Chapter 142: Look at me now, am I happy?

“Look at this family portrait. The man in it, Ji Yunfeng, is the very person who ran over and killed your sister! He took her life and nearly took yours as well. And now, you have married their daughter, showering her with love and care all this time. Xuezheng, just think about how ironic that is!”

“Stop it! Don’t say any more!”

Xiao Xuezhen’s eyes were bloodshot as he covered his ears in agony, his tall, slender frame trembling uncontrollably.

He could not believe it—could not accept that his wife was the daughter of his enemy.

The woman he loved with all his heart, the woman he wanted to be with, the woman he had already fallen for, was the daughter of the man who had killed his sister so long ago.

How cruelly ironic…

A sharp, splitting headache overwhelmed him. Clutching his head, his towering body suddenly lost all strength and he collapsed backward, sliding down the wall.

Unable to stop, his body shook violently!

Yet even in his torment, Chi Wanwan continued to pour salt on his wound.

Hah, if he had treated her that way, losing her child and her love, she would have suffered a hundred times more than they did!

She was determined to destroy his family, to ruin any chance of him and Shi Runrun ever being together again in this life.

Chi Wanwan held up the photo and squatted before him, deliberately waving it before his eyes.

“Look closely. Shi Runrun and her mother, Ji Yashu, resemble each other so much! The nose, the eyes—they seem carved from the same mold! Tsk tsk, Xuezheng, the woman you share a bed with, the woman you hold and kiss, the woman with whom you have a child—she is the daughter of your greatest enemy in this life. How does that feel to you?!”

As her words fell, the elevator doors suddenly burst open!

Grandma Xiao, supported by Xiao Shujing, strode in quickly!

She glanced coldly at the anguished Xiao Xuezhen sitting on the floor, then turned to Chi Wanwan with icy fury: “Chi Wanwan! Who told you to spout such nonsense here?”

She bent down beside her grandson, attempting to lift him up, soothing him: “Xuezheng! Don’t listen to her lies! She’s deceiving you! She cannot marry you because she wants to see everyone suffer!”

Chi Wanwan curled her lips into a sly smile, clutching the family photo tightly, and said lightly, “I am not lying! And Grandma Xiao, Aunt Xiao, didn’t you know all along that Shi Runrun was Ji Yunfeng and Ji Yashu’s daughter? Yet you still allowed her to marry Xuezheng and enter the Xiao family. You are the ones deceiving him!”

“Shut up! Get out! Get down the stairs right now!”

Grandma Xiao roared at her in rage.

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But in the next moment, Xiao Xuezhen turned his head, eyes bloodshot and narrowed as he looked at his grandmother and aunt, speaking in a low voice: “Is what she said true?! You knew all along that Shi Runrun is Ji Yunfeng’s daughter? The very Ji Yunfeng who ran over my sister?!”

Faced with his grandson’s questioning, Grandma Xiao was at a loss for words.

Aunt Xiao Shujing, however, was composed and mature. She pursed her lips and, with a serious expression, stepped forward to say: “Yes, we knew from the start. Xuezheng, do you remember when I first returned to the country? When you picked me up at the airport, I saw Shi Runrun’s face and felt something was off. You should have noticed my strange expression then. But I didn’t say anything because you had already married her, and she was pregnant with your child.”

“So you hid the truth from me, letting me share a bed with Shi Runrun, letting me love her every day, letting me do the most intimate things in the world with her…”

Xiao Xuezhen laughed bitterly as he stood up and slammed his fist hard against the unyielding wall.

Bang!

A loud crash echoed through the room.

The wall dented inward, and his knuckles split open, blood flowing freely.

Grandma Xiao’s eyes filled with tears as she hurriedly grabbed his hands, sobbing as she comforted him: “Xuezheng! Don’t do this! You have to understand Grandma’s difficulties! Runrun was already more than a month pregnant then. Your grandfather and I were hoping for a great-grandchild. We thought this secret, after so many years, would never come up again, so we concealed it… We wanted to see you settled, to see you happy…”

Xiao Xuezhen looked at his grandmother, laughing and crying at the same time as tears streamed down his cheeks: “Look at me now—am I happy?!”

Grandma Xiao was speechless.

Suddenly, from not far away, an emergency alarm blared from Grandpa Xiao’s hospital room!

Everyone turned in terror. Xiao Xuezhen snapped back to reality and dashed toward the room.

But when he opened the door, he witnessed the most unforgettable scene of his life…

That horrifying, terrifying moment would haunt his dreams forever, never to be forgotten…

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Shi Runrun sat in a taxi as it circled around the city of Jing for many laps.

She didn’t know where she could go—the world was so vast, but where could she truly belong?

She couldn’t imagine where she and the baby could find shelter and a place to start anew…

Ever since leaving Xiao Xuezhen, it seemed she could achieve nothing successfully.

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Shi Runrun sat in the backseat, gazing at the quiet night scene of Jing City at dawn. Her tear-red apricot-shaped eyes widened slightly as silent tears fell.

She felt so useless—truly worthless…

“Miss, my shift is about to end. You’ve spent quite a bit on the taxi already. Do you want to keep going like this?”

The driver reminded her, and Shi Runrun finally came to her senses. She wiped the corners of her eyes and said hoarsely to the driver: “Please drop me off at the next intersection ahead…”

She paid and got out. The night was calm and a little chilly.

She was wearing only a short-sleeved shirt and felt the cold.

But now, what right did she have to complain about the cold?

From now on, she would walk alone, live alone in this world, with no one to care for her, no one to love her…

No one would ever cherish her like he once did, holding her gently in his palm…

Shi Runrun slowly walked along the roadside.

The rain had stopped, and without realizing it, she entered a park.

At this hour, the park was naturally empty.

She found a corner to sit down. Suddenly, with a clatter, a fruit knife slipped from her pocket.

She looked at the silver blade and smiled bitterly, covering her eyes with her hands, a self-mocking smile playing on her lips.

She had once used this knife to threaten him in order to escape…

In truth, she did not want to die…

Even though her heart ached to the extreme, she still wanted to live…

For the baby, she had to be strong, she had to endure…