Gu Yao looked at Shangguan Yu standing against the light with his back to the door, thinking she was hallucinating.
It seemed like she saw him.
Ais frowned directly at the suddenly appearing Shangguan Yu.
Ais called out to Gu Yao, yet Gu Yao seemed as if she hadn’t heard, just foolishly staring at that person.
Seeing Gu Yao’s eyes filled only with Shangguan Yu, with no room for anyone else, Ais felt extremely imbalanced, even stirred with jealousy.
He was someone who strived to be strong, someone who never accepted defeat.
Gu Yao was the fish he had schemed for months to catch, whether it was capturing Gu Yao or the opportunity to enter the Gu Family’s ancestral hall, both satisfied his self-esteem. ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by n͟o͟v͟e͟l͟f͟i͟r͟e͟.net
Yet at the very moment he was about to succeed, it was destroyed; such an effort in vain, he could not accept.
Even less could he accept Gu Yao regretting it in that moment, walking away with another man.
She was on the stage, he was below, and they just looked at each other like that.
Looking at each other as if no one else existed, unwilling to blink, for fear that in the instant of blinking, he would disappear.
Finally, finally, he had the courage to look directly into her eyes.
As Shangguan Yu smiled, he couldn’t help but redden around the eyes.
He stepped forward, walking slowly towards Gu Yao.
Gu Yao watched the approaching figure, her brain slowly ceasing to function, yet her eyes instinctively followed him.
Until Shangguan Yu stood in front of her, Gu Yao still couldn’t believe it.
"... It’s really you."
Her eyes roamed over his face nonstop; at this moment, she seemed to rediscover the sunny, cheerful Shangguan Yu from before.
"It’s me." He spoke, his voice slightly trembling, due to excitement.
"What are you here for?" Gu Yao would never forget that night he said those words more hurtful than daggers, the gaze that made her cannot help but hate Shangguan Yu.
"You just missed saying one thing."
"..." Gu Yao was confused.
Shangguan Yu looked at Gu Yao, finally no longer hiding his feelings.
"Twelve thousand and nine hundred sixty years later, at the same time, in the same place, I would meet you again, and fall in love with you once more."
Gu Yao was stunned, almost unable to believe what she heard: "... What did you say?"
"Yaoyao, I regret it."
"Shangguan Yu, this is Yaoyao’s and my wedding, don’t forget how you humiliated her that night, she liked you for so long, and now you say you regret, it seems you can’t bear to lose such a pursuer to fulfill your vanity, right?!"
Gu Yao looked at him, tears falling silently.
"Why did you completely trash my heart, waiting until I was completely hopeless about you, then tell me you regret?"
Shangguan Yu was momentarily at a loss for words, with too many helpless situations that he could not explain to her.
"That night on your birthday last year, I wasn’t out looking for someone, I was looking for you; this year on your birthday, I wasn’t out delivering a cat, I was there to see you too. When I was injured in the hospital and unconscious, the one I called out for was you, it was always you. I always said I didn’t like you, not because I feared Gu Sheng, but because I feared you’d be hurt."
"... Are you speaking the truth?" Gu Yao looked at him incredulously.
Her birthday last year?
So, he liked her even earlier than she thought?
"Your birthday gift is still in my room."
"..." Gu Yao’s tears flooded down instantly.