Chapter 13 — Fake Fiance Committed His Love To Thien Kim, I Let Them Be Honest

As for the case where he accused the Tham family of poisoning, the official's original words were:

"A thief climbed the wall to enter a retreat, and took evidence to report to the master. This kind of thing has never been heard by the magistrate before. This case is not accepted."

When Co Dien Chi was pulled down and beaten, I didn't go watch. Thanh Hoa wanted to go see, but I stopped her.

“No need to watch.”

“Miss, don't you want to see him get beaten?”

“It doesn't matter if you look.”

I speak honestly. I don't need to see him being beaten to get any pleasure. All I need is for the Tham family to be safe. As long as everyone in the Tham family lives well, whether Co Dien Chi is beaten or not has nothing to do with me. Wearing shackles for three days, paraded around the public. A scholar stood in a shackle in the middle of the street, his entire life's dignity seemingly completely lost. It's even crueler than being stripped of your reputation. Because of losing your reputation, you can still say that you have been wronged. But when you wear the shackles on the streets, the whole city sees it, and you can't deny it even if you want to deny it. Three days later, Co Dien Chi was released. It was said that when he was released, he was still unable to walk and had to be helped home by his mother. His mother cried non-stop all along the way. And Co Dien Chi did not say a word from beginning to end. Thanh Hoa later told me that after returning home, Co Dien Chi locked himself in his room for three days and did not step out. On the fourth day, he packed his luggage and left this citadel with his mother. No one knows where he went. No one cares either. The day he left, I just found out that I was on the street buying food. From afar, I saw an old, worn-out cart slowly going out of the city gate. On the cart sat a young man with messy hair and a hunchbacked old woman. The cart went very slowly, leaving two faint tire tracks on the official road. I just took a look and then withdrew my gaze. Then turn around and choose two fresh sea bass. My mother likes to eat fish. On the way home, Thanh Hoa suddenly asked me:

“Miss, Mr. Co is gone, so what should Miss So do?”

"Her name has been erased from the family tree, and she has no place to go. But Master Co didn't take her with him when he left."

I was stunned for a moment.

“Don't take her with you?”

"No. I heard that before leaving, Mr. Co once came to find Miss So, and the two had a huge argument. Miss Chu scolded him for being unscrupulous, and he said Miss So had implicated him. Then he left."

I stood on the side of the road, fish in hand, silent for a long time. When So Dao wrote me that letter, I felt something was wrong. She said "I don't resent you". She said "I can't stop him". She also informed me in advance that Co Dien Chi was going to press charges. At that time, I thought that she wanted to take advantage of me and Co Dien Chi to fight until both defeat and injury. But now it seems that's not the case. She really wants to stop Co Dien Chi. She knew that he couldn't win against him and would only make herself more miserable. She couldn't stop him, so she came to tell me, so I could prepare in advance, so everything could end quickly. She's not helping me. It's helping Co Dien Chi lose a little more face. But what about the results? Co Dien Chi was beaten twenty times, put in chains for three days, then left without turning around. When he left, he even left her behind. She gave up because of him abandoned his family, abandoned his identity, abandoned everything. He didn't even look at her once. I suddenly remembered the appearance of So Dao in my previous life when standing in front of me. Her eyes were red, her voice was so soft it sounded like she was comforting a child.

“That year you meddled in our affairs, causing us to endure three years of torment for no reason.”

In my previous life, I still thought she hated me. Now that I think about it, the person she hates may not necessarily be me. What she hates, perhaps, is that those three years of torment made Co Dien Chi hate her in her heart, making there will forever be another thorn between them. She's afraid that Co Dien Chi doesn't need her anymore. All her life she was afraid of that. As a result, no matter what life it was, Co Dien Chi still didn't need her in the end. In his previous life, he was successful and successful, married another family, and So Dao was just an outsider. In this life, he fell into a dead end and directly abandoned So Dao and ran away alone.