The moment Nanyu opened the car door and got in, a hand covered her mouth and nose.
Almost instantly, she lost consciousness.
In a daze, she was sure that the person beside her wasn't Tan Linyuan.
The car was speeding so fast that it gave a thrill like that of a desperado.
Although she couldn't open her eyes, she could feel a sense of weightlessness in her heart.
This definitely couldn't be Tan Linyuan.
When Nanyu fully regained her senses, she found herself tied to a chair, shivering with cold all over.
She was tied up in the rain.
The ropes were tied so tightly that she had almost no room to struggle. The rain wet her hair, which stuck to her cheeks.
She looked extremely disheveled.
But her first reaction after regaining consciousness was to worry about the child in her womb.
She wondered how long she had been standing in the rain. Would the child catch a cold?
Thinking of this, she became even more alert.
"Yuyu, long time no see."
In the rain curtain, a man in a white suit walked up to her with an umbrella in his hand.
Nanyu's eyes were blurred by the rain. Through the haze, she recognized the man's face—Shen Yanche.
She no longer had the energy to wonder why Shen Yanche had driven Tan Linyuan's car to trick her into getting in, nor did she care to ask why he had tied her up here.
Nanyu raised her head and calmly met his gaze.
"Don't you have anything to say to me?"
Shen Yanche held the umbrella over her head. His voice was as gentle as before, "The girl I grew up with, the woman I've loved for years, my fiancée."
"You've got it wrong. I'm not your fiancée," Nanyu said coldly. "I'm already married. My husband is Tan Linyuan."
As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Yanche on the other side shook his head with a smile. "Yuyu, you're wrong."
"How could he be your husband? We have an engagement. It was personally arranged by Master Wenjing. It's a match made in heaven."
Nanyu frowned, feeling that there was something wrong with Shen Yanche in front of her.
He was a bit too calm.
"I've already registered my marriage with Tan Linyuan."
"I don't care. As long as you're by my side."
Shen Yanche reached out his hand and gently pushed aside the wet hair on her face, revealing her eyes. "As long as you promise to be with me, I'll let you go right now."
There was almost a look of desperation in his eyes. "Yuyu, say you're mine. Hurry up and say it!"
Looking at the almost crazy Shen Yanche in front of her, Nanyu couldn't help but let out a cold laugh. "Shen Yanche, you're daydreaming."
She knew that even if she agreed to him now in a show of goodwill, he wouldn't let her go.
Since he had gone to the extreme of tying her up, it couldn't be solved with kind words.
"Yuyu, you're breaking my heart," Shen Yanche lowered his head. His voice was full of sorrow. "I'm the only one who truly understands you. How could you marry someone else?"
Before Nanyu could say anything, Shen Yanche suddenly let out a laugh. "Don't you always want to know how your parents died?"
Nanyu's heart suddenly rose to her throat.
"Just like you, they were first tied to a chair and then hung with a rope,"
Shen Yanche said expressionlessly, spitting out the cold truth word by word, "Finally, they were pushed off the top floor."
After being in the rain for so long, it was only at this moment that Nanyu felt icy cold all over.
It turned out that her parents didn't commit suicide.
It was murder.
"Why did you do this!"
Nanyu instantly lost her mind. Her eyes turned scarlet with hatred. She struggled on the chair and roared, "Why did you target my parents!"
"Who told your parents not to let you marry me?" Shen Yanche's tone was very calm. "We're destined to be together. No one can stop us."
He leaned closer to Nanyu, almost touching her cheek. His breath brushed across her face. "Do you know? Your parents refused to let you marry me until their last breath."
Saying that, Shen Yanche reached out to touch her face. "So, what's your choice? Marry me or... die?"
"I choose—for you to die," Nanyu gritted her teeth and said word by word. "Shen Yanche! You're the one who deserves to die the most!"
The next second, Shen Yanche directly threw the umbrella aside.
"What a pity. I specially changed into a brand - new suit today," Shen Yanche lowered his head and tugged at his clothes. "As long as you marry me, I'll let bygones be bygones."
Nanyu still roared. Her eyes were getting wetter and wetter. She couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears.
"You trash! Scoundrel! Bastard!"
Nanyu stared fixedly at Shen Yanche. Looking at his face, she suddenly laughed out of anger. "Want me to marry you? You're dreaming!"
When Shen Yanche reached out to touch her face, she immediately bit down on the back of his hand with all her strength!
"Hiss—" Shen Yanche gasped in pain. His face instantly became ferocious. He immediately slapped her with his other hand.
Nanyu, along with the chair, fell into the rain.
At the same time, blood gushed out from the back of Shen Yanche's hand. He grimaced in pain and stared fixedly at Nanyu lying on the ground.
"Since you're so resistant, I'll just assume that you want to die."
Shen Yanche covered his wound and walked towards her step by step. "I'll let you experience the same way of death as your parents. I'll give you a quick end."
Nanyu no longer knew what fear was. She was burning with hatred. "If you kill me, do you think Tan Linyuan will let you go?"
Unexpectedly, Shen Yanche let out a cold laugh. "Don't be in a hurry. I don't plan to live anyway."
He squatted down and used his finger to wipe her lips, smearing the blood on the back of his hand onto her lips. "I'll die with you."
"What do they call this kind of behavior? Oh yes, dying for love."
To prevent Nanyu from biting him again, Shen Yanche quickly withdrew his hand. "Just like your parents. Isn't it very romantic?"
Nanyu's pupils shrank—
Not because of hatred, but because she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her lower abdomen, a feeling of downward pressure that made it hard for her to breathe.
She was still pregnant.
In an instant, clarity and reason returned.
She couldn't die yet.
She was carrying Tan Linyuan's child in her belly. She had promised Tan Linyuan that she would let this child be born safely.
She would let him experience the happiness that an ordinary person should have.
The belief supported her to take a deep breath. A way to persuade Shen Yanche came to her mind.
She pursed her lips and tried to keep her tone as calm as possible. "Shen Yanche, doesn't your Shen family pay the most attention to feng shui and accumulating virtue?"
"So what?" Shen Yanche squinted his eyes, waiting for her to continue.
Nanyu lowered her head and glanced at her abdomen. "I'm still pregnant. If you kill me, it will be two lives. You'll be creating bad karma for your Shen family. Your family will never be able to hold their heads up again for generations to come."
She thought that these words would have an impact on Shen Yanche.
But she guessed wrong.
After hearing these words, Shen Yanche froze for a second. Then he suddenly rushed up to her, grabbed her collar and lifted her up from the ground.
Nanyu felt almost suffocated.
Shen Yanche's words were almost squeezed out from his throat. "You're pregnant? Whose child are you carrying?"