She felt a wave of dizziness as she was shoved to the front railings .

With a hand on her waist and another on the railing, the man trapped her right before him .

“I"ll give you a chance to retract your statement!”

He lowered his gaze on her and coldly demanded, “Retract that statement now!”

“Retract?” Her face paled . With her lips curling downward, she retorted, “All right . Which statement do you want me to retract?”

“That one about you refusing to like me anymore . ”

The corners of her mouth plummeted further at that . She averted her gaze from him and schooled her face into an impa.s.sive and cold look .

She remained mum for a long time .

Her silence frustrated him endlessly . As his eyes filled with hidden tears, his hand clasping her shoulder inadvertently tightened .

“Say it!”

Her vision was never once on him . She tried to speak a few times, but her throat was too dry .

“Say it!”

He had lost some of his patience .

This woman was indeed out to infuriate him .

He stared at her cold face while he repeatedly repressed his rage, which was on the verge of exploding .

“Is it so hard to retract that statement?!”

He glared at her fiercely, then gripped her jaw to make her face him, and carefully enunciated, “Yun Shishi, keep this in mind: you are forbidden from leaving me . ”

“Just what do you mean by that?!” she snarled . “Mu Yazhe, you want me to be your kept woman – a canary in your cage?”

“You"re my woman – not a canary!” He arrogantly corrected her while he kept his gaze on her . “You don"t need to use those words to put me off!”

“That"s right . Women . You can have a lot of them!”

Although her heart was pounding in pain, she fought to maintain a calm face . She nonchalantly added, “Just like this, I"m not your only one . ”

“You are!”

How could this woman continue her one-sided conversation?

He did not have any other woman but her .

With a heavy face, he said, “You"re my only one . ”

She looked at him in shock yet managed to question him calmly . “What can you use to prove it?”

“You want me to give you a legitimate t.i.tle . ”

It was a rhetorical question .

Indubitably .

She did not speak but tacitly agreed .

The cold wind blew across the observation deck .

The evening breeze from the lake was bone-chillingly wet .

She backed up against the railings .

Despite his control, his grip on her shoulder was still hard enough to elicit a dull pain from her .

Her face was unchangingly still .

Those black orbs of his focused on her fully . “Is a piece of paper so valuable to you?”

Did this woman trust this paper more than him?

She looked up at him in shock .

In this man"s heart, was the marriage certificate a mere piece of paper?

He, at her silence, continued . “Compared to that piece of paper, am I really unworthy of your trust?”

She laughed hollowly at that and then countered, “You can"t even give me a piece of paper, so tell me how I can trust you?”

This piece of paper was sacred to her and was worthy of her respect .

Alas, something so important to her was deemed by him as worthless .

He inclined his head to ask in a deep voice, “Your trust seems to be flimsy if it"s just reliant on a piece of paper! What can that even guarantee to you?!”