Chapter 2201 - 2174: What Is Love
Rose, after hearing Jiang Liufeng’s words, gently shook her head and said: "Grandfather, you don’t need to say that. If there ever comes a day when Tianxing no longer loves me, I will vanish on my own. I only hope that he can live a lifetime of happiness, rather than becoming someone else because of me. That’s not what I want to see. I just want to see him happy; that is the greatest happiness for me."
"Rose, how could you...?"
Jiang Liufeng, upon hearing Rose’s words, was momentarily moved. He wanted to persuade Rose but didn’t know what to say. For a while, he could only sigh helplessly.
"Grandfather, I know what you want to say, but I have no regrets."
Rose looked at Jiang Liufeng, with a touch of unwavering seriousness on her delicate face.
Jiang Liufeng, seeing Rose’s expression, was slightly taken aback, ultimately turned into a helpless sigh: "Rose, don’t you know that this is so unfair to you?"
"Unfair?"
Upon hearing this, Rose gently shook her head and looked at Jiang Liufeng, saying: "Grandfather, can I ask you a question?"
"What question?"
A trace of confusion appeared uncontrollably on Jiang Liufeng’s face.
"What is love?" Rose asked, looking at Jiang Liufeng.
"What is love?"
Jiang Liufeng was slightly stunned upon hearing this. He never expected Rose to suddenly ask such a question, and a touch of bewilderment appeared on his face at that moment.
The definition of love is indeed too broad. Some people believe in boundless love and think that so-called love is boundless, willing to sacrifice anyone that can be sacrificed, even family, just to bring happiness to others—this is universal love, boundless love.
But there are also those who consider the idea of boundless love to be nonsense. Without family, without loved ones, even if countless others are saved and others gain a happy life, what’s the point? You end up living in this world lonely and isolated.
Instead of choosing boundless love, why not choose to protect one’s family? Only when family is beside you, accompanying you, is there true happiness, true love.
Although Jiang Liufeng is already halfway buried in the earth, he rarely ponders this question, which doesn’t have an answer in a sentence or two, just like what Lu Tiankuang did back in the day. He went into Beijing alone, making it a bloody scene, filling countless hearts with fear, even leaving the Huaxia Martial World in a daze for a decade, suppressed by foreign Superpower Users. But can you say he was wrong?
He avenged his son and his daughter-in-law, was he wrong?
Perhaps if you ask a thousand people, ten thousand people, the answers would always be split, without a definitive answer. Boundless love is not wrong, but neither is personal love.
The reason lies in the different understandings and perceptions each person holds about love.
So when Rose queried him about what love is, Jiang Liufeng was bewildered. He didn’t know how to answer Rose’s question.
After a long silence, Jiang Liufeng let out a deep breath and said: "Love is tolerance, love is care, love is a mixture of tastes in life; love is..."
Listening to Jiang Liufeng’s words, a faint smile appeared on Rose’s face.
"Love is unwavering, loving someone means being happy when they are, being unhappy when they are, letting one’s moods change with theirs."
"Grandfather, you’re right. That’s what love truly is—love is unwavering, loving someone means being happy when they are, being unhappy when they are, letting one’s moods change with theirs. This is my understanding of love, whether it’s boundless love or personal love; for me, the person in my heart is what matters the most."
Rose took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled before continuing to speak: "There is no model for love. Within love, there is no right or wrong. For anyone caught in the river of love, they’re no longer concerned with right or wrong. In love, as long as they see their effort as worthwhile, then it is. There’s no need to be troubled over it, to worry about so-called right and wrong, to fret if what they give is worthwhile—no one cares about this, no one pays attention to this."
"Because in love, everyone is a fool. They just wish to love foolishly. Even if, at the time, they end up battered and bruised, they remain unregretful."
"Love is the giving of feelings; only with the giving of feelings will there be heartache. But before that, those in love won’t choose to question the outcome; they only want to give their true hearts."
"Truly loving someone means cherishing when you can love, and truly understanding love means letting go when you can’t. True love is not necessarily perfect in others’ eyes but is the mutual compatibility of the hearts of lovers, embracing each other’s flaws yet remaining always together..."
"Loving someone wholeheartedly, just hoping the other can see. Standing by someone without giving up, hoping to always be there, never too far or too close, always accompanying them, feeling happy because they are, unhappy because they are..."
Rose’s lips slightly curled, her face carrying a touch of a happy smile. She never considered she had done anything wrong; she only ever remembered that with Lu Tianxing by her side, she was the happiest, the happiest woman in the world, bar none.
"Just being by his side, watching quietly, guarding, is enough!"
"Loving someone doesn’t mean it needs to be perfect; guarding him, waiting for him, is without regrets. For him, even if I fall into Hell, become an Asura, stain my hands with blood, and become the world’s enemy, I have no regrets because I love him."
"Moreover, I believe whether it’s Zhiqing, or Ya Fei, or Qian Ru, they all think the same, and they too have no regrets."
Jiang Liufeng, hearing Rose’s firm and powerful words, felt a complex expression on his slightly wrinkled face, feeling like a heavy stone was pressing on his heart, making it hard for him to breathe.
Although Rose’s words were light, each one was like a heavy hammer, pounding Jiang Liufeng’s heart, leaving him feeling bewildered, with a sense that maybe he had said something wrong just now.