Chapter 717: Tears that were not unleashed——2
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Shen Li went back inside the house, he first looked into Yu Dong's room and checked up on Fang Chi. When he saw that even though the latter looked pale, he was breathing fine and was no longer sweating, he calmed down and then softly caressed Fang Chi on the head as he muttered, " Wake up soon all right? if you don't, then I am worried that Yu Dong will shake the entire village up."
What Shen Li did not know was that at this moment everyone in the village was praying the same even Second Aunt Yu who was worried that Yu Dong will come asking for her life in case something more happened to Fang Chi.
After he covered Fang Chi with a blanket and placed more wooden logs in the Kang that was burning, Shen Li walked out of the room and headed to the backyard where he found Yu Dong standing alone as she looked at the sky. He did not go to stand next to her instead he went ahead and stood behind her with his arms around her waist as he muttered, " How long are you going to hold it in? I have sent the others away so you can cry as much as you can, no one will say anything."
Yu Dong did not even realise that she was holding her tears back as she did not want anyone to see her. She was worried that if she cried then her husbands will be worried along with the kids since they were already stressed enough, which was why she had been keeping everything stored up inside her even now.
She continued to gaze at the sky and then said to Shen Li, " Why do you think something like this happened to me? Is it because I was too unkind or because the gods thought that I was not a good person? Maybe I should have held myself back when I was terrorising others, most probably it's their curses that are now working. Maybe somewhere I was wrong as well which is why I am getting punished like this, isn't it?"
Shen Li closed his eyes as he planted his cheek against Yu Dong's back and muttered, " If we say it like this then do you think that you should be rewarded with the throne of the empress for saving so many lives as well? If not for you Chen Mi and little Bun would have died during childbirth. It was because of you that they are still alive, Fang Chi, Ye Liu and I too —— you even saved Lang and her family."
" That's not it——" Yu Dong began but she was interrupted by Shen Li as the latter continued speaking, " You are not getting punished Yu Dong, there is no such thing as punishment in this world, so many mers are killed by their wives but they are forgotten and buried under the ground while their wives stay alive and they marry someone else, their lives gets even better."
" I have seen thieves who stole the fortune of the poor, they stayed alive and well—- while the poor died of starvation."
" I don't know whether or not Karma exists, maybe it's too late or slow in its work but I never saw it working. You only did what you should have done, the reason you lost our daughter is that Qiu Bai was crazy. Because he kept a grudge that meant no sense, it has nothing to do with you or your actions, there is no reason for you to be punished when you are yet to be rewarded with the things that you deserve."
Yu Dong closed her eyes as she placed her hands on Shen Li's, her breath stagnated as hot tears trailed down her cheeks and she muttered, " I lost her, Li."
" I know."
" I lost our daughter," she said again.
" I know."
" It hurts so much."
" I k..now"
Shen Li did not say anything else, he stayed by Yu Dong's side to show her that he was with her through thick and thin but he never faced her from the beginning till the end because he knew that she did not want him to see her tears which was why he stayed as he was—— his face buried in her back as he listened to her nerve-wrecking sobs and not once shed a tear because this time he has to be the one who has to be strong when she could not.
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Ye Liu arrived at the restaurant that was owned by Song Yixu and by coincidence he ran into Song Yixu who was leaving the restaurant when the latter ran into him and saw his black clothes, she frowned and stopped in her tracks. " Mister Ye, why are you wearing these clothes?" Her brows scrunched up but when she saw Chen Mi and his son wearing the same clothes with the little child's face puffed into red dumplings. Song Yixu's eyes widened and she turned to look at Ye Liu who nodded solemnly.
" Fang Chi's child…" he told everything that happened in the village to Song Yixu since she was a friend of his wife but more importantly he knew that she had a little influence in the town which he thought might come into handy to teach Qiu Bai a lesson.
Sure enough, when Song Yixu heard what happened, her brows furrowed and her expression turned unsightly.
" How can there be a mer like this?" She snapped her eyes burning with rage as she carefully thought over something and turned to look at her carriage driver and said, " Change of plans, bring me to the house of the Yamen head there is something that I need to discuss with her."
The carriage driver nodded as she turned to get the carriage and only then did Song Yixu turn to look at Ye Liu and Chen Mi with a sympathetic look in her eyes and said, " Don't worry and leave this matter to me, I might not have enough influence but I can make sure that the mer suffers a good deal of pain as well."
She had almost no sympathy for the mer who killed an unborn child!
This was exactly what Ye Liu wanted which was why he bowed his head and thanked Song Yixu who waved her hand and said to her head chef, " Give them something to eat and treat them well just like my guest."
The head chef was none other than Sister Li who was Yu Dong's good friend, she was already bursting with anger when she heard something like this happen to Yu Dong though she could not go ahead and avenge Yu Dong, she could at least treat her husbands well!
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺