Chapter 925 - 919 Rejection of Confession
As expected, Gu Youyou was very shocked, but calmly told him, "Between us lies a distance as vast as Mount Everest, and I do not like a life of hiding and secrecy."
"You’re talking nonsense." Jin Ziyuan knew she would reject him, yet he had not anticipated such a reason, "You don’t like a life of hiding? Then all these years, haven’t you been living exactly that way? In Lotus Village, in Lingnan, at the Lin Residence. You could hide for him, why can’t you do the same for me?"
Hearing this, she truly had been living that way over the years. Yet precisely because she disliked such a life, she had always been striving, alongside Jin Zijin, to change this situation, from darkness to light, to live together openly and honorably.
That was only because...
"I like him, not you," Gu Youyou sighed softly.
Jin Ziyuan staggered backward, he had anticipated this outcome, but hearing it from her still caused him a heart-wrenching pain.
The most heart-devouring love in the world is to love someone who belongs to an enemy.
She did not like him and unfortunately liked that person.