Chapter 144 You're such a big boy, isn't it exciting?
Su Ruan looked at his suddenly ashen face and chuckled softly.
Keep finishing off the enemy.
"You used to complain that I was clingy, but now I'm clinging to your dad."
"How does this feel?"
"Listen to me call him husband, and listen to him tell me to be good."
"You're such a big boy, isn't it exciting to be around?"
"ah--!!!"
He suddenly clutched his head and roared, squeezing out broken sobs from his throat.
Collapse, absurdity, and overwhelming regret instantly engulfed him.
"Why... why him of all people..."
His eyes were bloodshot and he looked frantic and desperate.
"How dare you..."
"How dare you?!"
Su Ruan lowered her eyes and straightened her skirt, her tone light and casual.
"Why wouldn't you dare?"
"Your dad took the initiative; he forced you to get the marriage certificate, and he forced you to call him 'husband' too."
He suddenly remembered something, and his pupils contracted sharply.
"No wonder..."
"No wonder you seemed like a completely different person after that night!"
She stopped revolving around him and stopped carefully watching his expression.
His eyes turned cold, and his bones hardened.
It turns out it wasn't a case of feigning indifference; they had simply found a stronger backer and a more powerful patron.
"A single night's sleep will transform you completely?"
He scoffed, but tears streamed down his face.
"Su Ruan, are you really that shameless? Whoever's tougher, you're tougher."
Upon hearing this, Su Ruan didn't even bother to lift her eyes.
I just found it laughable.
It turns out that when men are impotent and furious, their excuses are all so identical.
How pathetic it is to slander what you can't have.
"Isn't it better to be with anyone else than with you?"
She paused deliberately, her voice cool and detached, striking his frantic nerves.
"At least your dad is good in bed, generous with money, and not blind."
"Yan Yunye, you can't afford to lose, and you can't win."
"Six years, what have you given me? Injustice? Embarrassment?"
"Or are you watching me lick Wen Wanwan's disgusting memories?"
"From the moment you chose Wen Wanwan, you were out of the game."
"forever."
Su Ruan admired his twitching cheeks, her gaze cold and indifferent.
These words were like the last straw, breaking Yan Yunye's strong back.
He looked at her cold and delicate face, as if all his strength had been drained away.
Suddenly his knees buckled, and he collapsed to his knees.
His knee slammed onto the carpet with a dull thud.
"Ruanruan, I was wrong, I really know I was wrong..."
He suddenly crawled forward two steps on his knees, trying to grab the hem of her skirt, but she deftly avoided him.
His hand froze in mid-air, trembling uncontrollably.
"That's not what I meant, I just can't stand it..."
He was incoherent, looking up at her with an unprecedented sense of humility in his eyes.
"We can't do this, the world isn't like this!"
"Listen to me, this world is a book, and we are all flags, destined for a bad ending!"
"Back then, I was controlled by the plot, which is why I treated you that way."
His throat tightened, and he desperately tried to extract the truth.
"But do you know that Yan Tingnan is the male lead? He's being nice to you now because the real female lead hasn't appeared yet!"
"When his destined heroine appears, he will fall in love with her irresistibly, just like I was controlled!"
"You will become worse than me, you will be discarded by him like trash, and you will repeat the same mistakes!"
"That was the inevitable ending; you couldn't escape it!"
He gripped her like a last straw, staring intently at her reaction.
"I don't mind you being with him, really!"
"Let's start over, okay? While there's still time..."
"Please, look at me one more time."
Su Ruan lowered her eyes and quietly looked at the man kneeling in front of her, weeping bitterly.
The casual smile on his face slowly faded.
A hint of surprise flashed deep in his eyes.
He also awakened.
No wonder.
No wonder his recent behavior has been so stupid and incongruous, as if he knows something but can't quite grasp it.
It turns out they had glimpsed the script.
She remained silent for a few seconds, then slowly squatted down, her ice-blue skirt spreading out like moonlight.
Her slender, fair fingertips gently lifted his chin.
"oh?"
"You saw that tattered book too?"
Yan Yunye caught something in her suddenly calm eyes and froze.
His pupils contracted sharply as he stared at her in disbelief.
"You knew all along?"
Su Ruan twitched the corner of her mouth.
"Otherwise what?"
Why do you think I suddenly stopped loving you?
"How did you manage to get close to your dad so quickly?"
She looked down at his face, which had instantly turned ashen, and felt a chilling coldness.
"Because from the day I learned the ending, looking at you was like looking at a dead person."
"A fool who is destined to step on my corpse to lick other people's boots."
"If I don't run, am I supposed to stay here and wait for you to send me to prison?"
"Wait until I'm nothing but skin and bones and die in a filthy alley?"
"I'd rather be the rose that the male lead waters by his own hand than a stepping stone that you call upon in your script."
Yan Yunye froze completely, his blood running cold.
I see.
All the anomalies and all the resolute decisions now have an explanation.
It's not that he realized it too late.
She withdrew too early.
Long before he was still immersed in the deep emotions the plot had given him, she had already stepped out of the chessboard and become the one playing the game.
He suddenly found it all incredibly ridiculous.
What he perceived as awakening and redemption was, in her eyes, probably just a belated farce.
"So you approached my father to get revenge on me? Or to change your fate?"
His voice was hoarse, and every word seemed to be squeezed out.
Su Ruan raised an eyebrow, as if she had heard an interesting question.
Is there a difference?
"The result is that I've succeeded in both getting revenge on you and changing my fate."
"As for the destined female lead you mentioned..."
She paused.
Whether Yan Tingnan will change his mind is my business.
"But even if that day ever comes, I will climb up the storyline step by step."
She spoke each word clearly and deliberately, shattering his last illusions.
She loosened her grip, letting him slump down.
"Yan Yunye, wake up."
"Not everyone is like you, becoming a useless person without the storyline."
Yan Yunye tilted his head back, his eyes red-rimmed.
"So even if those injuries were manipulated by the plot, even if I am a victim."
"You won't forgive me either, will you?"
"forgive?"
She repeated it softly, a cold smile curving her lips.
Su Ruan stood up, looking down at him with a mixture of pity and mockery in her eyes.
"Yan Yunye, you were manipulated by the plot, it wasn't your choice."
"But every time you chose to hurt me, it was you who said it yourself and you who did it yourself."
"Those embarrassing moments, the grievances, the pain of having my heart pierced time and time again, I swallowed them down."
"What you awaken is memory, what I endure is life."
"You're in pain now, and you know you were wrong, because you've finally seen the script clearly, not because you've suddenly learned how to love."
"But my pain was real, and I endured it for six years."
Why should victims forgive their abusers?
"Just because the perpetrator is also a victim?"
With each word she spoke, Yan Yunye's face paled a little more.
After hearing this, his spine crumbled inch by inch.
Just then, there was a rapid knocking at the door.
Immediately following this, the key was inserted into the lock, and the sound of the lock cylinder turning abruptly rang out.
Su Ruan suddenly turned around and rushed straight towards the door.
Almost simultaneously, the door was pushed open by an external force.
Yan Tingnan, dressed in a sharp black suit, stood at the doorway, his gaze sweeping across the room before catching her as she rushed towards him.
He wrapped his arms around her lower back and supported her firmly with his palms.
"Are you alright?"
His voice was calm, but his eyes suddenly turned cold.
Su Ruan shook her head, the crescent-shaped hairpin in her hair swaying softly.
"fine."
She glanced sideways at Yan Yunye, who was kneeling on the ground, her voice clear and sharp.
"Keep a close eye on your eldest son."
"They almost committed incest, and they're kneeling down to reflect on their actions."
Yan Tingnan raised her eyes, her gaze passing over her head and landing on Yan Yunye, who was kneeling on the ground.
Just one glance.
The air instantly dropped to freezing point.
Yan Yunye shuddered violently, as if an invisible hand had gripped his throat, and even a sob was stuck in his throat.
He saw his father standing there, scrutinizing him as if he were an ant.
Calm, yet suffocating.
"Leave this to me."
"Go to the main hall first."
Su Ruan nodded.
"Give your eldest son a good talking-to and teach him what human relationships and moral principles are."
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