Chapter 271: Wei Chang Confesses
After she finished speaking, she only felt the strength around her waist tighten even more.
Wei Chang remained silent without speaking.
Jiang Ruanxi patted his back and stopped speaking as well.
By the time Wei Chang released her, half a quarter of an hour had already passed.
Wei Chang no longer showed the sadness from earlier, and with a face full of seriousness, he asked, “What’s going on?”
Jiang Ruanxi knew what he was asking, and feeling a bit guilty, she lowered her head slightly and stuck out her tongue, not daring to speak.
Wei Chang lifted her head and spat out one word, “Speak.”
Jiang Ruanxi’s eyes darted around randomly, not daring to look around carelessly, but noticing his face growing colder and colder, Jiang Ruanxi no longer dared to evade and told Wei Chang everything in detail about cooperating with Wan Qing and how they faked the poisoning.
After she finished, Wei Chang’s face grew darker and darker.
“Do you know how dangerous it was to do that? If someone saw through it, those filthy people in the palace would have countless ways to deal with you.”
“Hasn’t anything happened yet?” Jiang Ruanxi said with a beaming smile.
“What if something did happen?” Wei Chang still said with a cold face.
“It won’t. I’ve cleaned out all the people the Empress planted in the manor…”
Jiang Ruanxi told Wei Chang everything about what Sun Tina had done and how she and Wan Qing had joined forces to get rid of Sun Tina.
Wei Chang thought about how so many things had happened in the manor during the time he was away, and he felt pity for Jiang Ruanxi, his anger dissipating quite a bit.
Holding her hand, “Don’t do that again in the future. If you were in danger, what would I do?”
Thinking about learning of her poisoning, he had rushed back without stopping.
Fortunately, it was just pretend.
“Mm, I won’t anymore.”
Suddenly, Jiang Ruanxi remembered something and gently pushed him away. “I just heard you say that you knew me when we were young?”
Wei Chang hadn’t expected Jiang Ruanxi’s train of thought to suddenly turn here; he was slightly stunned for a few seconds and temporarily speechless.
Jiang Ruanxi tilted her head looking at him. “Why don’t I have any impression of that? I grew up with my adoptive parents in Lingnan and don’t remember knowing you.”
After going through so much, Wei Chang no longer concealed it and directly said, “Do you still remember the Dragon Boat Festival when Ni was 5 years old, that skinny, dark boy who got lost on the streets of Lingnan and whom you took to play with?”
Jiang Ruanxi recalled things from her childhood.
Images became clearer and clearer in her mind, various scenes emerging.
She seemed to have some impression now.
That year, her adoptive parents were busy with business, and bored in the manor, she secretly snuck out to play with Hong Ye and an old woman servant. The old woman servant had watched her grow up since childhood; she had nagged her for a long time before she agreed to let her go out, but with the condition that she had to follow.
The two children wandered the streets the whole time, stopping to look whenever they saw something tasty or fun.
Later, somehow, they saw a frail boy who had fallen to the ground, with several people bullying him nearby. She couldn’t stand it, stepped forward to scold those boys. Because she had an elderly old woman servant by her side, those boys were intimidated and quickly scattered.
At the time, she reached out her hand; the boy looked at her timidly. Jiang Ruanxi directly grabbed his hand and pulled him up.
Then she took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands for him.
Thinking it was the Dragon Boat Festival and he was such a lonely little boy, she held his hand and played with him for the whole day.
Later, somehow, they got separated.
At the time, she had searched for a long time without finding him and even worried if he had been taken by human traffickers.
Over so many years, she had completely forgotten that little incident from back then.
“You’re that boy?” Jiang Ruanxi asked uncertainly.
Wei Chang nodded.
Jiang Ruanxi was stunned; she hadn’t expected to encounter him again after so many years, and that he had become her husband.
Thinking of what she had said earlier, Jiang Ruanxi asked, “Did you fall for me back then?”
Wei Chang’s face suddenly turned red, and he turned his head to the side.
Seeing him like this, Jiang Ruanxi immediately understood.
She couldn’t suppress the smile at the corners of her mouth.
She hadn’t expected Wei Chang to still be so reserved yet passionate.
After her rebirth, when she was still with Lin Ningkun, she had met Wei Chang several times and had quite a few interactions, but she hadn’t noticed at all.
“When did you recognize me?”
“Always.”
Actually, back then he hadn’t gotten deliberately lost; it was the guards who found him.
That year, the Empress had taken him back to the Yu Family for a visit to her family, and Madam Yu and his uncle had told him that he was actually Madam Yu’s son. He couldn’t accept it at the time.
Afraid and uncomfortable, he had run out.
Later, those people who bullied him saw how small and weak he was and bullied him.
He could have resisted, but feeling heartbroken, he thought that if his body hurt, maybe his heart wouldn’t feel so bad.
So he didn’t resist.
That was the scene Jiang Ruanxi had witnessed.
He hadn’t expected that not only would Jiang Ruanxi stand up for him, but she would also take him to play for most of the day.
That was the first time he had played so happily, but afterward he was taken away by the guards.
But Wei Chang felt too embarrassed to tell Jiang Ruanxi these things.
Jiang Ruanxi was stunned for a moment.
Could she understand it as Wei Chang having always liked her in his heart?
Thinking of this possibility, her heart felt as sweet as if it had been coated with honey.
“Then why didn’t you come find me?”
If he had come to find her, maybe her previous life wouldn’t have been so miserable.
Maybe everything would have changed.
Wei Chang lowered his head.
In a small voice, “My body is weak; I didn’t know if I could live past twenty. I didn’t want to delay you.”
Jiang Ruanxi hadn’t expected this answer.
She had thought that since she was a daughter of the Jiang Family, Wei Chang didn’t want the Jiang Family’s power to grow strong again, so he hadn’t come to find her.
For some reason, thinking that his body had always been poor over these many years and that he had suffered so much, she felt very sad for him.
Jiang Ruanxi grabbed his hand. “Actually, I don’t mind your health. If you had come to find me earlier, we could have had many more wonderful memories.”
The soft hand in his grasp transmitted great power; Wei Chang felt a current pass to his heart.
He couldn’t help but grip Jiang Ruanxi’s hand tightly.
“I didn’t want you to suffer because of me.”
Jiang Ruanxi was deeply moved, not expecting Wei Chang to have always cherished her in his heart.
Over so many years, she had lived so miserably, yet there was a man who had always kept her in his heart.
Her eyes involuntarily grew wet.
“We must live well from now on.” Jiang Ruanxi hugged his waist, burying her head in his chest, her tone a bit choked.
Wei Chang thought of the girl he had kept in his heart for so many years now being in his arms, his gaze softening until it seemed to drip water.
He held her even tighter, wishing he could meld her into his flesh and blood.
After Jiang Kui left the Crown Prince’s Manor and got into the carriage, his face was so dark it could drip water.
“Go investigate for me why Wei Chang came back. What’s the situation with Father?”
“Yes.”
The guard by his side immediately vanished.
And the Empress in the imperial palace soon received the information.
