I said, "If you really think he is an obstacle between us, why did I marry you?"

“…”

He was silent and didn't speak.

My voice was as salty as tears, and I said with difficulty: "When I promised to marry you, he had not arrived in Yangzhou yet; when he arrived in Yangzhou, I went to get him a divorce letter."

“…”

"Has he really blocked us?"

“…”

"If he really would be a barrier between us, I would not promise to marry you until he comes; nor would I keep my promise after he appears."

Hearing this sentence, his chest shook slightly.

I leaned against his chest and recalled those days on the island. The man's cold and sparse eyes were hot and solid chest, and tears fell silently, and slowly said, "He has never been an obstacle between us."

“…”

I raised my head and looked at the only candle in the room that was swaying constantly—

“He wasn’t between us either.”

In the fire, I seemed to see his calm and dark pupils, as deep as a bottomless deep pool, and no one could see what was hidden in his eyes. He looked at me with that look and said to me-

I respect and admire the wife very much...

“He’s never been an obstacle to my going anywhere…”

My respect and admiration for my wife is only this...

"Not even more, the obstacle to my union with anyone..."

I have the jewel of a pearl and no desire to transgress...

I looked up at him and said, "Do you understand?"

After hearing my words, he became silent, but his eyes were obviously not calm. I could see a lot of emotions struggling and entangling in those eyes, even hitting. After a while, he raised his head and looked at me with a burning look: "What about you?"

"……What?"

"He won't be the obstacle between you and me, that's him, what about you?"

“…”

"Does he still have in your heart?"

When he said this, his breathing became tighter. He stepped forward and grabbed my arm, held me firmly in his hand, and looked straight into my eyes: "Or, you can't forget him at all?"

When I heard this, my chest burst, as if my heart suddenly throbbed, about to burst out from my chest.

With a hint of despair and helplessness, I looked at him: "He exists in my life. He is the person I once loved. How can I forget him?"

His eyes sterned, and the hand holding my arms suddenly exerted force, and I suddenly felt a piercing pain.

He seemed to see the pain in my eyes, and hurriedly let go, but he seemed unwilling to let go, and used his ten fingers to tremble and tied it on my arm. The contradictory mood seemed to be the same as me at this moment, as if it was about to be torn and broken.

"But--" I spoke and said softly: "After I get married with you, he is the prefect of Liu Qinghan, the prefect of Yangzhou Prefecture, and Miaoyan's third uncle... I am no one."

“…”

"I haven't forgotten him because he is a person who appears in my life and gives me warmth and happiness. I can't forget those days and cannot betray my memories... But that's just memories. They have passed. You are my husband. My present and future belong to you."

When he heard my last sentence, his emotions were completely distracted. Looking at my red eyes, he suddenly reached out and held my pale face, lowered his head, and kissed my tears with his lips.

He said vaguely: "I know...I know everything, I know you are my wife, I know you belong to me, but-"

I looked up at him, and wet tears were still stuck to my eyelids.

He also looked at me and said slowly, "I just heard that you met on the sea, and I - Qingying, I will be jealous."

“…”

"I know he has been with you through the most difficult time. I know he hugged you when you were hurt. I know he treats you-"

“…”

"I understand everything when he looks at you!"

I looked at the dull expression and anxious expression in his eyes, and after a while, I smiled sadly: "Yes, he and I met on the sea and depended on each other on the island. He hugged me when I was injured, and I also handed over my life to him and rely on him."

“…”

"Because you are not here."

His face suddenly sank.

"Yuan Xiu, you should be the one around me." I looked into his eyes and said slowly, "But you are not here."

“…”

"Where were you at that time?"

“…”

"Who are with?"

His eyes suddenly turned dark.

"Yuan Xiu," I looked at his dark pupils and said deeply: "Liu Qinghan, he is in my memory, but not between us. There is indeed one person between us, but not him."

The hands holding my cheeks spasmed slightly.

I even felt his breath retreat at this moment, but I still looked straight into his eyes without retreating at all, and asked without letting him avoid it: "Who is that person?"

“…”

"It's Han Ruoshi!"

“…”

"You meet her and she has been with you. That is your past. I can't change it. It's just like I can't erase the imprint that Liu Qinghan left in my life. I know that there are things that cannot be forced, and I can't force them."

“…”

"But you marry me, and I marry you too."

“…”

"Our present and future should belong to each other."

“…”

“Do I want a lot?”

"..." He was silent, and when he spoke again, he seemed to feel a little painful: "Qingying..."

"I can accept that the people and affairs in this mansion have nothing to do with me," I interrupted him, and did not let his pain continue, and said directly: "I don't care. Everyone just calls me a wife. Yuan Xiu, I have experienced a life of great wealth and honor, even more than you think. I can take up such a life, but I can also let go of it."

“…”

"So I don't care about these."

“…”

"I care only people."

I wanted to reach out to hold his face, but the injured shoulder on the other side had completely lost consciousness in the emotions and struggles just now. There was only one arm left, but there was no more strength. I gritted my teeth and gently lifted it up to caress his slightly cool cheeks and his jaw that had grown a little bit of stubborn. The familiar outline made me feel relieved, but it also brought a palpitations.

"Yuan Xiu, are you still the same Yuan Xiu as before?"

For some reason, when I asked this question, I pressed against his chest and felt a slight shock there. It felt like something was broken inside.

Even his eyes and his voice were broken at this moment.

When he spoke, his face was dark. The faint morning light behind me that was thrown into the room through the door seemed to have a hint of brazenness, which I had never seen in him before.

Looking at him like this, I almost suffocated.

He was silent for a long time and said, "I am no longer the prince I used to be."

“…”

"Even you know, I am not a prince of the Tian family."

“…”

"I just...just-"

"Yuan Xiu!" I interrupted him, and struggled to use the soft hand that could fall down at any time to stroke his cheek, and gently stroked his face with my fingertips: "I don't care about this."

“…”

"You are the prince of the imperial city or the prince of Jinling. Even if you are just the most ordinary teacher and the waiter in the inn, there is no difference for me. I don't eat much and don't have to dress too well. I don't have the luxury of being a mother in the world, and I don't have to be sought after by people who bow three times and bow nine times. All I care about is-"

I gently held his face and let him look at me: "Are you still the Yuan Xiu I met at the beginning?"

...

After this night, I was exhausted and the wounds on my body. When I finished saying this, I almost reached my limit. Before I even waited for his answer, I staggered and suddenly hit the door behind me.

A clanging sound, not too loud, shook a crack between me and his silence.
To be continued...