Ling Lihua’s eyes were devoid of any trace of warmth when her rosy lips parted slightly. “You betrayed our marriage for that one woman, Madam Zheng. I want you to go and kill her now!”
Lu Hetian was not at all expecting a condition like this.
Back then, when Madam Zheng came to him with a child, he was so shaken and furious that he wanted to kill her with a single palm strike, but Lihua had stopped him.
He thought that Lihua had taken pity on her because of their sisterhood.
She had stopped him from killing Madam Zheng back then, but now…
“Why? Can’t bear to do it?” Seeing him hesitate, Ling Lihua looked at him derisively. “Just as I thought. After all, you’ve been husband and wife for more than ten years. Compared to me, your first wife, she’s in a whole different league.”
Hearing this, Lu Hetian furrowed his brow. “Why would you think that? I don’t like Madam Zheng in the slightest. If you hadn’t stopped me back then, I’d have killed her long ago. I only kept her around for your sake…”
Ling Lihua clenched her fists, her face grim under the veil.
Indeed, Lu Hetian had tried to kill Madam Zheng back then, but she stopped him.
She closed her eyes for a second, then glared at him coldly. “If you didn’t like her, why did you touch her? She even gave birth to your damned offspring. Were you really going to kill her? Or were you just putting on a show in front of me? If I hadn’t stopped you, you’d probably have resented me forever afterward. Besides, Madam Zheng’s stayed with you all these years, and you still haven’t driven her away, have you? If you really feel nothing for her, how could you stand keeping her around for over ten years?” Although her marriage with this man was short-lived, she still knew him well.
He may seem cold and unkind, but he actually had a soft heart.
Even though Madam Zheng was just a concubine, she had already touched his heart after living together for so many years, right?
Ling Lihua grew more and more contemptuous at the thought.
Lu Hetian’s face turned a few shades paler. “You misunderstood me. I only kept her around for your sake. I always held onto the hope that you didn’t die after jumping off that cliff, that you were only hiding from me. So I kept with me all the people and things related to you, hoping that you’d come back to me one day.”
Lihua and Madam Zheng were like sisters. Madam Zheng was an orphan Lihua rescued while wandering the martial world. When she saw that Madam Zheng was alone and helpless, she accepted her as her blood sister.
That was the only reason he tolerated Madam Zheng’s presence for so many years.
“Those are all empty words. In the end, you just can’t bear to kill Madam Zheng, right?” Ling Lihua was unmoved by his every word.
A curtain of gloom fell over Lu Hetian’s face. “I know a single betrayal is enough to lose a lifetime of trust, and you won’t believe me no matter how much I explain. In that case, I’ll go and kill Zheng Yanran now. I can even tear her into a million pieces, as long as it can appease you.”
A hint of emotional conflict finally appeared in Ling Lihua’s eyes, then she nodded. “Very well. If you can really bring yourself to kill her, I can let go of the past.” And stay away from you from now on!
“All right, I’ll go and kill her now!” When he heard her words, joy finally spread across Lu Hetian’s pale face for the first time. After giving her one last gaze, he turned and left.
As Ling Lihua watched him leaving with a look of determination, her heart surged with mixed feelings.
A moment later, Wu Hongming walked in only to see her packing her belongings into a cloth bundle.
“Are you leaving?” he asked her softly.
“Yes,” Ling Lihua replied as she tied the cloth bundle and tossed it into his hands. “Go to the suburbs and wait for me. I’m going to talk to Weiwei and Chen before leaving.”