Clinging to Devoted Fiancé, Heiress Slays the World!-Chapter 697: Let Go... Hand Her Over to Another Man

Gu Moqian furrowed his brow, his expression cold: "No comment."

Jin Qichuan shook his head with a light laugh: "I actually don’t need to ask; I know the answer. You love her, deeply love her. Although I don’t know what happened between you two, the fact that you love her has never changed."

Gu Moqian stared intently at Jin Qichuan’s pale face in the darkness, his pupils slightly filled with surprise.

Jin Qichuan took another drag from his cigarette and continued: "Even I can see it—how could Ji Wei not? But she’s been pushed away by you, time and time again, her body and mind subjected to so much torment. When a person faces repeated disappointment, it’s possible that they truly give up."

"What exactly do you know?" Gu Moqian’s pupils contracted as he took a sudden step forward, grabbing Jin Qichuan’s collar. "Have you been investigating me or following me? Speak!"

"I have no interest in you whatsoever."

Jin Qichuan slowly raised his hand, gripping the cold hand on his collar. "When you love someone deeply, you understand what it means to love everything about them. I was indeed unlucky—to have met Ji Wei only after you. If she had loved me first, I believe her life would have been completely different."

Jin Qichuan had never stopped loving Ji Wei for even a moment.

After Ji Wei returned from Britain, he quietly watched over her from behind the scenes.

When Jin Xu told him Ji Wei had suddenly gone into premature labor, he abandoned his negotiations and rushed to the hospital in a panic. During the hours she was in the delivery room, he was more nervous and fearful than ever in his life.

He worried whether she might encounter an accident.

He hid in an inconspicuous corner, his expression tense and uneasy, smoking one cigarette after another. When he saw Ji Wei being wheeled out of the operating room, his eyes nearly filled with tears.

During the days Ji Wei was hospitalized, he would deliberately pass by her room, watching her nervously cradle her baby for the first time, watching her silently stand by the window wiping away tears while gazing toward a certain direction, watching her laugh cheerfully with her friends...

Several times, he almost couldn’t resist pushing the door open to go in, but in the end, he held back.

Later, after Ji Wei was discharged from the hospital, she rarely went out. He would often drive to the vicinity of Shanshui Manor, sitting in his car to quietly watch the gate. Occasionally, when he caught sight of that hauntingly familiar figure in the villa’s garden, the sight could make him happy for the whole day.

When rumors of Ji Wei’s divorce began circulating, he felt heartache and indignation for her. He sent people to investigate discreetly, but the investigation was obstructed, yielding only scraps of information.

Still, he always adhered to his own boundaries, refraining from rashly appearing and causing her distress.

Until tonight’s chance encounter...

Jin Qichuan looked into the dark pupils of the man before him, utterly fearless, and continued: "She will be well protected. She won’t be troubled by divorce rumors, won’t lose sleep worrying whether her husband is cheating, won’t have to take care of a child all alone... She married you, but ended up as a single mother. Do you think this is love for her?"

"Shouldn’t she have been held in your palm, cherished like a princess? She’s not happy at all right now—who caused this?"

Jin Qichuan’s voice, carried by the night wind, seemed ethereal yet struck Gu Moqian like thunderclaps, reverberating in his mind. The hand clutching Jin Qichuan’s collar slackened powerlessly.

Everything he did was meant for Ji Wei’s benefit, but it turns out he had made her endure so much.

Was he truly wrong?

Noticing Gu Moqian’s thin lips pressed tightly together, Jin Qichuan suddenly added: "If you can’t treat her well enough, then completely let go—don’t give her any hope. I will give her an entirely different life, one filled with nothing but laughter, without tears."

Let go... hand her over to another man...