Gu Fangzi gazed at the handsome and extraordinary man before her, this man who had adored her for so many years. The more she looked at him, the fonder she grew, and she couldn’t help her heart from fluttering. With delicate hands, she picked up the tea cup and offered it to him, "Big cousin, please drink some tea."
Shi Fengju glanced at her and reached out to take it, utterly oblivious to the softness and seduction in the woman’s eyes before him.
"Big cousin! Fengju," Gu Fangzi refused to let go of the tea cup, instead her slender, fair hands gently caressed Shi Fengju’s, her face full of coquettish emotion as she said, "I’ve missed you so much, haven’t you—Ah!"
Before the words "missed you" could leave her lips, Shi Fengju’s hand had recoiled as if scalded by fire, and in an uncontrollable force, he pushed her hand away. Caught off guard, Gu Fangzi’s tea spilled onto her hand, instinctively releasing her grip, and the tea cup fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
"Fengju!" Gu Fangzi, with an aggrieved expression, rubbed her slightly reddened hand, tears brimming in her eyes.
Shi Fengju suddenly stood up, frown deepening, he said, "You should just call me big cousin! Call Lan Xiang to get some ointment to apply on it, I have something to attend to, so I must be going!"
"Don’t go!" It was not easy for Gu Fangzi to have finally brought him here; how could she let him leave? If not for the period of filial mourning, which made it inappropriate for her to seek him out personally, she would have done so long ago!
In a sudden move, she wrapped her arms around Shi Fengju from behind, hugging him tightly, her cheeks pressed against his back, rubbing back and forth, whispering with a sob, "Big cousin, big cousin, stay with me a little longer, don’t leave, is that okay? Big cousin, you like me, how can you treat me ? Did I do something wrong that upset you? Big cousin, tell me, I’ll change, can’t I change for you!"
"Fangzi, let go of me!" Shi Fengju struggled to pry off her hands, stepping back two paces, "Fangzi, don’t forget what I’ve told you, remember your place."
"I’ve always remembered, I haven’t forgotten!" Gu Fangzi said through her tears, "I belong to you, I am your woman, how could I forget!"
There’s just no getting through to her!
Shi Fengju helplessly had to admit this fact; how had he and she come to this point?
The intentional hostility that his older sister showed towards Sang Wan, as well as seizing every opportunity to mention Gu Fangzi in front of Sang Wan, to recount the "past of the three of them", Shi Fengju was not a fool. If no one was stoking the flames, his sister would never act this way!
Even if his older sister disliked the marriage between the Sang family and the Shi family, what she cared most about was him. As long as he liked someone, his sister would definitely like them too. But, she just didn’t like Sang Wan!
Seeing Shi Fengju silent, with an unfathomable deep and dark look in his eyes, Gu Fangzi’s mind raced, and she threw herself into his arms, holding him tight, reaching up to kiss his cheeks and neck, murmuring, "Big cousin, I’m yours, let’s be yours. will that be okay... let’s be true husband and wife, we—"
"Gu Fangzi!" Shi Fengju pushed her away in anger, wiping his face and neck with his sleeve in disgust, saying coldly, "What madness is this!"
"I’m not mad, I’m serious!" Gu Fangzi cried out, "Big cousin, you said the person you wanted to marry was me, it was me! And in this life, there can be no other man for me but you! Big cousin, we’re meant to be together, aren’t we!"
Gu Fangzi began to undress as she spoke.
"If you want to go mad, go mad by yourself!" The look in Shi Fengju’s eyes was as cold as ice, "A woman in mourning for her father conducting herself in such a shameful manner, don’t you think about your father watching from the heavens! I’m ashamed for you!"
With a snort of disdain, Shi Fengju turned his back and strode away.
Gu Fangzi’s face turned deathly pale, she swayed and fell to the ground, unable to support herself. Clutching the edge of a chair, she bit her lip tightly, closed her eyes firmly, and her tears streamed down like a broken string of pearls.
Gu Fangzi began to weep silently, her slender shoulders shaking violently like the leaves in an autumn breeze.
Shameless, disgrace! Those were his words, the words he said to her! The man who once held her in the palm of his hand, the man who said she was the only wife he acknowledged in this life, today he coldly pushed her away, cruelly calling her "shameless, without decency!"
"Sang Wan! Sang Wan!" Gu Fangzi clenched her teeth, her face twisted with rage, while a mad flame danced in the depths of her eyes, "It’s all your fault, all because of you!" I will definitely not let you have a good life!