Rebirth: He refused to Divorce Again-Chapter 222 - Her love has long been burnt to ashes
Chapter 222: Chapter 222 Her love has long been burnt to ashes in the inferno of Hell
Chapter 222: Chapter 222 Her love has long been burnt to ashes in the inferno of Hell
“It turned pink, like the color of peach blossom petals,” Gu Qiaoqiao’s hand pressed on the wound, but she looked up at Qin Yize, surprised and asked, “How did you know?”
“I read it in a rare book,” Qin Yize replied indifferently.
Gu Qiaoqiao looked down again.
Qin Yize, however, leaned in imperceptibly and whispered, “You turned down the director’s suggestion today, do you feel it’s a pity, or does this marriage constrain your identity?”
Gu Qiaoqiao shook her head, “Not at all, I’m truly not interested, and besides, I have a lot of things to do. If I joined that national team, I could only train and compete. It’s simply not realistic for me.”
“Was what you said at that time truly from the heart?” Qin Yize coaxed.
Gu Qiaoqiao looked at Qin Yize, never doubting him, and stated firmly, “Of course it was from the heart, it’s all true, I didn’t lie to him.”
Qin Yize suddenly let out a light laugh, “So when you said you’d be a good wife and mother, that was from the heart too?”
His voice carried a teasing tone, but it hid an indiscernible restlessness and hope.
Gu Qiaoqiao was momentarily stunned.
She remembered that she had indeed said such things.
Yet this Qin Yize, he dared to lead her on!
Gu Qiaoqiao’s face flushed with a mix of embarrassment and annoyance, and she pressed a little harder on Qin Yize’s wound.
Although Qin Yize felt that the force was within tolerable limits, he still exclaimed in a cooperative manner.
“Don’t talk anymore,” Gu Qiaoqiao warned with a stern face.
Qin Yize fell silent for a moment, a hint of a successful scheme playing on his lips, but he indeed did not speak again.
Instead, he leaned back lazily against the sofa’s backrest and soon closed his eyes wearily.
His long eyelashes cast moon-crescent shadows on his eyelids.
His expression seemed very peaceful.
Only then did Gu Qiaoqiao quietly breathe a sigh of relief.
The pressure of her fingers on the wound became gentle again.
Qin Yize’s wound seemed to have injured the muscle and bone.
A few minutes later, Gu Qiaoqiao withdrew her hand and then gently began to bandage him up.
She then heard the steady breathing of Qin Yize.
Gu Qiaoqiao took a careful look, and he was indeed asleep.
Gu Qiaoqiao gently stood up, looking at Qin Yize’s uncomfortable sleeping position, she couldn’t bring herself to just leave him like that.
After hesitating for a moment, she still reached out her hand slowly and adjusted Qin Yize’s shoulder, placing his head on the sofa’s pillow.
Her posture was close to holding Qin Yize, her nose filled with his fresh breath, it seemed even the light and shallow breathing brushed her cheek.
Gu Qiaoqiao’s face grew red, she bit her lip and placed Qin Yize’s body on the sofa, then grabbed a towel blanket and covered his abdomen with it.
After that, Gu Qiaoqiao turned off the table lamp.
Moonlight poured in from the window on the other side, gently enveloping the tall figure of the man.
Gu Qiaoqiao’s eyes filled with complex and indiscernible thoughts.
After a while, she silently returned to her own bedroom.
And Qin Yize seemed to be sleeping soundly.
His brow was relaxed, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, as if he was having a beautiful dream.
But Gu Qiaoqiao could not settle down for a long time.
She knew that Qin Yize’s feelings for her had changed significantly from before.
And after she learned the truth, the last bit of resentment she held against Qin Yize evaporated.
All that remained was gratitude.
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Gratitude for him not giving up on her after so much had happened.
But that gratitude, was it truly just gratitude?
Gratitude does not equate to love.
In her past life, she did wrong by Qin Yize and the Qin Family in many ways, and in this life, she only wished to compensate them within her means.
But that didn’t mean she was prepared to live with him.
Ning Wanru was crafty and ruthless, and without achieving her goal, there was no way she would give up willingly.
In her past life, she had already dragged the Qin Family down with her, so in this life, she couldn’t burden them any further.
Now, she had taken actions against them one after another, albeit minor ones, but these actions had nonetheless caused Ning Wanru and Gu Cheng, who were used to being in control, to feel frustrated.
The Gu Family’s businesses weren’t limited to Yubao Square, they also had a Jade Carving Workshop, and behind that, a Jade Mine.
Such businesses were immensely attractive to Gu Cheng.
As the saying goes, “Men die for wealth, as birds die for food.”
And Gu Cheng was no exception.
Therefore, what came next was unpredictable to everyone.
And she still lacked the evidence to send Ning Wanru and Gu Cheng to jail.
Really, it boiled down to a brutal struggle.
Gu Qiaoqiao would show no mercy, regardless of whether Gu Qingfeng could bear it or not.
She didn’t care about the Gu Family’s assets; she just wanted to crush Ning Wanru and Gu Cheng into the dust in retribution for her family members who died tragically in her past life.
To ensure they would never be able to rise again.
But inevitably, the process was bound to be arduous and perilous.
She couldn’t drag the Qin Family into it.
And the most important point was that she truly no longer loved Qin Yize.
One cannot love the same person twice.
And she, in fact, had lost the capacity to love.
The passage of two lifetimes had caused her once bright and radiant love to be burnt to ashes in the Hell’s fire.
And she really didn’t want Qin Yize to experience unrequited love as she had.
Qin Yize was a good man.
His aloofness was not his fault; it was she who shouldn’t have forced him into a marital life out of a desire for unconstrained freedom.
She thought it might be time to find an opportunity to talk to Qin Yize about divorce the next day.
Before anything else happened.
Gu Qiaoqiao tossed and turned, only managing to fall asleep in a daze as the sky brightened.
Little did she know, when she woke up, Qin Yize had already left.
And the Qin house was silent.
Breakfast was laid out on the dining table.
She was surprised to have woken up so late.
Gu Qiaoqiao hurried through breakfast, and just as she was about to leave for the hospital, the telephone in the living room rang.
There were two phones in the Qin house.
The one in the study was more or less a private line.
Only close friends used that one.
Whereas the one in the living room was used for calls between colleagues and friends of the Qin Family.
Gu Qiaoqiao hesitated for a moment but decided to answer it—what if it was Grandma Qin checking if she was awake?
Picking up the phone, Gu Qiaoqiao heard an unfamiliar woman’s voice.
When the caller heard Gu Qiaoqiao’s voice, she seemed excited and spoke very quickly, “You are Gu Qiaoqiao, right? I am Alina, from the archery bet yesterday…”
“What do you want?” Gu Qiaoqiao was taken aback, then frowned and asked.
“Can we meet? I really admire you, and I’m truly convinced by my loss, so I wanted to discuss archery skills with you and learn from you, is that alright?” Alina asked softly and pleadingly.
Gu Qiaoqiao scoffed, as Alina who lost yesterday didn’t seem at all convinced to her.
