Even through the screen, Meng Sheng could imagine Gu Ci lying weak and pale on the hospital bed.

She felt that if Gu Ci hadn't acted recklessly, hadn't been so obsessed, and hadn't resorted to so many underhanded tactics, they might have been able to become very good friends.

Just like when they first met.

She scoffed, the coldness in her voice impossible to conceal. "We're not related, why would I want to see you one last time? What good would it do me?"

Gu Ci was stunned, her perception of her cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness was once again refreshed.

She gave a self-deprecating smile, staring at the ceiling. Even though she hadn't said much, she felt breathless and exhausted.

She stared at the ceiling, took a breath, and then continued, "You don't want to come because you're afraid I'll do something to you?"

There was a hint of amusement in her voice, "Meng Sheng, I didn't realize you were such a coward. I'm already like this, lying in a hospital bed unable to move, what are you worried about?"

Upon hearing this, Meng Sheng narrowed his eyes. "Gu Ci, you seem to have misunderstood something. Don't think too highly of yourself. In my eyes, in Pei Sui's eyes, and now in your sister's eyes as well, you are an insignificant existence. I'm not going to the west of the city because you're not worth my personal trip. You don't deserve it, understand?"

Gu Ci paused for a moment, then laughed and said, "You really don't hold back at all."

Meng Sheng's voice softened, becoming helplessly flippant, with a hint of sarcasm, "What's with the politeness? Politeness to someone who wants to kill me? I wish I could be that kind, Miss Gu, you won't give me the chance."

"Cough cough—"

Gu Ci suddenly started coughing uncontrollably, which startled the nanny, who hurriedly went to press the call button.

She tried to calm herself down, "Don't...cough cough...don't shout, I...cough...I'm fine."

The fact that she was reborn gave her the illusion that everything would follow the same trajectory as in her previous life.

Even her illness was the same.

She never realized the immense and indelible damage that her years of short-term treatment and the knife she took for Pei Yu had caused to her body, which was already only half-recovered.

She always felt that being able to live the same way as in her previous life would be enough, and she was willing to give up even if it meant living ten years less.

But I never imagined that in less than a year since I came back, my body would be in such a state.

She turned her head slightly and said to the nanny, "Put your phone next to me and go outside to wait. Come back in in ten...fifteen minutes. I want to talk to her alone for a few minutes."

The caregiver nodded in agreement, placed the phone next to the pillow, and then left the ward, closing the door behind her.

She took a deep breath and said helplessly, "Okay, actually, I don't want you to see me like this, half-dead. It would just make you laugh at me and I wouldn't be able to die in peace."

"Meng Sheng, I actually... really want to be friends with you."

Meng Sheng interrupted her, "If you have nothing else to say, then hang up. And don't call me again. Gu Ci, we're all adults. You have to consider the consequences before you do anything. Since you've already done it, don't blame others, you can only blame yourself."

A single thought can change a lot of things.

"I know, I know!"

Gu Ci's smile suddenly turned ugly, her voice trembled with tears, and she couldn't stop them from falling. "Things have come to this point... I have nothing to say. I've lost to you."

She still really wanted to kill Meng Sheng; her hatred for her was uncontrollable.

Unless one party dies.

If Meng Sheng really agrees to come to the hospital, she might really want to do something. Even at this critical moment of death, she would want to take Meng Sheng down with her.

The happiness she didn't get, Meng Sheng shouldn't get either.

But Meng Sheng didn't come.

They won't come.

Thus, her overwhelming hatred could only turn into tears, which slowly slid down her cheeks.

If she were in better health, and hadn't become so useless that she can't even hold a phone, she really...

Hehehe!

Forget it, there are no "what ifs". No matter how unwilling she is now, it's all in vain.

"You were also reborn, weren't you?" She finally asked the question she most wanted to know.

Rebirth?!

Too?

Meng Sheng was stunned. In an instant, she realized that all her previous guesses were correct.

Gu Ci was reborn, and she thought that Gu Ci was also reborn.

She pursed her lips and replied with two words, cold and distant, "No."

This completely shattered any remaining comfort or hope Gu Ci had.

Gu Ci was also stunned, her emotions becoming agitated, "Impossible! You were reborn, you must have! You're not surprised at all to hear those two words, if not..."

Before he could finish speaking, all his strength seemed to have been drained away.

She was gasping for breath and couldn't say anything.

Meng Sheng remained silent for a moment before asking, "So, what did your rebirth bring you? The destruction of your family? The prospect of dying young?"

After saying that, she hung up the phone, no longer in the mood to listen to Gu Ci's resentment and breakdown.

It's meaningless.

The phone call ended, and Gu Ci was still agitated when suddenly the door was pushed open, and the nanny rushed in.

It hadn't even been fifteen minutes as she had said.

The nanny was startled by her appearance and quickly went to press the call button. "Miss, don't scare me. Hang in there, the doctor is coming soon."

Before Gu Ci lost consciousness, she felt completely powerless and her heart was in excruciating pain.

puff!

The blood stuck in her throat was finally vomited out, spraying onto her face, the blankets, the sheets, and even the nanny's phone.

It was all blood.

As her consciousness was about to plummet, she vaguely saw several familiar figures—the police officers who had come to her house to conduct an investigation that day.

What was it called again?

Chen Ye.

The beautiful woman next to her was a criminal psychology consultant named Yi Jun, and behind her were two unfamiliar police officers whom she had never seen before.

A smile tugged at the corners of her lips.

Even though he was almost dead, his memory was still so good; he remembered their names clearly.

Does she have an afterlife?

If so, then she shouldn't be a member of the Gu family anymore. She wants to be an ordinary person, with little money and no good family background, but with a healthy body and someone who truly loves her.