Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Qi Xiwei’s hand froze on her abdomen. Looking lifeless, she sat on the hospital bed. Her eyes were lifeless as well. She was staring at an unknown spot.
“Do you still remember my stepmother?”
“Your stepmother? Isn’t she in prison?”
“Yes, she’s in prison.” Qi Xiwei chuckled. Her voice was full of sarcasm. “She’s in prison, and she died in prison.”
“…”Huo Jinyao’s eyes widened. If he remembered correctly, Qi Xiwei’s stepmother was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
“I don’t know whose retribution this is. Is it mine or Lian Jin’s? Oh right, his full name isn’t Lian Jin, but Shen Jin. Lian is his mother’s surname. He’s the younger brother of my stepmother, Shen Mingzhu.”
“What?” Even Huo Jinyao was shocked. “You’re saying that Lian Jin is your stepmother’s younger brother? Are you sure?”
“He said it himself.”
Qi Xiwei’s expression didn’t change. She didn’t want to recall her stupidity. But in reality, she had indeed been very stupid.
She had been overseas for many years and had always rejected the advances of those men. First of all, she hadn’t met anyone who moved her heart, and second of all, she had always thought that if there was the chance, she would still want to find a Chinese person.
The year just before last year, Shen Jin appeared in front of her under the alias of Lian Jin. At the beginning, Lian Jin was the marketing director of a company in cooperation with her company.
They were both Chinese, and they were also both working hard in a foreign country. When they were working together, Qi Xiwei was more patient with Lian Jin than with other people.
Very quickly, she started to admire Lian Jin’s work abilities. Outside of work, Lian Jin began to approach her in private.
She was a person who only opened her heart slowly. Back then, Huo Jinyao was so outstanding that she didn’t even fall in love with him.
That was why Qi Xiwei even thought that she would never fall in love with another man in her life. After all, there were very few men in this world who were more outstanding than Huo Jinyao and had a better personality than Huo Jinyao.
She was wary of others, so Lian Jin patiently tried to get close to her again and again.
She didn’t believe in men, so Lian Jin kept humbling himself and continuously tried to move her through his own efforts.
He tried again and again. Qi Xiwei’s heart wasn’t made of iron. Furthermore, she had experienced her father’s infidelity, her mother’s death, and she was working alone in a foreign land.
Deep down, she also longed for warmth and love. Lian Jin spent nearly a year pursuing her. She was finally moved.
On Lian Jin’s birthday, she agreed to move in with him.
During the first half of the year, she lived very blissfully and happily. She thought that she was the happiest woman in the world.
However, the more happy she felt before, the more painful it was afterwards.
Half a year later, Lian Jin started to leave early and return late. At first, she could convince herself that he was busy with work.
However, as she continued to find the scent of women’s perfume, women’s hair, and even other women’s lipstick marks on his body, she could no longer deceive herself.
She argued with Lian Jin and quarreled with him. Lian Jin said that he made a mistake and asked her to forgive him.
She forgave him the first time after his begging, but reality proved to her that if there was a first time, there would be a second time. If there was a second time, there would be a third time.
After that, Lian Jin relapsed and Qi Xiwei couldn’t bear it anymore. One day, after Lian Jin returned late, she told him that she wanted to break up with him.
That pervert Lian Jin imprisoned her at that time. He threw away all her clothes, and left her naked at home.
But he still went out every day, and then came back to deliberately let her see the marks of other women on his body.
In the end, he even openly brought other women back. He let her see him making out with other women.
Qi Xiwei was almost driven mad by Lian Jin. That day, she took a knife to stab Lian Jin, but she was a woman, and she couldn’t overpower Lian Jin, so the knife was taken away by him.
When Qi Xiwei wanted to break up and sue him, Lian Jin told her.
If she wanted to break up, she could forget about it. What he wanted to do was to torture her. He wanted to torture her forever, to make her suffer.
Qi Xiwei didn’t understand and asked Lian Jin why.
“Shen Mingzhu, do you still remember?”
“Who are you? Who are you?”
“I’m Shen Jin, Shen Mingzhu’s younger brother.”
Lian Jin and Shen Mingzhu had a good relationship. In the early years when their family was in a bad financial condition, Shen Mingzhu even took a few jobs in school to ease the burden on the family.
Later on, when she went to work, most of her salary was given to the family.
Lian Jin had deep affection for her. Later on, Shen Mingzhu married someone. Although that man was more than ten years older than Shen Mingzhu, it looked like that man treated Shen Mingzhu very well, so the Shen family had no objections.
But the Shen family didn’t expect that Shen Mingzhu was sent to prison after being married for less than ten years.
The Shen family couldn’t accept this fact. They appealed, but it was useless. The evidence was conclusive. Shen Mingzhu was sentenced to fifteen years.
Fifteen years. When she got out, she would already be old.
Shen Jin was the first to find it unacceptable, but the worst was still yet to come. Shen Mingzhu had miscarried not long after she had been in prison.
It turned out that she was already pregnant when she was locked up, but she hadn’t been pregnant for so many years. In addition, she was distracted by the fact that she had been caught.
By the time she found out, the child was already gone. Shen Mingzhu had lost her child. In a place like a prison, naturally the environment wouldn’t be good.
Her health had deteriorated. Not long after, the prison had renovated the new protective facilities and transferred them to a prison in a neighboring city.
Shen Mingzhu, whose environment had changed, was bullied. Once, she had a conflict with her cellmate, and because her body was too weak, she was severely injured by the other party. Not long after she was sent to the hospital for resuscitation, she passed away.
That person was naturally given additional punishment. However, all of this meant nothing to Lian Jin.
After Shen Mingzhu died, the Shen family’s parents were depressed every day, especially mother Shen. Because of excessive grief, mother Shen passed away two years later as well.
On the day mother Shen passed away, father Shen couldn’t withstand such a blow and ran away to become a monk.
For Lian Jin, his wholesome family was torn apart just like that. After his mother passed away and his father became a monk, he was depressed for a long time.
Later, he figured it out. All of this was Qi Xiwei’s fault.
If she didn’t send Shen Mingzhu to prison… If it wasn’t for Qi Xiwei, how could the Shen family become like this?
Lian Jin figured it out and decided to take revenge. The simplest and most direct revenge was to make Qi Xiwei suffer.
He didn’t want to kill Qi Xiwei. After all, he didn’t want to go to jail.
After thinking about it, he finally thought of a way. A wonderful way to take revenge.
Previously, because Qi Xiwei died in prison, she lost a lot of money. Lian Jin took the money and went abroad.
With money, many things would become very simple, not to mention that he was lucky. When he was looking for a job, he got to know his later boss.
That boss admired his ambition and drive. Therefore, he constantly supported him.
After he had the ability, Lian Jin began to investigate Qi Xiwei. Then, he approached her.
Perhaps the heavens were helping him, but the company that Qi Xiwei worked for actually had a partnership with his company?
The heavens were simply helping him. Everything that followed was much simpler. Lian Jin approached step by step, and step by step, Qi Xiwei let down her guard.
In the end, Qi Xiwei fell in love with him. When she loved him so much that she couldn’t help herself, Lian Jin decided to take the final step of his revenge.
Qi Xiwei didn’t expect that Lian Jin’s real identity was actually her stepmother’s younger brother.
After knowing Lian Jin’s identity, she decided not to let him do whatever he wanted anymore.
When Lian Jin brought another woman there again, she thought of a way to steal the woman’s phone and call the police.
The police arrived very quickly, but because Lian Jin had evidence to prove that she and he were husband and wife, the police didn’t overly interfere in their matters.
Under Qi Xiwei’s constant requests, she was finally able to leave Lian Jin’s place, and Lian Jin was also warned by the police. Even if they were husband and wife, no one could lock up his wife. Indicating that he would definitely be mindful in the future, Lian Jin’s attitude put on a good attitude.
Qi Xiwei said that she wanted a divorce, but the police didn’t interfere in such matters. They thought that this was their own matter.
Qi Xiwei could only give Lian Jin the divorce agreement and find a lawyer.
Qi Xiwei thought that Lian Jin wouldn’t dare to come again, so after being tortured badly, she returned to the company. She started working.
In order to not keep thinking about that bastard Lian Jin, she put all her energy into work.
That was how the proposal came about. After she made the proposal. Lian Jin came.
He came to her door and raped her. Qi Xiwei already knew that there was no way to call the police. She and Lian Jin were husband and wife, so Lian Jin could do whatever he wanted.
Moreover, under the evidence, it was useless for Qi Xiwei to defend herself, because Lian Jin actually had a photo of her when they were having s*x. There was also a video, plus proof of their relationship as husband and wife.
She had no way to get rid of Lian Jin and had to face Lian Jin’s constant harassment. Qi Xiwei was mentally and physically exhausted.
But she didn’t expect that at this time, she was already pregnant. Moreover, it had already been more than three months. In addition to her poor health, the doctor told her that if she chose to abort the child, the final result would be that she might never have another child of her own.
Qi Xiwei, who was in a dilemma, finally chose to keep the child.
She was now alone. If possible, she hoped to have a child. This way, she wouldn’t be lonely in the future. This was good too. This child was hers alone.
She didn’t expect Lian Jin to come back at that time. Qi Xiwei had no choice but to flee back to the country.
Her mother had once left her a fortune, including the villa she was living in now.
She chose to stay there to protect the baby. She didn’t have the energy, and she also thought about how Huo Jinyao had taken care of her, so that was why she gave the proposal to Huo Jinyao.
She thought that she would be able to give birth to the child safely, but she didn’t expect Lian Jin to come looking for her again.
Her voice was very soft, and it was almost hoarse as she spoke.
Huo Jinyao didn’t expect things to turn out like this. He looked at the pale Qi Xiwei, who looked like she had lost her soul, and poured her a glass of water.
“What are your plans now?”
