"You think I was deceived?" she chuckled. "A woman who fought her way up from the very bottom of society, could she really be so naive that she couldn't tell if a man was married or not?
I'm not that naive, but I still chose to follow him."
Meng Lang remained silent.
"I once had an abortion; the doctor said it was my last hope..." Lu Kexin caressed her belly.
"So when he asked me to get rid of it again, I refused and, like many mistresses, began to pressure him to marry me. It's pretty melodramatic, isn't it?"
Lu Kexin smiled as she wiped away her tears.
"Then he told me that if we could find some honest person to take the fall, we could continue our 'happy' lives... Ha! More like continuing to use each other.
And then... he set his sights on you.
He said you were too naive, a genuine honest man, and you had just experienced an investment failure in the stock market crash, making you the perfect candidate.