Chapter 1

Chapter 1

At first, Xu Heyi didn’t believe me, because the mole at the corner of my eye was gone.

I said, “Two years ago, you and I were trapped together in the snowy mountains of Altay. The rescue team was slow to arrive, and you said that if we survived, you would come find me.”

“You wrote your name on my palm. But afterward, I developed retrograde amnesia and forgot you.”

“I had the mole removed. Look here-there’s still a tiny scar.”

Xu Heyi looked half convinced and half skeptical. “It’s really you?”

I curved my lips into a smile and murmured by his ear, “Young Master Xu gave up painting? What a pity.”

The Xu family’s high-profile young heir had no interest in business at all. All he wanted was to be a painter.

That secret was something he had only told Tang Xiawen.

I took the opportunity to hug him.

Xu Heyi didn’t push me away.

He believed me.

Tang Xiawen hadn’t clearly given him her name during the snowstorm accident.

And all Xu Heyi had was a single photograph.

So I used my own identity and started dating him.

Though, from time to time, he still doubted me.

For example, he once asked me to play the piano.

I said, “After the snowstorm accident, my wrist was permanently damaged. I can’t play anymore.”

Xu Heyi narrowed his eyes. “But you once said the piano was your life.”

“Was it painful when you decided to give up painting? However painful it was for you, that’s how painful this is for me.”

He fell silent.

Another time, he discovered Tang Xiawen’s existence.

“Tang Xuesheng, didn’t you say you were an only child?”

I said, “I lied. I actually have a twin sister, but I hate her.”

Tang Xiawen had pretended to be an only child in front of him, erasing my existence.

Then I didn’t need to be polite either.

Xu Heyi’s gaze turned a little cold. “Why do you hate her?”

I lifted my shirt, revealing my graceful figure in full.

But there were several scars on my skin.

“Ah He, you always ask me where these scars came from. Today, I’ll tell you.”

“When I was seven, my sister dragged me along and we accidentally wandered into a human traffickers’ hideout… In the end, she escaped, but I was sold into the mountains. They beat me and burned me with cigarette butts. The doctor said these scars could never be removed.”

I cried beautifully and pitifully, enough to make anyone’s heart ache. No man could withstand it.

“I wasn’t rescued until I was fourteen. There hasn’t been a single day I didn’t hate her. She’s like these scars on my body, reminding me every moment of all that despair and pain.”

“I’m sorry, Ah He. I was in too much pain, so I lied.”

Xu Heyi was moved. Even his cold, sharp features softened.

“It was my fault. I was too harsh just now. Don’t cry, Shengsheng.”

While he kissed my scars, I ate a grape gummy.

Soon, the air was filled with the scent of grapes.

The night was long.

I knew Xu Heyi didn’t love me.

He was with me only out of responsibility and the promise he had made back then.

He must have been confused, wondering why he could no longer find that fluttering feeling from the snowy mountains.

Because I was never that person at all.

I laid claim to him before Tang Xiawen could.

Every time before we kissed, I would eat a grape gummy.

I wanted him to think of me whenever he saw grapes from then on.

To remember every intimate detail between us whenever he smelled grapes.

Are you asking whether my conscience hurt?

Of course it didn’t.

I’m just the villainess. What would I need a conscience for?