Comforting Lady Suying(**)

"And now, you want me to leave?" She said with a quivering voice, being on the verge of crying.

"How can you be so cruel?"

Ashen stood up, pulling her into his embrace as he consoled, patting the back of her head slowly.

"I... I didn't know." He spoke in a comforting voice. "I only made that offer because I felt that you'd want to leave. I thought I was forcing you."

Hearing that, she burst into tears and hugged him back.

"I only wanted to make up to you. I never wanted to chase you away."

"How could I, when you are beautiful enough to make me commit such a crime of forcing myself onto you?"

"I thought you hated and abhorred me. I only wanted to apologize and gain your forgiveness, nothing more."

"But now that I know how you feel, I can't turn a blind eye to it!"

"But..." Ashen paused, revealing a conflicted expression on his face as Suying stopped her weeping to look at him with teary eyes.