Truth 1
After Shen Huaijin left that day, Xu Lingwan was surprised to find the next day that Shen Huaijin's confinement of her had expanded.
Her range of activities now extends to the junction of the backyard and the front yard.
Ling Wan found it amusing. What was the difference between a prison camp with one courtyard and a prison camp with several courtyards?
She had already accepted the reality that she could not escape, so she no longer cared about what the former dean was like.
Shen Huaijin noticed that Xu Lingwan seemed to have lost some weight.
He called a doctor, who, after taking her pulse, smiled and said, "Don't worry, my dear. Madam is fine, and the child is healthy. I think this is our first child, so I'm worried about her."
"I'm prescribing some medicine to soothe the liver and strengthen the spleen. My dear, please spend more time with me, my lady."
"Young Master." The doctor didn't recognize them, thinking they were a young couple seeking refuge from the summer heat in the mountains. He secretly rejoiced at this legitimate yet subtle title, and had his guards present them with a thick silver seal and send them off.
Ling Wan, he said I am your husband. Thinking of this, Shen Huaijin couldn't help but curl up the corners of his lips slightly.
Unexpectedly, after three days of his treatment, Xu Lingwan had become so thin that her face was the size of a palm. She still ate well, slept well, and even had fun, but she had lost a lot of weight.
Chen Yuanyuan concluded that as the child grew, his body organs were squeezed, causing her appetite to be less strong than before.
Shen Huaijin began to panic, threatening Hongyue and Lvyun's lives. Ling Wan listened without saying a word, silently lowering her head and eating another bowl of rice. But not long after finishing, she vomited it all out. She frowned slightly, her face pale.
Shen Huaijin didn't dare to threaten anymore.
Such a haggard and trying hard appearance reminded him of another close relative in the Shen family.
But he looked at Xu Lingwan and said viciously: "Lingwan, I will never let you return to the Shen family, and I will never let you go."
"If you need anything, I'll go with you. I hope the King of Hell will remember my love for you and that we can be a legitimate couple in the next life."
Chen Yuanyuan looked at him with complicated eyes. She thought, this father and son from the Shen family both wanted to take her away. They didn't want her to have a peaceful life in the afterlife.
After drinking the medicine, the effect took effect and Xu Lingwan fell into a deep dream in a short while.
Chen Cong came again in the dream.
This time he was much thinner. He kissed her eyebrows, her eyes, and finally her lips and called her name.
Ling Wan. Ling Wan.
In the dream, Chen Yuanyuan cried and asked him why he came so late.
Chen Cong frowned and wiped the tears from her eyes. She didn't hear what he said because she was just crying.
After she finished crying, she let Chen Cong go, saying that he was too late now, she didn't want him anymore, and she didn't want to be his second wife anymore.
Chen Yuanyuan had no idea how Chen Cong reacted, because she woke up crying, her face covered in tears.
The room was lit with the aroma of crabapple incense, and Ling Wan lifted the gauze curtain and vaguely saw the motionless figure of Qing Jun outside the screen.
Shen Huaijin dared to light the crabapple incense in her room and even dared to stay in the other garden at night.
"Get out." She lowered the curtains and said in a cold voice, "If you still have your father in your eyes, get out."
This was the first time she mentioned Chen Cong in all these days. In fact, she had made up her mind the moment she came to the villa. If Shen Huaijin dared to force her, the worst that could happen was that they would both perish, with one body and two lives.
Outside, Shen Huaijin seemed to have stood up, and the subtle sound of clothes rubbing against each other could be heard in the room.
He paused, listening to the footsteps that seemed to be heading towards her.
Xu Lingwan took out a golden hairpin from the pillow, sat up, and placed it against her delicate neck.
The gauze curtain was lifted. Just when Xu Lingwan was about to threaten death, she saw the haggard face in her dream.
He had lost a lot of weight, his eye sockets were sunken, and his eyes were bloodshot.
"Ling Wan." Chen Cong suddenly reached out to grab the hairpin from her hand, but found that she was holding it tightly, staring at him without blinking, tears rolling down silently.
His heart ached and he dared not use any more force. He could only lean over and hug her, holding her hand with one hand and patting her back with the other: "Ling Wan, it's me. Ling Wan, I'm sorry."
As she spoke, Chen Cong's tears began to fall. They fell on Xu Lingwan's face. She was stunned for a moment, then burst into tears.
"Go away, go away! I don't want to see you!" Ling Wan was no longer as calm as usual. She used her hands and feet to push him and kick him.
Chen Cong let her kick and hit him wantonly, and kept kissing the tears she left behind: "It's my fault, it's my fault, dear, it's okay, I'll take you home."
Go home. What kind of home does she have now? Even if she goes back, Chen Cong will still be suspicious of her, and the two of them will become a pair of resentful couples who hate each other.
"I don't want to... I don't want to go back." Ling Wan cried hard, but still asked him to go away, tears streaming down her face.
Chen Cong held her tightly in his arms. He moved from the corner of her eyes to the tip of her nose, and finally pried open her pearly teeth.
It was a long-awaited kiss. It was wet with tears, salty and wet. At first, Xu Lingwan pushed him away, but Chen Cong wouldn't let him resist, almost forcefully forcing her to accept this inevitable invasion.
Ling Wan bit him hard, drawing blood. But Master Shen didn't care. He held her tongue tightly, stirring her with blood and tears until she softened.
"I said, you can't leave me." After the long kiss, Chen Cong had returned to his usual calm, but there was a dark look in his eyes.
Ling Wan turned her face away, her shoulders twitching as she said, "Let me go. I don't want you to be suspicious of me."
Chen Cong narrowed his eyes slightly and turned her face away: "What nonsense are you talking about."
Of course he knew what Xu Lingwan was thinking, but Xu Lingwan didn't know what he was thinking or what he was doing.
He thought that if Ling Wan knew what he had done, she would really leave.
"You were pregnant, and I just sent you to the villa to rest during the summer. Now that the weather is getting colder, why don't you go back?" Chen Cong smiled at her and kissed her belly again.
Ling Wan said nothing and shrank deeper into the bed.
Chen Cong grabbed her ankles, his eyes darkening. After a while, he calmed down and said, "If you don't want to go back, then don't go back. We'll stay here until you want to go back."
We. Who is with you is us.
Ling Wan didn't dare look at him: "You know everything, don't you?"
Chen Cong nodded, his face expressionless.
So Ling Wan said, "Then let me go. Whether you believe it or not, there's nothing going on between Shen Huaijin and me, this will be a thorn in your heart. It's even more of a thorn in mine."
Chen Cong touched her ankle with the tip of his thumb. From this angle, his expression seemed a little gloomy. "Where are you going, Ling Wan? You're still pregnant with our child."
Ling Wan struggled to get free, but could not: "The world is so big, there is always a place for me."
He thought, let her know. If he hadn't told her in person, he wouldn't be able to stop her when she found out.
"No place for you? Then where will you be? The Ancient Tea Horse Road, the Western Regions, or Suzhou and Yangzhou?" Chen Cong raised his head and even smiled at her. "Ling Wan, you can only be by my side."
Xu Lingwan was stunned for a moment, then reacted and felt a chill on her back: "You...when did you find out that Shen Huaijin imprisoned me?"
Chen Cong didn't respond to her. He just rubbed her ankle bone repeatedly with his fingertips. After the cartilage became hot and red, he raised his red eyes and said to himself, "Ling Wan, you look beautiful in light green clothes."
"You don't like Shen Huaijin. You said you have feelings for me, and I'm very happy."
Xu Lingwan understood immediately that perhaps, from the moment Shen Huaijin came here, or even before he came here, Shen Cong had already known that Shen Huaijin had imprisoned him.
"You - what do you think of me?" Ling Wan's tears instantly burst out, and she was so angry that she couldn't help vomiting.
Chen Cong pinched her pulse, lowered his eyes, and said in a calm, steady, and cold voice: "When you took the initiative to avoid Chen Huaijin three months ago, I sent people to investigate you and him."
"Ling Wan, you met him when you were still in your boudoir. A year before I married you, he proposed that the Shen family and the Wang family arrange a marriage, saying that he wanted to marry a woman he liked."
His wrist was pinched so hard that it hurt. Chen Cong's eyes were full of sharp ice blades: "He saw you at the Lu family. He only knew that you were the Lu family's cousin, but he didn't know that you were the Lu family's cousin surnamed Xu."
"When he came back and told me about it, I agreed. The Wang family's child has always been in poor health, and the Wang family had long intended to cancel the engagement. I didn't know at the time that the woman he wanted to marry was actually you."
The past was revealed, and frames of it flashed through Chen Yuanyuan's mind.
If it happened in modern times, it wouldn't be a big deal. It was just two young people who had never met before getting to know each other.
When the boy was most anxious and sad, the girl gave him timely comfort and made him secretly fall in love with her. The boy made up his mind that if he got married after the mourning period, he would marry her.
As luck would have it, before the boy had the chance to inquire, he heard from afar that the seventh cousin of the Lu family had suddenly gotten engaged.
In ancient times, outsiders rarely knew the names of girls in the boudoir. Since the man knew that the girl was already engaged, he would not ask who the sixth cousin of the Lu family was, and he was always sad.
But when he got home, he found out that the sixth cousin of the Lu family he admired was actually his stepmother. Any normal man would not be able to digest this for a while, not to mention that the boy was deeply in love with the girl.
No wonder Chen Yuanyuan felt that Shen Huaijin's eyes were strange when he first saw her and didn't have time to think about it.
Presumably, the real Xu Lingwan had no impression of this incident, so it was hidden deeper in her memory.
"So what you're trying to say is that you watched me being held captive by Shen Huaijin as a test to see if there was any affair between Shen Huaijin and me?" Chen Yuanyuan sneered. Xu Lingwan hadn't crossed the line, nor had she secretly pledged her life to Shen Huaijin. Her unintentional words of comfort at the time made her wrong?
Master Shen squeezed her wrist tighter and admitted it very straightforwardly: "Yes. If I don't do this, no matter what happens between you and him, it will be a thorn that will get deeper and deeper."
"Heh." Ling Wan glanced at him coldly, "So you are satisfied now?"
Chen Cong stared into her eyes: "Yes."
Bang! Chen Yuanyuan couldn't contain her anger and slapped him in the face with her other hand: "Get lost."
He watched her fall into danger without rescuing her, even at the cost of her reputation, just to test a hypothesis that had no basis whatsoever.
As the saying goes, like father, the son is ruthless and decisive.
Chen Cong's expression was so gloomy that it looked like ice, but Ling Wan gradually calmed down in the face of his calm yet turbulent expression.
She wants a divorce.
She wants a divorce.
This was her only thought at the moment.
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