That night, Su Ruanruan was ultimately unable to leave Huo Yan's house.
Huo Yan leaned against the bed, playing with a strand of Su Ruanruan's hair.
Sinking into the soft bedding, Su Ruanruan asked the question she hadn't quite processed earlier, "What do you mean by 'if I miss it once, I won't miss it a second time'?"
Huo Yan's eyes flickered slightly, but he did not explain.
"Weren't you just going to ask about your cousin, Su Fangfang? Do you still want to know?"
Su Ruanruan turned around and glared at him, "I won't beg you."
Huo Yan gave an awkward smile, "I'm begging you, please listen to my rambling."
"Your cousin is carrying someone else's child, and she's deceiving Zeng Laiqian into believing it's his offspring."
"As for your cousin, he kidnapped the old doctor's baby and threatened him to shorten the pregnancy date."
"The old doctor found the child and immediately went to complain to Zeng Laiqian..."
"And then what happened?"
"Of course, Zeng Laiqian wouldn't listen to any of them. He found several doctors in the city, but they all said the same thing as the old doctor: the month didn't match."
"In a fit of rage, he broke your cousin's arms and legs, threw him out of the mansion, and then..."
Su Ruanruan urged again, "So what?"
Huo Yan's gaze fell on her lower abdomen; it would be nice to have a little baby implanted there.
"Zeng Laiqian gave your cousin double the dose of medicine, and she lost her baby and will never be able to conceive again. She has now been sold to a brothel."
Su Ruanruan opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.
The child was innocent; he never expected Zeng Laiqian to be so ruthless.
However, she was also involved in this, so could she be considered to have indirectly harmed an innocent child?
Su Ruanruan turned around again, her back to Huo Yan.
She was filled with mixed feelings. It was no wonder she was ruthless; she simply couldn't bear to see the person who had hurt the original owner still swaggering around her and shouting arrogantly.
The original owner was almost violated by Butcher Zhou on the mountain, and chose to kill himself by running into a tree.
But the original owner of this body was tricked into going up the mountain by Su Fangfang that day. In the end, she found out that Su Fangfang had taken twenty coins from a widower in the same village to trick the original owner into going up the mountain.
The widower, overjoyed, bumped into Butcher Zhou in the village. Facing Zhou's fist, which was as big as a sandbag, he told Butcher Zhou about the incident in order to avoid being beaten again.
Therefore, in the end, the one who succumbed to desire and harmed the original owner became Butcher Zhou.
Su Fangfang was the original instigator and is not innocent.
It was his parents who killed the original owner of this body. I hope the child can be reborn into a better family next time and not encounter such parents again.
Seeing that Su Ruanruan didn't speak, Huo Yan pinched the soft flesh on her waist. "What's wrong with you?"
Su Ruanruan's muffled voice came, "If I hadn't gotten rid of the Su family, I'd probably be the one sold to a brothel today..."
Huo Yan's strong chest pressed against her back, "No, I will protect you..."
Su Ruanruan, "Will you protect me?"
Huo Yan chuckled softly, "Yes, always. Because you're my woman."
Su Ruanruan moved a few more inches closer, "Dream on, I will never be your concubine."
A hand pinched her waist, and Su Ruanruan winced in pain.
"Huo Yan, once it's dawn, we'll have nothing to do with each other anymore."
"As for your other kindnesses, I will find a way to repay you in the future."
Huo Yan gritted his teeth, "Su Ruanruan, fine. If you insist on this, then don't blame me for being ruthless. I will no longer care about you or protect you."
Su Ruanruan didn't want to talk to him anymore, so she closed her eyes and pretended to sleep.
...
The next day, after leaving Huo Yan's house, Su Ruanruan walked along the road and unknowingly arrived at Mu Bai's house again.
She stopped, stood in front of the door for a while, and then left.
Su Ruanruan wandered aimlessly through the streets and unknowingly found herself back at the old couple's wonton stall.
She ordered a bowl of wontons and sat there blankly, her mind filled with images of her and Mu Bai here.
She still remembers the scene of feeding him wontons spoonful by spoonful.
She saw Mu Bai sitting opposite her, his eyes gentle, still with that serene and refined demeanor. When he saw her looking over, the corners of Mu Bai's mouth curled up slightly, "Ruan Ruan, how have you been these days?"
The moment Su Ruanruan saw him, she broke down in tears, "Brother Mu Bai..."
She reached out to touch him, but in the next instant, Mu Bai's figure disappeared before her eyes.
Su Ruanruan lowered her eyes, her long, raven-feather-like eyelashes concealing the emotions within them.
A tear stained the hem of her skirt.
It turned out that it was all her illusion.
"Young lady, are you alright?" The old woman brought over a steaming bowl of wontons.
She and her husband were so busy making a living, tending their small stall, that they paid no attention to anything else.
They knew nothing about Su Ruanruan and Mu Bai's relationship.
"Girl, why are you all alone?"
Su Ruanruan chewed the wonton in her mouth with difficulty, "He doesn't want me anymore..."
"How could this be..." the old woman murmured. He was the best judge of character; the young man's affection for this girl was unmistakable. How could this be...?
Seeing Su Ruanruan's sad expression, she didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only go back to her husband's side to help.
Huo Yan and Wei Zheng were talking in a teahouse when, out of the corner of their eye, they saw Su Ruanruan sitting sadly at a wonton stall in the distance.
She didn't eat the breakfast he prepared for her?
Wei Zheng also came over and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Following Huo Yan's gaze, he also saw Su Ruanruan's figure.
"You've been intimate with that young girl for so long, and you still haven't given her a proper status? What, you don't want to take responsibility anymore?"
Huo Yan picked up the teacup and used the lid to skim off the white foam on top.
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