My Clingy Fiancée Is Forcing Me to Marry Her Again - Chapter 21

The crushing sensation immediately vanished once she stepped through the door of her house.

Walking alone in the night, a sense of melancholy once again surfaced in Li Fangge’s heart. Was the next meeting going to be a real date?

In her previous life, she had dedicated herself entirely to her singing career. Combined with her idol persona and the prejudices of the world, even though opportunities constantly presented themselves, she never opened her heart to love until she collapsed on stage.

Now, she had a target who was confident, playful, sweet, adorable, and very appealing.

But her own situation had become so dire—

Li Fangge sighed helplessly and lifted her head.

The bright moon hung in the sky, its full glory illuminating the world. The sparkling stars settled into her clear, bright eyes.

Suddenly, her phone chimed with a notification for a new message.

She stopped, standing in the moonlight between the shadows of a large palm tree’s trunk. Her figure, cast on the ground, was long and slender. Pulling out her phone, it was indeed a message from her clingy fiancée.

“Sister Li, the moon is so round. I should have gone with you to that wooden bridge from the night before last to look at the moon together.”

“I really don’t want to go home.”

“Can I turn back now?”

“It’s lonely looking at the moon alone in the car.”

“You understand, right, Sister Li?”

“I wish I could stand in the moonlight with you and do whatever, or even do nothing at all.”

“Just being with you is enough.”

Messages from the delicate flower popped into the chat box one after another.

These messages were like the fish that had leaped out of the water that night; after the plop, they stirred up ripples across the calm surface.

Almost subconsciously, Li Fangge, who had been walking in the driveway, chose to turn, heading towards the garden pond.

Turning onto the small path, she slowed her steps, completely unaware that the crickets startled by her approach had abruptly stopped chirping.

The light emanating from her phone screen illuminated her charming face, which was graced with a faint smile.

Her fingers tapped quickly on the phone, but the sentences she typed were quickly deleted.

She had never anticipated that replying to one person’s message could be much harder than singing a song with a complex melody—

“If you don’t say anything soon, Sister Li, I’ll take it as a ‘yes’.”

“Go home. We can look at the moon another time.”

Forced by Guan Xiaoyu, Li Fangge quickly sent a reply.

Let’s call it a night for now. Although she wanted to explore the consequences of getting closer to Guan Xiaoyu, it didn’t mean she needed to rush like this.

“Unless—”

“Unless you take a selfie with the moon on that wooden bridge and send it to me.”

“…Don’t make it difficult for me like that.”

After sending the message, Li Fangge subconsciously looked up at the moon.

The moon was already very high; she couldn’t possibly take a picture with it, let alone stand on the specified wooden bridge.

“I’m not completely unreasonable, so just send me a selfie, Sister.”

Li Fangge was speechless at this message.

She had to admit, the delicate flower was quite cunning.

Most people would instinctively lean towards the easier option when presented with a choice between difficult and simple. Her strategy was subtle.

“I’m already inside.”

Li Fangge chose to lie. The lie came almost without thinking.

“Is that so? You went inside without even looking at the moon, Sister? Now I’m even lonelier looking at the moon by myself.”

In terms of outwardly expressing emotion, Li Fangge was only convinced by Guan Xiaoyu.

“I looked,” Li Fangge stepped onto the wooden bridge spanning the narrow part of the pond. After sending the message, she subconsciously looked up at the moon again.

Looking at the moon alone was indeed a little lonely.

It was possible she had been infected by the delicate flower.

Thinking this, she lowered her head and edited another message, “I purposely took the small path just now to look at the moon and stood on the wooden bridge for a while.” Once a lie starts, it’s hard to stop.

“Sister Li, when you were standing on the wooden bridge looking at the moon, didn’t you think of me?”

“—Not even a little bit?”

The messages from the delicate flower kept coming.

Li Fangge chuckled silently. If she told her “no,” would tears immediately well up in her eyes?

“Guan Xiaoyu, are you the moon?”

“Sister Li, aren’t I your moon?”

This—

Li Fangge felt as though her face was smeared with honey, so sweet it left her at a loss.

Her entire heart felt cherished, warm, and happy.

She had never had a concrete concept of the joy of being in love, but now, she understood a little.

Li Fangge looked up at the bright moon again. The moonlight fell upon her distinct features, melting into the happiness that shone in her eyes.

“Just like, Sister Li is my moon.”

Guan Xiaoyu’s new message rescued Li Fangge from the honeyed feeling.

“Why does it have to be the moon?”

“Sister Li, the point isn’t the moon. It’s that I’m already starting to miss you right after we parted ways.”

The delicate flower was skilled in heart-touching language.

Li Fangge was once again overwhelmed by her sweet talk.

“When I miss someone, I hope that person misses me just as much.

“So, do you miss me, Sister Li?”

Her messages came one after another.

If it were anyone else, Li Fangge would have long since muted the notifications and turned her phone screen black.

But now, she had no such thought; instead, she wanted to keep chatting with Guan Xiaoyu.

“Does chatting with you count as missing you?”

“I don’t like that. I want you to answer with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question.”

Yes, Li Fangge also wanted to answer with a ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ That was her style.

If she missed her, she would say so. If she didn’t, she would say so. It needed to be clear and unambiguous.

But she didn’t understand why she had become timid now.

Was it because she was in a slump and worried about not being good enough for the “Pea Princess”?

She had seen the confidence and determination she admired in Guan Xiaoyu more than once.

So, had confidence and determination become the things she lacked now?

“Some things are better understood intuitively than explained in words.”

“Then—I’ll assume you miss me too, Sister Li.”

“Sister, quickly go to the window and look at the moon. Shall we look at the moon together? Even if we can’t stand on the bridge together, we can still look at the moon.”

“Okay.”

“Sister Li, I see you.”

Li Fangge lifted her gaze from the message.

She looked up at the lonely, bright moon in the quiet night sky.

Facing the bright moon, she also saw Guan Xiaoyu looking back at her, smiling gently…

It was over half an hour later when Li Fangge returned indoors.

It was the first time she had looked at the moon for so long because of one person.

It was almost eleven o’clock. The lights in the house were on, and the whole mansion was quiet.

At this hour, Chen Qiaoyi was already asleep; she was like a set clock, with a fixed time for everything. As for Yin Xiaoyou, she probably wouldn’t be back tonight.

Li Fangge closed the door and went straight upstairs to her room.

She had been waiting for a message from Bai Shao. Although the other person wasn’t her real cousin, she was one of the few people Li Fangge could trust in this world. After interacting with her, she genuinely liked her candidness and sincerity, but there had been no news from her.

Li Fangge leaned back on the long sofa and sent a message to Bai Shao—