“Remember when I first met you? You were so cruel, sending Cheng Yu to humiliate me, giving me a harsh warning, as if to say that threatening you would never end well. Then you told me that whatever Fan Jinxuan gave me, you would double it, asking me to give up my shares and leave. In truth, my agreement with Fan Jinxuan was less about revenge on Liu Shiquan and his daughter and more about protecting Aunt Min. I truly hated you then, hated all of you. Why did your disputes drag in us, the powerless? No matter which side we chose, there was no good outcome. In my anger and pain, I seemed strong and proud, rejecting you outright. Later, I often wondered if I had agreed to your terms and left, would none of this have happened? But I’m also confused, do I wish I had never met you, never loved you?”
“On our wedding day, as I walked towards you in my wedding dress, despite your previous wrongful accusations, in that moment, I could see no one else, my mind was blank, all past and future matters were irrelevant. The only thing that mattered was you, as if all the paths I had walked were just to reach you. When you said ‘I do’ to the priest, I really felt like crying. I told myself, no matter why I married this man, I hoped he would be happy.”
“But my dream lasted less than two hours. Because of Fan Jinxuan’s disruption at the wedding, you vented your anger on me, taking me upstairs in such a harsh manner. Our first time was awful, like a torture, leaving me unconscious for two days. And then you just left me there without a word. Did you really trust in my resilience, or did you underestimate your own destructive power, or perhaps, deep down, you hoped I would die? My feelings for you were so complex then; I both hated and feared you, yet I still wanted to see you.”
