"Wei'er!" Nangong Yi called out in a deep voice.
"What?"
Cai Wei stood about a meter away from him, her clear eyes exceptionally bright in the black night, with a wary light shimmering within.
Noticing her expression, Nangong Yi felt somewhat stifled. He wished to tell her, "Don't push me away, marry me. I will love and cherish you deeply. Besides the title of an official wife, I can give you everything. Even if I marry another woman, you would still be the only one in my heart. Even if reluctantly, I accept another woman as a concubine, they would merely be props to me and I would never betray you…"
But after all, he didn't say these words. Knowing her as he did, even if he had spoken them, she would have decisively refused him without hesitation and this might have caused estrangement between them. So, he swallowed back all those words and, in the end, he simply said, "You should go back and rest early..."