The Young Master's Escaping Bride Who Lost Memories

Chapter 1433: Chapter 1450: I Am That Devil

Nangong Jinlie patted her shoulder and instructed the butler beside him to open the window a bit more.

Because he saw that Xiaonuan’s forehead was already covered in beads of sweat, and the air inside was indeed very stuffy, especially after saying all these things, the whole atmosphere felt suffocating.

There was even a faint smoky smell lingering; if this went on, he truly worried that this pitiful girl in front of him wouldn’t be able to endure it and would faint.

The butler did as he was told.

A gust of cold wind blew in. Xia Xiaonuan’s face had still been streaked with tears, but in this moment, she found that no matter what, she couldn’t cry anymore.

It was as if she suddenly snapped back to her senses and looked at Nangong Jinlie.

”Grandpa... you made up this story just to make me leave Nangong Yaoling, didn’t you? Why do you have to be so cruel? Why?!”

In a light, drifting voice, Xia Xiaonuan spoke, feeling as if even her body was no longer under her control, even her own voice. In almost an instant, her mind went completely blank.

She even felt that the words coming out of her mouth didn’t sound like her at all, but like someone else speaking through her.

Nangong Jinlie suddenly laughed.

There was a trace of bitterness in his laughter, a trace of helplessness, and also a trace of chill.

”Xiaonuan, you have to understand; I’m even more unwilling than you are to believe all of this. Once, I didn’t believe there were gods in this world; I only believed in myself.

Because everything I have today was created by my own two hands! My money, my wealth, my social status, everything that I possess, all of it.

But now, when I look at you, I understand that there really is a God in this world.

No matter what I do, I cannot defy God’s will.”

For a moment, Xia Xiaonuan did not understand what he meant. She just listened in a daze, because aside from that, she had no idea what else she could do.

”If saving Xiaonuan back then and raising her to adulthood was a form of atonement, then your appearance must be God punishing me for the sins I’ve committed.

No matter what, Ling’er’s biological mother’s death has, more or less, something to do with me. If I hadn’t opposed them with all my strength back then, if I hadn’t insisted on making Ling’er marry the Lan Family’s eldest Miss, perhaps none of this would have happened.

So, God sent an angel to my side, and then sent a demon to punish me...”

Hearing this, Xia Xiaonuan finally couldn’t hold back. Her tears burst forth, yet she couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh.

”So? You think I’m the demon who came to punish you, and now you’re going to fight this demon, you’re going to defeat me, drive me completely away from Nangong Yaoling’s side! Everything you’ve told me today is all for this one goal, isn’t it?”

Xia Xiaonuan didn’t even know what came over her; suddenly she just spoke these cold, mocking words.

At her words, Nangong Jinlie’s face instantly turned ashen. His chest heaved, but very soon, he seemed to force down the anger burning in his heart.

He looked at Xia Xiaonuan with a firm gaze and said in a suppressed voice, ”I’m a man who’s almost seventy; more than half of my body is already in the grave. Do you think I’m really afraid of punishment?

No! I’m not afraid of God punishing me; I’m only afraid of dragging down my children, my descendants because of it, do you understand!?”

”I don’t understand!” Xia Xiaonuan stood up, glaring at Nangong Jinlie, and said in despair, ”On what grounds do you decide that I’m that demon?