dude tf... i had to do a double take because i could not believe he actually said "oh yeah i'll need your family fortune to pay off government officials so i can escape my punishment even though we aren't even married or have any sort of lasting bond to each other" LIKE!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!! how egocentric can this guy get!!!! i'd cut his tongue off on the spot, he's so insulting and self-absorbed 😡
Ok, so he's still have that kind of character even before the marriage and what not. But dang, I really want to kill him myself if possible. As a man and as oneself, he's so shallow in any way possible.
@sketchy333 seriously, same here, i thought maybe she was having flashbacks to her past life and hallucinated him saying it and that's why he asked her what she meant with sucking her family dry, but even then it doesnt make sense that he basically tells her "do you have any idea how many innocent people I killed for you??"
kind of a weird thing to say in general, but also when youre under investigation, and especially in such a public place
@bluedice righttt i thought she was hallucinating his words halfway through their conversation because the words he was spouting out were so unbelievable and messed up. he did say that before, the whole "i did all of these awful things for you", like at the celebratory banquet held by the emperor, but dear god.... huo mingcheng has no sense of propriety. the fact that he said he'll just sweet talk zhu yao after he humiliated her at her coming-of-age banquet is just icing on this deplorable cake 🤕🤧 this guy does not give a sh*t about anyone but himself
Wow so he never liked her he married her before for her fortune only ... and I bet he knew his son was his and he still killed him this guy is so evil 😱😱😱
That last line reminded me of 'Rebirth: the Journey of a Wife Spoiling Her Husband', even though this isn't really anything like that novel. But it did make me wonder... what would happen if he remembered the past life?
I don't think that is going to happen in this though.
In case you're wondering:
Rebirth is being translated by justreads translations.
https://justreads.net/translations/rebirthjourney/rebirthjourney.php
The connection is that, later on in Rebirth, the ML winds up remembering his past life with the MC - and is justifiably traumatized by it. I wish more of these reincarnation stories would play with that idea more.
@lazerus56 I mean, according to the mc herself, she was executed for her own sins. It's just that the husband who never loved her or even really looked at her the first time officiated it. Pretty different situation to Nan Yun who did nothing and was screwed over at every turn by this guy and Zhu Yao.
@icarushector
I am pretty certain that "her sins" were just her interpretation of whatever stupid/vile things she did just to get that Mincheng ass (in the first iteration of the life loop of course).