Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
“The child in Li Yan wasn’t yours.”
Ning Huanxin stayed silent for a long time before she slowly spoke out her conclusion. After Zhang Xiao heard her words, he suddenly lifted his head and stared intensely at Ning Huanxin. After a few seconds, he sadly nodded.
That’s right. The child in Li Yan’s womb wasn’t Zhang Xiao’s at all, because, since the very beginning, it was his own one-sided love.
Zhang Xiao liked Li Yan, but kept his feelings hidden. He was very shy and could never express his feelings. He would only occasionally buy her something to make her happy.
However, Li Yan, who was at her young and tender age, had always dreamed of a romantic encounter and a sweet romance.
Li Yan didn’t even know that Zhang Xiao had always liked her.
……
Back then, one of the most expensive things that Zhang Xiao bought was the Xi Xiu brand rogue. He had saved his pocket money for an entire semester to buy it. Zhang Xiao had planned to give it to Li Yan and confess to her.
However, that was the same holiday when he had gone home and brought along a group of classmates with him.
And Li Yan and one of his classmates started dating secretly.
That classmate of his was a handsome young man. The boy had a good and wealthy family background, was an eloquent, well-mannered, and affectionate person with a good sense of humor.
He would have quickly smitten many women. Li Yan was also very innocent then, and with just a few sweet nothings, she was fascinated with him. The two of them soon fell in love, and Zhang Xiao could only watch from a distance in pain.
He knew that he had made a mistake. If he had confessed earlier, perhaps he would still have a chance, but everything was too late…
Because of Li Yan, that student stayed at Zhang Xiao’s home for over ten days before he reluctantly left.
After that, Zhang Xiao also returned to school before school started again. Thankfully, his school wasn’t too far from his house. It only took him about a day and a half to reach there.
Before he left, Zhang Xiao looked at that box of rouge again. He wanted to give it to Li Yan, but gave up on this idea.
“After that incident happened with Li Yan, she secretly called me.”
Talking until this point, Zhang Xiao was angrily gritting his teeth. “Back then, I knew that Little Yan… she was pregnant with his child. She was afraid that the people in the village had found out about it, and they would soon throw her into the river. Li Yan called and asked me to find that person so he could save her, and she could leave Li Clan Village.”
Li Yan sincerely waited for that man to come and save her because back then, on a cold moonlit night, that man once whispered by her ear that he would love her forever, that he would bring her out of the mountains to live the life she wanted to live.
She was his princess.
However…
That innocent young girl didn’t know that these words were just some sweet nothings that men used to play with women.
By the time Zhang Xiao found that classmate, he had already moved onto his next relationship and couldn’t care less about Li Yan’s life or death!
With time running short, Zhang Xiao could only go back to the village by driving alone overnight. Back then, Li Yan was guarded closely. Zhang Xiao went through a lot of effort to secretly meet her at the firewood storage room’s back window, where they had locked her.
“Brother Xiao, where’s Feng Yuan? Is Feng Yuan here to fetch me?”
In that shabby firewood storage room, Li Yan laid there, her body looking haggard and frail. She looked at Zhang Xiao outside her window with her face brimming with hope.
Feng Yuan was that man’s name.
“Feng Yuan he… he had something urgent, so he had to rush off to his hometown, I couldn’t find him. But don’t be afraid, Little Yan! I’ll think of a way to save you! At most… at most I’ll tell them that the child in you is mine. They won’t do anything to me! I can get my parents to prepare more gifts for the dowry to the Li Clan Village so they won’t harm you.”
Zhang Xiao couldn’t bear to tell her the truth. Back then, Zhang Xiao held a high status in the Zhang Clan Village, and his family was also quite well off. He believed that as long as he was willing to fork out more money, or even invite an exorcist to perform some sort of exorcism, he could make those villagers believe that they had appeased River God’s anger.
However…
“No, you can’t do that, I can’t ruin your reputation.”
However, contrary to Zhang Xiao’s expectations, Li Yan decisively rejected his suggestion.