The Domineering Boss is Addicted to the Convict novel Chapter 135

"So what if that's so? As long as I wish it, I can make her comparable to any noteable lady in the city!" Yi Jinli retorted.

"Don't forget how your father died!" Master Yi spat through ground teeth.

Yi Jinli's gaze darkened. "I haven't forgotten. Even if I truly want to be with her, it doesn't mean that I will give her my life. I'm not my father. I won't die or live for a woman, let alone be controlled by a woman!"

"I'm always the one in control!"

Master Yi huffed coolly. "You came to see me today just to say that?"

"No," Yi Jinli replied. "I want you to stay away from her!"

Master Yi narrowed his eyes but kept a straight face as he angrily asked, "What do you mean by that? Are you threatening your grandfather? Can it be that this old man isn't as important as a woman?"

"Grandpa, I'm just telling you. It's not a threat," Yi Jinli said with a light chuckle. "I told you to stay away from her. No matter the relationship between me and her, you are to stay away from her. Of course, I don't know how I would react if you laid a finger on her. Why don't you try?"

Master Yi's expression changed subtly and in an instant, he felt a trembling fear.

"This is the heir I've cultivated. He has grown up as I had expected and maybe beyond that but he's also... increasingly uncontrollable!"

"What do you like about Ling Yiran?" He could not help asking. "There are so many young ladies of note in Shen City. Plenty of them have both beauty and brains, coming from innocent family backgrounds while some are multi-talented, and yet you only have eyes for a woman who has been to prison."

"Maybe because she's a little stupid," Yi Jinli muttered.

Master Yi stared at the door as it opened and closed, a complicated expression on his face as if deep in thought.

When Yi Jinli returned to the patient ward, Ling Yiran had already fallen asleep. He walked to her bedside but did not switch on the light. He borrowed the moonlight shining through the window to study her sleeping face.

There were still obvious tearstains on her face. He raised a hand and gently stroked her cheek. "Did she cry when I left?

"How many tears did she shed? She's not someone who loves to cry. She's so calm when facing me as if she could only resign to her hardships and yet, she cried when her back is turned.

"What did she cry over? Was she crying over the fact that I lied to her? Or was she crying because I'm Yi Jinli? Or perhaps..."

"Ling Yiran..." Yi Jinli mumbled. "Since you've made me fall for you, then you should stay by my side, right?"