Lin Shutang got out of the car and kept holding hands with Shen Si.
Gu Yanqing felt short of breath. When he came to find her, his eager mood seemed to be poured with cold water. It gradually cooled down, but he still looked at her stubbornly.
Shen Si's body stood in front of her, completely possessive.
"My girlfriend has nothing to talk about with Mr. Gu."
The tone is casual, but there is no trace of strength.
Gu Yanqing's fingers felt cold and she clenched them slightly, "Young Master Shen, what I'm looking for is Shutang. It has nothing to do with you."
"Shen Si." Her fingertips lightly touched his palm, she glanced at Gu Yanqing from the corner of her eye, and then looked up at him.
"I'll go make it clear to him. You wait here for me for a while."
Shen Si looked at her silently for a while, then lowered his head and kissed her red lips, gently rubbing the corners of her lips with his fingertips, "Baby, if you don't want to, I can..."
"I can." Lin Shutang stood on tiptoes and kissed him on the lips, "Don't worry, I can handle it myself."
Shen Si didn't speak quietly, his eyes were lowered and he couldn't see clearly, but the strength of his hold on her hand could not help but tighten again and again.
Lin Shutang's fingertips touched his palm again, "Shen Si, I know very well who the person I love is."
His eyes lit up slightly, scanning Gu Yanqing's pale face, and then raised the corners of his lips, "Okay, then I'll wait for you."
He asked, "Is half an hour enough?"
"enough."
Lin Shutang let go of his hand and walked towards Gu Yanqing.
When Yang Zhao drove up in a hurry, he saw this scene and couldn't help but feel excited.
He walked quickly to Shen Si and said, "Master Shen, I just saw Master Gu's car at the bottom of the mountain. I had no time to stop him. I wanted to call you, but you didn't answer, so I came up quickly. You See if you want me..."
"No need." Shen Si sat in the car expressionlessly.
Yang Zhao returned to the car, "Aren't you worried that Miss Lin will be deceived by Mr. Gu's sweet words?"
Shen Si glanced at the time out of the corner of his eye, it was seven-thirty.
His long fingers rested on his knees, tapping them unconsciously.
"I respect her past, it's all a part of her, I love her, and I know no one loves her more than me."
Shen Si closed his eyes and rested his mind.
Yang Zhao was a little worried that the emperor was not in a hurry and that the eunuch was worried. He kept staring at Lin Shutang not far away, for fear of something happening.
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Lin Shutang stopped three steps away from Gu Yanqing.
"What do you find me for?"
Gu Yanqing looked at her indifferent expression, and her voice became harsh as if a sharp sword was piercing her throat.
He took out a photo from his pocket, which was well preserved. It was a photo of them together before.
The young Gu Yanqing above is gentle and bright, and the simple short-sleeved clothes he wears do not hide his cool and elegant temperament at all.
And she was standing next to him, also smiling, holding a bouquet of flowers in her hand, which he had given her.
That day was her college graduation ceremony.
After breaking up with Gu Yanqing, she put the photos and some things he had given her during their relationship in a large cardboard box and gave them to Uncle Zhang to dispose of.
Now the photo is in Gu Yanqing's hands.
He picked up the things she threw away.
"Shutang, I don't believe you will completely forget our eight-year relationship."
His eyes were very red, but there was no color on his face.
Even the dim street lights couldn't hide his pale face.
"I know it was wrong of me to break up at the beginning, but I also have my own reasons. I must use the Sun family to gain the power of the Gu family, otherwise I will not be able to continue on with you for a longer time."
Lin Shutang listened quietly and then asked him, "Gu Yanqing, do you hate me or the Gu family's power and money?"
Gu Yanqing replied hastily, "Of course I will choose you."
Lin Shutang shook his head, "No, you have never asked me. It's not that I have never experienced hard times, nor have I experienced sad times, but I still live well as always, but you subconsciously believe that without the support of the Gu family, I I will be separated from you. In your eyes, you have never truly trusted me. I may be lucky enough to be your first choice, but I am definitely not your first choice."
He was a little emotional, "But if there is no Gu family, what do you think I have left?"
"I won't be able to afford a beach house, I won't be able to help Jian Chuang secretly, and you will even suffer hardships with me..."
Gu Yanqing held back the bitterness rising in her throat.
"Shutang, the person I love has always been you, and those with Sun Xiaoran were just a joke. Now that I have completely gotten rid of the Sun family and taken control of the Gu family, there will no longer be any obstacles between us. Why can't we... …”
"Gu Yanqing." She interrupted him suddenly, her voice as calm as ever, "We have a bad start, but we must leave a decent ending."
"Our beginning was a mistake, wasn't it?"
Lin Shutang looked at him, "You were never him, you were just Gu Yanqing."
Gu Yanqing's face turned completely white, and something in her eyes that reflected her cold face seemed to crack at this moment.
"you……"
Lin Shutang's mouth moved slightly, "I know, I recognized the wrong person back then."
Gu Yanqing's pupils tightened. After being unable to speak for a long time, he said in a hoarse voice mixed with vibrato, "How... did you know?"
"It's not important." Lin Shutang looked not far away.
Shen Si, who had taken off his coat and only wore short sleeves, was standing not far away. His lowered eyes were still lazy. He leaned against the car with his tall body, took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth. His eyes fell. From a distance, just don't look at her.
He couldn't hear the content of the conversation between the two people, but he could clearly see Gu Yanqing's sad expression just now.
Yang Zhao, who was sitting in the car with the heater on, felt speechless.
Only ten minutes have passed.
Young Master Shen, who had just vowed to say, "She said she loved me, she wouldn't leave me waiting here for too long," now started to use bitter tactics.
Take off your clothes and get cold outside.
Yang Zhao sees through but doesn't tell.
Lin Shutang looked away and looked at Gu Yanqing, "It's getting late, I have to go back."
Gu Yanqing suddenly grabbed her wrist, but Lin Shutang couldn't break free.
Shen Si, who saw this scene out of the corner of his eye, suddenly threw away his cigarette and walked over there with a heavy look in his eyes.
In just two steps, Lin Shutang broke away from Gu Yanqing's hand. He paused and then calmly returned to his place.
Gu Yanqing's eyes were faintly red, and her broken voice was trembling slightly, "So you have never loved me in the past eight years, right?"
Lin Shutang looked at the gentle man in front of him.
For eight years, the good things they experienced are still vivid in their minds.
"I loved you, Gu Yanqing. I looked forward to getting married to you. I looked forward to having a villa on the beach filled with eight years of memories with you. I looked forward to being with you for the rest of my life and having children and grandchildren... But after all, We are strangers to each other."
Every word was obviously beautiful, but it felt like it was pricking his heart.
Gu Yanqing's body swayed, and his heart began to throb. This pain seemed to tear him apart bit by bit.
Her light voice was full of desolation, "No one is wrong. Everyone has thousands of reasons for this regret. Those unfinished loves just got separated at a certain point."
Gu Yanqing opened the corners of his lips in self-mockery, a sadness spreading from the bottom of his heart.
"Then do you hate me? Hate me... for lying to you."
He had lied to her for the past eight years, and every day she was worried that the lie would be exposed.
He had been so careful in the past eight years, but he still got to this point.
