Lin Yueer was hit by a ton of bricks, "Between you and Su Changzhi, I chose you. Between me and Gu Lili, you also chose me. Isn’t the best outcome for us to live happily together?"
"I used to think so too."
"You said you had such deep feelings for me over so many years, but they can’t compare to the little more than a year you spent with Gu Lili in the mortal world?"
"It’s precisely because of this that I gave up on her. I thought so too, that’s what I believed!" Long Yubei also found it laughable, "But the truth is, you now seem like someone I’ve just met, while she feels like the one I’ve been in love with for a long time."
Lin Yueer cried, unwilling to believe the words spoken by the person before her, "You can’t do this to me, Beibei, I love you."
"I don’t want to lie about what I truly feel inside, nor do I want to deceive myself anymore."
"She is with Su Changzhi now, she won’t be with you again." Lin Yueer pressed on, "Do you realize this fact?"
"I’m not insisting that she must be with me again, but I don’t want to continue making mistakes. I want to let myself return to my original path."
"You should also return to your original path." Long Yubei looked at her, "I will give you a sum of money as compensation, and you can continue on with your life."
Lin Yueer simply could not accept this reality.
"You can disagree, it’s only a matter of whether I want to proceed this way."
Lin Yueer stared at him desperately, her heart in excruciating pain, "Are you sure you won’t regret separating from me the same way you do now?"
"I am absolutely certain, I will not."
"What if I go to Su Changzhi? What if I get together with him?"
"He won’t be with you."
"That’s not necessarily!"
"If you have that confidence, then go find him and see if things turn out as I said."
Lin Yueer, in a fit of rage, got up and left, and at the door, she shouted at Long Yubei, "You will regret this! Even if you come looking for me, I won’t bother with you again!"
Long Yubei remained silent; he was utterly awake and had thought everything through clearly, he would not let himself regret it a second time!
When the curtains fell on that once obsessive love, he did not feel the slightest sense of loss.
Perhaps, he should have come to his senses 26 years ago; it was his own foolish obstinacy.
Now, the only person that could make him grieve and feel guilt was Gu Lili alone.
Lin Yueer really did come to Xiliang Mountain to look for Su Changzhi.
Gu Lili, at home, upon seeing her, asked, "What are you doing at my house?"
"I’m looking for Su Changzhi, not you."
"What do you want with my husband?" ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ ɴovelfire.net
"Your husband?" Lin Yueer said contemptuously, "Does he love you? Do you love him? Is the child you’re carrying his? Don’t think that just because you had a wedding, you can call each other husband and wife as if it’s real."
"The wedding was indeed real, what do you mean ’as if it’s real,’ it is real." Gu Lili said to Gu Qiu, "Throw this woman out of the gates for me."
Gu Qiu grabbed Lin Yueer and dragged her out to the gate, promptly closing it behind them.
Lin Yueer, outraged, sat on a stone outside, not going anywhere, just waiting.
She didn’t believe that Su Changzhi had no feelings for her whatsoever.
She waited until it was dark.
Lying by the door, she heard Su Changzhi’s voice, then started banging on the door non-stop, calling out Su Changzhi’s name.