The sorrow in Gu Xiyan's eyes at that moment explained everything. She was heartbroken for the man, wasn't she? Just because Wei Zhe saved her, but he himself wasn't by her side at the critical moment. So she wanted to give up on him, right? Why? Just because he missed one time, she would sentence him to death? But he's a soldier! A soldier's mission is to obey orders. Heaven knows how much he wanted to return to her side without regard for anything else at that time. But he... couldn't.

  "Let me go. It's been so many years. Enough. There was never any love between us to begin with. As for Yan'er, I know she likes Vice Principal He very much. I think...she would also be willing to accept Vice Principal He as her mother. Shang...ge, let me go, okay?" Gu Xiyan almost begged. It was already difficult for her to say the words "divorce", and his reaction made it even harder for her.

  Gu Xiyuan, remember what your goal is today. Don't change your mind... Think of Wei Zhe, think of him. The number of people you've wronged in this life isn't many, but Wei Zhe stands out the most. Falling in love with you was his calamity. So, helping him get through this calamity is your destiny.

  Why can women change their minds so easily? Shang Rui felt like his heart had been pierced with a huge hole. Weren't they fine before? He was even prepared to propose to her, but now she's telling him she wants a divorce in such a ruthless manner.

  It's a divorce, after all. Divorce isn't child's play. How can she say it so lightly? What does she take him for? When she's happy, she's nice to him; when she's unhappy, she kicks him aside like a pet?

  "I'm giving you one last chance, tell me the truth. You only want to divorce me because you feel guilty towards Wei Zhe, right? I can let bygones be bygones.

  Even he has started to look down on himself. She has trampled all over his sincerity. And yet, he still wants to make a final struggle. Ha! Indeed, when it comes to love, he is really humble to the point of being worthless.

  In the past, he didn't know how to love a woman properly. Now that he's trying so hard to love her well, she's leaving him."

  Can't she just wait for him? Even if she doesn't love him, he still wants to keep her by his side. Even if it's just holding her and kissing her every day. This way, even if her heart isn't with him, he can still deceive himself into thinking that she likes him a little bit.

  Gu Xiyan shook her head. Even if it was true, she would never admit it.

  Seeing Gu Xiyan shake her head, Shang Qi's heart suddenly surged with a sense of betrayal and anger, mixed with an unknown pain. "Then give me a better reason. Give me a reason that can make me give up. You tell me."

  Gu Xiyan's lips were sealed. He asked her to give him a reason, but he was afraid that she would say something that would make his heart ache and break into pieces. So he kissed her, even tearing at her lips.

  "Don't be like this... um..." A taste of fresh blood appeared on her lips. Gu Xiyan pushed against the chest of the man in front of her. "Don't do this anymore. It's pointless." "I said, I said..."

  "Alright, you speak." Shang Yu gently stroked the side of Xiang Xi's face, soft and gentle to the extreme. "You speak, I'll listen to what you have to say. Say a reason that I can accept, one that won't make me feel uncomfortable."

  "Sorry, Shang Ge. I love... Wei Zhe. Please... help me out. Let me go back to him, okay?" Speaking with her eyes open was like this. But she spoke so sincerely that Shang Qi couldn't find any reason to hope that she would stay.

  She's really amazing. Gu Xiyan was holding back tears in her heart, admiring herself. Look, she said it so sincerely. In front of the man she deeply loves, saying words of love for another man. Is it only her who can do this? So isn't she great?

  "You love him. Haha... You love him. You didn't say that before. Didn't you say you and he were just friends, nothing more? Didn't you say you and he were already a thing of the past? Now you're saying you love him. Do I believe it or not? Ah." Shang Qi raised his fist and slammed it onto the door frame next to Gu Xiyan's right ear. A storm raged in his eyes. Love him. Love Wei Zhe. Shang Qi felt like he had truly been fooled by his own heart.

  Love. He is her husband. How can she say loving words about another man in front of her own husband?

  "Big brother Shang, please don't be like this. I know you're a very good man and there will be a very good woman who loves you. I'm not a good woman and I'm not worthy of you. You don't need to get angry for someone like me. It's not necessary. We've been entangled for so many years already. Please don't continue to get entangled with me. Find a woman who loves you and live well together. Wei Zhe loves me very much and I... love him too. I want to be with him. You know I loved him more than eight years ago. I cannot disappoint him again." Yes, she can no longer disappoint Wei Zhe. Gu Xiyan's eyes became determined, but behind that determination was a fragility that could not withstand a blow.

  "So you're saying that all the times you said you didn't love him were just lies to me, Gu Xiyan? How do you have such great acting skills? Ah, I had no idea. It turns out my wife has such high-level disguising abilities. You say I'm a good man, but why don't you love me and instead love Wei Zhe? Tell me.

  He shouted at her like this, would the pain in his heart just disappear? Gu Xiyan, you said I'm good, so why don't you love me? Is it that hard to give me a little bit of love? You say you're not a good woman, but I like you. I don't want any good woman, I just want you."

  "Emotional matters can't be forced, Brother Shang. If there's nothing else, I'd like to leave first, okay?" Gu Xiyan lowered her head, not wanting to discuss this topic anymore. "It's meaningless. You don't love me either, do you? Why are you being so crazy now? I have nothing left to give you except freedom. Just freedom." "Brother Shang, let's set each other free, okay? From now on, I won't interfere with your life again. If you have someone you like, I'll bless you. I also have the man I love. Let's divorce peacefully, okay?"

  "It's no good." The anger is overwhelming. Extreme hatred. Extreme pain. "What is Wei Zhe in your heart? What am I? I want to hear the voice in your heart."

  A hand covered Gu Xiyan's mouth, and Shang Yue felt the frequency of her heartbeat through his palm. A pair of eyes were almost crimson. What kind of woman had he fallen for? He was torn between three hearts and two intentions, his body in Cao's camp but his heart in Han's. How could she be like this? But she already was. And yet, he couldn't bear to let her go.

  "I'm sorry, it's all my fault." Gu Xiyan couldn't help but shed two lines of clear tears. Her hair was disheveled, but she didn't even bother to fix it. She sniffled and tried to hold back her trembling voice as she spoke: "Shang Ge, have you ever loved someone so much that you wanted to be with them no matter what? Loved them so much that you were willing to endure the ridicule of others just to be together? I was wrong back then. I shouldn't have run away so fast. I shouldn't have left him behind. I shouldn't have made him chase after me for seven years. I shouldn't have hurt him time and time again. I shouldn't have thrown his true feelings into the Pacific Ocean. I shouldn't... What I shouldn't have done most of all was forget how much I loved him. Now that he's lying in a hospital bed, I finally realize... I love him. I love him so much. Even if it means bearing the reputation of a woman who abandoned her husband, I still want to go back to him. I owe him. I owe him seven years of love. Shang Ge, please. I know you're good to me, but you can have other women. However, Wei Zhe can't. Without me, he'll become a walking corpse. I don't want to see him suffer anymore. He's already suffered for so many years. I really can't bear it." Gu Xiyan wasn't lying with her last sentence. She truly couldn't bear to see Wei Zhe suffer anymore. She would forget the man in front of her. She would. Forget this man and start anew with Wei Zhe. This was what she had to do. This was her inevitable fate.

  If she could, she would have liked to defy fate. But she didn't have the ability. Escaping was just luck. If not, then so be it. She had spent seven years before falling in love with a man again. How did she know she couldn't spend another seven years loving Wei Zhe?

  "You only thought of Wei Zhe, what about me? What am I supposed to do? What do you think of me? I just want to hear one honest sentence from you." A flash of pain crossed Shang Xi's eyes, but Gu Xiyun didn't notice. His body was trembling, she also didn't notice. The flames of anger and despair rolling in his heart, she wouldn't know even more. You only know Wei Zhe, your heart is only filled with thoughts of Wei Zhe. What about me? He loves you, does that mean I don't love you? He needs you, does that mean I don't need you? You can't bear to see him hurt, but you can bear to see me hurt, is that it? You asked if I've ever loved someone before. I have. But the person I love won't cherish my love anymore. She already has her beloved. She won't want my love anymore. My love... she doesn't want it anymore. Doesn't want it..."

  "We've been a nominal couple all along, we only got married for Yan'er's sake. Now that Yan'er is almost seven years old, I can retire with honor, right, Shang Ge? Maybe in the future, we can still be friends, ordinary friends, okay? I'm tired now, I want to leave. You should rest early too." Friend, how ironic. Gu Xiyan wanted to laugh, but didn't know whether she was laughing at herself or their relationship.

  Shang Yi Qi suddenly tore off Gu Xi Yan's clothes like a madman, and she couldn't resist. Her upper body was quickly left with only a camisole. She tightly wrapped her arms around her chest. Gu Xi Yan was somewhat afraid of the man in front of her.

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