At this moment, Si Yina recalled the various images she had seen. When her mother sent her that recording, she had also delivered a final ultimatum: never contact Jiang Lai again; in fact, she shouldn’t even think about her.
It could be said that Si Yina’s mother had already shown her maximum level of tolerance. As long as she didn’t go looking for that woman again, she no longer cared whether Si Yina’s sexual orientation leaned toward men or women.
It wasn’t that Jiang Lai was a bad person, but for her daughter, she was someone “uncontrollable.” It was better to stay as far away as possible from such a presence. Si Yina’s mother did not want to see her daughter end up in a state where her every smile and frown was controlled by someone else.
Faced with her mother’s final warning, Si Yina had no intention of listening. On the contrary, her heart had become even more twisted. While watching the recording, though her face remained calm, her heart had long since turned cold. Her tightly clenched fists felt a desperate urge to land a punch on that woman.
She didn’t understand why she was being so persistent; she was simply stubborn about this. Even if it meant destruction, she would not allow someone she couldn’t have to remain in the hands of another. Even with her mother’s dissuasion, she was determined to follow through with her inner thoughts. This pride of hers would eventually be her undoing.
While Si Yina’s heart grew increasingly morbid, Shen Ruxue was suffering even more. She couldn’t accept that her sister had become such an irrational “love-brain” who couldn’t tell right from wrong. Now, her sister’s head was filled entirely with that woman; there was no trace left of her original independent and strong self.
How could this allow her to feel at ease? She didn’t trust her sister to be alone with that woman at all.
Shen Ruxue wanted to intervene; she desperately wanted her sister to stay away from her. But now, she couldn’t bring herself to say those words. She had no right to lecture her sister. She knew very well that she had long ago lost the opportunity to discipline her. If she picked a fight now, the sisterly relationship they had finally managed to rebuild might collapse in an instant.
Shen Ruxue was a coward. She couldn’t bear the loss. She couldn’t take such a huge risk. Compared to anything else, this hard-won relationship—the fact that her sister would finally call her “Sister”—was more important than anything.
Yet, she couldn’t stand by and watch her sister be deceived by others and become a fool for love.
That night, Shen Ruxue tossed and turned under her covers, unable to sleep for a long time. If this matter wasn’t resolved, she wouldn’t have another peaceful night’s sleep. Her sister was vital to her, and she didn’t want her to come to any harm.
If there was only one person in this world who could discipline her sister—someone her sister would actually listen to—it was her husband from her previous life, Jiang Lai.
Whether in the past or the present, Jiang Lai was the person she loved most. They were about to reunite; they were going to meet and talk. Originally, just thinking about it should have been an extremely happy thing.
But now that it was actually about to happen, fear began to well up in Shen Ruxue’s heart. Regardless of fear or joy, she had to re-establish contact with her husband now. Otherwise, what would happen to her sister?
Thinking of this, Shen Ruxue opened the chat window with her daughter. Before identifying herself to her husband, should she reveal herself to her daughter first? After all, her daughter was young and would have a higher acceptance for “unusual” things.
Whenever she thought of her husband, Jiang Lai, she figured that—at his current age—he must have become a bit of a stubborn old man. If she suddenly appeared before him, he would surely be frightened, wouldn’t he?
With school starting soon, it would be better to reveal herself to her daughter first.
Jiang Lai didn’t know when she had fallen asleep. She only knew she had slept very, very soundly and peacefully by Chi Yingyu’s side. However, the dream she had in the middle of the night wasn’t as sweet as the ones before.
Perhaps it was because she had done “bad things” with her sister-in-law and felt guilty, but Jiang Lai actually dreamed of her wife, whom she hadn’t dreamed of in a long time. As time had passed, Jiang Lai couldn’t even remember the last time her wife had appeared in her dreams.
The dream was simple. Her wife just asked her if she had taken good care of their daughter and her sister. Regarding the daughter, Jiang Lai could answer without hesitation. But when it came to the sister… Jiang Lai immediately withered, not knowing how to speak of those matters.
Facing Chi Yingyu’s affection and her confession, Jiang Lai actually didn’t care what others would say. If she cared that much about gossip and the opinions of those around her, how could she have endured until now? She was selfish; the only people she cared about were her family and those who were good to her. As for anyone else, they had nothing to do with her.
Her final sleep in this city was restless. Even though she had been busy with her sister-in-law until the early hours and was exhausted, Jiang Lai still woke up early the next day.
Waking up, she hazily glimpsed several coats scattered messily on the bed and a slender, jade-like hand hugging her. She looked down at the red and blue marks across her own body.
Her sister-in-law was simply too much; she wouldn’t even let her go while sleeping. She weakly moved the hand off her body. Seeing it was still early, she had no intention of waking her up and instead climbed out of bed carefully to start packing.
Jiang Lai looked at the small boxes that had originally been piled like a mountain on the bed. Now, thanks to the two of them fooling around, many had fallen all over the floor.
Looking at the chaotic mess, Jiang Lai suppressed the urge to “bite” her sister-in-law. She straightened her sleeves and began to tidy up. She had no idea how she was going to bring all these things back!!
She couldn’t return them, and they had a flight soon. Airport security wasn’t like the high-speed rail or the subway where things just slide through a scanner; sometimes you have to open the suitcase for confirmation.
She hadn’t expected the most difficult task to be this. Jiang Lai had already decided: she absolutely wouldn’t carry the suitcase containing these things. It was too embarrassing, too shameful!
Jiang Lai screamed internally that she would never take these on the plane. Yet, by noon, she was dragging the suitcase full of those “indecent” items, standing at the security entrance.
Flushed with shame, she wanted to crouch down and hide her face. She even started looking for a hole in the ground to crawl into.
“Why aren’t you going in yet?”
“I’m not going. You go in first. I’ll go in a bit later. Here, take this suitcase, I…”
Jiang Lai knew that running away was shameful, but when faced with a “social death” scenario, running away was incredibly useful.
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