Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Chapter 7
Thirty years later, on an ordinary afternoon.
Yan Luoxi refilled my cup of goji berry tea and solemnly informed me that Bo Ye had taken complete control of the entire empire. Just moments ago, the army he brought with him had breached the prison.
At that, I merely gave a calm, “Oh.”
Now middle-aged, Yan Luoxi had frost at his temples, but he still looked every inch the elegant gentleman. “I’m sorry, Miss Yu. I failed after all.”
“It wasn’t your fault. This world was helping him.”
I rose to my feet and opened the bulletproof window that had been sealed shut for years. I couldn’t help taking a deep breath.
“Do you smell that? The scent of freedom.”
He lowered his head and fell silent.
But from behind the door came an old, mocking voice. “Thirty years apart, Yu Xuzhen. What happened to that beauty of yours that once captivated the entire city?”
I turned around and saw a white-haired old man standing in the wide-open doorway, revolver in hand, sneering at me.
“Look at you. You’re nothing but a wrinkled, gray-haired old hag now!”
That dark and vicious gaze-it could only be the male lead, Bo Ye.
With a sigh, I turned to Yan Luoxi not far away and sought validation. “Am I old?”
He smiled. “In my eyes, Miss Yu, you are still as beautiful as the day we first met.”
Although I knew he was only sweet-talking me because I paid him, I still felt deeply comforted.
“Thanks.”
When I turned back to Bo Ye again, my mood had already returned to calm. “I no longer have the beauty I once did. So, will you let me go?”
A cold smile of absolute determination appeared on his face. “I’ve chased you my entire life. How could I possibly give up now?”
“Unless you die!”
“Sure thing.”
I immediately pulled out the dagger I had hidden in my pocket and stabbed myself in the neck.
The smug male lead: “!”
The villain watching from the side: “!”
Chapter 8
In truth, as early as the day I hit menopause, the System had already given up in despair on its plan to make me the female lead.
So these past few days had basically been free time.
And my current mission was to die as soon as possible, then seamlessly transition into the next world.
Never in a million years did I expect Bo Ye to throw away his gun and scoop my dying body into his arms, sobbing uncontrollably.
“Yu Xuzhen! Don’t die!”
“The reason I treated you so cruelly was only because-because I couldn’t face the fact that my own heart had changed!”
“I love you, I love you, I love you!”
At that moment, blood was spraying from my throat and air was leaking when I spoke, but somehow I still managed to squeeze out a few broken words. “You… son of… a… Every day… love this… love that… aren’t you tired of it…?”
At that, the male lead’s mask of devotion finally cracked for an instant. “Why?!”
“Even when you’re about to die, you still look at me with disdain?”
I said nothing. With a trembling hand, I raised my middle finger at him.
Bo Ye: “-AAAAAAAH!”
This heartless Dark Emperor, ruthless all his life, finally broke down!
The very next moment, Yan Luoxi, who had seized the opening, shot him in the head!
The blood that sprayed out splattered all over my face. Yan Luoxi hurried over and helped me up, trying to bind my bleeding wound with his expensive tie.
Knowing there was no saving me, I gently shook my head.
“No… need…”
Yan Luoxi held me in a daze. Strands of his hair were dotted with bright red blood, staining half of his eyelid crimson.
After thirty years of friendship, I tried to say a proper goodbye to him. But the moment I opened my mouth, I suddenly felt a little regretful. “If I’d known… that day in the guest room… we should’ve… had a deeper exchange…”
“I just… prefer… innocent… high school boys…”
“Miss Yu! What did you say?”
Meeting his anxious questioning gaze, in my final moment of clarity before death, I chose to say goodbye peacefully.
“…Goodbye.”
“…”
Before my eyes, the man’s face was swallowed by the mist of death.
He said nothing more. He only reached out and gently covered my eyes.
“Goodbye.”