Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu-Chapter 1036: Apology was never the point

Alix peeked outside and found reporters swarming everywhere. She let out a string of curses and felt their curiosity too prying but neither could she blame their excitement. Liu Hai's announcement had caused a storm in the media where he had practically proposed on Jin's behalf. Now it all depended on Alix to give her answer.

She pulled down her hood and quietly left, trying to mingle in the crowd as a passerby. But she soon felt a strong gaze from one of the reporters who was following her closely.

Shit.

She picked up pace and walked faster, which made the reporter follow her too. As she was about to be caught, a hand grabbed her arm and pulled her inside a room.

Ah? Where is she? She was definitely Ren Alix, right?

The reporter looked around confused but eventually left with dropped shoulders.

Back inside the room, Alix breathed out in relief.

"Thanks, whoever you are-oh."

Alix raised her brow. "Miss. Wang."

Wang Ningli smiled. "I am sorry for pulling you like that but I figured you were avoiding the media."

"Like plague. But why does it seem like you are avoiding them too? Shouldn't you be basking in the popularity?"

"Like I said when we met before, Miss. Ren. I didn't want popularity but an apology."

"And did you get it?"

Wang Ningli smiled again, this time her smile spreading wider on her lips. She showed a clip on her phone.

"I asked one of the reporters to send me this."

Alix took a glance and saw how Wang Yi was following her everywhere with his mask dropped. His revealed identity caused even more of a storm that became only more difficult for his father, Wang Tianhui, to handle.

'Ningli! Ningli!'

Like a brainless addict, he followed her everywhere and kept praising her beauty in hopes to get her attention but only received a cold shoulder from her in response.

'You never respected me. You openly cheated on me and now you suddenly see my worth?'

'T-That was a one time mistake, Ningli! But it's true that I only love you. Please forgive me!'

'You bitch, you did it on purpose! You ruined my day to humiliate me!'

Wang Xia launched a flurry of verbal abuses and attacks on her that were recorded on camera. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com

'Xia, what are you doing!? How dare you be so violent against your sister-in-law!'

Alix was thoroughly entertained with the family drama where Wang Tianhui had to practically stop his children from pulling each other's hair out.

"So are you satisfied now?"

"I didn't know it was that easy by just dolling myself up," she grimaced. "Honestly, I had expected more arrogance from Yi, but he was quick to apologize. I am not sure if I feel…"

"Satisfied?" She chuckled. "You will soon be. He apologized so easily because he is only thinking from his dick."

Wang Ningli choked with her sentence phrasing.

"He is suddenly seeing you in a new light today and he definitely thinks that he has gotten lucky tonight. That's all he cares about. A beautiful woman to fuck. Even the mere possibility of you throwing divorce papers on his face is not crossing his mind at all."

Her lips parted in an O.

"But when you do that, then he will realize the seriousness. Not the seriousness of his affair. Don't expect that remorse from his non-existent brain cells. He will realize that you are not kidding about leaving him and his young master self won't be able to take that.

That is the expression you are waiting for. Apologizing for people like him is actually very easy if it gets them what they want. If saying sorry will get you in bed with him, he will gladly do it. But leaving him for good? It's that fall of his ego that he won't be able to bear."

Wang Ningli was thoughtful.

"That's why the first time you asked me why I wanted his apology. You looked like you were mocking me."

She smiled. "You just didn't think that far ahead. A sorry would have hardly mended your shattered self-respect. I will still give you some points though."

Wang Ningli gently held her hands with her trembling fingers. A tear rolled down her cheek.

"Thank you…" she whispered, "Thank you so much. I couldn't have done it without you. I…don't know what else to say…"

Alix stared at the gratitude in her gaze that made an uncomfortable feeling rise in her chest.

"Don't thank me. I did nothing. My plan depended on you so had you been stubborn in not accepting it, everything would have fallen flat. Though I would say that you need not have gone through this hassle of the fashion show. You don't have to prove your worth to anybody to throw divorce papers on a loser's face."

She smiled through her tears. "Yes, I understand that now. I am so glad I met you and Mr. Liu. I am very happy for you two."

Alix stiffened.

"There is no reason to be happy for us. It's just a big misunderstanding."

"...I don't think so."

"Yes, it is. His grandfather has grossly misunderstood our relationship. We were just working together for this spell, that's all. I was basically using him for my own purposes and he is also very frustrated with me but it's good news for him that my bugging is over and we can go back to our own worlds," she explained all in one breath like an unstoppable train.

Wang Ningli slightly widened her eyes.

"It seems…you are very adamant to not accept it."

"Accept what?" She lightly tapped her fingers in impatience.

"That Mr. Liu genuinely does seem interested in you. I just…" she scratched her chin, "got that feeling when you were walking together on the runway. His eyes were only on you and it felt like he couldn't see anyone else but you. When I saw that, I just very naturally felt it was love. It couldn't be anything but that, Miss. Ren."