After speaking, she felt it might have been too presumptuous and quickly added, "I just asked casually, if it’s inconvenient to answer then..."
"No, there’s nothing between him and me."
Gu Yao smiled and shook her head, her face candid, yet her heart was bleeding.
Yes, she had chased him for two years, but in the end, there was nothing...
She didn’t even have the courage to say goodbye to him one more time.
That figure she had just seen, perhaps, was her final lingering thought.
In the future, perhaps they would never meet again.
"Oh~" Ais nodded slightly, naturally not foolish enough to ask any more about Shangguan Yu.
"Could you tell me what he was just talking to you about?"
Gu Yao had no other intentions, she was just curious why Shangguan Yu would know Ais.
"I had some unpleasantness with Jun Moyan before, and Shangguan Yu actually stood up for me," Ais shrugged and said helplessly.
So, it was because of Jun Moyan.
What was this feeling of loss inside?
Gu Yao, oh Gu Yao, you wouldn’t still be harbouring those unrealistic fantasies, would you?
You really are foolish.
"Right, weren’t you going shopping? Did you buy everything? If not, I can go with you, I happen to be free." It was rare to meet not by his deliberate arrangement, and she had to seize this opportunity.
"I’ve almost finished shopping. I just saw you over there and thought I’d come say hello, and also to say goodbye to you."
"Goodbye?" Ais was startled.
"Yes, I’ve decided to go to the United Kingdom, so I might not have the chance to paint with you anymore."
"Are you sure about this?" Ais furrowed his brow. The latest_epɪ_sodes are on_the ɴovelfire.net
Why would you go abroad when things are fine here, what will I do if you leave?
The Gu Family only has one daughter, I can’t approach the others, how will I enter the Gu family shrine, how will I take things?
"I’ve thought it through, I’m leaving on the seven o’clock flight tomorrow morning, only eight hours left."
Consider it as her running away, hoping that by being far from him, she might slowly forget him.
Perhaps she would regret it in a month, but at least for now, she truly wanted to leave.
However, reality proved that when you truly love someone to the point of madness, no amount of time can dilute those feelings.
It only causes deeper pain and struggle.
"You really have a talent for painting, I hope one day you’ll come to love it, and we might meet again."
"Do you really have to go abroad?"
"What’s wrong?" Gu Yao saw that Ais’s expression was unhappy and asked somewhat puzzled.
"Why are you so insistent on going abroad? Isn’t it nice here? China is so big, if you don’t like the Capital City, I can take you to Holy City, or if not Holy City, then to Qing City, Yang City, Bin City, Dragon City. Why must you go abroad?"
Gu Yao looked at the somewhat excited Ais, feeling even stranger inside.
"I... I just want to go to a place where no one knows me, to draw peacefully, and to change my living environment."
"If you want a place to draw, I can find you one, as quiet as you need."
"You... What’s wrong?"
"I don’t want you to go," Ais said clearly and directly, expressing his thoughts.
"..." Gu Yao stared at Ais, somewhat understanding yet somewhat confused.
She instinctively asked in a daze, "...Why?"
"I, I’ve come to like painting, I finally found a hobby, and it’s because of you that I started liking it, you can’t let me just start to like it and then leave."