Chapter 880: 880、Why Are you So Kind with me? (2/2)

“Mister.” Wen He greeted upon seeing the butler, all alone, standing next to the tombstone again.

“Ma’am.” He bowed and forced a smile.

She walked a few steps ahead and her head regretfully lowered as if dropped, “I’m sorry!”

“It’s what the young master has decided. I won’t blame you.” The butler shook his head.

“It was because of me…”

“…” The butler did not respond to her statement, only to pass her the stack of paper money as offerings. She squatted and gradually added the papers into the burning pot. The gentle breeze slid through her face and brought the burned ashes into the sky, leading her to make the first eye contact with the man in the portrait.

Gu Jinzhi was still the perfect gentleman with refined features in the frame.

A kind of nobility she remembered.

She also remembered—the final look of his when he fell into her embrace, all pale and lifeless—during which she could no longer hold her years.

“Gu Jinzhi…” She took a deep breath, “Why are you so kind with me?” She squatted down to the height of his tomb.

We have—*we had* been friends. Really close friends. So close on words yet behaving like acquaintances. You were my boss, my friend, the annoying man who made jokes on the worst timing.

But why? Why would you choose to save me over yourself? I’m not that important to you, am I?

Gu Jinzhi, what were you thinking, I wonder?

Those final words you uttered to me, those out-of-context jokes you said— what is this feeling inside me?

Why, Gu Jinzhi?

I’ll never know the answer…

Now that you’re gone.

Wen He thought as her fingers stroked the framed photo on the tomb. They slid down to fondle the engraved name below for the next hour.