Amid the scent of spicy tallow hotpot, the car sped all the way toward Gu Garden.
Just moments before, Gu Jinzhi had asked her what Yun Xi wanted with her.
Li Wei brushed it off casually, saying Yun Xi was only jealous of her, expressing dissatisfaction, and incidentally trying to drive a wedge between their relationship.
She figured that explanation carried a higher degree of credibility.
She couldn't very well tell the truth and expose their recent transaction, could she?
Sure enough, Gu Jinzhi didn't say anything further, not even asking how Li Wei had handled it.
Afterward, the two of them didn't speak again.
Resting her chin in her hand, Li Wei gazed at the street scenes receding outside the window, her mind somewhat chaotic.
Did she not love him?
That certainly wasn't love... Just a sham marriage, so what was there to talk about regarding romance?
Yet if she claimed to harbor zero genuine feelings for Gu Jinzhi whatsoever, Li Wei asked herself in her heart, she felt that wasn't entirely true either.
At least when Liang Qiushi uttered that plan which came at the cost of heavily injuring Gu Jinzhi, while she marveled at Liang Qiushi's decisive actions.
Deep down inside, she genuinely and tangibly felt a stir of worry and distress.
As for later, when she proposed doing it herself, perhaps it was more of an outlet for the abortion of Liang Qiushi's plan, a sort of reckless, fatalistic spite.
When Liang Qiushi vetoed her proposal, she clearly remembered that after her annoyance faded, she actually felt a wave of relief.
So what on earth did this emotion she held for him amount to?
Li Wei felt somewhat bewildered.
After reaching a deal with Yun Xi, Li Wei knew that the paranoid woman would strike at