloom.

”Meng Ke, I’m really sorry. I’ve tried, but I couldn’t make it.”

Bai Xiaoxiao gently pursed her lips, genuinely feeling that she owed Meng Ke.

A hint of jealousy crossed Meng Ke’s eyes, the smile at the corner of his lips carrying some bitterness and sadness, ”Xiaoxiao, is it because of him?”

Bai Xiaoxiao knew the ”him” he was referring to was Luo Haofeng.

Her eyes flickered, unsure how to respond for a moment.

”Xiaoxiao, when you went to City B on a business trip this time, did you meet him? That night, your phone was turned off. It’s not because the battery died, but because you were with him, right?”

Meng Ke wasn’t foolish.

That evening, when he couldn’t reach Bai Xiaoxiao’s phone, he had a hunch that something was wrong.

He felt that Bai Xiaoxiao was with Luo Haofeng.

Later, he called Wen Ran, who told him Bai Xiaoxiao was on the phone with her and the battery drained.

How could he believe Wen Ran’s words? She was Bai Xiaoxiao’s best friend, and they all wished for Bai Xiaoxiao to be with Luo Haofeng.

To them, Meng Ke was just an outsider.

”That day, I was with him.”

Bai Xiaoxiao hesitated for a few seconds and truthfully told him.

Seeing Meng Ke’s mocking laughter, she added, ”But it’s not what you think. It was his birthday, I was just celebrating it with him.”

”Celebrating a birthday, Xiaoxiao, you were still my girlfriend at the time, yet you were with Luo Haofeng behind my back, with your phone off the whole night.”

A hint of anger flared in Meng Ke’s eyes, startling Bai Xiaoxiao, who had never seen his calm demeanor in public.

”You told me back then, you might never fall for me, but Xiaoxiao, even if you don’t like me, you should know that as a girlfriend, you shouldn’t meet up with your ex-boyfriend behind my back. Did you consider my feelings when you were with Luo Haofeng?”

”There’s nothing between him and me.”

”Xiaoxiao, do you really think I’m a fool? You and Luo Haofeng can’t forget each other. When you were abroad, it wasn’t only me visiting you, Luo Haofeng also came to see you.”

”...”

Each of Meng Ke’s words was sharper than the last, making Bai Xiaoxiao’s face turn pale. She opened her mouth but couldn’t find words to refute him.

”The day you returned to China, you told Luo Haofeng but were unwilling to tell me. He traveled all the way to G City, and even though it was just a chance encounter on the street, your expressions and emotions afterwards were influenced by brushing past each other.”

”...”

Bai Xiaoxiao was caught off guard.

Although she knew that Meng Ke, the man who successfully managed a travel agency, was undoubtedly a clever man.

She didn’t expect his heart to be so sensitive.

What surprised her the most was how he knew everything but never brought it up.

Such a person suddenly made her feel a little frightening.

For some reason, she suddenly felt the temperature in the hall drop several degrees, a chill sweeping over her.

”On the day of Wen Ran’s child’s birthday, when I went on a business trip, you had a chance to be with Luo Haofeng alone, and Mo Xiuchen and Wen Ran would certainly make it possible for you. Luo Haofeng seemed to have stayed in G City for more than just a day...”

”...”

”Xiaoxiao, since you returned to China, Luo Haofeng has been visiting G City more and more frequently. In such a short time, he’s already visited G City several times, and every time, there’s been some contact with you.”

”That night in the private room on the third floor, he came specifically to see you, didn’t he? Since your parents disapprove of you dating Luo Haofeng, though you were with him before, there wouldn’t be anything between you.”

The further Meng Ke went on, the colder Bai Xiaoxiao’s heart became.

”Meng Ke...”

”Don’t rush, let me finish, and you can see whether my analysis is correct.”

Meng Ke’s lips curled with a mocking arc, and the usual gentle and tender look in his eyes towards Bai Xiaoxiao was replaced with indifference and sarcasm.

”In G City, nothing might happen between you two, but your trip to City B was a great opportunity. Because each previous meeting, every appearance he made before you, only increased the turmoil within your heart.”

”So, during this trip, you finally couldn’t withstand his temptation, and spent a night with him. Xiaoxiao, we’re all adults here; I can guess what you and Luo Haofeng did when alone together, two people who love each other.”

At the end of his speech, a coldness flashed in Meng Ke’s eyes and he slightly grit his teeth.

He must muster all his strength to control the raging jealousy in his heart, to avoid an immediate outbreak.

Even though Bai Xiaoxiao had asked to break up with him, he still didn’t want to frighten her now; he wanted to salvage the relationship.

He was fully aware that Bai Xiaoxiao would feel guilty listening to those words.

”It’s not what you think.”

After the shock, Bai Xiaoxiao quickly calmed herself.

Meng Ke squinted his eyes, suddenly stood up, and approached Bai Xiaoxiao.

Bai Xiaoxiao looked up, her gaze unintentionally carrying a hint of caution.

She hadn’t understood Meng Ke well enough before; at this moment, Bai Xiaoxiao felt a surge of complex emotions toward Meng Ke that couldn’t be expressed with words.