My Dominant Contract Husband Won't Let Me Go-Chapter 603: Goodbye, Forever (7)

Zhou Yalin...

Suddenly hearing this name, Dong Xin Yan’s mind went blank for a moment, and she muttered, "Zhou Yalin?"

She had been with Cheng Ziyang for almost six years, and she knew almost everyone he was acquainted with, but in her memory, he and Zhou Yalin had no connection at all, so how could...

Cheng Ziyang nodded with a smile, looked at her, and continued, "Moreover, we knew each other a long time ago."

"A long time...?" Dong Xin Yan still looked bewildered.

"Yes, a long, long time ago." Cheng Ziyang responded, his voice dropping, "So long ago... that after I saved you from drowning, she came to me and proposed a transaction."

He almost had to muster all the strength in his body to get those last few words out.

Transaction...

Dong Xin Yan blinked her dark eyes, her thick, curled lashes fluttering. An ominous feeling rose in her heart, and she tightened her grip on the flowers she was holding, "Ziyang, what do you mean... what are you really trying to say?"

"Don’t you understand yet?"

Cheng Ziyang lazily retorted, a hint of mockery in his tone, "Do you think I fell in love with you for no reason? Why I’ve been so consistently good to you over the years? Why, no matter how willful and haughty you are, I tolerate you?"

"Because... that was my condition, the condition to save my company."

"In other words, I never loved you; our love was just a meticulously crafted lie I designed for you."

As Cheng Ziyang uttered each word, Mrs. Cheng’s face lost all color, and it was as if all the strength was drained from her body, leaving her slumped powerlessly in the chair.

Everything was over.

Everything she had fought so hard to achieve for him was destroyed just like that. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Yet she never thought that her son would... still be so foolish, preferring his own pain to letting Dong Xin Yan go.

Dong Xin Yan heard every word Cheng Ziyang spoke, and she heard them clearly, yet she still couldn’t comprehend the meaning behind his words.

What did he mean by he never loved her?

What did he mean by a meticulously crafted lie?

She stood there, stunned for a long time, as if only then did she sort through her thoughts, "So, what you’re saying is, you were only with me because of a transaction with Zhou Yalin back then, not because you loved me?"

"Yes."

"And you married me... because of the transaction too?"

"Yes."

Cheng Ziyang being in love with her was a transaction?

It’s the funniest joke she could ever hear in her life; Cheng Ziyang, who had been devoted and tireless all along, who had never left her side, guarded her because of a transaction?

Was she not awake, or was she hallucinating?

She hooked her lips in a dazed smile and even laughed out loud, "Ziyang, to drive me away, you can even utter such a clumsy lie?"

She’s not an unfeeling person; she can tell if someone is genuinely good to her or just pretending. Would she really believe Ziyang’s goodness towards her just because of such an absurd statement?

Dong Xin Yan’s reaction was within Cheng Ziyang’s expectations. After all these years of genuine affection, she wouldn’t be without feeling, and he didn’t expect her to believe it just with a few words.

However...