Chapter 298: Liang banquet (11)
Chapter 298: Liang banquet (11)
As Huian uttered those words, Nana didn’t respond to anything for a while.
“What?”
Huian desperately nodded her head. “Yes, Nana! That night…when Jinhai held my hand when I was standing on the balcony railing…he-he suddenly opened his fist…and I lost my balance…a-and I fell. He did it on purpose! It was his plan!”
Nana stared at her, expressionless.
Huian knew that it must be all shocking for Nana. She really didn’t want to tell all this, especially with everything that happened with Huo Xiao Fan tonight. But she had no choice.
If not tonight, then she would never get the chance. Jinhai won’t let her.
Huian cried, “Believe me, Nana. He was smiling at me when I fell. A-and you know what? Before he…shook his hand away…he asked me two questions.”
Nana said nothing.
“He asked me if…this situation reminded me of something. And the second question was…do I understand it now? H-How does it feels to be abandoned…”
“Do you understand what this means, Nana? He- he knew what happened that night when…we were kidnapped…He knew how I left you alone…And he took revenge for that!”
Nana said nothing.
“In the hospital too when he met me alone…he threatened me not to tell you anything else he would make me suffer the same fall once again.”
Tears rolled down her cheeks.
“Nana, Jinhai is not so simple-“
But Nana harshly withdrew her hand away from Huian’s. She froze.
Nana looked at her, furious. Her face was flushed red in anger. Her chin jutted, and she was gritting her teeth as if she wanted to say so many things to her but didn’t know from where to start.
“Stop it, Huian. Just stop it already.”
Nana said in a quiet but grave voice, trying to hold back her rage.
“I cannot believe that you could stoop so low. All this time, you insulted me, and I kept quiet. But today, you are insulting Jinhai. How can you be so shameless? You are childhood friends. He was once your husband, and this is what he gets? He shouldered everything how you unjustly made him marry you. But he was always good to you. And now you are attacking him?”
Huian frantically shook her head.
“No, Nana…I’m telling the truth. You-you, don’t know Jinhai.”
“It is clear that you don’t know Jinhai even after spending so many years with him as his friend and wife. How dare you say that he pushed you!? Do you even know how guilty he felt when you fell!”
Huian was stunned.
“Guilty…? Why would he feel guilty? He was the one who…let me fell. He confessed to me in the hospital too!”
“Enough, Huian! You forcefully tried to shake his hand off, but you scratched him when he didn’t let you go. There were scratch marks of your nails on the back of his palm. He showed it to me.”
Huian was shocked. “I never scratched him. He is lying! I was holding onto him to come inside the balcony, but he released his hand.”
Nana had it. “Enough! So your apology when I met you in the hospital was fake after all. I thought I read your feelings correctly but you still want to separate us. And this time, you are using Jinhai!”
“No! Jinhai himself confessed it to me! Trust me. He knew everything. Do you know? That night when those men raped Suyin, that was also set up by him! He told me himself.”
Nana was stupefied.
Just how far can she go?
“What nonsense are you talking? That was all planned by Tang Suyin!”
Huian shook her head.
“No. If Suyin had planned that, then how come you were unscathed? She hired those men to ruin you, yet you escaped from their clutches, and she was the one who got raped, the one who made this plan? No, Nana. They were Jinhai’s men. He ordered them to rape her. And he told them not to hurt you.”
Nana glared at her. “I fell off the slope. It was an accident that luckily came in my favor. And then he came there as soon as he got the news.”
“No. No, no, no. What luck? It wasn’t luck or coincidence! Jinhai said everything to me in the hospital. That’s how he came to know that I hurt you. Because his men told him about what happened. And then…” she choked, “he planned his revenge!”
Nana was getting a headache now.
“Are you even in your senses, Huian? He was married to you at that time. Wasn’t your relationship good with him? Why would he do that for me?”
Nana did remember that he had kissed her outside the graveyard that night when she told him about her past.
But after that incident, Jinhai and Nana didn’t meet at all. Nana avoided him. She began dating Jianyu, and they only met in the hospital after she regained her consciousness. There was absolutely no contact in between.
Huian sadly laughed. “Do you know…when he came that night, he was the one who broke into that shed and took you in the hospital.”
Nana widened her eyes.
Huh?
“I saw it. When he didn’t see you anywhere, he panicked and then he asked about you. He turned pale to see that you were hurt. He lifted you in his arms and personally carried you in his car to take you to the hospital. And I was made to come in the other car.”
Nana wasn’t aware of that. But Nana wasn’t going to fall for that.
“Even if that was so, Jinhai has no connection with the incident.”
Huian said in frustration. “He has! Everything from the beginning has been meticulously planned by him. Just like me, you are being fooled by him!”
Nana clenched her jaw in anger. “Jinhai would do anything but use me! What beginning and what planning are you talking about?”
“These letters!”
Huian pointed at those small papers which she just stuffed into Nana’s purse.
Nana felt confused.
“What about them?”
Huian bit her lip as tears gushed out. “The morning after Jinhai and my second wedding anniversary were over, I started receiving some threatening letters. It said that the man knew my secret about how I tricked Jinhai into marrying me. And he played a cruel game with me. He wanted me to stop letting these letters reach Jinhai, or else if he got them all, Jinhai would figure out everything. These papers that fell out of your purse, they were the same! Mine were light peach color which he used to send me!”
Nana couldn’t believe that Huian could spin such lies to frame Jinhai.
“Sorry for being so rude, but I think that fall from the balcony has affected your brain. Are you implying that Jinhai knew everything about how you trapped him, yet he stayed married to you for two years? He was acting as if he knew nothing about it this whole time?”
Huian suddenly paused. She couldn’t retort.
“Why are you quiet now? Tell me.”
Huian said, “I don’t know why he didn’t say anything before. But Jinhai was the one who sent me those letters! You told me about the peach-colored ones. That means you saw them.”
“Yes, I have seen them, but why should I believe you that he used them to threaten you? Do you have any blackmail letter with you to prove your claim?”
Huian was stumped.
She had destroyed all those letters as soon as she got them.
“And are you saying that when the truth came out in my engagement banquet, Jinhai was acting all along to seem shocked and betrayed? He did nothing for two years, but he suddenly started to threaten you out of nowhere?”
Huian was feeling angry and helpless. She didn’t know how to make Nana believe her.
“Because perhaps he wanted you!”
Nana was speechless. “We didn’t even know each other that well during your anniversary. You and Jinhai were only my client who gave me the catering order. Why would he do anything for me at that time?”
And the kiss in the rainy night happened after their anniversary. Before that, they were as good as strangers.
“Nana…please believe me. He also told me that there are so many other things that we still don’t know about them. Suyin’s rape and my fall are just some of them. He has planned and used us from behind the shadows! He is manipulating everything!”
Nana couldn’t stay any longer there.
“I had enough of your nonsense, Huian. I thought we could go past what happened, but you have made it impossible now. You have crossed all limits. I didn’t know you could go this far to tear us apart. I’m leaving.”
Huian tried to hold her hand, but she stepped back.
“Nana please you-“
But Nana already turned her back and left the room.
“Nana, wait!”
As Nana kept walking, she had tears in her eyes as she felt terrible for Jinhai.
She then suddenly bumped into someone, but the man caught her.
“Nana. Where were you? I was looking for you everywhere.”
She raised head to find Jinhai looking at her, concerned.
She couldn’t stop herself from crying.
Jinhai widened his eyes. “What happened? Are you hurt?”
Nana rushed into his embrace and rested her head on his chest.
Jinhai patted her head and softly asked, “Tell me, what happened?”
“Jinhai…Huian, she…”
Jinhai narrowed his eyes.
“Huian said that you purposely pushed her off the balcony that night.”