Turning around, the man looked at Gan Yuan with his profile.
Seeing him, Gan Yuan abruptly stopped in her tracks.
However, she quickly realized her mistake.
The man before her was nearly identical to Huangfu Jue, but whether it was the aura he exuded or the way he walked, there were significant differences.
"You are... Huangfu Qi?!"
The man stopped in front of her, lifting his slender, fair fingers to lazily hook off the sunglasses on his nose, revealing a pair of eyes as dark as the night and flashed her a bewitching smile.
Indeed, the person before her was not Huangfu Jue, but his twin brother, Huangfu Qi.
"To be able to recognize so quickly that I’m not my brother, besides my family and friends, you are the first," Huangfu Qi said with a slight shake of the sunglasses in his hand, "To tell you the truth, I’m quite perplexed. What should I call you, Gan Yuan, sister-in-law, or perhaps..."
He leaned forward slightly towards her, whispering a name softly.
Gan Yuan’s fingers trembled, and the handbag she was carrying nearly slipped from her grasp.
"I... I don’t understand what you mean."
Huangfu Qi didn’t speak, but simply placed a document he was holding into her hands before turning to walk towards the grassy fields behind the manor.
Gan Yuan opened the document in her hands and immediately saw a photograph.
In the photo was her!
Clad in a fiery red leather outfit, her long hair flying in the wind – it was an old photo from five or six years ago. Her heart skipped a beat, and biting her lip, she dashed towards the steps to catch up with Huangfu Qi.
Huangfu Qi stopped, gazing out over the distant meadows with a voice tinged with a mixture of mockery and inscrutability.
"Now, do you understand?"
She stopped beside him, trying to calm her emotions.
Huangfu Qi turned his face towards her, his dark eyes landing on her face, the teasing in his voice fading away, replaced by melancholy and depth.
"Now, it’s not about what I want, but... what do you want?"
What did she want, what could she want?
He had already found out who she was, and without thinking, she knew what was likely to unfold.
The man was a member of the royal family, the future King, how could he possibly be with a woman like her?
In the eyes of the girl before him, Huangfu Qi could see nothing but sorrow, and the questions and mockery that had reached his lips froze there.
He had always wondered why Gan Yuan would live in hiding with her child, but now that he knew her background, he understood the reasons for her struggle.
Instead of directly giving the information to Huangfu Jue, he had deliberately found a way to send Huangfu Jue away from the manor. He came here personally because he wanted to find an opportunity to talk privately with Gan Yuan.
The man was his brother born of the same mother, the person who protected him the most since childhood, other than his parents.
And he felt the same way.
For his brother, he could do anything.
Huangfu Jue always hated deception, yet Gan Yuan had told an enormous lie.
Huangfu Qi understood his brother, but now, even he couldn’t be sure what Huangfu Jue’s reaction would be upon learning the truth.
Frowning and sighing, Huangfu Qi’s gaze fell deeply onto Gan Yuan’s beautiful face.
"Gan Yuan, tell me, do you truly love him?"
Breathing in the early summer breeze that blew from afar, Gan Yuan’s complexion was relatively calm, even if her lips trembled uncontrollably.
"Give me... some time, I will... tell him, okay?"