"Don’t cry." Gu Chun frantically wiped her tears, but her tears were like floodwaters that had breached a dike, impossible to dry completely.
Gu Chun felt a pain in his heart, and in the end, resorted to the old method.
His lips pressed against those soft ones, which, despite the many years apart, still felt familiar.
As their lips met, a soul-stirring tremble spread through their limbs.
For Lian Tong, all she could breathe in was his scent, his lips were cool and refreshing, making her forget her tears, leaving her with only shock.
This kiss, this man, she had been yearning for twelve whole years.
From the time she was eighteen, the best of her youth, to now crossing thirty.
In this day and age, it was nearly unheard of for a woman to be unmarried at thirty.
As soon as she returned to the Lian Family, those relatives of the extended family and even Grandpa Lian and Lian He would ask her about her marriage status or try to set her up with someone.
Lian Tong dismissed them all. Sometimes, when alone in solitude, she wondered whether waiting was worthwhile.
But now, Gu Chun’s kiss made her understand the meaning of her wait.
Apart from Gu Chun, surely there was no one else who could make her heart race, who could stir her long-stagnant heart back to life, right?
"Tongtong."
Gu Chun couldn’t bear to move his lips away and was about to pull back.
Lian Tong raised her hand to clasp his neck, leaning in proactively. Without experience, she did nothing but nibble, unwilling to let Gu Chun go, fearing that once he left, he would disappear again.
Gu Chun paused for a moment, the woman he loved kissing him proactively, and him, after abstaining for so many years, was instantly aroused.
The kiss, from a light peck at first, gradually deepened.
Outside the room, Tang Yue blushed and did not listen any longer.
Who knows how much time had passed when the kiss ended, and all that was left in the room were the sounds of heavy breathing.
Lian Tong’s bright eyes were fixed on Gu Chun. With her rosy lips slightly parted, she said, "Gu Chun, you love me, your body still loves me, so why push me away? Why refuse to see me?"
"I’m not afraid of dying; to put it bluntly, I’m now just a lone individual, not really the Miss of the Lian Family. Whatever it is you want to do, I can help you."
Lian Tong’s hands tightly clasped Gu Chun’s neck, as though afraid he would escape, totally casting aside her pride, everything, just to be with him.
"Now I have nothing. Doesn’t that make you want to be with me?" Lian Tong’s eyes pleaded with Gu Chun.
In her eyes was a lowly prayer.
"Tongtong, it’s not worth it." Gu Chun looked at her with a heartache.
Lian Tong threw herself into his arms, tilting her head to look him in the eye, and said, "I say it’s worth it. If I can’t be with you, this lifetime, my life would lose all its luster."
"If you disagree, then I will never return to the Lian Family again." In front of Gu Chun, Lian Tong didn’t consider herself a thirty-year-old woman; she acted completely like an eighteen-year-old girl, very willful.
"No way."
Gu Chun refused.
"Then you agree to me." Lian Tong brazenly kissed his chin, his unruly stubble showing, presumably from not shaving today, looking somewhat disheveled, the stubble a bit prickly and ticklish, but she was in such a good mood, not minding it at all, even finding this stubble extremely cute.
She said, "We’ve already wasted over a decade. Do you still want to waste another decade?"
"Life is short, who knows when something might happen to me; I could die any time." Lian Tong hadn’t finished her sentence when Gu Chun cut her off.
"Don’t talk like that."
A hint of panic flashed in Gu Chun’s eyes as he said, "Tongtong, you must live well and happily." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺
"Without you, how could I possibly be happy or joyful?" Lian Tong took the opportunity to retort.
Gu Chun fell silent.

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