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Chapter 1354 - 1347: The Proposal is Underway (5)

Chapter 1354: Chapter 1347: The Proposal is Underway (5)

Qin Zhiyou used to think that his feelings for Lu Weixi included love at first sight’s adoration of beauty, a desire to snatch her away from his brother, and a bit of childhood warmth. Although it was just a small sugar figure in a foreign land, the impression was profound because his father died the next day. Moreover, from his childhood to adulthood, despite being born to privilege and seemingly well-regarded by those around him, the kindness or malice of others was all tied to his own identity. Therefore, he remembered so distinctly the little girl’s genuine kindness that was void of any ulterior motives.

But these could only sustain the initial amazement he felt. Now, when he thought about why he liked Lu Weixi, there was one more thing - in reality, the two of them were very similar.

They shared the same pride, the same experience of falling from heaven to hell and the pain that accompanied it, and the same shadow cast by family discord.

There’s no need to mention Lu Weixi, for Qin Zhiyou grew up in a family fraught with parental strife. Had it not been for his act as a love-stricken wastrel to numb the suspicions of his uncle and aunt, he would never have given any approaching woman a second glance. After his father’s death and the ascendance of the long house of the second wife, he went through the same sharp reversal of fortune as Lu Weixi, from being the darling of all to being shunned by everybody. The only stroke of luck he had over Lu Weixi was that the Qin Family did not give up on him; even if his uncle briefly took control of Hanhai, he successfully reclaimed it. In contrast, when Lu Weixi’s parents split, she sided with her mother and received no aid after the divorce, becoming an enemy to her father.

Although she said she was afraid he was moving too fast for her to keep up, in truth, if she had followed her original plan and gone abroad with Qin Zhisu, supporting each other and growing together, as a designer with both Spiritual Energy and thoughtfulness, she might have done even better than Qin Zhisu. Just like now, given a little opportunity by him, she could quickly seize it, work at a hundred percent effort, and be proactive and optimistic.

Asking himself honestly, if he hadn’t taken back Hanhai, or if he had left the Qin Family with Yang Mogui, his situation now wouldn’t be much better than Lu Weixi’s.

It was a mix of extreme self-doubt and extreme self-improvement, having suffered the same hurts. The only reason their outcomes were so drastically different was because of the positions they stood in.

Perhaps the initial attraction was due to a beautiful appearance or the lingering affection from childhood. But a long-lasting love must be built on two people sharing compatible values, circumstances, and thoughts.

After listening to Qin Zhiyou’s words, Lu Weixi at first did not give any indication of her stance.

She was always anxious, still caught in the pain of "thinking she had leased a fish pond, only to fall in love with the Sea King." Her parents’ failed marriage made her inherently distrustful of the idea that a philanderer could change his ways. If good men like her father and Qin Zhisu could turn bad, how could someone like Qin Zhiyou possibly change for the better?

No matter how many sweet nothings Qin Zhiyou said, she wasn’t unhappy in her heart. But she was always afraid that Qin Zhiyou had said the same words to other women. That the things Qin Zhiyou had done for her, he had performed in exactly the same way for others. Although she didn’t fully trust his current confession, after many years of marriage, she could feel that in this moment, he was truly opening his heart to her.

Love might be just a fleeting cold, but the foundation of marriage is long-standing trust.

She was silent for a long time before finally speaking, "From now on, don’t lie to me anymore."