Chapter 479 Tell the truth, Ah Nian, can you understand me?

Lu Yanzhi looked at Shi Nian in the rearview mirror.

She looked so beautiful in her wedding dress.

Even now, tied up behind her back and handcuffed to the back seat, she still looks as beautiful as a stranded mermaid.

The moment he walked into the dressing room and saw her smiling and turning around, he imagined that she was walking towards him in a wedding dress.

But the next second, he saw the smile on her face disappear.

He returned to the cold reality.

Her fingers, which were gripping the steering wheel, were still bleeding; she had bitten them.

She was crying in the back seat.

Lu Yanzhi hardened his heart and refused to look at her. He controlled the car and turned around a corner, finally stopping in front of a house.

He opened the back door and carried her out.

She struggled, but it was no use.

The long train of her wedding dress trailed on the ground as he carried her upstairs.

Lu Yanzhi carried Shi Nian to a room and closed the door before tearing off the tape from her mouth.

"Let me out!" Shi Nian shouted.

Lu Yanzhi smiled.

"Let you go out and marry him?"

He cupped her face in his hands: "Don't even think about it!"

Her eyes reddened, and she opened her mouth to bite him.

He easily dodged it, while she, bound behind her back, immediately tilted to the side.

Seeing her struggling, Lu Yanzhi tenderly helped her to sit against the headboard.

Shi Nian looked at Lu Yanzhi, whose eyes were bloodshot, and felt afraid.

"What are you going to do?" she asked, forcibly suppressing her panic.

"Don't be afraid," Lu Yanzhi said. "I just want to tell you something."

Shi Nian didn't speak, but just looked at him with red eyes.

Seeing that she wasn't moving around anymore, Lu Yanzhi went to the side, picked up his laptop, and showed her some things.

"It all started with these photos," Lu Yanzhi began, recounting how he had been half-forced to act with Han Wei all these days.

“At first, I thought that once she died, these photos would go to the grave with her.”

"Later I realized that I had been deceived by Han Wei, and it was all a scheme set up by her and Li Yanqing."

“She doesn’t have stomach cancer at all. She wants to become Mrs. Lu and wants to control me.”

...

As Lu Yanzhi spoke, he told Shi Nian everything he had been holding back these past few days.

"I've locked Han Wei in the basement, but Li Yanqing has those photos. I can only use Han Wei to lure Li Yanqing."

"But you're going to marry him."

Lu Yanzhi said sadly, "A'Nian, I can't watch you marry him."

The computer screen was lit up, and Shi Nian looked at one photo after another on it.

All of these were taken secretly by Wu Jing.

Although she had been very careful, there are always oversights when living under the same roof.

Shi Nian closed her eyes in pain.

Once again, the same expression Wu Jing had shown her every time he looked at her many years ago appeared before her eyes.

The beating was just a pretense; in reality, it stemmed from his voyeurism and lust for her…

She wanted to run away, to take her mother with her, but her mother misunderstood her.

To this day, Zheng Shuhui has not allowed her to call her "Mom".

But she didn't dare tell Zheng Shuhui those things.

More than Zheng Shuhui's misunderstanding, she was afraid of Zheng Shuhui's complete mental breakdown.

When Zheng Shuhui was taking her to wander around and suffer all kinds of hardships, she once stood with her, who was still a child, on a bridge by the river.

If I just jump, it will all end.

The mother and daughter stood there for a long time that day.

Finally, Zheng Shuhui took her away from the bridge, and three days later, Zheng Shuhui took her to marry Wu Jing.

How could she dare tell Zheng Shuhui the whole truth?

She was afraid.

Sadness washed over me, and tears streamed down my face.

A hand wiped away her tears.

Shi Nian knew it was Lu Yanzhi, so she turned her head away to avoid his touch.

“A-Nian, although these photos don’t show any key parts, they show a lot of skin.”

Lu Yanzhi looked at Shi Nian, who was dodging away, and said, "But people are always gossipy. Once these photos are leaked, how will others make up stories?"

“They would say things like, ‘You and your daughter share a husband,’ or even… more obscene things.”

“I don’t care about Wu Jing, I don’t care about Han Wei, and I don’t care about Li Yanqing’s life or death. I’m only afraid that rumors will ruin you.”

“A-Nian, I can’t bear to watch this happen.”

As Lu Yanzhi spoke, he looked at Shi Nian, who was leaning against the headboard and silently shedding tears, and tears streamed down his face.

The bedroom lights were off.

Even though it's only noon, it's very dark here.

Shi Nian looked at the leaves outside the window, swaying in the wind, unsure of what she was thinking.

All she knew was that she was very sad.

I'm sad, and there's nothing I can do.

“A-Nian, this is everything I wanted to tell you.” Lu Yanzhi looked at Shi Nian and said sadly, “This is the bitterness I’ve always been unable to express.”

“I wanted to resolve everything before telling you, but…” Lu Yanzhi was even more distressed. He said, “A-Nian, I overestimated myself.”

"Even though we've met twice, I still haven't been able to catch Li Yanqing."

But Shi Nian still didn't look at him, only sadly staring at the swaying tree shadows outside the window.

"A Nian..."

Lu Yanzhi cupped Shi Nian's face, forcing her to look at him.

He asked, "You understand me, right?"

Shi Nian's gaze met Lu Yanzhi's.

“A-Nian, answer me, give me an answer,” Lu Yanzhi said.

A gentle breeze was blowing.

Shi Nian looked at him and said, "Yes, I can understand you."

Lu Yanzhi's expression instantly brightened with joy.

His face still bore traces of tears, yet he was smiling.

“Great!” Lu Yanzhi said, “Then let’s make up.”

"A-Nian, I will be good to you. What Huo Yanmo gave you, I will give back to you twofold."

"Love, wealth, anything is fine with me. I will stay with you, and we will have children together in the future."

As if he had thought of something, he added, "I don't care that you had a relationship with him, I just want you by my side."

Shi Nian looked at the excited Lu Yanzhi in front of her; he was the man she had once loved.

Countless days and nights ago, she wondered if he had his reasons, or what he wanted to tell her.

Does he still love her?

If he had told her all this back then, she would have told him that she wanted to be with him.

They went through those difficulties together.

They will live out the rest of their lives well, with love, him, and children; they will be a happy family.

But now...

“Yanzhi,” Shi Nian said, “I understand you. I… thank you for everything you’ve done for me.”

"But……"

Shi Nian saw the smile on Lu Yanzhi's face slowly disappear.

But she still insisted on continuing.

"sorry."

The shadows of the trees outside the window were still swaying. Shi Nian looked at Lu Yanzhi's face and said, "Lu Yanzhi, I don't love you anymore."