Trial Of Love Chapter 326 - Underground World

After Elizabeth had her wounds check, instead of returning to Imperial Garden Plaza. She went straight to Knights Park... 

As she was heading to her apartment, she was startled and perplexed to see the man waiting by her door. "Jay... President Stanford, what are you doing here?"

When Jayden Stanford heard the familiar voice he'd been waiting for. His face turned so pale as if he was seeing a ghost right in front of him. He bloated towards the girl and embraced her tightly without giving the girl a room to escape. 

"President Stanford, what do you think you're doing?" 

"Please, please tell me it's not true?" Jayden Stanford spoke with such despair in his voice.

"What are you talking about? And, and can you let me go." Elizabeth became all irritated as she wiggled his way out of the man's embrace. 

"Liz, Liz please, please tell me it's not true. Please tell me the engagement is fake?" Jayden Stanford force asked as he tightened his hold on the girl. 

Elizabeth felt like she was being suffocated. She thought that the man would not release her if she tells him the engagement is true. "If it's true, what will you do?" 

"Then, then, then I have no choice but to fight the Feng for you. I'll use all my power to take them down. I'll make sure he's not a man worthy of you." Jayden Stanford answered as he pushed the girl away from him to face him whilst both of his hand gripping tightly on the girl's arms. 

"Jay, President Stanford, do you really think I care about his status? I mean, who is Shen compare to Xiaotong." Elizabeth sternly replied with a serious yet mocking manner. He pushed both the man's hand aside and stood her ground in front of him. All those times, she belittles herself for him. She was even to do all sorts of stuff with him just because of love. Despite all the suffering, her heart still beats for the man but her mind speaks differently. 

"Please, do you think once he became penniless I won't marry him. Come on, Jay, do you really think so little of me. Who am I to even seek the wealth of the Feng. Who are the Feng compare to the Zhao? What's more, who are you compared to the Knightley?"

Jayden Stanford was dumbfounded with the girl's manners towards him. It was the first time she spoke and acted in such a cold way towards him. She was like the spring sunshine before but now was the arctic winter. Her words were like venomous snakes about to take a bite at him and kill him. "Liz, why are you being like this?"

"What do you mean?" Elizabeth was confused about what the man meant.

"This, so cold yet your heart is saying something else. I know deep down you still love me but why? Why are you forcing yourself to hate me for a stupid mistake in the past?" Jayden Stanford asked as he grabbed hold of the girl again by her arms. 

"What do you want? Why can't you understand that I've gotten over you? I no longer love you nor did I ever love you. What we had in the past was all a fantasy, a childish dream one hope for? To think someone like me kneed before whom, just to win your affection when men are begging to be with me. Jay, stop forcing your ideas on me of us being back together. We were never together in the first place. It was a one-sided love which only I suffered in the end." Elizabeth was all tense and in rage. She didn't realize she was clenching her hands together and have caused her wounds to bleed again. 

"Do you really think you can marry him once he's a nobody?" Jayden Stanford sneered at her as he released her. 

"What do you mean? Even if Xiaotong is a nobody, my family will still agree for me to marry him..." Elizabeth doubtedly answered, unsure if she can indeed marry Xiaotong even if he's a nobody. The reason that her family agreed with the engagement was that he can protect her, unlike Shen. 

"Please, I know the reason why Shen can't be with you because he put you in danger. And right now, his family is being haunted down. Don't forget who the Stanford are? Just like the Knightley, we may not have any control over the underground world, but we do have a connection. And words of the Yuns being haunted by a powerful man has spread." 

Elizabeth was surprised to finally found out the truth about the Yuns. She was planning to directly ask Shen about it once they meet each other. The fact Shen already knew who she was, she thought it was a good opportunity to ask what happened that day of the kidnapping. "What, the Yuns are being hunted down, why?"

"Liz, I'll tell you if you agree to be with me. Cancel the engagement between you and that Feng guy." Jayden Stanford suggested despite he too does not know the truth as to why the Yuns are being haunted. 

Elizabeth chuckled when she saw the truth in Jayden Stanford's eyes. She was like her father who was good at identifying if a person was telling the truth or not. The fact she took 2 years of psychology her skills in observing people are on par with a psychologist. She was like the female Sherlock Holmes. "Please, do you really think I'll believe you? I mean, I believe you about the fact the Yuns are being hunted down but... You, who are you to know the reason as to why they are being hunted down. You do know the rules of the underground world right. Mercenaries never revealed the reason as to why someone is being killed and who order them. Rumors might spread but come on... Please, I ain't stupid to not know the truth about the underground world. Jay, it seems who have underestimated yourself. I grew up in the underground." 

The words that just came out of her mouth not only surprised Jayden but also her. She became agitated and flustered when the word "grew up in the underground" came out of her mouth. 

'What did I just say? Did I grow up in the underground world? That means the person in my dreams is someone from the underground world as well. That means, the man, the man who erased my memory must be a member of the underground world as well.'

Jayden Stanford too was in a trance after hearing what the girl just announced. He looked strangely but not surprised at her and thought. 'Could the rumor of the Knightley family holding power in the underground world true then? The fact she mentioned she grew up there... But, but she a princess. The royal family will not agree to let her experience such dark and cruelty. Does that mean, the rumors of the person who savagely killed those men after the Yuns...'

"Jayden, you need to leave," Elizabeth said as she headed to her apartment door and walking passed the man who was in shocked of what he had just discovered. 

Jayden Stanford hastily grabbed hold of the girl's arm, he looked frightened and a bit shocked her. "Did you..." He couldn't finish the words he wishes to say. The idea of the girl being such a demon killer frightened him. The timid and kind-hearted girl he always thought of her was slowly fading away as a new image of the girl imprinted into his mind. A cold-hearted, barbarous killer stood in front of him. 

"Liz, I'm sorry for what I said. I didn't mean it, it's just... You know how much I love you and I hope you'll forgive me and give me a second chance. How about this, why don't I take you to dinner. To congratulate you on your engagement." Jayden Stanford pushed aside the thought of the girl being a brutal killer and took the opportunity to win her back instead. 

"Jay, have you lost your mind?" Elizabeth roared in fury and slap the man's hand off her arms. "Do you really think I'm that stupid?"

"Liz, please... For old time's sake." 

Elizabeth was taken aback for a moment when she saw how pitiful the man looked. She really has a soft side for those with beautiful eyes, especially when they act so pitiful. She sighs and answered, "Fine, can you leave now." 

"Thank you." 

They both said nothing further and took their leave. Elizabeth headed inside her apartment as Jayden Stanford steered to the elevator. 

Chapter end