Mu Huan looked at him and was compelled to ask, âSince you like me so much, why didnât you trust me?â
Would a person like someone so much and yet not trust her?
If one canât even trust a person one likes, is that real affection?
âI...â Gu Chenyi was stumped for words.
âGu Chenyi, maybe you donât like me as much as you imagine yourself to. Perhaps itâs only because you had lost before you had even gained, and you find that hard to reconcile. If you truly like someone, you wouldnât behave like this â it wouldnât be that no matter how hard I try to explain, you wouldnât believe me; it wouldnât be that youâd believe only what others say and hurt me. Since you believe them so much and think that Iâm the sort of person they make me out to be, why would you still like me and canât let it go even now? What do you like about me? What is it that you canât let go of?â
Mu Huan didnât understand how he could say he liked her yet, in action, despise her. If he thought that she was that sort of nauseating materialistic money worshipper, what would he like about her?
He liked her nauseating money-worshipping materialism?
âIâm not sure whatâs wrong with me, I donât want to be like this...â Gu Chenyi agonized.
Like what she said, since he felt that she was that sort of woman who wanted to get close to him for moneyâs sake, who sold her body and became a hostess for moneyâs sake, what did he like about her?
Why couldnât he let her go?
âIf you donât want to be like this, then stop thinking about it,â Mu Huan said with a sigh.
âHow can I not think about it? I see you every day!â How could he stop thinking about her?
âAlternatively, why donât you go abroad? If you went abroad, you wonât see me â out of sight, out of mind â and you can start afresh. Very soon, youâll forget everything!â Mu Huan suggested.
âWas it you who suggested to my uncle to send me abroad?â What she just said reminded him of the time his uncle had tossed him two thick volumes and instructed him to finish reading all that in two days. Otherwise, heâd be sent abroad. They were such thick books that it was obvious he was trying to make things difficult.
âYour uncle wanted to send you abroad?â Mu Huan seemed surprised.
Gu Chenyi did not go on. He could tell she didnât know about this matter.
He looked at Mu Huan for a long time. Finally, he decided, âXiao Huan, come with me! No matter what happened in the past, from now on, youâll have me. Weâll leave all of these behind and go somewhere where no one knows us. Weâll start afresh!â
She widened her eyes in disbelief.
He was...
He was asking her to elope?
Freaking hell!
This child... this child... what was he thinking?!
âXiao Huan, letâs leave the past behind, let everything go. Weâll leave this place and be together forever!â Suddenly he reached out and grabbed her hands tightly, looking at her with his pleading eyes, saying:
Donât reject him, heâs putting all at risk to make such a decision!
He didnât care what sort of person she was before, or what went on between her and his uncle. As long as from now on, she liked only him!
Gu Chenyi would not accept that Mu Huan would continue to be with his uncle, and he would not accept that he had to marry Lin Qingya.
The rejection of these facts pushed him to make the firm decision to let everything else go, to not bother about the sort of person Mu Huan was, to not let it matter what she did in the past. As long as from now on, she liked only him and would be faithful to him.
His almost desperate plea stopped Mu Huan from kicking him off like she was inclined to. She couldnât bring herself to do it and only forcefully withdrew her hand.
âGu Chenyi, thatâs not possible!â She was his aunt now, and she simply couldnât imagine the consequences of eloping with him! Furthermore, even if there were to be no consequences, and even if they werenât aunt and nephew, she wouldnât have eloped with him either!