After frolicking for a while, Yan Ling suddenly bursts into a laughter and says inexplicably, “I didn’t expect… that there still were things you couldn’t achieve in this world.”
Liang He is stunned at her words and then says helplessly, “I’m not God. How can I be capable of accomplishing everything I want? What’s more, even gods might have things that they could not achieve.”
Yan Ling laughs more cheerfully on hearing this, with her eyes buried in the pile of smile instantly.
Liang He pretends to be angry and pinches her face. He deliberately says in an irritated tone, “You are so happy to find that there are still things I’m not capable to accomplish, aren’t you?”
Yan Ling knows that Liang He is trying to scare her. She sticks out her tongue at him without any fear and laughs more joyfully.
Breaking away from Liang He’s hand on her cheek, Yan Ling looks at him and says, “I am indeed very happy. I used to think you could accomplish anything. Today, it seems that I got to know you better.”
Liang He didn’t expect that he had been an omnipotent person in Yan Ling’s heart, which surprised him a little.
Then Liang He says half-jokingly and half seriously with a sigh, “It seems that the image I have been trying to establish for so long has been completely destroyed today.”
On hearing this, Yan Ling steps forward and gently takes Liang He’s hand in hers. Then she says with a serious expression, “No. I think this is fine, even better.”
Yan Ling tilts her head and continues, “A flawless, perfect person standing in front of me always makes me worried. Even if he is right beside me, it seems that he is far away from me. Such perfect person might not belong to me.”
Liang He didn’t expect Yan Ling would say this. He always thought that he had been considering things from Yan Ling’s viewpoint on everything and trying his best to protect her. He thought this is the way he maintains their relationship. However, he did not know that Yan Ling was sometimes worried that she might lose him in her heart.
Maybe Liang He has always been focusing on actions, but he forgot to communicate with Yan Ling and tells her about his feelings.
If Yan Ling didn’t say this today, Liang He might never know. Even if he tried his best to be good to Yan Ling, she was still worried that he did not belong to her yet.
At the thought of this, Liang He suddenly feels a little guilty. Perhaps he has always believed in feelings depicted by the poem “Even though we don’t have the wings of the splendid phoenix so that we can fly side by side, our minds think alike and we have a close rapport”, which means that they can understand each other on a lot of things even if they don’t express themselves openly in words.
However, Liang He forgot that sometimes even if she understood, she could not help suspecting that her understanding of his unspoken words were just out of her own imagination.
When this happens many times, she will naturally come to doubt herself. What’s more, Liang He and Yan Ling have nothing to confirm their relationship to others except for their attachment to each other.
If love isn’t in a settled condition, she would inevitably be afraid that she might lose it. In particular, the person in question is Liang He, the Crown Prince of the country, who can get any woman he wants.
Anyway, Yan Ling is merely an ordinary woman. She is also eager to have someone who could accompany her to an old age and who might love no other person except her.
What Liang He has done did make Yan Ling feel moved. However, when she was alone, her thoughts would run off into wild fancy—what would it be like if he didn’t love her any more?
Even if she does not believe that such a thing would happen, the subtle negative feelings could build up to a quite considerable quantity when she imagined this a lot. If there was an event acting as the blasting fuse, it might explode suddenly.
Maybe even Yan Ling didn’t realize that her jealousy caused by Liang He’s words in the carriage previously was actually a sudden outbreak of such feelings.
This time, it seems that she just said this casually. The words said in the present condition expressed the truest feelings in her heart. Maybe Yan Ling herself doesn’t realize that she does have some fear of losing him in her heart.
Maybe because of her previous life, Yan Ling cares more about possessions and losses, which she dares not touch casually, but is also unwilling to give up once again.
It’s true that Liang He had never loved any girl before. Since he found he was in love with Yan Ling, he has been observing what Yan Ling was thinking about. Until now, he’s made a little achievement in it.
Therefore, as soon as Yan Ling says this, Liang He thinks of Yan Ling’s reactions recently. What else does he not understand?
In fact, Liang He knows that many women in the capital want to get close to him, and many of them do so because their families want them to.
Liang He has always been thinking that it doesn’t matter as long as he doesn’t accept them. But that only worked before he and Yan Ling confirmed their relationship. If he still deals with it this way now, it will only hurt Yan Ling.
Princess Zhaoyan is a person who can’t hold her words. After the banquet that day, she told him everything about Bai Yiyi’s making troubles for Yan Ling from end to end. Liang He came to understand that even if Yan Ling behaves like she doesn’t care, she still feels a little uncomfortable.
Bai Yiyi might be the first one who dared to challenge Yan Ling openly. But if such matter were not settled properly, maybe many more would follow suit. If this was the case, it would hurt both of them.
Liang He would settle the troubles when he encounters them. But it would be better if he could stifle the trouble in the cradle and nip it in the bud. So now Liang He begins to think how to warn those who have such plans, so that they dare not get close to Yan Ling.
After all, he will tackle it whenever it happens in the future. At present, seeing Yan Ling’s smiling face, Liang He only feels tender and protective towards her. If he could have known what Yan Ling was thinking earlier, Yan Ling wouldn’t have to bear so much herself, would she?
Thinking like that, Liang He suddenly leans forward and puts his arms around Yan Ling. He says in a low voice, “I’m sorry, I was negligent before. Don’t worry. I’m yours. I’m only yours. I love you. No one can get me away from you.”
At first, Yan Ling is frightened by Liang He’s sudden reaction. On hearing Liang He’s words, she feels warm in her heart. And the grudge she has been holding in her heart suddenly disperses.
If this feeling has to be described in words, it’s like clearing away the clouds and seeing the sun, or finding a village surrounded with dense willow trees and beautiful flowers when you thought you’ve got to the dead end of the road. There is something they both understand, but it’s different when they speak it out loud.
Until now, Yan Ling comes to understand that she was indeed jealous of Bai Yiyi and Liang He as well. After all, as the Crown Prince, he is so excellent and so glorious that countless women admire him and make her look so small.