I Only Want You novel Chapter 174

"James..." She was going to ask him to open the door, but she was stunned when she heard the words, "What?"

James chuckled with full of self-mockery. "What's good about him? What do you love about him?"

Elizabeth frowned. "What nonsense are you talking?"

"Nonsense?" He snorted, "Have dinner? Play the piano? Cousin?"

He turned around to stare at her for a while, and continued to ask, "Am I your cousin?"

Elizabeth pursed her lips. "I..." She clenched her fists gloomily. She knew that because of what Leo had said just now, James must have guessed that she had lied to him yesterday. Although she knew that they would not be together for a long time, she still did not want him to misunderstand her.

"Yesterday... We had to discuss the design, so we had a simple meal together. I play the piano, only because he happened to know I had learned it before..."

Her explanation didn't feel very convincing. He still believed her unconditionally. But he was still irritated. His voice was a little softer than before, "Then why do you call me cousin? How do you explain that?"

"Didn't... Didn't you promise me that I could hide our relationship when I introduced you to outsiders?" Elizabeth continued again, "Moreover, in your current situation, you must expect me..."

Before she could finish her words, he interrupted her, "My current situation? Do you know anything about my situation?" Did she know that he was in love with her?

He waved his hand, beckoning her not to say anything more, "Go to refuse this case."

Elizabeth was stunned and then she said, "No!"

"No?" He narrowed his eyes and repeated the word, "Why not? Do you still want to stay with him?"

"You..."

"I tell you! That's impossible!"

Elizabeth knew that he misunderstood her, so she said in a hurry, "You are too arbitrary! There is nothing between me and Leo at all! And this is my first case, so I definitely can't refuse it!"

James frowned, "Since there is nothing between you and him, then you don't have to be regretful about dropping that case, right? Push it off! I'll find a new case for you! Okay?" After that, he said patiently, "Or, you can go work on Liang Company's case now! You just need to design the clothes, and I'll handle the rest. Is that okay?"

"No way!" She refused without thinking. This was her first case, and she couldn't give up as he said.

But when James heard the words, all he thought was that Elizabeth still wanted to be with that man. "You..." He gritted his teeth, even wanted to strangle her to death!

Elizabeth just assumed it was all because of his male chauvinism. She was a little upset and complaining. She said in a grumbling tone, "I already told you he is just a normal customer. Can you guarantee that all your future customers will be men? I..."

"I can!" Before she could finish her words, he answered without thinking, "If you don't like me having contact with female customers, it's OK."

"..." Elizabeth was stunned for a long time, then suddenly laughed in self- mockery. What did he mean by this answer?

"James, don't be ridiculous. Don't answer so quickly. You act as if you love me so much."

"How did you..."

James wanted to ask her how she didn't know he was in love with her. Before he could say it, she said, "First of all, I won't ask you to do that. That doesn't make sense in the workplace either. Secondly, even if you could do that, I won't agree to your request."

"You know, I'm a costume designer. It's normal for us to hold costume conferences. We're bound to deal with male models or someone like them. To be honest, we're also bound to work with more different groups of men."

He frowned unhappily, "Can't you only design women's clothing? Why do you have to..." "It's not that I can't.1' Elizabeth took a deep breath. "But I wish I could expand the scope of my work instead of limiting it to just one area. It's not something I want to do in the future."

"So, I won't agree to your unreasonable request, even if I..."

James was getting pissed off.

***

At Imperial Gourmet.

In the large private room, there was a table that could seat twenty people at the same time. The table was filled with various styles of dishes.

James sat next to her, added various vegetables to her bowl. The food was so much that her bowl looked like a little hill.

Elizabeth stopped crying, but she was not in the mood to eat anything. She just stared at her bowl with complicated thoughts.

He frowned and looked at her sitting there in a daze without moving her chopsticks. He tried his best to endure the dissatisfaction in his heart and added the food into his own bowl until he couldn't add anything more. Then he pushed the bowl in front of her.

"Eat."

"Or, you don't like this?" He asked softly, "If you don't like it, why don't we go to another restaurant?"

"Then what do you want to eat? Western food? Japanese food? Or something else?"

"Do you want to go back to my parents' place? You know about Auntie Chang's cooking skills."

No matter what he asked, she always kept silent. James closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, trying to resist the impulse to curse her.

However, even though he had tried his best, he still couldn't help but throw the chopsticks on the table. He stood up and glared at her. He was about to curse her, but when he saw her, who had been frightened by the sound just now, he could only cover his face with his hands in frustration and annoyance.

After a long while, he softened his voice and almost coaxingly said, "You don't want to eat, right?"

"Didn't you want to play the piano? Let's go to buy a piano, okay?"