At that moment, a shudder ran through her and she quickly nodded earnestly. “Sure, I promise you that I won’t ever drink alcohol at random again.”
“You’re worth someone much better.” There was a complicated look in Ren’s eyes as he looked at her. Ruka was at her least confident moment tonight and her unrequited love had ended up on a sad note, so evidently, she didn’t think that she was worthy of being loved.
She puffed her cheeks and spoke. with a self-defeated tone, “It’s fine even if no one loves me. I can provide myself with sufficient self-love and that’s enough for me.”
“Who told you that no one loves you?” He narrowed his eyes. Ruka lifted her head and asked him a question, “Who is it that loves me?”
“I love you very much.” His voice was slightly hoarse and there was a rarely seen tender expression on his cold face.
At that moment, Ruka’s mind turned blank. Did Mr. Ren misunderstand something? I mean romantic love between opposite genders, not the type of love from an elder! For a moment there, Ruka was in a slight dilemma, and she wondered if she needed to explain things to him.
However, Ruka was completely oblivious to the fact that the love he meant had nothing to do with the love of an elder. He meant romantic love between a man and a woman.
“Thanks for loving me.” Ruka smiled politely.
“Do you love me?” He asked her in return. Evidently, he wanted an answer from her. regarding this topic of love.
Ruka responded practically instantly without any hesitation, ‘Of course I do! Everyone loves you! Do you know that there are many girls out there infatuated with you to the point of extreme! They would give anything at all to marry you!” Ruka said this with an expression full of admiration..
“Do you wish to marry me too?” He focused on her final sentence and questioned her once again.
“I would of course wish to….” Before she could finish her words, she placed a hand over her mouth hastily. Her pretty eyes widened and she shook her head hard before removing her hand over her mouth as she apologized, ‘I’m sorry, Mr. Ren. I nearly said the wrong thing. I definitely would not be able to marry you.”
At that point, Ren’s thin lips were tightly pursed and his brows were tightly furrowed. He suddenly increased his force as he turned the page of the book, and he nearly ripped the paper from the book.
Ruka was startled and looked at the book in his hand as she wondered why he suddenly used so much force to flip the page.
“Go and get some rest.” He kept his eyes on the book while voicing out, “Take the third bedroom on the left of the second floor.”
Meanwhile, Ruka felt slightly lost. Did I say something wrong? It feels like he’s unhappy.
Ruka got up and headed upstairs, but she realized that he had put down his book and got up too. Out of courtesy, she stopped by the staircase and waited for him. He lifted his head to see that she was still standing by the staircase, so he gradually made his way, step by step, to her side before speaking up in a slightly hoarse voice, “Go to your room.”
