If only I had known then what I know now!
I scoffed inwardly.
Through the large banana leaves, in the moonlight, Fu Yanshen, dressed in trousers and a white shirt with a stand-up collar, had a cigarette between his fingers.
He was facing an iron cage, inside which was a woman with disheveled hair, her hands gripping the steel bars tightly.
Her lips were pale and dry, and her eyes were dark and lifeless.
"Shi Xia, a month ago, I saw your true colors."
"Back then, I thought you were just a parasite."
“From a young age, you’ve been sucking our blood, pretending to be weak and pitiful to gain our sympathy. You’re always the first to have the best things.”
Fu Yanshen's cold and deep voice came through.
He probably only truly understood Shi Xia after listening to the recording.
“When you were very young, you were often wrongly accused of stealing. At first, you made it up yourself, deliberately letting people frame you so we would feel sorry for you. Later, you actually stole, right?”
"You enjoy the feeling of stealing, taking other people's things for yourself. Even if you don't need them, you still steal them, and you've even started stealing people. Not only Lu Ming, but also General Manager Liu from the finance office is your lackey... Shi Xia, how can you face A Ren?"
This summer, it turns out she's been calculating since she was little.
"What did I do wrong? I was abandoned by my biological parents at birth and I have a congenital heart condition. Why should I be allowed to have parents and older siblings who love me, while other children do not?"
"I just can't stand seeing others living better than me! Why should they? What's wrong with me stealing a little something from them? What's wrong with me stealing people? Why do they have wives and children, and happy families?"
"As for Fu Ren... he's mute, yet he dares to dream of being a toad trying to eat swan meat. I've looked down on him since I was a child!"
Hearing Shi Xia's confident words, my fists hardened.
What kind of twisted and absurd logic is this!
With a "bang!", Fu Yanshen kicked the iron cage, hitting Shi Xia's finger squarely.
Shi Xia screamed in pain, tilting her head back.
"From childhood to adulthood, Fu Ren has been beaten countless times for you, and done so much for you—"
Calling you a parasite is giving you too much credit; you're a fucking ingrate!
After Fu Yanshen finished speaking, he finally let go of his foot.
So, he also despised ungrateful people. What about him in his past life?
They're such an ingrate to my family!
And then there's Shi Xia. In his past life, Fu Yanshen must have known that Fu Ren liked her. Given his personality, he would never compete with his brother for the woman he loves.
So, in my past life, why did he force me to divorce my wife and marry Shi Xia?
Could it be that in this life, his relationship with Shi Xia is not a butterfly effect resulting from my rebirth, but rather that there is some hidden story from my previous life?
I feel like my brain just won't work again.
"For an ingrate like you, there's only one outcome."
"Tomorrow is a good day; you should prepare to set off."
After speaking coldly and ruthlessly, Fu Yanshen strode away.
"Brother Fu, please spare me for my sister's sake... She went through so much trouble to raise the money to get this heart for me, and now her life is still hanging in the balance..."
At this moment, Shi Xia realized she was scared. She shook the dog cage with both hands and shouted loudly.
It's this older sister again...
Upon hearing this, Fu Yanshen stopped in his tracks.
"Shi Xia, don't try that on me!"
"If you, such an ingrate, survive and gain power in the future, you will surely repay kindness with enmity just like today! I, Fu Yanshen, never leave any hidden dangers in my actions!"
He finished speaking in a cold voice, strode forward, and walked towards the front yard.
"Brother Fu! Please forgive me... What did I do wrong? We are all living beings, why am I the one who has to be abandoned by my parents?!"
Shi Xia cried out again, and as she cried, she looked up at the sky and asked.
"Your life is tragic, but it could have been much better, couldn't it? Your sister gave you a healthy heart, Fu Yanshen helped you in your career, and Fu Ren was devoted to you. But you insisted on clinging to your background, unable to distinguish right from wrong, and ended up like this..."
"Even after all this, you're still complaining and blaming others."
I walked to the cage, bent down, and spoke to her.
Shi Xia raised her head and said, "Sheng Qiaoqiao, what are you showing off to me for? You're good for nothing except for your good family background. I hate people like you the most!"
"Then you should hate it. I hope you're reborn into a better family in your next life!"
I couldn't be bothered to waste any more words on her, so I rolled my eyes at her and turned to leave.
Shi Xia was so angry with me that she kept shaking the cage.
"Sheng Qiaoqiao, haven't you ever thought about why Fu Yanshen is both indifferent to you and treats you like a plaything?"
Her mocking voice came from behind.
I stopped in my tracks, wanting to hear what else she could possibly say!
"Because, in his eyes, you're just a substitute!"
Shi Xia continued.
Hearing her almost clenched teeth, I snorted coldly.
What a cliché plot! You've been reading too many romance novels!
That guy is obviously just being a sour grapes, deliberately trying to upset me.
I started walking.
"Fu Yanshen has always had a white moonlight in his heart, and that person is my sister, Shi Jin!"
Shi Xia's words came again.
Shi Jin...
A name I've never heard of before.
But I know that Shi Xia has an older sister, as Fu Yanshen just mentioned.
“Fu Yanshen used to be withdrawn and misanthropic, often self-harming. Only my sister was willing to get close to him, and only my sister could get close to him. From childhood to adulthood, I have only ever seen him smile genuinely in front of my sister…”
"My sister is gentle and intelligent, tolerant of him, and takes care of him. I'm so jealous of her. Do you think that I seduced Brother Fu in this prosperous era because of you?"
"I want to take my sister's place in his heart."
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