"There's one last question."
Zhao Qing drew a card from the pile and couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he saw what was on it.
He read it out slowly and clearly. "Which of you formally confessed your feelings first, and under what circumstances?"
At the question, Fu Xiuyuan froze for a moment. A ripple stirred in his eyes as he turned his gaze toward the person beside him.
Gu Nian'an shook his head casually, signaling that he was fine.
Still, he lowered his eyes slightly and said calmly, "I did."
[??? I thought it would've been An'an's husband.]
[Same here, same here. An'an seems like the type who gets embarrassed super easily. I can't picture him confessing first at all.]
[Agreed, hehe. His wife confessing first must've made someone ridiculously happy.]
[I want a beauty to confess to me first too.]
But before they could enjoy themselves for long, the young man rubbed his fingertips together and continued explaining.
"But something happened to me back then, and I fell into the water. When my husband found me, I thought I was going to die, so I hurried to tell him how I felt."
Before anyone could react,
the young man raised his eyes and added with a smile in them, "When I was in the water, all I could think was that I didn't want to die. I hadn't told my husband how I felt yet. When I heard his voice, I almost thought I was hallucinating before I died.
"But luckily, I survived! That's how I got to be with my husband."
Fu Xiuyuan's expression was complicated. Thinking about what had happened that day still filled him with lingering fear.
It had been so close. If he hadn't found him...
He didn't even dare imagine what the consequences