Xiangdong was hit unexpectedly and gasped for breath. He pointed a rolling pin at Chen Jianmin and shouted angrily: "How dare you hit me?!"
"Not only do I dare to hit you, I also dare to fight you to the death. If you don't believe me, just try it! You call people half dead, how can you be a good person? You have a heart of a snake and scorpion, worse than an animal. People say that you have to have feelings for a kitten or a puppy, but you are so bad, beating and scolding Ruonan all day long. Look at her child, is there anything good about her?"
"She's my girl, I can beat her however I want, I can scold her however I want! You're the one who controls everything, and you're even meddling in other people's shit and farts? You're really meddling too much, even interfering in my children's education."
Xiangdong knew that if Chen Jianmin really fought to the death with him, the burly Chen Jianhua would definitely not stand idly by. If a fight really broke out, he would be the one who suffered the most. Thinking of this, Xiangdong did not bother to argue with Chen Jianmin, but continued to point the spearhead at Liu Ruonan, angrily pointing at Liu Ruonan with a rolling pin and said:
"Will you come back with me? If you don't, I'll make sure you don't live past tomorrow."
"I won't go back with you. If you have the guts, kill me right now. If you continue to use violence against me, I will call the police and send you to jail for life!"
Liu Ruonan straightened her back and glared at Xiangdong with righteous indignation. This was the first time in her life that she had bravely met Xiangdong's eyes, and she found that when you are brave, everything becomes less scary.
"Village chief, now is an era of free marriage. I'm afraid there is no such thing as arranged marriage anymore." Liu Ruonan walked up to the village chief and said to him.
The village chief nodded.
"Brother Zhuang Sheng and I are in love. Brother Zhuang Sheng wants to marry me, and I want to marry Brother Zhuang Sheng. No one can stop this, right?"
The village chief nodded again. But even if that was the case, he had no right to interfere in other people's family affairs! As Xiangdong said, he was educating his children now, and no one could interfere.
"Dear uncles, aunts, and sisters-in-law, please bear witness for me today. The person I want to marry is Zhuang Sheng, not Liu Dazhuang! Now, I will go back with my stepfather to discuss the marriage. If I don't make it out of the Xiang family's gate alive tomorrow, I will die at Xiangdong's hands. Please, kind neighbors, bear witness for me in front of the police. Don't let me die in vain!"
When everyone heard Liu Ruonan say this, they felt like they were going to die. What kind of life did this girl lead? Why did returning home feel like going to the execution ground, as if she would never be able to walk out alive again?
"Ruonan!" Zhuang Sheng watched Liu Ruonan resolutely turn around and leave. He called her name for the first time, his eyes full of heartache and reluctance. He didn't know what kind of abuse Liu Ruonan would have to endure if she followed Xiangdong back this time.
Once, he saw with his own eyes that Liu Ruonan, who was beaten to death, dragged her heavy steps in despair, found a nearby tree in the village, took a rope, and tied it around her neck without any regrets.
How desperate and heartbroken must she have been at that time? To the point where she had no attachment to this world and only wanted to end her life with death.
Now, looking at her resolute back, Zhuang Sheng began to doubt whether he had been right or wrong in saving her. The right thing was that he had saved a life; the wrong thing was that she was still on this path of abuse, with no end in sight.
Because they shared the same pain, Zhuang Sheng could understand Liu Ruonan's inner pain. When did he start to have different feelings for her? Even he himself didn't know. Perhaps it was because of that incident, or perhaps it was because of his concern for her pitiful life experience that his feelings gradually changed.
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