Flash Marriage: He is a Wife-pampering Addict

Chapter 1419: 1418 is not at one’s beck and call

Bai Yiyi was startled.

Gu Kai’s face suddenly turned grim as he turned towards her. In his frosty gaze, it was as though an invisible hand extended out, gripping her heart in an instant.

Her breath hitched, and in her ears came the sharp sound of tires scraping against the hard ground.

In the darkness of early dawn, the Maybach screeched to a halt.

Gu Kai’s piercing gaze locked onto Bai Yiyi’s eyes, which held a mix of surprise and faint panic within their icy clarity. He spoke coldly, word by word, “Bai Yiyi, I, Gu Kai, am not a man who comes and goes at your beck and call. I’m not someone you can decide to be with when convenient, and discard me whenever you please.”

Bai Yiyi’s face paled slightly.

Something flickered in her eyes as she pressed her lips together, trying to defend herself. “I never said that about you.”

She couldn’t understand why he would misunderstand her in this way.

But upon seeing the faint crimson hue in his eyes, her heart filled with sadness. She didn’t want him to suffer, didn’t want their time together to be consumed by endless struggles and contradictions, tortured by an unrelenting hatred that he couldn’t abandon.

Gu Kai’s tone was domineering and unyielding. “You said, as long as I don’t marry someone, you would stay in G City. I will always remember that, and you are not allowed to go back on your word.”

“Ah Kai, I truly just don’t want you to feel troubled.”

Tenderness and pain shimmered in Bai Yiyi’s gaze as she spoke. She could hear the struggle hidden behind his anger.

Gu Kai’s expression stiffened.

He turned his head, his gaze drifting into the night. “It’s not that I’m not prepared to face your mother. I just didn’t expect to see Fu Jingyi’s photo in your home.”

Listening to his words now devoid of anger, Bai Yiyi’s heart twisted sharply with pain. Without thinking, she reached out and grabbed Gu Kai’s arm.

Gu Kai turned back, his eyes meeting hers.

The next second, he leaned in closer, lowering his head…

“Yiyi.”

He spoke, his voice hoarse.

Bai Yiyi lowered her gaze, her heart racing.

It was still the countryside.

Darkness and silence enveloped the early hours before dawn. Even during the Spring Festival, there wasn’t a single vehicle passing by the road.

For a brief moment, Gu Kai’s thoughts were transparent.

Even with her head lowered, Bai Yiyi could distinctly feel them.

Suddenly, she looked up.

Her eyes met his dark, obsidian gaze.

Thinking back to his earlier anger, a wave of sharp pain tugged at her heart once more.

Pressing her lips tightly together, she softly explained, “Ah Kai, I’m sorry.”

Gu Kai was momentarily stunned.

Emotions surged deep within the shadows of his eyes. His large hand tightened its grip on hers, causing her slight discomfort.

“I don’t need your apology.”

Between them lay the grudges of the previous generation—Gu Kai knew this all too well.

That hatred had nothing to do with the young woman before him.

He had already been trying so hard to bridge the gulf between them. Yet at the sight of “Fu Jingyi,” the anger buried in his heart for over twenty years was inevitably stirred.

“I can’t… at least not right now.”

Bai Yiyi’s words were vague and fragmented.

Yet Gu Kai understood immediately.

His breathing faltered for a moment.

His eyes fixed intently on Bai Yiyi’s apologetic gaze.

He closed his eyes tightly, and when he reopened them, his voice was hoarse. “Is it because I can’t accept your mother?”

Bai Yiyi froze.

Then shook her head, “Ah Kai, no, it’s not about my mother.”

“Then why?”

Gu Kai’s narrowed eyes clearly reflected his domineering nature.

And the relentless intensity that even he was well aware of.

He didn’t know whether he was pushing himself or Bai Yiyi.

Having come this far, he refused to let them return to square one.

Although their earlier argument had ended, the wounds in his heart still felt raw—bleeding and vivid.