Favoring a Hidden Mistress? Engagement Broken Chapter 396

In their past and present lives, too much has happened between them.

It’s hard to say who was right and who was wrong.

At the height of their love, she once promised that she would marry no one but him in this life.

Later, she broke her promise, but he hurt her first, so how could all the blame be placed on her alone?

Xie Wanqing felt a sourness in her nose, and her eyes suddenly turned red.

This prideful and domineering man could actually say words like "I don’t blame you."

She thought that marrying someone else would be her eternal guilt and that he would resent her for life.

Turns out, he also understood that not all the blame could be placed on her.

She couldn’t describe the feeling. Xie Wanqing blinked desperately, holding back her tears.

"... It’s love. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t care about your life or death,"

She sniffled and said hoarsely, "The lessons from the past life were too cruel. I didn’t dare look back... those two years were really hard for me."

The girl who thought she would never look back in her lifetime actually said she still loved him.

Lu Ziyuan was stirred all over. Yet before he could rejoice, he heard her last words, and his heart began to ache.

He remembered what he had done.

Close to the wedding date, he brought back a woman, letting rumors about their affair spread wildly in the Capital. He was too arrogant.

So sure that his fiancée loved him so deeply, she would understand him, without considering if she would be heartbroken.

Later, he became even more arrogant, always thinking everything was for her good.

Under the guise of protecting her, he made her endure so much unnecessary suffering.

He elevated another woman to such a high position that in her eyes, they even had an eldest son together.

After doing so many things that hurt her, he still believed that this foolish girl would love him as before.

Unless you experience many things yourself, you never know how painful it can be.

Lu Ziyuan in this life truly experienced her feelings completely, even more so.

In the past life, he made Liu Manrou his legitimate second wife, and in this life, she turned around and married someone else.

He never touched Liu Manrou, but she really did have marital relations with Pei Yuqing.

He was filled with pain and regret, hating it like hell.

Yet it was this that made Lu Ziyuan understand just how much pain he had caused her.

Holding the girl in his arms tightly, a quivering sound escaped from his throat, and he didn’t speak for a long time.

The two of them had gone through a long night. Xie Wanqing was very tired, forcing herself to stay awake to talk to him for so long, now she was already drowsy.

But seeing him in such a vulnerable state, her heart softened, "I don’t blame you anymore either."

If there were some lingering grievances before, after that dream, she had let it go.

The tragedy between them in the past life was the result of many factors.

He was indeed hateful, but he had already paid an overwhelming price.

Xie Wanqing buried herself in his chest, surrounded by his cold aura.

She sniffed somewhat affectionately, "Let’s not talk about the past, okay?"

Since she decided to return to the Capital, she should completely turn over the past.

No longer distinguishing right from wrong, whether pain or resentment, let all of it go.

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"You..." Lu Ziyuan was silent for a long while, but couldn’t help asking, "Did you marry him to get back at me?"

She wasn’t interested in that old man.

The hasty marriage was simply because she was heartbroken by him, worried about his entanglement, wanting to stay far away from him.

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