"Miss Long is naturally still alive." Murong Yu led her son to sit on a chair again.
"Wuya, don't you believe what mother says anymore? Miss Long is still alive, mother guarantees you, she would never lie to you, it's just that she doesn't want to see you."
"Why?" Feng Wuya's anxious heart was finally put at ease.
At least, she was still alive.
He had known his own mother for so many years, and the look in her eyes at this moment would never be a lie.
Xinghe was still alive.
She was still alive, and that was good.
That was good!
"Your heart is only for Chu Qianli, how can that young lady constantly face you? Doesn't her heart ache?"
Murong Yu glanced at Jiang Tao outside.
Jiang Tao nodded, bowed, and retreated.
Tie Xin also quickly left.
Fu Ning said to the two, "Your Highness... Madam, Your Highness, I'll go down first and settle the brothers of the Night Nether Army."
Murong Yu nodded, and Fu Ning also left.
Wen Ni poured them both a cup of hot tea, then quietly retreated to the outside of the pavilion, guarding silently, not interrupting, not disturbing.
Feng Wuya's mood was indescribably complex.
Murong Yu's words left him feeling utterly drained.
Murong Yu looked at him and gently comforted him, "Son, mother is also a woman, and mother understands how Miss Long feels."
"Mother, I'm not..." But what he was thinking in his heart, even he himself didn't know.
"Don't you like your Ah Li anymore?" Murong Yu asked.
Feng Wuya's palm clenched subconsciously, "I have never had any improper thoughts about Ah Li."
"You just dare not think about it, but if Chu Qianli were not your fourth brother's woman, and she were alone now, would you want to be with her?"
Hearing this, Feng Wuya lowered his eyes, meeting her gaze.
Although he did not agree with, or even understand, many of the things his mother had done in the past.
However, his mother had always understood his thoughts exceptionally well since he was young.
There was no need to lie in front of his mother.
Feng Wuya pondered for a long time before saying, "Actually, except for when I thought I was about to die, I had fantasized about being with Ah Li. After that, I never imagined it again."
"Why?"
"We are like this now... it's good."
Fourth brother and Ah Li together, Ah Li would be happy.
He, like Jin Rui, could often be with them, and everyone would be happy together.
Talking, playing, playing the zither, singing songs, without any pressure, without any psychological burden.
Ah Li was Fourth Brother's person, but she was his friend.
Interacting as friends was the best way.
"Seeing Ah Li with Fourth Brother, I am also very happy, I will not be sad, so..."
"So, in fact, the current way of interacting is what you like the most, you no longer want Chu Qianli to be your wife, is that right?"
"I never..." Feng Wuya pursed his thin lips, and the words he had not finished speaking for a long time.
After a while, he nodded, "I did think about it before, but I haven't thought about it for a long time... Mother, where is Xinghe?"
"Do you like Miss Long?" Murong Yu asked again.
This time, Feng Wuya could not answer at all.
Long Xinghe, he used to detest her, and at first, he wanted to turn and leave whenever he saw her.
But later, after interacting with her, he found that she was truly different from other women.
Without any feminine affectation, not even a trace of being like a woman.
Heroic, cheerful, generous, wise! Like a true man!
Her bearing was no less than any hero on the battlefield.
He had already gotten used to treating Long Xinghe as he would treat a man.
He had never thought about matters of the heart, because he never thought that there would be any feelings between him and Long Xinghe.
How could two men develop romantic feelings for each other?
"You can't answer because you don't know, or because you don't want to say?"
"Mother..."
"However, none of it matters anymore."
Murong Yu smiled, patted his shoulder, "Son, she has completely given up on you. In the future, find a good girl again, get married, have children, and live your own life."