Chapter 702: Chapter 703: Falling in Love Again, Is That Okay?
When Gu Qichen said this,
Xia Yangyang just felt a great sadness in her heart.
Gu Qichen looked as though he was not lying at all, nor was he giving flowery speeches.
His face was terribly serious.
It was like some sort of light was present, deep and painful.
Gu Qichen clasped Xia Yangyang’s hand and lowered his head, speaking in a tone of unprecedented exhaustion, “Yangyang, I have thought a lot during this time, about the past, about our current situation, and also about our child. I have always been trying to keep my dwindling pride in front of you, refusing to bow my head, expecting you to come closer. But after what happened today, when I thought I couldn’t catch up with Han Cheng, when you were in danger and might disappear at any moment, do you know how much my heart was trembling? For the first time, I was so scared, so terrified. At that moment, I suddenly realized that the grudges and grievances in reality, and my own face, are not as important as you. I can disregard everything, how you have been living these past few years, the people you have met, I can forget about them all. Yangyang, I just want to be with you, can we fall in love again?”
Gu Qichen said a lot.
In Xia Yangyang’s memory, whether it was in the past or four years later in the present,
Gu Qichen had never spoken so much in one breath.
And every word she spoke was so heavy.
Xia Yangyang suddenly felt like crying.
It was as though something was collapsing in the bottom of her heart.
Gu Qichen said to fall in love again.
How to fall in love again?
Actually, she has never stopped loving him.
Over the years, she thought she had forgotten him, thought she had let go.
But deep down, she knew all that was just self-deception.
Living alone abroad was hard; Xia Ye’s illness had drained all her strength.
She was so busy and numb that she had no energy to see whether the wound in her heart was festering and bleeding.
But four years later, she saw Gu Qichen again.
Every time they met, every word he said, felt like going into a battlefield, fighting a tough battle.
After returning to the country, Xia Yangyang knew Gu Qichen was a womanizer and had many women around him.
In fact, it bothered her a lot.
He once loved other women as he loved her.
Countless nights, there were passionate and fervent moments of intimacy.
Did he truly care about them?
Did he really have a child with them?
All of these, each and every one of them, were like thorns.
Piercing into Xia Yangyang’s straight spine.
It made her unable to bend down, made her unable to say yes.
Xia Yangyang’s hesitation and silence seemed to hurt Gu Qichen a bit.
He had finally let his heart escape and had honestly placed it in front of her, but she still refused to accept it.
“Yangyang, do you still mind that my sister killed your mother? You shouldn’t involve me in that matter, should you? Since you can accept Xiao Han wholeheartedly, why can’t you accept me?”
Xia Yangyang took a deep breath and suddenly said, “Gu Qichen, there’s something I want to tell you. I came back this time to investigate Liu Ruyan. And what I found out is that it was Liu Ruyan who killed my mother and later put the blame on Gu Mingzhu. My mother died from depression and committed suicide, but all of that was plotted by Liu Ruyan in order to take the top position. It actually had nothing to do with your sister. If we really want to attribute the blame, it was just that your sister didn’t get along well with my mother.”