"What!" Li Qing's face suddenly changed, and the whole person jumped up directly from the sofa. "Stop fooling around, will you? We've discussed it, waiting for you to take a vacation, and then go abroad for a wedding!"
"I'm not fooling around." Lin Qiuqiu gently pursed her small mouth, put her jade arm around her knee and gently lowered her small head. "Li Qing, this is a decision I've considered for a long time. I didn't know how to speak before, but tonight's thing made me finally make up my mind."
Li Qing stood there and looked at Lin Qiuqiu quietly across the tea table. After a while, he whispered, "Qiuqiu, raise your head."
After waiting for a while, seeing that Lin Qiuqiu didn't respond, Li Qing repeated again: "look up."
Jiao's body trembled slightly. Lin Qiuqiu slowly raised her pretty face, with a layer of water mist at the bottom of her eyes.
"You might as well make it clear." Li Qing's cheek couldn't help but turn a little blue. "Don't you want to marry me? I'm not doing well? Is it because rou'er or rain and smoke? Does it make you sad?"
Seeing that he was shaking all over and showing an extremely rare appearance of gaffe, Lin Qiuqiu quickly raised his jade hand and wiped his eyes, and quickly said, "Li Qing, you sit down first, shall we talk slowly?"
She got up and wanted to catch Li Qing, but she was stopped by the latter.
With a deep sigh, Li Qing said in a deep voice, "you should at least give me a reason to convince me."
"Li Qing, isn't it good for us now?"
Li Qing answered firmly, "not good."
"I don't think there's anything bad..." Lin Qiuqiu put her arms around her chest and turned her mouth. "I know what's the most precious to me all the way. We don't need a simple ceremony to prove our feelings."
"Just because of the ups and downs along the way, I know you better." Li Qing reached out and pressed Lin Qiuqiu's shoulders and stared at her slightly bright eyes. "What you said is not the truth."
"Oh, you're so annoying." Lin Qiuqiu frowned, raised her jade hand and shook off Li Qing. She sat down gently on the sofa, picked up one side of the pillow and held it in her arms. "Simu is sleeping. I don't want to quarrel with you. It's settled like this. There's no room for discussion. We won't get married."
Li Qing was silent for a moment and said coldly, "I don't agree."
"Didn't you say you listened to me?"
"That's right." Li Qing nodded, "but as your husband, I must have the right to know why you decided not to hold a wedding? Qiuqiu, we've never quarreled. You can't let me know this time."
Lin Qiuqiu tooted his mouth: "I hate being bound by marriage. Is this reason OK?"
"Of course not."
"What do you mean?" Lin Qiuqiu stared. "I have to make up a reason you can accept to pass?"
Li Qing bypassed the tea table, squatted down in front of Lin Qiuqiu, and gently grabbed her soft jade hand around the pillow: "you even have a son. Now you say you hate being bound? Isn't this a blatant trick? Qiuqiu, I shouldn't be so retarded in your heart?"
Lin Qiuqiu hesitated: "I..."
"I know you very well. I should say I know you too well." Li Qing continued. "You are a very traditional person in your bones. You clearly attach great importance to marriage. How can you suddenly ask not to hold a wedding?"
Lin Qiuqiu tightened her hand slightly, blinked her beautiful eyes and whispered, "I'm sorry..."
Although her voice was very small, Li Qing listened to it really and immediately looked stunned: "sorry? What's sorry?"
"Have you ever thought that if we had a wedding, others... Would be so sad." Lin Qiuqiu's voice was weak and mosquito chirped, "Li Qing, I always feel guilty, as if I robbed rou'er's baby..."
"Qiuqiu!" Li Qing shook her body and frowned tightly, "What are you thinking? I'm your husband and simu is our son. This wedding should have come long ago! Indeed, rou'er is my first love. She waited for me for ten years and I failed her. But this is my problem. It has nothing to do with you. Why do you have this psychological burden?"
Lin Qiuqiu raised her chin and stared at him without blinking: "Li Qing, are we husband and wife?"
Li Qing nodded without hesitation: "of course."
"Since we are husband and wife, how can your debt have nothing to do with me?"
"This..." Li Qing opened her mouth and was stunned for a long time before she explained stiffly, "this is totally different."
"In my opinion, this is the same thing." Lin Qiuqiu said lightly. "This apology for rou'er will accompany your life and will be the shadow of our wedding. I don't want to see you hold this wedding with me with a debt to another woman, nor do I want to hurt others because of this wedding ceremony. Li Qing, that's not my intention."
"But it's too unfair to you." Li Qing apologized. "Qiuqiu, this wedding is my responsibility as a husband."
"But you don't deny that it will hurt others, do you?"
Li Qing was speechless.
"It's not just rou'er. Do you dare to say that Anqing doesn't like you? Doesn't manxuan like you? What about Xie Yuyan? She just gave birth to a daughter for you, but you married me at this time. Do you think she won't be sad?" Lin Qiuqiu sighed softly, "Li Qing, this may be just a cover up, but it can minimize the damage. This is the only thing I can do for them. I have occupied your people and can't deprive them of their last hope. Can you understand?"
Li Qing raised her hand and stroked the smooth white cheek of the woman in front of her: "Qiuqiu, I'm sorry for you."
"I was willing to choose you at the beginning. At that time, I knew that you could get all of me, but I was destined to lack a corner of you." Lin Qiuqiu whispered, "there is no perfect thing in the world. I have long been open to it."
There was a quiet silence in the living room for a while. Li Qing suddenly took Lin Qiuqiu into his arms and hugged him tightly, with wet eyes.
"OK." Lin Qiuqiu sighed softly, "listen to me this time. Our wedding has been cancelled. In this way, I can safely occupy your right of use for a long time..."
At eleven o'clock that night, Li Qing appeared at 72 Changde Road.
He got out of the car and looked up at the second floor of the villa. He could still see the lights in the house.
Li Qing calmed down, leaned over, picked up the gift box from the co pilot's seat and walked slowly up the steps. He stood at the door of the villa, took a deep breath, and then raised his hand to press the doorbell.
After a while, a woman's beautiful voice came from the door: "who?"
"Rou'er." Li Qing shouted, "it's me, Li Qing."
After a short silence, the door opened, and mu rouer, dressed in a beige Nightgown, appeared at the door with a calm face. She looked at Li Qing slightly, quickly staggered her eyes, and looked embarrassed: "what's up?"
"Er..." Li Qing looked around and smiled faintly. "Can I go in and say it?"
With a slight sip of her mouth, mu rouer turned and walked to the living room: "come in, what do you want to drink?"
Li Qing walked into the room and took the door with her backhand: "do you have coffee?"
"Yes." Mu rou'er answered softly, "wait a minute."
There was no light in the living room. Li Qing looked around in the dark and found that the furnishings here were the same as before.
Murou'er turned on the kitchen light, pressed the button of the coffee machine and took out a coffee cup from the cabinet.
Li Qing sat down on the sofa in the living room, put the gift box in her hand on the tea table, turned her head and stared at her slender back: "I'm sorry to bother you so late. I wanted to make an appointment to come back at a suitable time, but Qiuqiu disagreed and insisted on driving me out of the house."
"It doesn't matter. I didn't sleep anyway." Mu rouer came back from the kitchen with coffee, raised her jade hand and pressed the switch in the corner of the wall. The chandelier in the living room lit up, and it was bright everywhere.
Li Qing looked at her carefully and frowned: "Why are your eyes red?"
"Ah, yes? Maybe I'm too tired from reading." Mu rouer's pretty face changed slightly, raised her jade hand and wiped the corners of her eyes.
She leaned over slightly and was about to pass the coffee in her hand to Li Qing. At a glance, she just saw the gift box on the table. She was so familiar with it. It was the wedding gift given to Li Qing this morning.
Mu rou'er's delicate body was slightly stiff, and her look was a little unnatural: "this is..."
"Oh." Li Qing raised her hand and pushed the gift box in her direction. "Qiuqiu means... Give it back to you."
Bang!
As soon as Li Qing's voice fell, mu rouer's body trembled suddenly and fiercely. The coffee cup in her hand fell to the ground and broke.
"Rou'er." Li Qing hurriedly stood up and asked, "didn't you burn it?"
Mu rouer took a half step back, covered her mouth with her jade hand, turned and ran out.
As soon as she opened the door, Li Qing hurried forward and stopped her: "rou'er, what's the matter with you?"
"How can you join hands to bully me..." Mu rouer's voice was crying and clenched the door handle tightly. "Get out of the way, I'm going out!"
"Hey, this is your house. Where are you going?" Li Qing squeezed in front of her and raised his hands. "Did you misunderstand something?"
"Misunderstanding?" Mu rou'er stepped back and burst into tears at the bottom of her eyes. "You returned the gift I gave you. Now you still say I'm a misunderstanding?"
As soon as she turned around and ran upstairs, Li Qing held her waist from behind: "rou'er, listen to me."
"You let go of me!"
"We're not getting married!"
"What!" Mu rou'er stopped struggling, turned her head, stared at Li Qing in disbelief, "what are you talking about?"
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