“Wei Shiyu! What are you talking about? What do you mean I don’t know? Clearly, you’re the one who doesn’t know anything!”
Even if Lin Zhiyi had been a fool, she could still understand what Wei Shiyu was implying.
No wonder the way he had been looking at her stomach seemed so strange.
The original owner had been too preoccupied with going to the countryside and Lu Bin to notice anything unusual about Wei Shiyu.
“Wei Shiyu, what do you mean by this? I married into your family as your wife. Just because I haven’t treated you well in the past doesn’t mean you can slander my innocence! You’ve gone too far! I want a divorce!”
By the time she finished speaking, there was a faint tremor of tears in Lin Zhiyi’s voice.
Fortunately, she knew that in the original novel, the female lead’s child really was Wei Shiyu’s. Otherwise, she would have had a hard time explaining herself now.
She remembered that the original novel had revealed that Lin Youwei eventually admitted everything had been her doing, which indirectly proved that the child belonged to the male lead.
But Lin Zhiyi still had to figure out exactly what had happened.
Seeing Wei Shiyu lower his head without saying a word, Lin Zhiyi began pounding his chest again and again.
“Since when have you been thinking this way? Tell me!”
Lin Zhiyi suddenly burst into loud tears. She truly could not keep hitting him anymore. He was far too solid, and her hand hurt!
Instead, Wei Shiyu panicked when he saw her like this and carefully said, “During the first month after we got married, there was one afternoon when you said you were going back to your parents’ home, but you actually went to meet Lu Bin. You didn’t come home that night.”
As Lin Zhiyi thought through the plot of the novel, she immediately realized that Lin Youwei had been behind this.
If it had not been for her, how else would Wei Shiyu have known that she had met Lu Bin?
There had already been rumors about the two of them before. Wouldn’t this only deepen Wei Shiyu’s suspicions?
“I didn’t come home, so why didn’t you come looking for me? I did meet Lu Bin that day, but later, Wang Xiaohua’s mother suddenly fell seriously ill and had to be taken to the hospital. Wang Xiaohua was the only child left at home, so I brought her back with me. I didn’t return until her relatives arrived the next day! If you don’t believe me, go ask Wang Xiaohua!”
The living room on the first floor was close to the guest room, and Wei Zhongliang had been pacing around outside, so he happened to hear Lin Zhiyi crying.
“You brat! Did you bully Zhiyi? Open this door right now!” Wei Zhongliang shouted as he pounded on the door.
The door immediately opened, revealing Lin Zhiyi’s tear reddened eyes.
“Dad, Mom, he… he thinks I… I was unfaithful to him…”
In truth, Lin Zhiyi did not have that many tears to shed, but when she thought about how she had inexplicably transmigrated into this world, only to find herself pregnant and about to leave for the countryside the next day, she felt unbearably wronged. Her tears began pouring down like a floodgate that had burst open.
“Oh, don’t cry, Zhiyi. Let your father beat him up for you later!” Wei Shiyu’s mother immediately pulled Lin Zhiyi into her arms and comforted her.
Wei Shiyu was still standing there in a daze, unable to process what he had just learned. He had never expected things to have happened this way.
After all, once a seed of suspicion was planted, it would slowly take root and grow.
“You brat! I’ve watched Zhiyi grow up, so I know exactly what kind of person she is. You…”
Before Wei Zhongliang could finish speaking, Wei Shiyu rushed out and sprinted toward Wang Xiaohua’s home.
Wei Zhongliang was so furious that he stomped his feet inside the house, but he could not exactly question Lin Zhiyi further, so he could only wait for Wei Shiyu to return.
Ten minutes later, Wei Shiyu came back, drenched in sweat.
His flushed face was filled with guilt as he said, “Zhiyi, I’m sorry. I never should have doubted you.”
Wei Zhongliang immediately lost his temper and struck Wei Shiyu on the back. “How did I end up with such an unfilial son? Zhiyi is working so hard to carry a child for our Wei family, yet you still dared to doubt her! Tonight, you’ll stand facing the wall and reflect on your actions. You don’t need to eat dinner either!”
“Dad, Shiyu only believed the rumors. We’re leaving for the countryside tomorrow, and if he doesn’t eat, he’ll go hungry,” Lin Zhiyi said from the side, wiping away her tears as she tried to persuade him.
Wei Shiyu turned to look at Lin Zhiyi, whose eyes were still red.
Is she worried about me?
Then I definitely can’t let her suffer by following me to the countryside.
“Zhiyi, I’ll think of every possible way to let you stay in the city. You can’t go to the countryside!”
Ever since they had gotten married, she had spent her days either going shopping with the other young women in the family to buy new clothes or studying the latest fashionable hairstyles. When she returned home, there was always a hot meal waiting for her, and whenever she went out, a dedicated car picked her up and drove her around.
She would never be able to endure life in the countryside.
Besides, she was carrying my child.
From beginning to end, his family had only wanted her to safely give birth to the baby.
As for going to the countryside, they had never considered letting her come along.
Nor had they dared to.
Lin Zhiyi slowly walked over to Wei Shiyu.
From Wei Shiyu’s perspective, the woman standing before him had tears in her eyes, her gaze gentle yet resolute.
“Shiyu, from the day I married into this family, we became a family.”
“I didn’t want to go to the countryside before because I’ve never done farm work and don’t know how to do it. But as a member of this family, I can’t run away from it. Divorce was the only solution I could think of.”
“But after nearly dying just now, I suddenly realized something. I simply didn’t want the three of you to leave my child and me behind here, all alone, waiting for you. But wouldn’t that be another kind of suffering?”
As soon as her words fell, all three members of the Wei family turned to look at her.
Lin Zhiyi understood that if she wanted to change the course of her previous fate, she had to show them her sincerity and make them believe her. Only then could everything that followed happen naturally.
And right now was the best opportunity to make her intentions clear.
Wasn’t what she was doing at this moment exactly what they needed most?
The three members of the Wei family stared at Lin Zhiyi, exchanging glances and seeing disbelief reflected in one another’s eyes.
The person most shaken by all of this was Wei Shiyu.
He had always believed that their marriage was nothing more than a transaction, with no feelings involved.
But now, it seemed that was not the case.
He had overlooked her feelings.
Seeing Wei Shiyu standing there in a daze, Lin Zhiyi continued, “Besides, you and Dad and Mom will take good care of the baby and me, right?”
She tightly held Wei Shiyu’s hands, which were trembling slightly from the intensity of his emotions.
“Just like before.”
Lin Zhiyi remembered that in the original novel, although the Wei family had been sent to the countryside for reform, they received much better treatment than the others undergoing reform.
Because Wei Zhongliang had been the city’s most famous entrepreneur, the leaders had already instructed the village they were being sent to to treat them about the same as ordinary educated youth.
And now, with her identity as the county magistrate’s daughter, their lives would only become better, not harder.
Lin Zhiyi believed that with three people looking after her, life would not be too difficult.
For a moment, Wei Shiyu did not know what to say. He stood there frozen like a statue that had yet to be carved into shape.
Could he really believe her?
Before Wei Shiyu could say anything, the elderly couple beside him were the first to wipe away their tears.
They had never expected their usually delicate and domineering daughter in law to show such awareness when faced with something so important.
“Zhiyi, don’t worry. From now on, we’ll still treat you the same way we always have. You’ll always be the most precious treasure in our family.”
At that moment, Wei Zhongliang almost wanted to thank his father for arranging this marriage for his grandson. He truly had not chosen the wrong person!