Chapter 1380 The Master is in Love with the Bandit (End)
Zhou Xingyu was easily satisfied. Even though he could only visit Shi Chu at night, he had no objection. He did not continue to inquire about Shi Chu's identity and background. It seemed that as long as Shi Chu agreed to get along with him and let him be responsible, he would feel at ease. As for other things, Shi Chu did not tell him, so he was very sensible and did not ask any more questions.
Shi Chu was also very satisfied with his knowledge and interests, and felt that it was great to have such a non-clingy, handsome and lovely lover. Even if she had to play two roles at the same time, she was happy to do so.
Shi Chu was living a happy life, but Xie Ronghua and Liu Yiming were not so lucky. Even though Xie Ronghua managed to escape from the bandits' den, the news had spread. After all, the guards around her and the servants except Shi Chu were alive this time, and there were many people and many gossips. She also forgot to issue a gag order asking them to keep the fact that she was kidnapped by bandits a secret. As a result, the news of her being kidnapped by bandits soon became known to everyone.
This was a catastrophic destruction to Xie Ronghua's reputation. Even if she had not suffered any harm, others would not believe it. They would rather believe that she had been ravaged and tortured by bandits and her innocence was gone.
Since ancient times, only this kind of tragic romance scandal was popular with the public and was willing to spread. Therefore, no matter how Xie Ronghua and the Xie family denied it, in the eyes of outsiders, she was no longer innocent, her reputation was ruined, her value plummeted, and she suddenly went from being the most popular unmarried woman to a rich lady that unmarried men of the same class avoided...
This was like a bolt from the blue for Xie Ronghua, who had to rely on marriage to maintain her status and position throughout her life. She cried all day long and begged her family to help her restore her reputation.
However, it is easy to destroy a reputation, but it is very difficult to restore it, especially in her case. It is almost impossible to save it. After all, she was really taken into a bandit's den and came out intact. Everything she said was her own opinion, and no one knew the truth. Even if she was telling the truth, others would not believe it, and she could not force others to believe it...
Therefore, no matter how powerful the Xie family is, it is very difficult to restore Xie Ronghua's reputation.
This is different from the plot of the original world. In the original world, all the people around Xie Ronghua were dealt with by Liu Yiming, and Liu Yiming was a deep-minded man. No matter for his own future or to please the Xie family, he would never disclose the fact that Xie Ronghua was abducted by bandits. Therefore, he and his surviving confidants kept the secret secret tightly, and Xie Ronghua was still the pure and innocent daughter of the Xie family.
In order to thank Liu Yiming for their "help", the Xie family naturally spared no effort to help him plan his future, and to bring him and Xie Ronghua together, achieving a happy ending.
But in this life, Liu Yiming's meridians in his hands and feet were destroyed by Shi Chu, and he became half-disabled. Even though he claimed to be Xie Ronghua's savior, few people believed him. Everyone just thought that he was trying to flatter himself in order to get close to the Xie family.
Xie Ronghua, who had fallen in love with him over time in the original world, looked down on him more and more in this life. After all, she loved Liu Yiming, who was handsome, healthy, resourceful, and gentle to her, not this disabled, violent, gloomy and skinny man.
Without his charm, Liu Yiming could not ask Xie Ronghua to help him find a miracle doctor, so he had to continue to be a cripple. Even if he followed Xie Ronghua to the Xie family, he was still not taken seriously, and was even ignored by the Xie family and neglected by the servants...
He was a proud and arrogant man, who could not stand the torture of being cut by a blunt knife, so he got sick due to the frustration, and lived on in a remote courtyard of the Xie family. He did not want to die but could not get well. He had great ambitions but could not realize them at all, which tortured him both physically and mentally. So, he dragged on and on, and finally died in frustration with his ambitions that would never be realized.
His death did not attract anyone's attention at all. He was just wrapped in a broken mat and thrown into a mass grave. From beginning to end, Xie Ronghua could not remember the man who made her fall in love with him so deeply in the original world.
Of course, Xie Ronghua's ending was not much better. Her reputation was ruined, her marriage was unhappy, and she hastily married the unpopular youngest son of a second-rate family. She was ambitious and looked down on this husband, and her husband was looked down upon by her, so naturally he was unwilling to flatter her. So she quickly took a concubine and had an affair with other women.
Xie Ronghua became a resentful woman who constantly fought with her concubines. She was mean and cunning, and lived an unhappy life.
But this has nothing to do with Shi Chu. She wore two aliases to interact with Zhou Xingyu. The male alias of the owner of the wine shop became Zhou Xingyu's close friend and a good brother who could talk about anything; the female alias of the elusive chivalrous woman became Zhou Xingyu's deeply in love lover...
Sometimes Zhou Xingyu went to the tavern during the day to drink and chat with the male Shichu, talking about his lover, the chivalrous woman; when it was night, Zhou Xingyu went to the "Golden House" to find the female Shichu and talk about his good brother, the owner of the wine shop...
Shi Chu felt that she was about to have a mental breakdown. She kept changing aliases, and she was always close to Zhou Xingyu. Zhou Xingyu loved to share things about his aliases with her. She became more and more worried that her brain was not enough.
Finally, she felt that she couldn't go on like this. If she kept it a secret, Zhou Xingyu would find out after a long time and he might collapse. So Shi Chu planned to reveal her identity.
But how to self-destruct was a difficult problem. She almost pulled her head bald, but she couldn't think of any good solution. After all, no matter what, she couldn't avoid hurting Zhou Xingyu. At this moment, she finally regretted that she had rushed into such a thing...
Finally, she decided to use the most sincere, direct and simple method, which was to tell Zhou Xingyu directly that Shi Chu and Chu Xia Nu were both her, and that she was definitely a woman.
When Zhou Xingyu heard her words, he was shocked and unable to accept the fact. He was angry and sad. He looked at Shi Chu with disappointment and left.
At first, she felt guilty and was worried about his mental state. Finally, she quietly hid in the dark and watched over him for a few days. She was relieved to find that although he had collapsed, he had not done anything irreparable.
However, she did not rush to ask for his forgiveness. Zhou Xingyu did not look for her. After several months, he appeared again, but she did not forgive Shi Chu. She just came to make it clear that he had not left.
Shi Chu understood his breakdown and did not object no matter what he wanted to do.
(End of this chapter)
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