Chapter 227: Maybe I Just Like Her
"I seem to have a special affinity with her, and being together just makes sense. She is well-behaved and obedient, yet lively and cheerful, assimilating quickly into my circle, and everyone around likes her."
"And you, didn’t you stay with her because you liked her too? If I hadn’t found evidence pointing to her murdering someone, you would have been married by now."
"That’s true." Tang Jingyao didn’t deny it.
"I want to know how you convinced your parents to agree to the marriage when they initially objected?"
Tang Jingyao’s gaze lowered slightly, and he said amidst the drifting smoke, "Jiang Ying was pregnant."
Meng Tian had seen Jiang Ying’s medical report when she initially went to jail; she wasn’t pregnant.
"However, she miscarried, and it was because of me." Tang Jingyao said, "Once, while playing inland, I got into a fight, and Jiang Ying took a kick for me. That kick not only caused her to lose the child, but she also lost her uterus due to the heavy bleeding, depriving her of the ability to have children ever again."
Meng Tian was shocked. "So, you decided to marry her out of guilt?"
"Guilt is only a part of it; as you just said, if I didn’t like her, I wouldn’t have forced myself to be with her." Tang Jingyao tapped off some ash, "What I’m about to say might make you think I’m scum, but this is my honest thought. At first, Jiang Ying indeed made me very fond of her, like having an obedient kitten by my side. But over time, my passion for her started to cool. I don’t know why, but she felt strange to me, as if another person, a stranger, lived under that fragile skin."
After a moment of silence, he continued, "After she was jailed, I indeed felt sad for a while, but I felt more relief and freedom than ever before. Everyone thinks Jiang Ying is a minefield around me, afraid to bring it up, and I never contradicted them because I, too, wanted to constantly remind myself that I still liked her, that she was still important to me, until I met you."