Chapter 851: 851 Hardship 1
“I’m doing this for your own good…” she muttered.
“If you don’t leave, do you believe I would give you a few slaps?” Xiao Yishan made a motion to stand up, raising his hand.
Liu Haitang deliberately provoked him, “If you have the guts, then hit me!”
Xiao Yishan slapped her hard across the face.
Liu Haitang’s head jerked to the side, her body staggered, and a trickle of blood ran from the corner of her mouth. Tears blurred her vision as she said, “Hit me again!”
Xiao Yishan gave her another resounding slap.
She fell to the ground, calculating in her heart that enduring these two slaps might alleviate some of his resentment.
If it were not so, she feared Dashan might never want to deal with her again in this lifetime.
She groaned in pain, with a tear-streaked face, “You might as well beat me to death, I don’t want to live anyway.”
“Do you really think I won’t beat you to death?” Xiao Yishan’s face was fierce.
She was frightened inside but still mustered a sorrowful smile, “Dashan, I regret it! I should never have treated you that way back then, I had no other choice!”
Xiao Yishan sneered coldly, “You had no other choice but to frame me with another man’s child? You had no other choice but to become a concubine to a wealthy landlord?” He waved his hand dismissively, “Just go. Seeing you only dirties my eyes.”
Even though he still hated Liu Haitang and had just slapped her twice, she was an unarmed woman, and he had no interest in beating her any further.
Li Rong’er immediately said to Liu Haitang, “Our second young Master told you to leave, didn’t you hear?”
Liu Haitang ignored her.
After returning to the village and hearing that the Xiao Family had made a fortune, she had been pondering and plotting, looking for excuses to gloss over the past and hoping to get back into Xiao Yishan’s life.
She thought of countless excuses, and finally came up with one.
She cried with tears streaming down her face, “Dashan, hear me out. I did it back then because I was in a desperate situation…”
“The kind of desperation that comes from despising the poor and loving the rich, right?”
“No, that’s not it,” she said with a pained expression. “Actually, that year, when I went to visit relatives in the neighboring town, I encountered Wan Fangcai, the money master there, and he… he violated me!”
Xiao Yishan recoiled, “Impossible. You told me it was consensual, that you couldn’t stand my poverty.”
Her tears fell like broken beads, “He tarnished my purity, and I originally wanted to end it all, but I couldn’t bear to leave you, and I couldn’t let go of my parents at home, so I lived on in shame. I wanted to be with you wholeheartedly, to live my life with you… After that, I discovered I was pregnant. At first, I truly thought the child was yours…”
Xiao Yishan didn’t believe a word she said. “When Wan Fangcai played with you and then agreed to marry you, you didn’t say this to me. You called me an ugly toad, saying after I was disfigured I still wanted to eat swan meat, and if it weren’t for the fact that temporarily you couldn’t marry into the Wan family and you got pregnant, you would never look at me. The child is Wan Fangcai’s, you and I were together only once, but a month later you were two months pregnant, so stop trying to pin the child on me. You said though Wan Fangcai was twenty years older, he was a wealthy landlord, and so much better than a poor ghost like me!”
He huffed coldly, “I remember clearly what you said back then. There’s no need for you to come and make more excuses!”
Seeing Liu Haitang shamelessly spinning a ‘hardship’ story, Li Rong’er became anxious, worried that Xiao Yishan might believe her, but fortunately, his stance was firm.
“I’m not making excuses,” Liu Haitang cried. “Dashan, the reason I said that is because…”