In the past, she loved humbly. After marrying into the Duke's Mansion, she was even more cautious in her words and deeds, hiding her cheerful and carefree nature.
However, Liang Yuzhou didn't love her any more because she had become gentle and virtuous.
She didn't want to be that virtuous and noble concubine anymore. No matter how decent and honorable she was, it would never be the reason for Liang Yuzhou to promote her to the main wife.
She had never felt such a strong sense of repulsion as at this moment. She hoped that Liang Yuzhou would disappear from her sight.
With a crisp "snap", the stack of silver notes was thrown onto Liang Yuzhou's face.
The thick paper slapped against his angular and handsome face. Liang Yuzhou's face tightened, his eyes showed fluctuating emotions, and his fingers curled involuntarily.
Song Wanchu felt a kind of almost tearing pleasure in her heart. She had been insulted by his money once before, and this time she was just returning the favor.
"Liang Yuzhou, I voluntarily returned the betrothal gifts. I don't need you to compensate me with money. I don't care about anything of yours!"
Hearing the word "voluntarily", Liang Yuzhou's pupils contracted.
"Do you want to sever ties with the Duke's Mansion? Song Wanchu, I married you into the Duke's Mansion with the three documents and six rituals and carried you in with an eight - sedan chair. I'm not dead yet!"
His voice was as cold as if it had been soaked in ice water, mixed with anger, pouring into Song Wanchu's ears like a wild wind.
She had long known that Liang Yuzhou wouldn't let her go easily. If she left, Yu Huiyan would get the reputation of being jealous and intolerant.
She was his pure and innocent childhood sweetheart. How could he allow his beloved to have her reputation damaged?
He forced her to return the betrothal gifts to give Yu Huiyan face, and at the same time wanted her to humble herself and be a concubine under Yu Huiyan.
In Liang Yuzhou's eyes, she wasn't even a person with dignity. At most, she was a beautiful and magnificent ornament, to be placed wherever needed.
Yu Huiyan remained unscathed, while she had to bear all the infamy and swallow her anger.
Song Wanchu didn't want to endure it anymore.
The corners of her lips lifted slightly, but her tears were falling heavily. She didn't want to cry at first, but when she met Liang Yuzhou's cold eyes, all the grievances she had suffered in the past three years burst out like a mountain flood.
She almost roared at Liang Yuzhou, "I've already given up my position to Yu Huiyan. I won't fight for the position of the main wife. I don't want anything. I'll fulfill you two and wish you a happy life together. What else do you want from me?"
This delicate and slender body actually had such amazing explosive power.
Liang Yuzhou seemed to feel the scalding temperature of the tears falling from the corners of her eyes.
When she cried, there was a kind of heart - wrenching fragility. She was very beautiful.
But Liang Yuzhou didn't want to see this in such a situation.
Subconsciously, he reached out his arm to wipe away her tears.
Song Wanchu waved away his palm, took a big step back, her body tensed up, and her eyes were full of resistance.
On the wall behind her hung the pipa she loved most. It was made of the best red sandalwood, found for her by Shi Luohan. He also mentioned in a letter that she should often use incense to prevent insect damage.
She treasured that pipa and hung it in the most prominent position in her bedroom, just like her feelings for Shi Luohan.
And what was he to her?
He had taken out all his savings for her. Even if she was going to use this money to help Shi Luohan, he had endured it.
But his feelings were thrown on the ground like waste paper.
Liang Yuzhou's eyebrows and eyes quickly turned cold. Along with the air around him, it became gloomy and the air pressure was very low.
"Finally said what's on your mind, right?"
The curve of his lips showed coldness, unprecedentedly cold and heartless. "You never wanted to marry me from the beginning, right?"
Actually, back then when he heard the rumor that Song Wanchu had taken her father's memorial tablet to beg the emperor in order to marry him, although he was surprised, there was a faint joy in his heart.
It wasn't until the Dragon Boat Festival banquet hosted by the princess, when she single - handedly refuted the rumors with her sharp tongue.
At that moment, Liang Yuzhou couldn't tell what he was feeling. His heart, which had already sunk to the bottom of the lake, seemed to be hit by a hard object and shattered into pieces.
The fact that she didn't beg the emperor for the imperial edict to marry him just proved once again that she didn't love him.
Song Wanchu watched his lips open and close. Every word he uttered seemed to be covered with ice chips.
The corners of her eyes turned red bit by bit, her lips trembled. She wanted to say something, but she choked and couldn't make a sound.
How could she not want to marry Liang Yuzhou?
While other girls spent their teenage years learning music, chess, calligraphy, and painting.
She accompanied her father to the training ground to practice military skills every day regardless of the weather, just to get a glimpse of Liang Yuzhou.
The secret feelings of the young girl were unknown to anyone. She hid them well, pretending to accidentally ride past the training ground every day, looking at him from afar and secretly feeling happy.
One day, she heard that he had a fever but still gritted his teeth and persisted. She was both anxious and heart - broken. Braving the cold winter wind, she ran to the Shen family and begged Shen Yuhe's grandfather to prepare a medicine for him.
On the way back to the training ground, it snowed heavily. The road was slippery and she was running in a hurry. Her little white horse fell twice.
She sprained her foot and the little white horse refused to go any further. She had to lead the horse and limp back to the training ground.
Liang Yuzhou was resting in the tent. Like a thief, she hung the medicine on the tent.
Although she was doing a good deed, her heart was pounding. When she left, it was like she was running away, for fear of being discovered.
That night, she had a high fever and her foot was so swollen that she couldn't get out of bed for seven days.
But all she could think about was whether Liang Yuzhou had recovered from the fever.
When she returned to the training ground again, Liang Yuzhou had already recovered and was as heroic as ever.
She knew that Liang Yuzhou might not have recovered because of the medicine she sent, but she was still happy for a long time.
She never expected to have any connection with Liang Yuzhou in her life, until Liang Yuzhou saved her from the mouth of a gray bear.
He asked for a reward. Young and innocent, but already having a taste of love, she said without knowing the immensity of heaven and earth that she wanted to marry him and offer herself as a reward.
The noble and aloof young man actually called out her name.
He said, Song Wanchu, I'll remember your words. I don't like liars.
Although it was still the cold season of early spring, Song Wanchu's world blossomed with spring warmth at that moment because of that one sentence.
Later, she kept her promise and married him.
But he personally pushed her into the abyss.
The past had long since changed beyond recognition, but Liang Yuzhou's cold eyes became clearer.
He actually asked her if she had never thought of marrying him.
Maybe the confession she had mustered all her strength to say back then had long been forgotten by him.
The passionate and sincere love of the young girl was just a joke for him to tease.
He only remembered that she owed him a life, and this was the shackle to trap her, kidnap her, and force her to submit.
But she had almost lost her life twice for him. She had already paid him back!
Since they owed each other nothing, why should she still keep those feelings?
"Yes." She stared directly into Liang Yuzhou's eyes, and tears welled up crazily. "I never thought of marrying you."
As the words fell, she could clearly see Liang Yuzhou's shoulders stiffen, and something seemed to shatter in his eyes.