She was not the only woman he had been with. In the past, as his father traveled around the world, he had also befriended some high society socialites. However, most of these were one night stands and often forgotten after the moment of passion.
It wasn't because he was too promiscuous, but because some people are just not destined to be together. However when the right one appears, it becomes a matter of course.
At that time, he was certain that this woman would be his companion for life.
However, after Mu Sheng found out about them, he strictly forbade her from seeing him again.
Mu Qingcheng, on the other hand, secretly met up with him without Mu Sheng's knowledge.
She said, "Brother Shaoying, I've decided you are the one for me. You must not let me down."
When he heard this, he was overjoyed. As he kissed her, he promised her, "Qingcheng, I will never let you down. With you in my life, I no longer have any regrets!"
She had even thought that he was a poor lad who came from god knew where and had vowed to be with him for life even if it meant it would be a life of poverty.
This is why it's said that feelings can be so complicated and profound.
Sometimes, relationships of decades cannot even compare to months of mutual affection.
Although the two of them had been in love for only a few months, it felt as if that time had completely changed them.
This was a special feeling. No matter how many women he had after that, he never felt this way again.
It was that sort of feeling that even if the seas dried up or the stones rotted, as long as she was by his side, he would be fearless, even if the world was coming to an end!
Thus, when his father requested that he left the country to take up the shipping business in the Asia-European region, he met up with her and made plans to leave the capital and elope!
Mu Qingcheng shyly agreed.
However, when the appointed time came, she did not turn up.
He thought that it was probably because this girl did not feel deeply enough for him that she would abandon everything to elope with him.
However, a few years later, they coincidentally came into contact again. He was indignant and asked her repeatedly why she had not turned up as planned. She broke down and cried, "Brother Shaoying, I could not go! No matter how much I begged, I even got down on my knees in front of that man, but he refused. I thought of secretly leaving but he put me under house arrest! I could not leave, I could not leave!"
Her tear-stained face made his heart ache!
He hated the Mu family to the core!
She said to him, "Brother Shaoying, I was pregnant with your children. They're a pair of twins. When will you… come and take me away? I've been waiting for you."
Only then did he realize that shortly after he'd left, she discovered she was pregnant. After she was placed under house arrest, she thought about protesting by starving herself. But the thought of his flesh and blood in her womb left her unable to go through with it. After all that time, enduring humiliation and struggling at death's door, she finally found a chance to escape that hell with the help of the servants.
She dodged and hid. In order to avoid being found, she settled down in a very remote place and gave birth to a pair of twins, and gave each of them a name.
When Gong Shaoying found out about all this, he threatened to make things difficult for the Mu family. At that time, the Gong family was unlike what they were now. It was at that time just a small family dealing in shipping. After a few years of consolidation, under his control, it started to grow and eventually could completely rival the Mu family.
He kept to his word.. In a fit of anger, he severely damaged the Mu Group, making it difficult for them to recover for the next few years.