I shook my head and said, "I'm fine, don't blame yourself."
At that moment, Lin Jiao was brought in. She knelt on the ground with a pale face, pleading, "Brother Tang Ming, please spare me..."
"You can make me do anything, just please don't hit me..."
Tang Ming looked at her and said, "I won't hit you."
Lin Jiao lifted her head, a glimmer of hope in her eyes.
Tang Ming coldly replied, "I won't hit you, but I will have someone else hit you."
"What you did disgusts me; I can't let you go."
"Take her to Eldest Young Master and let him decide how to deal with you and the Lin family."
As the bodyguards approached, Lin Jiao's face turned white. She looked at Tang Ming in despair, her eyes filled with fear.
Watching Lin Jiao being taken away brought me a sense of relief.
Now that things had developed to this point, I didn't want to continue deceiving him, nor could I.
After thinking for a moment, I decided to tell him the truth: "Tang Ming, actually, I'm not the eldest daughter of the Lin family; I'm Lin Jiao's sister, Lin Yue."
He smiled and said, "I know."
I looked at him in surprise. "You know?"
He nodded. "Yes, I know. In fact, I've known for a long time."
"Then why..."
"I like you, not the eldest daughter of the Lin family."
"Yueyue, I love you. I knew it just a few days after we got married. I'm sorry, Yueyue; I investigated you behind your back, but I truly like you and don't care about your identity. I just want to live well with you and wanted to hear the truth from you."
I hugged him tightly, feeling warm inside.
In the evening, I sat alone on a bench by the lotus pond drinking coffee.
It was rare to have such peace; I closed my eyes and enjoyed the feeling of the gentle breeze on my face.
Suddenly, someone hugged me from behind.
I opened my eyes and saw Tang Ming.
"What are you doing?"
I brushed my fingers through his slightly messy hair, blown by the wind. "It's rare to have such peace, just enjoying the breeze."
He looked at me, seemingly hesitant to speak.
"What's wrong?"
He paused for a moment. "Lin Jiao lied about needing to use the restroom on the way and ran off when the bodyguards weren't paying attention."
I raised an eyebrow. "Ran away?"
He nodded.
"Let her run then; that has nothing to do with us. Let them deal with the Lin family."
I looked at Tang Ming, who was sitting by the pond in a daze, and hugged him from behind.
"Tang Ming, can you tell me your story?"
"Why do you suddenly want to ask that?" He gently tucked a few short strands of hair that had floated onto my eyelashes behind my ear.
"I want to know more about you. It feels like there's something between us, and I don't seem to understand you as well as I thought. You often seem to have some anxiety that I'm unaware of."
He was taken aback for a moment. "Yueyue, we might not be able to live peacefully for a long time from now on. If you're scared, I can send you abroad first, and when everything is over, I'll come back to get you."
I shook my head. "I want to stay with you. No matter what happens, I want to be by your side. I won't ask about things you don't want me to know."
He held me tightly, and after a moment of silence, he began to tell me stories from his childhood.
His mother came from a financial family and was engaged to his childhood sweetheart father when they reached adulthood. After finishing their studies, they got married; they had a great relationship and loved him very much. However, his father could only maintain the family business without being able to expand it further.
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