After Breaking Up, I Married the Dying Tycoon in a Flash-Chapter 393 - 13: Long River of Dim Lights (Part 13)
Jiang Ci’s eyes were bloodshot. "I did deceive you, but all these years, do you think it hasn’t been painful for me to watch you and Lu Zhonian entwined in conflicts? My pain is no less than yours!"
When he spoke like this, he seemed so much like an innocent victim, as if among all this, he was the one with purely clean hands.
Song Nian truly didn’t understand how he could be so bold and justified.
"Jiang Ci, you make me feel sick. You’re no longer the Jiang Ci you once were. Look in the mirror; see what you’ve become?" Song Nian’s voice was icy cold. She closed her eyes and refused to look at Jiang Ci anymore. "Lu Zhonian will be here soon. If even a single hair is missing from my head while I’m in your car, all your years of careful plotting will turn to nothing."
Jiang Ci abruptly looked at Song Nian, his teeth clenched, smiling ferociously. "Are you threatening me? Song Nian, what right do you have to threaten me!"
"I’m threatening you because I know you won’t give up everything you’ve worked so hard for, you will calm down." Song Nian still had her eyes closed as she spoke: "Jiang Ci, can you not leave me with nothing but displeasure when I think of you in the future?"
Jiang Ci’s malice vanished in an instant.
He suddenly lost all his strength and sprawled on the car seat, his eyes vacant. "Song Nian, how could you fall in love with him? Why?"
"Perhaps a long time ago?" Song Nian said calmly: "Jiang Ci, for someone like me, falling for Lu Zhonian couldn’t be easier."
"What kind of person are you?"
"The kind accustomed to seeing cunning and self-serving people in the gutter; everyone wants to use me." Song Nian said softly: "Except for Lu Zhonian, no one treated me like a person. The reason I initially said I had fallen for you and planned to leave with you for a new life was largely because I knew that my feelings for Lu Zhonian were just wishful thinking."
Jiang Ci was taken aback, his face showing cracks of difficulty and sluggishness. "So... all these years, you’ve just been haunted by the thought that Lu Zhonian killed me, and that’s why you’re entangled with him? If it weren’t for that, would you love him?"
Song Nian affirmed, more composedly.
Jiang Ci’s eyes reddened, his voice hoarse with emotion. "Song Nian, I considered you someone I truly cared about..."
"That only shows how superficial your affections were." Song Nian’s voice was cold and firm. She turned her head, looking at the barren landscape outside, her eyelashes fluttering slowly. "Jiang Ci, you don’t know how to love."
"I don’t know how to love, so does Lu Zhonian know how to love? All these years, he’s kept you trapped by his side, is that love?" Jiang Ci looked at Song Nian’s back in despair. "Nian Nian, could you please look back at me?"
Song Nian did not turn around, her hand gently resting on her belly, a smile appearing on her face: "I’m waiting for my husband to take me home, Jiang Ci, from now on, I don’t want to see you."
The last light in Jiang Ci’s eyes extinguished completely, and he suddenly scoffed, a resolute look crossing his face. "You think Lu Zhonian truly loves you?"
Song Nian gave no reaction.
Jiang Ci bit his teeth in reluctance, saying: "Song Nian, if Lu Zhonian truly loved you, he wouldn’t have kept from you that you’re not pregnant!"
Song Nian frowned. For the first time, she reacted and turned back to face him. "You’re talking nonsense..."
"I’m not talking nonsense. You’re not pregnant. There’s nothing in your belly, no child, and there will never be one."
Jiang Ci chuckled through emerging tearful pain, "Nian Nian, do you know why you were abandoned by your parents? Your body has never been normal!"
Song Nian’s mind went blank, just as she was about to challenge his words, the door was violently pulled open.
Suddenly, Song Nian turned her head and saw Lu Zhonian in a suit, his right hand covered in blood, extending his left hand gently to her. "Nian Nian, let’s go home."
The sunlight outside was a bit dazzling; the vast white snow reflected a chilly intent under the sunlight. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Song Nian felt a chill over her body. She looked at Lu Zhonian but didn’t move.
Lu Zhonian’s brows and eyes softened as he knelt down and took her hand. "Nian Nian, regardless of what you’ve heard, let’s talk about it at home, alright?"
Jiang Ci sat behind Song Nian, watching her back with a complex expression.
He frowned, and after a long moment, finally spoke in a hoarse voice: "Song Nian, I’m not deceiving you. You and Lu Zhonian won’t work out, the Lu Family doesn’t want a Mrs. Lu who cannot conceive."
Lu Zhonian silently looked up at Jiang Ci.
He finally understood the abnormality in Song Nian’s behavior.
Lu Zhonian’s expression turned cold as he looked at Jiang Ci, his gaze intense with malice. "Jiang Ci, I warn you, if you dare speak to Song Nian like that again, I won’t let you off."
Jiang Ci chuckled derisively, his expression full of scorn. "Not let me off? Lu Zhonian, I’m well-aware of your ruthlessness. Didn’t you also not spare my father back then! How could I expect any clemency towards myself from you?"
Song Nian hung her head listening to their quarrel, feeling utterly drained.
Lu Zhonian initially wanted to say something, but seeing Song Nian’s pale face, he eventually chose to support her anxiously without saying a word.
Song Nian looked at Lu Zhonian’s hand gripping her arm, her eyelashes trembling, her voice slightly strained. "Lu Zhonian, let’s go home."
Lu Zhonian was taken aback, his tense expression slightly relaxing. Following Song Nian’s words, he helped her towards a nearby limousine.
Inside the limousine, Lu Zhonian carefully inspected Song Nian’s body to ensure no external injuries and finally, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He embraced her, his tone nearly anxious with heavy concern, "Nian Nian, don’t let Jiang Ci come near you again."
Song Nian’s mind was in turmoil, her thoughts full of Jiang Ci’s recent words to her.
Song Nian couldn’t help but care, she spoke with difficulty, "Lu Zhonian, I want to get checked."
"Okay, I’ll have a doctor examine you," Lu Zhonian responded gently. "Nian Nian, don’t listen to his nonsense. Your body is fine, there’s nothing wrong."
Finally, Song Nian looked up at Lu Zhonian. "We’ve never taken precautions for many years, Lu Zhonian. I should have been pregnant by now, shouldn’t I?"
Lu Zhonian paused momentarily before responding, looking into Song Nian’s anxious eyes. Unable to lie, he tried to reassure her, "It’s just a matter of time. You’re still young. We’re not in a rush to have children."
"Is it really not urgent, or because..." Song Nian took a deep breath, despair spreading inch by inch in her eyes. "I really can’t have children?"
Lu Zhonian found himself unable to answer Song Nian, he could only look at her for a long time before finally, defeated by her insistent gaze, he embraced her in his arms.
