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Chapter 10 “Fu Sheng, let’s get divorced.”
He Yuan lowered his gaze, avoiding Fu Sheng’s eyes.
Fu Sheng had a sudden idea. “If I were to truly accept Fang Ji’s offer, what would you do?”
He Yuan’s eyelashes trembled slightly, seemingly caught in a dilemma. Faced with one question and two options, cooperating with Fu Sheng and the despised Fang Ji or continuing to go against Fu Sheng and stand in opposition to him, he couldn’t decide which side outweighed the other.
The balance between the two sides couldn’t be discerned at that moment.
Fu Sheng chuckled lightly. Should he be relieved that He Yuan hesitated, that he didn’t ruthlessly abandon him for revenge? Should he be thankful that he held more weight in He Yuan’s heart than he had imagined?
But why was he so angry?
Fu Sheng’s expression twisted for a moment. “He Yuan, do you really see me as such a despicable person? Regardless of our relationship, Fang Gaomin is suspected of murder, and I would never protect him for personal reasons. Let alone agreeing to Fang Ji’s olive branch. Furthermore, you are my legal spouse! Why do you think I would cover up a murderer? Why do you think I would sacrifice my own wife for personal gain?”
He didn’t want to discuss these matters. He had originally decided to bury the past, as long as they didn’t mention or bring up those cruel truths, their relationship could return to how it was before. He could pretend not to know about those brutal facts. But He Yuan insisted on bringing it up!
Fu Sheng became increasingly irritable, and his deliberately suppressed negative emotions kept leaking out.
In his mind, he repeatedly questioned why He Yuan had lied to him, why he had used him. Over the six years, there were countless opportunities for He Yuan to confide in him. Why did He Yuan never speak up? Why did He Yuan prefer to plan revenge on his own instead of seeking his help? Why… couldn’t he trust him?
“From both a public and private standpoint, from a legal and moral perspective, I would never cooperate with Fang Ji. You should understand this, yet you still believe that I would accept the resources offered by the southern faction behind Fang Ji. Do you think I would betray you for these things and stand against you? He Yuan, do you… do you have a heart at all?” You are reading on novelping(.)com, the official source.
He Yuan’s scalp tingled, and he felt like exploding. “Fu Sheng, you ask me for my heart, for my trust. Then why did you deliberately conceal your relationship with He Beijia? Why did you pretend to keep him by your side to deal with the outside world?”
Fu Sheng responded, “I said I wanted to use his pheromones—”
“Do you really not know the attraction between high compatibility levels of AO pheromones, or are you pretending to be ignorant? Since you were a teenager, you’ve been trained to resist an O’s pheromones. You should understand deeply that an A, who has suppressed their rut period for so long, would find it even more difficult to restrain themselves in the face of a highly compatible O. Fang Gaomin is scum and enjoys saying disgusting things to deliberately disgust me. But he said one thing correctly. You can resist your physiological instincts temporarily, but you will not be able to resist them for a lifetime. Once you break your vow, you will sink deeper and deeper until I become a troublesome nuisance you can’t wait to get rid of.”
Fu Sheng glared angrily at He Yuan, his eyes seemingly burning with two fiery red flames. He spoke each word deliberately, “The first time I was induced into the forceful estr*s, why do you think Grandfather didn’t throw He Beijia into the confinement room and lock the two of us together? Why did they bring you there?!”
He Yuan clenched his fists and remained silent.
“Because I almost strangled He Beijia to death. I self-harmed. I said I wanted you, and they brought you there, wanting to use your pheromones to confuse me, to persuade me to accept a strange Omega. And you, you really pushed me toward an Omega! He Yuan, at that time, I truly hated you.”
“You won’t be able to endure it a second or third time. There will come a time when you can’t endure it anymore.”
Bang!
A loud noise suddenly rang out, startling He Yuan’s heart, and he almost jumped up from his seat. He looked at Fu Sheng in astonishment as Fu Sheng kicked the tempered glass tabletop, causing cracks to appear. He couldn’t help but feel a tinge of fear in the face of this Fu Sheng, who exuded a murderous and violent aura.
Pointing at He Yuan, Fu Sheng said, “You pass judgement on me based on your own speculations. He Yuan, are you sick? Huh? Are you f*cking sick? Even the police need to find evidence before shooting a criminal dead, evidence of the crimes they committed. But you, you directly sentence me to death based on your own speculations. He Yuan, just because your brother was betrayed by Fang Ji, you think that all Alphas are the same? You can’t use your brother’s case as a template to fit the two of us!”
He Yuan’s voice also became hoarse, his fingernails digging into his palm. He didn’t want to argue with Fu Sheng. Even when he feared that Fu Sheng would choose his fate as Fang Ji did, he clung to his dignity and refused to confront Fu Sheng head on. But now, faced with Fu Sheng’s accusations, he inexplicably felt a sense of grievance and anger. Get faster updates on novelping.com.
“Is my brother’s tragic experience not enough of an example for me to be cautious? Fu Sheng, you accuse me of passing judgement on you based on speculations, but let me ask you, why did you not refuse when He Beijia pursued you? Why didn’t you tell me about the month you spent with him? Can you honestly say that you didn’t have the slightest wavering thought during that time? Your parents and friends liked He Beijia more than me. He Beijia knows how to navigate social circles and be a respectable general’s wife. Whereas I don’t strive for progress, dislike socialising, and cannot gain the favour of your parents and friends. Compared to He Beijia, I am more troublesome, aren’t I? Especially considering that he’s an Omega who is a perfect match for you, there’s a certain chance that you will fall deeply in love with him—”
“Given all these favourable conditions, dare you say that you didn’t have the slightest bit of affection?”
Fu Sheng fell silent.
He Yuan sneered, “Your choice to be with He Beijia was for the sake of your own selfish benefits. You have always been capable of making the best choices based on your interests. So, Fu Sheng, is it difficult for you to accept that I don’t trust you?”
“You’ve never said these things,” Fu Sheng pointed out.
He Yuan responded, “Some things don’t need to be explicitly stated. Opening them up would only tear apart our faces and our relationship.”
“Tearing apart our relationship?” Fu Sheng repeated these words, lightly kicking the cracked, parched lips and squinted his eyes. He said, “You want to sever our relationship?”
“I lied to you, and you hid things from me. If we don’t tear it apart, how else can we expose the truth and pretend everything is peaceful?”
Fu Sheng could endure momentarily. He could feel inferior momentarily. He could momentarily let it go and not uncover the lies. But he couldn’t go on for a lifetime without asking or inquiring. The problems between them would become an irreparable scar. If they didn’t open up the wound, the injury would expand with time, becoming unbearable until it was powerful enough to kill them both.
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