Before you read the update, go search for Tonya Mitchell’s "Stay" and listen to it while you read. I’ve been looping this song while writing these Chapters yesterday, strongly recommend it~!~
Imagining Gan Yuan alone, pregnant, injured, licking her wounds in the dark like a wounded wildcat...
Huangfu Jue’s heart had already ached beyond recovery, his palms cradling her face, his fingertips trembling.
"You..." His fingers brushed across her face, and he pulled her into his arms, tightening his grip bit by bit. His lips parted several times, but in the end, he could only curse in a hoarse whisper, "Idiot! Dummy!... Fool!"
By the last two words, his voice held no anger, only deep tenderness.
She didn’t mind the scolding, just curled up in his embrace, eyes lightly closed, savoring the warmth of his hold.
The man ordered in a low voice.
As her arms were held and she couldn’t move, he reached over, pulled her arms around his waist without waiting for her to act.
She wrapped her arms around his waist, and the man murmured discontentedly again.
She obediently tightened her arms, hugging him with all her strength.
"Never run away again..." His palm ran through her damp hair, Huangfu Jue took a deep breath, "Running will be useless. Even if the world turns upside down, I will find you. You have to fulfill your promise to me."
Gan Yuan lifted her face to meet his eyes.
"Xiaoqi has shown me the information, I know everything about you." His fingers pressed against her lips, "I don’t care what you’ve done or who you were, I only know that you are my fiancée now, and you will be my wife in the future!"
There was no impulsiveness in the man’s eyes, only deep calm. Her lips trembled, feeling almost choked with emotion.
"Your parents won’t agree."
"I will persuade them."
"What about your subjects? They won’t allow their king to choose a woman like me."
"If I can’t even protect my own woman, I don’t deserve to be a king."
She was so choked up that she couldn’t speak.
He was her foolish, simple-minded love, chiding her for being silly... But what about him?
With so many respectable and pure girls in the world worthy of him, yet he chose to be with her...
"Huangfu Jue... you are the real fool!"
As she spat out the last word, she suddenly pushed him away with force.
"Do you know how much effort it took for me to let go? Why... Why do you keep coming back for me? It makes it impossible for me to let go!"
"Do you remember what I’ve said?" he smiled with a mischievous grin, "I want you to love me so deeply that you can’t extricate yourself, can’t let go, can’t throw away, or leave!"
She bit her lip, her eyes filled with tears as she smiled.
Noticing her shiny eyes, the man frowned instantly. He stepped forward, intending to wipe away her tears, but as he moved his right foot forward, a wave of emotion hit him, and he couldn’t help but let out a big sneeze.
"Damn it!" Gan Yuan cursed softly, walking over to push him under the shower’s hot water, reaching for his shirt, "Hurry and take off your wet clothes!"
She came in to give him a bath, got carried away talking, and almost forgot that he was soaked in the cold rain.
Huangfu Jue didn’t move, just let his arms hang down as she undid each button, and he simply looked down at her, watching quietly.
The girl’s hair had also been wet by the rain, clinging to her face and neck in strands. Her delicate features appeared even softer in the humid mist of the bathroom.