Chapter 1724: Getting Cold Feet

Ye Chen was stunned by Helena's sudden question.

He didn't understand why he was chatting with Helena about destiny in good faith, but Helena suddenly made such an absurd request.

He subconsciously asked, "This... doesn't seem to have anything to do with the topic we were chatting about, right?"

Helena blinked and smiled slyly, then her body suddenly leaned forward and kissed her red lips tightly onto Ye Chen's mouth.

Immediately after, Helena bit her lower lip with her clean, white teeth and said with some shame, "Ye, if it weren't for that BMW car and that antique vase, we would never have known each other. I wouldn't have been saved by you, wouldn't have fallen in love with you in such a short time, and wouldn't have had that kiss just now, and my first kiss wouldn't have been taken by you. So Mr. Ye, you are right, destiny is really magical, I understand!"

Ye Chen was speechless for a moment.

He didn't expect Helena to use the logic of destiny he mentioned to wrap him in.

He didn't dare to linger on the sweetness of her lips, shook his head helplessly, and said, "Although your behavior is not very appropriate, I have to admit that your basic logic is correct."

Helena avoided his gaze, smiled shyly, and said, "It seems I have to thank BMW. If it weren't for it, I might never have had a chance to meet my sweetheart in this life."

Ye Chen said helplessly, "I'm already married."

Helena nodded, "I know, so what?"

Ye Chen gave a hum and said, "So you don't need to invest any feelings in me. We have only known each other for two or three days. It is highly probable that you are grateful for my help, and not necessarily really like me."

"Wrong." Helena said firmly, "I know myself. I know I really like you, and I am definitely not overwhelmed by gratitude."

Ye Chen smiled indifferently, "How can feelings be cultivated in a day or two? Maybe in a few days, you will come to your senses and realize that you were just impulsive for a moment."

"Wrong!" Helena denied again, "You won't like someone you don't like even if you spend a lifetime together, and for someone you like, sometimes just one look back is enough. You used "Romeo and Juliet" to tease Olivia, but you should know that "Romeo and Juliet" is also love at first sight. From meeting to falling in love, getting married, then Romeo fleeing, Juliet faking death, and finally the two dying for each other, it only took five days in total."

After saying this, she looked at Ye Chen, blushing, and said, "If we are the same as "Romeo and Juliet," then we have known each other for three days, and we should already be married by now."

Ye Chen coughed twice awkwardly and said, "That is a play after all, not reality."

Helena said stubbornly, "A play can be regarded as a classic and passed down for hundreds of years, which proves that it originates from life and is higher than life. Otherwise, how would people regard it as a classic?"

As she spoke, Helena added, "And there is the modern classic movie "Titanic"! That ship set sail from the UK on April 10th and hit an iceberg on April 14th. But in these short five days, Jack and Rose went from meeting to falling in love and then to being separated by heaven and man. If we were the same as them, we should have already had our first intimate contact in the car by now!"

Ye Chen didn't expect that Helena would suddenly become a bit aggressive in order to refute his words.

He could only helplessly change the subject and said, "Look, "Romeo and Juliet" is five days in total, and "Titanic" is also five days. This should be a conventional practice of Western playwrights, and it shouldn't be taken seriously."

Helena looked at Ye Chen and said extremely seriously, "I don't know if these two stories are true, but I know that the story of me falling in love with you in these short few days is true."

As she spoke, Helena asked Ye Chen, "Mr. Ye, yesterday on Mount Ye Ling, so many of your confidantes risked their lives to help you on Mount Ye Ling. Could it be that they all fell in love with you after a long time? Could it be that none of them fell in love with you in just a few days like me?"

Ye Chen was speechless for a moment.

Among his confidantes, except for Gu Qiuyi who had known him since childhood, the others, the one he had known the longest, Song Wanting, had actually only known him for a little over a year.

The time he had known Ito Nanako, Su Zhiyu, and Su Ruoli was actually even shorter.

Seeing Ye Chen silent, Helena said emotionally, "Mr. Ye, the reason I got cold feet is not that I am really afraid of being Empress, but that I am afraid that after I become Empress, I won't have a chance to see you again... Rather than that, I would rather not be this Empress, rather take my mother to live in China, so that at least I can be closer to you!"

Ye Chen put away the attitude of playing Tai Chi before, looked at Helena, and said seriously, "People have many lofty goals in their lives, and feelings are at best one of them. You should put more energy into how to revitalize the Northern European royal family, just like my biggest goal now is no longer to live a good life with my wife, but to inherit my father's legacy and carry forward the Ye family."

As he spoke, Ye Chen asked her, "If I am not mistaken, your father should have hoped that you could inherit the throne when he was alive, right?"

As soon as Ye Chen said this, Helena's heart instantly broke, and tears rolled down immediately.

She thought of her father, whose fate was full of twists and turns.

In order to let her inherit the throne and achieve the highest goal of a royal family member, he didn't hesitate to hide his congenital disease for twenty years.

In his view, even if he could be Empress for one day, it would be considered a complete life.

And now, she was only three days away from the completion he had in mind.

Thinking of this, she finally understood that the Ye Chen in front of her had long since stopped putting the love of children in the first place.

Shame and loss were mixed in, making Helena cry uncontrollably.

She looked at Ye Chen, nodded while crying, and said, "Mr. Ye, I understand... Rest assured, I will be like you, inherit my father's legacy, and carry forward the royal family..."

Ye Chen nodded, and said, "Helena, you just said that I have so many confidantes, but fundamentally speaking, each of them is different from me, but only you are the same kind of person as me."

As he spoke, Ye Chen said with a serious expression, "We have both lived in luxury in big families, but have suffered a lot of hardships that ordinary people have never eaten; we have both been extremely protected by our parents, and at the same time watched them die with hatred; and now, we have both shouldered the flag left by our fathers, preparing to charge onto the position that our fathers failed to charge onto before..."

Ye Chen paused slightly when he said this, looked at Helena, and said seriously, "The only difference between the two of us is that I have already prepared for the charge. It is truly said that even if there are thousands of people, I will go! No matter who is blocking in front of me, no matter how many people there are, I, Ye Chen, have shouldered this flag left by my father, and I will never take another step back! And you, it seems, are still hesitating before the battle, hesitating about whether you should charge!"

Helena saw the determination in Ye Chen's eyes, and a burning flame ignited in her heart as well.

She wiped away her tears and said loudly to Ye Chen, "Mr. Ye, I have decided! I want to be like you, shoulder my father's flag! Like you said, even if there are thousands of people, I will go!"

Ye Chen nodded with a smile, reached out to Helena, and smiled, "Helena, now we are comrades!"

Helena subconsciously reached out, shook hands with Ye Chen, and then asked with a blushing face, "Comrade, what about the fact that I like you?" ===== CHAPTER 1725 =====