In the narrow corner, Shen Yanli's ecstatic voice echoed back, but he was afraid that he might have misunderstood, so even though he was happy, he didn't dare to show it too much.
Zhou Yunwan listened to his sonorous heartbeat, looked up at him, and nodded vigorously: "Yes, I do."
“Really?” Shen Yanli held her fair little face in his big hands, his voice full of nervousness and caution.
Zhou Yunwan curled her lips and responded with a smile in her eyes: "Really."
"It's not that I don't want to get married, but I don't dare to get married. It's not that I don't dare, but I'm afraid of facing all kinds of problems after marriage..." Zhou Yunwan stuttered, not knowing how to explain to him or where to start.
Shen Yanli saw the sadness in her eyes and felt bad, but only if she spoke out could they solve it together. If she didn't speak out, the problem would always be there and would never disappear.
So he suppressed his heartache and coaxed her softly, "Take your time. Don't be in a hurry."
Zhou Yunwan blinked her eyes, her delicate face looked weak and obedient. She took a deep breath, then reached out and tightly clasped his five fingers, as if only this could give her enough courage to speak out the past that had been buried in her heart with death.
"Let me tell you a story. After I finish, maybe you will understand why I don't want to get married."
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The story revolves around a girl. The first half of the story is warm and beautiful. It is a family full of love, enough to make countless people envious.
But in the middle of the story, as the girl went abroad to study, problems began to arise in the family and the quarrels were endless. But the girl was abroad at that time, so even if she had doubts, she did not delve into it deeply.
In the second half of the story, the girl's work became busier and busier. One day, her mother suddenly had an accident and her mental state was so bad that she needed to be hospitalized for observation. The girl gave up all her work and went home to take care of her mother. By chance, she found evidence that her father had been cheating on her for many years and caught him in bed with her in a hotel.
During the argument, the girl learned that her father had been drugging her mother for years, which was why her mother's mental state suddenly erupted. On the day the problem occurred, it turned out that her father brought his mistress home and deliberately made her mother sick in order to send her to a mental hospital.
The girl was filled with grief and indignation, but she still held back her anger and wanted to leave with the audio and video evidence. However, she was accidentally discovered and was pushed off the building by her angry father and his mistress in an attempt to destroy the body.
After she finished speaking, she suddenly chuckled and said self-deprecatingly: "It's nothing, actually. To sum it up, it's a story about a scumbag who abandoned his wife and daughter for his mistress, first wanted to send his wife to a mental hospital, and then pushed his daughter off a tall building."
Shen Yanli felt choked up in her throat after listening to this. She was smiling, but the smile did not reach her eyes. Instead, her eyes revealed deep sadness and loneliness.
If the story she told was not so different from her own experience, he would have thought it was not about someone else but about herself.
Chen Yanli's Adam's apple rolled, and he took control, holding her hands. He stared at her without blinking, and said seriously: "Wanwan, I'm not him. I can't do something worse than a beast."
After Zhou Yunwan told everything, the depression that had been accumulating in the corner of her heart seemed to slowly unravel.
Ever since she was reborn into this body, she has never dared to think about whether her mother in the hospital was properly settled after her death, or whether her scumbag father and his mistress were punished by law.
Her mother's side was being taken care of by her agent and best friend, so even if she died, there wouldn't be any problem. As for the latter, it should be possible, as she believed in Uncle Hat's ability to enforce the law.
She still couldn't forget the vicious look her scumbag father gave her before she was pushed down the stairs. He was simply unworthy of being a human being.
The damage and shadow caused by her scumbag father were too great to be healed in a short time. Even now, she is still suspicious about relationships and dare not easily entrust her true feelings.
If your blood relatives can treat you like this, let alone others. If you marry the wrong person, marriage is a cage and your children will suffer together.
But who can be sure about matters of the heart? She still fell deeply in love with Chen Yanli.
People are made of flesh and blood. She could see the love that Chen Yanli had for her. She figured it out. She couldn't lose the ability to love or the confidence in marriage just because of that scumbag dad, and let down the person in the world who loved her so unconditionally.
Besides, she shouldn't associate the mistakes made by her scumbag father with Shen Yanli. Yes, Shen Yanli is not her scumbag father.
She couldn't subconsciously think that he would betray her like his scumbag father after they got married, nor could she waver because of this, which would hurt him as well as herself.
Zhou Yunwan looked at his extremely gentle eyes, her heart warmed, and a sincere smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Of course you are not him. If you are, I will retaliate against you severely and let you know what it means to live a life more painful than death."
Her smile was more beautiful than the scenery outside the restaurant, but her words were more terrifying than any horror movie.
"That day won't come." Shen Yanli gently stroked the tear marks on her cheek with his fingers, leaned over and kissed her, and promised in a low voice: "I will treat you well, love you, spoil you, and protect you for the rest of my life."
And he will spend the rest of his life proving that what he said is true.
Zhou Yunwan felt the slightly cool touch on her cheeks and eyelids. The itchy, indescribable throbbing passed through her skin and spread to her internal organs and limbs.
"Yeah." She hummed shyly.
Shen Yanli lowered his eyes and looked at her. Seeing that her mood had improved under his comfort, he continued, “After we go back later, we will make our relationship public and then discuss marriage with our parents, how about that?”
Zhou Yunwan met his eyes that were as deep as the night, and seemed to be sinking into them. She nodded softly and obediently: "I'll do as you say."
Seeing her rubbing against his arms like a kitten, with a cute look of letting him arrange everything, Shen Yanli couldn't help but chuckle, "You listen to me?"
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Zhou Yunwan's nose tip was red, and she blinked her watery eyes, looking very clingy.
Chen Yanli looked at the two small dimples on her soft white cheeks, and his heart suddenly softened. He couldn't help but stare at her again and again, his eyes passing over her lips, the part that he bit was still bleeding.
His black eyes gradually darkened, and his bony fingers gently stroked the edge of her lips, and he said in a hoarse voice: "I'm sorry, I was so rude."
"What's wrong?" Zhou Yunwan looked up in confusion, but all her doubts were swallowed up by the person in front of her.
Unlike before, he was very gentle now, soothing and licking her wounds slowly and carefully.
Zhou Yunwan realized his intention later, raised her head, and her slender white neck drew a graceful arc in the air. She took the initiative to respond and deepened the kiss.
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