The atmosphere was silent for a long time.
It took so long that Li Qingwu's hand holding her was shaking, and Qiu Che finally came to her senses.
She looked at Li Qingwu for a moment with an indescribable look, moved her lips, and her voice was a little hoarse for some reason: "Are you crazy?"
Li Qingwu: "You may also feel that way."
Qiu Che pulled at his hand, but as expected, he failed to pull it out.
But in reality, she didn't want to use too much force, as that would seem too heartless.
Qiu Che lowered his eyes slightly, also looking at her, and said softly: "... Think it through, I am a woman. I have been pretending to be a man for so long, but I am not a man after all."
"So what if I'm a woman?" Li Qingwu was unusually stubborn, and immediately stiffened his neck and whispered back, "You were the one who told me that if a man can do it, a woman can do it too."
So now you're trying to stop me with this kind of words?
Qiu Che was speechless for a moment, not knowing whether to laugh or feel helpless.
After a while, she heaved a sigh of relief and said:
"â¦â¦I see."
For some reason, Li Qingwu always felt that what she said was weird.
She breathed more lightly and said anxiously, "...So, you, don't have anything else to say?"
Qiu Che thought for a moment, as if considering how to answer. In the silence, his eyes glanced at her neck unintentionally.
Then he gently pulled his hand back and placed it on Li Qingwu's collar.
"It's autumn."
She pulled Li Qingwu's collar almost imperceptibly and said softly:
"â¦It's cold, remember to put on more clothes."
Neither respond nor reject.
Qiu Che seemed not to see Li Qingwu's stunned expression. He quickly withdrew his hand, walked past her, and left with a calm expression.
Even after walking a long way, Qiu Che could still feel that Li Qingwu's gaze was still fixed on him.
She really wanted to look back, but she held back.
Qiu Che closed his eyes but didn't stop walking, thinking, this is fine.
Let both of them calm down.
The moment Li Qingwu pulled her aside to express his feelings, she almost thought that luck had really favored her.
The next day after she realized her feelings, her lover confessed his love to her.
Is there anything more dizzying than this?
But just when Qiu Che was so excited that she almost blurted out "I like you, too", she remembered something.
ââChen Huichun once said that during the process of detoxification, the poisoned person will gradually develop deep feelings for the detoxifier.
So during that long silence, Qiu Che hesitated and considered again and again.
In the end, he chose to swallow the words in his throat and retreated to his own safety line.
Itâs not that she didnât want to believe the meaning of Li Qingwuâs words, but that she didnât dare to believe it.
It was true that Li Qingwu had been gentle and considerate to her for more than two months after their marriage, but her ambiguity was all fake - Qiu Che remembered this clearly.
As an ambitious person pursuing power, Qiu Che felt that it was normal for the other party to resort to such tricks.
But every now and then, before being completely deceived by Li Qingwu, I would pour a bucket of cold water on myself to wake myself up, reminding myself that it was all fake.
of.
Moreover, with the effect of the poison, there is a high probability that Li Qingwu only has some ordinary friendship with her, but his impulse is magnified by the effect of the poison.
That's why he spoke so impulsively on the second day after detoxification.
If she really had feelings for Qiu Che, why did she admit before that she was lying to Qiu Che?
Qiu Che calmly reminded herself that it was okay for Li Qingwu to deceive her, but she must not be deceived by him.
But when she thought of the scene just now, she couldn't help but pause.
It's impossible for anyone to remain indifferent after hearing those words, right?
So while Qiu Che warned himself not to be impulsive, he also hid some of his own thoughts.
She did not completely reject Li Qingwu's confession.
I couldn't tell whether I was afraid of seeing her sad expression, or I just wanted to make the best of my mistake.
Over the next few days, the atmosphere between the two seemed even weirder than before.
Li Qingwu never got her clear answer. Every time he met her eyes, he got a guilty look and a hasty look away.
After so many times, the little bit of expectation left in Li Qingwu's heart slowly disappeared.
She thought, this was actually the answer.
But Qiu Che probably feared that she would be embarrassed, so he did not refuse her in person.
Qiu Cheâs birthday is getting closer.
On the night before her birthday, which was also the day after they had just spent the Mid-Autumn Festival together, Li Qingwu did not leave a single word and chose to stay out all night.
When Qiu Che finally found Fuling to ask, Li Qingwu was sitting in the small courtyard outside the city, holding a jar of wine in his arms, with a red face, staring at the dark moonlight in a daze.
No matter how Yaotai asked her, she just shook her head and murmured to herself: "I made her troubled. ?() ãCome []. Read the latest chapter. Full chapterã()"
"I was too impulsive."
"It's me... I'm not good enough."
Itâs not enough to the point where I can stand in front of Qiu Che and ask her why she canât like me.
The unrequited love in the dream that lasted for more than ten years, which had never been expressed out loud, may be the best choice.
She should have been more patient, Li Qingwu thought blankly.
It wouldn't have become such an awkward and dilemma-like situation now.
When Qiu Che arrived, the moon was at its highest point in the sky and Li Qingwu had already fallen asleep on the table.
Yaotai also drank a lot with her. Seeing Qiu Che finally coming, he waved his hand with a headache and said, "City Lord Qiu, hurry up and take her back."
Qiu Che nodded without changing his expression, then lowered his head to observe Li Qingwu's expression.
The other person's face was flushed, and he looked obviously drunk. His light-colored lips were slightly open in his sleep, but his brows were tightly furrowed.
It was as if there was something in reality that puzzled her, which made her come out to get drunk. After she was drunk, it followed her and puzzled her in her dreams as well.
Qiu Che looked at him for a while before bending down, passing his hands under Li Qingwu's knees and picking him up steadily.
Li Qingwu frowned again, muttered something softly, and then naturally buried his head in Qiu Che's arms.
Still not awake.
Qiu Che unconsciously relaxed his tense breath.
() Holding her, he glanced at the empty wine jars on the table. In the darkness, his expression was unclear:
"Did she...say anything to you?"
Yaotai shook his head, then nodded.
"â¦Did you say it?"
Yaotai did not answer, but just sighed: "City Lord Qiu, it was Young Master Yang who told you that His Highness is with me, right?"
Qiu Che's heart skipped a beat for some reason, and he had an inexplicable strange premonition.
She opened her mouth: "... Yeah."
Fuling refused to tell anyone about Li Qingwu's order. She didn't show it on her face, but she was very anxious in her heart.
It was indeed as if Yang Qiu had predicted the future, and he told her by carrier pigeon.
She was originally wondering how Yang Qiu knew where Li Qingwu was, but now looking at Yaotai again, she roughly understood.
"I was originally with Young Master Yang," Yaotai smiled, "Now that the princess is here, I will accompany her to drink and drown her sorrows. City Lord Qiu should know what sorrow she wants to drown, right?"
Qiu Che didn't say anything for a long time.
Of course she knows.
But she couldn't say that the issue now was not whether Li Qingwu was worried or not.
The problem was that she couldn't agree, but secretly she didn't want to refuse.
After all...she was just being selfish for once.
Yaotai just sighed and said, "It's useless to say more. I just advise City Lord Qiu not to let down your good man."
Qiu Che nodded at her silently, turned around, and walked out of the courtyard step by step.
The carriage stopped at the city gate, but Qiu Che carried the person out of the yard. After walking a few steps, he lowered his head and suddenly found that the person in his arms had opened his eyes at some point.
She was startled.
Both parties were silent for a moment, and then Qiu Che saw that Li Qingwu blinked slowly and said, "Come down."
Qiu Che: ââ¦Ah?â
Li Qingwu thought she didn't understand, so he whispered again: "Put me down."
Qiu Che put her down hesitantly.
Just as she was wondering whether she was awake or still drunk, she suddenly saw Li Qingwu stagger a few steps, then turned around and fell back into her arms.
Qiu Che subconsciously reached out to pick her up.
However, after catching the person, his body froze again.
Li Qingwu held her arm in a very natural manner, and looked up at her with sparkling eyes: "Look at the moon."
Qiu Che subconsciously looked up and saw a full moon.
The saying goes that the moon on the 15th is fullest on the 16th.
What a coincidence, today is August 16th.
Her voice was tight, and she raised her head, inexplicably not daring to lower it: "I saw it."
âDoes it look good?â
"â¦â¦Um."
Li Qingwu then smiled.
She grabbed a corner of Qiu Che's collar, leaned on her shoulder, exhaled warmly, and said slowly: "Then carry me."
"â¦â¦ah?"
The topic changed too quickly and Qiu Che was unable to follow her train of thought.
But after hesitating for a moment, looking at Li Qingwu's childish and confused eyes, she sighed in her heart, turned around and squatted down.
Li Qingwu looked a little surprised, as if he didn't expect that she would actually carry him on her back.
Qiu Che then hooked his finger: "Do you still want to carry me?"
"Back!" Li Qingwu raised the corner of his lips
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately leaned forward and happily kissed Qiu Che loudly on the side of his face, "Thank you!"()
Qiu Che felt half of his face was numb and his brain was in a mess.
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But he still managed to hold on, pretending to be calm and responded: "...Yeah."
Li Qingwu tilted his head: "Aren't you going to ask me why I should thank you?"
Qiu Che followed her lead and asked, "Why?"
Li Qingwu said: "Because no one has ever carried me like this before."
Qiu Che paused slightly.
"Neither did my father," Li Qingwu thought for a moment, raised his eyes to the moon, and whispered, "They all said that my father loved me very much. But my father would lift my brothers up, put them on his shoulders to ride on horses, carry them on his back to the imperial garden to catch koi in the pond, and take them to catch crickets together."
"...I never have."
Qiu Che was speechless for a moment, shook her legs, and said, "It's okay."
"Now someone has it on his back."
"Yeah, so thank you."
Li Qingwu whispered in her ear, "Am I very heavy? If I am, then you don't have to carry me. I will get off and walk by myself."
There was still a hint of alcohol in his tone.
Quite considerate.
Qiu Che pulled the corners of his lips and shook his head.
Li Qingwu is very thin and feels light when he carries him.
Qiu Che was a martial artist, so carrying her on his back took almost no effort on his part.
Thinking of this, Qiu Che said again: "I forgot to bring a light with me today."
This time it was Li Qingwu who didn't react: "Huh?"
Qiu Che carried her on his back, deliberately slowing down his pace, walking forward slowly, and speaking slowly: "Aren't you afraid of the dark?" She said she should bring something with her.
It turned out that I forgot to bring the light.
Actually, I was in a hurry when I came out, so I forgot to take it.
"It's okay." Li Qingwu smiled softly on her shoulder.
Qiu Che laughed so hard that his chest vibrated slightly and his ears felt hot unconsciously.
She then whispered again: "Why?"
"Because there is the moon." Li Qingwu's eyes sparkled as he looked up at the sky.
This road is a small path outside the city, with bamboo forests on both sides. It is shaded by the moonlight and only the sporadic sounds of the two people talking can be heard.
Their overlapping shadows were stretched very long under the moonlight.
The sound of their conversation could be heard faintly in the wind.
Qiu Che said: "Is that so."
Li Qingwu stretched out his tone, "In fact, there is more than this, there is also..."
"what else?"
Li Qingwu paused for a long time before leaning over to her ear and whispered, "You are still here."
Because you are here, I know there is no need to be afraid.
Qiu Che's heart stopped beating briefly because of these words.
After a long time, she came to her senses and turned her head again.
After the instigator said this, he lay on her shoulder and fell asleep lazily.
Her slightly messy hair fell by her ears, making her look less meticulous than usual and more casual.
Qiu Che walked to the carriage in silence. Yu Ming was also very perceptive and gently took the
() Someone took it and helped it into the carriage.
When pulling open the car curtain, Qiu Che looked up for the last time, and for some reason glanced at the clear and bright moon above his head.
It seemed exactly the same as the Lantern Festival a year ago.
At the same time, a hand suddenly grabbed her.
Li Qingwu's body had not yet been fully helped in.
She half opened her eyes, as if she suddenly remembered something, and looked at Qiu Che for a long time before she slowly opened her lips and called out, "Qiu Che."
Qiu Che said âhmmâ.
Li Qingwu tightly grasped her wrist, and as if he didn't hear the response clearly, he whispered again: "...Aning."
This time Qiu Che paused, then looked at Yu Ming's strange gaze, lowered his eyes, looked at Li Qingwu's hand that was tightly holding his, and responded again.
She answered softly but forcefully, "I'm here."
"I know." Li Qingwu smiled very slowly.
She said, "Happy birthday."
Qiu Che didn't speak for a long time.
On a full-moon night with a cool autumn breeze, if the timing is right, it can always remind people of some hazy past events.
She remembered it too.
In his memory, during the ten years that Li Qingwu went to the south of the Yangtze River, Qiu Che only remembered that Li Qingwu came back twice, but he could not remember when was the first time.
Now she remembered.
She actually met Li Qingwu on her birthday one year.
Li Qingwu rushed back from Jiangnan to celebrate her 20th birthday, but the long journey delayed him for some time.
By the time she arrived, exhausted, it was already around midnight.
The moon that night also had such a transparent color and round outline.
But because his father ignored his birthday, Qiu Che was inevitably depressed. When he returned to the yard, he found that there was no one around him with whom he could talk to.
The person who got drunk that night was not Li Qingwu, but Qiu Che.
She only remembered that they talked about everything, from their ideals and ambitions to the hardships of life... They talked about a lot of topics that they had never talked about before.
It was obvious that Li Qingwu was enjoying himself as well.
Qiu Che even sighed and apologized to her, saying that he had a reason for sending her to Jiangnan.
If one day she finds someone she loves and wants to divorce Qiu Che, Qiu Che will definitely not stop her.
These were almost the same words that were spoken at the beginning of this life, when he formed an alliance with Li Qingwu.
Unfortunately, she did not see Li Qingwu's depressed look.
Naturally, I didn't hear the other party's answer.
The next morning, when Qiu Che woke up again, there was only a gift box containing a carving knife on the bedside.
The yard was empty.
Li Qingwu has left.
She spent a late birthday with her, with only the two of them.
And then left quietly.
It seems that for them, every reunion is a belated gift.
Separation is their destiny. !