Chapter 531 - We are the Same Kind of People (2/2)
Song Wan made a long face. ”I don't know, too. I also miss her.” The two of them looked at each other again. Only by thinking about their granddaughter could they be able to sit comfortably in this situation. Otherwise, just by seeing Li Manni's face, they definitely would have gotten indigestion.
”I want to know. Who's the father of your first child?” Something flashed across Chu Lui's dark eyes. However, he lowered his head concealing everything. He placed the glass in his hand down, the distinct joints in his fingers gently curving.
”That child…” Li Manni paused for a moment. She didn't know how to reply to him.
”You already had another man since then, and it wasn't forced on you as you had claimed?” Chu Lui picked up the glass of wine again. His gaze was on the glass of wine; however, Li Manni's every expression was trapped in his peripheral vision.
”No, no, I didn't have anybody then.” Li Manni frantically lowered her head. ”I was just, just…” She couldn't bring herself to continue speaking.
”Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you say that that child was actually non-existent? You didn't say it because you already knew that Rainy was my daughter. You just didn't want me to go save her. That's why you colluded with the doctors and used your pregnancy to threaten me. You weren't even pregnant, were you? You just didn't want me to save my daughter. You wanted my daughter to die. Li Manni, how could you be so cruel?
She's just a child. She doesn't know anything. Just 'cause you weren't willing to save her, couldn't I have saved her?”
Chu Lui's body trembled unceasingly with fury. Whenever he recalled that if it wasn't for Gao Yi, his daughter would have died; moreover at the hands of her own father. He felt like his heart was being ruthlessly ripped apart, coldly torn apart. It was raw pain.
How could she have been so selfish? Where did that gentle and kind Li Manni go to? Suddenly, he laughed. Maybe that Li Manni never existed in the first place. It was just him forcing the words 'kind' and 'gentle' on her.
In a moment, Li Manni could only lower her head; her fingers gripped at her clothes from time to time. She didn't know how to reply to him. If she said no, then she was admitting that she had committed a.d.u.l.tery and betrayed him. If she said yes, then she was admitting that she had attempted to kill the child.
The hardest thing for her to accept was that that child was still alive in this world. Moreover, she was living happily. Then, what did all her painstaking plotting give her in return? If it wasn't for her mother telling her that Xia Ruoxin already had a daughter—up till now, she would've continued thinking that that child had died. She wasn't satisfied at all so why did she have to satisfy others?
Li Manni closed both of her eyes. Finally, she lifted her head, an extremely sarcastic and bitter smile hung on her lips. ”That's right, I did it on purpose. I knew that that child was your daughter. The daughter you had with Xia Ruoxin. That's why I didn't let you save her. I also wasn't pregnant; everything was a lie. As for the miscarriage, it was just my thigh bleeding.
”If you say that I'm malicious, then why don't you think about yourself? Aren't you the same? You personally sent your wife into another man's bed, and you let so many men humiliate your wife… just to marry another woman. Say, what's the difference between me and you? Chu Lui, the reason why I became like this was all because I learned from you. That's why you're not a good person, and neither am I. This was why we managed to live together for four years.
”Because we are the same kind of people.” After Li Manni finished speaking, she couldn't stop her laughter. Her bitter, sarcastic laughter. She laughed so much even tears had started to fall. If only he had married her for love in the first place—if it wasn't because she loved him too much, because she was too afraid of losing him, she would never have become like this… mocked for her divorce, looked down upon, and insulted by everybody.