Defrosting The Cold Young Master - Chapter 2288 - 2292: Unraveling the Truth

First, she was forced to divorce Li Su, losing him who loved her deeply.

Then, the truth was exposed, and Zhan Jinchuan, who originally loved her more than Li Su, now looked at her with none of the tenderness he once had.

She lost her only two trump cards.

These two trump cards were the result of her meticulous planning over the years.

They were the foundation of her livelihood.

But now, she had lost everything.

After years of scheming, in just one night, she was brought back to square one. Apart from the properties and shops in her name, she had nothing left.

But now, Zhan Jinchuan actually wanted her to sell her properties and shops and donate everything!

This was too much!

She shook with anger, tears welling up in her eyes, “Brother Chuan, don’t you think you’re being too harsh on me? Back then, I was only fifteen! What does a fifteen-year-old girl know? Didn’t I want to have kind and outstanding parents too? Could I choose my parents? Anyway, back then, it was me who untied the ropes on your hands and feet. You once said you’d be grateful to me for a lifetime. Have you forgotten that so soon?”

“Ruan Feifei, do you know? When my view of you changed, what you did back then also took on a different interpretation in my eyes,” Zhan Jinchuan looked into Ruan Feifei’s eyes and slowly asked, “Ruan Feifei, when you untied the ropes on my hands and feet back then, it wasn’t really to let me go, was it?”

“You saw me seriously injured, covered in blood, dying, and with the cellar being so high, you thought that even if you untied the ropes on my hands and feet, I still couldn’t escape, so you untied the ropes.”

“If you truly wanted to save me, after untying the ropes on my hands and feet, you would have supported me, helped me escape from the cellar. But you didn’t; you turned and left.”

“Not only did you turn and leave, but you also pretended to be afraid, deliberately kicked away the ladder leading to the exit, thinking that I was severely injured and without the ladder, I definitely couldn’t escape from the cellar.”

“At that time, I didn’t think badly of you, just thought you were young and scared, having accidentally kicked the ladder down seeing me covered in blood.”

“But now, thinking back, it wasn’t that way. The reason you kicked the ladder down was that the ladder was made of iron, and both my arms were injured, so you thought that, injured as I was, I surely couldn’t lift the ladder.”

“The ladder couldn’t be lifted, and I was trapped in the cellar; even though the ropes on my hands and feet were untied, what did it matter? I still couldn’t escape!”

Zhan Jinchuan looked at her with a mocking smile, “Life-saving grace? How laughable that it took me so many years to realize that you never actually saved my life! From beginning to end, all you wanted was my Jade Pendant!”

“No, I didn’t! It’s not like that!” Ruan Feifei shook her head with a pallid face, “Brother Chuan, this is just your malicious speculation; you can’t judge me so harshly!”

“Although they’re speculations, they’re well-reasoned and substantiated speculations!” Zhan Jinchuan said, “After you got the Jade Pendant, you could calmly act in front of your mother, telling her you had a stomachache to make her take you away from that small mountain village. You were so composed and level-headed, courageous and resourceful, how could you have been so scared that you accidentally kicked over such a heavy iron ladder?”

“I was terrified; I feared being discovered…” Ruan Feifei defended, “Brother Chuan, what in the world are you imagining? If I truly didn’t want you to escape, why, after you gave me the Jade Pendant, didn’t I just tie you up again? Why go to the trouble of kicking over the ladder?”