Resisting the Wind and Splendor

"You will make my elder brother live in your shadow for the rest of his life, filled with regret, and never find peace."

"A-Li!" Tuoba Liuli interrupted her.

Perhaps because she was a little excited, she couldn't help but cough.

Once the cough starts, it's hard to stop.

Finally, Chu Yueli, despite her heavy pregnant belly, walked to the bedside, sat down, and massaged her acupoints to help her calm down.

"I'm sorry, A-Li..." Tuoba Liuli felt guilty for making A-Li tired in the end.

But what Ali had just said still made her extremely uneasy, and she didn't know how to face it.

Chu Yueli continued, "If you really die here, right beside him, but he's completely unaware, still hoping to see you when he gets back and grow old with you, what do you think he'll do when he returns in triumph?"

"With time, he will eventually forget, Ali. I know it's cruel for him, but he will get through it."

Once Brother Chu gets through this difficult time, he will be the same dashing and charming Brother Chu again, and many girls will be eager to marry him.

In the future, he will marry and have children, and he can live a happy life.

That's fine too.

"Do you really think he can let go?" Chu Yueli stared at her face.

“If it were a normal separation of life and death, perhaps time would allow one to let go, though he might not be able to. But if it were the way you are now, standing right beside him yet refusing to let him see you until the very end, he will never forgive himself in the future.”

This kind of parting is the most hateful and cruel; who can forget it? Who can let it go?

Tuoba Liuli didn't say anything, but tears accidentally slid down her cheeks.

Chu Yueli wanted to wipe away her tears, but Tuoba Liuli turned her face away and wiped them herself with her sleeve.

"Ah Li, don't you mind how I look now?"

Why should I dislike it?

"But what about him?" Not only had her appearance changed, but her voice had also become hoarse and aged like an old woman. Even if Brother Chu felt sorry for her and was unwilling to show his disgust, he would not be able to understand her appearance.

But in his heart, he must have felt a deep loathing for it.

He was, after all, a man.

Unexpectedly, Chu Yueli sighed, her words carrying a hint of disappointment.

"Sister-in-law, I didn't know that my brother was such a person in your heart."

"No, Ali, that's not what I meant." Tuoba Liuli almost got agitated again.

Chu Yueli glanced at her, and with just a simple glance, she was able to calm her agitated emotions down.

Chu Yueli said, "Then what do you mean? Don't you really know my elder brother's character? Is my elder brother such a heartless person?"

Tuoba Liuli kept her head down, not daring to speak.

She knew that Brother Chu wasn't him, but she... she was really panicked.

Who would want the man they love most to see their ugliest side?

She hoped that even if she died, she would leave behind the most beautiful memories in Chu Xiaohe's heart.

If he were to see me like this, he would be very disappointed.

In the future, after I die, what Brother Chu will remember is my ugly appearance before my death.

She didn't want that, she really didn't.

"Sister-in-law, I should have told you sooner, but I was still hoping to find a way to save you."

Chu Yueli lowered her eyes, suppressing the deep sorrow in them: "But now, it's... impossible."