Chapter 321 - 290 Grasping Your Gentle Hand_2
Rong Zhi was a master at manipulating chess games and human hearts. He knew what kind of person Chu Yu was, and his deliberate design was enough to bring her close to mental collapse, making her unable to forget him until her death.
After straightening his disheveled clothes, as if he could still feel the warmth and slickness entwined around his fingertips, Rong Zhi smiled slightly and said, "There’s a saying that goes, ’No filial sons at the bedside of a chronic illness.’" It was the same everywhere. Of course, he didn’t think that if he were to live half-dead, with Chu Yu taking care of him, she would stop loving him. However, doing so would undoubtedly dissipate and weaken the tragic intensity he had deliberately created, which was frozen in a moment of eternity.
If that were the case, and he eventually died, Chu Yu might be silently sorrowful, but she would not be deeply engraved in her heart. And if he ultimately survived, Chu Yu would not have the ecstatic breakdown she had today.
At the most tragic moment, he decisively struck, leaving the deepest wound in her soul.
He had a cruel heart. To achieve his goals, he was even willing to hurt the person he cared for. Even though hearing Guan Canghai report daily on how Chu Yu was heartbroken made him somewhat sad, he didn’t waver or soften his heart at all, even laying out the scene by the river deliberately for her to witness.
Using death as a sharp weapon, he made her despair, then slowly tormented her over time. After a while, when he was sure she had felt it deeply, he let Liu Sang open her heart.
By then, Chu Yu was already in his control.
Later, there was a slight mishap he hadn’t anticipated; Tian Rujing ended up entrusting the bracelet to Chu Yu. The moment he heard that Chu Yu was leaving, he realized she wasn’t just going somewhere, but leaving this era to reach a future he could never touch.
Others may not know, but he, who understood Chu Yu’s origins well, was aware.
Fortunately, Chu Yu didn’t plan to leave right away, giving him some time to buffer. Thus, he sent people to follow her and, after his injuries had initially healed, he followed them.
The Princess Mansion was a place he had arranged long ago. Even if Chu Yu intended to leave, she would surely return here to reminisce. He had sent Moxiang back early to manage it. On the surface, the mansion was a residence for officials of the Southern Dynasty, but it was actually still his.
Everything that happened after meeting in the bamboo grove seemed, superficially, to be Chu Yu being disoriented and excited, but in reality, it was his careful arrangement, luring her step by step into the urn.