Pei Siyuan was indeed a madman. He laid his cards on the table and didn’t even bother to put up an appearance. What normal person would put out their true intentions straight out? Especially with such a crazy idea.  

However, this kind of thing, Pei Siyuan really might be able to do it.  

“I never thought about it that way!” Gu Ningyou felt that she still couldn’t understand Pei Siyuan’s brain circuit, “Anyway, in the next period of time, you are not allowed to come to me until I contact you.”  

“… ” Pei Siyuan felt that he promised too hastily just now, and at this moment, he suddenly regretted it.

 “You promised me, you can’t go back!” Seeing Pei Siyuan frowning slightly, Gu Ningyou was also a little dissatisfied, “I remember, you used to say before that you wanted me to never appear in front of you.”

 “Ning Ning, you clearly know that I did not mean what I said, why would I want to really separate from you?” Pei Siyuan’s attitude softened, and his eyes flashed with compromise and helplessness, “Okay. I promise you, I won’t come to you until you contact me.”   

If she had said any other excuse, he could refuse it forcefully, but she had to rehash the old story, which was the last thing he wanted to talk about and faced.  

Thinking of this, Pei Siyuan leaned forward to touch Gu Ningyou’s forehead, stared at her eyes closely, so that she could see his affection clearly: “You’re always right and I can’t really say no to you. “  

Every time Pei Siyuan expressed his strong feelings to her like this, she didn’t know how to respond, not to mention that she now knew about what really happened in her past life. Gu Ningyou’s heart was in a mess, and she became more and more at a loss, so she closed her eyes to avoid his gaze, and gently pushed his chest: “I really have to go.”  

Pei Siyuan stared at her deeply and finally did not force her again: “Okay.”

In the next few days, Gu Ningyou thought a lot about everything she had experienced in her previous life, the story in Pei Siyuan’s mouth, and her feelings for Pei Siyuan, that question that Pei Siyuan asked her that night, she has also asked herself many times in the past few days—  

What should she do? What should she do to make it right?  

She previously thought that she should not vent her complaints against Pei Siyuan in her past life on the him of this life, because those things were not done by him of this life after all; but now, although she knew that Pei Siyuan in her past and present life were basically the same person, but should she really blame Pei Siyuan for the things that hurt her in her previous life?  

She once really hated Pei Siyuan, hated him for being so cold and heartless to her, hated him for harming her family, hated him for causing her to be miserable in the last few years of her life, and hated him for deceiving her in this life… .. 

But all of this was not his original intention, and he has always been suffering so much. 

 Think about it from another perspective, if she was Pei Siyuan in her previous life, what would she do? Will she do better than him?  

She thought it was impossible, if it were her, she might have been driven crazy from the beginning.  

After listening to Pei Siyuan’s story, she didn’t dare to say her hatred for Pei Siyuan had dissipated – in fact, she still hated Pei Siyuan, but the person she hated was him, but also not him.  

The person she hated was not the real Pei Siyuan. In a more better sense, that person was just a symbol, the cold-hearted man in the Creator’s script who didn’t love her and hurt her; while the real Pei Siyuan was the innocent man who had loved her silently and unchangingly  for more than ten years, and only wanted her to be happy… 

But she still couldn’t make a decision.  

Even after knowing the truth about her past life, she still couldn’t make a decision.

Gu Ningyou finally decided to ask her best friend. The more she thought about it, the more she couldn’t think of a reason, and the more she thought about it, the more confused her heart became. 

Maybe this was the reason why the involved people are usuually confused and onlookers are clear. She still needed someone to wake her up. She summarized all her entanglements with Pei Siyuan into a short story, and told Fu Yifei. Fu Yifei didn’t answer after listening to her description, but put forward several questions:  

“Why can’t two people who like each other be together? Essentially, they don’t have any real deep hatred, either.”  

“Although those hurts really existed, but you also said that this was not the original intention of the male lead. When he did those things, didn’t he feel very sad and painful in his heart?”  

“I think the male lead did not do anything wrong, the real fault is the bad guy who insisted on separating them. If they really didn’t get together in the end, wouldn’t that let the bad guy’s plan succeed?”   

“That male lead was already suffering and miserable enough, and to blame him for all the bad things others did… Isn’t that a little too unfair to him?”  

“Feifei, thank you, I understand.” Hearing this, Gu Ningyou finally felt relieved and understood what kind of decision she should make. “I think what you said is very right.”  

“What is this? It was just a discussion.” After saying that, Fu Yifei looked at Gu Ningyou curiously, “Youyou, how can you always find such a complicated and tangled novel? By the way… Did the author fill in the hole for the novel you said a few months ago? What happened to the male lead?”  

“Well, I was just bored and casually looking to read ……”  

Gu Ningyou didn’t expect Fu Yifei to remember the “novel” she told her, and was a little surprised: “Feifei, you still remember it?”  

“Yes, I told you, being told a story halfway is annoying.”  

Gu Ningyou thought for a while and replied, “Well… Actually, the story I told you today is the same novel as the one I told you last time. “  

“Is that so? You said last time that the male protagonist was not reborn,  I told you your analysis was wrong! That author has finally filled the hole?” Fu Yifei exclaimed, “When will the male and female leads be together?”  

Gu Ningyou’s heartbeat was a little off-balance: “I think, it should …… be soon.”  

Gu Ningyou originally wanted to contact Pei Siyuan at night, but it so happened that she had a class at night, and it was past nine o’clock when class got over, so she gave up the idea and planned to contact Pei Siyuan the next day, but in between classes, she received a call from Pei Siyuan’s assistant, his assistant told her that Pei Siyuan was sick and did not want to go to the hospital, requesting her to go over to take care of him.  

Gu Ningyou wanted to laugh in her heart, Pei Siyuan was so old, and he was still playing tricks, this was not his style at all, it was better to directly “rob a girl from a good family” as he said, wasn’t that more interesting than this?  

However, even though she knew that there was a high probability that Pei Siyuan was impatient and took such a method to force her to show up, Gu Ningyou was still a little worried about him, and took a taxi to Pei Siyuan’s house after finding an excuse for leave.  

After arriving at Pei Siyuan’s house, the assistant opened the door for Gu Ningyou and took the initiative to leave. When Gu Ningyou walked in, she still felt some novelty in her heart.  

Most of the time in her previous life, she pestered Pei Siyuan to come to her house, while she seldom came to Pei Siyuan’s house. Everything here was a little unfamiliar to her.  

Gu Ningyou walked into the bedroom with the lights on, but when she got to the bed, she felt deceived – the man in front of her looked as usual, and when he saw her, there was a smile in his eyes, he couldn’t have looked more normal! Where was the look of a sick person?  

“Ning Ning, don’t get me wrong, I didn’t want to disturb you, it was my assistant who contacted you on his own initiative.” Gu Ningyou was about to ask, but Pei Siyuan preemptively said, “I have always done as you asked.”

 … Pei Siyuan, this guy has started acting again. This was obviously his own intention.

 Gu Ningyou felt that she might be doomed. Pei Siyuan said last time that he couldn’t do anything about her, so how could she do anything about him?

 Her heart was tricked away by Pei Siyuan, so she rushed over worriedly even though knowing that this might be Pei Siyuan’s bitter plan. In the end, she didn’t feel angry even if she knew that Pei Siyuan was lying to her again ……  

“Oh, that’s right.” Gu Ningyou didn’t want to lose like this, so she deliberately put on a cold look on her face, “But he said you were sick, how come I didn’t see it?”  

Pei Siyuan had an innocent and aggrieved expression: “I’m really sick.”  

After saying that, Pei Siyuan tugged at her hand, Gu Ningyou couldn’t stand still and fell onto his bed like that, and Pei Siyuan took the opportunity to press her under him.  

“Okay, then tell me what illness you have?” Realizing that she seemed to have completely fallen into the trap set by Pei Siyuan, Gu Ningyou was a little annoyed, “You have to say a reason today, otherwise, I will never believe anything you say in the future.”  

“I have lovesickness.”  

Pei Siyuan frowned, took her hand to stroke his eyebrows, “In the days when I can’t see you, I think of you every minute and every second, and your figure is always swaying in front of my eyes…”  

He pulled her hand down again, and when it landed on his lips, he deliberately kissed the back of her hand, “I want to kiss you, I want to hold you to sleep, every day I think about you so much that I can’t sleep ……”  

When her hand fell on his chest, Gu Ningyou felt the agitation and drumming in her palm: “When I think of you my heart is a little uncomfortable, I don’t want to eat and drink all day… My illness is caused by you, and only you can cure it, you say, should you not be responsible for me?”  

“You…”  Pei Siyuan’s series of actions and what he said made Gu Ningyou to blush heavily, “These love words of yours, where did you learn them?”  

“Do I need to learn?” Pei Siyuan winked at her, “This is said from the bottom of my heart, every word is sincere, and there are no false words.”  

“I see that you are silver-tongued.” Gu Ningyou snorted softly, but her face became redder.  

“Only for you.” Pei Siyuan smiled and kissed her face, “Ning Ning, you finally figured out that you are ready to accept me, I have been waiting for this moment for a long time.”  

“Huh?” Gu Ningyou wasn’t carried away by Pei Siyuan, “When did I say that?”  

“Just now—I heard you say that in your heart.”  

How did Pei Siyuan become so shameless? In terms of verbal skills, she really couldn’t say enough about him.

“Well, you didn’t hear it wrong.”  

Seeing Gu Ningyou taking the steps he handed her, Pei Siyuan instead stepped an inch again: “What about you? Did you miss me?”

[T/N: 得寸进尺(décùnjìnchǐ): lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains / give him an inch, and he’ll want a mile]  

“Well… yes there is a little.”  

Although not as exaggerated as Pei Siyuan said, but a few days without seeing him, Gu Ningyou did miss him …… to be exact, the person she thought of in her head these days was always him.  

But currently their posture was too ambiguous, and it was easy to think of some shameful things. Gu Ningyou tried to push him, but failed, so she could only ask Pei Siyuan: “That… Can you get off me first?”  

“No.” Pei Siyuan grabbed Gu Ningyou’s hand again, this time, he directly pressed her hand to a certain unspeakable part, “I haven’t finished my words just now … This misses you too.”