Gu Qingyuan trembled all over and looked straight at the sallow Qiuyue in front of her.
She wanted to close her ears and eyes, not wanting to hear a word.
She saw Qiuyue tremblingly take out a letter from her sleeve pocket, with Ling Xiaohua clinging to the cover of the letter.
It's Qin's handwriting from that time.
What happened that year was clearly written on it.
Her last delusion has been shattered.
From Kyoto to Shandong, thousands of miles away, she only thought about whether she was wrong.
In fact, there is no blood connection between her and Pei Jinting.
The girl sitting on the chair was completely confused.
It was like a dark hole opened in my heart.
The wind blew loudly and it hurt.
She remembered that once at the Pei family, she went to a banquet with Mrs. Chengen. One of the ladies joked,
"No wonder the third young master wanted to take the bride home as well. It seems that the two of them even look similar."
The icy wind blows, and my heart seems to be frozen thousands of miles away, and there will be no spring again.
Everything is meaningless.
She heard herself asking countless questions, including the time difference when Concubine Lu entered the palace and how old she was.
For a long time, she didn't hear clearly what Qiuyue was saying, but she heard Qiuyue's explanation clearly.
"The girl had no intention of entering the palace, but she was tricked anyway, and then she was hastily married to the Duke of Zhenguo. My uncle is a very nice person, but who would have thought..."
Qiuyue shed tears, "Later, when she went into the palace to pay respects to Concubine Lu, she accidentally ate something bad and caused a scandal in the palace."
That person is Duke Chengen.
These are all recorded in the notebook.
Gu Qingyuan's face was pale, and there was deep anger hidden in her eyes.
Outside the door, footsteps could be heard quietly. In the dim light, Pei Jinting's entire face was in shadow, and the expression on her face was also vague and specious.
I heard a vague sound coming from inside,
"There was a scandal in the palace..."
Who caused scandal in the palace?
For a long time, he didn't hear clearly what was being said.
Then someone came out, and he saw Gu Qingyuan moving step by step like an old woman, holding on to the door frame and stopping, breathing heavily.
He stepped forward to hold her arm up, and the familiar fragrance of her body was on his nose.
"Are you here?" It took Gu Qingyuan a long time to see clearly who was in front of her.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is full and people are round.
Although Gu Qingyuan's tone was too bland, Pei Jinting was still very happy to finally see her.
With a pleasant look on his lips, he supported him with one hand and held the door with the other, and said softly,
"I have been delayed by something outside these past few days, so I didn't come here. Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. I always want to reunite with you."
In his heart, looking at the eyebrows and eyes in front of him, he felt a warmth.
But then, he saw Gu Qingyuan who seemed to be pitiful and yet sad at the same time and said,
"no."
Her soft voice was like a gentle knife, approaching slowly little by little, stabbing in silently, saying,
"No, Mr. Pei. We are not having a reunion. Please don't come here again. Otherwise, I won't be polite."
Her title was no longer Pei Jingheng or Pei Jinting, but "Mr. Pei" in a distant and indifferent way.
Pei Jinting stared at Gu Qingyuan for a long time, neither of them looking away from the other, until Pei Jinting asked calmly,
"Are you serious? Yes, I am willing to play with you, but that doesn't mean..."
Pei Jinting had known that her small mouth could make people angry, but he didn't expect that she could also sharpen a knife on a full moon night during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
When her nose felt sore, Gu Qingyuan almost shed tears, sniffed, and finally suppressed the tears in her eyes, remained silent for a moment, and chuckled,
"Mr. Pei, what's the point of being so entangled? Us? You should know my intention of coming to Rencheng, right?"
Gu Qingyuan heard a low, mocking smile and found that the thin anger on Pei Jinting's face was suppressed by him, and there was a dark and destructive meaning in his eyes.
He faced her face to face, very close, forcefully,
"I know. But what's the obstacle between your life experience and our relationship? Whatever you want to do, just ask me to do it."
"What do you want to know? Just ask me to check it out. I will only be your person and help you with things. Miss Ayuan, the noble daughter of the Gu family, is this so bad?"
Gu Qingyuan leaned against the door frame. From head to toe, even her black hair could feel Pei Jinting's bold aura, and her whole body seemed to be surrounded by him.
Such words sounded so nice. It made her lose her mind for a moment.
But soon, she came back to her senses and said softly,
"Pei Jinting. If we are brother and sister, do you want everyone in the world to know that the third son of the Pei family married his own sister?"
Pei Jinting looked at her in disbelief. He vaguely knew that Gu Qingyuan was not joking.
"you……"
Gu Qingyuan leaned against the door panel, no matter if it was his hand or something else, she rested her head on it tiredly.
"How ridiculous, isn't it? Do you know why King Qin asked me to meet in Linjiangxian? Why do I insist on making peace with you?"
"Now, I realize that I am..."
Pei Jinting interrupted him sharply,
"You and I are not brothers and sisters..."
"Then can you tell me what happened between my mother and your father? This is my mother's note, which was recorded in her own handwriting."
"I said, there is no way for me ahead, and I am going to turn back. You can choose to let me go, or you can choose to destroy me."
Pei Jinting didn't say anything, but looked straight at her. After a while, he held her in his arms.
"Gu Yuanyuan. You and I are not biological brothers and sisters."
Unexpectedly, her struggle and entanglement were actually due to these.
What's more, she didn't expect that during her stumble, she would get a glimpse of the truth about that year.
But it was still wrong.
Wrong.
He held Gu Qingyuan in his arms and what he said was shocking,
"It doesn't matter. So what if we are brothers and sisters? Why do we have to pay attention to so many vulgar etiquette? We even stole the kiss."
"Why should we be afraid of this extra thing? I have cared about you for more than ten years, so why should I hand you over to another man? We, brother and sister, should live our whole lives close to each other."
Gu Qingyuan pushed him, thinking of the past, she couldn't help but get red at the corners of her eyes at Pei Jinting's nonsense.
Her eyes were red, and Pei Jinting, who was talking nonsense, felt slightly regretful, but her mouth was still hard, and the words she said were shocking.
"Since you've offended me, you can break it off wherever you want. It's okay for us to live a life of alienation on the surface and having fun secretly."
He seemed to chuckle slightly, lifted Gu Qingyuan's tearful face, the two of them were very close, and coaxed in a low voice,
"Yuanyuan. So what if the world laughs at us? We live our lives. Does the world feed us or clothe us? Why does the world not tolerate us being together?"
"Even if you're embarrassed, I'll be the one taking the lead. You just need to follow me."
His words were so loud that Gu Qingyuan couldn't find the words for a long time.