Volume One, Chapter 10: Enabling the Unfaithful!

Ji Yunci glanced toward the doorway. Fu Mingyue was already striding toward her, his usually cold, almond-shaped eyes blazing with fury—intensely fierce, just like when he had learned that Li Susu’s leg was crippled in a car accident in their previous life.

Back then, she had been at the hospital too.

Back then...

Ji Yunci momentarily faltered, caught off guard by the familiar scene unfolding before her.

“Slap!”

Fu Mingyue’s palm struck her cheek once again.

The ringing in Ji Yunci’s ears was overwhelming—the sensation was exactly the same.

In both this life and the last, even though she had been reborn, and even though Li Susu had been reborn as well, the course of events had changed. Yet Fu Mingyue’s treatment of her remained utterly unchanged.

Ji Yunci raised a hand to touch the corner of her mouth, her gaze icy as she stared at Fu Mingyue, then at the blood on her fingers. As she suspected, her lip was split open. Her face burned with pain more fiercely than before, and the ringing in her ears persisted.

Fu Mingyue continued to shout, “Answer me! Lost your voice again?!”

“What am I to you, exactly? Why can you humiliate me, strike me, and curse me with no remorse? Am I a pig, a dog, or something even less than that?” Ji Yunci’s voice was hoarse as she demanded.

Why was it like this?

When they were young, Fu Mingyue had always protected her. How had he come to be like this, step by step?

Though she had long given up hope, Fu Mingyue’s increasingly harsh treatment still pained her deeply.

A surge of anger welled uncontrollably from her heart. “Even if I were a dog you raised, would you treat it like this—mocking, insulting, hitting?”

Ji Yunci’s voice trembled with rage, causing Fu Mingyue’s raised hand to freeze in midair. The sharp numbness in his palm reminded him just how hard he had hit her.

Her face, already swollen and covered with burn ointment, bore the full evidence of what he had done.

“I…”

“Get out!” Ji Yunci pointed toward the hospital room door.

Fu Mingyue clenched his fist, feeling nothing but irritation.

From downstairs came louder shouts. “She’s going to jump! She’s going to jump!”

Fu Mingyue’s heart jolted as he looked at Ji Yunci, swallowing his annoyance. “No matter what, this is a matter of life and death. What exactly did you say to Susu?”

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“What does her wanting to die have to do with me? And how can you be so sure it’s related to me?” Ji Yunci replied coldly. “Instead of arguing with me, why not call the police? Or, Fu Mingyue, do you want me to go up there and jump, so she comes down instead?”

“You know that’s not what I mean!” Fu Mingyue’s eyes flared again. “Ji Yunci! How did you become so vicious? If Susu really died because of you, wouldn’t your conscience be troubled?”

“No,” Ji Yunci said firmly. Li Susu would not die. “Why should I feel guilty for a homewrecker who ruined my marriage?”

Besides, half of the misery in her previous life was because of Li Susu.

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