Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 352 - 365: Flame Diamond Ring

He opened the box and handed it to Su Xingyu.

Inside was a glittering ring, a platinum band set with diamonds, with a rare fiery red diamond in the center, of exceptionally high purity, like a perfect flame.

She felt slightly dizzy.

The ring felt very familiar to her, especially the platinum band, its graceful and flowing lines as if it was worn on her hand. Just by quietly looking at it, she could feel it. Involuntarily, she reached out to touch the inside of the band, and sure enough, there were some letters engraved, the initials of her and his names.

Is it that ring...?

The wedding ring he forced onto her hand four years ago when she was imprisoned?

She still remembered that after escaping the fire, she searched all over her body but couldn’t find that ring. It must have been lost in the rush.

She always thought it was the will of heaven, that it was destined that she and that wedding ring were not meant to be, just like their marriage which lasted less than a year.

But now, this ring... has returned?

Her heart surged with emotions, unable to explain why, yet there was confusion amidst the excitement—was it really that wedding ring? She remembered clearly that the ring from back then was indeed platinum set with a diamond, but it was just a highly pure transparent diamond, clear and flawless like the initial makeup of a young girl. But now, the one before her eyes was clearly a dazzling fiery red.

Such red diamonds are extremely rare, especially ones this large. Su Xingyu remembered seeing on the news before that each one could sell for astronomical prices.

She looked up at Lu Shifeng.

Lu Shifeng was also looking at her, his face usually stern, now seeming to carry a touch of tenderness: "This ring is the one you lost in the fire that year. The original diamond was melted by the fire, and Grandfather told me to forget you, saying nothing lasts forever, but I didn’t believe it. I reset it with a red diamond to remember that great fire and to remember you. In my heart, you are eternal."

She was visibly shaken, involuntarily turning her head to the side: "I don’t want to hear these pretty words."

"These aren’t pretty words," Lu Shifeng said, "it’s truly what I think."

Even though a voice inside warned her, Su Xingyu, don’t believe his nonsense again, she couldn’t help but feel her nose getting sour.

Yes, she knew very well, this man wasn’t one to say pretty words. He wasn’t Ouyang Yi, who knew how to sweet-talk girls. Every word he said, whether it made her angry and aggrieved, or moved her to tears, came from his heart.

So, she hated him even more.

"I’ve already died for you once, Lu Shifeng. Even if I owed you a lot of debts, they’re all cleared now," she said, snapping the petite, exquisite box shut, and returned it to Lu Shifeng in front of her, "Take your things back, I don’t need it!"

Lu Shifeng didn’t reach out to take it.

In the slightly cold autumn wind, his expression was dark and deep.

Watching all this from the side, Zhuang Heng also didn’t look well. The fiery red diamond ring...

She had always known this diamond ring was Lu Shifeng’s beloved treasure, often staring at it in a daze. Even Jue wasn’t allowed to touch it.

Yet he actually gave it to Su Xingyu.

And Su Xingyu discarded it like rubbish?!

Zhuang Heng was so angry her face almost twisted, why, why should this woman get everything?!

But Su Xingyu continued to hold out her hand, looking coldly at Lu Shifeng: "Aren’t you taking it? If you don’t take it, I’ll throw it away."

Lu Shifeng continued to look at her deeply: "Xingyu, why can’t you just listen to me?"

"As if you ever listened to me," Su Xingyu sneered relentlessly, seeing he refused to take it, she really raised her hand and tossed it, the small box tracing a parabola and disappearing somewhere in the amusement park.

Lu Shifeng’s eyes were inscrutable, gazing at her intently: "What will it take for you to come back?"

"Come back, to your side?" Su Xingyu slightly tilted her head, a sarcastic smile on her lips, "Lu Shifeng, who gave you the courage to say such shameless words? You already have Zhuang Heng by your side, everyone’s calling Zhuang Heng Mrs. Lu, and you want me to come back? For what? To watch you enjoy the best of both worlds? Wake up, the Qing dynasty is long gone!"

Zhuang Heng’s expression finally eased a bit, a slight trace of an imperceptible smile appearing. Fortunately, she had the status of Mrs. Lu to hinder their reunion.

But the next second, her smile froze on her face.

She heard Lu Shifeng say: "Zhuang Heng is not my wife."

What?!

Su Xingyu looked at him in shock.

Lu Shifeng said, "After you ’died’ four years ago, Zhuang Heng gave birth to Jue for the Lu Family. Grandfather ordered me to marry her, but I refused, willing only to acknowledge Jue under the family’s name, because I promised you, even if you couldn’t have children, I would only adopt a child under your name, and never part from you." Even though he thought she was dead back then, it was precisely because of this that the unfulfilled promise became more persistent.

Su Xingyu hadn’t expected there would be such a story behind it, a certain nameless emotion surged in her heart again.

Yet she pressed it down, still sneering: "Adopt a child under my name? Lu Shifeng, stop pretending. When I was perfectly fine, you were already messing around with Zhuang Heng! Do the math on Jue’s birthdate yourself!"

Lu Shifeng said, "That time I was drunk, it was an accident."

"A mistake is a mistake."

"Yes," Lu Shifeng said, "Xingyu, please forgive me."

She was stunned again, not expecting he would apologize for what happened back then. But after so many years, when she had hoped he would apologize, he was cruel to her. Now, forgiveness or not no longer held any meaning.

She only said: "And afterward, how did Zhuang Heng become Mrs. Lu?"

She glanced at Zhuang Heng, the sophisticatedly makeup-wearing woman now appeared uneasy and embarrassed, but in front of Lu Shifeng, Zhuang Heng didn’t dare act presumptuously.

Lu Shifeng said: "Grandfather, seeing I wouldn’t marry her, unilaterally held a press conference, announcing I was already married to her."

The events of those years were far more thrilling than what he described dispassionately, the calculations and struggles, the storms and waves, ultimately condensed into just a few words.

Su Xingyu couldn’t help but sneer again: "So, she became Mrs. Lu?"

Lu Shifeng said: "I had to consider the family’s reputation, and Jue. If it became too sensationalized, how would Jue be able to conduct himself in the future?"

Though that child wasn’t very healthy, he was his son, a child who inherited and amplified his autism, a child he owed.

He looked at Su Xingyu, continuing to speak: "Xingyu, I’m very sorry, but Zhuang Heng is only Mrs. Lu in name. There are no legal documents, and except for that one time with Jue, I’ve never touched her. You are the only wife I acknowledge, the only young mistress of the Lu Family. After you ’died,’ I erected a double tombstone in the ancestral grave, and you are the only one I will be buried with in the future."