"Why... are you here?" Her voice was weak, and the flood of memories made her frown with a headache. "Am I... dead?"
His lips moved slightly, but he couldn't utter a single syllable. The veins on the back of his hands bulged, and his perfect face was deathly still.
To her surprise, she suddenly smiled, cupped his face in her hands, raised her head slightly, and leaned in to kiss his lips. This joyful kiss was exactly the same as the one she had given him before she collapsed.
He couldn't help but respond, his tongue prying open her teeth, deepening her light, fleeting kisses, and engaging in a more intense and familiar entanglement with her.
After a long while, she whispered against his lips, "This is for the best... In the afterlife, it'll just be you and me. You'll never have the chance to threaten me with anyone else again..."
"You still hate me..."
She looked into his dark eyes, smiled, and then shook her head slightly. "I don't hate you, I've never hated you... I just can't accept what you did to me... Lu Chen, you're suspicious and insecure. Lu Heng warned me before, saying her brother was mentally unstable and advised me not to marry you... But I still married you. I thought... even if your mentality is different from others, I could always teach you how to get along with people. Was I too confident? Because I don't have the ability to change you..."
"When you married me..." His eyes flickered slightly. He thought he had hidden his dark side very well. He had always been willing to appear with the face she loved most. He never thought that she would find out one day.
Because he knew very well that she, who was categorized as a normal person, would not accept someone categorized as an outsider. Yes, he was suspicious and insecure; he was afraid she would grow tired of him, and he was also afraid that one day…
“I’m afraid…” he paused, “that when I have to choose between my successful parents and myself, I will always be the one who gets abandoned.”
So he never asked him who Fengguang would choose compared to others. From the beginning, he knew that he was the one who would be abandoned.
Fengguang's heart suddenly felt like it was being tightly gripped. She didn't know that her husband, with whom she had lived for three years, would have this thought. His suspicion and insecurity... could it be that she was the one who brought it to him?
"I don't know..." Her hand trembled slightly on his face, and the sudden sob in her voice reminded her of the past, of being imprisoned by him, of being threatened by him. He had used so many methods to threaten her—her parents, and even his own life... "I didn't know I would make you think like this. I never thought of giving up on you, Lu Chen... I love you so much... But my parents are my parents, I am my parents' daughter. No one can abandon family ties, but you are different from them. My parents have their own lives; they are the ones who will accompany me for life. And the only one I can spend my whole life with is you..."
His whole body was trembling slightly. These were words he had never heard before, nor dared to ask before. He carefully kissed away the tears at the corners of her eyes, and in his suppressed and hoarse voice, there was always a hint of uncertainty, "So in Feng Guang's heart... what place do I really hold?"
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