She seemed very, very afraid.
Like a startled elk, she feared that what she had just heard was illusory and unreal.
Rita desperately wanted to hear someone's answer in person, yet she lacked confidence so badly that when Ren Yu said something like that, she instinctively assumed she had misheard him, that her constant yearning had made her hallucinate.
Or perhaps Lord Ren Yu had deliberately lied to her, merely wanting to make her happy.
But she had not expected Ren Yu to be serious.
Looking down at Rita's little head, Ren Yu could not help sighing inwardly. All of this started because of me... If I had refused Rita back then, if I hadn't deliberately used the advantage of my special status to raise her affection for me, Rita wouldn't have become like this.
But now, it's all too late. Rita has already inherited my emblem. Whether it's affection, trust, or reverence, all of it has reached an extremely high level. From now on, she probably won't be able to like anyone else. Part of her heart has already been occupied by me.
Besides, after obtaining the emblem, she became bound to me by something like karma. Unless the emblem is completely removed, she can't escape at all.
At that thought, Ren Yu paused slightly.
Besides... even without those things, would I really want to see Rita throw herself into someone else's arms and, years later, become someone else's virtuous wife, kissing and cuddling with another person as they built a family together?
Someone suddenly fell silent.
Right.
He did not want that.
So from the very beginning, he had never truly had a choice!
Since they already liked each other, there was no need to hesitate!
Liking someone meant liking them. Besides, it was not as though he