The tightly closed window frame cut off his intertwined gaze with her and shut him out of her heart.

After taking two steps forward, the tall figure was printed on the window paper, almost filling the entire window.

He rested his forehead against the window, closed his eyes, and listened to the sound of breathing on the other side of the window.

Her breathing was chaotic, with restrained sobs, and she was crying.

She was a strong person, she rarely shows her weak side in front of him, let alone shed tears easily.

Every choking sound of her hurt his heart, more painful than usual when he had a heart attack.

“Sorry, I didn’t find you earlier.”

“I’m sorry to make you sad.”

“Sorry–”

“It’s all my fault, Zhi’er, don’t cry.”

His voice was low, and cold tears rolled down his face in the shadows.

He kept apologizing but still couldn’t muster up the courage to open the window. He doesn’t know how to face those teary eyes.

On the other side of the window, Bai Zhi stopped her sobs, took a deep breath, tried her best to calm down her chaotic mood, and finally said, “Hu Feng, let’s end it.”

In her heart, the man she likes has always been Hu Feng, the man who always used his tall body to stand in front of her in Huangtuo Village.

Not the aloof Prince Jin, not the Emperor of Chu who owns the three palaces and six courts.

To end it, she also has to end things with Hu Feng.

“What did you say?” Chu Yan’s complexion changed abruptly, his forehead immediately left the window, and his face was shocked.

He never thought that Bai Zhi would propose to end things with him. He thought that even if she was sad, even if she couldn’t accept it, it would only be temporary.

But now, what did she say? End it? End it?

Bai Zhi repeated: “Hu Feng, let’s end it, you are not the person I love in the past, let it go.”

With a bang, the window was pushed open, and he saw the girl in a plain dress with her back facing him. She was taller than three years ago, but still as slender as ever, with thick black hair reaching her waist. At that moment, a few strands of hair were flying due to the night wind pouring in from the window.

He breathed a sigh of relief, jumped into the window, and closed the window behind his back.

Dongfang Wan, who was peeking outside the courtyard, wanted to rush in, but was held back by Dongfang Mu: “Wan’er, what are you doing?”

Dongfang Wan said: “In the middle of the night, a lonely man and a widow are in the same room. What is this? I have to keep an eye on it.”

Dongfang Mu hurriedly said: “Don’t make trouble, let them solve their young people’s affairs by themselves. We can’t control it, and we don’t need to take care of it. Both Yan’er and Zhi’er are people who have a sense of propriety.”

Dongfang Wan snorted softly: ‘Does he know etiquette? Dad, this apprentice you taught, how does he know etiquette? Did he get our permission to come in? Now, he jumped out of Zhi’er’s window, if people see this, what will we think of our Zhi’er? ‘

Dongfang Mu waved his hand: “This is Qiyun Mountain villa, where would there be so many miscellaneous eyes? It’s all right, it’s all right, he will come out in a while, let’s go, don’t stay here, the night is cold.”

Dongfang Wan was almost taken away by Dongfang Mu. In Dongfang Mu’s heart, his grandson-son-in-law’s heart still belongs to his granddaughter.

If people don’t enter the court, they wouldn’t know the helplessness in the court. He was a regent, and he knows the plight of those in power.

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