After rejecting my celebrity husband

Chapter 624 - 628: Gentleman Tang Ming [4]

"Effort?" Xu Pei scoffed coldly. "What’s the use? I worked so hard, studied earnestly, and strived to better myself, all in the hope that one day, I could return to Emperor View and, together with Zimo, create the Hollywood of the East, our own Dream Factory. How foolish I was. Years of effort, only to make a wedding dress for someone else!"

"Do you really intend to give up so easily?" Tang Ming asked.

Xu Pei listlessly sipped her porridge, "What else can I do?"

"Love isn’t everything in a person’s life. Don’t you have your own dreams aside from Leng Zimo?"

Dreams?

Xu Pei paused.

Ever since the Xu family’s incident, she lived her life in a daze. After that affair, her world became utterly bleak, until Leng Zimo used his protection to carve out a piece of the heavens for her world.

Leng Zimo became her dream.

What he desired was what she desired, what he aimed to achieve, was also what she wished to fulfill.

For years, all her efforts were for him, for the beautiful future and dream he wove for her.

Apart from him, what other dream could she have?!

"Don’t forget, you are not alone. You have me. I remember you once said you wanted to be a woman nobody could break. Have you forgotten?" Snatching the porridge bowl from her hand, Tang Ming steadied her arm, "Xu Pei, do you know, for all these years, you’ve been my idol. Sometimes, when I feel like I can’t keep going, seeing you still working hard, I tell myself, look, Xiao Pei is still pushing forward, what excuse do you have to slack off? Remember how you struggled in the United States? Back then, there was no Leng Zimo. Didn’t you feel fulfilled and happy?"

"It’s different!" Xu Pei shook her head gently, "Back then, although Leng Zimo wasn’t by my side, he was in my heart. Now, he’s gone, gone to someone else’s heart!"

"Xu Pei!" Tang Ming’s grasp on her arm suddenly tightened, "Snap out of it! You’re Xu Pei. Have you forgotten what we said together? We vowed to show everyone, even if we’re not in that large compound, not relying on our parents’ connections, we can still excel. We wanted to prove to everyone who ever looked down on us that we are unbreakable. Have you forgotten all those words?"

Raising her face, looking at the passionate expression on his face, Xu Pei hesitated, "I..."

"I won’t allow it, I won’t allow you to sink into this dejection!" Tang Ming looked at her sternly, "Have you forgotten how your father died, how your mother died? Don’t you want to seek justice for them?"

"Of course, I do, but..."

"No buts!" Tang Ming interrupted her, "Don’t forget our promise, Xu Pei. I want you to rally, to be as we once were, to continue on no matter how difficult it gets."

"Can I... can I really do it?" Xu Pei asked with uncertainty.

"Of course, you can because you’ve never been alone. Even if the whole world betrays you..." Tang Ming slowly embraced her, "I will always be here. I will help you, help you fulfill your dreams, all of them!"

"Tang Ming!" Leaning on Tang Ming’s chest, Xu Pei began to sob again, "Okay, I promise you, I promise you!"

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