Chapter 68: Chi Wanwan, Are You Crazy!

Xiao Xuezheng strode into the room, his back held perfectly straight as he walked. Beneath the white shirt, every muscle was taut, and his movements carried a calm steadiness and the captivating allure unique to men. Chi Wanwan was momentarily entranced. Compared to the first time she saw him at eighteen, he had grown ever more mature and charming. Chi Wanwan believed what she had read on her phone: even as time rushed by, it seemed to cherish this man before her.

Her gaze lingered on his imposing back, her heart trembling, and even her words quivered as she spoke. “Xuezheng, at this hour, what brings you here...”

Before she finished, Xuezheng’s eyelids fluttered slightly at her words, and his handsome, thin lips curved with an elusive smile. He turned to look at Chi Wanwan.

Seeing the cold smile on his face, she felt her fingers grow numb from the chill. “Xuezheng...” Chi Wanwan was pierced by his icy smile; though they stood so close, she felt frozen through. A foreboding sense welled up inside her—she knew his sudden visit was not a good sign.

Could it be that he had discovered her scheme to frame Shi Runrun? The thought sent a shock through her, but she quickly calmed herself. No, it couldn't be. She had been so careful—he shouldn’t have found out so easily. Besides, she had sent the driver involved in the accident abroad! How could he possibly uncover the truth?

She never expected Xuezheng’s next words to strike her so mercilessly.

He looked at her, his lips retaining their elegant curve, but a heavy coldness flashed in his deep, dark eyes. He sneered, “I came here to thank you. Thank you for showing me just how important Shi Runrun is to me.”

Chi Wanwan stood frozen, her face cracking with pain. The thing she could least bear was hearing him profess his love for another woman.

Before, it was her sister. Now, with her sister gone, it was that wretched Shi Runrun.

“Xuezheng, what are you saying? I don’t understand…” Chi Wanwan stepped back, her face pale, beginning to argue. But Xuezheng had anticipated her words before he even arrived at her home.

He laughed mockingly. “Don’t understand? Are you saying you dare deny that the car that hit Shi Runrun wasn’t driven by someone you bribed?”

He went straight to the point. Chi Wanwan stared at him in disbelief, her almond eyes wide, lips trembling, shaking her head as she retreated.

“No... what car, what driver... I don’t know...” She clung to her last bit of denial, but the more she protested, the more Xuezheng’s contempt for her grew.

“Still not admitting it?” He smiled, then reached into his pocket, took out his phone, and pressed the screen. A recording played aloud.

“Let me go... It wasn’t me... It was a woman named Chi who gave me money. She told me to hit her with my car! I was just following her instructions…”

It was unmistakably the driver from the accident. Chi Wanwan listened, her face ghastly pale. She trembled violently, then her legs gave way and she collapsed onto the cold floor.

“Xuezheng... I...” Xuezheng exhaled deeply, put away his phone, lowered his dark eyes to look at her with disdain, his brows furrowed. “Wanwan, you’re Zaozao’s sister, so I’ve always taken special care of you. I never expected you would become like this!”

The disappointment and accusation in his words pierced Chi Wanwan’s heart like a sharp blade. Her eyes reddened as she sat on the floor, tears falling, her whole body shaking even harder.

But her tears were not of remorse or guilt for being exposed—they were of hatred. A fierce hatred surged from deep within, engulfing her entirely.

She sobbed, then suddenly lifted her head to look at him, the corners of her lips curling in a desolate, mocking smile. Between sobs, she laughed bitterly, “Do you want to know why I became like this?”

She let out a hollow laugh. “Xuezheng, I’ll tell you now why I became like this! Because I love you!”

Chi Wanwan cried and roared, her face streaked with tears. “I was the first to notice you! At the opening ceremony of the university in America, you stood on the podium in your school uniform and tie, addressing the crowd as the freshman representative, so handsome and captivating. That day, you stole my soul!”

“Afterwards, I told my sister I’d fallen for someone but didn’t dare confess. I asked her to deliver my love letter to you, but then...”

Chi Wanwan sobbed and shook, her hands unconsciously digging her long, beautiful nails into her palms.

“But then, not long after, my sister came back and told me she was with you! Xuezheng! I was the one who loved you first, how could my sister take you from me? How could I accept that?!”

Her hate reached its peak as she bit her lip and stared at him stubbornly.

“My own sister on one side, and the man I love most on the other—you two together, flaunting your happiness in front of me every day. How could I not become like this?”

When love sinks into the bones and remains unfulfilled, it inevitably turns to hatred.

Xiao Xuezheng listened, his dark brows tightly knit. He looked at the sobbing Chi Wanwan collapsed on the floor and said in a deep voice, “Wanwan, you’re insane...”

“Yes! I’ve been insane for a long time!” she screamed, picking up his words, crying wildly. “Ever since America, watching you and my sister in love every day—I lost my mind!”

“At last, finally, my sister died... I thought I finally had a chance to have you, but then that wretched Shi Runrun appeared by your side! You married her, got a license—I thought you were just toying with her! But I was wrong... so wrong…”

“Xuezheng, I love you so much... How could I allow anyone else to take you away... I won’t allow it…”

Xuezheng lowered his gaze, looking at the woman before him, her eyes brimming with tears, her whole body trembling uncontrollably, the whites of her eyes streaked with red.

Truly, she looked like a madwoman.

Perhaps this pitiful display might have moved another man, but to Xiao Xuezheng, it meant nothing.

He had always known that love could not be forced; whom one loves is decided by fate.

It cannot be stolen, nor seized.

He sighed deeply. “So you bribed that driver and orchestrated the accident to take Shi Runrun’s life? But Chi Wanwan, did you know the life you stole was my innocent, pitiable child?”