Resisting the Wind and Splendor

Chapter 283 Then, repay it little by little.

"So, you've already decided that no matter who proposes to you, you'll tell your father that you need to go to Nanmeng first to retrieve your parents' remains and bury them?"

Lu Beimo's face darkened for a moment.

Going to Nanmeng was not an easy task to begin with, let alone finding the remains of the Marquis of Zhongyong and his wife, as well as her uncles.

Even if there were a real chance to reclaim Southern Mongolia, those people would have been dead for many years. Where would we find their remains?

This is inherently an indefinite matter; it may take five years, ten years, or perhaps a lifetime.

Others simply couldn't wait, so she wasn't afraid of anyone proposing marriage.

"Ah Li, are you planning to never get married?"

"Hmm." Chu Yueli nodded without any concealment: "After what happened with Prince Jin, I have long since lost all interest in matters between men and women."

Lu Beimo didn't speak.

Chu Yueli looked at him and asked, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

“I’ll tell you, and then what? You’ll be so grateful that you’ll offer yourself to me? But you’ve already set your sights on Lao Wu for so many years.”

"Are you afraid that even if I stay with you, it's only to repay a debt of gratitude, and not because I truly love you?"

"I'm not a good person, how could I be so selfless?" Lu Beimo curled his lips. "I'm just confident that Ali will fall in love with me, so what difference does it make whether I say it or not?"

"If you are so confident, why did you come to me drunk and say that Your Highness is wronged?"

"I..." Lu Beimo's words caught in his throat, and he didn't finish them.

The explanation is actually sophistry.

He did feel wronged.

Mo Wang said nothing more, lowered his head, and drank his flower tea.

But then they heard Chu Yueli softly say, "I'm sorry."

His tall frame jolted, and a rare pang of sorrow swept through his heart.

"Now I know how wronged you were in the past." Chu Yueli sighed, looking at him with a touch of sadness.

What a fine young man!

I was so stupid that I couldn't remember who rushed into the fire to save me that day.

"Now that you know, you'd better make it up to me in the future." He didn't ask for much, just that people don't think of him as a philanderer.

Having thought of her for so many years, he had already restrained himself greatly when they met again.

But she was, after all, a young lady from a respectable family, and it was already disrespectful of me to repeatedly barge into her room.

But she never gives him a chance. If he continues to remain inactive, his wife might be snatched away again.

You can't imagine how heavy the unease is in the heart of someone whose wife has already been stolen away. The slightest disturbance will make him panic, and he will think, "Hmm, my wife is going to be stolen away again."

I wanted to give her a decent life in her private quarters, but I was also afraid that I couldn't keep an eye on her and she would be kidnapped. I was conflicted, hesitant, uneasy, and impulsive, but in the end, I still came back again and again.

"How does Your Highness want me to compensate you? By offering myself to you?" Chu Yueli said this calmly.

Lu Beimo said, "It is indeed difficult to repay the debt of saving a life. How about we repay it little by little?"

"how?"

"First of all, from now on, don't call me Your Highness in private, just call me by my name."

This was indeed a difficult point for Chu Yueli, but her difficulty was not because of the difference in their status, but because she was not used to it yet.

She remained silent for a long while, and just when Lu Beimo thought she wouldn't agree, Chu Yueli suddenly called out softly, "Beimo."