CHAPTER 135: CHAPTER 135: YOU MADE MY HEART OF INDIFFERENCE FALL COMPLETELY

Gu Jiayin still didn’t speak. She raised her eyes to look into his, and the whole world seemed empty.

For a fleeting moment, she suddenly wished time could stop like this. Whether he was sincere or not, at this moment she indeed felt steadfastly loved and felt the warmth he conveyed to her.

Then, let this life end like this.

No more pressure, no more confusion, to die at the finish line with a sense of warmth.

Perfect.

Sheng Qianchi looked at the woman in his arms, her beautiful eyes blinking as if her soul had been drained, and he felt inexplicably pained.

He reached out to caress her cheek, the pad of his thumb brushing over her lips, "That night, I didn’t touch Qin Yishu."

Gu Jiayin’s vacant eyes finally showed some movement, and her body trembled slightly. She turned her gaze to look into his eyes, her voice as soft as silk strings, "What did you say?"

"I didn’t touch her. I’ve never touched any woman." His eyes reflected her image, enveloping her in his arms, feeling his chest fill up,

"I’m afraid that if I laid a finger on any woman, you would despise me in the future, so I once cut my wrist to force myself to stay awake. Each cut made it clearer... that I love you."

He seemed full of emotions, suddenly lowering his head to bury his face in her neck, "Jiayin, you won. You made me fall for you. You brought my cold, indifferent heart that I shielded for so many years crashing down."

Gu Jiayin was deeply shaken.

She vividly remembered the grotesque scars on his wrist. Did he harm himself like that just not to be despised by her in the future?

Does he really love her so much?

A burning tear fell on her neck, making her tremble momentarily.

He actually shed tears.

A man like him.

"Jiayin, thank you for still being alive."

This sentence was from the depths of his heart.

He had thanked her countless times for still being alive, for allowing him to recover that ray of light that brightened his gloomy life seven years ago.

For a moment, Gu Jiayin couldn’t help but become teary-eyed. It was a saying that only someone with true feelings could understand.

Her long, slender fingers threaded through his black hair, choked with emotion, "Sheng Qianchi, why put yourself through this, isn’t it better to be the cold, proud king you once were?"

Free, bold, and carefree.

That was his true self.

Now, holding a woman and crying seemed so out of place.

"No." Sheng Qianchi hugged her more tightly, "You will never know how unhappy that version of me was, you’ll never know how lonely and long the nights were, how could you know, that these past two months sleeping under your bed were the happiest times of my twenty-odd years."

Such a man, sleeping under a woman’s bed, would seem humiliating or merely an entertainment for others, but only he knew it was his way of banishing loneliness.

"Last night, you told Sister Li you were willing to reconsider Pei Nianchen, because you two have the purest foundation, while I give you no reason to trust. But I want to tell you, my love for you has a foundation too, it’s not just a temporary infatuation."

The room fell silent once more, only the man’s hoarse voice gently saturating the air.

He raised his head, looking intently at the woman in his arms, "I’ve liked you for seven years, Jiayin."

This sentence once again gave Gu Jiayin quite a shock, but she didn’t speak, only widened her eyes to look back at him.

She really didn’t know how he could have liked her back then, seven years ago.

"Seven years ago, I didn’t dare say how much I loved you, but indeed, at first sight, I was amazed and delighted."

"After you first spoke to me at that piano lesson, I suddenly had a strong obsession with possessing you, and I swore to take you away from Pei Nianchen."

"Unfortunately, before I could take any action, that shipwreck event happened."

"When I heard you were in the shipwreck, I also went to Jiangshang. At that time, I had just returned to the country and didn’t have the power I have now, unable to command a single soldier of the Sheng Family, so I went there alone."

"I drove a yacht alone, searching back and forth downstream of the Luo River, hoping for a miracle, to find you. But after looking for a long time, I couldn’t find even a trace of your clothing."

"Perhaps because I was too desperate and too focused, I didn’t notice someone ambushed on the cliffside of the riverbank, intending to assassinate me. It wasn’t until I was shot that I realized."

"The bullet hit my shoulder, and I almost passed out from the pain. It was Qin Yishu, playing on another yacht, who took the risk of being shot to run over and save me."

Gu Jiayin listened quietly, her expression not changing much, but her heart was in turmoil. She never knew he had paid such close attention to her seven years ago.

She had only heard Qin Yishu had saved his life, never knowing it was related to her.

She took a deep breath, "So, did you promise to marry Qin Yishu?"

At this moment, Sheng Qianchi had also calmed down. He gently caressed her cheek, "I got engaged to her not because she saved me. There are countless ways I could repay a life-saving grace, without committing my life."

He looked at her deeply, his eyes profound, seemingly carrying years of deep affection, "It’s because she resembles you a bit, and looking at her would bring me some comfort."

No one understood. A person who had spent sixteen years in loneliness and indifference, suddenly discovering a glimmer of hope reignited, only for fate to extinguish that light, felt such helplessness and desolation.

Gu Jiayin no longer knew what to say. She felt she should be touched, and she was indeed very touched, but it wasn’t enough to change her original resolve, as her life had long strayed from its track back then, too complicated to bear such a love.

"Who wants to assassinate you?" After a moment of silence, she asked.

"It’s the Chu Family people." Sheng Qianchi said, "They always suspected that Sheng Yang’s death was related to my mom, so they wanted to assassinate me in revenge."

The Chu Family was the family of Sheng Family’s deceased eldest son, Sheng Yang. Years ago, Sheng Yang met with a strange car accident, prematurely dying at the age of twenty-two, and the Chu Family hated Gu Shaohua for it.

So when Sheng Qianchi came back, they targeted him, indeed intending to assassinate him.

But, that incident on the river wasn’t done by the Chu Family; it was a plot orchestrated by Gu Shaohua and Qin Zhennan, to push Qin Yishu to Sheng Qianchi and frame the Chu Family.

As expected, once the incident happened, Sheng Lanzhang became very dissatisfied with the Chu Family, and during their downfall attack led by Qin Zhennan and Gu Shaohua, he didn’t extend any help, causing the Chu Family to go bankrupt within a year.

Qin Zhennan and Gu Shaohua played a perfect double-win strategy.

Gu Jiayin lowered her gaze and remained silent. All those grudges, she wasn’t interested in, and she didn’t care what the truth was.

The room once again fell into silence for about a minute.

He continued holding her in his arms.

Sheng Qianchi lowered his eyes to look at the quiet woman with her gaze lowered, and once again spoke those few words, his rich voice very faint, yet very clear,

"Jiayin, marry me."