As she spoke, Su Qiao prepared to leave, but as if she had thought of something, she stopped and added, "Let me give you one piece of advice: in this world, relying on Heaven, Earth, or other people is never as good as relying on yourself."
"Su Qiao, I'll be waiting for you. I'll be waiting for you to rely on yourself and live a good life. Just don't wait until my hair has turned completely white." Xia Xiaodie's face was full of mockery.
Su Qiao sighed and glanced into the distance at the young man who was trembling with rage. "You're truly pathetic."
"What do you mean?" Xia Xiaodie suddenly had a bad feeling. Following Su Qiao's gaze, she looked over, and a thunderclap seemed to explode in her mind.
"Br... Brother Zhou?"
"Xia Xiaodie!!!"
Zhou Tianyou clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, desperately suppressing himself to keep from exploding on the spot. Yet the bulging veins at his temples and his faintly reddened eyes showed just how furious he was.
Su Qiao glanced at the two of them, patted her backside, and left, leaving the star-crossed lovers to enjoy their time together.
"So... So you've been deceiving me all along. You really were deceiving me. It turns out my mother and my younger sister weren't wrong after all. You're a two-faced, hypocritical woman."
Zhou Tianyou gritted his teeth and glared fiercely at the woman into whom he had poured all his tenderness. Until that very morning, he had still insisted on defending her. Now he wished he could slap himself hard across the face.
He had even neglected the imperial examination, leaving early under the pretext of taking it so that he could secretly come see her and ask her about it in person.
Heh. There was