After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 661: The One I Truly Like is You

Chapter 661: Chapter 661: The One I Truly Like is You

How simple could it be?

So simple it was just two plain books about plant cultivation methods and a crop atlas.

Quan Sicheng looked at the "Plants" and "Crops" in his hands, falling into deep thought.

To be honest, at first, he really didn’t understand their meaning.

But very soon, he thought of a "classic reference."

Well, calling it a classic reference might be an exaggeration.

It related to Ya Xiuhua’s poem "I Love You."

"If I were to send you a book,

I wouldn’t send you poetry,

I would send you one about plants, about crops,

to tell you the difference between rice and barnyard grass,

to tell you of the barnyard grass’s anxiety-ridden spring."

It could be the most reserved confession.

Coincidentally, Quan Sicheng had also come across this trope.

It was said to have originated from a bond formed in a game.

A girl received a gift from a loved one and eagerly opened it, only to find it was two books.

As someone who disliked studying, not only was her anticipated gift a letdown, but she also received these two ridiculous books. Naturally, she couldn’t tolerate it and cut off contact with that loved one immediately, a so-called "dead loved one."

Only later did she understand the meaning behind the books that had been sent to her.

As Quan Sicheng was thinking, he heard Shi Yaoguang say, "Time is pressing now, and I can’t mail them to you, so just consider me your courier..."

Looking at her face full of anticipation, Quan Sicheng felt a subtle emotion stirring within.

"Did you give me these two books for some deeper reason?"

Quan Sicheng asked in a plaintive tone.

Shi Yaoguang nodded vigorously, the expression on her face one of deep affection that he had never seen before.

Being looked at with such eyes, he almost felt an illusion that she was deeply in love with him.

As to whether it was truly an illusion...

Well, that was really hard to say.

What Quan Sicheng felt at this moment was Shi Yaoguang’s deep-rooted affection for him.

Even...

He had the illusion that Shi Yaoguang had always had feelings for him.

The reason she hadn’t shown it before was merely because she hadn’t had the chance.

With this thought, Quan Sicheng suddenly became very alert.

Impossible, impossible.

This was absolutely impossible.

How could Shi Yaoguang possibly have deep-rooted feelings for him?

Not even if the sky fell and the earth cracked!

Thinking this way, he immediately felt that this was the reality.

Shi Yaoguang was not surprised by his wariness and immediately said, "If you hadn’t suddenly become bewitched, I probably would never have told you the true feelings of my heart."

"What do you mean?"

Quan Sicheng narrowed his eyes in a suspicious demeanor.

Shi Yaoguang sighed, "Actually, many things I told you before were lies."

"What things?" Quan Sicheng had a hunch that what Shi Yaoguang would say next could shatter his current beliefs.

Just as he thought.

The words Shi Yaoguang spoke were indeed beyond his expectations.

"Actually, I’ve always liked you," she said.

Quan Sicheng felt somewhat doubtful, yet also experienced a sense of finality.

"The reason I targeted you before was simply because I was jealous,"

She couldn’t help but sigh as she spoke, "If I hadn’t been sure that you and Shi Yiqing were together and would never part, I would never have done those things."

"Now, it seems I was too certain about the strength of your relationship."

Listening to her, Quan Sicheng felt an unpleasant taste in his mouth.

"Why do I feel like you’re blaming me? And, why are you so sure that Shi Yiqing and I couldn’t possibly break up?"

Shi Yaoguang looked at him as if she was on the verge of speaking for a long while but seemed to make up her mind before saying, "Do you know why I suddenly changed on the day we got engaged?"

"I don’t know," Quan Sicheng said bluntly.

He truly didn’t know, and Shi Yaoguang’s change had indeed started that day.

Now that Shi Yaoguang was bringing it up, could it be that she wanted to tell him the reason?

With that thought, he heard Shi Yaoguang say, "That night, Shi Yiqing and Lin Ruixue conspired against me, trying to make me and Qian Yi end up in bed together."

At the first mention of these names, Quan Sicheng was a bit slow to react.

But he quickly remembered, and even so, he still had some trouble understanding, "What does that have to do with Shi Yiqing?"

"Don’t you know? They plotted the whole thing together. If they had succeeded, I would never have had the chance to get engaged to you."

"I didn’t attend the engagement not because I didn’t want to, but because I simply couldn’t."

As she talked about this, Shi Yaoguang’s eyes began to redden, "You might not believe what I say, but everything I’m telling you is true."

"The dream I had that night, the events in the dream were exactly like what almost happened to me. If it weren’t for having that dream beforehand, maybe I could never have escaped Qian Yi’s clutches."

Quan Sicheng’s expression grew grave, "What was that dream about?"

Shi Yaoguang had an expression of falling into memories, and looking at her, there was an added touch of sorrow in his eyes.

"In the dream... Shi Yiqing took my place and got engaged to you, and after that, she kept subtly framing and bullying me, and you, as well as my parents, everyone sided with her."

"I was gradually feeling broken, but I was powerless and could only watch you two being sweet in front of me."

As she spoke, she paused, seemingly a bit embarrassed, "At that time, I didn’t take it to heart, but later..."

"After I saw you and Shi Yiqing together with my own eyes, that’s when I finally lost control and even directly called the police to arrest you and Shi Yiqing."

"You have no idea how heartbroken I was at that time."

Quan Sicheng’s expression softened slightly, but he quickly caught on to a point of doubt.

That was...

"Before you called the police to arrest me, you also found my dad..."

Quan Sicheng paused and corrected himself: "You also sought out Quan Jinbei!"

Shi Yaoguang looked at him with resentful eyes, "Don’t you know why I contacted him?"

Quan Sicheng said to her with a puzzled look, "Didn’t you say he fell in love with you at first sight?"

At the mention of this, Shi Yaoguang seemed a bit awkward and immediately said, "That was just a joke, how can you take a joke seriously?"

"But..." Quan Sicheng pursed his lips, "you are together now."

"No," Shi Yaoguang blurted out, "I don’t like him, how could I be with him?"

Upon hearing this, Quan Sicheng immediately showed a surprised expression, "What did you say?"

Shi Yaoguang’s gaze started dodging, as if she regretted saying something she shouldn’t have.

But Quan Sicheng had already heard her, and naturally wouldn’t let her get away with it easily.

He immediately said, "You must give me an explanation."

Shi Yaoguang’s gaze drifted left and right before she finally thought of a suitable excuse.

"It’s no use explaining to you."

As she spoke, her tone turned plaintive, "Even if I told you, would you believe me?"

Quan Sicheng nodded without hesitation, "I would!"