Did you leave the house early this morning just for this matter?
"No way!" Before he could speak, she had already grabbed his palm, "Don’t give up, didn’t you say you wanted to make your country better, with no wars, no poverty, no crime, where everyone could live and work in peace... how could you give up on your dreams?!"
The man narrowed his eyes, "How do you know?"
These were words he had uttered during the king’s and Crown Prince’s coronation address three years ago, and she could recite them without missing a single word?
"I..." She lifted the corners of her lips slightly, "I watched the live broadcast."
In fact, it was not just the live broadcast—she had watched that video countless times online and even backed it up on her hard drive, and that wasn’t all.
His news, the newspapers, and magazines about him... She read them all thoroughly, only refraining from collecting them out of fear that her son would discover them.
When he was crowned Crown Prince, she cheered for him.
When he visited disaster areas to see the victims, she stayed up all night in front of the computer, following the situation there. Despite never believing in gods, she prayed over and over to strange deities, terrified another calamity might strike...
In these six years, although she wasn’t by his side, her eyes had never left this man.
Huangfu Jue raised his hand to cradle her cheek, "Is this why you left six years ago?"
"Fool!" He chastised her, and then drew her back into his embrace, "Dummy, you..."
The harsh words that came to his lips were stuck in his throat.
During these six years, she had wandered from place to place alone with her child, surely suffering much more than he had; how could he bear to scold her again?
She spoke softly in his arms.
"Shut up!" He frowned and chided her softly as he took a deep breath, "We will return to the country tomorrow, and I will take you and Xiaotang to meet my parents."
"No... no way!" Gan Yuan quickly straightened up, "Absolutely not!"
She just wanted him to leave this place, that didn’t mean she had already decided to make everything public. With his status, once the news got out, she would instantly become the center of global attention, and wouldn’t that be delivering herself and Xiaotang right into Moses’s hands?
"We can’t announce this to the public now, I... I don’t want Xiaotang to be chased by reporters every day, he is still too young, and... I’ve always told him his father was dead..." She glanced at his face cautiously, with both hands reaching out to grasp his arms, "Let’s keep a low profile for now, okay?"
The man thought for a moment, then nodded lightly.
This matter did indeed need to be handled carefully, after all, he was no ordinary person.
Gan Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and returned a smile to him. Watching her smiling face, he still found it hard to believe.
"Are you really not lying to me?"
"I..." She always felt guilty, and inwardly biting her teeth, she rolled her eyes at him, "If you don’t believe... then forget it, tomorrow I’ll take Xiaotang and leave."
"Don’t!" He raised his hand to gently stroke her face, "Promise me, starting from now, never to leave again."
There was dominance in his blue eyes, but even more, there was hope. Those eyes were filled with deep affection and uncertainty.
"Then you also have to promise me, to never give up on your dreams."
She nodded solemnly, "Because the man I love would never give up on the things he wants to do."
His face broke into a smile, like the first breeze of spring, brightening the entire world.