Chapter 16: Discovered By Him
The night breeze blew against the window screen, covering the lampshade, making the room dim. She was also dim, dejected and dim, her voice weak and dim.
Liang Chaosu’s eyes were gloomy. He lifted her jaw; her eyes were not teary, and her cheeks were dry, unlike someone who had cried.
She was indeed stronger than others, able to let go and resilient.
He was silent for a moment, and his tone finally softened, “I’m not interrogating you. Say whatever you want.”
Liancheng looked into his pitch-black eyes, which were serious and deep.
In her twenty-two and a half years of life, he had been involved almost every day. He understood her, and she understood him.
A man who was indifferent, heartless, extremely scheming, and rational to the extreme.
The more rational he was, the less Liancheng could find any of his difficulties. He was purely hurting her and oppressing her rationally and calmly for Liang Wenfei.
Just like now, he ignored her rejection of locking the door and forcibly broke in, simply because Liang Wenfei still had doubts about Shen Lichuan’s earlier incident and had asked him, her backer, to interrogate her.
Liancheng trembled all over. She straightened her back and counted her fingers under his gaze, “Say I was impolite and went upstairs early? Or that Shen Lichuan came to find me, or that you didn’t give Liang Wenfei an out, making your good sister feel wronged?”
“Shen Lichuan came to find you?” The man was back turned to the window, his black shirt blending with the deep night outside, equally somber and cold.
It was so cold that her heart spasmed. Guessing he came for this matter and confirming it personally were two different experiences.
“Yes.”
Shen Lichuan had come to the Liang family many times but had never gone upstairs.
Liancheng firmly denied it, but it did not dispel his suspicion. Checking the surveillance camera would settle it.
Only by mixing truth with lies, following their suspicions, satisfying their guesses, and then speaking lies would make them seem credible.
“He knocked on my door, but I didn’t open it.”
“Why didn’t you open it?”
Why didn’t she open it.
Liancheng sneered, “Dare I open it? Can I open it? It’s just a baseless suspicion, and your sister wants to chop off my hand and skin me. If I had opened it, I would never be able to clear my name. Would anyone save me or speak a word of justice for me if your sister took action then? Would I be allowed to resist?”
Liang Chaosu suddenly grabbed her and pulled her into his embrace, caressing her cheek, “She won’t hit you while the Shen family is here.”
Liancheng pushed his hand away, “And what if the Shen family leaves?”
Liang Chaosu’s hand paused in mid-air, and he frowned, “They won’t.”
Liancheng didn’t believe him at all. She was more likely to believe that the Shen family wouldn’t leave than believe that Liang Wenfei wouldn’t act.
The man’s palm pressed against her cheek again and he continued to ask, “You didn’t open the door just because you were afraid of being hit?”
Liancheng did not avoid him this time. Her chest heaved intensely for a few seconds before calming down.
She proactively adopted a docile attitude, lowering her head and saying, “I was also afraid of getting involved with Shen Lichuan. Once the door was open, even if I jumped into the Yellow River, I couldn’t clear my name. At that point, unless I die—”
As the word “die” left her lips, the man’s features turned cold and hard. He forcefully pulled Liancheng, and in the next second, he blocked her mouth.
Liang Chaosu was never gentle in these kinds of matters.
Rough, biting, deep.
Increasingly intense.
Liancheng didn’t struggle at all. Her rare obedience made the man’s heart soften. The softer his heart became, the more fiercely the fire in his lower abdomen burned.
He let himself lose control bit by bit, but Liancheng couldn’t let him.
Sensing his muscles tense and his desire burning intensely, Liancheng pushed him away.
But she couldn’t be too resolute; it would enrage him.
She had a mission tonight and had to probe Mr. Bo’s arrival time in Nan Province.
“What are you doing?” Liancheng’s voice cracked. Liang Chaosu was chauvinistic and couldn’t stand women’s tears. Even if he felt no pity for her, he would become impatient and stop touching her.
“You clearly hate me, don’t believe me, play with me, don’t admit me, doesn’t touching me disgust you?”
“When did I ever find you disgusting?” The man panted, his gaze holding her reflection, infatuated, with the dark fire of lust burning, “But I indeed don’t admit you as my sister.”
Liancheng closed her eyes in pain.
Liang Chaosu pulled her, and she was caught off guard, crashing into his arms again, her lips branding his Adam’s apple.
Feeling the tremor and hoarseness as he spoke, he said hoarsely, “As for being a liar, the number of times you’ve lied to me is countless.”
Liancheng’s direction faced the dressing table. The man’s strong figure completely obscured her. In the mirror, only her eyes were visible, fearful and flustered, lacking a woman’s clear and bright beauty, only bloodshot, rusty speckles.
Her voice was also hoarse, “When have I ever lied to you? I know your itinerary like the back of my hand. What you do, who you talk to, and what you say – you know it all.”
“You secretly took leave to go to the hospital, and I didn’t know,” Liang Chaosu lowered his head, his eyes dark and deep like a bottomless pit, filled with desire but lacking warmth. “Were you going to see Bai Ying, or Shen Lichuan?”
Liancheng’s expression froze.
She had actually forgotten that Liang Chaosu was even more suspicious than Liang Wenfei, and coupled with his meticulous and experienced nature, he was flawless.
Shen Lichuan’s appearance at the hospital at such a crucial moment, intervening and taking away Liang Wenfei.
Liang Chaosu had likely already become suspicious then and must have investigated thoroughly in private these past two days.
And her request for leave that day was too hasty, unable to withstand close scrutiny. If they followed the clues, they would uncover that she was pregnant.
Liancheng’s eyes turned red with fear. “Bai Ying, I would never see Shen Lichuan. I truly have no feelings for him. The engagement back then was just because I was in adolescence, and he was a childhood sweetheart, so everything happened naturally.
“Later, he got together with your sister, and I realized that my feelings for him were not love. There was no lingering past affection, and there would be no rekindling of old feelings.”
She hadn’t cried even after such an insult just now, but now her eyes were red. Liang Chaosu, suppressing the annoyance in his chest, still asked, “Is that the truth?”
“The truth.” Liancheng nodded firmly.
Liang Chaosu tightened his arms without warning. Liancheng was tightly bound, and the warmth of his chest burned into her skin through two layers of clothing. The hot breath entered her ears.
Liancheng was greatly shocked.
“Liang Chaosu,” she stammered, pushing his chest open, “I really have no relationship with Shen Lichuan. If tomorrow’s medical examination proves my innocence, can I not have pulse diagnosis?”
“Why?”
Liancheng’s palms sweated. She gripped her sleeve cuff, “I accept my fate. Acupuncture is painful, and I don’t want to suffer in vain again.”
She knew that Liang Chaosu had paid a great price to avoid her acupuncture, but Liang Chaosu didn’t know that she knew, so Liancheng couldn’t show any of it.
Liang Chaosu paused, a flicker of something flashed across his face, but he said nothing.
Liancheng gazed at him, “Is that okay?”
“Are you really afraid of pain?” Liang Chaosu pursed his lips.
Liancheng was not a fussy little girl. She could coax Mother Liang, but she couldn’t coax him.
But even if she couldn’t coax him, if she said enough, he would listen.
His heart softened.
Liancheng’s expression was forced, “I’m really scared.”
“Five months ago, during the school sports meet, you injured your knee and casually rinsed it with alcohol,” Liang Chaosu reminded her, “Without hesitation, without even a frown.”
Liancheng instantly straightened up, looking at him warily.
What did he mean?
Had he found out?
