Chen Chenyi called several more times during the drive.
The messages were along the lines of, “Kid, what’s with you?” “You’re standing me up for the stone cutting, are you playing me?” and “Don’t think I’ll go easy on you just because you’re a girl now.”
However, it was all useless. Xu Yinsheng simply hung up the phone, slammed on the brakes to park by the side of the road, and helped the weak girl into a nearby Chinese Medicine Health Center for an examination.
the results came out quickly: a minor dislocation.
She was originally supposed to get a cast, but under the manual manipulation of the white-haired old doctor, and following a blood-curdling scream, she emerged from the clinic once more. The frail girl was now barely able to walk on her own.
Inside the Maserati.
Xu Yinsheng, dressed in simple casual clothes, sat in the driver’s seat. He pulled out a few tissues and handed them to the weak girl in the passenger seat. “Miss, wipe your tears.”
The girl took the tissues and gently patted the corners of her eyes.
Only now did Xu Yinsheng get a clear look at her face. The girl was about twenty years old with exceptionally pale skin. Her complexion was the same, devoid of any color. She wore a black-and-white striped long-sleeved shirt with a slightly loose collar that partially covered her wrists, but one could still faintly see the dense, horrifying needle marks covering them.
As if sensing Xu Yinsheng’s gaze, she lowered her head, her long lashes veiling her crystal-clear black eyes.
Xu Yinsheng’s heart stirred. For some reason, this girl felt familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere before.
“Bai Xiaotu?” she called out tentatively. This girl looked too much like Bai Xiaoyi, especially those eyes. Setting aside the gender, they were practically identical.
The girl froze for a moment and then lifted her head. Those familiar black eyes met Xu Yinsheng’s gaze. She asked in a raspy voice, “You are…?”
“Holy crap! It really is you!!”
Xu Yinsheng slammed on the brakes again, pulling the car over to the curb. She widened her eyes in curiosity, scanning the girl from head to toe as if she were Columbus discovering a New World.
“How… how did you end up like this?”
Xu Yinsheng wanted to say “this ghostly state,” but thinking of her own situation, she swallowed the words.
“Who are you…?” the weak girl asked in confusion, her voice faint.
“It’s me, Old Xu! The Old Xu who once lost a car to you! Remember that blonde lady? We bet a car on her!” The other person’s indirect admission of her identity made Xu Yinsheng even more certain. She grabbed the long hair draped over her shoulders and pushed it back to reveal her delicate, small face.
Looking at the face that bore some resemblance to his memories, Bai Xiaoyi was dazed for a few seconds. She murmured, “Xu… Yin… Sheng?”
“Yes, it’s me!”
Xu Yinsheng clapped her hands in excitement.
“Aren’t you dead?” she said slowly.
Xu Yinsheng: “…”
She spent a few minutes explaining the lie she had prepared long ago, then pulled out a photo of her surgical documents. She looked at Bai Xiaoyi again, her gaze lingering on the expensive white skirt the other was wearing.
“Are you also a pseudo-hermaphrodite?”
“Pseudo-hermaphrodite?” Bai Xiaoyi froze, a hint of bitterness flashing in his eyes as he shook his head.
“Then what are you now?” Xu Yinsheng asked curiously.
“I…” Bai Xiaoyi looked down at the dense needle marks on his wrists. His expression was vacant, but tears unconsciously welled up in his eyes, dripping one by one onto the leather seat.
As the story unfolded, Xu Yinsheng understood the tragic events the other had experienced over the past year. After that Bai family banquet, the Bai family went bankrupt, Bai Kuanglong was hospitalized, and Bai Xiaoyi was taken away by his titular fiancée.
At first, he thought he was just marrying into her family, and at most, he would be a henpecked husband after the wedding.
But… he was wrong!
He was completely and utterly wrong!!
Mu Yuege! His fiancée! She was a total pervert!!!
In the past, as a profligate son, Bai Xiaoyi had done plenty of things to bully others. They said there was retribution in the world, but he believed his family had power, money, and influence. Retribution, he thought, would easily bow down before those three great mountains.
Mu Yuege was once one of his women.
After growing tired of her, he gave her 500,000 as a breakup fee and drove off in his Audi, leaving her in the dust.
At the time, the woman had chased after him, crying and begging him to come back. He knew she had fallen for him truly, and Bai Xiaoyi had been sincere too, but his “sincerity” was a bit too large and could fit countless women.
She had refused to be kept as his mistress, nagging in his ear every day about loving only one person for a lifetime. What could he do? He could only follow her wishes, give her some money, and find someone new.
Back then, Mu Yuege had cried out that he would get his retribution, and Bai Xiaoyi had scoffed at it!
However, only now did he understand how terrifying retribution could be!
Mu Yuege was his retribution!!
She took Bai Xiaoyi home, knocked him unconscious with an iron rod, tied him up, and injected him with all sorts of different drugs.
Slowly, his handsome face became fair and rounded. The abdominal muscles and V-line he was so proud of disappeared. His thick, short hair grew at an abnormally fast rate, becoming long, black, and beautiful in just ten or so days.
It wasn’t until later that Bai Xiaoyi learned what the liquid Mu Yuege kept injecting into him was—Estrogen Hormone.
Bai Xiaoyi had escaped, ran, and even attempted suicide.
But he was caught every single time. She would choke him with one hand while kissing his face, constantly saying, “You are mine. I am your retribution. This is the price you pay for betraying me!!”
In the past, he had power and background, and he used those three things to suppress others. Now, he was being crushed by those same “three great mountains” until he could barely breathe, nearly losing himself.
Not only that, but Mu Yuege was also bisexual and loved Fourth Love!!
Bai Xiaoyi had seen a doctor for this more than once.
Hearing the tearful, painful account, Xu Yinsheng let out a sharp breath!
She had thought the woman was a gentle, virtuous, blonde long-legged beauty, but it turned out she was a literal man-eating flower.
Compared to Mu Yuege, Zhao Yicheng was practically a saint!
Along the way, Bai Xiaoyi cried an unknown number of times. It was as if he had found an outlet. He wailed loudly while recounting her crimes, his tears falling like pearls from a broken string.
Xu Yinsheng estimated that her leather seats would need to be replaced.
At the same time, she noticed the abnormality in Bai Xiaoyi’s mental state. He used to be a suave young master with great eloquence, a top-tier handsome guy. Now, his eyes were hollow and lifeless, his face was as pale as paper, his speech was slurred, and his logic was muddled.
To put it bluntly, part of him had been broken.
After returning to the villa, she simply heated up the leftovers from lunch. After eating, she cleaned up a spare room. Looking back at the girl—or rather, the boy—sleeping soundly on the bed, Xu Yinsheng took out her phone and dialed the contact labeled “Big Demon King.”
The bright moonlight shone in from the balcony, falling on her fair and delicate face, reflecting a silvery glow.
“Sister Su, it’s me, Little Xu.”