Chapter 426 You Shouldn't Have Liked Pei Yuan
Luo Heng lowered his eyes and slowly straightened up.
"Don't be afraid, Ah Chu. How could I hurt your child? As long as you are obedient, I can raise the child as my own."
Shen Chu sat up, supporting her belly, and leaned against the bedside, looking at him warily.
"Luo Heng, how did you become like this? You weren't like this before."
She remembered the white-clad boy who had fallen from the sky and saved her at a snack stall in the capital.
At that time, Luo Heng had long eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and a gentle expression.
There's also Luo Heng who fainted at the sight of blood during their sworn brotherhood ceremony, Luo Heng who talked with her all night at Rongbaozhai, and Luo Heng who went to Changsha Prefecture with them.
He has a gentle temperament, a refined smile, and is like a humble gentleman.
But the Luo Heng before him was a completely different person. His eyes were sinister, and the aura he exuded was gloomy. He no longer had the slightest bit of the humble and gentlemanly demeanor he once had.
Upon hearing this, Luo Heng twitched the corner of his mouth, which aggravated the wound on his face.
He wiped the smile off his face and let out a sneer.
"Changed to this? How do you know what kind of person I used to be? Heh, Chu, you're too naive."
I suffered terribly from a young age, enduring oppression from my tribe. They forced me to bark like a dog and kneel on the ground to lick the things they threw away. I endured so much humiliation to grow up.
Do you think I, someone who grew up in such an environment, would be a gentleman?
At this point, Luo Heng paused slightly, as if recalling those unpleasant experiences from his childhood.
His gaze darkened for a moment, then turned cold and fierce.
"Fortunately, I proved myself and gradually took the Luo family back."
Those members of the Luo clan who bullied me, do you know how I treated them?
Luo Heng looked at Shen Chu with a smile.
A chill ran down Shen Chu's spine. He murmured, "You retaliated against them?"
Luo Heng pulled up a chair and sat opposite Shen Chu, poured himself a cup of cold tea, slowly drank it, leaned over to look at Shen Chu, and said softly:
“Those who forced me to bark like a dog, I made them kneel at my feet on dog leashes and bark like a dog for a day and a night, and then I cut off their heads.”
Those who forced me to lick food, I made them lick the ground every meal until I got tired of watching them, and then I gave them a quick death with a knife.
Those gossipy women who called me a dog, I had their tongues cut out and fed to the dogs.
"Stop talking." Shen Chu interrupted him, her face pale, feeling a chill run down her spine.
Luo Heng didn't say anything more, looking at her with a gentle expression.
"Are you scared? Then I won't say anything, Ah Chu. I won't hurt you. As long as you don't leave me, I will never hurt you."
Shen Chu's clenched hands trembled incessantly, and even her lips turned white.
What exactly do you like about me?
Luo Heng unconsciously stroked the cup with his fingers, his gaze gradually softening.
"The first time I saw you was at Rongbaozhai, where you and Li Anning were teaching those arrogant young noblemen a lesson."
Your eyes are bright and lively. You may be lecturing someone, but your words make people want to laugh, and your actions are clean and swift.
I thought to myself, "This person is really interesting."
"Later, I happened to save you at a food stall, and Chengxuan and the others suggested that the four of us become sworn brothers."
I thought to myself, this person is different from me; he's very sincere and simple. He's opened his heart to me after I saved his life.
"Ah Chu, you know what? You're like a little sun, warm, sincere, and loyal, yet you're also as clever and witty as a little fox."
You can say a lot of nice things to make people happy, which is something I don't have.
Do you remember the things you said to me on the way to Changsha?
Chen Chu was momentarily bewildered.
Luo Heng looked disappointed. "You don't even remember that we went to Changsha together?"
"These are the words you said when you woke up and saw me cooking for you while we were resting in the woods."
He was lost in memories, murmuring in Chen Chu's tone:
"You know, I never expected that my brother, such a gentle and refined gentleman, could cook in such a pleasing way."
Such a gentle and humble young man is not only good at business but also at cooking. He is equally adept in the living room and the kitchen, and he is both meticulous and considerate.
Oh dear, what kind of fate do I have to have such a wonderful older brother?
Shen Chu remembered.
She got out of the car and saw Luo Heng cooking. His movements were skillful, like a painting.
Feeling a little embarrassed for having slept through a room, she smiled and praised Luo Heng.
Luo Heng said, "That was the first time someone had genuinely praised me, and it felt really good."
For a fleeting moment, I felt like I was such a good person.
Later, when we were resting in the dilapidated temple, you roasted a rabbit for me and sang a Liangzhou folk song for me.
Luo Heng paused, then hummed the tune in an extremely gentle and tender tone.
The willow leaves are green, and the winter plum blossoms are fragrant.
Girls and boys, let's all pick flowers together.
Flowers can only bloom for a few days, and youth can only live for a few days.
......
He wasn't familiar with the Liangzhou dialect, so his singing sounded a bit strange, but it brought back all of Shen Chu's memories of that night.
At that time, she saw that Luo Heng had the same teeth marks as Zhan Gege on his arm.
She excitedly thought that Luo Heng would be her brother Zhan, so she deliberately sang a Liangzhou folk song to test Luo Heng while roasting the rabbit.
Upon discovering that Luo Heng did not react, they realized that he was not Brother Zhan at all.
Unexpectedly, Luo Heng memorized this little tune.
"That night, it was raining heavily outside. Inside the dilapidated temple, there was a bonfire, a roasted rabbit, and your gentle little tune."
The line in the folk song, "How many days can a young man live?", has kept me pondering for a long time.
That night, I couldn't help but wonder, if I always remained a good person, would you always treat me this way?
Recalling the past, Luo Heng's expression softened even more.
"Later I found out that you were a girl, and that you were the one who gave me medicine and saved my mother when I was a child."
That night, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep at all. I felt that we were destined to be together.
You are God's compensation to me. It must be that God saw how much suffering I had endured before, so He sent you to warm my heart.
I even secretly devised four or five plans, thinking about how to help your family get justice and then help you avoid the crime of deceiving the emperor.
I even planned out every place I would take you in the future, but…”
Luo Heng's face darkened. "But you shouldn't have fallen for Pei Yuan."
Not only did you fall in love with him, but you also got pregnant with his child. I hate myself so much, I hate that I was one step too late.
I hate Pei Yuan even more; why couldn't he have died sooner?
Shen Chu's heart skipped a beat, "So, the assassination attempts that Sixth Brother suffered were orchestrated by you, right?"
"Fengyun Pavilion is yours, isn't it?"
Luo Heng nodded without any hesitation.
"I founded Fengyun Pavilion, and I was able to successfully reclaim the Luo family by utilizing the power of Fengyun Pavilion."
Unfortunately, despite sending several groups of men, I failed to kill Pei Yuan.
A chill ran through Chen Chu's heart.
"Why? Because I'm with Sixth Brother?"
Luo Heng's expression was sinister. "Because Pei Yuan deserves to die. All the humiliation I suffered as a child was caused by him."
Chen Chu was initially bewildered.
"You were oppressed by your own people, what does that have to do with Sixth Brother?"
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