Why it never ends

Chapter 1136 True Love

When the dessert was served again, they were all reluctant to leave - it was getting dark, and no matter how much they got along, when the day was over, they still had to part temporarily.

"There's a performance of Dagger and Sheath next week... Are you guys going to see the play?" Chloe looked at her two friends beside her, "I can get the best tickets."

"Where?" asked Gahodore.

"It should be in the city." Lu Qizhen said, "This play is quite famous, and the tours usually go to big theaters."

Chloe looked at Lu Qizhen with some surprise: "You know it so well!"

Lu Qizhen smiled and sighed: "Because I have watched it many times. Just asking my fiancé to watch it with me, I have watched it three times... or four times?"

"You have a fiancé..." Chloe was stunned, then showed an interesting expression, "Do you have any photos? Show me!"

"Yes!" Jia Heduolei answered for Lu Qizhen.

Chloe and Gahodole sat closely on either side of Lu Qizhen again, watching her take the photo out of her wallet - it was indeed a handsome man, Chloe thought, although he was still far inferior to Kovicik.

"How long have you known each other?"

"Many years ago." Lu Qizhen said, "We met in middle school."

"classmate?"

"He is two years older than me." Lu Qizhen recalled, "Almost ten years."

"Almost ten..." Chloe suddenly realized something was wrong. She stared at Lu Qizhen's face, "How old are you?"

"Twenty-six."

"What!" Chloe straightened her back. "You—you're already twenty-six?"

Jiahoduolei also opened her eyes wide.

"I don't know. Is it that old? I thought my twentieth birthday was just yesterday...how come I'm already twenty-six in the blink of an eye?" Lu Qizhen looked up in confusion. "How old are you?"

Gahoduolei: "I'm sixteen..."

Chloe: "I'm fifteen."

"So young!" Lu Qizhen gasped, "Why are you all so young?"

The three of them looked at each other, and soon burst into laughter. They lay on the ground in a mess, chatting one after another about Lu Qizhen's marriage partner. The two young girls kept asking questions - such as how did you meet, how did you establish a relationship, what's his personality like, what's his family like... Lu Qizhen answered them one by one, and many of the scenes made the two girls hold their breath and were deeply moved.

Jia Heduolei sat up and looked at Lu Qizhen seriously: "You two love each other so much, why don't you want to marry him?"

Chloe was confused: "Ah? Did I hear something wrong? When did she say she didn't want to get married?"

"She said that last night," said Gahodore to Chloe, "she said she hadn't made up her mind yet—what a man!"

"That's not necessarily true!" Chloe immediately shouted louder than Gahodore's voice, "Intuition is very important! If your intuition tells you that something is wrong, then there must be something wrong!"

Chloe's resolute attitude surprised Jiahoduolei: "...How can you be so absolute? If you betray your sincerity for this-" "Whether it is sincerity or not, we will know after the test." Chloe interrupted, "It's better not to have empty words of sincerity."

"But--"

"Are you all in love?" Lu Qizhen asked.

The air was quiet for a moment, and Lu Qizhen heard the answer from the silence. She tilted her head and asked, "Does that mean they all have lovers?"

This question made the two young men even more sad than the previous one.

"...I don't know. Right. But then again, if it were me, I would have gotten married a long time ago." Chloe said in a light tone, "I can't stand being in a relationship with someone I like for so long."

"Me too." Jia Heduolei lowered her eyes slightly, "It's just that the person I like hasn't seen clearly yet, who has a true heart in his arms... But I think you have one, and your fiancé has one too!"

Lu Qizhen laughed: "You said last night that if you hesitate, it means you don't love me—"

"That's because I didn't know you've been together for almost ten years," Gahoduolei protested, "How could you not know if you really loved him? If you didn't love him, why would you have been with him for so long?"

Lu Qizhen felt as if he was being held hostage by these two young friends.

"Do you know the story of "Dagger and Scabbard"? " Lu Qizhen asked.

Gahodore shook her head.

"I've seen it. Let me tell you, it's very clichéd," Chloe said. "Several men fall in love with the heroine at the same time, but the heroine doesn't love anyone and stays faithful to one man. Or maybe the show is too famous. If this kind of boring love story were to be shown nowadays, no one would be willing to spend money on it."

Jia Heduolei responded in a low voice, not understanding the profound meaning of Lu Qizhen's mention of such a story.

"But I think Volva is a simple but very lovable character," said Lu Qizhen, "because after all, her love is not as complicated as human love. She and Wei Chuyun are like two birds. Once they recognize each other, they will never betray each other."

Chloe snorted lightly, obviously disagreeing, but she hugged her knees and listened curiously to what Lu Qizhen had to say.

"...There is a noble conspirator in "Dagger and Sheath", who is also my favorite character," Lu Qizhen said softly, "He is the descendant of an emperor who has been exiled. He fell in love with Volva from the beginning, but he himself did not understand. For this reason, the conspirator suffered a lot and endured pain until the end of the story, when he put a knife to Volva's neck and confessed to her affectionately how much he loved her - he loved her, a commoner of humble origin..."

"I like reading this story, too," Chloe nodded repeatedly, "It's delicious."

Jiahoduolei frowned when she heard this.

"I will always remember how I felt when I first saw that scene," Lu Qizhen whispered, "Why didn't Volva love this conspirator? A person who could control your life and death was tortured to death because of his feelings for you. A person who was high above me was suffering because of his desire for your love - isn't this enough to make Volva fall in love with him? If someone treated me like this, I would definitely fall in love with him immediately, even if I had no feelings for this person before - because isn't love itself about loving the power gap?"

Lu Qizhen looked at the two people beside him.

"There should be such a power gap between you and the person you like."

Chloe and Jiahoduolei were shocked, and neither of them answered immediately, as if they did not understand Lu Qizhen's question.

"I will never be able to experience the love of Volva," Lu Qizhen whispered, "I will only be moved by dangerous things... But this does not prevent me from still thinking she is cute-"

"I'm not." Chloe suddenly said, "The person I like and I - we are true love."