novelraw Chapter 696 - 695: Sisterly Rift (5)
Chapter 696 - 695: Sisterly Rift (5)
Chapter 696: Chapter 695: Sisterly Rift (5)
Since Shi Che had exposed her lies, she knew that this day would always come, only she had not expected it to arrive so quickly.
Chuxia must know about this matter by now, so does that mean she and Shi Che have reconciled? She had schemed tirelessly, obstructed relentlessly, only to find that, in the end, the outcome was still the same.
Ling Yunshu’s eyes dropped for a moment, a swift flash of ice and jealousy passing through their depths. To lose to Ling Chuxia like this, she truly couldn’t accept it. Similarly, she wouldn’t just concede defeat like this.
For the moment, pacifying Ling Chuxia was key. As long as Ling Chuxia continued to trust her, she would always find another opportunity.
Shi Che had treated her thus, and she would not let him live in peace.
In an instant, Ling Yunshu’s mind had raced through several scenarios. When she looked up again, her eyes were already red, and her voice hoarse, "Xiaxia, the confession... you know about it, don’t you?"
Even though she had long been prepared, when she heard Ling Yunshu utter these words, Ling Chuxia’s body still trembled fiercely.
She acknowledged it without a single denial.
All along the way, she had been making excuses for her in her heart, wondering if perhaps Shi Che was mistaken, if her elder sister had not deceived her. Yet with just this sentence, it was as if she had been fiercely slapped across the face.
"Why?"
Perhaps overcome by too much sorrow, Ling Chuxia now seemed eerily calm, except for her hands clasped tightly together.
"Xiaxia, I love Shi Che very much, you know that. Ever since we were children, I have loved him, always wanting to marry him, and he... I thought we had mutual affections, that we would naturally end up together. Even after he agreed to marry you, I was still thinking that he was only doing it out of filial piety, that he didn’t resist Madam because of it. But then... when I was most heartbroken, I heard Shi Che’s confession to you in your room."
Ling Yunshu’s voice suddenly paused, the corners of her lips curved up, she laughed, and as she laughed, a crystal clear tear rolled down from her beautiful eyes, sliding down her cheek and dropping onto the table.
"Do you know how ironic this is? It’s okay that Shi Che doesn’t love me, but for all these years, he’s behaved as though he liked me, always assuming we were a couple, always giving me hope, yet in the end, he was just using me."
"Xiaxia, do you know what I felt hiding behind that door? Do you know how I listened to the man I deeply love tell me, word by word, how much he loves you?"
Ling Yunshu’s voice was thick with sobbing, growing sadder and more heartbreaking as she spoke, tears flowing down, wetting her eyelashes, making her appear extremely pitiable.
Ling Chuxia looked at her steadily, her own eyes gradually reddening. It felt as if something was stuck in her throat, causing unbearable distress. She moved her lips and struggled for a while before she was able to squeeze out a voice, "Because Shi Che wronged you, you had to deceive me? So for all these years, I was just living for you?"
"Xiaxia, I’m sorry, really sorry, I didn’t mean to do it. At that time I really couldn’t accept that reality, couldn’t accept Shi Che using me, but even so, I still loved him so much, I still didn’t want to lose him, so I lied to you. But Xiaxia, I really never intended to hurt you."