The King of Urban Mercenaries
Chapter 208 - 208 208 Wearing Mourning Clothes for 18 Years Suddenly Dispersed!

208: Chapter 208: Wearing Mourning Clothes for 18 Years, Suddenly Dispersed!

208: Chapter 208: Wearing Mourning Clothes for 18 Years, Suddenly Dispersed!

Moongaze Building, seventeenth floor.

Seated behind her office desk, although Shen Peini had been working, she had finally finished her tasks at hand.

She stood up from her large office desk, walked gracefully but slowly towards Lin Fei, who had been waiting for her for a long time.

She had known Lin Fei for more than a day or two.

She understood his disposition quite deeply.

In the past, every time he saw her, his eyes never knew restraint.

However, today, Lin Fei, who suddenly turned up in her office, was unusually honest with both his eyes and his words.

Shen Peini did not like the honesty of Lin Fei.

A man is not bad, a woman does not love.

Shen Peini had gotten used to Lin Fei’s dishonesty, and in some way, she enjoyed his mischief.

But now, Lin Fei had suddenly turned honest, which made her very anxious.

To keep herself from panicking, Shen Peini

In each other’s eyes, there was a vivid exchange of emotions.

It was hard to say how much time had passed, it could have been very long or perhaps just a short moment.

Although it was a murmur, Lin Fei still detected a few traces of relief in the woman’s voice that were hard to notice.

Obviously, Lin Fei’s previous honest and silent emotional state had put quite some psychological pressure on Shen Peini.

She, elegant and intelligent, was ultimately a woman.

In the face of love, she could be fragile, she could hesitate.

She also felt fear when the attitude of the man she admired was unclear.

“So what about now?”

“Why, are you unwilling?”

“It’s not that I’m unwilling, but, shouldn’t you tell me first what you discussed with my aunt?”

As the CEO of Moongaze, Shen Peini felt the same.

“Do you want to know what your aunt and I discussed?”

“I don’t.”

“Why?”

“Because, your eyes tell me that it won’t be good news for me.”

“You love your aunt very much, don’t you?”

“I used to love my aunt the most.

Now, the person I love the most is you.”

Lin Fei was taken aback.

Originally, he thought of using this topic to make Shen Peini, this enchanting woman,

And today, finally finding such an opportunity to be alone with her, Lin Fei naturally wanted to achieve what he had been longing for.

However, he never expected that Shen Peini, this woman, would take this opportunity to confess her deep feelings for him.

“So how would you explain this mourning flower?”

Out of nowhere, Lin Fei had a simple white flower in his hand.

For ordinary people, it would seem just a usual hair flower.

However, Lin Fei, who had learned about Shen Peini’s past from Shen Fanghua, knew clearly this was not just any flower, but the mourning flower Shen Peini wore for her brother who died saving her!

Seeing the mourning flower being taken off her head by Lin Fei, the one she wore for her deceased brother, Shen Peini was completely stunned.

Just from seeing Shen Peini’s expression, Lin Fei knew that everything Shen Fanghua told him about Shen Peini and her deceased brother was true.

“If you had to choose between me and this mourning flower, who would you choose?” When he asked this question, Lin Fei felt a rare surge of nervousness.

It wasn’t that Lin Fei lacked mental strength.

On the contrary, having been toughened by several years on mercenary battlefields abroad, Lin Fei’s mind had become as solid as rock.

Very few things could affect his emotions now.

But, the delicate-looking mourning flower in his hand made Lin Fei somewhat nervous.

Because, Shen Peini had been wearing this mourning flower for eighteen years!

Simply put, Shen Peini had been mourning her brother for eighteen years!

Not eighteen days, not eighteen months, but a full eighteen years!

Lin Fei was very sure of Shen Peini’s affection for him.

He was fully confident that Shen Peini loved him, was willing to give up her career for him, willing to abandon her current life, just to be his, Lin Fei’s, woman.

But Lin Fei was not confident that, after he destroyed this mourning flower, Shen Peini would still love him the same way.

He did not want to lose Shen Peini because he had already gotten used to having Shen Peini in his life, her charm, her tenderness.

Because of habit, he was nervous.

Lin Fei didn’t want to pressure Shen Peini.

He did not want to see her distressed because of him, but this time, he had to force her.

Because he couldn’t bear to see Shen Peini wearing this mourning flower for a lifetime.

Because, if so, it would mean that in Shen Peini’s heart, she had never let go of that guilt.

Living with a feeling of guilt was not what Lin Fei wanted for Shen Peini.

“No, I don’t want to choose…

don’t make me choose…” Shen Peini’s eyes, always seemingly endlessly charming and seductive, were suddenly misty with tears.

“You have to choose!

Today you’re destined to lose one, either me or this mourning flower!”

Before today, Shen Peini had always brought Lin Fei unrestrained, mature charm.

Lin Fei had never seen Shen Peini so overwhelmed with tears, so vulnerable.

If possible, Lin Fei really wanted to embrace her, to provide warmth and comfort, to calm her, to keep her from sorrow.

But, Lin Fei couldn’t; he had to be firm.

“Your brother’s death was not your fault.

In that situation, any brother would choose to save his sister.

Your brother made the right choice because he was a man, because you are his sister.

If he were alive, he would never want to see you wearing mourning for him.”

Despite Shen Fanghua’s numerous attempts over eighteen years to persuade Shen Peini to remove the mourning flower and let go of her deepest guilt,

Lin Fei’s words, although striking Shen Peini’s heart directly, were still not enough to make her decisively give up the mourning flower she had worn for eighteen years.

Regarding this, from the hesitant and tear-filled eyes of Shen Peini, Lin Fei could tell.

“Since you won’t choose, then let me choose for you!”