Chapter 431

While feeling the tenderness of Ye Chen wiping away her tears, Dong Ruolin also heard his firm and incomparable declaration of love for Xiao Churan, and her heart was extremely painful.

She said in a hoarse voice: "Ye Chen, if Churan really loves you, I will never do anything to disturb you. But you know clearly that she is only with you because of the promise she made to her grandfather. Do you think there is any meaning in you holding onto such a relationship alone? Why not let yourself go, and let Churan go too?"

After speaking, she couldn't help but sob and asked him: "In what way am I inferior to Churan? Tell me, I will work hard to catch up to her. Don't refuse so quickly, give me a chance, okay?"

Ye Chen stood up and shook his head: "Ruolin, sometimes you won't understand a man's thoughts. Churan has been kind to me, just as you feel I have been kind to you. This alone is enough for me to stay by her side. As for whether she loves me or not, I am not in a hurry to figure that out. I still have a long time to slowly understand, explore, and even change things. Just like you are with me, even though I have told you repeatedly that I am already married and have no interest in women other than Churan, don't you still continue to confess your feelings to me?"

Dong Ruolin suddenly understood.

Actually, Ye Chen's feelings for Xiao Churan are just like her own feelings for Ye Chen.

Once put this way, she immediately had an epiphany.

However, after the epiphany, she felt equally uncomfortable in her heart.

Just as Ye Chen was unwilling to give up on Xiao Churan no matter what, Dong Ruolin was also unwilling to give up on Ye Chen no matter what.

So, she wiped her eyes, looked at Ye Chen, and said stubbornly: "You are unwilling to give up on Churan, and I am equally unwilling to give up on you. Since you can wait for Churan, then I can wait for you! It doesn't matter how long I have to wait, I will keep waiting!"

Ye Chen sighed: "Alright, since you have decided, I will respect your decision."

After saying that, Ye Chen checked the time and said: "It's getting late, go back to your room and rest."

Dong Ruolin nodded gently and said: "You go back first, I want to sit for a while longer."

Ye Chen gave a hum and walked upstairs.

After Ye Chen left, Dong Ruolin sat on the sofa, her heart filled with mixed feelings.

There was grievance, unwillingness, heartache, and infatuation; various emotions surged into her mind, leaving her tangled and restless.

Dong Ruolin felt that Ye Chen might be the only man she would ever love with all her heart in this life. If she couldn't end up with him, then she would never again encounter a man who could make her heart beat like this.

Thinking that she might never get the man she loved most, she couldn't help but feel sad.

Was she destined to have no fate with Ye Chen in this life?

No, she didn't believe it!

She believed that Heaven had sent Ye Chen to her side twice and let him save her from danger; it surely wouldn't just arrange a silent ending.

He would definitely arrange a perfect ending for her, as long as she could persist with a sincere heart.

Persist, and persist again, until victory!

When Ye Chen gently pushed open the bedroom door, Xiao Churan was standing alone on the second-floor balcony.

Her perfect figure looked hazy and enchanting under the moonlight, making Ye Chen's heart flutter.

Admittedly, Xiao Churan was a foolishly filial girl, but it was precisely this stubbornness of hers that made her persist in not divorcing him.

She was foolishly filial to Ma Lan, and foolishly loyal to him.

Back then, not long after the two got married, Old Master Xiao passed away.

At that time, the entire Xiao family was urging Xiao Churan to divorce him.

After all, the reason Xiao Churan married him in the first place was because of the Old Master's command; everyone else was against it.

Therefore, those people were all hoping she would divorce him and marry a wealthy young master from a big family to change the fate of the entire Xiao family.

However, she felt that since she had married him, she would follow him wherever he went. As long as he didn't bring up divorce, she would never divorce him. This was her loyalty to marriage, and her loyalty to her husband in the eyes of the law.

If Xiao Churan hadn't relied on this stubborn "foolishness," she would have listened to others' advice long ago.

If that had happened, what would his fate have been?

Ye Chen dared not think about it.

Before marrying Xiao Churan, his life was very bitter.

Because the orphanage didn't take in adults, on his eighteenth birthday, Auntie Li used money she had saved by scrimping and saving to buy a birthday cake, celebrated his birthday, and sent him out of the orphanage with tears in her eyes.

At that moment, Ye Chen became lonely and helpless in this world once again.

Auntie Li really wanted to help him, wanted to introduce him to work and give him living subsidies, but he didn't have the face to accept them.

He found a construction site all by himself, and at eighteen, he started moving bricks, carrying sand, and carrying cement with others.

He couldn't bear to rent a room, so he lived in the temporary housing at the construction site, eating the cheapest food and doing the most tiring, heaviest, and dirtiest work.

He only kept a small portion of the money he earned for living expenses, and donated all the rest to the orphanage.

Because there were still many younger brothers and sisters in the orphanage who were as helpless and lonely as he was; they weren't adults yet and needed more care and love.

However, the orphanage had limited funds after all; it could ensure they were fed and clothed, but it couldn't ensure they ate well, drank well, or dressed well.

Therefore, he spared no effort to donate the money he saved to improve the lives of his younger brothers and sisters, and even bought them textbooks so they could study well.

When he had been working at the construction site for four years, the construction team he was in was hired by the Xiao family to work on a project for them.

At that time, Old Master Xiao, who came to inspect the site, saw at a glance that Ye Chen looked almost exactly like his grandfather when he was young.

And the reason Old Master Xiao knew Ye Chen's grandfather was because the Xiao family had been servants of the Ye family a hundred years ago!

Starting from his grandfather's generation, Old Master Xiao had fled all the way to Jingcheng while escaping disaster. When they were about to starve to death, it was the Ye family that took them in.

To repay the kindness, they voluntarily sold themselves to the Ye family to become lifelong laborers.

The Ye family at that time was already one of the biggest families in the capital, and the head of the family was kind-hearted and treated his servants very well, allowing them to marry and have children, letting them live and work in peace and contentment within the Ye family.

Old Master Xiao's father was born and raised in the Ye family.

Later, when Old Master Xiao's father became an adult, he also voluntarily sold himself to the Ye family to continue serving them.

Even later, Old Master Xiao was also born in the Ye family.

Therefore, he grew up in the Ye family during his childhood and youth, and was also a servant in the Ye family.

The Old Master of the Ye family was about the same age as Old Master Xiao, and the two could be considered to have grown up together, though their statuses were vastly different, so Old Master Xiao knew him, but he didn't know Old Master Xiao.

Later, the war broke out, and the Ye family prepared to move away to avoid the flames of war, but they couldn't take so many servants with them, so they gave most of the servants a generous settlement fee and dismissed them.

Old Master Xiao was the one who took the Ye family's settlement fee at that time and returned to his hometown.

So, the moment he saw Ye Chen, he firmly believed that he must be a descendant of the Ye family.

So, under his repeated questioning, Ye Chen finally revealed his background.

At that time, Old Master Xiao knelt directly on the ground and kowtowed three times to Ye Chen, saying it was to thank the Ye family for their kindness to the Xiao family back then.

Then, Old Master Xiao brought him back to the Xiao family and insisted on marrying his eldest granddaughter, Xiao Churan, to him.

At that time, Old Master Xiao had no idea if this young dragon, Ye Chen, would ever have the possibility of soaring into the sky.

But he felt that a dignified descendant of the Ye family should not spend his life in misery at a construction site.

As the generational servants of the Ye family, the Xiao family had the responsibility and obligation to take good care of this young master of the Ye family who was stranded outside and give him a stable home!