CEO He : Please Don't Love Me

Chapter 196 - It Was Worth It

It was evening. The sun was about to set in an hour.

On the busy roads, the black car passed the other vehicles as the driver drove at a speed that was neither high nor low.

Mo Roulan was looking out of the car through the window when she suddenly noticed something and turned her head to look at the man sitting beside her.

He was busy doing his own work.

As Mo Roulan saw He Jian typing something on his laptop silent and with a serious face, she hesitated and thought whether she should disturb him or not.

"What happened? Do you need something?"

She was startled when she heard He Jian asking her suddenly.

"H…How?"

She couldn't help but mumble. He didn't raise his head even once. How did he even get to know that she wanted to talk to him about something?

"Well…Lanlan is staring at me constantly for so long. What happened?"

CEO He raised his head and asked Mo Roulan who immediately felt embarrassed for staring at He Jian like that.

To save herself from further embarrassment she hurriedly asked

"Mr. He…actually …The car doesn't seem to be going in our colony's direction. Are we going somewhere else?" 

He Jian didn't say anything for a moment and just stared at Mo Roulan before he finally nodded his head but still didn't say anything and went back to his own work.

Mo Roulan felt very confused by his behavior. 

But then she thought that perhaps He Jian needed to meet someone so they were going at that place and hence she should not intrude in his business.

So Mo Roulan suppressed the curiosity inside her heart and silently sat on her seat waiting for the car to reach her home after whatever business He Jian has gets completed.

As she thought about this, Mo Roulan felt a little happy.

Her new neighbor had invited her family to dinner tonight and it was only she who knew the time.

Did it mean that they would not be able to attend this dinner?

Somewhere Mo Roulan felt the relief occupying her heart. If it went her way then she would not have let her family live in the same building where those people lived. But she couldn't do any such thing now. After all, their house was already bought.

  As Mo Roulan thought all this, the car stopped finally and He Jian also started to close his laptop.

After putting it aside, he exited the car.

Mo Roulan thought that she was supposed to wait inside the car. However, she was surprised when a few moments later, the door on her side opened and a pair of long legs came into her sight.

"Lanlan…come out."

He Jian forwarded his hand in Mo Roulan direction as he asked her to come out.

Mo Roulan stared at the hand dumbly for a moment before she nodded her head without any reason and put her own hand in that large and warm hand.

The large hand enveloped her small hand completely and pulled her easily out of the car.

However, the strange thing was that He Jian didn't leave her hand when they were standing still…outside the car.

Mo Roulan swallowed nervously as she could feel the warmness of the hand around her own hand. She immediately pulled out her hand from He Jian's hold.

He Jian, on the other hand, who was still trying to feel the softness of the soft hand frowned when he saw Mo Roulan's actions.

'Why did she pull away?"

Mo Roulan could feel him staring at herself and swallowed nervously again. She tried to divert her attention by looking around and knitted her eyebrows instantly.

There was a large building in front of her but she didn't know why they were here …or why she was there.

She turned to look at He Jian and thought of asking him but she soon moved her eyes away when she saw that he was still looking at her with narrowed eyes as if asking her

'Why did you pull away your hand just now?'

Mo Roulan cleared her throat and made an attempt to change the topic

"Why are we here, Mr. He?"

The man, however, would not let go something that bothered him just like this. He obviously sensed her cleverness and asked immediately with narrowed eyes

"Why did you pull out your hand?"

Mo Roulan was speechless for a moment. She had not expected He Jian to ask her this question but since he had asked she would have to answer him.

She suddenly felt the sweat forming on her palms and a moment later, she answered the first answer that came to her mind.

"Didn't Mr. He have asked me to maintain a proper distance from the men? Y…yes I was just doing the same."

This time, it was He Jian's turn to go speechless.

Indeed he had asked her to maintain a proper distance from the opposite gender.   

But not from him…but he was also a man ….and he had asked her to do that only because he had thought about he…

He Jian breathed deeply as he tried not to think about his conflicted thoughts from that day.

He stiffly nodded his head as if acknowledging Mo Roulan's words and even praised her.

"Good…you did well."

But He Jian seemed to not mean his words inside his heart. 

A very small amount of bitterness suddenly surfaced in Mo Roulan's heart that she soon suppressed very easily…so easily that she never got to know that she felt bitter at He Jian's words.

"Didn't you say that you miss your friend?"

He Jian asked suddenly and Mo Roulan finally put her attention on something else.

She nodded her head in confusion at He Jian's question who smiled lightly and said gently

"We are here so that you can see her."

He Jian had especially called Shen Weisheng to ask that in which rehabilitation center he had admitted Shen Youlin.

And it didn't end only there.

Since it was a rehabilitation center under Fang Zhihan, the staff didn't feel suppressed by He Jian's status. So when He Jian's assistant tried to arrange a meeting for Mo Roulan and Shen Youlin, they refused.

Basically, it was because of Fang Zhihan who blackmailed him that he would allow his girl to meet her friend only if He Jian would invest in Fang industries again.

He Jian who had never been blackmailed like this in his whole life felt very angry. But in the ned, he had no choice but to complete Fang Zhihan's wish coldly.   

The surprise in those black-brown eyes made He Jian feel that it was all worth it.

If he could make Lanlan happy by bowing his head once then He Jian felt that it was worth it.