Chapter 242 Have You Ever Loved Me?
Looking up from the hand that was tightly gripping the end of the dagger, Liang's face had changed expression.
She no longer looked astonished, nor was she as gentle and delicate as before. She was now vicious, like a poisonous snake, with cold and ruthless eyes, and blood in her tongue.
She really wanted to kill him!
Lin Chuan couldn't believe it.
Even though he thought about it countless times in the darkness of day and night, he ultimately denied it.
He and she were childhood sweethearts, growing up together. When they were playing, she had said countless times that she would marry him and be his wife.
When she was young, just looking at her would make her face turn red.
If he made a witty remark, she would call him a bad guy.
Whenever he said he would marry her when she came of age, she always ran away in a hurry.
But she had just reached the age of 15, and before he had the chance to propose marriage, she threw herself into his arms that night and cried breathlessly.
After questioning for a long time, she finally said that her elder sister had used some unknown means to attract the eldest son of the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion to propose marriage to her and take her with him as a concubine. Her father and mother had already agreed.
She didn't want to, but as a humble concubine she didn't even have the right to refuse.
She said, "If only my sister couldn't marry the eldest young master of the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion, I wouldn't have to follow her as a concubine. Cousin, I...I want to marry you."
It was him she wanted to marry.
That night, they became husband and wife.
She said that even if she became a concubine in the future, she would already be married to him.
How could his woman be someone else's concubine?
So, he destroyed her elder sister's appearance and then fled.
But he didn't expect that when he escaped back, the eldest son of the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion had married the Liang family's legitimate daughter, Su Rui's mother.
Although Liang was not taken to be a concubine, her marriage to the Zhou family was arranged.
She cried and said, "When I heard that my elder sister was disfigured, I knew it must be you, a fool, who did it. I don't know whether you are dead or alive. I am... I am pregnant with your child. Mother arranged a marriage for me with the Zhou family. For the sake of the child in my belly, I had no choice but to accept it."
He hated it, hated that he was late and missed her again.
But he was a fugitive, and Liang was pregnant with his child. Compared to having the child follow him, marrying into the Zhou family would also give the child a good identity.
He watched her marry into the Zhou family, and also watched her being bullied by that bastard from the Zhou family and causing her miscarriage. He then got poison and made that bastard seriously ill, forcing him to watch him marry Liang.
In order to get Liang out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible, he became a bandit, hoping to rob her of a large sum of money so that he could take her away and move to another place to live as a legitimate couple.
But unexpectedly, it changed again when I came back.
At a family dinner, the Yong'an Marquis, who had inherited the title, mistook Liang for the person who saved him and bullied her while drunk.
He wanted to kill the Marquis of Yong'an, but Liang stopped him and said that she was pregnant again and the child was his, but she told the Marquis of Yong'an that it was his.
She said that the man in the Zhou family was almost dead and that it was inhumane. If the Zhou family found out that she was pregnant, they would definitely throw her into a pig cage. If she followed him, the child in her belly would never see the light of day.
She had already let the child down last time, and now that the child was found again this time, she must give her a noble status and let her get the best in the world.
Thinking of his identity as a bandit, he finally agreed to her.
Later, when the bandit suppression began, he had to go far away. Every time he came back, she still waited for her, asking him to be patient and wait. As long as her daughter got married and lived a good life, the Marquis of Yong'an would be of no use to her. Then, she would take the family fortune and follow him to live in seclusion in the mountains.
He kept waiting and hoping.
For more than 20 years, he had suspected that Liang had cheated him.
But he didn't want to believe it.
Even now, even though he was extremely suspicious, he was unwilling to care. As long as Liang was willing to follow him and leave on the day they had agreed on many years ago, he could let bygones be bygones and not even think about it.
Even when he said he told Su Rui everything just now, it was just to scare her. The words of explanation were already on the tip of his tongue, but in the end, she stabbed him first.
She came with a dagger and from the beginning, she wanted to kill him.
"Why?" Lin Chuan stared at Liang and asked in confusion.
"Because you should have died a long time ago!" Liang gritted her teeth and twisted the dagger in her hand, trying to stab deeper and harder, ensuring that Lin Chuan would be killed in one blow. "You should have died over twenty years ago, fifteen years ago, ten years ago, five years ago, a year ago, and yet you refused to die and kept talking nonsense!"
Liang released all the resentment she had harbored over the years without any concealment. Her eyes, once gentle as water, were now filled with resentment, and it was difficult to find even a trace of love in them.
Lin Chuan wanted to grab her hand, but his broken hand was out of control, so he could only hang his arm on her hand, enduring the severe pain and asking: "You have been lying to me all this time? Liang Simiao, have you ever loved me?"
"How could I love you, a pauper? If you weren't useful, I wouldn't even bother looking at you." Liang twisted her hands even harder, as if she wanted to vent all the grievances she had endured over the years.
She only felt disgust towards Lin Chuan.
I've hated him since the first time I saw him as a child.
She was a peasant from a poor family. If her aunt hadn't been so confused and relied on the old man's favor to support her family, he would have wanted to see her too.
She didn't express her annoyance out loud in order to maintain her gentle image. Later, seeing that he was smart and had martial arts skills, which she could use, she said those words to coax him.
Unexpectedly, he would stick to her and wouldn't let go.
She asked him to disfigure her eldest sister, and she immediately reported him to the police, hoping to kill two birds with one stone. She disfigured her eldest sister and then had him hacked to death by the police. However, he was lucky and escaped.
A fugitive who comes back and wants to marry her is simply dreaming.
She could only fabricate the story of her pregnancy so that he wouldn't ruin her marriage.
But unexpectedly, after marrying into the Zhou family, Zhou turned out to be a sickly person who had no say in the family affairs. Even if he spoiled her and indulged her, it was of no use.
On the contrary, even though her elder sister was disfigured, her husband still treated her very well. After inheriting the title, she even became the Marquis's wife. But what about herself? Would she have to suffer in the Zhou family for the rest of her life?
After her eldest sister gave birth, she often went to visit her. She learned bits and pieces of the story between her and Marquis Yong'an from her, and even found out that Marquis Yong'an had never seen her true face before their marriage. She felt that this was an opportunity.
He went back to the Liang family to search for clues, and at several banquets, he took advantage of the drunken Marquis of Yong'an to ask for some details. After piecing together all the pieces, he finally got the whole picture.
She chose to take a risk instead.
She staged a play to make Lin Chuan mistakenly believe that it was Zhou who caused her miscarriage, making Zhou's illness worse and making it easier for her to act.
Unexpectedly, everything went more smoothly than she expected.
It turned out that Marquis Yong'an had long been disgusted with his eldest sister's ugly face, but he just didn't show it on the surface.
Just when she was pregnant and everything was going as she had arranged, Lin Chuan came back to haunt her like a ghost. He knew everything about her, and she couldn't kill him. She was also afraid of complications, so she could only tell him that the child was his and coax him to be patient for the sake of the child.
As for the idea of living in seclusion in the mountains with him in the future, it was just nonsense.
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