Li Rong was silent for a moment, then she whispered, "I know."

Then she said slowly: "I know my situation very well."

Li Ming loved Concubine Rou's son and was jealous of Li Chuan, who disagreed with his political views. He had long wanted to depose the prince. She was caught in the middle. It was not easy to depose the prince, but it was extremely simple to deal with a princess.

The Su family is now a prestigious family in the court, and Su Rongqing is not someone she can covet. Moreover, she was just teasing Pei Wenxuan and had never coveted anything.

She was rarely quiet, Pei Wenxuan couldn't help but glance at her, and seeing her depressed expression, he knew that she was thinking about her own affairs. He hesitated for a moment, wondering whether he should speak, but after thinking about it, he finally didn't say anything.

Things have come to this point. Li Rong is a smart person and she will figure out her own path.

The two of them ate the fish quietly and then went to bed, tacitly not mentioning anything about marriage.

Pei Wenxuan leaned against the hillock and closed his eyes for a while. Then he found it difficult to fall asleep, so he opened his eyes again and looked at Li Rong's back in the distance.

The night wind made him sober for a rare time, and only then did he have time to sort out what had happened that day.

He never thought that Li Rong was also reborn.

Originally, he thought that in this life, just like in the previous one, he would marry Li Rong, stop caring about Qin Zhenzhen, and live a good life with Li Rong. But now, he thought that this idea might not work.

Li Rong at the age of fifty is completely different from the one at the age of twenty. She is cunning and vicious, like a thorny branch that will whip anyone she catches.

The most important thing is that fifty-year-old Li Rong still has Su Rongqing in her heart.

That man had lived with her for twenty-five years and even killed her. Perhaps betrayal would make Li Rong hate him, but love and hate often coexist. He could not interfere with or tolerate such a deep affection between them.

He didn't want his wife to be thinking about another person, like 20-year-old Li Rong.

But what can he do if he can't tolerate it? Li Rong has no choice, so what can he do?

Pei Wenxuan couldn't help but smile bitterly. When he looked up, he saw Li Rong's back facing him. She looked very thin, curled up, and hugged herself with her back to him. When the cold wind blew, she shivered slightly. Pei Wenxuan saw it and hesitated for a long time. After a long time, he stood up, went to the side to pick up his coat, covered Li Rong with it, and then returned to the fire and closed his eyes.

Li Rong felt a piece of clothing covering her body. She closed her eyes and said nothing. After pulling the clothing over her body for a while, she thought that Pei Wenxuan's clothes were basically all here.

She hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke, calling him: "Pei Wenxuan."

"Shut up and go to sleep."

Pei Wenxuan spoke decisively.

Li Rong: “…”

After a while, Li Rong still felt guilty and said directly, "Come here, sleep together."

This time it was Pei Wenxuan's turn to remain silent.

Seeing that he ignored her, Li Rong thought that she had done her best, so she simply pulled off her clothes and closed her eyes.

After a while, she heard rustling sounds coming from behind her, and then Pei Wenxuan squeezed over. Li Rong gave him half of her clothes. She was small and was leaning sideways, so half of the clothes was enough for her. Pei Wenxuan was behind her and put the remaining half on himself.

Pei Wenxuan had his back to her, only a hand's length away from her. Cold wind blew in. Pei Wenxuan did not move. After enduring for a while, Li Rong leaned back and leaned back against him.

Pei Wenxuan stiffened.

Although he is over 50 years old, his experience in matters concerning men and women is pitifully lacking.

He and Li Rong were husband and wife. After Li Rong separated from him, he had no one to fall in love with for such a long time.

In this matter, he still had some principles in his heart. He was responsible for Li Rong. Of course, thinking back, maybe when Li Rong lifted the veil, a young man like him still had some feelings for her, but he just didn't change his mind. Besides Li Rong, he always thought that he had some feelings for other people. But in those 30 years of life, perhaps he was too focused on government affairs, and he didn't meet someone who really moved him.

From time to time, people sent him beauties. Even Li Chuan, seeing that he had no children, felt sorry for him and hinted to him that even if he married the eldest princess, he could consider taking a concubine. It's not that he didn't think about it, but every time those beauties stood in front of him, he always felt that something was missing.

After so many years, when the young and cute Li Rong leaned against him, he couldn't help but feel nervous again like a boy meeting a girl for the first time.

Li Rong noticed his nervousness and couldn't help but find it a little funny, yet also a bit pitiful.

She couldn't bear to see Pei Wenxuan embarrassed, so she changed the subject and asked, "Do you have any regrets in your past life?"

“Why are you asking this?”

"Just asking casually," Li Rong smiled, "We two have been blessed with a chance encounter. We can start all over again. Shouldn't we think about what we regret in the past and see if we can change it in this lifetime?"

Pei Wenxuan remained silent. Seeing that Pei Wenxuan was silent, Li Rong changed the subject and asked, "By the way, do you want to go find Qin Zhenzhen?"

"have no idea."

Pei Wenxuan knew that Li Rong was looking for a topic, so he didn't resist and said calmly, "Let's talk about it later."

Now he doesn't know what the future holds.

He originally planned to marry Li Rong as before and start a new life, but now that Li Rong has been reborn, his plans have been disrupted.

If he didn't marry Li Rong, his life would be different. Qin Zhenzhen...

For a moment he didn't know what to think next.

Qin Zhenzhen died too early and too long ago. He didn't even have time to sort out his feelings before she left. He never got her, so she became a ray of moonlight, forever shining in the sky, making people look forward to her.

After looking at the bright moon for too long, it became difficult to muster the desire to chase it. But when he was told that he could try to reach out and pick the moon back, he found it a little unbelievable.

Li Rong knew that he was uncertain, so she sighed and said, "But I advise you to take care of it as soon as possible. There is no suitable place for her in the palace, so don't let her enter the palace."

"I know."

Pei Wenxuan understood that Li Rong was sincere in saying these words. He paused for a moment and then said slowly, "You rarely say nice things like this."

"You're funny," Li Rong leaned against Pei Wenxuan's back and smiled bitterly, "I said something nice, but you don't like it."

"No." Pei Wenxuan said calmly, "I'm just not used to it."

"I didn't want to say these things," Li Rong said slowly, "but I'm a person who clearly distinguishes between gratitude and resentment. Although you came to save me and made things worse, I still accept your kindness."

"Pei Wenxuan," Li Rong said slowly, "regardless of whether we get married in the end, I hope that we will not be enemies in this life."

"Um."

Pei Wenxuan spoke in a low voice.

Li Rong felt Pei Wenxuan's body relax, knowing that this conversation had resolved his embarrassment, so she waited for a while.

This was the kindest and closest moment between the two of them, and she thought that if they were to talk about marriage, now would be the right time.

However, Pei Wenxuan had been silent for a long time, so Li Rong knew that he must be hesitant about this matter. She did not make it difficult and began to think about how to deal with it tomorrow.

The two people in the darkness each had their own thoughts. Li Rong was thinking about the future, while Pei Wenxuan was thinking about the past.

Li Rong's words were still ringing in her ears, and she asked him what he regretted.

This was a question he dared not answer.

Because he had been regretting for most of his life. If he had to say what he regretted the most in his life, the first thing was letting Qin Zhenzhen enter the palace, and the second thing was the fight between Qin Zhenzhen and Li Rong.

The first time he regretted this was not long after they had a quarrel. At that time, they slept in separate beds, and every night, he looked at Li Rong, who seemed so close yet so far away, through a screen, and it made him feel uncomfortable.

He wanted to say something nice to her, but he couldn't bring himself to do it, and he didn't know how to say it. On the one hand, he felt that Li Rong was right, and that he had Qin Zhenzhen in his heart, so he shouldn't provoke her, but on the other hand, he felt a little uncomfortable, and he didn't know why.

Suddenly, news came from the palace that day that Li Rong had angered the emperor and was punished by being forced to kneel at the palace gate.

He was still at home at the time, and rushed over as soon as he got the news. He remembered that it rained heavily that day, so heavily that he couldn't see the road clearly. When he rushed over with an umbrella, he saw Li Rong kneeling at the palace gate, and Su Rongqing standing beside her. He held an umbrella to shield her from the wind and rain.

The two of them, one kneeling and the other standing, seemed to have become an independent world under the umbrella.

At that moment, he suddenly understood Li Rong's feelings. He suddenly realized that a couple, whether they love each other or not, whether they have feelings for each other or not, will not allow anyone to invade their lives.

But he didn't dare to think too deeply about that feeling, so he covered up the discomfort, hid it, and pretended that it didn't exist.

When he was old and recalled it, he vaguely understood that he should have cared about Li Rong at that time. But Qin Zhenzhen was a hurdle in his heart. It was too difficult for him to accept that he liked one person and then fell in love with another person.

And most importantly, he is too timid when it comes to relationships. What he needs is a stable relationship. Either he should be made to give up clearly, just like Qin Zhenzhen, he knew clearly that this person would not like him, so he was willing to be down-to-earth. Or he should be made to feel assured clearly, and let him know that he likes this person and that he likes him.

What he feared most was Li Rong being like this. Sometimes he felt that she might have trusted him, but in the next moment he felt that he was nothing in her eyes.

This made him not happy, and Li Rong was also decisive. Knowing that he cared about Qin Zhenzhen, she immediately withdrew from it, starting with separate beds, separate rooms, and even separate houses.

Didn't give him any leeway.

Not only did she stay away from him, she seemed to dislike him. She was not used to any of his attempts to show kindness and would try to be naughty. He would get angry and they would quarrel, over and over again.

So he could only keep going on the path he insisted on.

He could only keep telling himself that Qin Zhenzhen was very important, and since he had already made an agreement with Li Rong, he should stick to it.

Just like a gambler, if the stakes are too high, he can only keep on gambling and cannot turn back.

Until the Su family was destroyed and Su Rongqing was imprisoned, he heard that Li Rong went to Li Chuan for help, and even contradicted him in court, and was beaten with a stick by Li Chuan.

He hurried into the palace and saw Li Rong lying on the ground with blood all over her body after being beaten. When she saw him coming, she grabbed him tightly with her hands with red nails and said to him in a hoarse voice: "Pei Wenxuan, I want to save Su Rongqing."

He couldn't explain how he felt at that moment, but for a moment he felt as if a piece of his heart had been cut out. The intense pain finally woke him up and made him aware of something very clearly.

He finally regretted it.