Chapter 190 - 140
Xie Wanqing originally seemed somewhat dazed, but upon hearing the words, she pressed her lips together and glared at him.
"Why get angry," Lu Ziyuan chuckled and said, "Didn’t I say no to it?"
Usually, when he missed her, he could rely on training soldiers and practicing martial arts to release his abundant energy. Yesterday, after consuming three cups of aphrodisiac wine, the effects had no outlet, causing him considerable distress.
Having taken the aphrodisiac, he could only think of her to resolve it himself, while that sickly person could take the opportunity to get close to him.
Jealousy was still hard to dissipate, and Lu Ziyuan’s gaze darkened; the smile at his lips gradually faded, as he quietly looked at her.
Xie Wanqing was a bit unsettled under his gaze. Just then, the door was knocked on, and Mingjian sent someone in with a charcoal basin.
Lu Ziyuan released her chin and drew her into his arms.
These are his personal soldiers; most have seen his fiancée. With the army being large and talkative, their current status truly should not be revealed.
Several basins of charcoal were brought in, quickly driving away the chill inside the room.
Just before Mingjian could leave, Lu Ziyuan instructed, "Go and bring the person here."
As the door closed again, Xie Wanqing eagerly tried to leave his embrace. Lu Ziyuan did not stop her and readily freed her.
"What do you want by bringing me here?" She stepped back three steps in succession, her eyes showing caution: "If you dare do anything, I’ll bite my tongue and end it!"
This time, unlike the day she first awakened her past life’s memories and was emotionally unstable, as she again easily mentioned death, Lu Ziyuan was not flustered; he just lowered his gaze towards her.
After looking seriously at her for a long time, he suddenly laughed and said, "Wanwan, why do you always think that by threatening to end it you can make me yield?"
"..." Xie Wanqing choked for a moment, unable to speak.
He waited for a while, seeing her silence, then slightly raised his brow and said, "See, you clearly know how much I love you."
You know how much I love you, how afraid I am of anything happening to you, so you use ’ending it’ as leverage.
His implication stopped at that point.
Xie Wanqing heard distinctly but was speechless.
She wanted to argue that it wasn’t like that, but could not find a good reason to refute.
...Is it truly so?
Clearly in their past life, he treated her so poorly, bullied her so much—how could she believe he loved her?
But if it’s not true, why does she think harming herself would become a weapon to make him step back?
The room inexplicably fell into silence.
Xie Wanqing did not speak for a long time, and Lu Ziyuan didn’t mind.
He indeed was not skilled at expressing his heart; keeping his feelings hidden had always been a compulsory lesson for him since childhood, and he was not adept at sweet-talking.
For the girl he liked, his past life’s initial thought was to bear all external storms alone, leaving her without any worries under his wing.
Yet, things often diverged from his intentions.
Between them, he always ended up making things worse, often causing her grievance, always being presumptuous.
Xie Wanqing thought for so long that she nearly got a headache. Now she felt nothing but annoyance towards everything from their past life, drained of emotions, and found herself utterly tired of the man constantly dragging her back into old memories.
"What exactly do you want by bringing me here?"
She had no intention of untangling their chaotic past entanglements, nor of figuring out who among them felt more deeply, only saying, "Lu Ziyuan, I am truly fed up with your absurdity."
’Absurdity’...
Lu Ziyuan slightly lowered his eyes, perfectly hiding the emotions in them.
Even knowing how merciless this girl could be to him, every time he saw her gaze at him with loathing, there was still a wrenching pain in his heart.
Lu Ziyuan steadied his emotions, ignoring her annoyance, and responded to her earlier question.
"I witnessed your past life in dreams, knowing all the wrongs you suffered," he paused and said, "...Actually, after losing you in our past life, I made sure all of them paid the price."
Again with the old tale, Xie Wanqing listened without any fluctuation, lacking the initial excitement of questioning; hearing his words, she didn’t even lift her eyes and simply found a chair to sit on.
And Lu Ziyuan’s voice continued.
He said, "I thought about it: they hurt you so much, yet you didn’t see their end with your own eyes. It’s a regret, so in this life, I must let you vent personally; none of them will escape."
Upon hearing this, Xie Wanqing finally reacted. She lifted her eyes to look at him, just as she was about to ask, the door was lightly knocked from the outside.
Mingjian’s voice came from outside.
"Master, the person has been brought."
Lu Ziyuan glanced at her and said, "Enter."
The door was pushed open, and Xie Wanqing instinctively looked over, unexpecting that as soon as she turned her head, her view was obstructed by a silhouette that appeared before her eyes.