FID – Chapter 489

  Chapter 489: Why Do You Keep Visiting Me?

  She rushed to the residence without delay.

  Today was supposed to be Li Junyue’s wedding day. She didn’t go to Li’s residence to send her off, because her relationship with her could never go back to the past.

  As long as Li Junyue married into the Meng family, this was all the result she had to know.

  But she never imagined that she would hear the news of her death.

  After standing at the entrance of the second courtyard for a long time, the heartbeat in her chest was still beating in terror and disorder.

  When she looked up, she saw the man in front of her leaning on the door with his arms crossed.

  He stared at her, his eyes still clean. However, the crystalline in them was gone, replaced by a bottomless depth.

  ”Liu Zhiqiu, why did Junyue… die?”

  ”Don’t you know?” Liu Zhiqiu asked.

  Those eyes, which were always clean and warm, flashed with a glint that scared her.

  It exuded more sharpness that could see through people’s hearts.

  ”I don’t know! What do I know? All I know is that she clearly came to find you, but you didn’t let her stay behind! Why did you let her go? If she didn’t leave, she wouldn’t have died at all!” She raised her voice, and her accusations flew quite fast. “You killed her, you killed her!”

  Doing so seemed to drive away the guilty conscience that popped up from the bottom of her heart.

  Why did his eyes seem to say that she did something wrong?

  What did she do wrong?

  She knew that Li Junyue wanted to escape, so she found a husband who matched the conditions for her. She acted out of kindness, so what did she do wrong?

  Seeing the woman who was trying her best to shirk her responsibility, ridicule overflowed in Liu Zhiqiu’s eyes.

  ”In that case, do you, the good sister, want to avenge her? Want to kill me?”

  ”…” Kang Ziyu stared blankly at the man, her lips squirming, but couldn’t come up with a response.

  ”Get lost. I told you before, never come here again. Miss Kang is the daughter of the county magistrate and has a distinguished status. Miss Kang, don’t soil your shoes in such a remote area.”

  ”Liu Zhiqiu, you’ve decided that I killed Jun Yue, haven’t you?” she asked.

  No matter how impatient he had been before, he would never utter such sharp words to stab others.

  Even though he clearly hated Junyue so much, when he saw Junyue being bullied, he would still stand up for her.

  But today he spoke to her, sharp and merciless.

  He also gazed at her with a mocking look in his eyes.

  It made her think that she was a clown who was jumping around alone, ignorant to the fact that her words and deeds were regarded as a joke.

  ”Does it matter whether I determine it or not?” Liu Zhiqiu tugged his lips and snickered. “You came to me to denounce me of my crimes. Your good sister is in the outer courtyard. Have you taken a serious look at her? Kang Ziyu, this is how deep your sisterhood is?”

  ”You only know how to accuse me. Don’t you know how Li Junyue treated me? Hasn’t she been using me all along? I only slapped her when I found out, and I didn’t really trouble her. I even found a way out for her. Isn’t that enough? Do I have to pluck my heart out to her to be considered her best friend? She has not been sincere to me, so why should I spill my guts for her?!” Kang Ziyu’s eyes flushed red, and she poured out all the darkness buried deep in the heart for a long time, “On what grounds? Why should I ignore past grudges? Is it my fault that she died? If she had behaved and hadn’t escaped, would she have ended up where she is now? To put it bluntly, she doesn’t know how to be content!”

  ”She didn’t treat you with sincerity, so you found Meng Yushan for her, a hypocrite with a bright future on the surface, but behind the scenes frequented brothels and framed his classmates?”

  Kang Ziyu suddenly took two steps back and looked at Liu Zhiqiu in disbelief. “How do you know… what nonsense are you talking about!”

  ”How do I know?” Liu Zhiqiu looked beyond the courtyard wall and laughed at himself. “I just discovered it too.”

  Some time ago, his eldest brother was framed for cheating in the provincial examination, and the nephew of the governor of Yunzhou was brought to justice. There were also several other people involved, but their charges were relatively minor, and they were punished leniently. Because of this, the whole matter didn’t blow up.

  Especially Meng Yushan, whose father was the prefect of Yunzhou City; he suppressed all the rumors that affected him by underhanded means.

  He only heard Nannan mention that name once. If it wasn’t for Li Junyue, he would never have remembered that person.

  However, even if he remembered it long ago, he didn’t make a move to warn Li Junyue.

  He always thought that what she wanted was prosperity and wealth.

  ”Go away. If you have the heart, you can burn some paper money at her grave in the future, but don’t approach me again, Miss Kang. I don’t want to have anything to do with you.”

  The man’s words rang indifferently. His sharpness made Kang Ziyu’s heart shrink again, and she blurted out, “Are you in love with her?”

  ”Why do you keep visiting me?” He did not answer, but asked instead. Next thing she knew, the door of the courtyard was closed in front of her eyes, isolating her from it.

  After that, not a word sounded from the other side.

  As for Kang Ziyu, because of his words, she seemed to have been nailed bodily to the spot, her eyes trembling and wavering.

  She walked away like a wandering soul.

  From breaking in to leaving, she didn’t spare a glance at Li Junyue.

  After seeing the yamen carriage leave with her own eyes, Du Juan locked the courtyard gate, “What an ill-fated relationship.”

  Wei Hong said, “Zhiqiu’s peach blossoms((aka luck in love)) are flourishing.”

  Du Juan sighed again. What was the use of having peach blossoms? From the looks of the current situation, it was better to have none at all.

  When Liu Erlin and Du Juan fell asleep at night, Wei Hong asked Liu Zhiqiu to go to the small consultation room.

  The person was still on the bed in the consultation room, and no burial was arranged for her for the time being.

  ”Come and take a look,” Wei Hong said, picking up the woman’s hand and shaking it from side to side.

  Liu Zhiqiu frowned immediately.

  ”Do you notice something?”

  Liu Zhiqiu did not answer, but took Li Junyue’s hand. He kneaded her individual fingers, and then slowly put them down.

  ”It stands to reason that a corpse will stiffen soon after death, but she didn’t. Her body even maintained the same flexibility as a normal person. What’s going on?”

  Wei Hong shook her head. “More than that, the wound on her heart is actually scabbing, and there are signs of healing.”

  She discovered this when she was cleaning Li Junyue, and she felt suspicious at the time.

  She was obviously dead, and breathless. She had no pulse, and her skin color has become the same as that of a dead person. How could there be no stiffness, and how could her wounds heal themselves?

  The two looked at each other and thought of the same thing.

  The medicine in the gourd pendant.

  At that time, although Li Junyue spat it out, some residues must have entered her mouth. This might be the reason.

  This was the only thing that made sense.

  Liu Zhiqiu clenched his fists unconsciously, his heart suddenly thumping, and something sprouted from the depths of his heart. He didn’t understand what it was, but one thing was for sure. He wanted to save the woman in bed no matter how slim the possibility was.

  ”Aunt Hong, I have never understood why some people like to disguise themselves. I thought it was due to nature, or it was created by the environment. Later, I learned that there is another reason, that it has to be done.”

  Just like Li Junyue.

  She liked pretending, and would scheme against others. She was such a complex person.

  But behind all her pretense and schemes, there was a piece of pristine land hidden within, where she would rather die than hurt Liu Zhiqiu.

  ”Aunt Hong, I want to save her.”