Why are they so intimate in Chapter 2?
"No!" Liu Nian said firmly, "I will not agree to marry Su Hang!"
"Liu Nian, it's not that I'm criticizing you, but how can you be so ungrateful? It's already a favor that they don't look down on you!"
“Exactly, you’re not even clean yourself, what right do you have to be picky?” Wang Xiuzhi rolled her eyes, clearly disgusted.
Liu Hua tugged at Liu Nian's hand, "I think Su Hang is a good kid."
Liu Nian glanced at everyone, her aura imposing—
"First of all, my innocence has not been tarnished! Secondly, we must catch the murderer, and that murderer is you!" Liu Nian pointed at Su Hang, her tone fierce.
Su Hang's expression changed instantly. "You, what nonsense are you talking about?"
“I have evidence.”
The man's deep voice drew everyone's attention. A man in a coarse cloth shirt was carrying Er Laizi, tossing him in front of the crowd like a chick, and then taking a silver bracelet out of Er Laizi's pocket.
It's Su Xu! Young Su Xu, with bright eyes, bronze skin, and a muscular physique, a tough and masculine man.
"I didn't do anything! It was Su Hang! Su Hang gave me a silver bracelet and told me to knock Liu Nian unconscious in the grove! I really didn't do anything!" Er Laizi knelt on the ground, bruised and battered, wailing and shouting, "Su Hang's name is even engraved on that silver bracelet! Go see for yourselves if you don't believe me!"
Everyone went to look, and sure enough, Su Hang's name was engraved on the inner ring of the silver bracelet.
The Su family prepared this for Su Hang when he was a month old. Su Xu and Su Hang were twins, but Su Xu was not.
Su Hang's face turned pale. "No, no! It was Er Laizi who stole it!"
Er Laizi immediately panicked, "You're talking nonsense!" He was so angry that he spat out words, "It was clearly you, you ordered me to do it! You made me knock Liu Nian unconscious and pretend to ruin her reputation! Don't try to pin this on me!"
The crowd gasped in disbelief. "How could Su Hang do such a thing? Isn't this ruining someone's reputation?"
"This kind of person should be locked up in a cowshed immediately!"
"I never imagined Su Hang would be this kind of person, he's so despicable!"
"Su Xu, what do you want to do?" Wang Xiuzhi rushed out, grabbing a basket and hitting Su Xu. "You're bringing outsiders to bully your own people? You ingrate!"
Because it was his own mother, Su Xu didn't dare to do anything and let Wang Xiuzhi hit and scold him. But Liu Nian didn't care about that. He grabbed Wang Xiuzhi's hand, threw her hard, and slammed her to the ground.
"No! No!" Su Hang cried, looking at Liu Nian with tears streaming down his face. "I did this because I love you! Please, let me go!"
"Besides, you haven't lost anything, so why don't we just let it go?" Wang Xiuzhi quickly lowered her voice and played the victim. "He just likes you too much and didn't mean to hurt you. We all live in the same village, please be kind. If this is reported to the police, Su Hang will be executed!"
Upon hearing the mention of execution, the villagers who had previously sided with Liu Nian immediately softened and began to speak well of Su Hang.
"Nian girl, you have the kindest heart. Besides, Su Hang didn't really want to do anything to you, did he?"
"That's right. We're all from the same village. We should be forgiving when we can. It's also a way to do good deeds and accumulate merit for ourselves."
"If you report this, you'll ruin Su Hang's life! The Su family and your Liu family will become sworn enemies! You'd better think this through!"
Liu Nian frowned slightly, glancing at the crowd, but unexpectedly met a pair of eyes fixed on him. Those eyes burned like a raging fire. For decades in his previous life, that gaze had been his constant companion. Liu Nian hadn't understood then, but now he finally understood the hidden love this man held within him.
She looked down at the patched-up garment lying on the ground; it turned out to be Su Xu's.
In her previous life, after Liu Nian accepted Su Hang's marriage proposal, she remembered Su Xu standing outside the crowd, staring at her intently with a face full of resentment.
Liu Nian immediately had an idea. She picked up the clothes from the ground and draped them over Su Xu's shoulders, saying, "Of course, for Su Xu's sake, I can refrain from reporting this to the police."
Everyone was puzzled by Liu Nian's words and looked at him with confusion. Why were the two of them so intimate?
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