Lu Lixing looked at the embarrassing defeat in front of him and said with a forced smile, "Grandpa, you won."
As he spoke, he began to tidy up the game board.
Grandpa Lu stopped him and asked, "What's the matter with you?"
"It's okay."
"You say that nothing has happened, yet how did you lose three games in a row?"
Lu Lixing remained silent.
"Don't worry, there's no one else here. What's going on? You might as well tell your grandpa. I'm an experienced person, maybe I can give you some advice."
Lu Lixing began to tidy up the game board, putting the black and white chess pieces inside the box.
"Grandpa, have you ever lied to Grandma?"
"Lie?"
Lu Lixing nodded his head. "Like did you ever hide something from her? Or have you tricked her in the past?"
Grandpa Lu shook his head and chuckled, "Of course, and it's also one of my biggest regrets in life."
"One of your biggest regrets? Why?"
"I've always told you that me and your grandma's marriage was arranged by our parents and we never saw each other before the wedding. But that's not actually true."
"Your grandma was someone I managed to trick into marrying me. She was originally the daughter of a wealthy family, but their circumstances had fallen on hard times."
"I went to her father and told him that I was willing to help solve their financial problems, but only if he agreed to let his daughter marry me." Grandpa Lu sighed.
"It's one of my biggest regrets in life - that I had to deceive your grandma in order to marry her."
"I've always regretted it and I've always wanted to tell her that I loved her from the very beginning. But I didn't tell her. In the early days of our marriage, she was too afraid to talk to me and we didn't say a single word to each other for the first three days of our marriage."
"Later, she always lived in fear, thinking that I didn't love her so she tried to find out what type of woman I liked so that she could find a younger wife for me."
"One of my biggest regrets in life is that I didn't propose to her in person and tell her that I fell in love with her at first sight." Grandpa Lu chuckled sadly and his smile slowly faded from his face.
"It's the biggest regret of my life."
Lu Lixing had only heard about his Grandma from Grandpa's mouth. Lu Lixing had never met her, so he didn't understand. "If you fell in love with Grandma at first sight, why didn't you tell her in the first place?"
"Because of pride."
Grandpa Lu smiled and said, "You may not be able to understand, but now I hate the pride I had at that time."
"It was useless, except for making you think you were an almighty man. Afterward, I only realized that a true man doesn't need to maintain his pride in front of the woman he loves."
"Lixing, if you truly love someone, don't try to hide anything from her. Otherwise, you may spend the rest of your life with too many regrets."
"Between choosing to deceive her and choosing to hurt her, what would you choose?"
Grandpa Lu spoke with a calm and forceful tone, "You should be clear on one thing - deceiving her is hurting her!'"
Lu Lixing narrowed his eyes as he put the last white chess piece into the chess box. He whispered, "Grandpa, I know what to do."
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My Wife is My Life
RomanceSYNOPSIS: Ji Qingqing was at the end of her rope after transmigrating into a novel. When she was on the brink of wretched poverty, she received a system. The system told her; Lu Lixing came from a family that was rolling in money, but he was coming...
