Chapter 169

“You can have it all back. I told you, didn’t I? I love you, and I will do anything to fix what I did to us. You have to trust me; this is only a blimp, and we can still have a happy future together. We can take it slow to get back what we had; I’m not going anywhere.” YuZhi’s voice broke, his throat hoarse with the sudden surge of his own emotions and eyes misted over. Heart swelling with love and hope that she did want them together again. It was the one thing he had been desperate to hear and made everything seem like it could be okay again.

“But you’re not the only one who touched me anymore… I’m tainted. I’m not how I was. I’m dirty and used.” TangShi cried, pushing her sodden cheek to his chest to close her eyes and lull herself to the rhythm of his heartbreak. Ashamed and spewing out the words she had tried to bury deep. That ingrained self-loathing her father instilled in her breaking free.

“You think that matters to me? I’m not some chauvinistic traditionalist w