Hearing these words, Sheng Wu Wuwen's pupils trembled, and in an instant, she looked at him with an indescribable expression in her heart, and she looked at him with deep eyes.
He asked directly, "The person who met you and Shen Junsheng eight years ago...was me, right?"
Seeing that she had guessed it, Shen Guiwu was not surprised, but just looked at her with a slight curve of his lips and soft eyes.
Without making any excuses or covering up, he just slightly opened his thin lips and spoke calmly.
"Yes." He said he would not lie to her.
"But I'm only 19 now, which doesn't fit the 27-year-old image of the woman in the painting. Shen Junsheng told me that woman was an excellent marksman and martial artist, and that she could sing, play the piano, chess, calligraphy, and paint. Apart from my age, I fit in pretty well with the painting."
After a pause, Sheng Wu's eyes showed a subtle expression. "So, I will meet you again in the future. In other words... my time and space are opposite to yours?!"
In short, when she was young, she met the middle-aged Shen Guiwu, and when she became mature, she met the young Shen Guiwu again.
Eight years ago, when I was 27 years old, I met 36-year-old Chen Guiwu and 17-year-old Shen Junsheng.
Shen Guiwu once again verified her guess.
"...Yes." There was still no surprise in his eyes.
"Why?!"
Hearing this, even Sheng Wu, who had already guessed it, couldn't help but tremble in her pupils. She raised the gun and pressed it hard against Chen Guiwu's chest, her tone cold and trembling.
"You clearly know that when I meet Shen Junsheng in the future, I will rely on the martial arts and marksmanship you are teaching me now to attract him. Why did you still teach me these things?! You clearly know that Shen Junsheng has hated you for eight years because of this matter, why did you still marry me! Did you really force your son's fiancée?!"
Seeing her somewhat fluctuating expression, Chen Guiwu frowned, staring at her intently, and explained hurriedly.
"I taught you how to shoot so that you could protect yourself in troubled times after I died. I taught you to read and write so that you could survive. Even if this attracts Shen Junsheng in the future, I don't care. Because eight years ago, you were willing to marry me."
"?!" Hearing this, Sheng Wu's eyes were filled with surprise. "What do you mean?"
The two stood facing each other in the backyard.
Chen Guiwu's eyes were calm and composed. "Awu, when you are 27, you will meet Shen Junsheng and me again. But you don't love him, because you met me now when you were 19, it was Shen Junsheng's wishful thinking. He had an illusion about you that he shouldn't have. He asked me to propose to you, but he didn't know that I knew you before him. We stayed in the sycamore tree yard at the Shen residence for half a year!"
Speaking of this, Shen Guiwu, who has always been very reserved and stable, also had cold eyes and a gloomy tone.
"That fan is the evidence! Eight years ago, I painted that fan and wrote calligraphy on it with you. The handwriting on the fan is almost the same as what I taught you. I also painted you under that sycamore tree."
"And your habit of wearing cheongsams is also because I heard you say cheongsams are beautiful that year. You said that there was someone who once lowered himself to make cheongsams for you, and lived with you under the eaves. So I was jealous. I learned the craft of cheongsam making from everywhere and made a closet full of cheongsams for you, and you wore them every day. Later I realized that person was me all along."
"But you happened to meet Shen Junsheng when you were out, and it was he who had a delusion about you." At this point, Shen Guiwu's eyes turned red, and his tone was extremely cold, "So, it wasn't me who took it by force, it was him who deceived himself!"
Hearing these words, Sheng Wu narrowed her eyes, "Then how did I disappear back then? Shen Junsheng said that I set myself on fire because I didn't want to marry you."
"I still don't understand the key to your disappearance and reappearance." Chen Guiwu stared at her with complicated eyes, his low and magnetic voice revealing a hint of sadness and the depression of keeping this secret for many years.
"Only this time, I grew up watching you."
"When you and the opera troupe moved to the city, you were just a little kid. I realized that our time and space were opposite, so I focused on opera troupes. So when I heard your name, I knew it was you. However, I knew you were still a child, so I didn't pay too much attention to you. So I let you continue to live with the troupe until I went to see you shortly after your 19th birthday."
"Then, I fell in love with you again, and this time I married you."
No wonder, no wonder the old troupe owner said that Chen Guiwu came to listen to the opera the first year the troupe moved to the old city.
But the two of them have never met face to face.
Sheng Wu's eyebrows furrowed slightly, "So, you've been waiting for me for 17 years?"
Chen Guiwu listened to operas in the troupe for 17 years, waiting for her to grow up.
"You haven't been in Beijing all the time, not for 17 years."
But Chen Guiwu shook his head, his gentle eyes revealing a trace of unspeakable tenderness, "I don't know why, your time and space are always different from all of us."
His eyes were filled with reminiscence, the deep love in them almost burned people, and his voice was low and ethereal.
"The first time I met you, you were 43 and I was 20. But your appearance hasn't changed much from now, just a little more mature and steady. It was you who saved me from the bandits, taught me how to shoot, taught me the ways of business, and helped me strengthen the Shen family, which was about to decline. But you disappeared in just half a year."
"The second time I saw you, you were 38 and I was 25. You had disappeared for four years, and when I saw you again, you looked younger. I simply thought you were a mountain spirit from a book, someone who could rejuvenate. You continued to train me, making me a rising star in the Forty-Nine City. You stayed for three months this time."
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