Chapter 317 It turns out she's always liked him
The food at home is ready and still steaming.
As soon as Zhou Keyuan saw Qu Xinting, he came over to help her carry her bag. Qu Xinting gently pushed him away, saying, "Yaoyao is back. Take Yaoyao to eat first."
She turned to look at Jin Qingyu again: "Come with me."
"Mom, let's finish eating first." Hearing that Qu Xinting's tone wasn't very friendly, Jiang Xingyao called out to her.
Qu Xinting said, "Yaoyao, I won't do anything to him, why are you protecting him like this?"
Her brows furrowed deeply. Just from Jiang Xingyao's words, she realized that Jiang Xingyao's heart had ultimately turned towards Jin Qingyu.
"I…"
"Yaoyao, your mother-in-law probably just wants to say a few words to me. Why don't you go have dinner with your father-in-law first?" Jin Qingyu raised his hand, stopping Jiang Xingyao from finishing her sentence.
Hearing him so smoothly call out "father-in-law," Jiang Xingyao's face flashed with surprise once again. When it came to being flexible and adaptable, she really couldn't see anyone better than Jin Qingyu.
Unlike anyone else in this circle, he never cared so much about his reputation.
Jiang Xingyao didn't know what else to say. After a slight hesitation, she said to Qu Xinting, "Mom, his injuries haven't fully healed yet, you..."
Qu Xinting gave Jiang Xingyao a disappointed look, said nothing, and led Jin Qingyu upstairs.
This time, when facing Qu Xinting alone, Jin Qingyu was no longer as glib as before. Instead, his attitude became much more humble. He lowered his head and did not speak.
Qu Xinting asked, "What is your relationship with Yao Yao now? Has she agreed to be with you?"
"I suppose so," Jin Qingyu said. "Mother-in-law, I promise you, I will treat Yaoyao well and will never let her suffer any harm in front of me. I hope you can give me this chance."
"Stop pretending. Yaoyao chose you herself. What can I do even if I object?"
I expected all of this today. She's always been a soft-hearted person, and she's liked you for so many years; she'd give in sooner or later. I just didn't expect it to happen so soon.
Qu Xinting seemed to be talking to Jin Qingyu, but also seemed to be expressing her own feelings.
The sincere thoughts of a young girl written in her diary cannot be faked. In Jiang Xingyao's heart, there was always a glimmer of hope left for Jin Qingyu.
Her repeated objections were simply because she wanted to keep Jiang Xingyao by her side a little longer. She wanted to teach her properly how to love herself before loving someone else, and not to just blindly tolerate things like before.
But plans can't always keep up with changes. It was this unexpected event orchestrated by He Qifeng that finally made Jiang Xingyao lose control of her heart.
Now that things have come to this, Qu Xinting can only hope that Jin Qingyu is sincere this time and won't let her daughter suffer a second time.
Even though she and Yao Yao have reconciled, as a mother, she still owes Yao Yao too much, and Qu Xinting is unwilling to force Jiang Xingyao to change her mind.
"You mean, Yaoyao has liked me for many years?"
Qu Xinting's words left Jin Qingyu in a long daze. After a long, long time, he finally murmured a question.
He even doubted whether he had heard correctly. Qu Xinting said that Jiang Xingyao had liked him for many years. How could that be?
If this is true, why didn't he know anything about it?
Before their divorce, Jiang Xingyao's attitude towards him was always so indifferent. How could she possibly like him?
Seeing Jin Qingyu's astonished expression, Qu Xinting's eyes also revealed a hint of shock: "You didn't know? She's liked you since she was sixteen, and she didn't tell you?"
Jin Qingyu's surprise grew more and more obvious. Sixteen years old! Jiang Xingyao was sixteen years old, which was the time when he had just returned to the Jin family.
Back then, Jiang Xingyao was still the beloved little princess of the Qu family, always surrounded by a group of wealthy young men. He couldn't even squeeze into her circle; he could only watch her from afar, fantasizing about possessing her.
Qu Xinting, however, said that Jiang Xingyao liked him back then.
Jin Qingyu suddenly felt as if fate had played a cruel joke on him.
He chose to neglect Jiang Xingyao after marrying her because he thought she disliked him and didn't want to be in the same room with him, so he tried to come back as little as possible.
But if Jiang Xingyao liked him back then, and she married him because she liked him…
Then what about what he did back then?
Just when she thought she could escape the Jiang family and marry the man she loved, all she got in return was his indifference.
"When my father was alive, he had many friends, including your grandfather."
When Yao Yao was little, her father was reluctant to let her marry far away and worried that she would be bullied after marriage. He did consider arranging a marriage for her when they were young, but Jin Yanzhou was much older than Yao Yao at the time, and the Jin family was never her father's first choice.
On the contrary, Qin Jiangnan was the husband my father chose for Yao Yao.
However, Yao Yao and Qin Jiangnan never got along when she was little. Her father was afraid that if he disregarded her wishes and married her off to Qin Jiangnan, it would lead to a bitter relationship. He couldn't bear to make Yao Yao sad, so the matter was put on hold.
"Back then, Yaoyao was in a difficult situation. Even if she insisted on marrying out, she should have chosen the Qin family, since the two families already had plans for an engagement. But in the end, she turned to your grandfather for help. Why do you think that was?"
Just by looking at Jin Qingyu's appearance, Qu Xinting knew that he truly didn't know Jiang Xingyao's feelings.
It was only at this moment that Qu Xinting realized that her daughter was more patient and tolerant than she had imagined.
Even though they were already married, she never said a word of affection. No wonder she could tolerate Jin Qingyu's entanglement with Jiang Cancan for so long during their marriage.
She had always blamed Jin Qingyu for apologizing to Jiang Xingyao, but seeing Jin Qingyu's shocked expression and the bandage still on his head, Qu Xinting's heartstrings softened.
She deliberately made everything clear: "She only married into the Jin family because of you."
In just a few words, Jin Qingyu was struck by a resounding statement.
Jin Qingyu's throat was dry and parched, and his heart felt like it was being squeezed by a large hand, so painful that he could hardly breathe. Before he even realized it, tears were already rolling down his cheeks.
When Yao Yao married into the Jin family, she never saw it as a stepping stone to get rid of Jiang Yuncheng. In fact, from the very beginning, she only saw herself as a lifeline.
But what about him?
He was late from the wedding day and left on their wedding night. He thought Jiang Xingyao didn't care, since she didn't like him anyway.
He thought Jiang Xingyao looked down on him, and that his leaving was to give her freedom.
But Yao Yao liked him, so how much harm did what he did back then cause her?
"Yaoyao is soft-hearted, but also stubborn. She doesn't want others to see her in a sorry state, so she habitually keeps her thoughts to herself."
She always behaved very well and rarely showed her emotions. She habitually presented herself like a white jade statue. Except in front of her grandfather, she always liked to have a cold face.
The reason he developed this personality is all my fault. I remember when she was little, she liked to come up to me. When she received praise at school, she would actively seek praise. It was my repeated indifference that made her feel uncared for, so she stopped actively showing her emotions in front of anyone.
Over the years, only her maternal grandfather has wholeheartedly doted on her, and only in front of him does she feel like a real person. "Qu Xinting added.
With each word she spoke, Jin Qingyu's heart ached even more.
When he first returned to this circle, he received too many contemptuous looks. Perhaps it was his youthful arrogance, or perhaps it was his pride that made him think that Jiang Xingyao was just like those people after he married Jiang Xingyao, because of a few words of provocation from Jiang Cancan, because Jiang Cancan said that Jiang Xingyao hated people like him.
He never had the patience to observe her. He treated her as a trophy in his journey into this circle, a badge to adorn his identity. He wanted to get close to her, but at the same time, he pushed her away out of fear of her disgust.
I never knew that he wasn't the only one who suffered greatly in this marriage at the beginning.
My eyes uncontrollably became moist, and even my throat felt like something was stuck in it.
Looking at this person who always had a carefree and playful attitude in front of her, Qu Xinting suddenly burst into tears. At this moment, she seemed to feel that Jin Qingyu was sincere towards Jiang Xingyao.
Only those who truly feel heartache will be unable to stop crying when they think of what she has gone through.
Qu Xinting sighed, took out the diary she had previously hidden for Jiang Xingyao from the cabinet, and awkwardly stuffed it into Jin Qingyu's arms: "Since she has decided to be with you, there's nothing you can't read. Be good to her in the future."
Qu Xinting left, but Jin Qingyu was still unable to recover from the immense shock.
He opened the diary and saw the girl's delicate handwriting written on the yellowed last page:
"After eight years of secretly loving Jin Qingyu, I'm going to marry him."
But he doesn't seem to recognize me.
It's okay, it's enough that I like him.
This is the final chapter of the diary, and also the end of her teenage years.
With just a few words, Jin Qingyu could almost feel the anticipation and excitement leaping off the page.
It turns out she was so happy before marrying him, but he disappointed her on their wedding day.
So how did she get through all those days and nights in Xiyuan, when he always left her all alone?
If he hadn't had that ridiculous pride from the beginning, and had stayed with Jiang Xingyao, wouldn't he have discovered her feelings long ago and wouldn't have let her suffer so much alone, leaving her all alone in Xiyuan?
During the two years he pursued Jiang Xingyao, he always blamed her for not seeing him and was always heartbroken because of her interactions with Shen Mingsu and others. It turns out that Jiang Xingyao had already experienced all of this.
Jin Qingyu suddenly didn't know how to face Jiang Xingyao.
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