wavenovel Chapter 1921 - 469: Exploiting a Loophole, Changing Affections
Chapter 1921 - 469: Exploiting a Loophole, Changing Affections
In the college entrance exam that had just ended, he won first place in the entire province; everyone said he was a golden Phoenix flying out of a chicken coop, soaring straight up into the sky, with a boundless future ahead of him.
How could she possibly ruin his bright future and his life?
She would be struck by lightning from the heavens.
"You little bitch, with that vixen face of yours you’re going to get my son killed, I’m going to tear your face off..." The simple farmwoman completely dropped her usual mildness, pouncing on her, grabbing her hair, beating and cursing, as if she wanted to drink her blood and eat her flesh.
She stood there obediently, neither crying nor shouting in pain.
Seeing how nothing seemed to get through to her, the woman fell to her knees with a "thump" and kowtowed to her.
"My son has been smart and studious since he was a child, kind and upright. Just now, the admission letter from Tsinghua University has already arrived at our home. Getting into Tsinghua has been his dream since he was little... and now... you’ve ruined it all... I’m begging you, please spare my son. In the next life I’ll be your ox or your horse to repay your kindness, all right?"
A mother’s sorrow and helplessness were laid bare in front of her, utterly and completely.
Her cheeks were bloodless, and she swayed as if she were about to collapse.
Her lips were almost bitten to the point of bleeding.
"I’m the one who wronged him." She bolted.
She took the rap and pulled him out of it. He refused to accept it, but his mother locked him up at home. She was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to death. On the day the verdict came down, she looked out at the world through that tiny skylight in the prison. He must have already gone to report to his university, right? That was good. Someone with a future as bright as his shouldn’t be entangled in any way with a murderer like her.
Just let her quietly disappear from this world, as if she had never come into it at all.
She calmly accepted the death that was about to come. Yet on the day before the execution, she was suddenly taken out of prison and, after traveling over mountains and across waters, brought to a secret place. There were many women there just like her. What they had in common was the wooden look on their faces—that gaze that no longer cared about this world. The only difference was that the prison uniforms on their bodies came from different prisons all over the world.
They underwent harsh training in how to be the most qualified servant, how to share their masters’ worries and solve their problems. She kept studying hard. Whenever someone couldn’t hold on any longer, a body would be dragged out. She gritted her teeth and hung on. Once she had been ready to die; now she just wanted to live. Maybe, if she could live long enough to get out of here one day, she only wanted to look at him from afar, just once. Once would be enough...
Later she realized how naïve she had been. Once you entered this place, one foot was already in Hell. No, this place was even more terrifying than Hell.
On the day they finished their training, all of their tongues were cut out in one go. She didn’t feel pain; it was as if she had already accepted her fate.
The days here, though tense and boring, at least meant she was still alive. Sometimes she would look at the sky and, smiling to herself, say in her heart that being able to breathe the same air as him was enough.
After years of grinding, her heart had become empty and still. She could almost no longer recall his face, yet she still woke up night after night from nightmares.
This place was like a huge and luxurious cage; she would never get out for the rest of her life. Dying old in loneliness was her destiny.
And now, feeling the gentle aura coming off the girl in front of her, those secrets buried deep in her heart burst out of the soil beyond her control. She cried like a person made of tears, as if she wanted to cry out all her grievances and unwillingness.
Life is hard for everyone. For example, this quiet-looking girl before her—who could know what kind of tragic fate lay behind this ordinary face?
Like Ah Hua: she was two years older than Xiao Nan and had also committed a capital crime, but her injustice was even worse than Xiao Nan’s. She had originally been a rich family’s daughter, but was framed by a vicious stepmother and stepsister, who joined hands to set her up. To seize the family property, they framed her for killing her father. While she was living a life worse than death in prison, the two of them walked free, hugging the fortune that should have belonged to her.
See, she wasn’t the only tragic person in this world.
What right did she have to wallow in self-pity?
Yun Ya let out a bitter laugh, raised her hand to rest it on the girl’s shoulder, and patted lightly, soothing her emotions.
"Believe me, one day, I’ll get you out of this fate."
As the words fell, she gave a tearful little laugh. She could barely protect herself; what right did she have to decide someone else’s fate?
But people need at least a bit of hope; otherwise, there’s nothing to look forward to in life.
Xiao Nan calmed herself down, then nodded with a smile. Her eyes were red, but the pupils washed by tears looked especially clean and fresh, not tainted at all by this filthy world.