Gu Jiangli suddenly didn't know what to say.

At this moment, she wasn't afraid, but rather felt somewhat lost and disoriented.

She had no idea that Jiang Huaizhi's possessiveness was so intense.

He couldn't allow himself to do anything that escaped his control.

In other words, she could no longer keep any secrets from Jiang Huaizhi.

“Huaizhi…” Gu Jiangli said in a low voice, “I’m not afraid of you. I’ve said it before, we are already husband and wife, and I will accept all of you. If you want to understand me, you can ask me directly, instead of using this method to monitor my every move. This makes me uncomfortable.”

"Are you uncomfortable? If I asked you what you did today, would you tell me the truth?"

Jiang Huaizhi's eyes were full of sincerity, which made Gu Jiangli's throat tighten.

If Jiang Huaizhi really asked her, would she really answer truthfully?

Lotus also raised questions with her, and she could only give ambiguous answers.

Because this is inherently a very difficult question to explain.

If Jiang Huaizhi asked her the same question, she probably wouldn't be able to tell the truth either.

She hesitated.

Jiang Huaizhi also noticed the flicker in her eyes. "You'll hide things from me too, won't you? Just like when Lotus asked you, you'll brush it off with a few words."

Gu Jiangli's heart was racing, and no expression could reflect her surprise.

Jiang Huai really knows everything.

He knew everything about her conversation with Lotus in the carriage.

She even began to suspect that Jiang Huaizhi knew everything about her except that he didn't know she had a system.

Gu Jiangli tried to relax his stiff body and asked, "That coachman, was he someone Lotus went to the carriage shop to find? Is he one of yours?"

Is this important?

"Besides him, how many other people did you send to follow me?"

"Four or five, Jiang Li. I told you, they're for your protection. I'll definitely tell you openly and honestly when I send them out in the future."

"What if I don't like it? I don't like them eavesdropping on me, I don't like having so many eyes secretly watching me. If that's the case, would you remove those people?"

"Jiang Li, I'm worried about you..." He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence and asked cautiously, "If I don't leave, will you be afraid of me?"

Gu Jiangli spoke hurriedly, her brow trembling, and answered without hesitation, "Yes."

Jiang Huai was in a state of panic and hurriedly nodded in agreement:

"Okay, okay, you don't like it. I won't let them follow you anymore. I know that, Jiang Li, whatever you do is not to hurt me, and that's enough."

Gu Jiangli breathed a sigh of relief, though he didn't quite understand why.

But soon, his words made her heart leap into her throat again.

He then turned the conversation back to the question itself:

"Jiang Li, does that child absolutely have to die?"

“Huaizhi, he has a reason why he cannot come into this world.”

"If I beg you not to kill that child, could you please stop interfering in this matter?"

For some reason, the hairs on Gu Jiangli's body suddenly stood on end. "Why?"

"That was a life after all..."

"Huaizhi, you know I won't believe this reason." Gu Jiangli's voice was calm, but her heart was pounding. "You and Wang Er should be complete strangers. Is a child still in your womb, not yet fully formed, worth being so soft-hearted about?"

For some reason, she recalled her memories from her previous life.

There was a mystery that had been puzzling her, and it seemed that it was about to be solved.

“Alright.” Jiang Huaizhi exhaled a breath of stale air. “Jiang Li, because of Sun Chan, she needs a child.”

These words were undoubtedly a heavy blow to Gu Jiangli.

"What do you mean? Huaizhi, Sun Chan needs a child. What does that have to do with Wang Er? What does it have to do with you? And what does it have to do with that child?"

Gu Jiangli asked persistently, though she already had a guess and didn't want it to come true.

Jiang Huaizhi stared into her trembling eyes, his voice deep yet powerful as he spoke:

"Sun Chan quickly used a fake pregnancy to win over her parents and secure her position in the city lord's mansion. A few months later, she would have to have a child to appease her parents. Wang Er's child was the one she would have to appease them."

Gu Jiangli's breathing became somewhat rapid.

Fragments of memories from my previous life kept flashing through my mind.

Jiang Huaisong's legal wife faked a pregnancy to win people's favor, and then brought a child back from outside the city, pretending it was her own child.

Isn't what Sun Chan is doing now the same thing she did in her previous life?

In her previous life, she didn't come up with this method of faking pregnancy herself; it was suggested by a trusted maid in the household.

What about this time?

Is it the same?

Gu Jiangli tried hard to suppress the shock in his heart and calmly asked:

"How could Sun Chan have such a bold idea? How could she have come up with such a method?"

“If she can’t think of it, I will naturally arrange for someone to make her think of it. Besides, Sun Chan is not young. As long as she has someone she trusts by her side to help her, she will take the risk.”

really……

So, in your previous life, you were also portrayed in this way?

A trusted maid in the household suggested that she could borrow someone else's child and pretend it was her own in order to regain Jiang Huaisong's favor.

The maid treated her very well, so she believed her. In order to win Jiang Huaisong's heart and to avoid being looked down upon by the city lord's wife in the city lord's mansion, she indeed began to implement this plan.

She had never imagined that such a simple act of substitution could be accomplished so easily in the vast city lord's mansion.

It turns out there was someone pulling the strings behind the scenes.

And I am nothing more than a pawn being used by others.

Even until her death, she was unaware that a hand had been guiding her everything from behind the scenes.

"Why? Huaizhi, why are you doing this? I faked a pregnancy... no, Sun Chan faked a pregnancy and gave birth, what good would that do you?"

"Yes, many years from now, the position of city lord will surely be passed to Jiang Huaisong. At that time, Father and Mother will know that their son has long been a useless person incapable of producing an heir. Their beloved grandson does not have the blood of the Jiang family flowing in his veins. Their favored daughter-in-law is a cunning and scheming woman. And Jiang Huaisong will suffer a hundred times more because of this..."

A hint of madness gradually rose on Jiang Huaizhi's face. "Jiang Li, don't you want to see this? Everyone is suffering, everyone will atone for their sins, isn't that wonderful? We can be high up, enjoying their suffering, enjoying the punishment they deserve, isn't that delightful?"

He became more and more excited as he spoke, his eyes filled with a longing for that beautiful scene.

“Jiang Li, I have orchestrated all of this in my dreams countless times. They all deserve to pay the price.”