He added, "That day, my father said you were back and we could start over. I said I didn't want to, but deep down I was very happy. Perhaps I didn't even realize how happy I was."
He also said, "You don't know how much I'm afraid of losing you; you don't know that what I fear most is getting you into trouble; you don't know that it's very dangerous to be around me."
He also said, "You don't know how much I've shouldered; you don't know how much I've endured; you don't know that my life is not my own; there are so many things you don't know, so many that I don't even know them myself."
He was asking, "Shu'er, do you understand?"
Hua Fushu murmured, "I, I don't understand."
He left her and kissed her forehead. He said, "When we were in Yuezhou, you said that one day you would let me tell you in person that I love you. You won this bet, and I lost. I lost willingly and completely."
Hua Fushu looked at him. There was no alienation in his eyes that she had ever seen. There was only tenderness that she had seen before, and affection that she had never seen before.
He was asking his first question again, "Do you believe it?"
Hua Fushu understood that he was asking her if she believed that he liked her.
Should she believe it?
In fact, she didn't know whether to believe it or not.
If I believe him, then are the rumors about him and Liu Feixu false?
I don't believe him. Can he fake such deep affection?
She deliberately said, "What if I don't believe it?"
Ye Zelin's eyes dimmed instantly. He stubbornly wanted an answer, "Why, why don't you believe it?"
Hua Fushu asked back, "If I believe you, what about those rumors about you and Liu Feixu? Some people say that you spent a fortune on her back then. Could this also be false?"
Ye Zelin said: "This is not fake."
Hua Fushu was angry, "Then why should I trust you?"
Ye Zelin held her in his arms, tilted his head and whispered in her ear, "Feixu is your Majesty's, Nie Huaixin is, and so am I."
Hua Fushu opened his eyes wide, as if he suddenly understood something, but he didn't understand it. "You, you?"
Ye Zelin said calmly, "Be good, don't ask. This is all I can say. I don't want you to be in danger."
Hua Fushu was silent for a moment before agreeing with him, "Okay, I won't ask."
Ye Zelin was still holding her and said, "Believe it or not."
Hua Fushu said, "I don't believe it."
Ye Zelin asked: "Do you believe it?"
Hua Fushu said again, "I don't believe it."
Ye Zelin said patiently, "You will believe it, right?"
Hua Fushu replied, "I just don't believe it."
Ye Zelin let her go, loosened her bun, and played with her long black hair. "Don't be so hypocritical."
Hua Fushu snatched back a strand of hair from his hand, disliking him for messing up her bun, "I'm just being pretentious, what can you do to me?"
Ye Zelin pinched her pretty nose and said, "It's ok to be pretentious, but I like it."
Hua Fushu said disdainfully, "Stop pinching my nose."
Ye Zelin smiled and said, "It won't collapse."
He did not ask Hua Fushu whether she believed him or not, for fear that if he asked, she would say she did not believe him again.
Hua Fushu didn't tell him after all, she believed it.
In fact, the words have been said, it makes no difference whether you believe it or not.
"Let's go back." Hua Fushu went towards Penglai Residence.
Ye Zelin followed behind her with a faint smile on his face.
A man walked out of the darkness in the distance. It was Ye Songyan. He shrugged and said, "Grandfather won, but I didn't lose either."
Obviously, he saw what happened just now.
Ye Songyan returned to Feiyuan and told the old general that he lost the bet.
The old general laughed and said, "Well, you need to keep your eyes open. Don't just look at the expression. Look beyond the surface to see the essence. Don't be as blind as your father, leaving behind a beautiful pearl and picking up those ugly gravel instead."
Ye Songyan nodded and said yes.
Bao Changzhou served as the prefect of Tokyo for three years and had a very good relationship with the people of Tokyo. Bao Changzhou trusted his subordinates and his subordinates supported him. This matter was never spread out, but it did reach the ears of Bao Changzhou's father.
At night, the moon was not yet full, and Bao Changzhou was invited by his father to kneel in the ancestral hall at home.
The candlelight in the ancestral hall was bright, illuminating fifty or sixty tablets, all of which were the ancestors of the Bao family. The most recent one added was ten years ago. It was Bao Changhuan, Bao Changzhou's eldest brother and Jun'er's biological father.
Father Bao stood up straight, leaning on his cane. He looked at the tablet in the ancestral hall and said in a deep voice, "You knew her identity a long time ago, didn't you?"
Bao Changzhou said: "Yes."
Father Bao asked again: "When did you start to have feelings for her?"
Bao Changzhou said calmly, "When I first met Miss Fushu, I thought she was a woman with no respect for dignity, no upbringing, and bad character. The next time I saw her was when she saved Jun'er. At that time, I thought she would seek revenge for the beating I gave her and would not treat Jun'er, but she came anyway. Her medical skills are superb, and her heart is so sincere in treating Jun'er that she is beyond the ordinary doctor... Later, every time she came to my house, I was happy, and slowly I understood that this is love."
Bao's father took his crutch and hit Bao Changzhou hard on the back, and Bao Changzhou fell to the ground.
All I heard was Bao's father angrily accusing him, "She's a married woman! How could you have such thoughts about a married woman? Have you lost all the saintly books you've read over the years? What do you think of the rules of our Bao family?"
If word gets out that you have improper thoughts about a married woman, what will happen to your official reputation, the official reputations and reputations of your brothers, and even the reputation of my Bao family?
Bao Changzhou, your father has worked hard to raise you for twenty-five years, and you are ruining the Bao family's morals, the Bao family's reputation, and trampling on the Bao family's door!"
Bao Changzhou's back hurt so much that his father almost broke his bones, but he still insisted on getting up and straightening his body. He disagreed with some of his father's groundless accusations.
He said, "Father, I have not ruined our family's morals and reputation, nor have I trampled on the Bao family's reputation!"
Father Bao raised his cane and was about to hit his son, but when he saw his son's straight back, he finally put the cane down and asked, "You still say no?"
Bao Changzhou said seriously: "I am interested in the lady of the Ye family, but I have no improper thoughts. I have never thought of interfering in Miss Fushu's life, and she doesn't know that I have any feelings for her."
"You! Rebellious son!" Father Bao raged, leaning on his cane. He added, "From now on, you are not allowed to see Miss Fushu again. Even if she comes to see Jun'er, you must avoid her."
Bao Changzhou nodded and said, "Yes, I obey your command."
…
The news that Ye Zelin was going to take the imperial examination also reached the old general's ears. In the middle of the night, he asked his confidant to go to Penglai Residence to call Ye Zelin.
There was a knock on the door, waking up Ye Zelin from his sleep. He stood up and asked loudly who was outside the door. The man was the old general's man, and he said that the old general wanted him to come over.
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