After a long silence, he suddenly spoke: "In your past life, you already had someone you liked, and... I didn't dare to see you."
"The person you like? You mean Wen Yanfei?"
Jiang Ran suddenly realized that in her previous life, after returning to the Jiang family, she was completely deceived by Wen Yanfei, who was arranged by Jiang Xinrou to deliberately approach her.
Could it be that in his past life he did this to fulfill her wishes?
"Um."
"But... even if I have someone I like, you can still try to win them over. Giving up like that isn't like your personality."
"In my past life... I was too ashamed to face you."
"Why? What happened to you then?"
"By then, I was already disfigured."
After saying this, Huo Siyan lowered his eyes, a faint sadness in them.
In his previous life, he had never participated in power struggles and had no interest in them whatsoever.
He simply wanted to live a peaceful and ordinary life with the person he loved.
But he didn't want to fight, yet others insisted he fight.
By then, he had been searching for her for a long time.
When he finally learned about her, that she was the real daughter of the Jiang family who had been switched at birth, and that she was actually in the Jiang family, he was overjoyed.
When he put on his carefully chosen clothes to go to the Jiang family to see her, an accident happened on the way.
His face was disfigured, and he was forced into a power struggle.
To avoid putting her in danger, he dared not see her.
Only after he emerged victorious from that struggle did he finally gain the ability to protect her.
Looking at his disfigured face, he struggled with his thoughts for a long time before finally mustering the courage to see her.
But before he even reached the Jiang family home, he saw her holding hands with another man on the way, chatting and laughing, her face beaming with happiness.
The man was handsome, while I felt like an ugly clown in his presence.
How could someone as ugly as myself be worthy of her?
So, he backed down that day.
Later, he heard the news that she was getting married, and he could only silently wish her happiness in his heart.
The book says that liking someone means hoping they can be happy, not possessing them.
But he found himself increasingly unable to control his heart, unable to resist the urge to snatch her away from someone else.
He didn't want to ruin her happiness, so he could only suppress his longing for her and leave City A.
In order to avoid ruining her happy life, he destroyed everything in his life related to her, ordered himself to stop thinking about her, and never listen to any news about her again.
But this decision caused him to regret it for the rest of his life.
Later, he learned of her death.
After hearing what he said, Jiang Ran was moved.
So that's why.
"But... what about what you said before that we were engaged in a past life? I don't remember anything about that."
Huo Siyan sighed softly: "We were never engaged; that was all just my imagination."
In his past life, after learning of her death, he went through a period of madness. He hated himself for going abroad and for cutting off all contact with her.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have met such a tragic end.
Therefore, under strong stimulation, he developed delusions.
He fantasized that he hadn't gone abroad and that he was already engaged to her.
Later, his symptoms worsened, and he could no longer distinguish between hallucinations and reality.
So even after his rebirth, he still retained the memory of their engagement.
But he is now lucid.
They were never engaged; to her, he was just a complete stranger in his past life.
But in this life, he will absolutely not allow what happened in his previous life to happen again.
Therefore, four years ago he resolutely decided to go back and fight against the Huo family.
He wouldn't passively wait for others to drag him into a fight like he did in his previous life, only to end up disfigured and lose the courage to see her.
He will never let the tragedy of his past life repeat itself in this one.
The courage that was lacking in the past life will surely be made up for in this life.
After hearing all this, Jiang Ran's mind went completely blank.
She never imagined that these things had happened in her past life.
I never imagined that he... was actually sincere towards me.
Jiang Ran felt her mind was in complete disarray after receiving so much information all at once.
Now that she knows all this and understands Huo Siyan's feelings, how is she going to face him in the future?
"So..." Huo Siyan reached out and grasped her hand, his fingers forcefully squeezing between hers to intertwine with hers: "Our engagement... are you still willing?"
"Wh...what?" Jiang Ran stared at him blankly.
Huo Siyan forcefully pulled her hand and placed it on his heart: "Now you know my feelings, and you know that faking the engagement was just an excuse for me to keep you by my side. You should know very well that after the engagement, I will never let you go again. So... are you still willing to get engaged to me?"
"I...I..." Jiang Ran's mind was in a mess, and for a moment she didn't know how to answer him.
Having been reborn, she has never thought much about matters of the heart.
In her past life, she was terribly deceived by Wen Yanfei. In this life, she is determined never to trust any man again, nor to believe in any love.
But now someone has offered her their true feelings, and she doesn't know what to do.
Jiang Ran pulled her hand away, turned around in a panic, and went to the window to look at the scenery outside.
"I...I don't know either..."
She just found out about these things today; she needs some time to process them.
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