Chapter 429: One last secret.
Tang Yue shrugged. "Because he didn’t love you. I almost left him once, after he married you and he begged me to stay. You were just cash, connections and protection to him.
He confessed to me about the fire. If he left you, Prince Long Bo would have targeted him. Only by being your husband did have a safety net. But after the expedition in space, he did not need that safety net anymore.
He had the Emperor, the empire and International backers. All those things you say I could have been, I was about to be them. Our life would have been perfect if you did not make a big deal out of the divorce."
Mei Mei’s jaw tightened, "He was my husband. But all the good things he had, he gave to you. He treated me and my daughter coldly while you were the one that got all his warmth. If I was his safety net, he should have at least treated me and Mingzhu nicely."
Tang Yue laughed--a dry bitter sound. "If he treated you nicely, you would not have left when he was tired of you. The best way to control you was to treat you with coldness. The more he did it, the more eager you were to prove to him that you were lovable. I must admit that it was funny watching you wag your tail and run after him while all I had to do was beckon with a single finger and he would come running to me. He was mine....always mine."
Mei Mei leaned forward. "Well, he is dead now and you are in jail. I am outside, richer than I was when I married him and happier than I was after I met him. He is dead and I am alive. Who do you think is the final victor between all of us?"
Mei Mei waited. She wanted Tang Yue to react. To cry. To break. Instead, the woman stared back at her, silent like a wall.
Silence stretched between them. Outside, a siren wailed in the distance. Three more prison guards joined the two standing behind them.
"If that is all you had to say, I am leaving now." Mei Mei told her.
Tang Yue’s fingers curled around the edge of the table. "Why has my trial been canceled? I have been told that I will be standing before a judge and he will be reading my sentence to me. There was no trial so how can I be sentenced?"
Mei Mei shrugged. "Special circumstances. That confession that Mo Liang made to you about the fire made you an accomplice since you did not report it. If you are wise....." She put a finger on her mouth.
Tang Yue looked at the prison guards behind them and felt afraid. The fire involved a prince--a dead prince. Mo Liang was also dead. Were the two deaths connected?