Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1119 - 434: My Conviction, Your Pain—The Ultimate Realm of Duplicity (Part 2)
For a long time, he deliberately ignored it.
Beside him, Ju Qingmeng started choking up again, "Almost five years, really, I’ve been waiting for today for almost five years. I’ve always felt guilty and ashamed. Sometimes I even think, if I hadn’t agreed to you back then, maybe you would have found someone else, maybe you would have had a harem like other high-ranking citizens and powerful people. Someone like you, if truly because of me, your bloodline ends, I would consider myself a sinner of history. I..."
Ju Qingmeng said a lot in one breath.
Ren Zhong just nodded and listened.
He felt both sad and acknowledged his wrongdoings.
To uphold his own beliefs, he had inadvertently burdened Ju Qingmeng with immense psychological pressure, which had transformed into suffering.
But for a long time, to avoid inconveniencing him, she only tentatively asked a few times early on. After confirming Ren Zhong’s "twisted" view of love, Ju Qingmeng stopped trying and quietly hid the pain in her heart until now, when Ren Zhong himself had opened a gap, she bravely spoke out.
Ren Zhong held her tightly.
He thought, when he first met Ju Qingmeng, she had been exiled to Starfire Town for rejecting Wang Jinsou.
Back then, Ren Zhong once thought she had the same perspective on love as him.
But later he realized he was wrong.
Ju Qingmeng’s understanding of love was ultimately different from someone like him from the 21st century.
When he realized this, his first reaction wasn’t to change himself, but to try to change Ju Qingmeng.
After failing, he didn’t continue trying but let time slowly pass like this.
Only now does Ren Zhong finally understand how much he had troubled Ju Qingmeng.
He firmly hugged Ju Qingmeng with his back hand.
After a long time, he finally said slowly, "I’m sorry."
Ju Qingmeng shook her head again, "I told you, there’s no need to apologize for this. I’m happy now."
Ren Zhong: "I’m not apologizing for wanting to marry Ma Xiaoling. In a certain sense, I’m apologizing for the pain my selfishness caused you. As for offspring, it’s not your fault; it’s my issue. Let’s just say, everything will take its course."
Ju Qingmeng gradually stopped crying, just softly responded, "I understand."
"Hmm, once things stabilize in the company, why don’t you go into cryogenic sleep early? I’ll also freeze; we will ultimately need to go see the Empire."
Ju Qingmeng calmed herself but asked again, "What about the others?"
Ren Zhong: "Those who need to go will go. As for those staying on Source Star... we’ll naturally arrange things properly."
"Hmm, that’s good."
"So, should I go find Ma Xiaoling?"
"Go ahead, change into something nicer?"
Ren Zhong shook his head, "No need, I’ll go find her in my Red Peak Armor, thinking I might have to fight."
Ju Qingmeng stifled a laugh with her hand, "That’s her style; you have to beat her."
As Ren Zhong donned his Red Peak Armor piece by piece, Ju Qingmeng habitually assisted him with a pre-check while advising, "But she’s improved a lot in the past two days, you better be careful."
Ren Zhong nodded, smiling: "Don’t worry, even if she improves tenfold, she still wouldn’t be my match."
After saying this, he waved goodbye to Ju Qingmeng and leapt out of the window, heading straight out of Starfire Town.
Ten minutes later, he appeared near the abandoned mine pit site.
At this moment, Ma Xiaoling, clad in Silver Armor, was sitting on a boulder with her knees hugged, lost in thought.
Ren Zhong adjusted the stealth device of his Red Peak Armor to maximum, approaching like a gentle breeze.
Ma Xiaoling’s expression shifted rapidly, alternating between sweetness, tension, distress, and conflict.
Suddenly, she glanced at a flat area beneath the rock, gritting her teeth, "If you’re here, just come out openly, what’s the point of sneaking around? Aren’t you afraid it will tarnish your reputation as the great Ren Zhong?"
With the play of light and shadow, Ren Zhong’s figure slowly emerged, praising, "Your instinctual awareness has indeed become much stronger than before. Mr. Yu taught you many things."
Upon hearing Yu Chengde’s name, Ma Xiaoling’s face was immediately filled with admiration, "Mr. Yu is indeed amazing, he has maximized his talents. The Yangsheng Ma family has explored on their own for so many years, and even by my generation, we haven’t reached Mr. Yu’s level. But it’s rather poignant to say, what’s been driving him forward on the path to becoming stronger is only a misunderstanding and a lie."
