At that time, Li Yuwan was deeply shocked by Chen Yuanyuan's ruthlessness, which was far from what Tang Wenhao had told her and the image of Chen Yuanyuan she had imagined in her mind. She looked at Tang Yingchen beside her and saw that her husband's face was also full of disbelief and disappointment. The two exchanged a complicated look, and without saying anything, they both understood each other's feelings.

At this point, Li Yuwan's eyes were slightly red, and her voice was a little choked. "Wenhao, do you know? At that moment, my heart really hurt like a knife. I thought you had found the person who could communicate with you and go through thick and thin together, but I didn't expect that she would be like this behind your back. The gentleness and innocence she showed in front of you might just be to deceive your trust?"

Tang Wenhao's face also turned extremely ugly. He clenched his fists, and his knuckles turned white due to the force. "Mother, this... this is impossible! Yuanyuan is not like this. Did you go to the wrong place?"

Li Yuwan shook her head, tears finally falling down her cheeks. "Wenhao, we did see it with our own eyes that day. In order to prevent Yuanyuan from noticing that we were your parents, we specifically asked the driver in your eldest brother's yard to take us there to make sure there was no mistake. Because your eldest brother told us that he had also bought buns from Yuanyuan's stall under your introduction. We were extremely disappointed at the time, and we didn't want you to be too sad, so we asked him not to tell you. But now it seems that some things cannot be kept secret. If you don't believe it, you can ask the driver, and he will tell you."

Tang Wenhao's hands were throbbing with veins. After a long while, he suppressed the ups and downs in his heart and calmed himself down. "Then why did mother, Yuanyuan... die?"

"Seeing Yuanyuan's behavior, your father and I couldn't eat any more buns. We paid the bill and left in a hurry. In the carriage, your father was so angry that he pounded the pillow. I persuaded him that the child really liked this girl, so why don't we wait and see. Your father said it was impossible, and when he got home, he secretly sent someone to check Yuanyuan.

She paused, her voice filled with anger and helplessness, "Her identity, her experience, and even the original intention of her meeting you are completely different from what you described. What is even more unacceptable to us is that she is actually a murderer!"

Tang Wenhao's face turned pale as paper in an instant, "Mother...how...how is this possible?"

"Child, that Yuanyuan, even her name is fake! Her name is not Chen Yuanyuan at all, but Sun Yingying. She is indeed from Licheng. Although her parents are not rich, they treat her as their precious daughter. But Sun Yingying despised the couple very much. Later, she became someone else's concubine. Later, when the master was sick, she suffocated the master to death while no one was around, and ran away with the money. The person your father sent to investigate said that when they arrived in Licheng, the wanted portrait of Sun Yingying was still posted on the city gate!

His eyes were empty and confused, as if the whole world was collapsing at this moment. He couldn't accept this cruel fact, that the woman who once made his heart beat fast and was willing to give everything for her was actually such a complicated and unbearable person.

"After your father told me this, I also couldn't believe it, but the hardest part was how to tell you this, so your father went to find Yuanyuan himself, wanting her to leave you. Yuanyuan agreed. She said she knew you were the son of the Tang family, and she was only close to you for money, so if you wanted her to leave, you had to give her five hundred taels of silver."

"Father gave it to her?" Tang Wenhao was about to collapse at this time, but he was just holding on.

"Yes, your father gave her five hundred taels of silver, personally delivered to her, and told her to stay away from you. If she bothers you again, your father doesn't mind reporting her to the police. Yuanyuan was very surprised. She didn't expect your father to know about her murder and even gave her money. Your father only made one request - you are simple-minded, so he asked her to find a good excuse and not hurt you..."

Li Yuwan's eyes became moist again. She tried hard to hold back her tears and continued, "Your father said that he saw that Yuanyuan only had a desire for money in her eyes, and she didn't have any true feelings for you! Later, your father and I heard about Yuanyuan going home to visit her mother. We thought this was her idea, but we didn't expect that her body would be salvaged from the dock a few days later. This was not what your father and I intended!"

......

Tang Wenhao had forgotten how he walked out of the chrysanthemum garden. He was enveloped by unprecedented confusion and helplessness. By the time he came to his senses, he had already walked back to his bamboo garden.

Back in the room, he closed the doors and windows, isolating himself from the outside world, but he couldn't isolate the storm in his heart. He lit a candle, and the flickering candlelight illuminated his pale and complex face.

"Your father's reason is that he doesn't want you to get hurt! He would rather you hate him than let you know Yuanyuan's true intentions..." Mother's words still echoed in my ears.

He sat at the desk, his fingers unconsciously stroking the corner of the desk, his mind full of thoughts. Her smile, her tenderness, her every promise, all burst like bubbles in the sun, leaving only endless lies and betrayal.

"Why?" Tang Wenhao asked himself in a low voice, his voice full of bitterness and unwillingness. He didn't understand why the person he loved with all his heart would be such a person who would do anything for money. What was even more difficult for him to accept was that even her name was fake, everything about her was fake, and only the use and deception were the most real things she gave him.

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