Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Tang Rongling reached out to help the kneeling girl stand up. He pulled her into his embrace and said tenderly, “This is not your fault. Gu Qingxin, Yunci has always been the one that I love.”
He fell in love with Gu Yunci five years ago when she sacrificed everything to save his life. He had been planning to cancel his engagement with Gu Qingxin for a long time now, but Gu Yunci stopped him repeatedly as she feared that Gu Qingxin would not be able to take such an emotional blow.
Gu Yunci was too kind and considerate toward everyone else. This put her in sharp contrast to the ‘arrogant and domineering’ Gu Qingxin.
“You love her, but what about me?” Gu Qingxin’s fists grew tighter. Her heart hurt so much that she could barely breathe. It felt like her heart had been pierced by a sharp blade and it would not stop bleeding.
“I have never told you that I love you.” When Gu Qingxin heard those words come out of Tang Rongling’s mouth, her eyes widened, and her thin body took two steps back uncontrollably as she started to remember.
“Rongling, Rongling, my feet hurt, can you please carry me?”
“…”
“Rongling, don’t walk so fast. Wait for me.”
“…”
“Rongling, we are about to be engaged. Tell me if you love me. Tell me, do you love me?”
“…”
This was the moment that Gu Qingxin suddenly realized that she had spent her entire youth chasing after his footsteps, but he had never told her that he loved her.
“Rongling, don’t say anything else. We’re the ones who have let Qingxin down. I feel terrible. Rongling, let’s break up. Qingxin has always been so good to me, we cannot do anything to let her down.” Gu Yunci cried miserably in the man’s arms and looked as though she could pass out at any moment.
“Stop crying. You’re expecting, you shouldn’t get too agitated,” Tang Rongling said with a frown as he comforted the girl in his embrace.
Gu Qingxin’s breath felt stifled. She could not believe that this was not their first time and that they are having a child together.
When she was on the brink of getting violated by a disgusting man last night, she called him for help. However, he had hung up on her ruthlessly because he was with Gu Yunci.
She lost the innocence that she had preserved for him, and he was with someone else too.
“Gu Qingxin, no matter what tricks you’re up to this time, I don’t have the time to play with you!”
He did not love her. In his eyes, no matter what she did, he deemed her actions as frivolous and ridiculous.
However, he had forgotten that she was no longer the beloved lady of the Gu family. She was now merely a poor woman who had been driven out. Where would she find the capacity to stir trouble for him?
Gu Qingxin was in a trance. However, she could still hear Tang Rongling’s cold voice. “Let’s cancel our engagement. Yunci is pregnant with my child. I cannot let my child be illegitimate.”
Overwhelmed, the tears in Gu Qingxin’s eyes finally streamed down her face.
A trace of astonishment flashed in Tang Rongling’s eyes. As far as he remembered, he had never seen Gu Qingxin cry. She was always cheerful around him and always demanded that he laughed along with her.
At that moment, he felt extremely irritated by her. However, since she was the beloved lady of the Gu family, he had no choice but to endure it.
“No, you cannot cancel your engagement with Qingxin. We’re the ones at fault. I won’t agree to this, over my dead body…” Gu Yunci gripped his bathrobe tightly and was evidently very emotional. Suddenly, the look on her face changed, and she cried, “Rongling, my stomach hurts, our baby…”
“I’ll take you to the hospital,” he replied quickly.
“No. I won’t go if Qingxin doesn’t forgive me,” Gu Yunci cried as hard as she could. Her fingers remained curled tightly around the man’s bathrobe until her knuckles turned white.