inspire-indiana Chapter 242 Confused
Chapter 242 Confused
Chapter 242
The two of them walked in silence, the atmosphere completely different from the relaxed and comfortable one before. Arriving at Ye Yunzhou's courtyard, it was still as quiet as usual. After entering, Luo Shuiyao naturally sat down at the stone table in the courtyard.
Seeing this, Ye Yunzhou felt a little confused and asked, "Why don't you go into the house?"
Luo Shuiyao shook her head and said softly, "Let's talk in the yard."
Ye Yunzhou felt secretly amused, thinking that he had never seen her so worried when they were in the house before. She was not afraid of what he would do to her then, but now she was afraid. However, he did not express this thought out loud.
He then sat opposite Luo Shuiyao, looked at her and asked, "What do you want to say to me?"
Luo Shuiyao pondered for a long moment before looking up at him. She couldn't bring herself to say the words she'd been thinking about all the way. Finally, she spoke, "I just feel that our relationship hasn't reached that point yet, and you don't have to give me everything. If we don't end up together..."
"Oh, how come we can't be together?" Ye Yunzhou's face suddenly darkened and his voice became a little colder when he noticed the hint of hesitation in her words.
"I promised you that I would resign the throne of Crown Prince. Now that the imperial decree has been issued, I will definitely leave the Marquisate and move into the residence granted by His Majesty. I will fulfill everything I promised you, step by step. Why do you think we won't be together?"
Luo Shuiyao was genuinely startled by his sudden reaction, but she quickly composed herself. She looked at Ye Yunzhou and said slowly, "I just feel that the gap between our statuses is too great. You'll definitely have a bright future, but I'm afraid I'll always have to rely on you. What if one day you get tired of me and become bored with me? What should I do then?"
"But what you're afraid of, what you want to retreat from, are just things that haven't happened yet. Don't you think that what you're doing is unfair to me? What exactly did I do wrong? As for the huge gap in status you mentioned, what do you mean by a huge gap in status? You and I are both human beings. I have never felt that there is any insurmountable gap between us."
Ye Yunzhou frowned slightly, his eyes showing helplessness and a hint of grievance. His tone was also filled with anxiety as he continued, "In the final analysis, this is just an excuse you made to retreat. You're not the type to be timid, you just don't want to take any risks. You don't want to take any risks that might come with being with me."
As Ye Yunzhou spoke, he reached out and grabbed her hand on the table. He looked at her with burning eyes, his tone filled with a bit of pity and a hint of complaint, "Don't you have a heart?"
Luo Shuiyao was stunned, feeling speechless for a moment. Indeed, when she learned yesterday that the Marquis's wife knew about this, she had already begun to feel like backing off. She had originally wanted to find an opportunity to talk it out with Ye Yunzhou. But today, she was caught off guard by the news that he had actually resigned from the throne to His Majesty. This was something that had never happened in the original novel.
You have to know that the reason she's living a better life than the original owner isn't because she's smarter than the original character, but because she knew the storyline in advance. Now suddenly separated from the original owner's "storyline," Luo Shuiyao felt a surge of fear and involuntarily wanted to retreat.
She constantly talks about "being a salted fish" and "winning without doing anything," but in reality, she's meticulously plotting everything, desperately trying to escape the main plot. But now that she's truly escaped, she feels a sense of unreality and unreality. She can't help but wonder if she's truly transmigrated into a book, or if everything around her is just a dream.
Seeing her dazed look, Ye Yunzhou frowned, suppressing the bitterness and anger in his heart. He took a step forward, knelt on one knee, reached out his hand and gently held her cheek, forcing her to look at him. He asked with a burning gaze, "Tell me, what are you afraid of?"
Luo Shuiyao looked into his dark eyes, and saw the sadness flashing in his eyes, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
How could she tell him about something so bizarre as traveling through a book? If she hadn't experienced it herself, she wouldn't have believed it. In her previous life, someone had talked about traveling through time and space every day, but when it happened to her, she realized she wasn't as strong as she appeared, and that she was just pretending to be calm.
Seeing her lower her eyes, refusing to meet his gaze, Ye Yunzhou's heart gradually sank, and a hint of loneliness appeared in his eyes. He muttered to himself, "Am I really expecting too much? I want to force you to stay with me, but you just dismiss it all. Is that right?"
Luo Shuiyao's eyelashes trembled slightly, but she forced herself not to look up and meet his gaze, nor did she try to comfort him. After suppressing the waves of bitterness in her heart, she felt that when she said this, her heart was not as relieved as she had imagined. Instead, it felt heavier, as if being pressed by a huge rock, filled with indescribable complex emotions.
Ye Yunzhou slowly loosened his grip on her cheek, staring at her for a long moment. Then he stood up, his back to her. His voice was filled with an unprecedented sense of distance: "You spoke nonsense today, but I won't take it seriously. It just so happens that I've been busy these past few days and haven't had time to come back. Think it over carefully, and don't talk nonsense like that again."
After saying that, he strode out of the yard, his back revealing a sense of loneliness.
Looking at his disappearing back, Luo Shuiyao couldn't help but well up in tears.
With his keen sense, he naturally detected the rejection in her words, and could also see her retreat and unwillingness to persist. But now that he had said this, despite his tone of deliberate distance, it seemed as if he had no intention of truly giving up. She had thought that with his proud temper, he would simply give up and turn away after he finished speaking, but she had not expected him to be so persistent.
Luo Shuiyao couldn't help but waver, constantly asking herself: Are they really suitable? In modern society, she's no longer a naive young woman. She's grown up, having met many different kinds of people, yet she's never found the one she truly desires. Now, in this feudal and backward ancient world, could she truly find the one who would align with her soul? Could she truly achieve her dream? Doubt filled her heart, as if she were trapped in a fog, unable to find her way forward.