Concubine's Survival Handbook

Chapter 90 The Story of Liu Ji and Zhao Zhi
As he spoke, his voice suddenly paused, a gloomy look flashed across his eyes, and the smile on the corner of Liu Ji's lips froze as well, and she put down the chopsticks in her hand.

"I suddenly remembered that there is still one dish that I haven't finished. You guys eat first, and I'll go and have a look."

Jing Ning narrowed his eyes, pondered for a while, then put down the chopsticks in his hand, and followed Liu Ji into the kitchen.

Naturally, there are no unfinished dishes in the kitchen.

She only saw Liu Ji lowering her head, clasping the cutting board tightly with her hands, her nails were slightly white from excessive force.

"Sister Liu Ji, what's wrong with you?"

She stepped forward to support Liu Ji, Liu Ji shook her head as if waking up from a big dream, and said in a low voice: "It's nothing, I just remembered some things from the past."

Remember the past?
It must be because of what Zhao Zhi just said.

Jing Ning frowned, looked at Liu Ji with a carefree expression, and suddenly said in a low voice: "Sister Liu Ji, I don't know if I should say a word or not. Although Big Brother Zhao is not very good, he is sincere to you. land."

So, she can think about it.

Liu Ji smiled wryly and said: "I know what you want to say. It's not like no one has said these words to me in the past, but..."

However, if you already have someone in your heart, how can you entrust your life to another person?

If you really do this, you are letting down two people at the same time!

Liu Ji is a stubborn person - this is the most direct feeling Jing Ning got after talking with her.

She sighed, feeling a little regretful in her heart, but she didn't continue to persuade.

Everyone in this world has their own unavoidable and obsessions. No matter whether this attachment is worthwhile in the eyes of outsiders, it is what they intend to pursue and abide by throughout their entire lives.

For example, my father to my mother, or Liu Ji to her lost lover.

But when she walked out of the room, she suddenly saw Zhao Zhi sitting outside, looking up at the endless sky, with nostalgia and melancholy in her eyes.

She remembered what Zhao Zhi had said unintentionally just now, and suddenly her heart moved, and she sat beside Zhao Zhi.

Jing Ning smiled and said, "Brother Zhao, I support you just now when you talked about Sister Liu Ji's childhood, how did you know so clearly, did you know Sister Liu Ji when they were young?"

Zhao Zhi withdrew his gaze, looked at Jing Ning with a bit of bitterness, and said in a low voice, "Where is the acquaintance?"

It is clearly very familiar.

From Zhao Zhi's mouth, Jing Ning finally knew the past hidden in time between the two——

Zhao Zhi and Liu Ji are from the same place. They grew up together. They are different from those lingering childhood sweethearts in dramas. , From looking at each other with disgust at the beginning to protecting each other.

But at that time, the relationship between the two people still hadn't developed towards love.

Until Zhao Zhi was 15 years old.

He packed his bags and went to the capital to take the exam, but he was dismissed because he was framed for favoritism and cheating. He was even banned from taking the scientific exam for three years.

But on the night before the scientific examination three years later, she heard the news about Liu Ji from the people in her hometown——

In the second year after he left, his hometown was hit by a severe drought. Liu Ji's father died at the hands of the debt collectors. The son saved it.

That noble son was very kind to Liu Ji, helped her pay off the debts she owed, and even gave Liu Ji a lot of help. It happened that a local wealthy businessman took a fancy to Liu Ji and wanted to take it by force. Liu Ji's mother After thinking for a long time, he finally gritted his teeth and gave his daughter to that noble son.

Knowing about this incident, Zhao Zhi suddenly felt a pain in his heart. After hinting at it, he finally realized that what was left to him in the past ten years was definitely not just a little bit of childhood sympathy, but a man's admiration for a woman. informed.

He packed his things that night and gave up the next day's scientific research, just because the girl he loved was about to get married, so he rushed home to snatch the marriage, even if he didn't have any fame, it didn't matter if he was pointed out by the villagers. But he came one step too late after all, and when he rushed back, Liu Ji had already left with that noble son.

And when he saw Liu Ji, it would be ten years later.

After telling this story, Zhao Zhi's lips were filled with bitterness.

"Miss Zheng, I can probably guess what you're thinking, but... maybe you're going to be disappointed. I'm not such a bright person, but Liu Ji's husband-in-law is an extremely bright, outstanding and upright person."

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"Liu Ji is right not to accept me, because if you compare the other party with me, I am nothing at all. How can someone who has seen a pearl give up his eyes to a stubborn stone that has nothing but appearance?"

It's not because I lost my feelings, otherwise I wouldn't have kept myself clean for so many years.

But he has self-knowledge, whether it is the self who has been smoothed out, afraid of Yang Qing and dare not uphold justice, or the high-spirited and ambitious teenager ten years ago, compared with the person in Liu Ji's heart, he is still insignificant.

He said, got up, walked into the room, and cleaned up the food left on the table.

His brows and outlines are resolute, but when he is doing these, his movements are very gentle. Looking from a distance, it makes people feel a sense of sadness.

Jing Ning took a deep breath.

Although she guessed that Zhao Zhi and Liu Ji might have crossed paths in the past, she never thought that such a story actually happened.

If Zhao Zhi hadn't been obsessed with that face back then and had insisted on staying in the capital, or if he had realized his feelings earlier, these things might not have happened.

But there are no ifs in this world.

Realizing this, Jing Ning's heart was heavy and she had no urge to stay. She called Shang Wenxing and returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion with a heavy heart.

After returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion, she went straight to where Zheng Anyan was.

At this time, Zheng Anyan was concentrating on reading a book in the study, but Jing Ning didn't even say hello, and got into his arms directly.

This move startled Zheng Anyan.

He hugged Jing Ning in his arms in some surprise: "What's the matter, could it be that someone bullied you?"

It's not that Jing Ning never used to be so dependent on herself, but that kind of behavior was usually established when she got into trouble, encountered unfavorable things, or was bullied by the rest of the family.

However, until Jing Ning grew up and gradually learned to protect herself and fight against those who bullied her, she spent less and less time in her arms.

"No."

Jing Ning sniffed, although there were no tears in his eyes, his eyes seemed to be stained with water waves, shimmering like tears.

"Isn't this being bullied?"

Zheng Anyan's heart turned cold, and he was thinking about how to teach the person who bullied his daughter a lesson, when he heard Jing Ning's voice in his arms: "Father, can my daughter ask if..."

(End of this chapter)