Forced love, an inescapable fate

Chapter 117 Wanyue's Self-blame

Jiang Ci knew that it would be useless to say more at this time.

He also knew that Mu Qingli was not feeling well, and if he continued to stimulate her, it would probably be harmful to her health, so he had to give up.

I just wanted to wait for two days until her anger subsided, and then come over to apologize to her. No matter what method I used, as long as she was willing to forgive me, it would be fine.

Only after the door was shut did Mu Qingli collapse onto a stool, exhausted. At this point, she could no longer contain her emotions, and suppressed sobs emanated from the room.

Jiang Ci stood outside the house, listening to the crying coming from the room. His hands hanging by his side subconsciously clenched, but in the end he could only leave silently.

Wan Yue was kneeling in Mu Qingli's yard. When she saw Jiang Ci coming out of the room, she didn't look up at him, but just kept her back straight.

Jiang Ci looked at her deeply, then turned and left.

Outside the house, the cold wind was howling, mixed with snowflakes, which seemed to be able to chill people's hearts.

Xiao Tao couldn't bear it, so she took the thick crab and tried to put it on Wan Yue, whose lips were blue and purple from the cold, but she refused.

She didn't understand why Wan Yue had been kneeling here since early morning, and she didn't understand why she didn't let herself tell the princess in the house. Even if there was a misunderstanding between the two of them, why didn't they talk it out? What was the point of all this trouble?

Moreover, everyone in the mansion was acting strangely today. There was no relaxed atmosphere as usual. Although no one knew what had happened specifically, it seemed that many people were involved in this matter.

Mu Qingli lay on the bed with a gloomy expression, her face extremely pale. Xiao Tao helped her up and handed her the boiled medicine, wanting to say something several times but stopping herself.

It was completely dark outside. The cold wind was howling and snowflakes were falling again. Soon, the yard was covered with a thin layer of snow.

Xiao Tao couldn't hold it in any longer. She watched Mu Qingli finish the medicine and took the bowl from her hand. She stammered, "Princess, it's snowing outside. You've been staying in the house all day. Do you want to put on some clothes and get some fresh air?"

Mu Qingli always felt bitter when taking medicine in the past, but today she didn't feel anything.

Yes, how could the bitterness of the medicine compare to the pain in her heart? Besides, she had no intention of seeing the snow at this time, so she naturally shook her head and refused.

"No, I have nothing to do here, you can go down."

Xiaotao originally planned to use the excuse of going out for some fresh air to let her discover Wanyue kneeling outside the house. However, when she saw that she refused, and couldn't bear to see Wanyue freezing outside, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and plead for Wanyue.

"Princess, Sister Wanyue has been kneeling outside for a whole day. It's freezing cold and snowing now. She'll freeze if she continues kneeling. Go and persuade her. She won't let me tell you she's kneeling outside, but I..."

Xiao Tao was interrupted by Mu Qingli before she could finish her words.

"You said Wanyue knelt outside for a whole day?"

"Yes, she knelt down early in the morning. I tried to persuade her but she refused to listen. She refused to tell you, saying that she had done something wrong and this was her punishment. Princess, please go and try to persuade her. If she continues to kneel down, she will be frozen to death..."

Mu Qingli could no longer sit still, so he put on his shoes hastily, put on only a big coat, and ran out of the house.

When she opened the door, she saw Wanyue covered with a thin layer of snow, and she felt sad and angry.

Wanyue's body was shaking and she was almost about to fall down. Just when she was about to fall down, she finally saw Mu Qingli standing in front of her.

Her body was shaking, her lips were almost blue, and her voice was trembling violently.

"Princess, I'm sorry, I...I shouldn't have lied to you...I..."

Mu Qingli didn't say anything, but just wiped the tears from her face, then bent down and tried to help her up from the ground.

However, she was already feeling unwell and hadn't eaten much in the past few days. In addition, Wanyue was basically frozen stiff, so she couldn't help herself up at all, and she staggered and fell to the ground.

They both fell to the ground at the same time. Wanyue tried to struggle to help her, but her hands were frozen and she couldn't lift them up.

Mu Qingli simply lay on the snow, crying and laughing, which scared Xiaotao who was standing beside her. At this time, Wanyue was about to fall into a coma.

Finally, with Xiaotao's help, they helped Wanyue stand up.

The three of them stumbled back to the room and entered the house, only to find that Wanyue's exposed skin had turned purple due to the cold.

Without caring about anything else, after helping Wanyue onto her bed, she immediately asked Xiaotao to call for help. Finally, she asked Xiaotao to fetch some snow from the yard. The two of them kept rubbing Wanyue's hands and feet with the snow. They didn't stop until Wanyue's hands and feet gradually became warm.

A maid had already prepared ginger soup, and after Wan Yue drank it, she stopped shaking as violently as before. She didn't dare look up at Mu Qingli, but just rubbed a corner of the quilt with her hands, feeling guilty.

After being busy for most of the hour, Mu Qingli was already sweating all over. She was angry and sad. After sending the maid away from the room, she asked Wanyue with a disappointed look on her face.

"Did your master ask you to play this self-torture trick on me? Lin Wanyue, are you stupid? You don't want your own body anymore. If Xiaotao doesn't tell me, you plan to freeze yourself to death in the yard? Do you think that if you die, your cold-blooded master will be sad? Will he be upset? Don't be naive, he won't."

Wanyue listened to her word by word, and tears welled up in her eyes.

"Princess, it's not like that. It has nothing to do with the master. I want to apologize myself, but I don't know how to make you forgive me, so I have to..."

"You had no choice but to play this self-torture trick? Right? Wanyue, after all these years together, you knew I would be soft-hearted, you knew I wouldn't be able to bear it, so you all figured out my personality and deceived and exploited me at will. Now, what do you want from me? You said sorry, I said it was okay, and then the matter was over, right? If sorry worked, murder would have been legal long ago. And now you want me to pretend nothing happened? You lied to me for five whole years, five whole years. I treated you as family, as friends, and treated you sincerely, but you, from beginning to end, treated me like a fool. You said you were abducted and sold to a brothel, you said you had no one to rely on, you said you had no family. Wanyue, I believed it. I never doubted these fabricated stories of your life. I sympathized with you and opened my heart to you. Now think about it, I'm the only one who's ridiculous. If you were me, and you knew this so-called truth, could you forgive me? Could you pretend nothing happened?"

With tears in her eyes, Wanyue could only say "I'm sorry" over and over again.

Mu Qingli wiped her tears and turned away. She could never bear to be cruel to Wanyue. Seeing Wanyue covered in bruises just now, it would be a lie to say she didn't feel sorry for her.

But she was heartbroken. Even though she felt sorry for Wanyue, it was impossible for her to forgive their deception for so many years.