Hearing a car parked in front of the villa, Star put on his coat and boots and went out.

Just then I saw Gu Qichen getting out of the driver's seat.

"Why is it you?"

The words were cold and the pace slowed down.

When Star walked forward and was about to open the back door, Gu Qichen blocked her way by holding the eaves of the car.

"Co-pilot."

Gu Qichen's eyes were firm, as if he was going to carry you over if you didn't come over.

Star sighed and pulled his hand back.

Gu Qichen turned around and opened the passenger door, watching Star get in and fasten his seat belt before he closed the door, walked around the front of the car and sat in the driver's seat.

"Gu Qichen, are you childish?"

As the car started and drove into the night, Star whispered, "I thought you would be more mature after a few years of experience, but now it seems that you are no different from before."

"You mean I haven't changed, right?"

Gu Qichen glanced at the rearview mirror.

Star did not comment.

I saw a smile in his eyes, as if the words just now were a compliment to him, "Love, I really haven't changed, just like my heart for you, it will never change."

Star: …

It was late at night and the New Year was approaching, so there were far fewer cars on the road than usual.

There was a long silence in the car. Only occasionally when Gu Qichen spoke, Star would respond uninterested, and then fall into even longer silence.

When it was dark all around, Star wrapped his coat tightly around him and said softly, "Don't bother me tomorrow night. I have a dinner date with a friend."

friend?

Gu Qichen's eyes were dangerous, "What friend?"

"Does it have anything to do with you?"

Star turned around to look at him, "If all goes well, he might be my future marriage partner."

Squeak...Snap!

With a brake, the SUV stopped on the side of the road.

The air conditioner was on in the car and the air was warm.

But when she met the man's cold and dark eyes, she felt frozen. Star met his cold eyes and said, "Gu Qichen, I'm already 30, I don't want to waste any more time."

"When your mother came to me, she made it clear that unless she died, there was no way I would marry you and enter your Gu family."

"You asked me to wait for you and give you a chance. I have waited and given you a chance..."

With every word he spoke, the expression on his face grew colder.

Star turned her head and looked at the night outside the window, "Gu Qichen, let's both let each other go, okay?"

"You marry a woman you like and who is approved by your mother, and I will marry one of mine..."

"I only like you!"

Star was interrupted by Gu Qichen before she could finish her words.

Star turned around after her wrist was grabbed and saw that Gu Qichen's face was a hundred times darker than before. "You are 30, and I am 31. From the age of 15 to today, Lu Changqing, I have liked you for a full 15 years."

As soon as the word "15 years" came out, Star's tears immediately fell.

With a tick, the water fell on the back of Gu Qichen's hand.

Gu Qichen loosened his grip as if he had been scalded.

Then he raised his hand and gently wiped away her tears.

"Long-lasting love, just one year..."

Gu Qichen's voice was hoarse. "Wait for me for another year, okay? I promise, just one year."

His father died early, and his mother could have remarried, but she chose to stay with him for most of her life.

Gu Qichen knew that his mother had trapped herself in the Gu family's chastity arch, as if, as long as she didn't get married, no one could take away the things in the Gu family that should have belonged to him.

After so many years, he has become his mother's obsession.

I can still remember that night when he stiffened his neck and said that he didn't want the Gu family or anything, and only wanted to marry Lu Changqing, and then, I saw the bathtub full of blood.

If it had been a little later, my mother might have really passed away.

When he thought that his mother would really die because he married Changqing, Gu Qichen finally realized that the saying "You can't have the best of both worlds" that he had never taken seriously before turned out to be true.

(End of this chapter)