Failed Promise

She hoped that she was perfect, as perfect as her partner so that she could compliment him and not bring him down due to her own insecurities.

While she was busy thinking all this, Yang too was occupied thinking about how he can exact his revenge from her father without her knowing.

Because after noticing how gentle she was, he knew for sure that she would be upset if anything happened to that sperm donor.

Upon noticing the silence, he looked over to Shi and saw that she too was busy in her own thoughts, coughing slightly to draw her attention he gestured her to continue when he saw her looking at him with her thin eyebrows raised.

And so she resumed,

"Well, after that, I went to a psychiatrist for a brief period of time.''

''That's all?"

Yang asked, feeling as if something was amiss.

"Umm...yes"

Shi hastily replied as she slowly bit her pinkish lips.

Yang silently looked at her with his gaze dark, he speculated that she was hiding something from him, hence the question. But now he was sure that she was indeed hiding something.

He had been living with her plus the fact that he liked her he, of course, noticed her actions and the seemingly small gestures she makes at specific occasions.

And her biting her lips was a sure sign of her lying.

Exhaling loudly he looked at her silently as he composed the sentence he wanted to speak in his head before saying it out loud for he didn't wish to say something wrong and force this little kitten to crawl back into her shell,

And certainly not after the progress he had gained today.

''Shi, I know that you are still hiding something from me, and I am not forcing you to tell me and, I will never force you to do something you do not wish to but is it too much to ask for you to at least tell me the truth? If you don't want to tell me then simply say so but, please don't lie okay.''

Upon hearing Yang say all that, Shi felt as if thunder had struck her body as she cursed herself loudly in her brain.

'Dammit, Shi now you have gone ahead and pissed and angered the only man who genuinely cares for you. Well done.'

After finishing her inner monologue, she calmed down or rather tried to calm down before she asked him a question.

"Tell me Yang, what will you do if you find out that let's say our brother is suffering from a mental issue?"

For Yang, who had been in the business circle full of deceit for a long time, he was able to guess what she hiding from him from her roundabout words only.

Giving her one of his most gentle smiles he told her,

Well, if my brother was suffering from a mental disorder then I will take him to the best doctor in the world and no matter what people say about him I will continue to support him and be his wall against the rest of the world.

I certainly will never leave him alone and would also not get him admitted in one of those institutions for the mentally disabled.

I will keep him right by my side for the rest of my life at a place from where I could rush to his aid if anything ever happened to him or if he ever needed me.''

During the time Yang was speaking, Shi was a pool of tears as she cried her heart out.

For these were the exact sentences, she had heard from her Li family but, had never expected to hear them from a stranger like Yang with whom she had no official relationship,

'Maybe he too loves me...'

This was the first thought which came to her mind the moment she heard him but was quickly discarded as she felt that it was nothing but her wishful thinking.

At that thought, more of her tears came rushing out.

But the words he had just told her did warm her heart to a certain degree, which was in reality too big.

How could she had ever thought that a person could accept a partner with trauma issues?

Yang, who was calmly looking at her during this entire time, sighed as he wiped her tears away with his fingers.

As he accepted the fact that he was miserably failing at his promise to himself about not making her cry.