Ten Years of Yearning. My Love, Let Me Protect You.

Zhao Yichen didn\'t make any sound as he silently and swiftly walked behind her. Being so close to other men, Luo Lixi wasn\'t used to this even though it was her former bodyguard. 

However, before she could move away, Zhao Yichen opened the door of the VIP room and gently pushed her inside. Right after, he closed the door and stood guard beside it. 

Luo Lixi was flustered by his sudden behaviour. When she glanced inside, she was taken aback. Luo Qintian, who was supposed to be laying down on the bed, was in a lotus position, staring at her. 

If he didn\'t have the IV drips and oxygen mask on his body, Luo Lixi would have doubted that the sickness of his was a made-up story, to let her marry. 

"Grandfather…" Luo Lixi whispered and didn\'t dare to look in the man\'s eyes after recalling that he knew, he knew all. Back then, she insisted on marrying Sheng Ruming. Not that she regretted and would never but she felt greatly ashamed in front of the old man. 

The thing that her man let her down in front of her family made Luo Lixi feel extreme despair. And she wasn\'t ready to hear all her thoughts in the form of words coming out of her grandfather\'s lips. It would be too devastating and humiliating...she wouldn\'t be able to look in his eyes. 

She hated the fact that her choice got proven wrong!

"Come here." Luo Qintian squinted his eyes as he glanced at the girl. He chuckled but the tone was filled with hidden anger. "Cough! You did nothing wrong, come here."

Luo Lixi slowly lifted her eyes and walked up to him. She stood beside him and clenched her dress tightly inside her fisted palms. After a while, she tried to ask, "Grandfather, how are you?"

"Why didn\'t you tell me? As your guardian, I was supposed to know before all people." Luo Qintian was mad but tried to suppress as he talked. 

"I was worried for you." Luo Lixi whispered bitterly. 

"...So, you didn\'t tell me for this reason. Did you think I felt good when I had to learn it from another man?" Luo Qintian\'s wrinkled face was stern when he asked that. Even though he was sick, he didn\'t lose his overbearing manner. 

"I...I…" Luo Lixi was lost as she couldn\'t find anything to say. Luo Qintian harrumphed when he saw this side of her. He couldn\'t hide his disappointment and shouted, "Kneel down!" 

Luo Lixi did as she was told. She lifted her dress and put off her shoes and kneeled on the cold ground. Afterwards, she stared at the ground and refused to look up. "I am sorry. Forgive me, grandfather."

The man sighed as he couldn\'t get himself to turn mad at the girl. He softened his voice at her downcast mood and stared at her. "Is the floor so interesting that you can\'t lift your face to see this old man?"

Luo Lixi hurriedly lifted her face and looked ahead as she said in haste, "No, no!"

"Girl, be good and tell me all. Don\'t even hide anything from me? If I want, I can make that brat doubt his life several times … Cough!... But what to do… when my own granddaughter is obsessed with him?!" Luo Qintian murmured in disappointment but she heard all the words clearly. 

Luo Lixi pondered for a moment. At that point, there was no use to conceal anything. Even though she didn\'t want to recall that woman, Luo Lixi explained everything to the old man except her accident. 

The more he heard, the more infuriated Luo Qintian became. Slowly, Luo Lixi\'s voice quieted down because of his visible anger. The old man took the oxygen mask and breathed deeply and hurriedly. 

Then, he looked down on her sharply and muttered out with hidden emotions, "Even though I don\'t want to say, you have disgraced my Luo family. Not to say, it hasn\'t even passed a month since you got married and he already has a mistress?!"

Silence. Luo Lixi didn\'t have anything else to refute. 

"The men of that damn Sheng family are really bastards… Right, Girl, did he treat you well after you went there?" The old man was worried that his granddaughter got poor treatment in that damn Ming city. 

"Yes…" Luo Lixi whispered as she nodded and tightly closed her eyes. At that moment, she wished to vanish away from earth. 

"Don\'t lie to defend him! Do you think I don\'t know your nature?!" The old man got angry. 

"I am not lying. He... he really didn\'t treat me badly." Luo Lixi hurriedly spoke out. Luo Qintian humphed as he glanced at her panicky eyes. After knowing what Sheng Ruming had done to her for a moment, he had the urge to let out some dark secrets. 

The old man turned around and tapped on a button on the bedside. Right after, the door opened and Zhao Yichen entered. He didn\'t look Luo Lixi straight in the eyes because, in his heart, he had a single thought, \'I betrayed her.\' 

"Give her those pictures." Luo Qintian commanded icily. Zhao Yichen nodded and then walked up to a table at one corner of the room. Then he came in front of Luo Lixi and handed her the box. 

"Grandfather, this…" Luo Lixi murmured in confusion as she opened the box. In there lay many pictures of men where Zhao Yichen, Leng Zichun were included. 

After Luo Lixi took them out, she found ten pictures of men who had extraordinary backgrounds in the Ming city and were somewhat related to the Luo Corporation. 

Luo Lixi felt her heart dropping as she slowly lifted her face and called out pitifully, "Grandfather… You, I am already married." 

"In today\'s age, separating is normal and no longer seen as a disgracing matter. You are my only descendant and have all things one can imagine." 

Luo Qintian said as he looked elsewhere and avoided her flustered eyes as he continued, "Don\'t be stubborn. I am not asking you to divorce him now. If you divorce right after marrying, it will affect you and the company\'s reputation." 

"I can\'t…" Luo Lixi said out loud. 

"What?! Even now, you are reluctant to do it when he has cheated on you?!… Cough! Cough!" Because of his rage and stressed words, the old man coughed violently. Luo Lixi wanted to stand up but someone beat her to it. 

Zhao Yichen went ahead and patted the old man\'s back as he handed him the oxygen mask. 

Even though Luo Lixi wanted to say \'No matter what happens, I won\'t leave him.\' but looking at her grandfather\'s poor condition, she couldn\'t muster up the courage. In the end, she pondered something and whispered, "Grandfather, we have signed a paper abroad and can no longer divorce each other…"

Before Luo Lixi could finish, the old man lifted his hand and motioned her to stop talking. To him, all her actions seemed like excuses. He glanced at her and removed his mask for a moment. 

"Zhao Yichen will handle all of this. Promise me, Xixi. The day he brings his child into the family, you will divorce him and marry one of my choices." Luo Qintian pressed on with a hurt expression. 

Luo Lixi paused as she glanced at the pictures. Her mind violently refused to even look at those things, not to say marry one. Thus, she looked ahead and stared at him without wavering, "I refuse!"

"Say that again!" Luo Qintian\'s face changed as he yelled. 

"I said… I refuse. Even if he has a child outside, I believe he won\'t disgrace me by bringing it home." Luo Lixi tried to sound confident as the words flew out.

"Cough! Dumb girl! Can\'t you think with your brain instead of with your heart?! Which family allows one\'s firstborn to be illegitimate?! Not to say, there is still that bastard Sheng Haotin!" Luo Qintian patted his chest as he ranted with an angry face. 

Luo Lixi closed her eyes tightly and pressed her lips, refusing to say anything. 

"Xixi… Don\'t test my patience. That man is in my territory now. Nobody will know if he suddenly goes missing." The old man whispered with dark eyes, trying to scare his granddaughter. 

Luo Lixi opened her eyes with a start and stared at him as she said clearly, "Even then… I refuse… Also, I believe that you won\'t do such a thing."

\'My little child, you are too innocent to think like that…\' Luo Qintian thought angrily as he turned to lay on the bed. Afterwards, he ordered her heartlessly, "Stay kneeled on the ground until your eyes get clear! When you are ready to give me a promise, get up!"

Luo Lixi heard him and refused to budge. Thus, for a long time, she ended up kneeling on the ground. Luo Qintian was stubborn too. For a moment, he had the urge to grab his cane and beat her until she succumbed.