“Pei Ge, I’ve taken care of it not because I like it but because I like you and because…… I was waiting for you.

  His dark gaze was still fixed on her as palpable tenderness colored his eyes.

  “I thought that, even if you didn’t return to look for me, you’d return to look for it. That’s why…… I continued taking care of it.”


  His words were so touching that Pei Ge almost fell into a trance.

  ‘I was waiting for you……’


  This statement of his had such a big impact on her that she even felt a little overwhelmed.

  She already had the notion that this man was doing such because he was waiting for her, but she did not expect……

  She was in shock and baffled that this man before her would admit this to her! She was also very…… touched.

  At this point, she also wanted to stand before him and expressed her thoughts.

  She wanted to tell him that she had given birth to adorable children for him……

  However, when she opened her mouth, she was unable to voice it out.

  That was because…… she recalled her child who had passed away……

  That child was like a curse as it tangled itself around her, rendering her unable to cross the emotional barrier between her and this man.

  “Come back; let’s get married. No matter what happened in the past, let’s treat it as though it had never happened, okay?”


  Ji Ziming continued staring at her with a gaze dyed with a plea.

  Unexpectedly, this woman before him was hard-hearted.

  She neither gave him a reply nor deigned to soften her expression.

  Instead, she gave him a blank and emotionless look.

  “Pei Ge?”


  Her expression caused his heart to sink.

  “Are you still so mindful of the incident with Qiao Jingyun—”

  “Yes.”


  She sucked in a deep breath and calmly regarded him, who had a hurt expression.

  “I mind it; I mind it a lot.”


  “Every time I think of how you betrayed me back then, every time I think of the things you did to me, I am very……”


  Her words were like sharp knives that pierced his heart.

  “Ji Ziming, do you know how much pain I was in back then? Do you know how much your actions before had hurt me?! Do you know? My mother nearly died back then! Do you……”

  She pursed her lips in utter misery.

  She realized that, as long as she stood before him, she would always recall her poor child.

  That child…… was innocent, yet because of them……

  “What do you want me to do to earn your forgiveness?”


  Her miserable look made the man feel awful inside.

  Right now, he felt even more spiteful of his benefactor.

  In the past, he used to be so grateful to the woman who had saved his life…… Now, her actions had totally and utterly obliterated all the feelings of gratitude he had for her!

  “Unless…… Ji Chi isn’t yours and Qiao Jingyun’s.”