With a shrug of shoulders, he said, "I am sure you know that my father and Uncle Xie are business partners . My father inherited the business from his father but he wasn't great at managing it . Had Uncle Xie not pumped in the money into the business when he did, I think we would have gone under debt . Anyways, the two families interacted enough post they moved from Moganshan to Shanghai . I have seen Chu transform from a wild adolescent into an amazing young woman . She was always the hellion in this otherwise too polite family and I grew fond of her without even consciously realizing it . But I only got to know her as a person earlier this year when I was in New York for a couple of months . We spent some quality time together with her playing the tour and tasting guide for me . Her wicked innocence caught me off-guard, blew me away . By the time I returned to China, I was convinced that she was the one . There were talks going on about Tang and Mei Zhen . Hence I decided to broach the topic up post their wedding . I guess it's too late now!"
"I am confused here . I was under the impression that Chu has been seeing Ethan for some time now . Are you sure she didn't mention anything to you during your stay there?" she enquired .
"I had met him a couple of times in NY but I assumed him to be part of her office friends and never paid any attention to them," he said miserably .
"So what prompted you to come to Moganshan all the way? Actually you don't have to answer that . I just realised that I am being too nosy," she said with a self-conscious smile .
He gave a short bark of laugh, "within fifteen seconds of meeting you, that too only the second time in your life, I vomited out my innermost emotions to you . Then I insulted you by touching upon what seems to be the most sensitive nerve in your ecosystem . And you are worried about being intrusive?"
He continued, "to answer your question, I never got the time to speak with her post the wedding . There was something charged about the whole atmosphere of the wedding . I can't explain it and you may feel that I am exaggerating . But it was as if there was some sort of pressure building up . Tang was hardly the gallant groom . Though he is an introvert otherwise as well, but during the run up to his wedding, he seemed to have been carved out of stone . Not a single emotion leaked out of him . On the other hand, Mei Zhen and rest of the family were oozing out gallons of insecurities and uncertainty . It seemed hardly conducive to have such a conversation during that time . Chu also seemed mighty upset about something and was always hanging around with your friends, engaged in urgent whispered conversations every time I saw her . To everyone's relief, the wedding took place without any incident . Post Tang leaving for his honeymoon, I got to know that Chu had an argument with her parents and left the next day without anyone aware of her itinerary . It was only yesterday that I managed to track her whereabouts and reached here . Now you know it all . "
Chapter end
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