347: Chapter 348: That Is Freedom 347: Chapter 348: That Is Freedom Gan Yuan took the necklace, the brass chain heavy with the man’s warmth.
It was a fake she had found at an antique dealer’s, and back then she was too young and inexperienced to know it wasn’t real.
She’d happily given it to him as a birthday present for his thirteenth birthday.
When she pulled out the necklace, everyone laughed, but he solemnly wore it around his neck, and only later did she discover that such a necklace was worth at most fifteen cents, commonly found at street stalls.
“A very special necklace.”
“This was given to by Gaia on my thirteenth birthday.” Recalling them at that ti, Moses’s tone was unusually soft, and even his gaze softened, “For this necklace, my little Gaia spent all her money.”
Gan Yuan gently caressed the pendant with her finger, “It’s clear, you must have been very close.”
Moses’s arms rested on the dining table, looking over it at her lowered lashes, “As long as she cos back, I can forgive her.”
Forgive?
He said…
forgive.
The man who, for a person’s betrayal, had once seen to the funeral arrangents of thirteen mbers of a family, actually said…
forgive?!
Gan Yuan’s eyelashes trembled.
“If she knew, she would be very touched.
But…” she put down the necklace, “If she has her reasons, why not set her free?”
Moses lifted his chin, “Didn’t you want to see the photo?”
She shook the necklace in her hand, gently pressed the switch, and the surface of the pendant sprung open, revealing the photo inside.
There was her old picture, the girl in it grinning broadly, her smile brighter than the sunlight.
“See her smile?” Moses gestured toward the photo in her hand, “As long as she is with , she can have whatever she wants, do whatever she wishes, no pretense, no compromises, and make anyone she dislikes disappear…
That’s what freedom is!”
The waiter approached with the first course, and their conversation paused.
As the dishes were placed on the table, Moses reached for the cutlery.
“Maybe!” Gan Yuan put down the pendant, “It does look a bit like it, but…
after all, I’m not her, I don’t know what she would think.”
He had already said he would forgive her, that he wouldn’t mind anything she had done, as long as she ca back.
Was she really still unwilling to admit it?
Moses’s fingers gripping the cutlery instinctively tightened, the tal making a strange sound as he visibly struggled to suppress his anger.
Gan Yuan looked up at his fingers and said nothing more.
After seconds of heart-wrenching silence, Moses took a deep breath and slowly relaxed his grip on the utensils.
“For these six years…
every morning, I’ve hoped it was all just a nightmare, that I would open my eyes and see her in front of .
I’ve always believed she is alive.
Her room is cleaned every day by the maid, her horse, her car…
everything is waiting for her to return.
I can overlook anything, forgive anything, as long as she cos back.
Miss Gan, do you think…
she will return?”
If it were in the past, he would have already lashed out in violence.
But not this ti.
For all the years since she had known him from the age of five until now, this was the first ti Gan Yuan saw him restrain himself, this man who normally did whatever he wanted…
his tone carried a hint of indulgence tinged with a plea.
With her heart tightening, Gan Yuan struggled to control the intense emotions inside her, unsure how to respond for a mont.
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