After Bankruptcy, the Billionaire Asked Me to Marry Him!-Chapter 274 I think... I’m kind of falling in love with you!

It seemed that he thought of the tangled confusion from last night and the urgent restlessness that kept him tossing and turning. A glimmer of light flickered in the depths of Fu Yanci’s profound eyes.

But just as he was lost in thought for that split second, the car uncontrollably drifted to the side.

Fu Yanci sharply focused his mind and took control of the steering wheel.

While diligently watching the road straight ahead,

he asked in a deep voice, "Ah Li, what did you want to tell me?"

Ye Li bit her lip.

Bai Xiaoli said, "Hurry up and say it, it’s already this late. If you don’t say it now and really something happens, you won’t have the chance anymore."

Hei Xiaoli rejected, "He’s Fu Yanci! Nothing will happen to him, so nothing will happen to you either! If you say it, you’ll have lost, you know!"

Bai Xiaoli stared at Hei Xiaoli with an incredulous look, "Are you fucking insane? At a time like this, you still care about winning or losing?"

The one who cursed was Bai Xiaoli.

Still aloof was Hei Xiaoli.

Before the two could determine a winner, Ye Li looked up at the man, "Fu Yanci, I want to say, I think... I might be falling in love with you!"

The car jolted violently.

Fu Yanci’s eyes narrowed abruptly as he glanced at the rearview mirror, his hands gripping the steering wheel so tightly that it seemed they might crush the section they held.

But his voice remained calm and low, betraying no emotion, "Ah Li, what did you say? Say it again!"

Ye Li looked down at the intricate patterns on her seat belt and blurted out with a flushed face, "I said, I think I might be falling in love with you! But I’m not sure if that’s love. So please, pick up the pace, let’s both make it through together, and when I’m sure one day in the future..." I’ll loudly tell you that I love you!

"Ah Li!"

Fu Yanci interrupted Ye Li, "Why is it just ’think’? Why are you not sure? Why?"

Man’s urgency echoed in his trio of ’why’s.

Ye Li shook her head, "I don’t know what counts as love."

Fu Yanci’s breath hitched.

Ye Li said softly, "I always thought that love was like how mom and dad were, being together every day, still only having eyes for each other, deeply caring for the other more than for oneself. But..."

Seeming afraid that mentioning the past would distract him in this critical moment, Ye Li paused, adding, "But before, I didn’t have that feeling."

"You mean with Zhou Hecchen?"

Fu Yanci asked.

Ye Li nodded, her heart leaping.

Discussing exes and past love with her current boyfriend at the brink of death—what a bizarre and awkward experience!!!

Ye Li spoke in a low voice, "When mom got sick, dad comforted her saying it was nothing, tried all kinds of ways to buy her favorite foods, but when he turned his back, his eyes would be red, his mouth would blister with anxiety, still he would tell mom it was just because he hadn’t drunk enough water."

Completely forgetting that the car was still racing, Ye Li fell into a reflection of the past, "The day dad was admitted into ICU, mom’s hair turned white overnight..."

"Fu Yanci, I grew up surrounded by love, but funnily enough, I don’t know what love is."

"When Zhou Hecchen was around beautiful girls, I cared, I got angry, we argued and talked it over. If he continued the same way and I saw it a second time, it seemed I just didn’t care anymore... He broke promises he made to me once, then again, and it seems after the second time, I no longer felt disappointed!"

"And later when we got engaged, people around me said they envied me and wished me happiness, but it seems I didn’t feel much. Whether he was good or bad, how he treated me, it seems... I wasn’t so concerned. The Ye Family and the Zhou Family had decades of friendship, he wouldn’t treat me too badly. And besides, isn’t that just how couples in the Imperial Capital’s rich families get along?"

But it shouldn’t be like that.

When dad said he would quit smoking and was caught by mom secretly smoking, her face turned red with anger, and dad kept apologizing.

Seeing mom in tears, dad swore to heaven he was serious this time, and indeed, he never smoked again.

Sometimes at night, when dad’s car would be parked at the house entrance, she’d hear it, but by the time she ran out, the car would be gone, and when it returned, dad would arrive with either a cake, flowers, or dishes from some newly opened restaurant, claiming he promised mom in the morning before heading out.

On one hand, she felt that her parents’ relationship was what love looked like, yet all those years with Zhou Hecchen didn’t compare.

On the other hand, she felt like she was just kidding herself. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Without love, how could two people be on and off together for so many years?

It wasn’t like children playing house.

"So, you don’t know what love is, whether you’ve ever loved him?"

With a deep look in his eyes, Fu Yanci quickly glanced at Ye Li, "Ah Li, how then are you so certain, you love... you think you’ve fallen in love with me?"