Gu Lili paused in her actions, turned her head to look at him, and said, "Even if time flowed backward, I’m afraid we still wouldn’t be together, because it’s destined to be this way."
"Have you fallen in love with him after being married to him for so long?"
"He’s so outstanding, it’s hard not to fall in love, isn’t it?"
"And what about him?"
"He doesn’t love me."
Gu Xichen replied, "I knew it."
"You know shit," Gu Lili couldn’t help but retort. "Even you regret not marrying me. Doesn’t he know what a good, rare, and excellent woman I am? He’ll fall in love with me sooner or later."
Gu Xichen chuckled, "Who praises themselves like that?"
"Is that not allowed?"
"Allowed, allowed, allowed."
After dinner, the two of them washed up, then laid their beds on the rooftop, each with their own mosquito net. Lying there, Gu Lili exclaimed, "It’s like going back to the old days. In the summers of the past, I used to sleep in the yard with my master to cool off."
"Aren’t you afraid of snakes?"
"There’s realgar scattered in our family’s yard," she said. "I also made a point of scattering it around this morning, so I’m not scared of that."
"My dad even suspected your relationship with my mom before. After all, born spiritualists are too rare, and coincidentally, both you and my mom are one. It’s too much of a coincidence. He thought you might be my mom’s illegitimate daughter."
Gu Lili immediately countered, "What a load of nonsense, how could that be possible? My master lived with pride all her life. If I were her biological daughter, she would never not let me call her mom. Besides, you know how she ended up living on Xiliang Mountain. It was because your dad and grandmother drove her out. Your dad is just trying to smear my master with the bad things he himself has done, what a deadbeat man."
Gu Lili laughed out loud, "You just don’t have the guts to do it, do you?"
He placed his hands behind his head, gazing up at the sky, "After all, he is my father, I can’t bring myself to curse him."
"Right, I have to tell you something." She laid there with her face turned toward him, "Your ex-girlfriend attempted suicide in her rental. Her landlord called my husband, saying there was only Long Yubei’s phone number on her phone."
"She didn’t die. We paid her rent and hospital bills, and even rented an apartment for her in a public housing complex and paid six months of rent in advance."
"It looks like Long Yubei still has her on his mind."
Gu Lili glared at him, "Don’t you start stirring up trouble. It’s nothing like that. This is the last time we help her, and there definitely won’t be a next time."
Gu Xichen closed his eyes and said, nonchalantly, "Women are unpredictable as the sea’s needles; she made me feel an unparalleled disgust, and I deeply regret giving you up because of her."
Long Yubei returned from a four-day business trip right at dusk, as Gu Lili had just finished taking her shower.
She too had just come back from Xiliang Mountain half an hour before, knowing that he would be home today, and thus she drove back.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder; upon his arrival, Long Yubei embraced her, "Did you miss me?"
"I haven’t slept well these last few nights away, I’m all inflamed," he said affectionately as he nestled his chin into her neck.
"You’ll know soon enough." Saying this, he grabbed the towel wrapped around her, yanking it to the ground.
"Ah..." Wearing nothing, she was now fully exposed before his eyes, feeling somewhat shy after days apart.
Her lips were captured forcibly, and her petite body was securely held in his embrace.
Gasping for breath from his kisses, she arched her head back slightly, and Gu Lili’s body involuntarily leaned toward him.
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