The Domineering Boss is Addicted to the Convict novel Chapter 133

"If you wish to put me on a pedestal and then let me fall, you don't have to go through so much trouble. I'm already miserable. I'm just a sanitation worker with little money to my name and I was kicked out of my house. Or do you want me to kneel before Hao Meiyu's grave and ask for forgiveness? Or do you want me to take my life, a life for a life..."

"Enough!" He interrupted her. "She would rather believe I did these things to avenge Hao Meiyu and not that the fact that I like spending time with her?" He then continued, "Listen to me. Hao Meiyu is not worth me doing such things. All you have to do is stay by my side."

As he spoke, he lowered his head to look at her hands that were clasped in his. "Although I've spent half a day rubbing her hands, they are still very cold.

"I know I lost my temper just now. It seems as if she can always trigger my emotions easily.

"The closer I am to her, the more my emotions are under her control. And yet, I can't help but get close to her."

"I think you should rest well tonight. Don't say such silly things in the future." Once Yi Jinli was done talking, he left the room.

Only Ling Yiran was left in the spacious patient ward.

Ling Yiran bowed her head and stared fixedly at her trembling hands. "Am I scared? I'm scared of Yi Jinli and afraid of what will happen to me.

"Surely it doesn't mean that it will be as he said; that I stay by his side? But... can I live through that? All the pain I endured in prison, my near-death experience in there, and those nightmarish three years were all because of him.

"Because of my past, my heart fills with fear and terror whenever I see him.

"Just now, when he was rubbing my hands, they couldn't be warmed because the moment his hands touched mine, it was as if my entire body was in an ice cellar. It was bone-piercingly cold.

"Why is Jin and Yi Jinli the same person? Why is he Jin, the one who I imagined that we could rely upon each other for life and even saw him as my salvation?