FID – Chapter 444

  Chapter 444: Time to Let Go

  The court examination three days later; Grandma Liu dragged Liu Zhixia early in the morning, dressed him in brand new clothes, and combed his hair meticulously.

  After checking several times that his dress code was okay, he was sent out with great admonition.

  This time the family didn’t send him to the entrance of the palace, but only waited in the house.

  The elders said they weren’t nervous, but in reality, how could they not be?

  This was the crucial final exam.

  Standing on The Hall of Supreme Harmony and facing all the civil and military officials of the Dynasty, he wouldn’t have time to deliberate and revise.

  His answer would be whatever it was.

  The result this time depended on his clinical reaction.

  Fu Yuzheng stood at the gate and watched the carriage disappear before she turned around and walked back.

  Instead of going back to the hall, he went back to her small courtyard. She entered her room and sat down in front of the wooden table in front of the window.

  Her face that was reflected in the bronze mirror was pale and bitter. Her eyes were also dull.

  In the bottom layer of her dressing box, she took out a small handkerchief that she had neatly folded after washing and placed it in the palm of her hand.

  She lowered her head and brushed the handkerchief next to her skin. Her actions spoke of endless nostalgia and reluctance.

  When they first met, she was crying in the back garden, and he handed her the small handkerchief.

  At that moment, that simple gesture inadvertently warmed her heart and made her pay a little more attention to him.

  Their subsequent moments together, scene by scene, flashed before her eyes, and each scene was haunted by warmth.

  Haunting, and heart throbbing.

  He showed her what it was like to really like someone and what it was like to be liked by someone.

  He made her taste warmth, taste joy, and taste happiness.

  After she became sensible, almost all the beauty she realized was brought to her by the man.

  So much so that gradually, he became all she had.

  For such a wonderful person, there should be a better person to deserve him.

  Fu Yuzheng was unworthy.

  Fu Yuzheng was too dirty.

  If she stayed with him, he would become an official in the future. Once her past broke out, he would become the target of public criticism and the laughing stock of the whole world.

  The joke would be that he had an unchaste and impure wife.

  Wherever he would go, he would be pointed at and talked about, ridiculed and mocked.

  She didn’t want this. She didn’t want him to suffer even the slightest bit because of her, a bit of harm, or a bit of injustice.

  Having selfishly enjoyed his giving for so long, having received the most precious gifts from him, they were enough for her to get through the rest of her life.

  It was time for her to let go.

  She knew that she had been acting strange during this time, and Zhixia must have noticed.

  She just didn’t say anything, and Zhixia didn’t ask, giving her free space.

  However, she couldn’t tell him anything. She also had to pretend that nothing was wrong in front of him.

  If Zhixia knew that she was thinking of leaving, he would never let her go.

  She knew he had never disliked her, but she disliked herself. She couldn’t get past that hurdle in her heart.

  She seemed to have forgotten it on the surface, but could she really put it down?

  She was a woman. After experiencing that kind of nightmare, she could never forget all her life.

  In that case, let her walk in hell alone. She shouldn’t dirty Zhixia’s straight path.

  Zhixia has taught her many, many things.

  To love and be loved, to care and be cared for, to care and be cared for.

  So the best decision she could make for him was to leave.

  Let go, not because she didn’t love him, but precisely because she loved him too much.

  Looking around the room where she had lived for years, it was simple, furnished as before.

  She lived here and just lived, not adding anything more or taking anything away.

  She used to secretly think of this place as her home, but then she realized that home wasn’t like that.

  Home should be like the Liu family; a compound, a family, harmonious, lively, holding each other, supporting each other, sharing meager resources.

  Unfortunately, she was not fortunate enough to be a member of the Liu family since she was young.

  She must live up to the sincerity of the Liu family elders to her.