"I said yes." Huo Xun gently placed the champagne glass beside him.

His handsome face under the golden light seemed a bit dazzling.

"Actually, I have no real threat to you." He glanced at Gu Anjin, "It’s really up to you. I’m just telling you, I have an answer."

"An answer?"

"An answer that could solve your confusion over the years. It’s up to you whether this answer is worth changing your mind." He smirked, "Don’t you want to know why Yue Siqing doesn’t want you?"

Gu Anjin’s heart suddenly ached.

It was as if a thorn had deeply pierced her heart.

For a moment, she found it hard to breathe and looked back at Huo Xun, somewhat unable to understand.

Yet he appeared confident and composed, making it impossible for him to be lying.

Though she knew he might just be using this question to stall her.

However, she vaguely felt that this man might have a deep connection with Yue Siqing.

"Do you want to know?" Huo Xun stepped closer, "I’m sure you’ve been confused for many years, but he won’t tell you."

Gu Anjin’s face turned pale, her lips slightly trembling, "Isn’t he... isn’t it just that he doesn’t love me?"

Huo Xun’s lips curled into a mocking smile, "This reason might be unexpected to you. He hasn’t been willing to tell you all these years, perhaps he never intended to. But love, huh, I don’t know if someone like Yue Siqing has love in his heart. But if he does, I think you would be the only person he loves."

As Huo Xun spoke, his gaze involuntarily fixed on Gu Anjin’s face, devoid of color.

She bit her lip, her clear eyes seemingly shrouded in mist.

The haze in her eyes made people feel so protective they would want to hold her close.

He was almost startled by this sudden, inexplicable impulse from within.

Huo Xun’s face darkened suddenly, his restrained emotions appearing somewhat intimidating.

"What you said isn’t true..." Gu Anjin’s voice trembled a little, but from the moment he spoke, she felt he really knew something, "But if that’s the case, why would he hurt me?"

"Probably because telling you would hurt you even more." His laugh carried a hint of cruelty, "Why don’t you think that if he really wanted you, it would be the real hurt to you?"

Gu Anjin suddenly raised her head, staring at him unblinkingly, "Who are you really, what is your relationship with him?"

Huo Xun responded with a silent smile, "To avoid deceiving you, sorry, I won’t answer that question."

"Since you won’t say anything, why should I believe you." Gu Anjin’s voice choked.

At the same time, she kept reminding herself, perhaps this was just his trick.

He merely wanted to exploit her desire to know, using this question to control her.

"I just don’t want to tell you what my relationship with him is. As for his unmentionable reason... I’m still considering." Huo Xun answered seemingly nonchalantly, "So, if you want to know, you should know what to do. If you’d rather let me die immediately, not caring about this matter, and live your life bound to him but never able to truly have him, then go."

Bound to him for life but never able to truly have him...

When Gu Anjin heard this, a chill seemed to envelop her.