The boy shook his head: "Young Master Shen, I don't know either. I've been here for the past two days."
Shen Liang said to the older one, "I would like to trouble you to go back to the Shi family and secretly tell your young lady that I want to see her."
The bigger one went.
Shen Liang is now able to get out of bed, but he is still a little weak. He dares not go to the Shi family rashly because he knows nothing about what happened after Shi Murou returned home.
If Grandpa Shi is angry, he might not be able to come back safely if he goes.
After waiting for a while, there was a noise outside, like a woman's voice.
Shen Liang was overjoyed and quickly walked out of the study.
A gust of wind blew by, and Shen Liang bent over, pressing his chest and coughing, looking rather frail.
He had thought that seeing him like this, Shi Murou would feel heartbroken and rush over to support him, calling him her darling and precious treasure, pitiful to the core.
But Shi Murou stopped two steps in front of him, and there was a strange aura emanating from her.
It was as if there was an indescribable distance that stretched them apart.
Shen Liang felt a sense of unease, wondering if it wasn't Shi Murou who had come. He raised his head, his gaze falling on the newcomer's face, and a chill ran through him.
Shi Murou's expression was cold and indifferent, and there was no warmth in her eyes. She stared at him with her lips pursed, as if she was re-evaluating and trying to figure him out.
After a few days apart, her slightly chubby face had thinned out and she looked much more haggard, with faint dark circles under her eyes. But she didn't seem discouraged or frustrated; it was as if something had settled down in her heart.
"Rou'er, you're finally here. Did your family make things difficult for you? I've missed you so much these past two days." Regardless of what had happened, Shen Liang wanted to pour out his heart first.
Normally, if Shi Murou heard such words, she would have been moved to tears.
But now, she was completely unmoved, and even a hint of disgust flashed in her eyes.
Shen Liang felt increasingly uneasy, even a little scared.
"Rou'er, what's wrong? Did something happen?" Shen Liang walked over, extending his arm as he did so.
"It's okay, now that you're here with me, just tell me if you have any grievances."
Shi Murou frowned and took a step back.
"Shen Liang, don't come any closer." Her tone was more indifferent than ever before, almost like a command.
Shen Liang's heart skipped a beat, and he stopped in his tracks.
"Rou'er, what's wrong with you? I feel you're very different today, like you've changed."
Shi Murou sneered and looked at Shen Liang with disappointment.
"It's not that I've changed, it's that I've seen through you."
“Shen Liang, you approached me with ulterior motives from the very beginning. You know best what you were thinking. I’m here today to tell you that from now on we have nothing to do with each other anymore.”
As if struck by lightning, Shen Liang was completely stunned.
He murmured in disbelief, "Rou'er, what are you saying? Don't you understand my feelings for you? What am I after? If I have any purpose, it's to make you my wife and to cherish you for the rest of my life."
He spoke with heartfelt sincerity, but Shi Murou remained completely unmoved.
"You want to seize my family's property and ruin my family line. This is what your family said themselves. It's not enough that you married me; you also want to take a concubine. This was proposed by your family to the Qiao family. In order to achieve these goals quickly, you went to a snake catcher to buy a poisonous snake to bite yourself, pretending it was to save me. You can even hurt yourself, so how can you love me?"
Shen Liang felt an extreme chill creep up from his feet to his head, freezing his bones and making him shiver uncontrollably.
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