After leaving the Sky-Gazing Mirror, Li Wei did not return to Gu Garden with Gu Jinzhi.
By the rules, the wedding would be in two days, so she had to return to the Jiang family home to await her marriage.
She was too lazy to go back for her personal belongings at Gu Garden.
In any case, she would be moving back there after the wedding, and the Jiang family was not short of the food and clothing she needed.
When they parted, Gu Jinzhi stood at the Jiang family gate, still wearing that unruffled, light-as-clouds expression, holding himself perfectly steady.
But after spending three years with him, Li Wei understood him better than anyone. At a glance, she saw through the man's unhappiness.
After the car started, she looked through the rearview mirror.
Old Gu was indeed still standing at the Zeng family gate, without getting into his own car.
He simply stood there, motionless, watching her car drive away, looking exactly like a stone waiting for her husband to return.
She found it somewhat amusing and wanted to tease him.
So she lowered the car window a crack, stuck out two fingers, and waved them in a very inconspicuous spot beneath the lower corner of the window.
Almost at the same moment, Gu Jinzhi in the distance immediately raised his hand and waved in her direction.
Li Wei burst out laughing. The merit she had accumulated over three years was once again completely consumed.
Laughing, she tilted her head to one side.
Through the rearview mirror, she watched Gu Jinzhi keep his hand raised, looking like a telephone pole.
Only when the car reached the end of the private road, turned, and merged into the traffic of the imperial capital did she look away and begin studying her