vrcanaries Chapter 184 Scars
Chapter 184 Scars
Zhong Chenghong: "..."
He turned to look at Shang Wan and sighed, "Wan Wan, I am sorry for you. It is reasonable for you to resent me. I don't blame you."
Shang Wan snorted coldly, "You spend the money I gave you to support your family and pick up girls, how dare you blame me? Don't pretend to be a romantic here, it's disgusting to watch."
Zhong Chenghong looked surprised and hurt. "Wanwan, why have you become so mean and rude now?"
"Don't call me Wanwan, we're not familiar with each other, thank you." Shang Wan rubbed the goose bumps on his arms and wanted to kick this shameless guy to death.
Zhong Chenghong looked at Shang Wan with a sad face, as if he was deeply in love with Shang Wan.
Shang Wan was so disgusted that she stepped on his face and said, "You keep pretending in front of me!"
Zhong Chenghong struggled weakly under her feet, his cheeks flushed red from being unable to breathe. It was Lu Chengjing who rescued him from under Shang Wan's shoes.
Don't get me wrong, Lu Chengjing didn't care about his life or death. He saved him simply because he had some unfinished business. It would not be worth it for him to die like this.
He looked at Zhong Chenghong and asked, "How can you be engaged to the daughter of Wu Anbo?"
Ever since the wedding night when Shang Wan told Lu Chengjing about what happened between her and Zhong Chenghong, Lu Chengjing has secretly investigated Zhong Chenghong's situation.
The Zhong family was poor, with no property except a thatched cottage and three mu of thin land. Zhong Chenghong's father died early, leaving his widowed mother to raise two sons and one daughter with great difficulty.
Zhong Chenghong's two uncles took good care of the mother and her two sons. It was the uncles who paid for Zhong Chenghong's studies.
Zhong Chenghong used his good looks to get some advantages, and he deceived many women. Lu Chengjing alone found three of them.
Zhong Chenghong made up different identities and gradually cheated money from different women to support his family, but only Shang Wan knew his true identity.
It's not that Zhong Chenghong is so special to Shang Wan. Just from what Lu Chengjing found out, Shang Wan knew Zhong Chenghong's true identity entirely because Zhong Chenghong lacked experience. After that, as he deceived more and more women, he began to make up a fake identity.
Lu Chengjing was puzzled, how could such a liar with corrupt personal ethics be valued by Wu Anbo and marry his daughter to him?
Hearing Lu Chengjing's question, Zhong Chenghong grinned, and his face, which still had the shoe prints, suddenly showed a bit of high spirits, as if even his body didn't hurt so much anymore.
He said, "I happened to save the life of Wu Anbo on my way to study. Wu Anbo appreciated me and took me with him to the capital. He also let me stay in the mansion and study in the clan school with the young masters and young ladies of the mansion. I was lucky enough to be favored by the young lady of the mansion, and she was willing to marry me."
"If it were someone else, Wu Anbo would naturally not agree, but I saved his life, so naturally I am different from others. To be honest, I came here mainly to take my family to the capital and discuss the marriage at the Bo's Mansion."
To kill Shang Wan, they could just hire someone to do it, there was no need for Zhong Chenghong to come in person.
The capital city is so great! If Zhong Chenghong had to take his mother and younger brothers and sisters to the capital city, he would not have come back to this small place like Dongning County.
Shang Wan and Lu Chengjing were not stupid people, so they could naturally hear the hidden meaning behind Zhong Chenghong's words.
Zhong Chenghong mentioned at this time that he was about to get engaged to the young lady of the Marquis's Mansion. He just wanted to tell Shang Wan and the others that there was a big shot backing him up. If they wanted to touch him, they'd better think twice and be careful not to anger the Marquis's Mansion of Wu'an.
As for the matter of bringing his relatives to the capital, it was also to tell Shang Wan and the other two not to try to take his life. If he didn't go back on time, the Wu'an Earl's Mansion might notice something was wrong and send someone to look for him, and then Shang Wan and the other two would be in trouble.
Shang Wan looked at Zhong Chenghong coldly and felt that the credibility of what he had just said was more than 70%.
She sighed softly and glanced suspiciously at Zhong Chenghong, "You are such a big reliance, why didn't you tell me when you were beaten just now?"
"The engagement has not yet been made. If the news gets out, it will damage the young lady's reputation." Zhong Chenghong said in a high-sounding manner.
Hearing this, Shang Wan cursed several times in his heart, wondering if the young lady from the Bo's Mansion was just like the original owner, who was seduced by Zhong Chenghong's sweet words.
She pretended to sigh helplessly, "Alas, how dare we, the common people, go against the Wu'an Marquis's Mansion."
Are you scared?
Zhong Chenghong couldn't help but feel happy, and pursed his lips proudly, but he didn't expect that the wound on his face was moved, and he grimaced in pain.
He hissed coldly for a while, looked at the two men and said in a hoarse voice: "You send me to the hospital to treat my injuries, and then pretend that you don't know about hiring a murderer. I won't care about your offense to me, how about that?"
Zhong Chenghong thought he had made a big concession.
Doesn't he want to kill Shang Wan and Lu Chengjing?
Want! Not only did he want to kill them, he also wanted to grind them to ashes!
But now he has no helpers and no military force, only a backer far away in the capital. It is said that distant water cannot quench immediate thirst. If Shang Wan is determined to retaliate against him, he will only die if he continues to resist.
Seeing that his good days were about to come, how could he bear to die?
It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. Once he becomes the son-in-law of the Marquis of Wu'an, won't it be a matter of minutes for him to take revenge on the two of them?
Even if Shang Wan didn't know what Zhong Chenghong was thinking, just from what he had done, he knew that this guy was probably up to no good.
Keeping such people around is a disaster.
Her eyelashes drooped, a cold light flashed across her eyes, and dozens of ways to kill someone without leaving any trace flashed through her mind.
"When Wu Anbo travels, he should be accompanied by guards. You don't know martial arts, how can you save Wu Anbo's life?" Lu Chengjing looked at Zhong Chenghong, his eyes full of inquiry.
Zhong Chenghong did not hide the fact, "When Master Bo was on his way back to Beijing from work, he was chased by an assassin. I sacrificed myself and led the pursuers away for Master Bo. The guards arrived in time and killed the assassin, so I was able to save my life."
"If you don't believe me, check the wound on my back."
Hearing this, Lu Chengjing squatted down, turned the man over, and lifted up his clothes to check.
There was indeed a flesh-pink scar on the young man's white skin on his back. It was like a centipede, crawling from his left shoulder to his right waist, almost running across his entire back.
The scar was raised, and it looked particularly hideous on the thin back. Just looking at the scar, one could tell that its owner was badly injured.
Lu Chengjing nodded towards Shang Wan. This scar made Zhong Chenghong's words 80% more credible.
Zhong Chenghong began to yell: "I'm in pain all over my body, please take me to the clinic immediately."
"Don't worry, answer my last question and I'll take you to the clinic right away." Zhong Chenghong's unusual behavior just now made Shang Wan suddenly remember something, and he wanted to confirm it with Zhong Chenghong himself.
Zhong Chenghong stared at her warily, "What's the problem?"
"You and I..." Shang Wan squatted down and looked directly into the young man's eyes, "Are we really husband and wife?"
Although the original owner's memory was missing, she still had memories of pregnancy. Combined with Lu Chengjing's personal testimony, something must have happened between the original owner and Zhong Chenghong. Shang Wan has always believed this.
But Zhong Chenghong's series of reactions just now suddenly made Shang Wan less sure.