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Chapter 377 Lu Mingnan's Side Story (End)

Upon hearing her admit it, Cheng Ruolan smiled and looked at Lu Mingnan expectantly.

Lu Mingnan chuckled softly, seemingly lost in thought, before turning to look at Cheng Ruolan with seriousness.

The person he once loved seems to have been exceptionally favored by time.

It took him a long time to finally find a trace of his past memories.

Cheng Ruolan smiled at him. He had said before that she was beautiful when she smiled.

"First of all, I stopped liking you a long time ago," Lu Mingnan said seriously and firmly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Cheng Ruolan and Liu Ling both looked at him.

One was heartbroken and in disbelief, while the other was stunned but couldn't help but smile.

Lu Mingnan spoke calmly, as if he were recounting something very simple, the same emotion he would express when asking someone on the street, "Have you eaten?"

"Secondly, I like my wife now."

After Lu Mingnan expressed his feelings, he said to Cheng Ruolan, "When we were together, I was willing to do everything I could for the relationship, but after you gave up, I slowly gave up too."

"I only pursued Liu Ling after I was sure that you were completely out of my mind. There is nothing in this world that can force me to submit, so I pursued her only after I fell in love with her."

"As for the letter you mentioned, I didn't realize it at first, but now I do. I did know about the letter, but I'm sorry I didn't know its contents. I thought that since we were over, there was no need for us to keep in touch, so I didn't read it and didn't know that you'd had such a difficult time all these years."

“Comrade Cheng Ruolan,” Lu Mingnan called out, using the name he had used to address her at the beginning, “Your experience may be worthy of sympathy, but you seem to have forgotten what I once told you: love yourself before you love others. If you don’t love yourself, then no one else will love you.”

"Sorry, Xiaoling and I have something to do, so we'll be leaving now."

Lu Mingnan felt he had done more than enough. After saying that, he didn't look at Cheng Ruolan again, but turned to Liu Ling and extended his hand, "Let's go home!"

Liu Ling smiled through her tears and said, "Okay! Let's go home!"

Cheng Ruolan just sat there watching the two of them walk away hand in hand.

She saw with her own eyes that Lu Mingnan was holding Liu Ling's hand in one hand and her milk tea in the other. She didn't know what Liu Ling said, but Lu Mingnan tilted his head slightly to listen to her.

Suddenly, Cheng Ruolan felt extremely tired, more tired than ever before.

Her parents forced her to get married, and she married three times. She experienced most of the worst days in the world, but she never felt so tired.

Do you regret it?

Cheng Ruolan didn't know, she really didn't know. She just felt that as long as she said she regretted it, Lu Mingnan, such a good person, would definitely come looking for her.

Her scheming was always directed at Lu Mingnan.

Even if she doesn't admit it, deep down she already knows the answer: only Lu Mingnan can make her let go of everything and be unrestrained towards him.

However, she lost the person who made her act so recklessly; she didn't cherish him, and Liu Ling picked him up instead.

Over the years, she has lived in a daze, completely unaware of how she ended up in this situation.

Should we see through our parents' true colors?

She doesn't know, she really doesn't know anything, and now she feels there's no need to know anything, and she doesn't care anymore.

Because she was really tired and wanted to sleep!

……

"Do you really know the letter exists? You didn't lie to her?" Liu Ling really wanted to know the answer to this question.

The letters Cheng Ruolan sent were every single one she had received!

And she not only looked at it, but also burned it.

She admitted that she was despicable, but she just didn't want Lu Mingnan and Cheng Ruolan to have any contact.

"Why didn't you hide it anymore?" Lu Mingnan asked instead of answering.

Liu Ling paused for a moment, then said without hesitation, "I'm tired. I've kept it a secret for so many years, I don't want to keep it a secret anymore. Besides, the people involved have all seen it, there's no point in hiding it now."

Actually, it was mostly Lu Mingnan's unwavering kindness towards her before their marriage that gave her confidence.

He was confident that even if Lu Mingnan knew the truth now, he wouldn't hold it against him.

Lu Mingnan smiled helplessly and shook his head, "Alright! You answered, so I'll answer too."

"I know!"

"you know?"

“Yes! I’ve always known!” Lu Mingnan nodded.

He doesn't lie.

"But!" Liu Ling hesitated, "If you knew, why didn't you..."

"Nothing? Didn't you care?" Lu Mingnan raised an eyebrow.

Liu Ling looked at him intently.

Lu Mingnan took a deep breath and said, "I know that letters exist, but what I said is true. I have never seen one."

Actually, knowing about the existence of the letter was both unexpected and very simple.

"How did you find out? I clearly always..."

"You burned it every time?" Lu Mingnan looked at her amusedly.

Liu Ling felt a little embarrassed.

"Maybe you've gotten used to burning them? You've gradually stopped being careful?" Lu Mingnan teased her, saying, "Right here in our stove, I found the letter that hadn't been finished burning while I was cooking."

Then, out of curiosity, I looked closer and saw that the envelope had Cheng Ruolan's name on it.

Lu Mingnan then learned that Cheng Ruolan had written him a letter, which Liu Ling had burned.

Actually, the letter he found hadn't been completely burned; if he wanted, he could still see some of its contents.

However, the moment Lu Mingnan saw Cheng Ruolan's name, he wasn't thinking about the contents of the letter or why Cheng Ruolan had written to him. All he could think about was that Liu Ling had this side to her that surprised him.

So, in the end, he stuffed the tattered letter he found back into the stove, lit it, and truly destroyed the evidence.

Liu Ling listened to his words in a daze, her expression indescribable.

"So you found out so early?"

But she kept thinking about it.

"Was it because I didn't do a good enough job?" Lu Mingnan stopped and turned to face her.

"No! You did a great job!" Liu Ling replied instinctively.

Lu Mingnan: "Then what are you worried about? I know I'm not romantic enough, and I don't usually surprise anyone, so you don't have much confidence in me."

"No!" Liu Ling hurriedly interrupted him.

Lu Mingnan is too modest. He is a good person and treats her very well.

Liu Ling felt that meeting Lu Mingnan was the luckiest thing that had ever happened to her.

"Oh, it's my fault, I'm sorry." Liu Ling bowed her head and admitted her mistake.

Lu Mingnan found it amusing, "You are my wife, the wife I pursued myself. It is my responsibility to make you happy, so don't think you have any problems. You can blame your problems on me."

"I didn't tell you about the letter because I knew you didn't want me to know, so I didn't say anything."

"Now that's settled, we have no more secrets, let's move on! You don't need to dwell on this anymore."

Liu Ling looked up at him and smiled happily, "Lu Mingnan, have I ever told you that you are really good!"

Lu Mingnan smiled brightly, "I already said that! You're great too."

"No, you're the best, I...I really like you!"

I like you very much too!

"Once Mom's leg heals, let's take them to Kyoto! We miss Uncle and the others."

"it is good!"