Chapter 4

Chapter 4

The last time I learned news about He Chaoyuan was not from Ye Qing, but from the internet.

He appeared on the legal section of the trending searches.

The keyword was: dismemberment.

Yes. He had killed Jiang Shanshan. It was not simple poisoning or anything else. It was dismemberment.

He dismembered Jiang Shanshan, cooked the pieces, and fed them to dogs. Workers cleaning up trash in the middle of the night discovered it and called 110.

According to the case summary released by the police, He Chaoyuan confessed that the killing had been impulsive. It was only because he had not been sleeping well recently and had taken sleeping pills. The day before, he and Jiang Shanshan had agreed that she would wake him at seven the next morning, but she overslept and failed to wake him in time.

He also said that he had originally needed to attend a very important meeting that day and meet a very important partner.

“I clearly emphasized it to her several times, and she promised she would definitely wake me.

“But in the morning, she still did not wake me. I asked her why, and she said she felt sorry for me and wanted me to sleep properly.

“At that instant, I suddenly felt despair.

“I do not know whether you can understand that feeling. Living with this person, damn it, she never knows what matters. She always ruins everything. She always drags me down.

“I was sick of it. I could not help hitting her.

“I had often hit her before, but this time, when my senses returned, I found that she was already dead.

“When I saw her corpse, I was annoyed to death. There was only one thought in my mind: even dead, this woman was still causing me trouble, and my whole life was over.

“So I cut her up.”

After reading this answer, netizens all cried out that it was unbelievable.

Some people said He Chaoyuan was a demon. Others said He Chaoyuan was such a pity, that he had turned an excellent hand of cards worse and worse.

Many others did not believe He Chaoyuan’s explanation. They kept questioning how someone could possibly kill and dismember his wife just because she had not woken him up in time.

After the shock passed, I thought that He Chaoyuan was indeed a demon, but what he said was also the truth.

Back then, the reason Wen Shuxian opposed the two of them being together was that their Gaokao scores differed by more than two hundred points. He Chaoyuan had clearly ranked in the top three in their city, but for Jiang Shanshan’s sake, he did not apply to Tsinghua or Peking University. Instead, he chose a university in Xiamen.

That time when Wen Shuxian beat He Chaoyuan in front of me, she had also said that He Chaoyuan could not be with someone who would always drag him down. She would not allow it.

I think the He Chaoyuan who changed his college choices back then truly loved Jiang Shanshan. The He Chaoyuan who later broke up with Jiang Shanshan for the first time had probably already subconsciously realized that if he stayed with Jiang Shanshan, his life would be dragged downward again and again.

But his pride would not let him admit it, so he pushed the reason for their breakup onto Wen Shuxian.

Later, after he succeeded in starting his business, although he missed her in his heart, he did not go looking for her again. Instead, he married me. That showed that in action, he had already cut himself off from her.

But people are complicated after all. When she appeared before him after traveling thousands of miles without regard for anything, he still went mad.

Mad enough to forget why they had once separated, and after tearing things apart with me, he thought he could be omnipotent and go “love” a human being who dragged him downward.

Then, because of a series of coincidences, he got back together with her.

But this time, the burdens on her were heavier and heavier, so she dragged him downward faster and faster.

Finally, amid career obstruction and ruined reputation, he collapsed.

He did not take a knife to her because she failed to wake him up in time. He killed her because, through one trivial thing after another, he increasingly discovered that Jiang Shanshan would only drag him down.

In the end, he was only an extremely selfish person.

Because of his terrible family of origin, at first he treated his love with Jiang Shanshan as a way to rebel against his mother.

Perhaps he had never loved her. What he loved was the version of himself that fought against his mother.

So when he truly married Jiang Shanshan, when the disappointments of life fell on him and made him realize that his mother had been right once again, he flew into shameful rage and killed her.

Jiang Shanshan actually had a chance to run.

If she had listened to me and called the police early.

But if she were someone who would call the police, why would she have driven thousands of miles on the eve of her wedding to see a man who had already abandoned her?

The gears of fate had begun turning long ago, rolling toward this already known ending.

Fortunately, I had already stayed far away from all of it.

The End