He repeated slowly: "After you left, I have been alone in this world for five years."

Even though the person was sitting opposite him now and he was fine, he still refused to use the word "death" when talking about his past life.

This is his taboo.

Xie Wan Ning was stunned, "How could this happen..."

What does it mean to be the only one in the world for five years?

He had been practicing martial arts since he was young, and he was strong and healthy, with unfathomable martial arts skills. When she died of vomiting blood, he was only twenty years old, just about to reach adulthood.

He had just inherited the title and had risen from being the eldest son of a marquisate to a super-rank marquis. It was the age for him to display his talents and make great achievements.

Why did he die at the age of twenty-five?

Yeah, how could this happen?

A familiar pain spread across his chest, and Lu Ziyan's breathing stagnated due to the pain. He was afraid of disturbing the person in front of him, but he had to endure it.

His voice trembled a little, "I didn't know about the time you came to the study to look for me. I was seriously injured and unconscious at the time, and I was about to die."

Xie Wanning's pupils dilated slightly and her lips pursed unconsciously.

The incident in the study was her biggest concern, apart from the two maids, in those tragic dreams.

She had endured for so long and been obedient for so long. That time, she mustered up her last bit of courage for this relationship and wanted to ask him for an explanation.

She wondered why he lied to her.

Lu Ziyan really understood her. She was the proud daughter of a noble family in the Marquis's mansion. She was arranged by him to live in the family temple for several months, where no one was allowed to visit her and she was not allowed to go out. She was extremely aggrieved.

But he did not fulfill his promise.

How sad she must have felt when she angrily rushed into the study room seeking an explanation but was stopped and sent back.

The beating he received in front of the ladies on the second day was even more humiliating.

And he had seen all of this with his own eyes.

Thinking of the humiliation she suffered, Lu Ziyan felt an unbearable pain in his heart.

"I was ambushed on my way back from the battlefield in the northern border and was shot in the back. I have been in a coma for those days."

"Before this, I thought that the most important thing in my heart was my family, my country and my responsibility to the Lu family. But until I was seriously injured and dying, between life and death, there was only you in my mind, only you."

"I couldn't bear to see you remarry after your husband's death, and I also couldn't bear to see you live a lonely life... You don't know that feeling," he laughed at himself, "Before I fell into a coma, I did my best to arrange everything for you."

"I'll write a letter of divorce. If I don't make it and die, someone will escort you back to the Xie family. Ming Jian Ming Feng will be left to you, as will 5,000 personal guards. I don't have much personal wealth, so I gave it to you a long time ago."

"I always remembered that you were at the ancestral temple, and you were waiting for me to come back and pick you up, but the news of my injury must not be spread outside. No one can know until my life or death is determined."