Chapter 231
In the bedroom.
Fan Shi sat on the bed, looking completely devastated.
After Luo Fei entered, he asked everyone else to leave, then stood to the side, staring at Fan Shi in shock.
His fists were still clenched, his anger so intense it felt like it could burn through his blood. After all, no man could tolerate learning that his girlfriend had experienced something like this.
"Fan Shi, we're about to get married. Is there anything you need to tell me?" Luo Fei's voice was hoarse.
Fan Shi froze, not answering, instead lowering her head in silence, her whole being emanating the aura of a delicate flower swaying in the storm.
Seeing Fan Shi like this, Luo Fei naturally felt both pity and pain.
[No way, no way, Luo Fei has made it so obvious, yet she's still pretending to be deaf and mute. Oh my, with my impatient personality - just say something, are you mute? Why is it that when she's clearly the one who made a mistake, she has to put on this act of 'I'm hurt so I won't speak'? No wonder Luo Fei got fooled.]
Qin Xian stood beside Ji Fei, seeing her cheeks puffed up in anger, he couldn't help but pat her head to calm her down.
The Qin family members eavesdropping downstairs were also quite speechless at this point, wondering if this was intentional or not.
Inside the room, Fan Shi remained silent, as if silence could help her escape everything.
Though Luo Fei was kind-hearted, he couldn't let this matter pass so ambiguously.
Luo Fei closed his eyes painfully, "Fan Shi, I've been protecting you since high school. I've protected you for so many years, why don't you trust me? That beast forced himself on you so many times, why didn't you say anything? Why didn't you ask me for help? Why did you suffer in silence? If you had just told me, I would have definitely found a way to solve everything."
Fan Shi, who had been holding onto a glimmer of hope, saw it all crumble at this moment. As if she were the one who had suffered an enormous injury, she suddenly covered her mouth with her hand, tears streaming down her face, looking at Luo Fei in panic and helplessness.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I really didn't mean to..."
Seeing her like this, Luo Fei's heart twisted even more painfully. Usually, he would have already been comforting her.
But this time, Luo Fei gritted his teeth and said: "Fan Shi, we're about to get married, and you wouldn't tell me. If he continues to threaten you afterward, were you planning to wear the title of my wife while making me a cuckold?"
Fan Shi's face turned deathly pale in an instant, as if Luo Fei's words had deeply humiliated her.
Luo Fei couldn't bear to look at her expression, but there were things he had to say, because if today's revelation hadn't happened, this would likely have been the inevitable development. He knew Fan Shi was a pitiful victim, a weak person unable to resist, pitiable and tragic, and foolish to the point of helplessness.
But he just couldn't get over it - why didn't she ask him for help? She should have said something the first time it happened.
Did she think he would despise her because of it? Was she afraid of losing him? That's why she kept sinking deeper - Luo Fei could only comfort himself with these thoughts.
"I'm not, how could I possibly..." Fan Shi sobbed in protest, saying that since she had agreed to marry Luo Fei, how could she do anything to wrong him?
But Luo Fei said: "Then weren't you planning to make me accept that beast's child?"
At this moment, Fan Shi's face truly became bloodless. Her lips trembled as if she wanted to say something, but nothing came out. She just kept crying, as if she had suffered the greatest injustice in the world.
Seeing her not deny it, Luo Fei's expression suddenly collapsed, as if all his spirit had been drained away. He had always thought himself quite capable, but at this moment, he truly felt like a complete failure.
He could try to understand Fan Shi's difficulties, but he wasn't a fool either.
"We'll handle this matter by going to the police. That beast must go to jail and pay for what he's done," Luo Fei said gravely.
But Fan Shi suddenly looked up, "No!"
Luo Fei was stunned, finally feeling something strange rising in his heart. "Don't worry, no matter what leverage he has over you, I'll handle it all, I won't let you..."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Please, no, no, can't we just pretend nothing happened? Please, otherwise, otherwise I really can't go on living." Fan Shi suddenly crawled off the bed, almost kneeling before Luo Fei, causing his expression to change dramatically.
[You're really getting into the act now? How did you so naturally turn yourself into the victim? If you just said one word now - that it was consensual - Luo Fei's suggestion about going to the police would definitely be invalid. By acting like this, like you're between life and death, aren't you just leading Luo Fei to think you're afraid of retaliation?]
[So now you're threatening suicide to prevent Luo Fei from going to the police? Not revealing your true feelings because you're afraid your worth in Luo Fei's heart would diminish and you couldn't persuade him? So you're pretending to love Luo Fei while preventing him from hurting Tang Yu - you really... truly love Tang Yu, don't you?]
Qin Xian listened, his breathing pattern changing, feeling that all of Luo Fei's years of care for Fan Shi had been thrown into the gutter.
Although the Qin family members could only hear Ji Fei's commentary, they could guess the general situation, and couldn't help but wonder how someone could act so innocent and pitiful while doing such cruel and disgusting things.
In Luo Fei's view, Fan Shi simply couldn't bear the pressure of possibly being exposed and threatened at any time - in other words, she had been frightened out of her wits by Tang Yu, developing a conditioned reflex to just avoid everything. Even though he promised to ensure everything would be okay, Fan Shi still didn't trust him.
Luo Fei took a deep breath, "Fine, we won't go to the police."
As a police officer, naturally his first thought when encountering such a situation was to bring the perpetrator to justice. If that wasn't possible, he could use other means to make Tang Yu pay the appropriate price - even if he was his half-brother, he absolutely wouldn't let this beast off.
You could say that Luo Fei still thought he was taking revenge for himself and Fan Shi together, so his hatred was very obvious.
But as long as they didn't go to the police, everything was negotiable for Fan Shi.
But the next moment, Fan Shi froze, because Luo Fei asked her how she planned to handle the child.
Fan Shi had already developed feelings for this child, and reflexively protected her belly.
Seeing this, Luo Fei's eyes darkened.
Fan Shi looked at Luo Fei with tear-filled eyes, saying pitifully: "You hate me and despise me now, you don't want me anymore, so, you're not going to marry me? And you don't want this child either, right?"
If Qin Xian hadn't been holding Ji Fei back, she would have rushed in.
[Sister, have some shame, please. The child is innocent, but why should Luo Fei accept this child? Are you out of your mind?]
Looking at Fan Shi in such a pitiful state, Luo Fei found it difficult to breathe. He took a deep breath and said: "Fan Shi, I don't hate you. You're the victim, I won't blame you, and I won't abandon you, but this child - I can't accept it."
After saying this, Luo Fei actually felt somewhat guilty, thinking that perhaps he didn't love Fan Shi as much as he had imagined.
Isn't this how it always plays out in TV dramas? Even if the child isn't yours, because you love your wife, you can accept everything, and might even come to love this child in the future.
But Luo Fei discovered he couldn't accept it. That illegitimate child with his wife - he hated even thinking about it. He knew he could never love this child, so naturally there was no need to bring this child into their home to suffer.