Chapter 45 Chapter 45 Gu Shi further loses his dignity...
Gu Shi followed Lingchuan onto the bridge.
He vaguely discovered that Lingchuan was deceiving him, but he didn't know what she was hiding from him.
Gu Shi smiled bitterly, thinking that everything was determined by fate, and he had no control over it. Ling Chuan had lied to him, and he could only accept it silently, without any room for resistance.
He had no choice.
Lingchuan walked onto the bridge by himself. There were many small locks tied to the arched middle section of the bridge, with muddy red ribbons tied on them, which fluttered lifelessly in the wind.
The changing of seasons, wind, sun and rain have worn away all these love locks until they are covered in rust.
It rained last night, and the densely packed small locks gave off a fishy smell like blood. Occasionally, a few green-headed flies that drank blood would buzz around.
Lingchuan looked at the two heart-shaped locks in his palms in the light. They were still new, but they would become the same after hanging for a few days.
Just like men and women who were in love at first, they will eventually become tired of each other.
The place where the love lock was hung was a bit dirty, Lingchuan was reluctant to touch it, but since he had already bought it, he might as well hang it up...
She frowned, bent over, and slowly hung it up.
This is not a permanent bond at all; it is clearly two people locked together, exposed to the wind and rain, holding grudges against each other while being tightly bound together, unable to be separated for eternity.
It is not certain that they will be locked together forever. Perhaps after a while, the vendor will secretly remove these locks in the middle of the night, wash off the rust by soaking them in potion, and sell them again to cheat the couples who are full of hope for the future.
When Lingchuan turned around, she saw Gu Shi standing quietly behind her with an unhappy look on his face, which scared her.
"What are you doing standing behind me?"
Lingchuan frowned and complained.
Her only answer was a kiss.
Gu Shi took off his coat, covered both of their heads with it and began to kiss her. Lingchuan's headdress became loose and hung on her head.
The loss of vision had heightened her senses, leaving her with nothing but this kiss.
The kiss was a little eager, and he couldn't help but bite her lips hard. Lingchuan groaned in pain, but the kiss blocked her throat.
"Why are you suddenly going crazy in public?"
Before Lingchuan could get angry, Gu Shi pulled her and turned away.
To stop her from looking back, he let go of her wrists and instead put his hands on the back of her head, pushing her forward.
Without saying a word, he reached down and pinched the back of her neck, forcing her to leave the bridge in a hurry. He was anxious for a moment and applied a little more force to his hands.
Gu Shi pursed his lips, feeling angry.
The more you don't want to meet someone, the more you run into them.
What a coincidence, Qin Sizhao... He was setting up a stall on the bridge to give people pulse diagnosis for free...
He looked back and saw that the dirty and gaudy love lock actually had a bit of cuteness in it.
Gu Shi felt sweet in his heart and felt that he had the upper hand.
He suddenly felt very fortunate that Lingchuan had bought the love lock, and she had personally locked their two surnames together in front of Qin Sizhao.
It was he, not Qin Sizhao, who wanted to be locked up with Lingchuan forever. Qin Sizhao could only be dreaming.
Let him take a good look at how Lingchuan hung the small lock on the bridge with his own hands. This is undoubtedly the evidence that Lingchuan is willing to stay with him forever.
Lingchuan loves him. After all, the joy in her eyes cannot be faked.
Gu Shi felt that he had achieved his goal and laughed triumphantly.
"Lingchuan, let's go back. There's nothing interesting here. Let's pick a beautiful place to hold a banquet in seven days. We can then place more lanterns on the lake."
"There's really nothing interesting here. It's a bit cliché."
Lingchuan frowned and touched the back of his aching neck, wondering why Gu Shi was in such a hurry to leave.
What could have made him so panicked?
She thought about it carefully, and came up with the answer in her heart. She curled up the corners of her mouth and smiled sweetly.
The next day, Gu Shi quietly came to the bridge and carefully looked for the love lock that Lingchuan had hung up yesterday.
He wore a veiled hat and searched carefully with a lamp, like a thief.
Sure enough, Lingchuan's lock was pried away at some point, and the lock representing him was still left alone on it.
Gu Shi sneered, thinking that Qin Sizhao was really a thief with evil intentions, and actually did such a stupid and despicable thing.
How naive! Do you think this can change anything?
Qin Sizhao's original fiancée was snatched away by him. Although he appeared calm on the surface, he must have been jealous and crying secretly.
He gloated over his misfortune and returned to the palace with his head held high, only to see Lingchuan sitting bored on a chair.
When he saw Gu Shi, Lingchuan instantly put on a smile, just like a person who had been thirsty for a long time seeing water.
She walked up excitedly and hugged Gu Shi, even the tassels on her hairpin rubbed his cheek affectionately, like a red silk thread thrown by the matchmaker, tying the two of them together.
Gu Shi felt sweet, but also sour in his heart. The sweet, sour, bitter and spicy feelings were churning in his heart, a mixture of all kinds of emotions.
He felt his arms become inexplicably heavy, and he used all his strength to push Lingchuan away.
She tilted her head, looking at her questioningly, her lips slightly arched.
Such a childish look rarely appeared on her face.
Now, she looked at him with confusion, like a child who didn't know what she had done wrong.
"Are you hiding something from me?"
Gu Shi couldn't help but ask, a tear slid down from the corner of his eye uncontrollably and fell to the ground with a plop.
"Hmm? Why do you ask?"
Lingchuan still had that puzzled look on his face, so naive that it was a bit cruel.
"Why else would you be so nice to me?"
Gu Shi wiped his face with his sleeve, trying to stop the tears, but the tears broke off the thread and fell drop by drop.
"Why do I deserve you to be so nice to me?"
He choked with sobs, pretending to be calm, and said coldly:
"You must have other intentions. Tell me, what do you want?"
Lingchuan looked at him aggrievedly, as if he had been wronged.
"I can give you anything you want...as long as you...are willing to continue lying to me."
Gu Shi surrendered, again.
Although he knew that Lingchuan had other intentions, Gu Shi still couldn't refuse this happiness that didn't belong to him.
"How could I be lying to you?"
Lingchuan hugged him and said in his ear:
"I've been with you for six years. All my memories are about you. I can't live without you anymore... I was just briefly tempted. How could I possibly leave you for someone else?"
"Really? Lingchuan, you don't blame me?"
Gu Shi smiled happily, tears falling down her face, and held Lingchuan's cheeks with both hands.
"Don't you hate me for what I did to you before?"
He urged her, he wanted a definite guarantee.
"I did bear a grudge, but you also compensated me, didn't you? You are so noble, yet you are willing to give me the position of principal wife, and you don't take concubines. You haven't even had any other women besides me. Who else would be willing to treat me so well besides you?"
Lingchuan smiled sweetly.
"Now that I'm about to marry you, why are you still so worried? Just settle down."
She patted his back gently.
"From now on I will only like you, okay?"
Lingchuan coaxed him softly and sweetly.
She turned her head and saw the peep show on the dressing table, reflecting her excited and slightly flushed cheeks. She glanced down and saw the fake death drug in the ordinary little white bottle, and added with a smile.
"Well, while I'm alive, I promise to only love you."
Gu Shi believed it and kissed her passionately.
Lingchuan kissed her back with equal passion, she believed she was not lying.
There is absolutely no falsehood.
"We'll go to the banquet together later, and I'll tell everyone that you're my wife and that you love me so much... okay?"
Lingchuan lay in his arms and nodded sweetly.
"Including the one you know... Qin Sizhao..."
Gu Shi said through gritted teeth.
"OK."
Lingchuan looked into his eyes, nodded slightly, and answered in a sweet voice.
Anyway, when the day comes, she will swallow the fake death drug, tilt her neck back and kick her legs, and everything will have nothing to do with her.
Even whether the drug was a real death or a fake death had nothing to do with her.
Anything will be fine then.
"Lingchuan, I really want to believe that you really love me..."
Gu Shi kissed her forehead. He closed his eyes, frowned, and just put his cheek devoutly against Lingchuan's face.
Her cheek felt cool, smooth and fair, but he felt terrified for no reason, as if a poisonous snake was wrapped around his head.
Lingchuan touched his hair and soothed him:
"I've figured it out. Life is only a hundred years long, and I only have a few short days to live. I might as well be your wife wholeheartedly. You haven't really treated me unfairly."
For some reason, she suddenly put on a cold-blooded expression, and her tone was full of sarcasm.
"Even when you were the worst to me, you were willing to give me ten thousand taels of silver as a dowry... My parents only managed to save a hundred taels of silver in their entire lives. If I hadn't had you, I would never have seen so much money."
"I, Tao Jinrong, am a commoner without parents. To be able to enjoy wealth and glory is a blessing earned in eight lifetimes. How can I ask for more?"
He knew Lingchuan was lying to him, but he didn't know what she was lying to him about.
He knew Lingchuan didn't love him, but he couldn't help but deceive himself with false love.
He wanted to use real torture to force her to tell him the whole truth, and he also wanted to kneel on the ground and beg her to continue, and keep lying until the day he became a white-haired old man and died in bed.
A fear of the unknown enveloped Gu Shi's heart, turning into a knife that was sometimes light and sometimes heavy, torturing Gu Shi again and again.
He almost wanted to kneel down to Lingchuan and beg her to show mercy and chop off his head with one blow to give him a quick death.
"I don't believe a word you say."
After saying this coldly, Gu Shi gritted his teeth, turned around and left.
If he delayed for just one more second, he would have been unable to resist kneeling down and begging for mercy in front of Lingchuan.
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