"Ah Xia, I was wrong. Please forgive me this time. I promise I will never do it again in my life."
Lin Haodong's once refined and fair face was now covered in bruises, completely devoid of his later composure and confidence.
Ji Xia sat blankly on the swing under the tree in the backyard, while Lin Haodong knelt in front of her, pleading desperately.
She recalled the scene from her previous life where she lay lifeless in the operating room.
Just an hour ago, she swore to her own corpse that if she had the chance to do it all over again, she would never marry Lin Haodong.
Then, she was reborn, after Lin Haodong and Liu Pianran's affair was exposed.
Ji Xia was both surprised and delighted. The god of fate had been kind to her, giving her a second chance.
She stared intently at Lin Haodong's pleading face, a slight smile playing on her lips. In this lifetime, it was her turn to deal with this scumbag and bitch.
In his past life, Lin Haodong and a female educated youth were having an affair in the back mountains when they were discovered by the militia and the militia notified Secretary Ji.
When Secretary Ji discovered the affair, he was furious. However, considering that the man was the only college student in Nanshan Brigade and that he and his widowed mother were struggling financially, he immediately pleaded for him, saying that he and the female educated youth were engaged and were about to get married.
With the help of Party Secretary Ji, the militia group only registered two names, and asked them to get their certificates as soon as possible before canceling the records.
Lin Haodong refused to marry the female educated youth no matter what, so he asked Ji Xia for help to get the matter settled by asking Secretary Ji, and then he would get a marriage certificate with Ji Xia.
While Lin Haodong went to university, she stayed in her hometown to earn money to support her ailing mother-in-law and take care of her daily life.
Although Lin's mother was an elderly woman from the countryside, she lived in the 1970s when resources were scarce.
She eats rice, has meat or eggs with every meal, and takes full responsibility for her medication and medical care. Not only does she not have to work, but she also has people to serve her morning and evening.
After Lin Haodong went to university, he quickly got involved with a female educated youth he was having an affair with and they had children. More than ten years later, after Lin's mother passed away, he signed a divorce agreement and made Ji Xia leave with nothing, taking her daughter with her.
Reason one: because she didn't take good care of her mother-in-law, who had congenital heart disease, and she died of it.
Reason two: She only gave birth to a daughter, and the family business he worked so hard to build could only be left to his eldest son. The child born to his mistress was not only the eldest son, but also a son.
Because of her and her son, Ji Xia's stomach was damaged at a young age, eventually leading to late-stage stomach cancer.
As memories flooded back, Ji Xia's expression grew colder and colder, and the look of disgust in her eyes became more and more obvious.
She curled her lips coldly: "What's the use of begging me? It wasn't me who caught them cheating, it was the militia. If you want to plead for them, go beg them."
"A-Xia? You can ask Uncle Ji for me. He's the Party Secretary, he has a lot of influence, and with his help, it should be possible."
Lin Xudong instinctively grabbed her wrist tightly: "You're my fiancée, if you don't help me, who will you help?"
"My dad didn't help? If he hadn't helped, would you be here? If he hadn't helped, you two should be parading and being criticized by the inspection team right now, and your university admission letter would be worthless."
Ji Xia grew angrier as she spoke, recalling past events, and grabbed a stone with her left hand, smashing it down.
With a loud thud, the stone struck Lin Haodong hard on the forehead. Lin Haodong swayed, his head spun, and his face was filled with shock.
He stared blankly into Ji Xia's eyes, and suddenly realized that the beautiful almond-shaped eyes no longer held the love he was familiar with, but only endless indifference and resentment.
His lips moved slightly: "Xia, your father did help, but he said in front of so many people that Liu Zhiqing and I were engaged and were going to get our marriage certificate. But you are my fiancée. How can I get a marriage certificate with Liu Zhiqing?"
"Then what do you expect my dad to say? That you two aren't engaged and are just adulterous sluts?"
"No, my mother said she won't agree to Liu Zhiqing coming into the family. She told your father to think of a way to have those people cross out Liu Zhiqing's name and change it to yours."
"Keep dreaming, and make me bear this stigma for no reason. When you were fooling around, did you ever think about how your mother didn't approve of Liu Zhiqing? Did you ever think about how you had a fiancée?"
"Besides, when you were arrested, more than a dozen militiamen saw and heard everything. You think you can silence them all? Do you think my dad is Li Gang?"
Ji Xia became increasingly angry as she spoke, and reached out to find a stone again. Lin Haodong was so frightened that he retreated repeatedly, not daring to approach.
In fact, in her previous life, her father really did pay to keep quiet about this matter. More than a dozen militiamen each gave him a pack of cigarettes and fifty yuan each, spending over a thousand yuan, just to settle his messy affairs.
Over a thousand yuan, which wiped out the entire Ji family's savings, Lin Haodong only had to offer words of blessing, promising to treat her well for the rest of his life.
Because of this thousand-plus yuan, her older brother and sister-in-law had a conflict with her parents, and what was her fate?
Lin Haodong frowned deeply, and Ji Xia glared at him impatiently: "My father has already told me that he will no longer get involved in this matter. If you don't get your marriage certificate there to cancel the record within three days, they will come and arrest you again and send you to the investigation department."
"Also, besides getting a marriage certificate, you need to figure out how much money you've borrowed from me over the past year and pay it back as soon as possible, and then we can call it even."
As Ji Xia turned to go back to the courtyard, Lin Haodong instinctively called out, "How could you be so heartless? Where am I supposed to get the money to pay you back all at once?"
"This is your problem. Even if I'm ruthless, I'm still better than you. You mama's boy, get out of here!"
As Ji Xia spoke, she casually picked up another stone. Seeing her drastically changed appearance today, Lin Haodong angrily cursed under his breath and turned to run away.
As soon as he ran away, Ji Xia suppressed her anger and a cold smile appeared on her lips.
She wasn't worried that Lin Haodong wouldn't agree; for the sake of their future, the mother and son would marry Liu Pianran no matter how unwilling they were.
Lin Haodong doesn't like Liu Pianran, so why did he bring her to school in his past life to be his wife openly?
The only one unwilling was Lin's mother, because marrying Liu Pianran meant she would lose her paid nanny.
Now, she only wanted to do one thing: find out exactly how much money she had lent to Lin Haodong, and how much money she had spent on him this year, and take this opportunity to make him pay it back with interest.
Just then, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a man standing behind an old tree a few meters away.
Ji Xia exclaimed in surprise. The man stepped out from behind the tree, his eyes smiling as he reassured her, "It's me."
"Chen Jing, when did you arrive?"
"I just arrived a little while ago and saw you talking, so I didn't want to disturb you."
As soon as Chen Jing explained, Ji Xia's pretty face turned as sour as a night soiler; her image and her demeanor were completely ruined.
Rubbing her forehead, she realized that the two of them hadn't seen each other for decades, and unconsciously sized up Chen Jing.
Chen Jingcai was twenty years old, the most unruly age. Years of working in the fields had given him a darker complexion, a high nose bridge, sharp features, and a deep-set face, giving him a natural wildness and flamboyance.
Many years later in her previous life, she learned that Chen Jing liked her but had been delaying marriage.
Later, he went to the city and met a rich young lady. With the help and support of his father-in-law, he became the richest man in Jiang City.
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