Hearing that, Luo Qi nodded her head, and said sorrowfully, "That's right, it's precisely this point that has caused me to be unable to give up on him for dozens of years."
"…"
"If he dislikes me, then I'll give up on the other women. But he's cold to me, and even colder and harsher to others. I've always wished that I was different from others, and that I had decades of extravagant hopes." Luo Qi raised her eyes and looked at Shi Xiaonian's calm face, "Women are always so suspicious, right?"
"Yes."
Shi Xiaonian nodded in agreement. She had also heard all kinds of suspicions and suspicions about Gong Ou.
As Shi Xiaonian's words fell, the two of them became silent. As Luo Qi sat there, she was no longer in a hurry to go to the scene of the engagement ceremony.After a long while, she looked at Shi Xiaonian, and asked with some disbelief, "Were you serious about growing the flowers for me?"
After so many years, Luo Qi was still unable to accept that Gong Jue had cared about him.
"Otherwise I can't think of any other reason." Shi Xiaonian said, his eyes looking straight at Luo Qi, "I believe if I think carefully, there are still a lot of things my father did for my mother, but it might all be ignored."
Hearing this, Luo Qi suddenly became a little nervous while sitting there, "There's still a lot of them, is it possible?"
She was like a woman who had just stepped into love. She was perplexed, unable to believe it, feeling inferior, and also eagerly anticipating it.
felt a little guilty for tricking such a woman, but he still said, "Un, it's just like this flower. If I didn't ask someone about it, I wouldn't have known that this flower would be so hard to grow. Father did something for you, so he didn't say anything."
"Did you see anything else in the log?"
Luo Qi asked, looking at Shi Xiaonian with such anticipation.
Shi Xiaonian shook his head, "The log only records your activities, I am not able to discern much, but I think that father has been ambitious throughout his life, other than Gong Jia, I cannot bear to see you go."
"…"Luo Qi's eyes dimmed.
"Didn't Father leave anything for you when he went?" Shi Xiaonian asked.
"It's just a Gong Jia, a substitute. You saw it too." Luo Qi laughed bitterly, "Other than these, he left me nothing."
"Is that so?" Shi Xiaonian replied indifferently, "I thought that someone with Father's character would definitely leave something behind for you."
"Nope." Luo Qi shook her head, "When he left, he was already terminally ill, other than me, there was only his favorite watch, there was nothing else."
Therefore, how could she not blame him? No matter how much she blamed herself for painstakingly marrying that man.
"Is that the watch on my father's hand?" Shi Xiaonian asked, "Why does father like that watch so much? Was it from my mother? ""I did buy it, but he liked it because it had a collection value and a date, so the timing was perfect."
Luo Qi said.
Hearing this, Shi Xiaonian smiled lightly.
"What are you laughing at?" Luo Qi asked.
"I remember that Gong Ou is a person who doesn't mean what he says. Every time he says that the thing I bought was bad, this isn't good, but he likes it not good, so he always carries it on him." Shi Xiaonian said, she did not make the words too clear.Luo Qi was an intelligent woman, if she said something that was too white, it would only raise suspicions.
This was what Gong Ou had taught her.However, Shi Xiaonian didn't know if she could succeed, and could only wait quietly.
Just as expected, after Luo Qi heard her words, she was stunned for a moment. She suddenly stood up and left, but Shi Xiaonian pretended to look at her in shock, "Mother, where are you going?"
Luo Qi stopped in her tracks, turned her head and looked at her, and said, "Come with me as well."
"Alright."
Shi Xiaonian followed him.Luo Qi walked all the way to Gong Jue's study room, opened the bookshelf and walked inside. The cold air inside still made Shi Xiaonian unconsciously shrink her body.
Luo Qi hastily went to the side of the door and pressed a button. She opened the glass coffin and took off the watch in her hand.
"What are you doing?"
Shi Xiaonian pretended not to understand.
"My husband has been wearing this watch for a long time, and it has become a symbol of him. It's not too much like a double, so it's easy to tell, so I make it easy for a double to see people who are close to them with their watches on. It's not easy to recognize them by turning sideways or turning around." Luo Qi said.
"So that's how it is."
No wonder the double thought that she was someone close to Gong Jue the last time she saw. Since she knew about this watch, she quickly took it off Gong Jue's hand, causing it to be extremely cold.
Luo Qi carefully examined the cold watch in her hand, and after looking at it for a long time, she became a little disappointed, "I can't really tell what words it will leave behind, can I?"She said somewhat self-deprecatingly.
Any woman who fell in love with someone like Gong Jue would become extremely unconfident.
Shi Xiaonian stood beside Luo Qi and took the watch from her.Luo Qi let her receive it, and the eyes he looked at Shi Xiaonian with were filled with anticipation and trust. Shi Xiaonian understood that she was deceiving a person who had been anticipating relationships for decades, and guilt started spreading from the bottom of his heart.
She avoided Luo Qi's gaze and pretended to look at the watch in her hand and said, "Yeah, I can't see anything wrong with this watch. Eh, what do these numbers and English mean on the back of this watch?"
Hearing that, Luo Qi looked over, and spoke with a bit of disappointment: "It was carved on there when I bought it, with our initials and dates."
"So that's how it is." Shi Xiaonian chuckled and said, "I thought it would be some kind of library's serial number."
"Library?"
"Indeed. Back then, when I went to the library to browse through books, the arrangement was the same as well." Shi Xiaonian said, "In front is the category, and behind is the bookshelf's serial number. Which row does it belong to?""Arrange serial numbers?" Luo Qi's eyes were startled, she stared at her blankly, then took the initiative to pull her out of the room. Bringing her out of the room, she walked to the study room in the front and closed the bookshelf, then said, "My husband often stays in this study after she passes away."
"…"
"Come, minuscule thought, come. You know the Blizzard Library. Take a look and see if you can find anything from the serial number." Luo Qi said, as she placed all her hopes on Shi Xiaonian.
"Alright."
Shi Xiaonian nodded her head and bit her lips. She lowered her head and looked at the cold watch in her hand, pretending to look for the numbers and English, "This English letter should be representative of this region.
In the huge ancient study room, Luo Qi looked at Shi Xiaonian nervously and followed her, asking, "And then?"
"This numerical classification is different from what I saw in the library. It might be a different method." Shi Xiaonian said indifferently, his finger moved past the rows of books, finding a row of books on the higher levels. After that, he pointed at the code on the row of books and shook his head, "Mother, I don't know either, but according to the arrangement of the library, it should be one of these books."
Hearing this, Luo Qi immediately stood on her tiptoes to take the few books off the desk.
"…"
Shi Xiaonian felt uncomfortable looking at her urgent look.
Luo Qi stood there and quickly flipped through the books. Shi Xiaonian also walked over and helped him flip through the books, and her gaze landed on the pile of books.
The book was right beside Luo Qi's hand.Very quickly, Luo Qi picked up the book and opened it. A piece of yellowish paper fell out, causing Luo Qi's entire being to freeze in place. She lowered her eyes and stared at the folded piece of paper in a daze.
"…"Shi Xiaonian stood there silently.
Luo Qi's exquisite makeup could not stop her paleness either. She raised her hand but retracted it, as he did not have the courage to open it, "minuscule thought, take a look first.""Mother?"
"Take a look first."
Luo Qi said again as she turned her face away. There was a glimmer in her eyes as she tried her best to control her posture.
"Alright." Shi Xiaonian took a deep breath, reached out, picked up the paper and opened it. She looked down at the words on it, each word was something that she and Gong Ou had thought of together, and she thought of the content.
This was a huge lie.
Shi Xiaonian glanced at Luo Qi, and then slowly recited, "Qi, I'm sick. I didn't think that I'd get such a sickness at such a young age, how are you going to settle things here, and how is the future of Gong Jia supposed to be arranged? Gong Ou acted on his own, only having talent but not being able to unleash it in the Gong Jia. If the Gong Jia were to be defeated after me, how can you be at your own place, if you don't have a powerful family to protect you, how can you face being married to me while disregarding everything else? "
"…"
Luo Qi stood at the side and listened, her hands covering her face, tears unceasingly flowing down.Shi Xiaonian paused for a moment, and then continued, "No matter what, before I die, I must arrange everything for you, so that you won't be looked down upon. This family must continue to shine, so that you can always have a place amongst the nobility."
"…"
Luo Qi sat down in front of the bookshelf and started sobbing.
"It's over." Shi Xiaonian lowered her eyes to look at her, and said, "Mother, this doesn't seem to be her last words to you.
Luo Qi received the paper and her fingers trembled. She lowered her eyes to look at the words written on it, it was Gong Jue's handwriting, but the words were in a mess and urgent, "This should have been written when he was sick. He has always been calm, even in the face of terminal illness. So it turns out that his heart is also in disorder. I actually didn't notice it, I never noticed it. "
Luo Qi was a little incoherent."Mother, don't be like this. Father will feel sad when he sees it."
Shi Xiaonian said indifferently, her heart tormented by her own lies."I always thought he didn't think of me as anything other than Gong Jia." He didn't care about his image at all, as he pulled Shi Xiaonian and said, "But look, when he was sick, he thought of me, and he thought that only Brilliant Gong Jia could make me live better, so that's what he thought."
She didn't know.
She had never known that her husband's heart had been in such a mess when he was ill, that he had always been thinking about her future life.
Chapter end
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