Ren Yingying looked up at him in surprise, her beautiful eyes filled with confusion. She had not expected him to be so magnanimous, and her impression of him improved greatly at once. Recalling every little moment they had spent together, she could not help but wonder whether she had been too harsh on him.
After all, by her parents' command and through the matchmaker's arrangement, she was nominally already his wife. Yet not long ago, she had plotted to dissolve their engagement, and now she had even come to assassinate him.
But the moment she thought of how he had torn her apart from Chong Ge, Ren Yingying became conflicted again.
"Don't worry about me. I know you must have a lot to say to Linghu Chong right now. Go on, go," Song Qingshu said through voice transmission.
Ren Yingying gave him a deep look before finally rising and leaving. She truly had much to explain to Linghu Chong—for example, that she had agreed to marry Song Qingshu because her father had threatened Linghu Chong's life, and that she had married Song Qingshu in an attempt to escape the engagement, only for things to go awry...
Watching Ren Yingying's graceful figure depart, Song Qingshu secretly mocked himself. He was becoming more and more scheming. Still, Heaven and Earth were heartless, treating all things as straw dogs. He had never believed in the saying that good would be rewarded and evil punished. Of course, that saying often did conform to objective laws, because most people still possessed a kind heart. Those who committed evil broke the rules, so they were naturally more likely to suffer the rules' backlash. But that did not mean good would always be rewarded, nor evil always punished.
Thus, he felt no psychological burden whatsoever when he