Chapter 119 I Know I Was Wrong
Shen Qingci's face was full of sarcasm: "What are you talking about, Marquis? Of course I know who you are, you are Marquis Yongning, Huo Yunting!"
Veins bulged on Huo Yunting's forehead: "No, you know I am Huo Yunzhan."
"Stop pretending." Huo Yunting gritted his teeth: "I've been thinking carefully about everything that's happened over the past month or so. You should have known about this a long time ago, right?"
"From when I impersonated Huo Yunting and returned with the coffin? Or before that?"
Shen Qingci's gaze was indifferent. She knew, but that was only because she was reborn. In her previous life, Shen Qingci was deceived terribly by them.
Perhaps Huo Yunzhan wasn't entirely without showing any abnormalities in her previous life, but at the time she was immersed in the grief of Huo Yunzhan's death in battle and had no intention of paying attention to whether "Huo Yunting" was real or fake.
However, she admitted it was fine, since she has already remarried.
Everything is different from the previous life.
“Naturally, it was after you returned from carrying the coffin.” Shen Qingci smiled. “I know you too well. The moment I saw you, I had my suspicions.”
"Later..." Shen Qingci lifted her eyelids: "Later, I opened a clinic to examine bones."
“You have a history of injury to the small bones in your left leg, and the finger bones in your right hand are also thicker than average. You can see the obvious differences in your bones.”
Huo Yunzhan's eyes darkened: "You said you wanted to tidy up your husband's appearance, but that was a lie. You were testing the truth."
Huo Yunzhan took a deep breath. Shen Qingci really was head over heels in love with him; no one else had noticed, only Shen Qingci…
"I was forced to impersonate Huo Yunting!"
"I'm doing all this so that you and the children can have a better future!"
"Since my father's death, the Yongning Marquis's Mansion has gradually declined. Now, the court is rife with undercurrents and the struggles between aristocratic families are fierce. If I don't think of a way to truly grasp real power, the Yongning Marquis's Mansion will end up like many other marquis's mansions after three or four generations, completely declining."
"But now, in the court, Prime Minister Liu and the Regent are vying for power, and I have to choose one to side with. Liu Ruolan is Prime Minister Liu's daughter, and impersonating Huo Yunting is the best way."
Shen Qingci laughed out loud: "General Huo is really something. You don't want the Yongning Marquis's Mansion to decline from now on, and you want to hold real power, but instead of thinking about fighting well and making meritorious contributions to earn a bright future for the Yongning Marquis's Mansion, you only think about impersonating Huo Yunting, sleeping with Liu Ruolan, and relying on women's connections to get close to Prime Minister Liu?"
Huo Yunzhan's face turned ashen. Although Shen Qingci was telling the truth, why did she have to say it in such an unpleasant way?
"If it's just based on military achievements, how many years would it take?"
"Over the years, the political landscape in the court has probably changed completely!"
"Furthermore, your father and brothers did gain military power through their military achievements and now hold considerable military power. What was the result?"
"I'm just a little dissatisfied and unwilling to accept it!"
The veins on Huo Yunzhan's forehead bulged: "Huo Yunting and I are siblings from the same mother. He was only born a quarter of an hour earlier than me, yet he was given the status of my elder brother."
“From a young age, I was far superior to him in both literary and martial arts. But just because he was the eldest brother, the title naturally fell to him.”
"I fought with all my might on the battlefield, getting wounded and bleeding, but in the end, it was all for naught compared to him marrying Liu Ruolan."
"Just because he married Liu Ruolan, Prime Minister Liu has been taking care of him in every way. He did nothing, yet Prime Minister Liu intends to promote him!"
"How can I accept this?"
After Huo Yunzhan finished speaking, he gave Shen Qingci a deep look and said, "It's also your father and brother's fault. Why did they have to provoke His Majesty's displeasure?"
Shen Qingci laughed out loud: "You're blaming my father and brothers again?"
"That's how it is." Huo Yunzhan pursed his lips tightly: "If your father and brothers hadn't displeased His Majesty and ended up with their entire family being executed, I wouldn't be in this situation."
"I have no feelings for Liu Ruolan at all, but I can only force myself to share a room with her for the sake of the Huo family's future."
"I just want her to get pregnant with my child as soon as possible and give birth to my child!"
"I thought that as long as I could get her to give birth to my child, she would be completely bound to the Yongning Marquis's mansion. At that time, when I proposed to inherit both branches of the family, she certainly wouldn't refuse."
"That way, you and I can still be together."
“Your child is my child, so of course I will treat him well.”
"When I have all the power in the world, and even get rid of Prime Minister Liu, I will divorce Liu Ruolan and make you my wife again! Then, won't we have everything?"
"The Shen family is gone, and you are just an orphan. In this way, I can let you have everything without doing anything. Isn't that good?"
Shen Qingci laughed: "Is that so? You have no feelings for Liu Ruolan at all, so how come you were able to indulge in lust with her to the point of... impotence?"
"Did Liu Ruolan force you?"
Huo Yunzhan replied almost without hesitation: "I just want her to get pregnant as soon as possible."
"And she... really forced me! You have no idea how wild Liu Ruolan is in bed, how ruthless she is! If I do it less often or for less time one night, she gets upset."
“I don’t know what her relationship with Huo Yunting is like, but I’m afraid that if I can’t satisfy her, it will expose the secret that I’m not Huo Yunting. I can only endure it.”
Shen Qingci felt that she had truly lost all feelings for Huo Yunzhan. Hearing these words, Shen Qingci felt nothing but absurdity and disgust.
"Do you really think Liu Ruolan doesn't know that you're not Huo Yunting at all?"
"I only spoke to you, and you became suspicious. Liu Ruolan slept with you night after night, engaging in extremely intimate acts. Do you really think she knew nothing about it? Do you really think you and Huo Yunting have really reached that point?"
A look of surprise flashed across Huo Yunzhan's eyes, but he quickly suppressed it: "I don't know, but that doesn't matter. Whether she knows or not, all I need to do is get her pregnant, use the child to tie her down, and then bring her back to your side."
"And the result?" Shen Qingci's eyes were icy. "What was the result?"
"Liu Ruolan knew you weren't Huo Yunting, and she knew all your plans, which is why she made such extreme demands in bed, ultimately causing you to become impotent."
“She knew you were Huo Yunzhan, and that you planned to have her pregnant so she could have two wives, so she first got rid of my child, and then tried every means to get rid of me.”
"It's all because of you. Because of you, I've suffered so much humiliation. But what have you done?"
"Now that I've left the Huo family and remarried, isn't that exactly what you wanted? Now that I'm no longer in the Huo family, you can peacefully pretend to be Huo Yunting, please Liu Ruolan, get close to Prime Minister Liu, and eventually rise to prominence."
"What brings you here again?"
"I..." Huo Yunzhan's eyes were somewhat unfocused: "I don't know, I don't know Liu Ruolan knew, I don't know that's why she bullied you like that."
"You must have been forced to marry Chu Jichen, right?"
"You must still love me, but you're heartbroken because of my impersonation of Huo Yunting."
Huo Yunzhan's eyes were full of affection: "Qingci, I know I was wrong. Please forgive me for impersonating Huo Yunting, and I won't hold it against you for betraying me and marrying Chu Jichen. Let's be together again, okay?"
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