"Fu Tingshen, what are you trying to do? Let me go."
Li Xi suppressed his inner unease and shouted, his voice strong but his heart pounding.
The man closed his eyes slightly, put his index finger to his lips, and said, "Shh~"
"Xiaoxi, you can't speak so loudly."
“Look, doesn’t this scene look just like the one you did to me in the Red Flag Brigade?”
A leather belt lay on the table, seemingly brushing against something unintentionally.
Upon seeing the belt, Li Xi's pupils contracted sharply, and he shook his head slightly, his whole body trembling.
She was driven to the brink of madness at the time, and with the help of the drugs left by the system and Fu Tingshen's situation, she vented her pent-up emotions.
Since she chose the belt, it must be because it's the most convenient and the thing that hurts the most when hitting someone.
She softened her tone: "Ting Shen, Brother Ting Shen, you know that the reason I treated you that way was because your mind wasn't on your studies. I was afraid of holding you back, afraid that you would regret it later and blame me for not taking good care of you."
"I'm doing this for your own good. You can't, you can't treat me like this."
As soon as the words "For your own good" were uttered, the belt snapped and lashed out.
"Ah~" Li Xi turned her head to the side and screamed repeatedly.
The scream was partly out of fear and partly to attract the attention of the neighbors, but as soon as she shouted, she was scolded by Fu Tingshen.
"If you don't shut up, you'll lose your tongue."
They fell silent instantly.
Soon after, she closed her eyes and began to sob, her chest heaving violently due to the intense emotional turmoil.
A hand touched her face, its fingertips gently wiping away the tears. "Why are you crying?"
"Don't worry, I won't use it to hit you, as long as you behave."
Li Xi's eyelashes trembled slightly as she opened her eyes with a hint of disbelief.
"Brother Ting Shen, please let me go. If Xiao Xi did something wrong, just tell me and I'll change."
The best course of action now is to keep him calm. Once he releases her, we can find an opportunity to escape.
Fu Tingshen chuckled, "Xiao Xi, are you going to let you go and elope with someone else?"
Li Xi's mouth opened slightly, her throat tightened, her eyes blinked rapidly, and she forced an awkward smile. "Brother Ting Shen, what are you saying? I don't understand."
"Don't you understand? So you're saying that all the time I've been following you and seeing you being intimate with a man was just me being wrong?"
"The entrance to Peking University, the movie theater, the ice rink, the billiards hall..."
With each location he mentioned, Li Xi's expression grew increasingly grim.
She realized that Fu Tingshen's recent unusual behavior was all because he had discovered it.
That time at the state-run restaurant, he did it on purpose. He knew it was her, so he deliberately made noises behind her and even said some ambiguous things when he got home, just to see her make a fool of herself.
She screamed, "You were following me?"
Fu Tingshen calmly shook his head, "I was just worried about you and wanted to protect your safety. I didn't expect Xiaoxi to prepare such a big surprise for me."
Li Xi's expression kept changing as she pondered a solution.
Fu Tingshen simply admired it.
After a long silence, Li Xi calmly spoke: "I was originally planning to tell you after a while, but since you've told me everything, then we...we...we..."
Li Xi was stuck there, unable to utter the word "divorce."
"What happened?"
Fu Tingshen's expression was pleased. "Can't you come out those two words?"
"How do you know? Did you do this?" Li Xi asked in surprise. She hadn't said anything, so how could he know so much?
"You think too highly of me. I should be asking you, Xiaoxi, how you managed to silence me. I tried it back in the Red Flag Brigade."
Otherwise, why do you think I didn't say anything when you forced me to marry you, even though I clearly didn't want to?
He said that just to tell Li Xi that they could never be separated in this life, but who would have thought that she would come up with such an unconventional plan.
"Since we have the same idea, why don't we just go?"
Fu Tingshen's eyes were dark. "What makes you think I'm willing to help you get out of this predicament?"
"Moreover, if you can't even say it, how can you possibly do it?"
"Accept your fate. Even God thinks we should be together. Stop struggling."
"No, I don't believe it, I don't believe it." Li Xi kept shaking her head and muttering to herself.
Just as Fu Tingshen was about to do something, there was a knock on the door.
Li Xi's eyes lit up, and she was about to shout when she received a slightly strange look from Fu Tingshen.
Fu Tingshen walked out, opened the door, and met Lu Jingxuan's gaze. For a moment, his eyes turned bloodshot.
No man can tolerate being cuckolded, even if he doesn't love or even hates the woman, he can't allow anyone else to be with her.
Even though he had heard the truth before, Lu Jingxuan was still in a daze when he actually saw it.
He heard himself ask him, "Does Li Xi live here?"
Fu Tingshen raised an eyebrow. "That's right, I am her husband, Fu Tingshen." He deliberately emphasized the word "husband."
He stepped aside from the doorway: "Come in and sit down."
Lu Jingxuan didn't know how he lifted his foot, and by the time he came to his senses, he was already sitting down.
Whether it was intentional or not, when Fu Tingshen looked up, he could just see the photo frame on the shelf, and the people in the photo were undoubtedly him and Li Xi.
"Where is Li Xi? I need to talk to her."
Lu Jingxuan didn't waste any words and went straight to the point. Judging from the fact that Fu Tingshen hadn't asked who he was and was hostile towards him, he should already know about their relationship.
Fu Tingshen sneered, "This... comrade, you come here so abruptly and immediately ask to see my wife. Aren't you treating me like I'm not human?"
This was the first time in all his years that Lu Jingxuan had been ridiculed like this, and he couldn't even retaliate, since it was a fact that he had an affair with a married woman.
He is... a lover.
All of this was thanks to Li Xi, whom he considered pure and kind.
Lu Jingxuan's spine slumped slightly, and his voice sounded somewhat dejected: "I'm sorry, I just want an explanation."
"What explanation do you need? Don't you already know the truth? She deliberately seduced you to make you fall in love with her. What more explanation do you need?"
Fu Tingshen looked him up and down again. "Judging from your clothes, your family must be quite well-off. Let me tell you this, she only has her eye on your family background. I was also snatched away from her best friend by her."
Lu Jingxuan pursed his lips: "She said her boyfriend was stolen away by a very beautiful woman."
Fu Tingshen chuckled, draped his arms over his thighs, and leaned forward. "The beautiful woman she mentioned was someone who almost became my fiancée. Later, because of Li Xi, I disobeyed my parents, abandoned my childhood sweetheart, and got together with her. What have I gained now?"
Fu Tingshen spoke without blushing, believing that he was saving this man. There were some discrepancies, but they were insignificant.
"If you don't believe me, you can check and ask to see if I'm lying."
Lu Jingxuan remained silent for a moment, but persisted.
"I still want to hear her say it herself."
Fu Tingshen shrugged: "Okay."
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