He wrapped her in a quilt and restrained her hands and feet with it, so she couldn't run away.

Ruan Xinchen wanted to cry but had no tears.

"What's wrong? Don't believe what that bastard Chu Li says. He will definitely make up nonsense to destroy our relationship. Don't believe him."

Chu Li must have done something, or said something, to drive him crazy.

"Okay, I don't believe him." Chu Xuanche looked at her straight and said, "I believe you. I ask, and you tell me."

Ruan Xinchen nodded hurriedly.

"Ask me."

"He said you were married to him. Why did he say that?"

Ruan Xinchen: “…”

"He also said that you personally took care of his injuries. Why did he say that?"

Ruan Xinchen was so angry, what a bastard Chu Li was.

Chu Xuanche was originally suspicious and thought she was going to have an affair.

His nonsense would make Chu Xuanche even more suspicious.

No wonder they fought.

"He also said that you made him look more beautiful..."

Ruan Xinchen held his mouth and said, "It's nothing. He lied to you."

"Okay, then tell me, why did he say that? Also, how do you know him?"

Ruan Xinchen felt that the absurd past could no longer be hidden.

No matter how unwilling she was, she could recall it, dig it out and put it in front of him.

She also chose to narrate the past in the form of a dream.

"Chu Li, Ruan Yihe and I had the same dream. Do you believe it?"

Chu Xuanche: "If you say so, I will believe it."

Ruan Xinchen lowered his brows and sighed lightly.

"In that dream, Ruan Yihe stole my marriage. In other people's eyes, it was she who was engaged to you."

Chu Xuanche was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Before you married me, everyone thought it was her that I was engaged to. Then what?"

"Then the matter of the wedding celebration happened. She didn't want to celebrate. Her family liked her so they naturally wouldn't let her take the risk. So I married into the Zhan Palace to celebrate her wedding instead."

Chu Xuanche's face darkened, "So what Chu Li said about you marrying him is true?"

"It's true, but... don't get excited, just listen to me first."

Chu Xuanche took a deep breath and tried his best to suppress the turmoil in his heart.

"Okay, you tell me."

"He didn't like me. When he woke up, he was very angry and said that they gave him a wife without his permission and he disagreed. He smashed everything in the house and ran to scold me angrily and gave me a good scolding."

Chu Xuanche: "..."

"You can't help yourself."

"Yes, he didn't want to, and I didn't want to either. I had no choice. He told me that he had promised his life to a woman before, and that he promised her marriage and that he would recognize her as his wife, and asked me to give up. He told me about him and that girl, and I was moved to tears."

Chu Xuanche: "..."

"I didn't like him in the first place, and being sent to Prince Zhan's mansion to celebrate was not my wish. I told him directly that I could help him..."

She briefly introduced the conditions for the peace talks with Chu Li that night, and talked about how she had covered up for Chu Li and the girl over the years, and then when Chu Li ascended the throne, she planned to make him fulfill his promise and let her leave, but she could not see him anywhere.

"At first I thought he was busy. After all, he was the new emperor and there were a lot of things to do. Later, he eliminated all his opponents, raided the Ruan family, and the woman he liked became the queen... I thought, it was finally my partner's turn to fulfill his promise to me. But I didn't expect..."

Thinking of those bad memories, Ruan Xinchen's nose felt sore and his eyes turned red.

I stopped to calm myself down before continuing.

"But I didn't expect that Xu Moer, who had become the queen, would bring poisoned wine, white silk and a dagger. She said that the Ruan family had been confiscated, and Ruan Hong and his wife were dead, so it was my turn. She also said that Chu Li would not come to see me, and that I was implicated by the Ruan family, and he must kill me. She asked me to choose between the three things."

Chu Xuanche tensed up and sneered, "He's just killing me?"

Ruan Xinchen nodded, "I think that's it. I am the fish in the chopping block. The one who wants my life is Chu Li. It's useless for me to struggle. I chose Bai Ling, but Xu Moer strangled Cai with Bai Ling and poured poisoned wine into my mouth. That poison... I died in pain."

Tears rolled down the corners of my eyes.

Chu Xuanche felt so distressed that he pulled her into his arms.

Ruan Xinchen leaned against his chest and sobbed softly.

"I don't think I have let them down. I have done so much for them. It was not my intention to have a happy event that year. I just wanted freedom, but they didn't even give me that."

Chu Xuanche hugged her tighter.

Ruan Xinchen said, "Xu Moer said that my father's crime was enough to execute three generations of his clan, but Chu Li was kind enough to leave a root for our family and released Ruan Ziyi, which was already fair to me. As Ruan Hong's biological daughter, I was originally on the list of those to be executed, so I shouldn't hate them.

Well, I was implicated by Ruan Hong's illegal and disorderly conduct, I have nothing to say, but why shouldn't I hate him? They killed me, Xu Moer strangled Cai in front of me, I hate them, I wish they would die.

Chu Li is powerful, so I can't do anything to him, but as for Xu Moer... humph, I picked her up when she came to the capital, and I secretly gave her a potion that would make her infertile."

Um?

Ruan Xinchen's eyes dodged and he whispered, "Do you think I'm bad?"

Um?

"bad."

Ruan Xinchen was furious, "I was just angry."

"But stupider."

Ruan Xinchen: “…”

"Me? I'm stupid?"

"Isn't it?"

I am so...

Ruan Xinchen was so angry that she tickled him a few times.

I thought he was a person who could never laugh, but it turns out that when he was teased, he laughed even more exaggeratedly than Chu Xuanling.

Ruan Xinchen was startled.

But he controlled her the next second.

"Stop it, you haven't finished explaining yet, go on."

"I have finished my explanation, that's all."

"Well, as you said, they crossed the river and destroyed the bridge, and you were sentenced to death because of your father. But why, after waking up from the dream, Ruan Yihe changed her husband, and Chu Li was desperate to snatch you away?"

"Uh... this..."

"I've made up my mind. If you dare to lie to me, you will..."

"No, no, I said."

"In that dream, Ruan Yihe married you."

Chu Xuanche: "..."

"She was very unhappy. She said you were mentally ill, that your mother was not good to her, and that your whole family kept things from her and didn't treat her as a family member. Just like now, you guys refused to tell her the secret. She is a narrow-minded person. What do you think she thinks?"

She told Chu Xuanche a lot of complaints about Ruan Yihe in her previous life.

Including the strange rules in Cuiyuan.

She was not allowed to ask about the news of the Crown Prince and the Second Young Master, and she thought they were deliberately excluding her.

She thought someone was deliberately torturing her because she was not allowed to bring a maid in.