Chapter 80 Huo Zheng's Explanation
Chunzhi reached out to push Huo Zheng away, but she couldn't. She could only let him attack her with his lips and tongue, making her breath disordered.
After a long time, when Chunzhi was almost out of breath, Huo Zheng finally let her go.
Huo Zheng stared at her and said sternly, "Chunzhi, I know you are a good girl. I won't allow you to slander yourself like this."
Chunzhi's red lips were slightly swollen, and her eyes were a little blurry. Hearing him say this, she raised her hand and touched her lips with the back of her hand, and said self-deprecatingly: "We had a fake marriage with someone, but we became real husband and wife. What kind of good girl am I?"
If she had known that Huo Zheng was the Prince of Chang'an, she would not have dared to have a fake marriage with Huo Zheng even if she had a hundred times the courage.
Wouldn't it be better to marry someone then than now?
Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in the world.
No matter how much Haruji regrets it now, it's of no use.
Huo Zheng had already learned from those members of the Song family that Chunzhi had lived in the Song residence for more than half a year, and those people were not sure whose child Chunzhi was pregnant with.
Song Anlan is famous in Dongzhou. The people here call him Mr. Song, a kind man, and say that he is a truly humble gentleman.
As a gentleman, he would not do anything inappropriate to Chunzhi who is in trouble.
What's more, Song Anlan is weak and sickly, so even if he wants to, he is powerless.
As Huo Zheng thought about this, he lowered his eyes to look at Chunzhi's belly, and became more and more certain that the child in her belly must be his.
Seeing that he didn't believe her, Chunzhi became even more uneasy. She forced herself to break away from Huo Zheng's embrace and sit on the other side of the carriage. "Whether you believe it or not, the child is not yours."
Huo Zheng was certain that the child must be his, and echoed Chunzhi's words: "Even if the child is not mine, I will raise him."
"You..." Chunzhi didn't expect Huo Zheng to say such a thing, "You are simply crazy."
"Yeah." Huo Zheng approached her again, "I'm crazy."
The carriage was quite spacious, but Huo Zheng was too close to Chunzhi, almost holding her in his arms. He said in a low voice, "I've gone crazy since the day you jumped into the river in front of me."
If it weren't for Chunzhi, he wouldn't have killed King Ning with his own hands.
She would not run out with injuries when she was under house arrest by her father and search the whole world for her whereabouts.
He would not insist on coming to Dongzhou and leading his troops to break into the Song residence to steal the bride despite his subordinates' repeated advice of "Your Highness, you can't do this."
He is crazy, he has been crazy for a long time.
"Chunzhi..." Huo Zheng buried his face in Chunzhi's neck, feeling her real warmth. "I don't understand... why are you so determined to leave me? Why would you rather jump into the river than come back with me?"
Over the past six months, every time Huo Zheng woke up in his dreams at midnight, he would think of Chunzhi looking back at him in the wind and rain, and of her leaping into the sky at the height of the storm. He couldn't understand why she was so determined.
They obviously always got along well.
Just like the most loving couple in the world.
"You don't understand?"
Chunzhi leaned against the carriage, trying to stay away from Huo Zheng, but she could still feel Huo Zheng's warm breath slowly on her face.
Chunzhi tried her best to calm herself down. "Don't you remember what you said and did?"
"I really don't know." Huo Zheng said, "Even if you want to leave me, you have to tell me clearly."
He was ready to take Chunzhi back to Beijing after cleaning up the Nanzhou officialdom. He had been thinking about finding a suitable opportunity to tell Chunzhi everything.
He would no longer hide his identity or his feelings.
But Chunzhi refused to give him a chance to explain himself and left without saying a word.
"Okay." Chunzhi pushed Huo Zheng and asked him to sit down. "Then I will explain it to you clearly."
Huo Zheng sat down and listened attentively.
Chunzhi asked, "Do you still remember what you said to Prince Ning the Prince when he came to the tofu workshop?"
Huo Zheng recalled the day when he learned that Huo Yu went to Taohua Lane to find Chunzhi. He ignored everything else and immediately rode his horse back to the tofu workshop.
When he saw Huo Yu talking to Chunzhi, his heart was so tense that it almost jumped out of his throat.
He was born in a vortex of power and grew up surrounded by conspiracies and intrigues. As soon as he saw Huo Yu coming in front of Chunzhi, he knew what he was planning.
At that time, he was only thinking about how to deceive Huo Yu so that Huo Yu would know that Chunzhi was not important to him and dissuade Huo Yu from using Chunzhi to threaten him.
At that time he said...
"At that time, Prince Ning asked you how you were going to place me, and you said..." Chunzhi still feels as if her heart was crushed by someone when she thinks of those words now, and the pain is indescribable.
She spoke clearly, "You said: A country girl is just a plaything. Huo Zheng, I saved your life, let you recuperate in the tofu workshop, cooked for you and made clothes for you, but in the end, I was just a plaything for you. Now you ask me why I'm leaving? How can you ask that?"
Huo Zheng was speechless for a moment.
It turns out it was because of this sentence.
It turned out that Chunzhi heard everything he said to Huo Yu that day.
"No..." His voice was hoarse, and he immediately explained: "I have never treated you as a plaything. I said that to Huo Yu that day just to dispel his idea of threatening me with you."
Chunzhi didn't understand the schemes of these bigwigs. She only knew that she and the King of Chang'an were one a country girl and the other a nobleman, and their identities were different, so they shouldn't be entangled.
She said to Huo Zheng, "If you're even half sincere, why have you been hiding your identity? You watch me toil for a living every day, while I brag about supporting you. Isn't it funny?"
"Haruji..."
Huo Zheng was speechless for a moment.
He was born noble and raised in a luxurious house. If he took a step into empty space, he would be doomed. He had long forgotten how to trust someone completely.
He hid the truth from Chunzhi and didn't tell her because he didn't trust others and only trusted himself.
But Huo Zheng never thought that he would meet someone as sincere as Chunzhi in his life.
The vigilance that should be shown towards others becomes something that Chunzhi absolutely shouldn't do.
"It's my fault." Huo Zheng lowered his head and said, "But... Chunzhi, you have never been my plaything. You are the one I want to spend my life with."
I don’t know where the love comes from, but it grows deeper and deeper.
As early as when Huo Zheng thought of taking Chunzhi back home to be a cook, he fell in love.
But at that time, he himself didn't know that he would fall deeply in love with Chunzhi.
If Huo Zheng had known earlier that he liked Chunzhi so much.
As early as when we were together day and night, I told her my true identity and explained my future plans to her.
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as knowing in advance.
Chunzhi didn't expect that the words that made her leave in anger were actually said by Huo Zheng to the Prince of Ning in order to protect her.
She also didn't expect that Huo Zheng actually wanted to spend his life with her.
Chunzhi kept telling herself "Don't be soft-hearted" in her heart. Her status and Huo Zheng's were so different that there would be no result at all.
She must not let Huo Zheng snatch the child away...
"It's too late." Chunzhi said to Huo Zheng calmly, "Huo Zheng, it's too late. I've fallen in love with Song Anlan and only want to have children with him and spend the rest of my life with him."
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