chapter 3

It was Shen Qingqie’s childhood friend, Qin Ye, together with Xu Anran.

Qin Ye’s eyes were red, his voice hoarse.

“This villa was left to you by Qingqie.

“You were once his only light. Back then, when he was so depressed he could barely hold on, it was looking at your photos that gave him the strength to carry on.”

Xu Anran stood there in a daze, her eyes clouded with a mist of tears.

“After he was recommended for admission, he didn’t even need to go to class anymore, but he still came every day just to see you one more time…”

As he said this, Qin Ye finally noticed me standing behind the bookshelf.

He froze.

Then, his face twisted with disgust as he frowned. “What are you doing here?”

He strode over and shoved me hard.

“Get out! Don’t dirty the only pure place Qingqie left!

“If you hadn’t clung to him so desperately, how could he have ended up like this!”

After being pushed, I staggered, a dull ache rising in my lower abdomen.

I steadied myself and slapped him across the face.

“What does it have to do with me!

“I never forced him to fall in love with me, to marry me!

“He missed out on Xu Anran because he was just too cowardly and pathetic!”

Xu Anran’s nasal, trembling voice suddenly sounded.

“Did…did he never receive the love letter I sent him?”

Qin Ye and I were both stunned.

“What did you say?”

“Before the college entrance exam, I put a love letter on his desk, but I never got any reply from him…”

She gave a bitter laugh, then looked up again, her eyes tinged with resentment.

“It was you, wasn’t it?” She stared at me intently.

“You were jealous of me, so you threw the letter away?

“You made us miss out on ten whole years…and now, separated by life and death…”

I truly had no idea about this.

But Qin Ye believed it.

“You poisonous woman!”

Gnashing his teeth, he lunged at me, slamming my stomach hard into the corner of the table.

A sharp, searing pain shot through me as blood slowly seeped out.

My vision went black, and I collapsed to the floor, unconscious.