Han Zhan had been kicked and punched before, but this was the first time he was slapped in the face.

Han Zhan slowly turned around and looked at Song Ci. Song Ci's face flushed with excitement, and the right hand that had hit Han Zhan was still shaking. Even though he was the one who was hit, Han Zhan felt sorry for Song Ci.

Han Zhan tried to reach out and pinch Song Ci's hand. Song Ci struggled but couldn't break free. Han Zhan touched Song Ci's red palm, lowering his eyelids to hide the regret and shame in his eyes. He asked Song Ci: "Cibao, does it hurt?"

Song Ci looked at her hands, then at Han Zhan's left cheek, which had five new fingerprints on it. She felt pain in her breathing.

"Han Zhan, our marriage was never intended to be pure. From the beginning, I needed your protection and used your identity to take revenge on Mu Mian. I used you, so of course you can use me too. It's fair. But Han Zhan, can't you be like me and say it openly if you used me? Do you have to be so despicable? Do you have to make me feel disgusted?!"

The word "disgusting" came out of Song Ci's mouth, and Han Zhan's heart suddenly became chaotic. He tightly grasped Song Ci's wrist and looked up at her. The whites of his gray-blue eyes were full of bloodshot.

"Song Ci, please listen to what I have to say." Han Zhan's tone was very anxious, afraid that Song Ci would abandon him and leave.

Song Ci suppressed the anger and resentment in her heart, barely maintaining her composure, and said through gritted teeth, "Tell me, tell me everything clearly."

Han Zhan told Song Ci, "When I first brought you from the Mu family to live with me, I did so with a hidden purpose in mind. But on our first day together, I accidentally broke your treasure box and discovered the peace locket you'd treasured for eight years. It was the same one I lost at the earthquake rescue site. I then realized you were the little girl I risked my life to save."

"At that moment, I felt ashamed of my dirty thoughts. I was thinking, this is the little girl I personally pulled back from the gates of hell, how could I hurt her?"

Song Ci also remembered what Han Zhan said.

She remembered clearly that in the garage downstairs, when Han Zhan was helping her get something, he accidentally dropped her precious wooden box on the ground. The peace locket fell out, and fearing that the peace locket would be broken, Song Ci quickly picked it up and held it in her hand for a while, feeling distressed.

Song Ci's ears felt hot when he thought about blowing and touching the pendant as if it were a treasure in front of the pendant's owner.

She was both annoyed and angry.

Han Zhan then told Song Ci: "I was truly attracted to you and decided to stop using you to deal with my father on the day we got the marriage certificate."

Song Ci tried to recall what happened that day, but she only remembered that they got the marriage certificate and then went to the Shenxiang Restaurant for dinner in the evening. After dinner, because Han Zhan gave her a bank card, the two had a quarrel for the first time.

As for other things, I can't remember clearly about Song Dynasty porcelain.

Han Zhan knew Song Ci had forgotten, but he still remembered it clearly. He recalled the scene of that day and said, "On the way home after getting the certificate, we put the rings on each other's fingers, and then you snatched my fake finger and put it on me yourself. At that time, you said something, you said..."

At Han Zhan's reminder, Song Ci suddenly remembered everything, and she said that sentence: "Brother Han, from now on, your right hand and your tie can only be touched by me." She seemed to have said this at the time.

Han Zhan's eyes flashed with a blazing light upon hearing Song Ci's words. "Yes! That's exactly what I said!" It was exactly the same word for word.

"You have no idea how excited I was the moment I heard those words. My heartbeat didn't even seem like mine. At that moment, I knew, oh no, I might have fallen for you. As we spent more time together, I gradually fell for you..."

Han Zhan looked up at Song Ci and said resignedly, "The frog boiled in the warm water is not you, but me." The person who started the fire ended up being the frog that jumped into the warm water.

"When I knew Valan had noticed you, I was really scared that day. It was at that moment that I clearly realized that I couldn't push you into the fire pit that my father had set me on. I was so afraid that you would get hurt."

"From the moment I decided to confess my identity to you, I gave up."

Han Zhan's back, always straight as a pine tree, bent for the first time in front of Song Ci. He rested his forehead against the back of Song Ci's hand, his shoulders shaking, as if...

Is he crying?

Tears fell on the back of Song Ci's hand and dripped through her fingers onto the sofa.

Song Ci was a little stunned.

Will Han Zhan cry too?

Seeing Han Zhan crying so sadly, the anger in Song Ci's heart was extinguished little by little. She couldn't help but feel sorry for him again.

Song Ci heard Han Zhan's painful tone and said, "Song Ci, I know you and your mother are innocent, but I have a grudge in my heart! I once watched my father kill my mother. I held my dying mother in my arms and bled out. Do you know what my father said at the time? He said: Han Mulan, if it weren't for your face, I would make you live a life worse than death."

"Look how ridiculous! He killed her, and she should be grateful that he showed mercy and didn't torture or humiliate her..."

Song Ci is not Han Zhan, and cannot empathize with the painful experiences he endured in his childhood, but after hearing these words, he also felt bad.

Song Ci was in a state of confusion. She didn't want to face Han Zhan anymore, so she said, "Han Zhan, let me go."

Han Zhan thought Song Ci was going to leave him, so he quickly hugged Song Ci's waist and begged her to stay. "Song Ci, don't go! Don't you want me anymore?"

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