chapter 13

In the evening, I helped the homeroom teacher grade assignments as usual.

It started to rain on my way home.

The raindrops were fine and dense, and the air was filled with a lingering salty dampness that I couldn’t shake off, leaving me feeling restless and irritable.

Just as I was about to enter the building, I suddenly saw a figure standing in front of my window.

I live on the first floor. That person wasn’t holding an umbrella and just stood there, staring motionlessly in the direction of my home.

Summoning my courage, I walked closer and saw it was Shen Qingqie.

What bad luck.

Through the curtain of rain, I saw an overwhelming sorrow in his eyes.

When he saw me return, he instinctively tried to move closer, but my look of disgust hurt him, and he froze in place.

“Ranran… I’m sorry.” The rain pelted him, drop after drop, as if trying to break his pride as well.

After all this time, I finally heard an apology.

But I didn’t care anymore.

I gripped my umbrella handle. “Got it. Now get lost.”

He didn’t move, standing there quietly, his eyes bloodshot.

“Standing on the rooftop, I was in utter despair, thinking I’d lost my true love forever.

“But after I leapt, all I could think about was you… You were still at home waiting for me to come eat.

“Xu Anran was just an obsession of my youth. Ranran, the one I truly love is you.”

I let out a cold laugh.

“Love me?

“If you loved me, why did you go looking for Xu Anran the moment you were reborn?

“You bought Xu Anran cake so many times, but when it was my birthday, you wouldn’t even cook me a bowl of noodles.

“You call that love?”

I spoke calmly, but Shen Qingqie’s face grew even paler.

“How shameless can you be?”

Maybe people will spend their whole lives trapped by what they couldn’t have when they were young.

But that’s no excuse for him to hurt me.

Shen Qingqie closed his eyes in despair, his voice choking in his throat. “Ranran, I know you hate me, but we’ve been together for ten years. Give me one more chance, let’s start over, please?”

I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself, but all the anger and grievance I had suppressed in my past life surged up at once.

“Why should I give you a chance? Do you deserve it?”

I glared at him viciously.

“My biggest regret is wasting ten years of my youth on you.

“When you filled the walls with portraits of her, did you ever consider how I felt?

“When you wrote a will to donate all your assets, when you jumped off a building for your white moonlight, did you ever think about what would happen to me and our child?”

Shen Qingqie hung his head lower and lower, but at my last sentence, he suddenly looked up at me.

“Child?

“We have a child? Boy or girl? How old?”

He stepped forward in confusion, his brows and eyes full of the joy of being a new father.

A moment later, he seemed to realize something, and the smile on his lips froze.

“I don’t know,” I said lightly, my words especially cruel, “I was one month pregnant, and your white moonlight and good brother killed me.”

In fact, I don’t even know if I really died; I just said it to stab him in the heart.

Shen Qingqie finally couldn’t hold it together, squatted down with his face in his hands, and let out a repressed sob.

I walked past him and into my home.

Watching Shen Qingqie crying outside the window, I only felt relief.

Good.

I shouldn’t be the only one in pain.