Chapter 65 V2 : I’ve Never Forgotten Our Promise But You’ve Never Once Believed In Me (1/2)

She still didn’t believe him! Having been in love for so many years, how could she not believe in him and not understand his character! Shi Fengju’s heart felt empty and there was a huge sense of disappointment which he could not speak about. He was not ready to give up, and he asked again, “Fang’er, I’m speaking the truth! We can think of a solution together, I believe it’ll be possible! After three years, I’ll marry you as my wife!”

There was no way Gu Fangzi would believe in his words, and she saw those words as a way of him trying to delay tying the knot with her! Three years? She sneered to herself, who knows what would happen in three years! Even the flowers of a long yellow daylily would have already withered!

If she were to follow with the mourning, she would have to stay in this courtyard. Even the Shi household was a place she could not go! There was this saying that the tea cools when the person walks away. Who knows, he might have already forgotten who she was after three years.

But she had to hold on to him tightly, to have him by her side.

“Big Cousin, I really never desired the position to be your wife, really! I’m already satisfied to be able to be with you, even if I were to become a concubine! I’ll surely get along well with Sister Sang Wan, and not make it difficult for you!” Gu Fangzi spoke pitifully, “Big Cousin, don’t tell me you are worried that an orphan like me can spark any kind of trouble? That won’t happen! If someone could take me in and shelter me from the wind and the rain, I, I’m already contented!”

As she spoke, tears began to fall again.

Shi Fengju stared at her blankly, with a heart entirely at a loss.

She was satisfied, she said she was satisfied with just beinga concubine!

However, he was not. He loved her, and did not wish for her to suffer. He wished for her to stand on an equal footing with him as they join hands together until death! And when that time comes, they would enter the ancestral temple together and enjoy the worship of their future generations! And not have her name be engraved as just a concubine! He, Shi Fengju, lacked no servants, nor did the Shi household!

“Big Cousin…”

“Fang’er,” Shi Fengju sighed and said softly, “There’s something I’m not sure if you’ll believe me or not, but I’ve never done anything to Sang Wan. She and I have made an agreement to separate after a year and void the marriage. If, if you’re willing to wait after the three-year mourning, I can really marry you as my wife.”

Gu Fangzi was stunned and she looked at Shi Fengju, whose face was pale as if he had seen a ghost.

The moment Shi Fengju said it, he secretly regretted! How could he have said it! If word were to spread and turned into some nonsensical gossip, how would Sang Wan continue to live? And what would his Shi family’s reputation become!

“What? What did you say?” Gu Fangzi’s eyes stared straight at him with a stunned expression that did not change.

But she could not be blamed for that because that news was shocking for her as well! How could that be!

Shi Fengju coughed a little strangely and shunned his eyes from her gaze before speaking unnaturally, “That, nothing, it’s up to you to believe it or not!”

If Gu Fangzi truly understood Shi Fengju, then she would have known that his expression now was definitely him telling the truth. However, with her mind all set for her own future, she was not in the right mind to discern between a lie and a truth.

Seeing Shi Fengju trying to close the topic and evading her eyes, Gu Fangzi immediately deemed that his heart was guilty——guilty for trying to deceive her!

Gu Fangzi felt anger slowly sipping into her head. Just to delay this marriage, he could even say something as incomprehensible as that! A man’s heart really changes easily! Gu Fangzi felt regretful, regretful of holding herself back at that time. She should have done something irreversible with him before Sang Wan was married in.

“Big Cousin, I’m really serious, everything I’m saying is from the heart!” Gu Fangzi sobbed with tears, “I swear, I only want to stay by your side, even as a concubine, I’m willing to! I will not snatch what belongs to Sister Sang Wan or whatsoever, really!”

“Fang’er, is that really from your heart?” Shi Fengju’s voice was like his expression now, empty and fluttery, and the feeling in his heart felt even more complex!

This was the woman whom he loved, whom he appreciated for many years, and the one he looked forward to grow old together with! Turns out, she only wanted to be a concubine.

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The sense of greatness he had for her was gone, and all he sensed was disappointment.

“Yes, they’re all from my heart! I can swear!” Gu Fangzi quickly nodded.

“Okay then!” Shi Fengju gave a glimpse at her before nodding with a sigh, “I understand!”

“Then, you’ll promise me?” Gu Fangzi’s eyes glistened.

“En!” Shi Fengju nodded gently. From this moment on, she was his concubine and nothing more!

Gu Fangzi grinned from ear to ear and wrapped her arms around Shi Fengju’s, “Big Cousin, I knew you care about me, that you won’t throw me away! Big Cousin…”

Shi Fengju leaned his head to a side and looked at her. The storm in his eyes had finally quietened. The kind of feeling when his heart would skip a beat had vanished entirely.

On the next day, Shi Fengju returned to the Shi household. Gu Fangzi personally saw him off. Reluctant to part from him, she spoke, “Big Cousin, don’t forget your promise!”

Shi Fengju thought to himself: I have never once forgotten our promise, but you, you’ve never once believed in me!

“I won’t.” He gave a faint smile and left.

The Shi family’s main gate was right in front. Shi Fengju rubbed the back of his head that was throbbing badly and walked through it as he shook his head.