Empty Promises: The CEO Cunning Bride

 ***PRESENT***

Quietly creeping on them, the summer breeze had turned into fall winds.

Feng Huan sat across from Xiong Jingfei inside a café near their university. After Yin Ling, who was Feng Huan's mother in his last life had passed away, they didn't get another chance to talk. Their life became busy with school and finally finishing it off with their exam.

Their relationship will never go back to being like it used to be in the past, but at the very least they can sit down at one table together.

"I heard you're going to take some time off school?"

"I don't think I can keep school, my present life, and past life in balance." Xiong Jingfei made it come off as a joke, but she was dead serious about it. "But let's talk about the real reason why you called me here. You want to know what I plan to do next, right?" 

"I do." Feng Huan replied, he wanted to know what she plans to do next but wasn't ready to get involved.

"That-." Xiong Jingfei got cut off by an incoming phone call. She didn't hesitate to pick it up, "Hello?"

Feng Huan quietly sat there and waited for her to finish. He was sure that whoever was on the line was giving her good news. She couldn't hide the excitement on her face and her eyes were lighting up.

That phone call ended rather quickly, but Xiong Jingfei let out a happy sigh and stretched out her tired body. She felt another burden lifted off her shoulders. She finally replied to his question, "Before I tell you my plan, shouldn't you tell me what you want to do?"

['Do you want your revenge or let it all go?']

Feng Huan was hesitant to give her an answer because of Yin Ling dying words were engraved deeply in his heart. She wanted him to let everything from the past go and start fresh in this lifetime.

"Huan, I don't want to get you involved if you're not ready to get your hands dirty." Xiong Jingfei looked out the window, "Compared to me you are much softer at heart." She looked back at him and smiled, "While I am prepared to go to hell with them."

Feng Huan was at a loss as to why she was hell-bent to get back at them that she'll wager her life. From what he had picked up between Yin Yuan and Xiong Jingfei was that her relationship with Yang Zheyan didn't go the way it was supposed to go. He finally found the question he truly wanted to ask, "What did they do to you in the past that you'll go this far to get your revenge?"

Xiong Jingfei instantly stopped smiling and her eyes were filled with pure hatred. She gripped tightly onto her shirt as her eyes became watery.

"Huan?"

Just like that, Xiong Jingfei's eyes became dry, and her expression returned to normal.

"Huan, what are you doing here?" Zhao Fan asked, even though she could clearly see that he was having a conversation with his ex-girlfriend.

Zhao Fan's sudden appearance no longer surprised Xiong Jingfei. She didn't get named Feng Huan's ghost for nothing.

"Xia Guang, is that you?" Xiong Jingfei smiled and waved to the woman who stood closely behind Zhao Fan. "What are you doing standing behind her? I almost couldn't see you! If I didn't know any better, I would've thought you were trying to hide."

Xia Guang flinched, but she didn't want to make it obvious that she was afraid of Xiong Jingfei. She could still feel that pair of cold hands around her neck. She just knows that if Feng Huan wasn't there that day things would have gone badly for her. She would've reported it if only Xiong Jingfei didn't have the Yang family backing her! Why would Xiong Jingfei hate her when she hasn't done anything to her!? .

Sure, she may have given Zhao Fan that picture of her and Lu Weisheng at the mall, but she didn't give the picture of her wanting to kill Zhao Fan! Even if she gave it to the media to publish it, she would've ended up being the person who received the short end of that stick.

"Look at my little Guang wanting something that was never hers." Xiong Jingfei put both her hands on the table and sighed. "Well, do I get to hear another confession from you today?"

"What confession?" Zhao Fan glared at them. "What are the two of you talking about?"

"It's-."

"Nothing! It was a misunderstanding!" Xia Guang interjected; she didn't need Zhao Fan to go after her neck either.

If only things had worked out between Zhao Fan and Lu Weisheng, but somehow things still went wrong between the two of them. Zhao Fan was not good enough to capture the womanizer Lu Weisheng's heart!

Lately, Xia Guang felt as if she had aged ten years because of Zhao Fan! She has been extremely moody outside of the fact that she couldn't get in contact with Feng Huan. One moment Zhao Fan will be calm and the next she will be taking her anger out on her. If not for trying to climb up the social ladder she wouldn't bother to stick around. No one has time to deal with Zhao Fan's tantrum!

"Is that true?" Zhao Fan asked, she didn't completely believe in Xia Guang's answer. Anyone can tell that Xia Guang was lying by the way she is acting.

Is she asking me? Xiong Jingfei raised an eyebrow and sarcastically answered, "Sure."

Zhao Fan was annoyed by Xiong Jingfei's answer, but it wasn't like she was expecting an actual answer. As long as it was nothing that should be of concern to her, she could care less about it.

Instead, she tenderly put her hands on Feng Huan's right arm, "Huan, can you spare a moment of your time to let me explain myself?"

Feng Huan kept his silence, but of course, that wouldn't make Zhao Fan give up.

"Huan, please forgive me. All this time I've never made any mistake, so why can't you forgive me for this?" Zhao Fan's big tear dropped and stained Feng Huan's shirt. She knew that he was soft-hearted and would forgive her as long as she continued to beg him.. "Didn't you promise to my parents to take responsibility for me? Mn, I know you still love me."