Gu Mo Ning sat in the rest area, took the cup of water handed to her by Liu Qianqian, tilted her head back, and gulped down the water.

"Sister, are you okay?" Liu Qianqian asked worriedly.

The water temperature was just right, flowing straight through her mouth and into her stomach, as if washing away her condition.

I felt much better after drinking Gu Moning.

She waved her hand and forced a smile, "It's okay."

Although she said this, her expression did not look like everything was alright.

Gu Mo Ning handed the cup to Liu Qianqian and asked her for her cell phone.

She flipped through her WeChat friend list and found the familiar WeChat.

I opened the chat box, edited a line of text and sent it out.

【He told me today that he wanted to make it public.】

Without waiting for a reply, he turned off his phone.

The scene in the dressing room reappeared in my mind.

"Gu Mo Ning, let's be open." Lu Yi's lips were pressed against hers, his voice low and seductive.

Gu Mo Ning was stunned, her heart trembled slightly, her whole body stiffened, and this sentence kept circling in her mind.

The clock on the wall ticked, just like her uneasy mood at the moment.

Gu Mo Ning pursed her dry lips, her voice trembling slightly, "You...what did you say?"

She was afraid that she had heard it wrongly.

"I said." His fingers gently stroked her cheek, his voice full of hoarseness.

"Let's go public," he repeated.

Lu Yi held her slender white hand, his eyes burning as he stared at her face, his voice firm and determined.

He didn't want to wait any longer, not even for a moment.

I don't want to hide it anymore.

He wished he could tell everyone in the world right now that she was his.

He wanted to hold her hand openly without caring about other people's eyes.

It's obvious that they are doing it legally, but they treat it like an affair.

This made him very unhappy.

Gu Mo Ning looked at him blankly.

His dark and deep eyes were filled with his own shadow.

It was so deep and so heavy that she felt like she was about to drown in it.

But the seriousness and affection in his eyes made her a little confused.

Because, in the three years since they had been secretly married, Lu Yi had never shown the slightest bit of love to her.

Even while doing that thing.

This also made her always think, and have no doubt, that he had no feelings for her.

He was just simply looking for someone to live with, and that person happened to be himself.

But at this moment, she felt that she suddenly couldn't understand him.

Gu Mo Ning tried hard to regain her last bit of rationality and suppress all the chaotic thoughts in her mind.

She reached out one hand and touched his forehead, and the other hand touched her own.

With a faint smile on his lips, he pretended to be relaxed and joked, "You don't have a fever!"

Lu Yi: "..."

His face darkened.

He took a deep breath, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her hand away from his forehead.

He took her hand, wrapped his big palm around her small hand, and squeezed it hard.

This woman.

You clearly understand what he means, but you are still playing dumb with him.

"Gu Mo Ning!" He had a stern face and a serious tone.

Gu Mo Ning pursed her lips and the smile on her face gradually faded.

Her beautiful pair of peach blossom eyes were dull and lifeless, and she lowered her eyelids to hide all her emotions.

"Do you know what you are saying now?"

Her tone was calm, without any emotion in it.

The tungsten light in the dressing room shone down on her face, creating a hazy shadow that made it impossible to see the expression on her face.

"I know." Lu Yi held her hand tightly.

Gu Mo Ning raised her head and looked at him, "Seriously?"

"Yeah." Lu Yi nodded.

There is no time to be more serious than now.

Gu Mo Ning lowered her eyelashes to hide the sadness in her eyes.

She pulled back her hand that he was holding, "What if I say I don't agree?"

"Why?" Lu Yi didn't understand why she refused.

"Then why did you make it public? Do you like me?" Gu Mo Ning asked back.

Lu Yi was stunned and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Seeing his reaction, Gu Mo Ning curled her lips and teased with a smile, "You're not going to tell me now that you actually like me, are you?"

After she asked this question, her heart rose to her throat and her heart was beating violently.

His eyes were fixed on him without blinking.

She waited anxiously for Lu Yi's answer, wanting to know how he would answer.

A little confused and a little scared.

I’m afraid the answer is the one I don’t want to hear.

But she was also a little bit looking forward to it, looking forward to Lu Yi wanting to make it public because he liked her.

In the room, it was so quiet that one could hear each other's breathing rising and falling.

The sound of the clock is also infinitely amplified in the quiet space.

The dead silence made her feel uneasy and her palms began to sweat.

She began to regret it, and suddenly she didn't want to know the answer so much.

However, just as she was about to speak to interrupt the silence, a man's voice suddenly rang out.

"We are a legal couple, shouldn't it be made public?" He threw the question back.

His answer made Gu Mo Ning's heart skip a beat.

My heart felt like it was hit hard by something and it hurt so much.

What are you expecting?

She pursed her lips and found her voice after a while. "The marriage between the two families was originally a combination of business interests, and our marriage has always been about mutual benefit, isn't it?"

Lu Yi didn't expect that in her eyes, his marriage with her was just a business interest, each taking what they needed.

His eyes suddenly darkened and he frowned, "Gu Mo Ning."

This was the fourth time today that he had called me by my full name.

Gu Mo Ning pulled the corners of her lips up with a hint of bitterness, and slowed down her voice, "If there is no emotion, then why do you want to make it public?"

After saying that, without stopping, he grabbed his script and turned and left.

She was afraid that it would be too late to turn around and all her emotions would be exposed to him.

"How do you know there isn't one?"

A man's deep voice came from behind.

Gu Mo Ning paused, her breathing slowed down, and her hand rested on the door handle.

He stood there in a daze, without looking back.

She didn't dare look back or look at him.

I didn't dare to think about how true or false his words were.

I didn't even dare to ask if I liked her.

Because she couldn't be sure what he really felt towards her.

She was afraid that once she opened her mouth, it would destroy the current harmonious situation.

"Gu Mo Ning, what about you? Do you like me?" The man's deep and magnetic voice continued to sound.

Lu Yi stood behind her, looking at her back, his dark eyes filled with loneliness.

The hands hanging on both sides of the body were clenched tightly, and blue veins appeared on the arms.

He didn't know why he suddenly asked this.

Gu Mo Ning's eyes were red, her nose felt sore, her eyes were misty, and her vision was blurry.

She clenched her hand on the door handle, her nails digging into her flesh, but she felt no pain at all.

She took a deep breath and tried to make her voice sound normal.

"Lu Yi, we just need to stay like we were before, and that'll be fine."

As long as you are by my side, nothing else matters.

…

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"Sister, the phone is ringing."

"sister."

Liu Qianqian pushed the dazed Gu Mo Ning.

Gu Mo Ning finally came to her senses, "What's wrong?"

"The phone has been ringing for a long time." Liu Qianqian pointed at her cell phone and reminded her.

"Oh, okay." She looked down at the vibrating phone in her hand.

It’s Qiu Yue.

Qiu Yue is Gu Mo Ning's childhood friend. They have a very good relationship. Even though she is studying abroad now, they keep in touch less often but never lose contact.

Gu Mo Ning walked aside and answered the phone.

"Hello."

"Baby, did you miss me?"

Almost the moment the call was picked up, the girl's sweet voice came through the receiver.

Gu Mo Ning raised the corners of her lips, and her mood became relaxed and happy.

He chuckled softly, "Of course I did."

Qiu Yue sighed and teased her with a smile, "Thank you Miss Gu for taking the time out of your busy schedule to greet me."

"I didn't, don't slander me." Gu Mo Ning retorted with a smile.

"Really?" Qiu Yue raised her voice, full of disbelief.

There was the sound of running water from the other end of the line.

Gu Mo Ning took the phone away from her ear, checked the time, and put it back to her ear, "Isn't it early morning over there? You just woke up?"

"Yes!" Qiu Yue stuffed the toothbrush into her mouth and replied vaguely, "I just woke up and saw your message."

"Then, I'll call you back right away." She brushed her teeth and asked for praise. "How's that? Am I nice enough?"

Gu Mo Ning laughed and held her in her arms, "Of course, Qiu Yueyue is the most affectionate."

"Come on, you bootlicker, all you do is flatter me."

Qiu Yue said this, but she was extremely happy in her heart.

She turned on the speaker of her phone and placed it on the sink. "By the way, what happened next?"

"What?" Gu Mo Ning's brain froze and she didn't react for a moment.

"Oh, I'm sorry about your memory. You're not even pregnant yet, so why are you acting so stupid?" Qiu Yue couldn't help but complain about her.

Gu Mo Ning remembered and laughed awkwardly twice. She squatted on the side of the road, picking at the stones on the ground with her fingers.

"He said to make it public, but I refused."

"What?" The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly rose by more than one decibel.

"No, Gu Mo Ning, I really don't understand you."

The roar from the other end of the phone scared Gu Mo Ning so much that she almost threw the phone away.

He wrinkled his face, rubbed his ears, and carefully put the phone back to his ear.

"What's wrong?"

What he said was neither righteous nor confident.

"What else? What happened?" Qiu Yue almost fainted from anger.

With her hand pinching her philtrum, her delicate little face flushed red.

Everyone who passed by looked back at her every few steps.

Qiu Yue felt a little embarrassed when being stared at. She knew that she had indeed lost her composure just now. She coughed twice and lowered her voice.

"Gu Mo Ning, tell me honestly, do you dislike Lu Yi now?"

She asked the same question as Lu Yi.

Gu Mo Ning paused for a moment as she drew circles on the dust on the ground, and squeezed out two words from her throat, "I like it."

She likes him.

Love someone wholeheartedly and without hesitation.

I have liked him since I was in school.

She knew clearly that he didn't like her and that he had someone else in his heart.

But when she knew that the person she was going to marry was him, she chose to marry him without hesitation.

There wasn't even a formal proposal or a formal wedding.

She was still willing to marry him.

For no other reason.

Just because she liked him, she wanted to stay with him, even in this way.