Pei Huaiyu instinctively reached out to press his own earlobes, a gesture that looked remarkably like trying to steal a bell while covering one's ears, as he repeated what Ruan Jiaojiao had just said: "'My husband and I share a bond firmer than gold; even if the mountains lose their ridges and heaven and earth merge as one, I dare not part from my lord. We vowed to grow old together and never be separated, guarding each other through all the passing years.'"
Saying those words out loud and hearing them spoken by someone else were two entirely different experiences. Ruan Jiaojiao hadn't felt it as much when she said them herself just moments ago, but now she felt utterly mortified.
How on earth could she have managed to say something so mushy?
Chapter 136