Surprise! The rough husband is the hidden boss of the period literature

Chapter 380 What mistakes has he made in his life?
Jiang Chengxu had no chance of doing "that" with Xu Manman anymore. He used every means to torture Xu Manman until she was covered in bruises and begged for mercy.

Jiang Chengxu finally experienced a little bit of the joy of being human.

As night fell, he sat by the window, watching the dim lights outside. The low-hanging sky was like black velvet, with a few stars twinkling in the sky.

It was so clean, so bright.

Xu Manman, equally disheveled, lay crawling at his feet.

Blood was everywhere.

The starlight shrank back at the window, afraid to come in. In the dim night, only Xu Manman's body, rising and falling slightly with her labored breathing, could be seen, proving that she was still alive.

No amount of "hatred" can fully express the feelings in their hearts at this moment!
"Die with me, okay?" Jiang Chengxu leaned down and pinched Xu Manman's chin with his twisted and deformed hand. When his ghostly face came close, Xu Manman woke up from her nightmare.

"Ah!" she screamed, the fear in her eyes pleasing Jiang Chengxu. "No, don't come any closer!"

Xu Manman tried to move her body, but she couldn't move at all; her whole body ached.

"Not coming over? How can we be husband and wife if I don't come over?" Jiang Chengxu cursed. "You slut, are you that despicable? There are so many men in the world, why did you have to target me? You even dared to set me on fire! Xu Manman, run! Run! How come you can't escape my grasp?"

His cackling laughter was like the sound of a vulture, utterly terrifying!

"Brother Chengxu, please don't be like this. I didn't set the fire. It wasn't me. I don't know anything. I woke up at the foot of the mountain. I heard that someone set fire to your place. I'm too scared to go back."

"I was wrong, I was really wrong, the person I love is you! Brother Chengxu, please let me go!" Xu Manman knew that falling into this person's hands would be worse than death for her.

"Just kill me, Chengxu!"

"Nobody believes I love her. I love her, I've dreamed of marrying her. Xu Manman, it's all your fault, you two bitches, you made me lose her, you deserve to die!"

Jiang Chengxu became agitated, "Let you go? You're dreaming! I'll let you go! I won't let you go! I'll drag you down to hell with me!"

He became agitated, waving his arms uncontrollably and slamming them against the table. The remaining nerves only brought him pain, and he immediately curled up, clutching his twisted arm, gasping for breath in agony.

The candle on the table rolled down and burned Xu Manman's clothes. She was burned and cried out desperately, rolling around in agony.

Jiang Chengxu watched as if he were watching a beautiful puppet show. He laughed loudly and kicked the candle on the ground at Xu Manman. The extinguished candle landed right on Xu Manman's hair.

Her hair, which hadn't been washed for months, was covered in grease and grime, and it quickly caught fire. She screamed and shook her head as flames spread along the curtains.

The dimly lit room was illuminated by the firelight, and the wind blew in from outside. The flames burned, leaped, and chased freedom in the dark night.

As Jiang Chengxu watched the dancing fire sprites, two bright reflections appeared in his eyes, and a smile slowly spread across his face.

What mistakes did he make in his life?
His only mistake was not pushing Xu Manman away at the beginning, but he never had any improper thoughts about Xu Manman. He only wanted to marry Xu Qinghuan.

This single mistake pushed him into an abyss.

Therefore, he hated Xu Qinghuan for abandoning him, and he had thought about making her come back and punishing her, but he had already lost all his strength in this entanglement with Xu Manman.

Xu Manman was still crawling out, terrified.

It was as if she had returned to that night, standing on the cliff far from the Shangjiang Brigade, watching the flames of the educated youth settlement rise higher and higher. She imagined how Jiang Chengxu and Qu Qiongfang struggled inside, and how they died. Now, it was her turn.

"Brother Chengxu, run! Run! You'll be burned to death!"

She tried to push against the tightly closed door with her head. The burning pain on her scalp was excruciating, but she still wanted to escape. She didn't want to be burned to death, crushed by the collapsing beam, or burned into a form more terrifying than a ghost like Jiang Chengxu.

Jiang Chengxu, however, remained lost in thought, staring at the firelight with ecstatic joy, as if he were seeing the moment when he and Xu Qinghuan were engaged, a moment when she was clearly happy too.

"When I got engaged to Jiang Chengxu, I wasn't thinking about anything else but how to get away from the Xu family. I also wondered if I would have some leverage to compete with Song Wanlin after we got married."

Xu Qinghuan wrapped her arms around Jiang Xingye's lean waist from behind, "Aye, don't be angry. Do you know how hard it is to coax you when you're angry!"

She was about 20 centimeters shorter than Jiang Xingye. When she bent down slightly, her face could only touch his shoulder blade, which felt a bit hard, even with Jiang Xingye's back tucked in.

He subconsciously didn't want to show his tough side to her.

He pursed his lips, and after a long while, he said in a muffled voice, "I'm not angry."

He really had no right to be angry; he didn't even know Xu Qinghuan existed when they got engaged.

But he was indeed a little angry, angry that God had sent Xu Qinghuan over so late.

“Ah Ye, look, I’ve never been angry with you. When I first came to Shangjiang Brigade, I put in so much effort to catch up with you. One morning, when I stopped your tractor, you even yelled at me, yelling at me in front of so many people. I thought to myself, if this person is so fierce, I don’t want him anymore!”

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xingye became anxious, turned around, and hugged Xu Qinghuan tightly. His arms were as hard as cast steel.

"Don't abandon me, I wasn't being mean to you, I was just scared!" He naturally remembered that day when her eyes were red, and at that moment he had an uncontrollable urge to hold her in his arms and comfort her.

He thought to himself, "She looks so beautiful when she cries. If she cried on the kang (a heated brick bed), I wouldn't be able to resist her."

"What are you afraid of?" Xu Qinghuan climbed onto his shoulders, her legs wrapping around his waist like vines.

"I was afraid I wouldn't be able to stop in time and I'd hit you." He supported her with his arm, burying his face in her chest. "I was afraid I wouldn't be able to resist kissing you in front of so many people. From the first moment I saw you, I wanted you, every single moment!"

Xu Qinghuan felt as if her heart had been thrown into the air, experiencing a sense of weightlessness. She hugged his head and said, "So early? When I was pestering you, you were so cold, as if you were annoyed by me."

"I'm not annoyed with you, I'm just afraid I won't be able to hold back, afraid you'll report me for being a hooligan."

Who knew she would be so bold back then, afraid of snakes, and jump all over him?

He looked up at her and asked, "What will I do if you marry Jiang Chengxu?"

Xu Qinghuan laughed and bit his nose. "That's impossible. I would never marry him. With you by my side, I won't marry him."

"But I wasn't there back then."

“But I knew you were definitely there, so I didn’t marry him. I played a trick on them all and went to the countryside to find you.”

Jiang Xingye took the eloquent mouth into his mouth, and they kissed amidst the raging flames. The sound of fire trucks rushing by filled their ears, and thick smoke obscured the sky above the East District, twisting into a hideous face that looked down at the ground and the people engulfed in flames.

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