Gu Wanwan paused, "Why?"
He Wenyan looked at her steadily, and after a few seconds he spoke, "Everyone in the village is talking about you, Fu Jingchen, and Fu Xiangling. If you want to take revenge on me, there's no need to risk your own reputation."
"Renewing your engagement with me will put an end to the rumors in the village."
Gu Wanwan looked at him with only indifference and alienation in her eyes, without a trace of extraneous emotion. "Where's Gu Yarou? Your sister He Shuyan, don't tell me you don't know how much the elders of your He family hate me. What good will it do me to revive the engagement? Will it continue to make them look down on me? Do you think you'll be happy with Gu Yarou in the future? She's your sister's savior. As her brother, you can't marry her."
He Wenyan had never seen such an aggressive ex-fiancée before. She was a far cry from the weak and indecisive Gu Wanwan in his memory. "Yarou and I are not enemies. I treat her well because she helped my sister."
"Actually, I've wanted to apologize to you a long time ago. It was my family who broke off the engagement. I admit I was also at fault for not giving you enough of a sense of security. When your family was sent down, I was out of town. I wasn't by your side, sharing the burden with you. By the time I arrived in Beijing, you'd already been taken away by Gu Qiulin."
Gu Wanwan recalled the memories deep in her mind, her tone calm yet tinged with sarcasm, "But you didn't look for her, did you? What's the point of talking about this now? We've already called off the engagement. You and I are just familiar strangers."
"We siblings are living under someone else's roof, and you have no idea. Even if you knew, you wouldn't necessarily save us. After all, in your eyes, I'm just a shameless bed-climber who'll do anything to get your fiancée. I'm selfish and cowardly, and I only dare to bully Gu Yarou, who's weaker than me. How many times have you and your siblings misunderstood me because of Gu Yarou? You accused me of bullying Gu Yarou even though I didn't do it."
"Why don't you believe me? You want to slander and bully me. Did I dig up your He family's ancestral graves or kill your He family's ancestors? Did your grandmother have to cling to me and suck my blood? This time she sucked my blood, next time she will eat my flesh. And your mother, was it me who begged for the marriage between the Gu and He families? It was clearly your grandfather who begged for the marriage because he helped my grandfather. Otherwise, we would have no connection at all."
"Your mother looks down on me, but how could my Gu family look down on her? She and Gu Yarou's biological mother, Shi Zhenxiang, are close friends and sisters. This is their own business, but she should never kick someone when they are down and humiliate my Gu family. Did the He family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law do this? Did they ever think that my Gu family would rebel against the city one day? In fact, breaking off the engagement also hurts me. Even if we are together, we will separate in the future."
"I don't like my in-laws who tell me what to do and find fault with me all the time!"
He Wenyan's eyes dimmed a bit, and upon closer inspection, they showed a hint of unknown emotion. "I never knew you had suffered so much injustice. Why didn't you tell me?"
Gu Wanwan calmly replied, as if she'd heard a joke, "Would you believe me? After the bed-climbing incident, our relationship hit rock bottom. You ignored me. I looked for opportunities to explain things to you, but you either refused to meet me or sent Gu Yarou and He Shuyan to get rid of me. You and Gu Yarou are so close, you're just trying to make me take advantage of the situation. From the beginning, you were content with this marriage, weren't you?"
"Don't tell you, now you are attracted by my personality change and have lost interest in Gu Yarou. Do you think I will believe it?"
At this point, she suddenly changed the subject, "He Wenyan, don't test me. I'm the real Gu Wanwan, not a fake. I remember everything that happened, including the bed-climbing incident. I can only tell you that I was framed. Believe it or not."
"Also, everyone changes, especially after experiencing torture and abuse, the pain of separation from family, and teetering on the brink of death. You know, weakness almost killed me. Kind people are bullied. Only if you are strong can you avoid being bullied..."
He Wenyan's expression was complicated. Her words were like a stone weighing on his heart. Only today did he realize that the Gu Wanwan in front of him was the real Gu Wanwan. Those painful experiences had caused her to grow up quickly. She was no longer the weak and helpless young lady who needed to be protected.
"I'm willing to compensate you for my neglect. I heard about your affairs from my sister and Xu Luoxue. It wasn't my intention to break off the engagement. No matter how much I dislike you, I would never be so heartless as to abandon you. My father has heard about your family's affairs for a long time. If I really wanted to dissolve the marriage, I would have done so long before the Gu family was sent down."
"My elders told me that your aunt felt that you were not worthy of me and broke off the engagement."
I vaguely remember that he was surprised at the time, and then gradually chose to forget about it as if he was 'sulking'.
Why was he so angry? Perhaps he felt that Gu Wanwan treated marriage like a joke. After she slept with him, he had never thought of breaking off the engagement. He was a cold-hearted man, and marrying anyone was fine. He never expected Gu Wanwan to abandon him.
Gu Wanwan smiled and shook her head. Where was He Wenyan when Gu Wanwan needed him before?
Judging from He Shuyan's matchmaking nature, she is probably busy all day trying to help her brother and Gu Yarou develop a relationship. The male protagonist is deeply attracted to the female protagonist and is enjoying himself in her arms. How could he even think of his cannon fodder ex-fiancée?
"It's too late. I don't want you, the He family, to make me face the old witch who sucks my blood and the mother-in-law who finds fault with me every day. I'm in such a bad mood now that I can't stand it for a moment. As a son, will you help the elders? Or will you disobey them and protect me? I'm sure you already have the answer in your heart."
"Besides, my grandparents will not allow the He family to trample on me again!"
"No matter how much you feel guilty about me, and no matter how much you want to make amends to me, it's a fact that your He family helped Gu Yarou target me. It's also a fact that you trust Gu Yarou more than me. Don't even mention that you're deeply attracted to me and regret breaking off the engagement with me. If that's the case, your sister He Shuyan will be disappointed, and your Gu Yarou will hate me to the core."
"The rumors in the village never stop. Who has ever seen me care? Those scumbag women who spread rumors about me being an extramarital affair and breaking up marriages will eventually suffer the consequences."
Instantly, his spiritual sense caught sight of He Shuyan and Gu Yarou hiding behind a large tree, and he immediately became playful. "He Wenyan, the more I think about it, the more I think you might have really fallen in love with me. That's why you're so anxious to ask me to renew our engagement."
He Wenyan was stunned, and rarely did he deny it in person. To be honest, he couldn't understand his own feelings. On the one hand, he didn't want to have too much contact with Gu Wanwan and wanted them to not disturb each other as long as possible. On the other hand, he couldn't help being attracted to her and always silently paid attention to her every move.
"Are you really not afraid of your sister and Gu Yarou rebelling? If Gu Yarou knew that you are still obsessed with me..."
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