Chapter 268: Chapter 367: His Confession

Chapter 268 -367: His Confession

Ming Yao had no performance in the afternoon, so she discovered that there were quite a few herbs in the mountains. She carried a basket on her back and walked up the mountain.

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Zhong Ling originally wanted to follow her, but Ming Yao didn’t let her.

After gathering quite a few herbs, Ming Yao wiped the sweat from her forehead and sat down on a large rock to drink water.

Suddenly, she heard faint footsteps not far away.

Her body immediately went on alert.

She quickly got up from the rock and walked forward.

However, the faster she walked, the closer the footsteps behind her followed.

Ming Yao picked up a few rocks and threw them backward.

The person dodged them with ease.

Seeing the cliff just ahead, Ming Yao decisively picked up a stick. When the person trailing her stuck his head out, she swung the stick at him.

The person reacted extremely quickly, extending his hand and grabbing the stick she swung at him.

Just as Ming Yao was about to exert force, she looked up in a flash and was startled.

She thought she had encountered some perverted stalker, but it turned out to be Gu Siting!

While Ming Yao was relieved, she was also somewhat annoyed.

How did he find this place?

Didn’t he leave last night?

Ming Yao did not give Gu Siting a warm welcome, she dropped the stick and turned to leave.

But the next second, the man pulled on the basket on her back.

He yanked the basket from her back, then grabbed her wrist and spoke in a hoarse voice, “Let’s talk.”

It wasn’t a question but a tone that brooked no argument.

Ming Yao was livid, “You say let’s talk and we must talk?”

She tried to shake off his hand, but he held tight to her wrist.

The strength between her and him was never on the same level.

The standoff lasted for about half a minute.

The man’s low, magnetic voice rang out again, “Don’t you want to hear the explanation for what upset you yesterday?”

Upon hearing him say this, Ming Yao’s heart involuntarily skipped a beat.

If she didn’t want an explanation, she wouldn’t have brought it up yesterday!

However, just thinking about those lifelike paintings in the room on the third floor made her chest tight with anger.

What was there to explain?

Unless he confessed that he had truly loved Shi Ying very, very much before!

As an outsider, she could see his deep and burning love in those oil paintings. Please don’t say that those feelings had faded away with Shi Ying’s passing!

If he said that, she would only despise him!

He couldn’t even admit to someone he had loved!

Unable to break free from Gu Siting’s grip, Ming Yao had no choice but to sit with him at the edge of the cliff.

Her mind raced, if he didn’t confess properly, she might get angry and kick him off the cliff!

When Gu Siting saw a flash of cold light in Ming Yao’s eyes, recalling her threat to drug him and turn him into a eunuch, he shivered inexplicably.

Gu Siting took out an old photo album from his black bag.

“I rushed back to the capital city last night and got this album from Mother Shi,” he said.

Ming Yao looked puzzled.

Why on earth was he showing her an album?

She didn’t take it, and sarcasm emerged in her delicate brows, “You want me to look at your love history?”

Sorry, she wasn’t that magnanimous.

Gu Siting saw Ming Yao’s expression and didn’t know whether to be angry or relieved.

Angry that she trusted him so little.

Relieved that she seemed to be starting to care about him.

She knew what it meant to care and to be jealous!

She didn’t take the album, and he didn’t force her.

He flipped through the album for her, page by page.

Gu Siting and Shi Ying had known each other since they were seven or eight, and the photos were almost all of them together.

The more Ming Yao looked, the sadder she became.

Even as children, the two of them were the most good-looking.

Looking at them, they seemed like a match made in heaven.

Ming Yao glared at Gu Siting with annoyance, “What exactly are you trying to say? Are you bragging about your childhood sweetheart, your innocent love for each other?”

Gu Siting’s lips were tightly pressed together, and he said nothing.

When he flipped to the middle of the album, there were hardly any more photos of Gu Siting.

Instead, a handsome and scholarly young man with a literary aura appeared.

The young man in the album seemed to have been taken by candid shots.

He was either painting in the studio or sitting under a tree, reading a book.

Further on, the young man was no longer alone but with Shi Ying.

When the two faced the camera, it was obvious that the young man was shy and reserved.

The only photo with Gu Siting in it towards the end was a group photo of the three of them.

Ming Yao furrowed her brow as she looked toward Gu Siting, “What does this mean?”

From the album, it was clear that Shi Ying and the young man were a couple.

Ming Yao looked at Gu Siting with confusion, “You have been secretly in love with Shi Ying since you were young, but she fell for another boy. Did your unrequited love lead you to destroy them?”

Gu Siting’s face darkened.

“You could go write novels.”

Ming Yao, “…”

Gu Siting closed the album, his voice low and hoarse, “Do you remember the things about my childhood I told you about last time?”

Ming Yao nodded.

His experiences from when he was little were so brutal, of course, she remembered them.

“That nanny did some over-the-top things later on, but she got what she deserved and became a vegetable after falling down the stairs.”

“But everyone in the Gu Family said I pushed her, even the family doctor said I had psychological issues, and they had me admitted to a mental hospital.”

Ming Yao looked at the man whose memories brought out a crimson hue in his eyes and bulging veins on his forehead, tightening the feeling in her chest.

“Forget it, you don’t have to recall those unhappy things, just simply tell me what your relationship with Shi Ying was like.”

Gu Siting pursed his thin, cold lips tightly, and the lines of his jaw tensed up, “You’ll only understand if I start from the beginning.”

But starting from the beginning would also mean reopening his bloody wounds and past.

Yet, to avoid her misunderstanding, what did it matter if he was in pain a little more?

“After being sent to the mental hospital, I had a very tough time. If not for Shi Ying and her mother, I might never have been able to leave. Shi Ying’s mother was a doctor at the mental hospital. Once, I was vomiting and had diarrhea after receiving an injection, and no one in the ward attended to me. Shi Ying suddenly appeared, and she went to call her mother, who was not in charge of my ward.”

“Shi Ying is a year older than me. She pitied me and visited the hospital almost every day after school. At first, I was very guarded and didn’t pay attention to her, but she never minded my cold attitude. Sometimes, Mother Shi would also bring me delicious food she made.”

“Over time, I felt their kindness, and moreover, with Mother Shi’s care and treatment, my condition improved a lot.”

“Later on, Old Madam Gu brought me back to live in the capital city for a while.”

“Shi Ying and I grew up together as childhood friends, but our relationship was like yours with Jing Hang. She was my sister; we never had a romantic relationship, more akin to family.”

“The young man in the album is named Su Mo, and he was the lover Shi Ying cherished most.”

Ming Yao was a bit confused, “But why does everyone think you and Shi Ying are a couple? Why do they say Shi Ying is your taboo?”