The daily life of a space tycoon raising children, doting on his husband, and farming.

Chapter 186 Scars
Zhong Chenghong: "..."

He turned to look at Shang Wan and sighed, "Wanwan, I'm sorry. It's understandable that you resent me, I don't blame you."

Shang Wan snorted, "You're spending the money I gave you to support your family and chase after girls, and you have the nerve to blame me? Don't pretend to be a Casanova here, it's disgusting to watch."

Zhong Chenghong looked surprised and pained. "Wanwan, how have you become so mean and rude?"

"Don't call me Wanwan, we're not close, thank you." Shang Wan rubbed the goosebumps on her arms, really wanting to kick this shameless bastard to the afterlife.

Zhong Chenghong looked at Shang Wan with a pained expression, as if he had deep feelings for her.

Shang Wan was so disgusted that she stomped on his face, "Stop pretending!"

Zhong Chenghong struggled helplessly at her feet, his cheeks flushed red from being unable to breathe, until Lu Chengjing rescued him from under Shang Wan's shoes.

Don't get me wrong, Lu Chengjing doesn't care whether he lives or dies. He saved him simply because there were still things he hadn't finished telling him, and it wouldn't be worth it for him to die like that.

He looked at Zhong Chenghong and asked, "How could you be engaged to the daughter of the Marquis of Wu'an?"

Ever since Shang Wan told Lu Chengjing about her relationship with Zhong Chenghong on their wedding night, Lu Chengjing has been secretly investigating Zhong Chenghong's situation.

The Zhong family was poor, owning nothing but a thatched hut and three acres of meager land. Zhong Chenghong's father died early, leaving his widowed mother to raise her two sons and one daughter with great difficulty.

Zhong Chenghong's two maternal uncles took good care of the mother and her three children. It was also the money that Zhong Chenghong was able to go to school.

Zhong Chenghong used his good looks to his advantage, and he had deceived many women. Lu Chengjing alone found out about three of them.

Zhong Chenghong fabricated different identities and swindled money from different women to support his family, but only Shang Wan knew his true identity.

It wasn't that Zhong Chenghong had anything special about Shang Wan. Based on what Lu Chengjing had investigated, Shang Wan knew Zhong Chenghong's true identity simply because Zhong Chenghong lacked experience. He only started fabricating a false identity after deceiving many women.

Lu Chengjing was puzzled. How could such a morally corrupt swindler be valued by the Marquis of Wu'an and have his daughter married to him?

Upon hearing Lu Chengjing's question, Zhong Chenghong grinned, and a hint of triumph suddenly appeared on his face, which still bore the shoe print, as if even the pain in his body had lessened.

He said, “On my way to study, I happened to save the life of the Earl of Wu’an. The Earl of Wu’an appreciated me and took me with him to the capital. He also let me stay in the Earl’s mansion and study at the clan school with the young masters and ladies of the mansion. I was fortunate enough to win the favor of the young lady of the mansion, and she was willing to marry me.”

“If it were anyone else, Marquis Wu’an would naturally refuse, but I have saved his life, so it is different from others. To tell you the truth, the main reason I came here is to bring my family to the capital to discuss the marriage at the Marquis’s residence.”

There was no need for Zhong Chenghong to come in person; he could have simply hired someone to kill Shang Wan.

The capital city is so wonderful. If it weren't for bringing his mother, younger brother, and younger sister to the capital, Zhong Chenghong would never have returned to this small place, Dongning County.

Shang Wan and Lu Chengjing were not stupid, so they could naturally understand the hidden meaning in Zhong Chenghong's words.

When Zhong Chenghong mentioned his upcoming engagement to the young lady of the Marquis of Wu'an at this time, he was simply trying to tell Shang Wan and the other that he had powerful backers, and that they should think twice before messing with him, lest they anger the Marquis of Wu'an and suffer the consequences.

As for bringing his relatives to the capital, it was also to warn Shang Wan and the other person not to try to take his life. If he did not return on time, the Marquis of Wu'an might notice something was wrong and send people to look for him, and then it would be Shang Wan and the other person who would be in trouble.

Shang Wan coldly observed Zhong Chenghong's expression and felt that the credibility of his words was more than 70%.

She clicked her tongue and suspiciously scanned Zhong Chenghong. "With such a powerful backer, why didn't you mention it when you were being beaten earlier?"

"If word gets out that no betrothal has been made, it will damage the young lady's reputation," Zhong Chenghong said in a high-sounding manner. Hearing this, Shang Wan cursed inwardly several times, thinking that the young lady of the Earl's Mansion might be just like the original owner of this body, coaxed away by Zhong Chenghong with sweet words.

She sighed softly, feigning helplessness, "Alas, how dare we common folk go against the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion?"

Are you scared?

Zhong Chenghong couldn't help but feel happy and smiled smugly, but he didn't expect that it would aggravate the wound on his face, and he would wince in pain.

He hissed coldly for a moment, then looked at the two of them and said in a hoarse voice, "If you take me to the clinic to treat my injuries, I'll pretend I don't know anything about hiring someone to kill me, and I won't hold your offense against me against you, how about that?"

Zhong Chenghong believes he has made significant concessions.

Did he not want to kill Shang Wan and Lu Chengjing?

He wanted to! He not only wanted to kill them, he also wanted to grind them to dust!
But now he has neither helpers nor martial power, only a powerful backer in the capital. They say distant water can't quench immediate thirst; if Shang Wan is determined to take revenge, continuing to resist will only lead to his death.

With his good days just around the corner, how could he bear to die?

A gentleman takes revenge even after ten years. Once he becomes the son-in-law of the Marquis of Wu'an, taking revenge on the two of them will be a piece of cake.

Even if Shang Wan didn't know what Zhong Chenghong was thinking, she could tell from what Zhong Chenghong had done that he probably didn't have anything good in mind.

Keeping such a person around is a disaster.

Her eyelashes drooped, a cold glint flashed in her eyes, and dozens of methods for killing someone to cover up their crime without leaving a trace flashed through her mind.

“When the Marquis of Wu’an travels, he should be accompanied by guards. You don’t know martial arts, so how can you save the Marquis of Wu’an’s life?” Lu Chengjing looked at Zhong Chenghong with a questioning look in his eyes.

Zhong Chenghong didn't hide anything, "On his way back to the capital from his mission, Lord Earl was chased by assassins. I risked my life to draw away the pursuers for Lord Earl. The guards arrived in time and dealt with the assassins, which is how I survived."

“If you don’t believe me, examine the wound on my back.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Chengjing squatted down, turned the person over, and lifted the hem of his clothes to examine him.

There was indeed a pinkish scar on the young man's fair back, like a centipede, crawling from his left shoulder to his right waist, almost running across his entire back.

The raised scars looked particularly gruesome on the thin back. Just by looking at the scars, one could tell that the owner had been badly injured.

Lu Chengjing nodded to Shang Wan. The scar increased the credibility of Zhong Chenghong's words to about 80%.

Zhong Chenghong started yelling, "I'm in so much pain all over my body, you need to take me to the clinic right away."

"No rush, answer my last question and I'll take you to the clinic right away." Zhong Chenghong's unusual behavior just now reminded Shang Wan of something she wanted to verify with Zhong Chenghong himself.

Zhong Chenghong stared at her warily. "What's the problem?"

"You and I..." Shang Wan squatted down, looking directly into the young man's eyes, "Do you really have a marital relationship?"

Although the original owner's memories were incomplete, she had memories of pregnancy. Coupled with Lu Chengjing's personal testimony, it is believed that something did happen between the original owner and Zhong Chenghong. Shang Wan has always thought so too.

But Zhong Chenghong's series of reactions just now suddenly made Shangwan less certain.