"No."
Ye Nian'an shook her head, a cruel smile curving her lips.
"This isn't repentance, this is disgusting."
"You may kowtow until your head is broken, shed all your tears, and say sorry a thousand times, but it will mean nothing to me. Because you don't deserve it."
I do not accept your apology. I care even less for your repentance.
"The only thing you can do is carry this body of sin and regret with you and live your muddy life. Day and night, you will be devoured by the past and tormented by reality, unable to live and unable to die."
"This is the retribution you and your Zhang family truly deserve."
After she finished speaking, she stood up and looked down at him as if he were an ant at her feet.
"Stop disgusting me and don't ever appear in front of me again."
"Next time, you won't have the chance to kneel down and kowtow again."
After saying that, Ye Nian'an didn't look at him again, not even bothering to appreciate his pained and desperate expression.
She turned around, carrying the brown sugar and pastries in her hand, and walked out of the dirty alley with calm steps, step by step, towards the bright and sunny life that belonged to her.
Zhang Weiguo was left alone, kneeling on the spot.
Blood trickled down his forehead and onto the cold ground, blooming into tiny, desperate flowers.
Looking at Ye Nian'an's resolute and unwavering back, he finally understood.
He has lost even the right to let her take a second look at him.
This, perhaps, is the cruelest punishment for him.
Just as Ye Nian'an was about to disappear at the alley entrance.
I clearly understood everything.
But a huge, resentful panic gripped Zhang Weiguo's heart.
Like a drowning man grasping at a last straw, he used all his strength to scream at the retreating figure:
"Ye Nian'an!"
"Whether you admit it or not! Whether you accept it or not! This is my confession! It's what I owe you! This is the only way I can feel better... This is the only way I can feel better!"
He knew everything was beyond repair, and he knew he deserved to die.
He was simply trying to alleviate the suffocating guilt that was gnawing at his soul day and night through this almost self-destructive method.
The figure that was about to disappear into the alley stopped upon hearing the sound.
Ye Nian'an slowly turned around.
The afternoon sun cast a golden glow on her silhouette, but it did nothing to warm her icy, chilling eyes.
She just looked at him quietly, without anger or disgust in her eyes.
There was only a kind of cruel, all-knowing calm.
"Zhang Weiguo, I have a question for you."
Ye Nian'an's voice was soft, yet it was like a sharp icicle, piercing Zhang Weiguo's heart with precision.
"If you had brought Shen Xiang, the widow of your comrade-in-arms, back with you, it wouldn't have been a burden on your family. Instead, it would have earned you the appreciation of your superiors and propelled you to great heights."
"And I, after breaking off our engagement, lived a miserable and impoverished life."
"By then, will you still kneel here and repent to me like you are today?"
This question, like a thunderclap, exploded in Zhang Weiguo's chaotic mind!
He froze, his mouth agape, unable to utter a single word.
Looking at his dazed expression, Ye Nian'an smiled with extreme sarcasm and gave him the answer.
"You won't."
"Not only will you not repent, but you will also appear in front of me in a grand manner with your good wife Shen Xiang and your good son Tang Jiang, showing off how happy you are and how correct your choice is."
"You'll look at me with pity mixed with a sense of superiority, thankful that you got rid of me, this unlucky woman who can't have children!"
"Zhang Weiguo, admit it."
Ye Nian'an walked back to him step by step, tearing away his last shred of dignity!
"Your so-called repentance and suffering are not because you feel any deep guilt towards me, but simply because your life is like hell!"
"You keep saying you regret giving me up, but you don't actually miss me at all!"
"What you miss is just a free nanny who can endure anything, work hard without complaint, and be ripped off by your whole family without uttering a word! A fool who can take care of your paralyzed father and be a slave to your Zhang family!"
Just like that foolish person she was in her past life.
Zhang Weiguo unconsciously bit his lip.
He was unaware that blood was flowing out.
His final, laughable self-pity was laid bare in the sunlight, exposing his dirtiest and most selfish core.
"puff--"
Zhang Weiguo could no longer hold on, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, which splattered onto the ground in front of him.
He felt as if all his strength had been drained, and collapsed to the ground.
He stopped struggling and arguing. He simply raised his blood-stained face, stared blankly at Ye Nian'an, and then smiled.
That laughter was more mournful and desperate than the crying.
"Hehe...hehehe...Ye Nian'an, you're right..."
He muttered to himself.
"What you said... is all correct..."
He admitted it.
Before her all-seeing eyes, all his pretense became a joke.
He was finally utterly and completely defeated.
"It'll be soon..."
Zhang Weiguo stopped laughing, his eyes becoming empty and calm, as if he had already seen his own end.
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