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Chapter 708: She Feels Sorry for Him
Chapter 708: She Feels Sorry for Him
Chapter 708: Chapter 708: She Feels Sorry for Him
Originally, they had planned to return to Anping Village in the evening to move stuff, intending to have dinner after arriving at the manor.
As a result, they lingered in the Zhu Family’s village, and now it was almost midnight; it was only normal that he would feel hungry.
Only when Qiao Xiaomai heard this did she remember that they hadn’t eaten dinner yet.
“What do you want to eat?” she asked.
“Some porridge will do.”
Qiao Xiaomai immediately brought out a bowl of porridge from her storage, along with a few steamed buns.
Her storage already had lots of food stocked ahead of time. After arriving here, relying on Qiao Changshun and Qiao Dami being clueless, she often cooked extra and quietly put it into her storage.
However, now that Tong Sanlang wanted to eat something, she only brought out a few steamed buns.
Tong Sanlang took the bowl of porridge, looked at the plate of buns in her hand, and opened his mouth to say, “You really… don’t care about me at all.”
Hearing this, Qiao Xiaomai immediately rolled her eyes, “Me… care about you? Who is going to care about me?”
“I care about you.”
“Really?” Xiaomai asked lightly in reply, blatantly expressing her disbelief.
“I’m trying my best… but you have to give me time to change.”
The education he received at the age of seventeen was about filial piety, so occurrences like Qiao Xiaomai forcing Zhang’s family to eat the Truth Elixir or him pushing Tong Xingda, would never happen based on his past understanding.
However, Xiaomai’s words about not recognizing anyone when she’s mad, including him, had upset him.
The moment he questioned Tong Xingda about how much she liked him and how much face he had in front of her was also sincere.
He…
Today, he saw a side of Qiao Xiaomai he’d never seen before.
He was quite nervous.
“Tell me what you want me to do, don’t make me try to comprehend it. The environments we grew up in are different, what I think is old and feudalistic to you, tell me, what should I do?”
Qiao Xiaomai looked into his eyes, which were still bright under the dim lantern light, pursed her lips, and said, “What you’re doing now is just fine.”
As an ancient person living in a place where filial piety was considered above all else, Tong Sanlang had done well. She was quite satisfied with him and had no further demands.
Tong Sanlang, caught between her and his family like a sandwich cookie, must not be feeling good.
Honestly, she didn’t want to force him to make choices at all.
Not at all.
All of her emotions had turned into love, all invested in Tong Sanlang alone.
She only loved him.
However, she was a selfish person. Even though she could live and die for him, she couldn’t tolerate the grudges the Tong Family kept instigating against her.
Those grudges stirred up by the Tong Family, she wouldn’t endure.
She chose to retort back at them frankly instead.
Her love for Tong Sanlang was as lavish as it was narrow-minded, so narrow-minded that she couldn’t love what he loved.
She loved him deeply, but she also wanted him to cut ties with the Tong Family and belong to her completely.
So when Tong Sanlang said earlier that he didn’t care about her, no, she did care about him.
But will her caring matter in the face of the Tong Family?
Sooner or later they would have to get to this point, it was bound to hurt either way. If so, let it hurt now.
“Really?” Tong Sanlang seemed somewhat disbelieving, “Don’t you want me, want me to do more?”
“No, in this matter, I won’t lead you on and make you guess. If I say it’s good, then it’s good,” said Qiao Xiaomai.
Hearing her words, a bitter smile appeared on Tong Sanlang’s handsome face, he took a sip of his porridge.
“What about you? Were you scared by my behavior today?” Qiao Xiaomai asked him, looking straight at him.
[Being the filling of a sandwich cookie, because of the Tong Family’s insatiable greed, this was an unavoidable process…]