"Gu Yuheng, when did you arrive?" Lin Chuxia asked.
"When I arrived, I happened to see you happily jumping on Lin Qingze."
Lin Chuxia: "..."
Pretending not to notice the frustration in Gu Yuheng's voice, Lin Chuxia said, "I had just finished talking with my brother at that time."
After a moment of silence, Lin Chuxia asked, "Gu Yuheng, why did you say those things on the mountain path? Why did you say those things that were deliberately meant to mislead me?"
What if she hadn't been able to control herself and had argued with Gu Yuheng or said something really hurtful to him?
"What did Lin Qingze tell you?"
Lin Chuxia repeated what Lin Qingze had told her. After listening, Gu Yuheng was somewhat surprised, but not astonished.
Lin Qingze told him the truth without exaggerating or stirring up trouble, which was within his expectations. However, he did not expect that Lin Qingze would actually speak up for him.
"Honey, I didn't mean to hide it from you."
At that time, she couldn't know the truth. If she had known from the beginning that their marriage was based on the death of her parents, she would definitely have avoided him even more.
That contract was merely a guarantee for her, a reassurance for his parents-in-law. He didn't think they would ever need it, so it didn't matter whether he told her or not.
On this matter, he and Lin Qingze reached a tacit agreement: to keep it from her for now.
To his surprise, she misunderstood their engagement because her parents were entrusting their child to him, which left him both amused and exasperated.
She probably watched too many mindless dramas during that period, which is why she came up with such outrageous ideas.
She didn't even consider that her brother was still alive, her grandparents were still alive, and her uncles, aunts, and uncles were all extremely friendly people. Even if her parents-in-law really wanted to "entrust their children to her," it was not his place.
Besides, would he be the kind of person who would sacrifice his entire life for someone else? Even if his parents-in-law were really entrusting their child to him, he had countless ways to take care of her. There was no need for him to sacrifice his life. He wasn't that noble.
He was unhappy when he learned that she had misunderstood the matter, and he was angry that she was brainless. But later, he found that it was not so bad to be misunderstood by her.
She treated their marriage as her parents' dying wish, and gradually began to accept him, no longer treating him as an "unrelated" guest. When she went out, she would sometimes think of bringing him, her fiancé, a gift, and she would also care for him when he was unwell.
Although he knew that she was treating him as a "mission," he couldn't help but feel overjoyed.
After all, doing something too often makes it a habit. She had begun to take him seriously, to see him as her future husband, and one day she would truly consider him her husband, even if she didn't have romantic love for him then, she would still have familial affection for him.
He thought that was fine too. After all, most love in the world eventually turns into a calm and ordinary familial affection. As long as she regarded him as her only husband in this life, that would be enough.
And so, the truth about the contract and their engagement was naturally kept from her, allowing her to continue to misunderstand.
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