He had said this more than once.
However, his original intention was not to mock Song Wanchu for wanting to be his principal wife.
He just wanted to remind her that she was his wife and shouldn't always have other men on her mind.
Maybe because he always said such things when he was angry, Wanchu had always misunderstood his meaning.
But the pain his words brought to Wanchu was real.
He had no excuse and didn't know how to explain.
His throat tightened. Pretending to casually change the subject, he said, "It's hot. After dinner, I'll accompany you to the Green Poplar Shade to escape the heat."
He remembered that during the first summer after their marriage, Wanchu had said she wanted him to accompany her there.
At his words, Song Wanchu completely lost her appetite.
Liang Yuzhou's first and only visit to the Green Poplar Shade was with Yu Huiyan.
Her eyes gradually turned cold. "Didn't you say, Second Master, that only vulgar and shallow people would gather in such a place to have fun?"
There was not much emotion in her tone. She simply stated calmly what Liang Yuzhou had once said.
It turned out those words were so harsh, capable of piercing a person's heart and leaving them in tatters.
And he had said them to Wanchu more than once...
Liang Yuzhou finally deeply understood what it meant to have a fishbone stuck in one's throat.
The reason he didn't want to accompany Song Wanchu to the Green Poplar Shade that time was that the night before, after they had been intimate and their bodies still carried each other's scent, Song Wanchu had called Shi Luohan's name in her dream.
She said she had let Shi Luohan down and felt sorry for him. She didn't know what to do to make up for the pain her broken promise had brought him.
He was lying right next to Song Wanchu. Those words were like a biting cold wind, constantly blowing into his ears.
He was angry and jealous. He kissed her lips to silence her sleep - talk.
However, the next day, Song Wanchu acted as if nothing had happened. She happily told him about her plan to go to the Green Poplar Shade and said she used to go horse - riding and have picnics there with her elder brother.
Shi Luohan and she had so many wonderful memories.
She remembered every detail of those long - past memories.
But she didn't remember that she had personally promised to marry him.
For three years, Shi Luohan had never appeared in front of him, yet Liang Yuzhou felt that he was his nightmare. His letters, his position in Wanchu's heart, and their relationship as childhood sweethearts that went beyond brother - sister affection...
He was angry and said things without thinking.
Those words were so hurtful!
It turned out that his angry words had hurt her so deeply and painfully back then, as if a hole had been cut open in her heart and the cold wind was tearing at her flesh and blood.
Song Wanchu looked at his dim eyes and slightly twitched the corner of her mouth. "Liang Yuzhou, you don't have to deliberately try to make me happy."
She didn't dare to expect it before, and there was no need for it now.
Although Liang Yuzhou was cold - natured, he was very perceptive. He knew that Wanchu had been in a bad mood since early this morning.
When she heard that the princess had cancelled his engagement with Yu Huiyan, she didn't show any emotion.
She was always so indifferent, like a wisp of green smoke that might disappear at any moment.
"Wanchu, I'm your husband. If you're unhappy, you can tell me."
He hoped that he could be the one Wanchu confided in.
Rather than calling Shi Luohan's name over and over again in her dreams.
Husband? Song Wanchu found his words extremely ironic.
How ridiculous! Her husband had spent the whole night last night scheming for Yu Huiyan, sacrificing Yu Rongbai to make the real culprit perfectly disappear.
Then he had said to her affectionately, "I'll make it up to you."
She stared at her pale fingertips, her heart trembling. She fought back the soreness in her eyes.
Sick as she was, she looked even more delicate and beautiful. The sight of her frowning and teary - eyed made Liang Yuzhou's heart tighten.
A pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist. With a gentle lift, Song Wanchu was easily picked up by Liang Yuzhou and placed on his lap.
In the summer, their clothes were thin. The two young bodies were pressed against each other. Song Wanchu placed her hand on his hot chest and felt his strong heartbeat.
But his warmth couldn't warm her heart. She felt so cold, so cold.
"Don't cry. Tell me."
Liang Yuzhou softened his voice to the gentlest and used his fingertips to wipe away the tears from the corner of her eyes.
Song Wanchu choked with sobs with red - rimmed eyes. "I'm unhappy because Yu Huiyan's punishment is too light!"
After a brief silence, Liang Yuzhou said with mixed feelings, "What do you want to do?"
Song Wanchu looked into his heroic eyes, staring straight into the depths of them, trying to tell how much real emotion there was in his words.
Biting her lip, she said coldly and firmly, "I want her to be brought to justice. Let the government decide how to judge her."
Liang Yuzhou closed his eyes, as if deeply helpless. There seemed to be a faint sigh in his tone.
"Huiyan can't be brought to justice."
The last trace of color on Song Wanchu's face faded away.
Her pale lips trembled. She could hardly feel the warmth in her body. "Why? She instigated Yu Rongbai to cause the carriage accident and tried to kill me. In the princess's mansion, she framed me for instructing Suyue to push her into the water. And at the old lady's birthday banquet, she tried to ruin my reputation with dirty and despicable means—"
She felt that Liang Yuzhou's embrace was a trap. Struggling to break free from his arms, her emotions gradually became agitated. "Why should she not pay any price for doing so many evil things?
Liang Yuzhou, tell me, why?"
Liang Yuzhou's arms were empty. He reached out his hand, trying vainly to catch something.
The fingers hanging by his side tightened into a fist, the knuckles turning white with cold.
A flicker of restraint flashed in his eyes. He said hoarsely, "Anyway, she can't."
Song Wanchu was exuding coldness all over.
So, all his efforts to pretend to be gentle and remorseful were just to excuse Yu Huiyan?
Giving her a little insignificant compensation and persuading her to let the matter rest.
Could all her grievances, sufferings from being framed, framed by Yu Huiyan, seriously injured in the carriage accident, and being pointed at by rumors these days be written off?
"Liang Yuzhou, you're the reason why Yu Huiyan has always been able to stir up trouble."
Her heart was trembling violently. "She regards me as an enemy and wants me dead, but I've never harmed her, let alone taken revenge. All I want is justice. Is that so difficult?"
"If Huiyan is brought to justice, she may be sentenced to death!"
There were faint veins popping out on Liang Yuzhou's forehead.
Song Wanchu could tell that his patience was running out.
He couldn't pretend anymore.
"So you know that her crimes are enough to be sentenced to death."
Song Wanchu's body had already stiffened from the cold. Her eye - circles were already red. "So it seems that you handed over the evidence to the old lady and let the old lady negotiate with the princess. The princess cancelled your engagement. It seems to be a punishment for Yu Huiyan, but in fact, it's your protection for her."
He thought that Yu Huiyan not being able to marry him was the greatest punishment for her.
He also thought that she would be very happy to hear this news.
But she no longer cared about who Liang Yuzhou would marry as his principal wife or how to position her own embarrassing identity.
"Liang Yuzhou, what kind of punishment is this? I want her to be judged. I want her to pay the price for her crimes!"
"No." Liang Yuzhou's face gradually lost its tenderness. His tone was cold.
The Liang Yuzhou in front of her finally overlapped with the image in her nightmare, the one who was cold to her but indulgent to Yu Huiyan.