Forced by fate – Destined to be his Wife

“I told you, I didn’t do anything wrong so why are you on my ass?” Rong yelled at his father, storming away from him even though this was Rong’s office. What had started as a simple conversation escalated quickly with his unstable temper of late.

“She was my best student and the one with a quiet disposition. Now you’re telling me she quit because of a drunken affair with you? That makes no sense. She recently became engaged and seemed genuinely happy, so how did it go form that to this?” Master Cai raised his voice, frustrated with his son for the shame he brought upon them by getting arrested and the damage to his school’s reputation. The police were blunt about the accusations even if his son was denying them and had shared every details with him.

“She likes me. She needed to be drunk to admit it to herself because she was scared of rejection. All of this is her jealous ex fiancée’s doing because he can’t accept we love one another.” Rong was enraged at his father’s questioning him today. At first he hadn’t said much when he got home from the detainment center but after that do-gooder detective came to see him he had been like this. Talking bullshit and spreading lies about what he was meant to have done.

“They had evidence you drugged her, Rong! How can you say this was down to her being drunk? What did you do? Why did you have to go this far? Don’t you see what you did wrong or have any concept why this is wrong?” Master Cai implored him, unable to understand his own son in this. Ashamed and shocked and bitterly disappointed in his actions.

“I didn’t do anything. Do you know who her boyfriend is and what he’s capable of? He’s the heir of Leng group, who has more money and power than sense. He’s framing me to get rid of me because TangShi wants me. He has her locked up and won’t let me see her because he knows she would tell the truth about this whole thing. She wants us to be together.” Rong paced back and forth running his hands through his hair in agitation and tugging at the strands every few strokes. Erratic in his movements and behaving manically. Getting madder by the second. His father watching him and trying to curb his own temper but there were too many doubts and questions and his concern rose that his son was spiraling again into another dark phase in his life. They had been here before and thought therapy and medication was helping him.

“TangShi was a sweet and quiet girl who stayed in her own lane. She never caused any problems and kept herself to herself. I don’t believe she would stand back and see you wronged if that was the truth.” TangShi was a girl he had great affection for and he knew in his gut the liar was not that girl.

“So you’re saying I’m lying? That I drugged and kidnapped her to keep in a hotel room all night…. Why would I do that? Why would I hurt the girl I want to marry?” Rong laughed, a snarling and terrifying sound that wasn’t melodic and clenched his fists.

“Why would they set you up this way and bring your family shame? TangShi is a good girl and if she said you did wrong to her ….”

“She isn’t the one accusing me! Her idiot boyfriend is. I can’t believe you actually doubt me. You’re my father, you should be taking my side in this!” Rong erupted at him, swiping things from the table across the floor in a crashing sweep that startled his father, and stamping his feet like a petulant child.

His father watched him in silent judgement knowing he had always been a high strung and spoiled child who wanted everything his own way. It had caused so many arguments with Master Cai’s late wife, that their son was so hard to handle and over the years he had behaved inappropriately to friends and girlfriends that always ended up leaving him. It had been hard to admit that their son was sick and she hadn’t lived long enough to see him finally get help in recent years.

“Calm down and stop behaving like a toddler. When will you grow up and face the reality of life? Your actions come with consequences!”

“I’m not staying here listening to this. It’s bullshit. I’m going out.” Rong tramped to the door to leave, kicking fallen objects out of his way with no regard to the destruction he was causing, or that his actions were hurting his father. Master Cai exhaled heavily, held back his impulse to explode too and called after him.

“You are on bail; you are not allowed out. Come back here.” He rubbed his face and stayed where eh was standing, gazing around the mess and broken pottery and scattered dirt and foliage of one of his houseplants on the floor.

“I have a curfew, not a jail sentence. I can go wherever I please as long as I’m home by eight. And soon when it’s proven I am not guilty, you can eat your fucking words!” He snapped back at him, grabbing his car keys and swiping a jacket. Making it clear he had zero intention of staying or doing as his father asked. He had always been this volatile but his father could see the signs that he was not as stable as he had been a month back. Questions rising in his gut.

“Stay away from her. I’m warning you if you cause more trouble…”

“Why am I always the one causing trouble?” Rong snapped, lifting his palms skyward in question. Shaking his head in disbelief.

“Are you still taking your medication?” His father changed tact, lowering his voice and almost pleading with him. Afraid of this answer.

Knowing his son always seemed to go off the rails when he stopped taking his antipsychotic medication. He was secretive about it and try as he might he could never be sure Rong was sticking to them daily. His therapist was still an ongoing monthly visit but Rong was a master at faking his behavior nowadays and seeming so normal most of the time. He had tried monitoring his pills but Rong would make a huge fuss and accuse him of controlling him.

The reason he had entrusted him to run the school was that he thought a focus and purpose in life might help him stay on the right path. He had never imagined he would cause harm to one of his students or he would never allowed him to have any kind of presence here among them.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“Go to hell. Fuck those pills and fuck you.” Rong kicked the door closed behind him after barging through, murmuring curse words under his breath at his father and stalked across the garden to the private carpark inside their boundary. He hated taking his Haldol meds and was done with them again, feeling like all they did was give him shitty symptoms and no real cure. Despising the side effects that caused issues, like lowering his libido, headaches, and insomnia. He felt better when they weren’t in his system and he was sure he didn’t need them anyway. It had been almost a month now of stopping them and he didn’t think it had affected him at all. He wasn’t crazy, it was everyone else who imagined that he was. They had problems, not him.

Rong had been in a foul mood since the police showed up here days ago and arrested him and was desperate to see that bitch TangShi to ask her what the fuck she was playing at. He thought they had a relationship and an understanding. Why else would she stay with him that night?

How dare she accuse him of assaulting her against her will. She had no idea the lengths he had gone to make sure they had time alone together and he took real nice care of her while she slept like a baby. The ungrateful slut. He spent so much money on that dinner and that room and she was over there shacked up in her ivory tower with rich kid and sending him to the cells. He couldn’t get his head around it and his rage over this had been growing steadily as his medications fully left his system.

Rong got in his car and wasted no time in driving to the registered address on TangShi’s school record. The document he memorized after she started there and would look at frequently in case she updated or changed details. Having been here multiple times over the last few weeks in the hopes of seeing her he knew the way with his eyes closed. Not impressed that she moved into the apartment of that man and thought she had more self-respect that cohabiting with a boyfriend. It made him grit his teeth just thinking about the sordid shit they got up to in that place.