She had always understood that he chose to save the most important family member, to live and die with the person he loved most.
Gu Xiaorou composed herself, sighed, and said, "As for me and Qin Yao..."
"When I snatched Qin Yao away, on one hand, it was because you, clearly inferior to me in every way, still had such outstanding people doting on you, and on the other hand, I had truly fallen in love with him."
"But I knew that he never loved me, it was always me deceiving myself. I don't know if you ever noticed how I dressed and behaved after returning four years later.
I changed my naturally curly chestnut hair to long straight black hair, I wore cute pink clothes, I adopted your usual way of speaking...
Only by imitating you would he occasionally lay his eyes on me and show genuine adoration; even if that expression wasn't meant for me, it was better than his constant feigned tenderness toward me."
"I never thought I could be so humble for a man's sake..."
