Chapter 752: The Song Ends but the People Remain
Separate rooms, separate meetings.
As the party holding the power, Aunt Xue should be very calm. At most, she should feel a little regretful.
But when Li Wan sent all the servants away, Aunt Xue suddenly became a little panicked.
Although she was nearly forty years old, she had almost never dealt with any major matters alone. When faced with the inheritance left by her husband after his death, she had always avoided it. Otherwise, the Xue family's business would not have declined to the point where it was unsustainable in the past few years.
What she has to deal with now is the complicated situation of her nephew's wife having an affair with her brother-in-law!
What should I do?
Should I rebuke her directly and righteously?
Or should I try to test the waters first?
What if she doesn't admit it?
I...I don’t seem to have any evidence.
Do we really have to expose this matter openly and make a big deal out of it?
This panic inevitably reached its peak when Li Wan approached with an expressionless face.
If Aunt Xue's trembling hands had not been covered by her sleeves, she would never have escaped Li Wan's gaze.
Just when Aunt Xue could hardly bear it and wanted to avoid that gaze out of guilt, Li Wan in front of her suddenly became a head shorter.
"aunt."
Li Wan said resolutely: "No matter how many mistakes I made, they are all my fault. I don't expect my aunt and mother-in-law to forgive me now. When I go back, I am willing to spend the rest of my life to atone for my sins!"
As she spoke, she knocked her head heavily on the ground and said sadly, "But Lang'er is grandson of my grandmother. I beg you to see his dead father and not tell anyone about this after I die!"
It turned out that Li Wan had returned to the corridor first . After learning that Aunt Xue had also been away for a long time, she felt uneasy.
When Aunt Xue came back and kept stealing glances at her, Li Wan knew that her affair was most likely exposed!
At that time, Li Wan tried her best to maintain her composure on the surface, but she was a hundred times more nervous than Aunt Xue in her heart. No matter from which perspective, she must not let this matter be exposed - even if it cost her life!
Of course, although she was willing to die, she also knew that Aunt Xue had always been soft-hearted, and like herself, she had been a widow for many years. If she took the initiative to admit her fault, there was a high chance that she would be able to gain her mercy.
As expected.
When Aunt Xue heard that Li Wan was willing to die to atone for her sins, looked at her mature figure lying in front of her, and thought about how she had just gotten married and had to live alone in her empty room for many years, the resentment that she had in her heart was immediately mostly dispelled.
"Ah~ Why did you come here again?"
Aunt Xue sighed, stretched out her hand and pulled Li Wan, saying faintly: "I have also been a widow for many years, how can I not know the difficulties of us widows? But no matter how difficult it is, the four words of propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame should not be thrown behind your mind."
Li Wan did not stand up, but still knelt on the ground stubbornly, with her two full-moon-like buttocks raised high, and said sadly: "My niece was confused for a moment. I am sorry to my husband's spirit in heaven. My niece is willing to die..."
"What's the matter of death?"
Aunt Xue interrupted her whimpering, pulled Li Wan up from the ground, and said sternly, "How old are you now? Lang'er is a promising man. Don't you want to see him pass the imperial examination, get married and have children?"
"Aunt...Aunt, I...I..."
Li Wan raised her head with tears in her eyes. When she saw the pity and sympathy in Aunt Xue's eyes, the words she had prepared suddenly became blurred.
Instead, there is a strong urge to vent.
Driven by this impulse, Li Wan hesitated for a moment and then threw herself into Aunt Xue's arms, hugging her warm and plump body and crying like rain.
If her previous performance still contained some acting elements, now it is an undisguised expression of her true feelings.
Her relationship with Sun Shaozong certainly filled the loneliness and emptiness that had accumulated for more than ten years, both spiritually and physically, but it also brought her fear and anxiety.
After all, once such a thing is exposed, she will be in dire straits, and her son will be implicated as well.
The former is fine, but when it comes to implicating Jia Lan, Li Wan cannot tolerate it.
For this reason, she had secretly thought many times about completely severing ties with Sun Shaozong.
However……
Something that has been suppressed for more than ten years, once you have tasted the sweetness of it, how can you just give it up?
What's more, the fake romance with Suyun from time to time was like scratching an itch, making her more and more attached to the hysterical pleasure.
To put it bluntly, Sun Shaozong is like a drug to Li Wan now.
Although they know the dangers, they can't help but commit the same mistakes again and again.
Li Wan had no idea how much hesitation and tossing and turning had accumulated in her heart, but she could not find a way to vent it - the only person who knew about it, Suyun, was just a servant, so how could she be willing to lose her status in front of a servant?
Now that Aunt Xue appeared, she finally had an outlet to vent her feelings.
This crying and complaining took up a full half a quarter of an hour.
It was not until Aunt Xue also felt the same pain and was in tears that Li Wan choked up and raised herself up from Aunt Xue's arms.
"Good boy, I know you've suffered a lot these years."
To be honest, Aunt Xue and Li Wan are only about ten years apart in age, but when she saw her tearful face, Aunt Xue couldn't help but feel kind to her.
Reaching out to comb the messy hair on Li Wan's forehead, he said softly, "After all, you are young, and it is normal for you to make mistakes. Just correct it. Why do you have to make a fuss about it?"
In fact, such things cannot be brushed aside with a simple statement of "it's fixed"?
But Aunt Xue has always been an emotional person. She was so emotional at the time that she didn't care whether the words were appropriate or not.
Besides, she wasn't concerned about this at the moment, but...
"Tell me, who was the person you were with just now?"
Seeing that Aunt Xue asked this question with some trepidation, Li Wan was stunned at first, but then she couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
She originally thought that Aunt Xue already knew everything clearly.
But from what he said, it was clear that he only heard something vaguely and did not witness the scene of the two having an affair with his own eyes.
"aunt."
She wiped away the tears from her eyes and said solemnly, "I was the one who was fickle and seduced him. Since everything started because of me, I would rather die than reveal his identity!"
Actively seduced him?
As Aunt Xue pondered over these words, she became more and more suspicious of Baoyu, because she had seen too many women who took the initiative to seduce Jia Baoyu during her years in Rongguo Mansion.
But she never thought that Li Wan had always been resentful of Jia Zhu's frail body, so she completely disdained the saucy young men and had a special liking for strong men like Sun Shaozong.
However, when Aunt Xue learned that it was not Baoyu who took the initiative, she felt relieved - if a woman like Li Wan deliberately seduced him, how could a young man full of vigor and vitality control himself?
Come to think of it, I can only blame my sister for not being careful enough and putting these infatuated man and woman together.
But in this case, should my daughter still get involved in this mess?
If I want to persuade her to quit, I'm afraid I can only reveal Li Wan's affairs, but I just promised not to mention it to anyone...
He was so torn that he forgot to say anything to Li Wan.
When Li Wan saw Aunt Xue's hesitation, her anxiety, which had just been relieved, suddenly rose to her throat again.
How could she know that Aunt Xue was thinking about her own daughter?
Thinking that it was because she refused to tell the truth, Aunt Xue began to have second thoughts again!
This is not a good thing. After all, Aunt Xue is with her mother-in-law almost every day, and the two are sisters.
If one day she suddenly couldn't help herself and told Madam Wang about this...
Thinking of this, Li Wan couldn't help but shudder, and at the same time an idea came to her mind: I must think of a way to completely solve this hidden danger!
