False evidence

Chapter 242 Three Lives Three Worlds
Although Gao He was still somewhat confused, he couldn't help but ask:
"He treats you so well, why won't you get a divorce?"

Li Meizhi still had a bleak smile on her lips, but she just shook her head.

“He is really good to me. Every time my man loses gambling and gets drunk and beats me, he wants to fight back. I stop him no matter what. All he can do is apply medicine to me, and he cries as he does so.”

I waved again, and the shopkeeper brought me a bottle of Liuliangye liquor. I unscrewed the cap, poured her some, and said, "Drink up."

At this point, I already had Liang Kaiyuan's memories, and I knew about his two complete dreams, and his two previous lives with Li Meizhi... no, even this life is the third life.

The love at first sight in a Jiangnan town was initially beautiful, but the ending for the people involved can only be described as cruel.

Knowing the ending, I don't want Li Meizhi to fall into the sadness of memories again.

However... even though Li Meizhi had drunk alcohol, she became even more deeply involved...

"He's really good to me."

Li Meizhi repeated it again.

All I could do was nod.

Li Meizhi stared straight at me: "He was so good to me, yet I killed him again."

When she stopped talking, Gao He couldn't help but press her again: "Why did you kill him? How did you kill him?"

"okay!"

I waved.

Li Meizhi was still looking at me when she spoke again:
“I killed him with a sharp knife.”

I said helplessly, "That's because he was poisoned."

Li Meizhi said, "I gave him the poisoned xiaolongbao. He loves xiaolongbao the most."

"But it was your bastard husband who poisoned me!"

I downed the drink in my glass in one gulp. "It was your man who wanted him dead. That gambling addict knew he existed, knew he was rich, and wanted to murder him for his money! He was poisoned, and you couldn't bear to see him suffer, so..."

Li Meizhi gave a bitter smile: "I know the xiaolongbao are poisonous."

"Sigh..." I shook my head repeatedly, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Li Meizhi, laughing and crying at the same time, said, “My man used our child to blackmail me. Yes, women in small towns raise children early. I didn’t dare to divorce him because the child was too young. I gave Kaiyuan the poisoned steamed buns because that man said he would throw our child into the river if I didn’t do it. Kaiyuan was so good to me… but I killed him. The child, the child was my reason…”

Gao He couldn't help but sigh at this point: "In the era you described, children were practically a woman's everything."

Li Meizhi, with tears on her face, nodded with a smile, then suddenly asked me:
"Did Kaiyuan tell you why I killed him in that life, the one where he won me back from the treasure game?"

"Same. The one who poisoned you that time was the man who lost to you. It was the same kind of murder for money, but the difference is that the man himself poisoned you that time."

I turned my face to the side.

Because I simply couldn't bear Li Meizhi's gaze at that moment.

Li Meizhi said, "In that life, he promised me three lifetimes of plenty, and he kept his word. But no matter the reason, I killed him three times..."

"Twice!"

Remembering the secret Liang Kaiyuan had asked me to keep, I said urgently.

He then shook his head vigorously. "No! You didn't kill him even once! You just freed him!"

Xiao Shensan had already seen through my intention and chimed in, "Those two times you mentioned, it was early in the morning, and they were both in small towns. When someone is poisoned, it seems like they can only wait to die. If you stab them, that would be...that would be doing them a huge favor." I felt the conversation shouldn't continue, and decisively said to Li Meizhi:
"Actually, when you returned here, you remembered more details. Now, let's not worry about how Liang Kaiyuan died twice, let's just talk about your fate."

The first time was in Northeast China. After Liang Kaiyuan died, that man robbed him of all his belongings. You sold your body to buy Liang Kaiyuan a coffin that looked like a dog's head hitting the ground.

(A thin coffin often used by the poor in earlier times. Hungry wild dogs would often dig it out, smash the coffin lid with their heads, and gnaw on the corpse, hence the name "dog-head-banging.")
You arranged for someone to bury him. And you guarded his grave for three whole years. Three years later, you froze to death in the thatched hut in front of his grave.

The second time is here... Your man, that beast, was trying to frame you from the very beginning. He used the child to blackmail you, and the moment you gave the steamed buns to Liang Kaiyuan, he called the police.

Do I need to tell you the result?

In these two lifetimes, you owe Liang Kaiyuan nothing. You've repaid what you were owed. And you've given him everything you were entitled to.”

"What did I give him?" Li Meizhi asked suddenly.

I exhaled, my breath reeking of alcohol: "It's not that you have to have physical intimacy to be considered giving. You gave him something beautiful. You gave him something that no one else could give."

Li Meizhi stared at me blankly again: "And what about this life..."

“You know Liang Kaiyuan has been here.”

I interrupted her, "Liang Kaiyuan asked me to tell you that he wouldn't use money to bribe a woman who's lying down. He truly fell in love with you the first time he saw you. And, even after three lifetimes, he will never forget—the cheesecake you both loved."

Li Meizhi had been drinking, and her face was already flushed. Upon hearing this, it turned even redder, almost to the point of bleeding.

That's because 'cheesecake' was an extremely private matter for her and Liang Kaiyuan.

Their first time, there was no after-functory cigarette, they just ate cheesecake.

Because at that time, all that was left in the store was cheesecake.

Li Meizhi was clearly a bit drunk. Holding her forehead, she asked in a daze:

"How come I remember... I killed him three times?"

"Three times!"

I said decisively, "When Liang Kaiyuan returned here, he remembered more than you, even an extra lifetime. That lifetime was earlier than the one in the Northeast Baoju, also in Heqian Town. In that lifetime, he was a bastard. Of course, not as much as your two later men."

In that life, you couldn't stand his bastard nature, so you actually killed him. One stab...and another. He didn't blame you before he died, because he knew he had treated you badly. So his last words were—"I'll provide you with enough to eat for three lifetimes, and you'll tolerate my bastard behavior for one lifetime."

"That's really ridiculous," Xiao Shen said quietly, turning his head away.

I felt him put a hand on my knee, and I reached out and pulled his thumb out from under the table to the surface, while simultaneously drinking half a glass of wine.

"Liang Kaiyuan has gone where he was meant to go, and what I said cannot be verified. But what I said is all true! Whether you consider it a karmic debt or a curse, in short, your three lifetimes of karmic entanglement have been repaid. In this life, you should have been together happily, but an accident is called an accident because it is unexpected!"

I didn't drink much, but I don't know if it was because of Liang Kaiyuan's own emotions, but I felt a little drunk, and my speech was a bit slurred.

I don't know if Li Meizhi was drunk or if I made her stupid, but she turned into a block of wood again.

Upon seeing this, Gao quickly paid the bill.

In the south, where there is no central heating and it's a remote town, there are only a few shops open on the old street after leaving the steamed bun shop.

Turing supported Li Meizhi, I supported Xiao Shensan's head, and Gao He carried the packed plastic bags. The group of us staggered towards the hotel.

As they neared the end of the street, a strange laugh suddenly echoed from the darkness: "Hehehehe... Wife of my child, it's time for us to go home and enjoy our retirement!"

(End of this chapter)