Three days before the wedding, under Grandma Shen’s request, Jiang Cheng and Shen Que stopped seeing each other.
Shen Que moved to the mechanical factory, and Jiang Cheng stayed at the crowded courtyard.
The day before the wedding, Grandma Shen brought a mysterious "album" to give Jiang Cheng a lesson on bridal chamber education.
Jiang Cheng pretended she didn’t understand and listened to the end.
The lecturer’s face was flushed, and the listener was engrossed, even keeping the "album."
Jiang Cheng gloriously named it: In case Shen Que doesn’t understand, she can show him.
Grandma Shen, with a blushing face, said, "I don’t believe a word you say."
Not only did she not believe it, but Grandma Shen also thought she should go and deliver the album to Shen Que.
Feeling a bit regretful, Grandma Shen left Jiang Cheng’s room not long before Li Chunxiang arrived.
She came to accompany Jiang Cheng.
The two seemed to return to their time in Yangcheng, lying on a kang, chatting away.
As they chatted, the topic turned to major life events.
"Chunxiang, do you have someone you like?"
Li Chunxiang didn’t answer immediately, and Jiang Cheng knew she did.
"Someone I know?"
Jiang Cheng’s sharp intuition made Li Chunxiang turn slightly, a bit embarrassed, and hum softly.
"Kind of."
"How so?"
Li Chunxiang laughed bitterly, "He rejected me."
Jiang Cheng became even more interested.
Li Chunxiang also wanted to confide in someone about this, and if it weren’t for Jiang Cheng’s upcoming wedding, she would have shared it sooner.
"I like... Gao Zhonghua."
Li Chunxiang said it, and Jiang Cheng was a bit surprised but found it reasonable.
The two had spent a lot of time together in Yangcheng.
Jiang Cheng roughly understood why Gao Zhonghua rejected Li Chunxiang.
She looked at Li Chunxiang and asked, "Do you know why he rejected you?"
"Yes, he said... he’s a man without a future, that there’s shrapnel in his head..."
At this point, Li Chunxiang couldn’t hold back her tears, quickly wiping them away, "Can’t cry, can’t cry, tomorrow is your big day."
Jiang Cheng pulled Li Chunxiang’s hand away as she wiped her tears, handed her a tissue, and said, "Don’t hold it in; I don’t believe in those things."
With one sentence, Li Chunxiang silently let her tears fall, soon wetting a patch of the pillow.
"It’s the first time I’ve liked someone, and I told him I didn’t mind, but he still wouldn’t agree."
Li Chunxiang looked at Jiang Cheng, distressed, "At first, I was so angry, but now I just feel heartache."
"How could such a good person end up like this!"
The more she cried, the more her heart ached, and the more she wanted to cry.
More than a month’s worth of grievances and suppression all released today.
Jiang Cheng patted Li Chunxiang’s back, unable to say anything she could do for her.
Because she understood both Gao Zhonghua and Li Chunxiang, neither was wrong, both were reasonable; it was up to them.
After crying, Li Chunxiang felt much relieved, took Jiang Cheng’s hand, and said sorry.
"What are you talking about, I’m your life’s mentor, who else would you tell?"
Jiang Cheng’s words made Li Chunxiang smile, and Li Chunxiang calmly said, "I still want to try, I’ll give myself two years, if within two years I can’t move him, I won’t pursue anymore."
"I know he might... tomorrow, but I still want to be with him, as a couple."
Jiang Cheng nodded.
"Do what you want, don’t leave regrets."
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