Hu Xiaotian smiled. "So-so. Anyway, you still haven't told me what went wrong between you two."
Jian Rongxin could no longer even hold her wine cup steady, spilling quite a bit of it. She spoke without thinking and actually answered, "He and I have never... consummated our marriage."
Hu Xiaotian stared at Jian Rongxin, dumbfounded, but a moment later he was laughing inwardly. If she sobered up and saw herself like this, she would probably be so ashamed she would wish the ground would swallow her. To think that Jian Rongxin and Li Chenzhou were a sham couple, united in appearance but divided at heart. That really was unexpected.
Jian Rongxin finally managed to find her cup and drank the half cup of wine left in it. She reached for the wine pot again, but seeing her condition, Hu Xiaotian knew he could not let her drink any more. He caught her wrist and urged, "You're drunk. Stop drinking!"
Jian Rongxin fixed Hu Xiaotian with a vicious glare fiercer than any she had ever shown before, as though she were staring at a sworn enemy.
Her stare made his skin crawl. He coaxed her softly, "Why don't I help you to bed?"
Instead, Jian Rongxin suddenly raised her hand and struck him across the face with a smack! Hu Xiaotian had never expected her to hit him. With his martial arts, dodging should have been easy, yet when he saw her hand coming, he actually did not move aside. The slap was not particularly hard and did no damage whatsoever to his thick hide.
Jian Rongxin said, "You beast... why did you murder my father?"
Only then did Hu Xiaotian realize that, in her drunken state, Jian Rongxin had mistaken him for Li Chenzhou. He had truly lifted a rock