CEO He : Please Don't Love Me

The sun rose in City H brightening it slowly.

The alarm clock placed beside Mo Roulan rang loudly. Just like every day, a hand reached out from the blanket to switch it off.

A moment later, Mo Roulan opened her eyes with a smile on her lips and got up from the bed. However, when she was about to stand up, her legs froze suddenly seeing the scene in front of her.

"What is happening? Am I still asleep and having a dream?"

She sat down on the bed and rubbed her eyes vigorously.

Shen Youlin rolled her eyes at her words and turned over the page of the book in her hands. However, the next moment she turned to look at Mo Roulan with a smile and said

"I will be very happy if you have me in your dreams."

Then she turned to look at her book again.

All the mischievousness from her eyes was gone as she read everything seriously.

Mo Roulan suddenly felt like a mother who had got her whole world seeing her child studying so seriously.

She even stood up from the bed and walked towards Shen Youlin who was sitting on the study table.

She patted Shen Youlin's head softly and said

"I am so proud of you."

She even wiped her fake tears from the corner of her eyes. 

Shen Youlin was startled by her actions even Mo Roulan was, in her heart.

This side of hers, even she had never seen it. But she smiled soon.

Perhaps it was something that was only brought out by close friends…best friends.

She was really happy inside her heart when she concluded this.

She patted Shen Youlin again and praised her earnestly. With a peaceful smile, she walked towards the bathroom to get fresh and start a new day.

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"Mom"

Cheng Yang whispered as he looked at his mother who seemed to be lost somewhere.

Mrs. Cheng looked down at her son whose head was placed in her lap. She smiled a little which didn't reach her eyes and stroked his hair.

Cheng Yang could see that her eyes were teary.

He held his mother's hand and whispered

"Were you thinking about dad?"

Mrs. Cheng stiffened for a moment and then nodded her head slowly.

Cheng Yang gulped seeing this and asked while staring at the ceiling.

"You really don't blame me."

Cheng Yang really didn't understand why his mother didn't scold him. According to him, his mother should have hit him, scold him and never talk to him again.

Even if she would throw him out of the Cheng family mansion he would not have anything against her.

How could he?

In his eyes, he deserved all of it. In fact, it eased his heart to see that he was getting what he deserved.

"How can I blame you, my son, when you don't have any fault?"

Mrs. Cheng caressed his head with another hand.

"It should not be you who should be scared, instead, it's me. After all, ….your dad died because of me."

  Mrs. Cheng's hand trembled as she confessed and Cheng Yang could feel this. He raised his head to look at his mother and saw a tear slipping out from her eyes.

"Mom…"

But Mrs. Cheng stopped him.

"Ssshhh… Cheng Yang let me say it, today. I don't want you to blame yourself for something you never did."

Seeing his mother's firm eyes, Cheng Yang sighed and lied down in the end.

"Four months ago before your dad's death, I have got a huge project. It was a very impressive project and very beneficial for Cheng family company. However, it was also a very risky project because many other companies wanted this project.

Especially You family's company. I had heard from many people that Mr. You was preparing for this project for many months. He was determined to win this project and take his company to new heights with this opportunity. However, he couldn't do so because it was our company that got the project.

The foreign investors were very impressed by my presentation so they signed the contract on the same day with our company.

Mr. You was very furious. I could see that. When I came out, he even threatened me indirectly in front for everyone to leave the project."

Cheng yang's lips were pressed in a thin line as he heard his mother.

As he imagined someone threatening his mother, his blank eyes flickered with coldness. 

"However, I didn't pay attention to his threats. I went ahead with the project. Three months passed peacefully. Nothing happened in those three months. The building that we have to build was about to get completed. However,….one day it collapsed suddenly."

Mrs. Cheng's face was pale as if she was watching the scene of building collapsing in front of her eyes at that moment.

Cheng Yang held his mother's hand tightly but he didn't stop her.

How come he knew nothing about this matter?

Now, he really wanted to hear whatever his mother had to say. Somehow it felt like everything was really related to his father's death and his mother was not only comforting him with lies.

"Since the building was already complete there were not people working inside except …one. It was a man of around forty years old. He had gone to clean the building with other workers but didn't come out with them.

I also have thought that it was only the building which had collapsed and was relieved that no one died until his body was found."

Mrs. Cheng gulped a large lump in her throat but couldn't stop her tears.

"He was in a very bad condition. His head had split apart and his face was almost unrecognizable. His family members were very furious when I went there with your dad….especially his younger brother.

He pounced on me and tried to strangle me but your dad easily moved him away. Your dad was very angry, he didn't think of anything and started to beat the man. I stopped him and took him away with very difficulty.

But as soon as I got out of the construction site with your dad, I got a call from an unknown number."

'I have nicely asked you to leave the project but you didn't listen to me. Now Mrs. Cheng, see what happened because of your stubbornness.'     

"The man on the other side had said."

Mrs. Cheng whispered as she remembered the scary night. She was so afraid after being attacked and the phone call had shaken her heart with fear.

"It was that b***d, who threatened you, right?"

Cheng Yang asked with gritted teeth.

Mrs. Cheng licked her lips and said

"I also had thought the same thing at that time. But your father and I didn't find any evidence against him so we could only shoulder the blame silently and compensate the family of the man who died.

The man's family had agreed with that method except for the man who had pounced on me before. Even when I went to his house that day to apologize, he looked at me with so much hatred that I had to hold your father's hand continuously to get brave enough and apologize. "

"He didn't accept my apology but I still gave them compensation."

"Ten days later, I was still in the meeting when I got the news of your father's accident. I rushed to the hospital. Before I could enter that man….his younger brother…

Mrs. Cheng breathed deeply and whispered

"he was standing outside the hospital. His eyes had a craziness in them. He came closer to me and said in my ear.

'You can start crying because I have made sure….. that your husband …..will never breathe again.'  "

Mrs. Cheng covered her eyes and cried.

"When I reached outside your father's room, the doctor told me that….he…."

The next few words were not needed.

Cheng Yang's whole body was frozen and stiff as he heard everything.

He stiffly got up from his mother's lap and hugged her in his arms.

"I killed your father, Cheng Yang….I killed your father…I should have left that project…then he would have been …here…. with us today."

Mrs. Cheng said while crying continuously.

Cheng Yang's eyes were red with anger and pain. He hugged her mother tightly and patted her back.

"Mom…It was not your fault. Believe me….father will never blame you. He loved you so much….he can't see you like this."

While saying everything, even his voice trembled in between. He also wanted to cry but he suppressed his tears.

Cheng Yang knew that he had cried enough.

His mother had tolerated so much. The company must have been in a bad condition after everything.

Just how was she managing everything…especially when his father was also not here?

"Take care of your mother."

His father had said to him.

He would do that.

With that, he would also find those b****ds who ruined his small family.

It was a promise, he was making to himself.