Chapter 191
Luo Yining never thought that Luo Shenyuan would find out.
The chaotic sounds were beating like tinnitus, or perhaps it really was tinnitus. She still stubbornly asked, "What do you mean by that?"
Seeing Luo Yining's pale face, Luo Shenyuan had nothing to understand.
He lowered his eyes, sat as steady as a mountain, and took the teapot to pour himself some tea. "Do you know how many secret guards there are in this mansion?"
"Every alley, every courtyard. I know who said what and what they did every day."
After he finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the string of beads she had asked the maid to find just now fell from his sleeve onto the small table, slid in front of her, and fell to the ground with a thud. The sound of it hitting the ground was like a slap on her face.
No maid brought it to her, so it turned out to be in his hands.
"Why are you silent? What happened in the Lu family back then—" He paused slightly, with a faint smile, "When did you ever stay in the Lu family? Were you ever Lu Si's wife?"
Luo Yining's hands were trembling. She wanted to bend down to pick up the Buddhist beads, but she didn't dare to move.
She was covered in cold sweat, in disbelief. She scolded herself thousands and tens of thousands of times in her heart, but it couldn't change the stupid fact. He heard it, he knew everything. He was so smart, he must have guessed everything. She was confused and swallowed, then slowly bent down to pick up the beads.
But then he pulled her away, stood up suddenly, and slapped her hand on the back of her hand.
"Don't pick it up!" His stern voice seemed to come from hell.
She seemed to be hurt by the beating, and finally she slowly squatted down, hugged her arms and cried.
"What are you crying for? Speak." He seemed to be disgusted with Luo Yining's weakness, pinching her chin and asking her to look at him.
Luo Yining cried so miserably and so ugly. She didn't want Luo Shenyuan to see her at all. She didn't like others watching her cry! But Luo Shenyuan didn't want her to bow her head. Her jaw hurt so much that it felt like it was about to break. He didn't care how miserable she was!
He waved his hand and let go. Luo Yining finally stood up. Perhaps the sudden uncontrollable crying was due to fear. She was calmer now. She stood up awkwardly and shakily by the edge of the bed. There was no room for quibbling. There was no way to cover up the truth except to tell the truth. Luo Yining suddenly smiled: "Forget it, if you want to listen to me, just tell me."
She stretched out her hand slightly: "Sit down and listen."
"Do you know that Lu Jiaxue actually has a wife?" Luo Yining asked him first.
Luo Shenyuan didn't answer, and Luo Yining didn't wait for him to answer. She continued, "His original wife was from the Shunde Luo family. The Luo family had two Jinshi (imperial scholar) graduates. When the third master, Luo San, passed away, she left behind several daughters. The Luo who married Lu Jiaxue was the youngest of them. Without her mother, she grew up like this. Then she met the young Lu Jiaxue. Lu Jiaxue wanted to marry her, but Luo's family background wasn't good enough for him, so he used some trickery to bring her back to the Lu family."
She seemed to be recalling the past.
Luo Shenyuan listened slowly, his expression growing darker. This was what he least wanted to hear… At first, he wanted her to explain herself, but now, he suddenly felt a little regretful.
"Later, as for the Lu family, Lu Jiaxue had no status, so he secretly plotted against his brother's position as Crown Prince. He wanted to protect the woman he married, Luo. He told her nothing and acted like a playboy, so she was completely deceived by him. Later, she died in a fight, falling off a cliff. But after her death, Lu Jiaxue rose to the highest position in the government."
Luo Shenyuan closed his eyes indifferently, and his silent breathing lengthened in the dark night.
"But perhaps that Luo Shi wasn't destined to die, and her soul landed in the body of the little girl who just passed away. And so, she continued to live on in that little girl's place... That little girl had a half-brother who loved her dearly, but the little girl didn't even consider this half-brother a human being... Do you know who this Luo Shi is?"
"Enough! Stop talking!" Luo Shenyuan suddenly interrupted her rudely.
"That's the Yining in front of you." Luo Yining continued. If he didn't make it clear... this relationship would never be good.
Like a glacier collapsing, the cold mixed with snow roared down, completely submerging him.
The rumbling sound of breaking and roaring, this absurd past was almost devastating. This person once belonged completely to another person, and lived with him. He immediately laughed softly: "I always thought that Lu Jiaxue and I had a grudge against each other for stealing my wife. This is not wrong, it's just that we are wrong - so, I, Luo Shenyuan, am the one who stole my wife?"
"And you—should have been the wife of the Ningyuan Marquis?" He looked at her with a hint of sarcasm. "That's why you met with him repeatedly and helped him preserve the protective Buddhist beads."
Luo Yining felt a sting when he heard this.
What did he mean? Meeting Lu Jiaxue wasn't her own choice, and she didn't want to talk about it. She wished these things didn't exist, but she had no choice. "...If you insist on thinking so, then—if I hadn't died, I would be the wife of Ningyuan Hou now." She seemed to be mocking herself.
"When did he find out?" Luo Shenyuan suppressed the emotion that was about to destroy everything in his heart and continued to ask, "Tell me, when did Lu Jiaxue find out!"
His voice was still cold and harsh. Luo Yining smiled bitterly and replied, "Three months after we got married...that day when I was injured."
He was silent longer this time.
Including every little detail about her and Lu Jiaxue, her words to dissuade him from fighting with Lu Jiaxue, her being abducted by Lu Jiaxue, the natural aura she had when they were together, Lu Jiaxue's strange paranoia towards her...it turned out that all these had reasons.
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