She thought a single admission of guilt could erase everything that happened in the past?
Was she being too fanciful?
He took a deep breath. Truly, he had to speak out to feel any relief.
"Us six brothers of the Liang family have been living a tough life since we were young. Our eldest brother, at the age of ten, took on the family responsibilities because our mother was paralyzed. Various reasons have delayed his marriage, and in a blink, he is already in his late twenties. Before your Dong family deceived us into this marriage arrangement, no matter how hard, tired, or badly off our Liang family was, we never suffered such humiliation."
Deceived into marriage?
Dong Huiying stared in astonishment.
After she had transmigrated, she had also secretly doubted.
Her fragile body had too many bad marks against it, which could be seen by the kind of things she'd experienced before; this person was inherently bad and must have done many reprehensible things in her previous life.
So far, she had only met two of the six Liang family brothers, and she had not yet encountered the remaining four. Yet, the stature and looks of these two were enough to show the excellent genes of the Liang family.
She had been curious about what kind of mishap could have led to such a marriage arrangement.
With the original owner's condition, whether in terms of physique, looks, or temperament, she was too vile to be a match for the Liang family brothers.
But today, upon Liang Yuening's revelations, she found out it was actually a deceitful union?
Yuening was filled with indignation, his words piercing to the heart, his voice thunderous and resolute.
"One year ago, the Dong family from Daliu Village deceived us into a marriage arrangement with ten taels of silver, because our two villages were separated by two mountains, and before this, we in the Liang family had no knowledge of the true state of the bride's family."
"And on the very first day that your Dong Dabao came to our Liang family, he took over the east room like a cuckoo taking over a sparrow's nest, driving us brothers out of there."
"On the second day, you clamored for meat and butchered Xiao Huang, the dog fourth brother had raised for many years, and made a pot of dog stew, leaving bones scattered all over the ground."
"On the third day, during the peak of spring farming, Yixuan was out working in the fields. Because he was too busy and came back a bit late, you flew into a furious rage and smashed Yixuan's kneecap with a shovel."
He then touched his own shortened hair.
"And then there's me; ever since I cut my hair short, I've been treated as a freak. But who knows that this was not by my own choice?"
"Last year during the autumn harvest, I worked days on end without rest and was extremely tired, so I laid down for a nap on a haystack."
"You, Dong Dabao, saw me and accused me of sneaking a break, then you lit a fire."
"At that time, as the weather was dry and I was lying on the haystack, the dry grass caught fire instantaneously."
"If I hadn't had the presence of mind to cut off my burning hair, I might have been reduced to a charred corpse, with the grass over my grave grown tall."
"To save me, fourth brother rushed into the flames and ended up scarred for life on his left face because of the fire that day."
Dong Huiying was utterly dumbstruck, shaken to the core and unable to recover her senses.