Suo Lun could not help but be startled upon hearing these words.
Mother?
The last time Zhi Li proposed a deal, Suo Lun had chosen his daughter Qinqin without hesitation, rather than that legendary birth mother Fu Lingxi.
So what words would she have Fu E pass on?
“Completely sever your relationship with Yan Naier,” Fu E said.
“Impossible,” Suo Lun said resolutely.
Fu E said coldly, “I am merely passing on the message. As for what you intend to do, it has nothing to do with me.”
Having spoken, his maternal grandfather Marquis Fu E directly departed.
Suo Lun instantly fell into deep puzzlement. Why would his mother Fu Lingxi have Fu E pass on such words?
It was truly too strange!
And just at this moment.
“Meow…” Suddenly, from behind the rockery came the sound of a little cat mewing.
Suo Lun was instantly speechless. This Gui Qinshao’s imitation of a cat was truly realistic.
Originally, he had not planned to have a secret tryst with Gui Qinshao in this place. If they were discovered, the consequences would be rather serious and would disrupt his plans.
But he had not expected that Fu E would coincidentally bring him to this very place.
“Meow…” Gui Qinshao imitated a cat once more.
Suo Lun crouched down and walked to the back of the rockery.
Instantly, he saw Gui Qinshao lying in the crack between the rockeries, looking outward and searching about while imitating a cat mewing. She was doing this for fear that Suo Lun would not find this place.
At this moment, Suo Lun had truly arrived, yet she had still not discovered him.
Suo Lun simply did not make a sound, and just watched her performance like this.
Today she was still wearing a red silk long dress, still rather tight fitting, pressing her waist and hip curves into a very provocative shape.
As she climbed down like this, her slender little waist sank in, making her round, plump buttocks appear even more startlingly pert, nearly exaggeratedly abundant. A single glance was enough to make one’s whole body burn with fire, wanting only to deliver a hard slap upon it first.
“Meow…” Gui Qinshao let out another cat call, then said in a low, coquettish voice, “This dead man, why hasn’t he come yet?”
Just now, Suo Lun and Fu E had been speaking on the other side of the garden, so Gui Qinshao had not noticed.
“Eh…” Suo Lun called out softly.
“Ah…” Gui Qinshao let out a low cry, her feet trembling, nearly falling from the rockery.
Seeing Suo Lun, she was both angry and delighted as she said, “You dead man, you walk without making a sound. If you frightened me to death, could you afford to compensate?”
Perhaps due to nervous lust, her face was flushed red, her heart racing, making her appear even more alluringly ripe.
“You called me here, what is the matter?” Suo Lun asked.
Gui Qinshao had originally thought that Suo Lun would start groping her the moment he saw her, so while her heart was uneasy it was also filled with anticipation.
She had not expected that Suo Lun not only did not start groping her, but instead appeared somewhat cold. Instantly, she felt inwardly annoyed.
“Nothing…” Gui Qinshao said angrily.
Suo Lun said, “If it is nothing, then I shall return to the hall.”
“Scram…” Gui Qinshao said.
Suo Lun turned to leave.
“Bastard, I was nearly raped by Ashi Luo,” Gui Qinshao said angrily from behind. “I dared not tell anyone, not even my father.”
“Ashi Luo is already dead,” Suo Lun said.
“Ah…” Gui Qinshao instantly let out a long sigh of relief.
This Ashi Luo was truly too terrifying. Ever since that night of danger, Gui Qinshao often had nightmares, dreaming of Ashi Luo.
They were true nightmares, not any other kind of dream.
Suo Lun said, “You called me over, saying there was an important matter. What is it?”
Gui Qinshao deliberated for a long time, then raised her beautiful eyes and looked at Suo Lun, saying, “I am getting married.”
Suo Lun’s heart trembled. “When?”
“Next month,” Gui Qinshao said.
In the Linhai City plan, Gui Qinshao was an important piece.
“Ling Ao treats me very well, and my father also has great expectations of me,” Gui Qinshao said. “So… you and I cannot continue this unclear relationship.”
Suo Lun recalled the previous time when Gui Qinshao would rather disfigure her face than betray her father, causing him to see this young lady in a new light.
To her, appearance was more important than life itself.
Yet she would rather be disfigured than betray her father, showing that her father Gui Xingfu’s place in her heart surpassed everything.
However, she did not know that on that night, her secret tryst with Suo Lun out of pique was entirely a trap set by her father, using her to kill Suo Lun.
“Have you come to sever your relationship with me?” Suo Lun asked.
“Yes,” Gui Qinshao said. “Before my mother married, she too had once been confused. But after marriage, she loved my father with single-minded devotion. Ling Ao treats me very well, and you… are not a good person. A woman must choose a man who loves her with single-minded devotion to be happy.”
Only now did Suo Lun look seriously at Gui Qinshao. Previously he had always regarded her as a flashy, vain young lady. Now the words she spoke, though still not very mature, were already quite serious.
“I am a vain woman,” Gui Qinshao said. “So I have always been insatiably greedy. I have been unable to get over the fact that Ling Ao is not as outstanding as you. I wished that the most outstanding man in the world would go mad for me. So although I knew you were a bastard, I still repeatedly had secret trysts with you, enjoying that stimulating sweetness.”
Suo Lun looked at Gui Qinshao’s face and said, “What happened?”
Gui Qinshao said, “Tu Lingduo and Tu Liyang are married. Tu Liyang loves Tu Lingduo very, very much, almost giving everything of himself to her. Now Tu Lingduo has almost become the mistress of Luanyang City.”
This result did not surprise Suo Lun.
Gui Qinshao said, “But… Tu Lingduo is preparing to have secret trysts with Zhi Li and bear his child, and is planning to kill Tu Liyang.”
“How… how do you know of this matter?” Suo Lun asked in surprise.
“Don’t ask how I know, I just know,” Gui Qinshao said. “Moreover, Tu Lingduo’s body recovered long ago. She completely does not need to sit in a wheelchair anymore, but she still pretends to be paralysed, unwilling to let Tu Liyang touch a single finger of hers.”
To be honest, regarding Tu Lingduo’s transformation, Suo Lun was also very astonished.
Originally, between her and Gui Qinshao, Suo Lun had thought Gui Qinshao was the selfish one. He had not expected that the result would be the reverse. Gui Qinshao was willing to sacrifice herself for her father. While Tu Lingduo, for her own interests, could resort to any means.
However, Suo Lun later understood.
Tu Lingduo was a very clever woman, while Gui Qinshao was a not-so-clever woman.
Foolish women, sometimes, have inexplicable persistence.
To a large extent, Yan Naier was also a foolish woman, willing to sacrifice everything for her relationship with Suo Lun.
Ashi Liren was also a foolish woman.
To some degree, this Gui Qinshao before his eyes was also a foolish woman.
Gui Qinshao said, “After learning of that matter, my heart was truly shaken. I am a bad woman, always harming Tu Lingduo. But I only wanted to see her suffer misfortune. I never thought of killing her. I was very distressed when she was paralysed. I had not expected that she could so casually plan to kill a husband who treats her so well. Later I felt great sympathy for Tu Liyang, and I carefully observed them. Tu Liyang truly treats Tu Lingduo very, very well. Every day he radiates boundless happiness, caring for her meticulously in every possible way. Whatever Tu Lingduo wants, whatever she wishes to eat, no matter how far away he would obtain it. And every time Tu Lingduo loses her temper, he uses the gentlest tone to coax and comfort her. Wherever Tu Lingduo wishes to go, he personally pushes the wheelchair. Every look he gives Tu Lingduo is the gentlest.”
Gui Qinshao took a deep breath.
“I instantly felt Tu Liyang was so pitiful…” Gui Qinshao said. “Then thinking that he was going to be killed by Tu Lingduo and Zhi Li, I felt he was even more pitiful. Then I thought of myself, and I felt I was no different from Tu Lingduo. Ling Ao treats me so well, yet I repeatedly had secret trysts with you behind his back. And you and Zhi Li are both not good things. I too am a bad woman.”
Suo Lun looked at Gui Qinshao. He truly had not expected that her psychological journey would be like this.
“Last time, my father encouraged Ling Ao to take me, and as a result I pierced Ling Ao’s chest with a sword,” Gui Qinshao continued. “I had not expected that from then on, Ling Ao treated me even better, even more gently, even more respectfully. And he promised me that unless I myself agreed, he would not touch a single finger of mine again. He would keep waiting for me, waiting until I willingly accepted him.”
Suo Lun closed his eyes, imagining Ling Ao’s feelings for Gui Qinshao!
Yes, his devotion to Gui Qinshao was absolute.
Gui Qinshao said, “I thought for a long time, and then I understood clearly. You are a man who makes people sink into depravity. You are the most outstanding, most enchanting man in the world. I love you very much…”
When she spoke the words “I love you very much,” Gui Qinshao’s tears trembled. She had finally spoken these words.
The previous time at Yuhua Pavilion, she had deliberated for a long time without being able to say them. This was still the first time in her life she had said these words to a man.
Taking a deep breath, Gui Qinshao said, “If you also truly loved me, then I would have enough courage to cast everything aside and be with you. Even if you did not love me that much, because I am a selfish woman, what I want I must obtain. If you and my father were on the same side, then I would also be with you. But you neither truly love me, nor are you in absolute opposition to my father. So I understood clearly. If I continued to willfully have secret trysts with you, it would bring enormous disaster.”
“More importantly, Ling Ao loves me very much. He is outstanding. Before you appeared, I also had a certain fondness for him,” Gui Qinshao said, taking a deep breath. “He will be the best husband, able to satisfy my vanity, and also able to take the best care of me. I ought to grow up. I can no longer hurt my father, nor can I hurt Ling Ao anymore. They are the ones who love me and care for me most in this world, and you are not.”
“I am getting married to Ling Ao next month, and I will have no more chances to meet you. So seizing tonight’s opportunity, I wanted to see you one last time, to make things clear, to thoroughly bid farewell to you, to bid farewell to the past,” Gui Qinshao said. “My mother told me that before she remarried my father, she had a lover. Can you guess who that person was?”
Suo Lun shook his head, not knowing.
“It was King Zhi Bian,” Gui Qinshao said. “Moreover, she and King Zhi Bian had already done everything together. Her hymen was also repaired by a sorcerer, and at that time she and my father already had a marriage contract. But after marriage, she still loved my father with single-minded devotion. It was also one month before the marriage that she thoroughly bid farewell to Zhi Bian. Now, it is my turn to thoroughly bid farewell to you.”
“Of course, my situation and my mother’s are still somewhat different. You are even more enchanting than King Zhi Bian. Perhaps I have fallen even deeper,” Gui Qinshao said. “But you and Zhi Bian are the same, neither of you can give us true happiness. Suo Lun, I am getting married in a month, so our previous relationship ends here, alright?”
Suo Lun’s eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a gentle smile.
Taking a deep breath, as if mustering great courage, Gui Qinshao’s beautiful eyes like water gazed at Suo Lun and said, “From tomorrow onwards, I shall follow my husband with single-minded devotion. Tonight is our last night. You may do whatever you wish to me, as long as you do not break that layer of false purity again. This final tryst shall be the final settlement of our previous ill-fated entanglement!”
Having spoken, Gui Qinshao lightly pulled down her long dress, revealing a wondrous, fragrant, living-jade-like body.