When the time comes, the gap is re-created, who knows what he will think?

He is the Emperor, and there are women who voluntarily offer themselves to him.

Now at the age of twenty, because of the incompleteness of his past life, he is completely focused on her alone.

If she went back, all his obsessions would be fulfilled.

By the time he is thirty or forty, with his imperial power growing stronger, and as she transforms from a fresh and adorable young girl to a woman of sagging flesh, who can guarantee that under the erosion of time and power, his mindset wouldn’t change?

Will there be other women between them?

Of course, Xie Wanqing has no doubt, she is the one he loves the most.

There won’t be another woman who can make him restless, spitting blood, and going gray prematurely.

But, that’s not what she wants.

Her courage is lacking, and with the memories of her previous life, she can no longer trust him unreservedly.

She can’t discern how much of his love for her is mixed with obsession.

She doesn’t dare to believe he won’t change, nor does she believe he would remain unwavering to her despite the fulfillment over days and years.

If by then, their half-life is over, and there are other women around him.

And she, from a girl at the age of ten daring to leave everything behind, becomes a middle-aged woman, pampered in the harem for years.

Would she still have the courage to overturn the table?

She can’t afford to gamble!

She used up all her courage in her previous life.

In this life, she is just a coward.

She believes in Lu Ziyuan’s love for her, also believes at this moment Lu Ziyuan would willingly die for her.

But she doesn’t dare believe that his love could let them live life without any gaps forever.

Once lost, she would be beyond redemption.

She has squandered the opportunity of reincarnation given by heaven, plunging herself into despair once more.

So...

"I won’t go back," Xie Wanqing gently pats the child’s back and softly says, "I like the life now."

Xie YanYu lowered his eyes: "Have you decided?"

"Yes."

"Good," Xie YanYu took the child and said with a smile: "My sister wishes to live freely, then I shall follow your will."

Xie Wanqing’s nose tingles, she blinks hard, "I’m still in confinement, brother is not allowed to make me cry."

Xie YanYu feels very wronged, but also doesn’t dare to argue with her, so after a few comforting words, he takes the child out.

Lu Ziyuan’s arrival was a surprising yet safe accident.

But now that he has returned to the Capital, given how closely he monitors Pei Yuqing, there’s no telling when he might discover that the person is not in the Capital City.

So a few days later, Pei Yuqing also decided to embark on his return journey to the Capital.

Through the window frame, he bid farewell to Xie Wanqing outside the window.

Though it was called a farewell, silence occupied most of the time.

At this point, everything that needs to be said between the two has already been said.

To use ’love deep but fate shallow’ wouldn’t suffice to describe their story.

It can only be said that destiny toys with people.

After Pei Yuqing departed, it wasn’t long before Xie Wanqing finished her confinement.

But the previously planned move never happened.

Still because of Lu Ziyuan.

They are all worried whether Lu Ziyuan, with his unpredictable demeanor, might, due to concern for the child that day, leave a backup plan.

He has many capable people under him, and if randomly leaving one behind, they know the child has moved away from the Prefectural Magistrate Mansion, and moved along with Xie YanYu...

It will surely be realized that Ji Chengfeng is not the child’s biological father, but since it is Xie YanYu’s, he would certainly take him back to the Capital rather than raise him in Bianzhou.

Even if Xie Wanqing’s death has been confirmed, given so many traces, it’s inevitable he wouldn’t overthink it.

So, Xie Wanqing has no choice but to continue living in the Prefectural Magistrate Mansion.