"Because He Zhou did have feelings for Su Yue. Otherwise, he wouldn't have helped her so much."
"He Zhou used to love Su Yue's mother, Li Xiaolian. Since Su Yue looked eighty to ninety percent like her mother, it was only natural that his feelings shifted to Su Yue."
"And Su Yue clearly knew how He Zhou felt about her, yet for her own benefit, she still kept things ambiguous and flirtatious with him."
"Also, she really did deliberately approach you back then. Her first goal was revenge—to bring down the Su Prime Minister's Estate. Her second, of course, was to become Empress and enjoy wealth and glory."
After taking so many blows, Ye Beiyao had already gone numb.
He was silent for a while. "So, from beginning to end, was everything she felt really fake?"
Even now, he only cared about preserving the man's dignity. He showed no sign of regret or self-reflection. Su Qiao looked down on him completely. "What do you think?"
"If a woman truly loves a man, she won't allow him to give his heart to another woman, much less allow him to give his body to another woman."
"Just like my mother, and me. We aren't domineering, nor are we jealous. We simply love too deeply and too purely."
"The man we love must give his heart entirely to us. We won't allow any other woman to defile his body."
"And we hold ourselves to the same standard. Our minds and bodies belong only to each other. That is true love."
"Everything else is merely affection mixed with too many conditions of personal gain. Once those benefits change, that sort of thing quickly deteriorates with time."
Host, aren't you afraid you've hit him hard enough already? 444 felt that its host was being far