Realizing what she had been thinking, Xie Wanqing blushed and cradled his face, earnestly saying, "You misunderstood, I didn’t elope with Ji Chengfeng, we met by chance."

"Is that so?" Lu Ziyuan looked down at her for a long time, pondering something. He didn’t dwell on the matter but instead asked, "Will you come back with me?"

He said lightly, "As long as you come back with me, I will let bygones be bygones, and I can let go of Pei Yuqing and Ji Chengfeng too."

Xie Wanqing was utterly shocked.

Not seeing him for five years, had he changed this much?

Whether it was Pei Yuqing or Ji Chengfeng, they were thorns in his side, so to speak.

He had just witnessed Ji Chengfeng ’embracing’ her...

In such a situation, if it had been five years ago, no matter how much she explained, she wouldn’t have quelled his murderous intent.

Yet, she hadn’t explained anything, and he spoke so lightly about ’letting go.’

Xie Wanqing breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt inexplicably complex emotions.

Perhaps it was heartache.

Xie Wanqing had personally experienced how strong his possessiveness towards her was.

Back then, when she married Pei Yuqing through proper channels and was rightfully Mrs. Pei, he still resented Pei Yuqing to the point of barely concealing his desire to kill.

Now he so easily speaks of letting go of Ji Chengfeng, who was with her for years.

Xie Wanqing felt a slight sourness in her heart. If he could have been like this five years ago, how could she have left everything behind and run away?

He wouldn’t have ended up in such a desolate state.

She sniffed and whispered, "Of course, I’ll go back with you."

With that, she tilted her head, cupped his face, and kissed his chin, "Even if you hadn’t come looking for me, I was planning to return to the Capital."

Afraid he wouldn’t believe her, she pointed to the two trunks in the room, "Look, I’ve even packed my luggage."

Having said that, even she found it quite coincidental.

She decided to return to the Capital to find him today, and today he came looking for her.

Lu Ziyuan gave a good-natured smile, pinched her chin, kissed her for a while longer, and when their breath was once again disordered, he pulled her up, "Then let’s go."

Clearly, he didn’t want to stay here any longer.

He couldn’t wait to carry her out of this house right now.

"Wait!"

Xie Wanqing was startled and slapped away his reaching hand, "I can’t leave right now."

Lu Ziyuan had already stood up, and upon hearing this, looked over with eyes that turned cold instantly.

... His ability to change expressions hadn’t changed at all.

Xie Wanqing internally complained, and quietly said, "...I had a child, you know, right?"

Raising a child without the father for four years...

It indeed wasn’t quite right.

She blinked and forced a smile at him, "Ran’er is still at the academy, and by the time it should be about time for him to come back."

Could he have come here without knowing about the child?

Lu Ziyuan’s lowered gaze paused slightly.

Of course, he knew.

He knew that four years ago, the woman in labor who he had never met, yet who made his heart ache unbearably, was her.

He also knew that the Xie family knew long ago that she wasn’t dead and were aware of her whereabouts.

So on that day outside the delivery room, Xie YanYu was that anxious. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Because the one giving birth inside was his legitimate younger sister.

The signs were so obvious, yet he missed it for four years.

A bitter taste surged in his throat, Lu Ziyuan gave a bleak smile, but still felt reluctant as he said resentfully, "Following that pretty boy, he couldn’t even give you rightful status, making you hide in this small town, having a child that couldn’t even enter the Ji family’s door, what were you thinking!"

Yesterday’s update was missing, my apologies, there will be another Chapter later to make up for it, sorry my dear readers, the editor is rushing me too, I will turn over a new leaf and update consistently!!!