"What's the matter? Tell me, my boss still needs me." When there were only the two of them left, Zhang Qinghua asked directly.
Actually, he didn't want to be alone with Luo Juan, but judging from Luo Juan's appearance today, he knew that if he didn't please her, he probably wouldn't be able to leave.
That's why we're in this situation now.
"You..." Luo Juan felt a burning pain in her throat, as if the pain was so intense that she couldn't even speak or make a sound.
Finally, she could only swallow hard, her anxiety almost overflowing. She felt a little timid at that moment.
It's just a simple question, why can't I just say it?
She steeled herself and bit her tongue hard. Only when the sharp pain spread throughout her body did she feel a little better.
"You...you're engaged to Song Lili?" But the voice that came out was still low and hoarse, as if he had been thirsting for a long time.
Zhang Qinghua nodded quickly. "Yes, you should have heard that today is the engagement ceremony."
"Why...? Shouldn't we be engaged?" Luo Juan felt as if she could hear the sound of her own heart dying, a sound that filled her with despair.
The person she had been longing for for years told her in such a calm, even indifferent tone, that he was engaged, but not to her.
This...who could tolerate it?
Along with despair came Luo Juan anger and hatred—hatred for the boy in front of her, and even more hatred for Song Lili, with whom he was engaged.
Why? Why should Song Lili steal her man? Shouldn't Zhang Qinghua be her fiancé? They are the real couple; it was Song Lili who suddenly appeared and stole everything.
Therefore, Song Lili deserves to die; she should disappear the most.
“We were chosen by your mother. Don’t you want to listen to your mother? Does your mother not keep her word?” Luo Juan asked excitedly.
“Of course my mother’s word is law, but it’s your family that’s not keeping their word, Luo Juan. Don’t tell me you didn’t know about what happened back then,” Zhang Qinghua said coldly.
Just thinking about Luo Weijia's disdainful look back then makes Zhang Qinghua feel a surge of anger that he can't shake off.
"What is it?" Luo Juan was confused and had no idea what Zhang Qinghua was talking about.
"You didn't know?" Zhang Qinghua asked in surprise, a hint of disbelief in his eyes.
"What exactly are you talking about? Can you be more specific? What is it that I should know? Tell me!"
Luo Juan suddenly had a premonition that what Zhang Qinghua was talking about was the matter that would make him change his mind, and that this matter was done by her family.
But what exactly happened? Why didn't she know?
Zhang Qinghua took a deep breath. "Since you don't know, then go back and ask your boss. I don't want to say."
"I think if you knew the answer, you wouldn't be asking me this question in the first place, because you're not qualified to."
After saying this coldly, Zhang Qinghua turned around and walked home without looking back, not wanting to say anything more to Luo Juan.
"Stop right there! Tell me what happened! I can ask my own father, but I'm asking you now. Tell me!" Luo Juan shouted hysterically from behind.
A surge of anger welled up inside Zhang Qinghua. He turned around, looked at Luo Juan indifferently, and gave a sarcastic smile. "You really want to know?"
"Yes, I want to know, I want to hear you say it." Luo Juan looked at Zhang Qinghua stubbornly, seemingly still holding onto hope, with a glimmer of expectation in her eyes.
"Fine, since you want to hear it, then I'll tell you. I hope you never appear in front of me again. Whenever you do, I feel disgusted."
"You wanted to know what happened, didn't you? I'll tell you, when we were starving, it was your great-uncle Luo Weijia who came and broke off the engagement himself."
He said that your family doesn't need any burdens or drags you down, and that the previous marriage agreement was just a verbal agreement and doesn't count.
"From now on, our two families will have no relationship whatsoever. We'll just be ordinary neighbors. Tell us not to cling to your family."
Zhang Qinghua smiled bitterly, "Luo Juan, are all your family members this arrogant? Back then, I never thought of asking your family for help."
"But your father-in-law jumped out on his own, even looking down on my family. He abandoned me back then. Do you think I would ever go back and reconcile with him?"
"So don't come at me like you've been wronged. I don't owe you anything, and you have no right to question me."
Zhang Qinghua gave Luo Juan a cold look before turning and leaving, feeling that the breath he had been holding in was finally released.
After holding it in for so many years, he finally spoke out, and the anger, frustration, and resentment he felt at the time seemed to have vanished.
He felt much better.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered, I saw Zhang Shengtian, whose eyes were red and staring at the door, with tears seemingly swirling in the corners of his eyes.
"Big Brother..." Zhang Qinghua paused for a moment, then called out hesitantly.
"Are you telling the truth?" Zhang Shengtian stared at Zhang Qinghua like a trapped wild beast.
Zhang Qinghua sighed inwardly, feeling somewhat regretful. Why couldn't he have resisted? Now look what happened, his father had overheard them.
However, he still nodded. "It's true, but my mother told me not to tell you. She said it would make you feel bad if you heard it."
Zhang Qinghua still remembers his mother's expression at the time, her face full of bitterness and her eyes brimming with tears, but she still held back and told him not to tell the family.
He was furious and wanted to ask Luo Weijia why he looked down on his family.
But in the end, his mother stopped him and told him to keep quiet and not tell anyone about it, and to just pretend that nothing had happened.
He couldn't bear to see his mother upset, so he had no choice but to agree. He kept it a secret for so many years, but now it's been exposed to everyone.
Zhang Qinghua no longer cared how Zhang Shengtian would feel after finding out. Anyway, his mother was gone, and he had a girl he liked and they were engaged.
Therefore, nothing should have changed.
Just as Zhang Qinghua had expected, after hearing this, Zhang Shengtian's eyes turned red with anger, his eyes widened, and his hands clenched into fists, as if he were about to rush out and fight someone to the death.
But he remained rational. After standing there for a long time, he deflated like a punctured balloon and slumped down.
Finally, all he could do was sigh deeply, "Sigh... You should have told me, but I didn't know, I knew absolutely nothing..."
"If I had known, I wouldn't have cared about the agreement with the Luo family. I would have already arranged that girl's marriage for you. Sigh..."
Zhang Shengtian was only angry with himself. Why hadn't he been more careful back then? He wouldn't have been kept in the dark for so many years.
If he finds out, he definitely won't let Luo Weijia off so easily.
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