Marriage is long and desires are strong

Qin Xiaoye suddenly closed his eyes, feeling nervous and afraid to hear Jiang Wei say, "Me too, I'm also thinking about Li Si..."

His chest heaved, and his breath was hot through his nasal cavity.

Jiang Wei smiled quietly: "But, isn't his predicament caused by you, Ms. Cui?"

"If anyone should be feeling bad, it should be you."

She stood up gently: "Ms. Cui, I was resting here, but since you came, I can't rest anymore. No need to see me out."

Cui Yue rarely encountered anyone directly telling her to leave, and she was somewhat annoyed: "You..."

"Do you think that just because you're the daughter of the Lu family, you can insult your elders at will?"

Jiang Wei smiled, her smile like ripples spreading across her face: "Yes, I am just that spoiled. What can I do? Someone has raised me to be like this."

Qin Xiaoye suddenly opened his eyes. It was him who had spoiled Jiang Wei, making her arrogant, willful, and unrestrained.

Qin Xiaoye smiled. It was him.

Cui Yue was furious. She stomped her feet, her high heels clicking on the marble floor as she walked away.

Jiang Wei slowly finished her orange juice, turned around to return to the banquet hall, and then walked forward.

Qin Xiaoye followed behind her, stepping into the light, intending to hug Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei and Qin Xiaoye looked up at the same time and saw Li Si. He was refined and composed, but his eyes were red. He stared at Jiang Wei with a hint of drunkenness.

Qin Xiaoye paused for a moment, took a step back, and retreated into the shadows, his face darkening.

Jiang Wei and Li Si stood facing each other in front of the empty lounge, without saying a word.

Melodious music drifted through the banquet hall, swirling and repeating, mingled with the laughter and chatter of the lively crowd.

The silence here was unsettling.

Li Si slowly opened his mouth, his voice trembling with drunkenness and a sob in his throat: "Weiwei."

Jiang Wei paused for a moment and then replied with an "Mm".

Li Si felt like laughing and crying at the same time: "So the Lu family's lost daughter was you."

Jiang Wei: "Mm."

Li Si: "Weiwei..."

Jiang Wei looked at him without saying anything.

Li Si said softly, "Weiwei, no matter who you are, whether you are Jiang Wei, Lu Wei, or just Weiwei, you know I will always be here for you."

Qin Xiaoye was in the shadows, staring intently at Jiang Wei's back. He couldn't see any expression on her face, only the moonlight enveloping her in a halo, making her look as beautiful as a goddess, a goddess who decides the life and death of others.

He clenched his fists, hoping Jiang Wei would remember what he had said: it's okay to cheat, but remember to come back, come back...

Qin Xiaoye felt his breathing becoming increasingly difficult.

The fire in my heart kept rising.

Charge forward, charge forward...

Jiang Wei's voice was also very soft, echoing in the empty space: "I'm married."

Li Si followed up, slightly drunk, "I can wait, Weiwei, I've always said I can wait."

Qin Xiaoye's mind went blank for a moment. Did this mean that Weiwei hadn't cheated on him? She hadn't been seeing Li Si in private?

His mind was racing. What photos did Qin Shuang take?

Li Si, dressed in a gray suit, with slightly red eyes and a hint of alcohol on his breath, gave a vivid, bitter smile, like an abandoned puppy: "Weiwei, I know your marriage to Qin Xiaoye is an arranged one, and the agreement is only for two years."

"I'll stand here forever, just waiting for you to turn around, just waiting for you to turn around and look at me."

When Qin Xiaoye heard the words "marriage alliance," "agreement," and "two years," a pang of bitterness welled up in his heart. Two years wasn't enough...

Why did you sign a two-year agreement in the first place?

It should have been written as "forever" and "for all eternity".

He wanted to go back to the day he signed the agreement and slap himself twice.

His hands clenched tightly, a mix of emotions welling up inside him: bitterness, frustration, violence, and rage.

He did have feelings for Jiang Wei at the time, but he was only amazed by her beauty and had...desire for her, wanting to be deeply with her.

However, he learned that Jiang Wei and Li Si were childhood sweethearts and in love, but the Li family was unhappy with Jiang Wei's fake heiress status and insisted on breaking off the engagement.

Qin Xiaoye had his own pride and disdained for forcing women to be with him, which is why he made a two-year agreement.

Two years later, they went their separate ways, wished each other well, and did not disturb each other.

That's what he thought.

But now, he wants to force it, he really wants to.

He wanted to tie Jiang Wei to a deserted island, just the two of them, so that Jiang Wei would never see Li Si again.

On the deserted island, the two of them kept going and going... until Jiang Wei begged for mercy and said to him, "Qin Xiaoye, I will always be with you and never leave you."

Qin Xiaoye's palms were wet.

Thinking this way...doing...

If he does that... Jiang Wei won't forgive him, will she?

Jiang Wei's voice is clear and steady, like a beam of moonlight, both gentle and cold:

"Li Si, making choices is always difficult. I used to be very confused about how people should make choices to choose the right path."

"Someone once told me to choose what I love."

"I didn't understand at the time. It's not like I can choose what I love. What if I can't choose what I love?"

She smiled gently at Li Si. Li Si looked at her face and asked softly, "What if I can't choose the one I love?"

Jiang Wei's voice was soothing, like flowing musical notes, falling one by one into the listener's ears, cool and refreshing: "He told me that there was another sentence after it, 'Love what I choose.'"

"Now I finally understand... Choices are never perfect, but at that time, the choice we made was the best choice we could make."

"Our choice at that time was the best one we made after considering all the circumstances, interests, and our own thoughts. It was the choice we felt was right at the time. Once we made that choice, we had already chosen the one we loved."

There is no other possibility.

There is no single right path.

"People always romanticize the path they haven't taken, but the path they haven't taken is inherently false and doesn't exist. That path has never existed. It's just that in our illusions we think we have a choice."

"Li Si, once you've made a choice, you've made it."

"We must move forward."

Li Si's lips twitched, tears welling in his eyes, threatening to spill over, but he held them back, making him appear even more pitiful.

"But Weiwei, I chose to wait for you, and that has never changed. I made a choice—the choice to love you."

Jiang Wei looked up at the distant moon, then at Li Si, her voice extremely soft, as if afraid of breaking something, something too fragile: "Li Si, you chose the Li family."

"At that time, I really needed someone to stand by my side without hesitation and tell me that family background didn't matter, that it didn't matter if I was a fake heiress, that only I mattered. I especially needed someone's support at that time."

"But then your mother came and told me that family background is important, but feelings and love aren't. What your family needs isn't someone like me. Her words woke me up like a ton of bricks, making me realize that everything has changed, and no one will stand by me anymore. I'm all alone."

Li Si cried, tears streaming down her face. "But I was locked in the house at the time, I couldn't get out at all, you know that. I didn't want to break off the engagement. Weiwei, please forgive me?"

"I know I should work harder, I should have started working earlier, I should have taken power earlier, and I should have matured earlier."

Jiang Wei said in a calm voice, "Back then, I couldn't sleep at night. I would often stare at the ceiling and think, 'Why is the night so long?'"

Qin Xiaoye watched Jiang Wei's slender figure from the shadows and longed to hug her; she must be so cold.