Chapter 527 – Chatting (2/2)

After this simple question and answer, the kang once more grew silent.

Xu Yourong brought the wine cup up to her mouth and took a very light sip. It was just a sip, but her face blushed a little.

”Don't tell other people that we met in the Garden of Zhou.”

”Why?”

When Chen Changsheng heard her request on the Bridge of Helplessness, he could not understand it. Now when he heard confirmation that she really did not wish for others to know of this matter, he was even more puzzled.

Xu Yourong did not directly answer her question, instead softly asking, ”Hasn't the engagement already been annulled?”

This was a piece of information that had circulated in the capital for quite some time, but it had never been admitted by either the Orthodox Academy or the Divine General of the East's estate. But as one of the parties of the engagement, she naturally knew that the rumors were not rumors, but rather a thing that had really happened.

For a long time, Chen Changsheng said nothing.

On the bridge when the wind brushed away her white gauze and he saw her eyes, that was the happiest moment in his sixteen years of life. Compared to when he was finally able to memorize the last scroll of the Daoist Canon in the old temple, when he found his Fated Star in the Orthodox Academy, when he obtained first rank of the first banner in the Grand Examination, when he found Wang Zhice's notebook in the Lingyan Pavilion…it was happier than all those moments.

She had been alive all along, she was her, she was his fiancée. Was there any encounter in the world as bizarre as this, any matter as good?

When he was taking a bath in the house back at the Orthodox Academy, he had already planned it all out. He was going to go the Li Palace and ask the Pope to reconstruct the marriage contract. Then, he would take Tang Thirty-Six and the rest to the Imperial Palace to find her. If she agreed, he would propose to her straight away.

He had never gone through a love affair before, but as long as he decided this was something he wanted to do, he would absolutely carry out it with extreme diligence and focus, seizing every minute.

But now she said that he could not tell of this matter to anyone else, so how could he convince the Pope to rescind the decree that annulled the marriage contract?

A month ago, he had worked arduously to finally annul the engagement.

Now, he realized that he really wanted this engagement.

Tang Thirty-Six had spoken very correctly.

”I thought you were dead, and in the Garden of Zhou, I promised you that I would annul the engagement, so…”

He looked at Xu Yourong and said rather helplessly, ”Since you knew who I was, why didn't you tell me sooner?”

Xu Yourong's expression seemed to chill somewhat. ”In the Garden of Zhou, you deceived me. I had to realize the truth myself, so why would I have to tell you?”

Chen Changsheng believed himself innocent, asking, ”When did I deceive you?”

”Could it be that you're called Xu Sheng?”

”You're not Lady Chujian.”

”Why did you not want to admit that you were Chen Changsheng?”

”Back then, why didn't you say that you were Xu Yourong?”

They looked into each other's eyes, speaking the questions at almost the same time.

Then they both remembered, back in the snowy temple by the White Grass Path, when they introduced themselves for the first time, they had also spoken at the same time, giving out two false names…

They didn't remember just what they had been thinking back then.

Chen Changsheng recalled his mood from that time. The primary reason he had not wanted her to know of his identity was because he didn't want her to know that he had a world-famous fiancée. Perhaps Xu Yourong was thinking the same, not wishing for him to know that she had such a well-known fiancé?

”Is having a fiancé like me such a shameful thing?”

He asked Xu Yourong, rather serious, and also rather bitter and sad.