Chapter 251: Thorns and Thorns
When Lu Qian heard Qu Le's words, he was slightly stunned.
Should we just... quarrel?
She really hadn't thought about how she and Cheng Yi "should" be.
She has always felt that she loves Cheng Yi enough, and Cheng Yi loves her enough too.
So much so that she just let things develop naturally without thinking about the reasons.
This quarrel suddenly made her look at this relationship in a different light.
"So what do you think of the relationship between me and Cheng Yi?"
Lu Qian turned his head, looked at Qu Le's face, and asked solemnly.
"Um……"
Qu Le closed his eyes, rested his elbows on the back of the bench, and leaned back.
"If you ask me, the relationship between you two is probably like that between thorns and brambles."
"Briar... and thorn?"
"I was going to say roses and thorns, but after thinking about it, I feel that the word rose doesn't quite fit your temperament."
Qu Le glanced at Lu Qian's face and asked, "Have you ever seen the flowers of Vitex? They are small and pale blue-purple, inconspicuous but very beautiful."
Lu Qian nodded, "I have seen it."
Qu Le continued, "Jing has no thorns, while thorns have prickles. Because they grow together in the wild, people naturally refer to them as the same.
Most people in the world are accustomed to using thorns to represent difficulties and suffering, but I don’t think so.
I prefer to think of them as a kind of symbiosis, a kind of unswerving relationship.
That is the support that nature has given them, to build walls, to find nutrients, to cling to each other."
Qu Le crossed his legs, looked at Lu Qian with interest and smiled, "So you are not like a rose. A rose is too delicate. It only needs appropriate wind and rain to wash it, making it look tenacious. It cannot stand at the forefront of the storm and accept the judgment of nature.
The thorn can live without the rose, but the rose will die without the thorn."
“But you and Cheng Yi are symbiotic and dependent on each other, not vassals.
Your love has become a kind of love that can take root in people's hearts, just like thorns. No one will separate these two plants and will definitely mention them together.
So I can’t imagine how you will separate, and I guess no one else can imagine it either.”
Qu Le looked at Lu Qian's increasingly stunned face, and the smile on his face grew even bigger, with his fox eyes narrowed into slits.
"My brother is probably too tired. He missed you so much. He's really not the kind of person who changes his mind frequently. Vanessa and he can't possibly have that kind of relationship.
You know him well, he's used to being served. If you don't respect him in front of others, he might not be able to accept it all at once."
Qu Le leaned towards Lu Qian mysteriously and whispered a few words in her ear.
"But I'm telling you, you have to take care of men. You're not wrong in this matter. He knows that Vanessa has a back injury, and you're not allowed to ask a few questions?
If he doesn't apologize to you, just leave him alone until he comes to you and begs for mercy. Let's see who can outlast him."
Qu Le's words slowly entered his ears, and Lu Qian's frown gradually relaxed.
She turned around and looked at Qu Le with a complicated expression, "Is this how you usually deal with Bai Yao?"
"...What?" Qu Le curled his lips helplessly, "This trick won't work on him at all. He won't give me a chance to start a cold war. If I'm determined to avoid him, he'll go and mess with everyone in the Baiqing Society, like a psychopath.
Otherwise, why would I have to argue with him? We would resolve any issue right then and there, and we wouldn't let it go until we were done. "
Lu Qian was completely amused by Qu Le's words. A person like Qu Le could only be controlled by Bai Yao.
Others didn’t know why Cheng Yi looked like that, but Lu Qian knew it was all a planned play.
She knew very well that Cheng Yi and Vanessa were not having an affair, but she was just angry about something else.
But Qu Le's words hit the nail on the head about which she had been struggling.
Lu Qian raised his hand and touched the pendant around his neck.
Thorns and thorns? She had never really thought about it that way.
Bai Yao also told her that her aggressiveness is very limited. This kind of thing is innate and cannot be achieved through training.
Just like the thorn tree, it is naturally thornless and no matter how it evolves, it will never have thorns.
But she didn't think that thorns, which are naturally thorny, also need brambles.
It's not vassalage, it's symbiosis.
The thick fog in Lu Qian's heart that had been there since the day Vanessa came to provoke him seemed to dissipate at this moment.
Wasn't her constant worry also a result of her distrust of Cheng Yi? Wasn't it also a kind of insecurity and anxiety?
She didn't tell Cheng Yi about Vanessa's situation. She thought she could handle it alone. Isn't this a deception?
In fact, she didn't need to worry so much, because things were always moving in the right direction and would eventually reach the other side.
Qu Le didn't know what Lu Qian was thinking. Her eyes followed Lu Qian's movements and fell on her collar, where she saw the pendant.
"Did you two go out and buy this?"
She reached out and took the pendant from Lu Qian's hand.
Lu Qian came back to his senses and nodded towards Qu Le, "I chose it. Doesn't it look good?"
"It looks good." Qu Le looked at it in his palm and nodded in approval. "Even someone like me who doesn't like jewelry thinks it looks good."
Lu Qian smiled slightly and said, "Let Bai Yao take you to pick one too."
"No, I don't like wearing jewelry. If I buy it, I'll just keep it there. I might lose it."
After Qu Le finished speaking, he seemed to have thought of something, and fumbled around the back of his neck, finding a black chain.
She grabbed the chain, pulled it out of her clothes, and dragged it in front of Lu Qian.
"Besides, I still have the ring he gave me, so I have nowhere to wear the necklace."
Lu Qian took a quick look and saw that the necklace hanging on Qu Le was the Möbius ring that she had seen before.
It was brighter and newer than the last time Lu Qian saw it, as if it had been taken care of.
Lu Qian grabbed the ring from Qu Le's hand and stuffed it back into her collar deftly.
"Hurry up and keep it. If you lose it again, Bai Yao will fight you to the death."
Qu Le's face darkened when he heard this. "Don't say that. It's a good thing I was kidnapped the last time I lost it. Otherwise, if Wang Jue hadn't killed me, Bai Yao would have killed me."
Seeing that Lu Qian's expression seemed to have eased a lot, Qu Le moved closer to her and asked slyly, "Are you not angry anymore?"
Lu Qian said bluntly: "I'm still angry, but I'm not that excited anymore."
No matter how hard she thought about it, she still felt that it was not so easy to let Cheng Yi get away with it.
Qu Le rubbed Lu Qian's chest with a flattering look on his face, helping her to calm down. "Hey, it's okay, it's okay. Just calm down slowly."
Lu Qian could feel that this woman was not trying to comfort her, but was obviously trying to take advantage of her. She slapped Qu Le's thieving hand away, stood up, and left after saying a few words.
"I'm going back to the house to rest."
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