CHAPTER 478: CHAPTER 478 SHE FINALLY BECAME HIS WIFE

After smashing the beastly man with a stone, Gu Moqian picked up the frightened girl, who had fainted, and fled the wooden hut.

It was later that he learned the man had died in the hut from alcohol poisoning and excessive blood loss. For that scum to die so easily felt almost like he got off too lightly.

He took the girl to a clearing in the forest to rest.

At one point, the girl woke up. Those pure, beautiful eyes, filled with fear and vigilance, became something he would never be able to forget.

The tenderness and patience he showed as a teenager gradually melted the girl’s defenses.

In the end, she fell asleep in his arms.

If not for the sudden appearance of a pack of wolves, perhaps they would have come to know each other in a different way, and their lives thereafter would have been completely different.

To shield the girl, he faced the wolves alone.

For a boy, confronting a pack of ferocious beasts was no small challenge. Luckily, his grandfather was nearby and arrived just in time. He scared off the wolves with his hunting rifle and brought him back home safely.

The boy remained deeply worried about the girl’s safety.

It wasn’t until the next day, when he heard from the villagers that the injured girl had been found at the mountain’s edge and taken back to the city by her family for treatment, that he finally let out a sigh of relief.

When summer break ended, Gu Moqian returned to Rongcheng. He used his network to uncover the girl’s identity.

It turned out she was the eldest daughter of the Ji Family.

The girl never realized that a person had been quietly watching over her all along—from middle school to university, from a little girl to an adolescent teenager.

Whether he was in Britain or any other city, the people he sent out would always bring back her news at the first moment: She sneaked out of school to grab late-night snacks; she slipped into a nightclub and tasted her first cocktail; she was sent abroad to study, effortlessly blending in with the foreign students, acing every subject with straight A’s...

Right after graduating from university, Gu Moqian proposed to his father that he wanted to marry into the Ji Family.

That year he was twenty-two, and Ji Wei was sixteen.

The Ji Family and the Gu Family were both prestigious families in Rongcheng, a perfect match by any measure.

Gu Zhizhou had always respected his son’s decisions. When he handed over the entire Gu Family enterprise to his son, he had known there was no better successor than Gu Moqian.

Under his stewardship, the Gu Family would only grow stronger. Perhaps one day, the Gu Family brand would sweep across the globe, becoming a massive multinational corporation. This was his ambition and also Gu Moqian’s ambition.

So, when his son proposed to marry the Ji Family’s daughter, Gu Zhizhou had no objections.

Starting a family early could also provide stability for a man’s career.

Though their marriage alliance was set, Gu Moqian left for Britain again to pursue his master’s and doctoral studies. When he returned four years later, his fiancée had grown into a stunningly beautiful woman—yet she felt unfamiliar and even resentful toward him.

However, fate always seemed to favor the two of them. Ji Wei eventually became his wife after all.

"Weiwei."

On the other end of the phone, the man suddenly called her name huskily. His voice, coming through the receiver, seemed especially distant and wistful. "I’m so glad I went to my grandfather’s house that summer and met you that night."

Ji Wei was completely stunned, listening in a daze while her heart swelled with something so full it felt like it might burst.

A happy blush spread across her cheeks, her beautiful eyes shimmering with tears.

Her nose tingled with a sudden ache, and she didn’t even know why she felt such a strong urge to cry. It wasn’t sadness, but overwhelming joy. At last, she understood what it meant to cry tears of happiness.

"Moqian, I’m so happy... I’m really so happy..."

All she could do was repeat those words over and over.

Because aside from expressing her happiness, she didn’t know what else to say to convey the emotions surging within her at that moment.