Yao Yao: “…”
Who was Chen Yue? Yao Yao was momentarily stunned.
After speaking, Mother Ji stared at her daughter, and seeing her bewildered expression, she felt exasperated. “Did you hear me?”
“I heard, I heard!” Seeing Mother Ji about to lose her temper, Yao Yao quickly responded.
“You!” Mother Ji tapped Yao Yao’s forehead with her index finger.
She sighed and continued, “Chen Yue’s motives for approaching you were impure. All your coincidental meetings and shared interests weren’t fate—they were his calculated attempts to get close to you. Do you know that after meeting you, he paid someone to investigate all your habits?”
“I told you before, but you wouldn’t listen. This time, your father found the investigator, who personally admitted to being directed by Chen Yue. The video is on my phone—I’ll send it to you later. Delete it after watching, and don’t let your husband know. Understood?”
Ji Yaoyao could only nod in agreement, her mind still struggling to process everything.
Ignoring Yao Yao’s perfunctory attitude, Mother Ji had no choice but to continue advising her on other matters.
“Relationships are mutual. I can see Shen Yu cares deeply for you, so you should show him more affection too. Don’t just passively accept his efforts, but don’t compromise yourself either. If Shen Yu or his family mistreat you, don’t endure it silently. If you can’t handle it, tell me—I’ll always stand up for you!”
“Cut ties when necessary—lingering attachments are the worst. It was one thing to be willful before marriage, but after marriage, you must never do anything that brings shame. Besides, think about it—in every aspect, could Chen Yue even compare to a fraction of Shen Yu?”
“Don’t be foolish, my girl!”
Mother Ji earnestly instructed her daughter, sharing her life experiences.
Yao Yao nodded repeatedly like a pecking chick, her eyes teary from yawning. Ugh… she was so sleepy~
Only after saying all she wanted did Mother Ji finally let Yao Yao go.
Ji Yaoyao trudged heavily toward the bedroom. Just then, information about Chen Yue finally surfaced in her mind.
The system was so unreliable! Initially, it hadn’t transmitted any memories related to Chen Yue. Only when Mother Ji mentioned him did the system sluggishly deliver information about his relationship with the original host.
Chen Yue was the original host’s ex-boyfriend, working as a stylist at an upscale hair salon where Ji Yaoyao was a VIP client.
At first, Chen Yue merely chatted with the original host while washing her hair. Later, they coincidentally met outside the salon, where Chen Yue staged a heroic rescue.
Because of this incident, the two officially exchanged contact information.
Chen Yue took the initiative to message the original host daily. Coincidentally, they seemed to share many hobbies and held strikingly similar views on various matters. Everything progressed in a flirtatious direction.
Eventually, they entered a relationship. Though it wasn’t the original host’s first romance, it was the one she found most comfortable.
Thanks to the original host’s influence, Chen Yue received special training at the salon, but he wanted far more than that.
Under Chen Yue’s subtle guidance, the original host arranged for him to join the sales department of the Ji family’s company. This move caught Father Ji’s attention.
Only after Father Ji questioned the original host did he learn about their relationship and the man’s background.
Father Ji naturally disagreed. Furious beyond measure, he believed this man had ill intentions and that his precious daughter had been deceived.
Even without concrete evidence, Father Ji adamantly forced his daughter to break up with Chen Yue.
The original host naturally refused, but Chen Yue had already accepted Father Ji’s substantial compensation and left to live in another city. In a fit of anger, the original host agreed to the arranged marriage proposed by Father Ji.
Originally cheerful and self-assured, her personality turned cold and detached after this incident—indifferent to people and matters alike.
The original host was somewhat extreme. She thought that since she couldn’t defy her parents, she would make the life they arranged for her progressively worse, harming her own well-being to make them regret their actions.
In the end, within the storyline, the original host became a foil to others—her son remained alone his entire life, and her parents, white-haired, had to bury their black-haired child.
When gravely ill, seeing her parents’ gaunt figures, she felt none of the imagined satisfaction of revenge, only a vague sense of loss.
Before her death, regrets lingered. She wanted to see him—to secretly catch a glimpse of her first love and find out how he was doing.
Sneaking out of the hospital without telling anyone, the original host mustered her courage and traveled to the city where Chen Yue lived. There, she saw Chen Yue’s happy family of three. The woman was someone she had once seen at a hair salon, and their child was already in the third or fourth grade of elementary school. By the timeline, the child’s age far predated her own relationship with Chen Yue.
So…
In that moment, the original host realized just how foolish and ridiculous she had been! Her steadfast belief in true love and her self-destructive acts to punish her family were utterly senseless and thoughtless!
Thinking of the many new white hairs on her parents’ heads, their genuinely remorseful and emaciated figures out of regret for tearing apart her romance, and the son she carried for ten months but never once breastfed—the original host was so filled with hatred that she spat up blood…
Overwhelmed by fury, her memory automatically blocked all information related to Chen Yue.
It was only when Mother Ji mentioned the name “Chen Yue” that this part of the memory was triggered and transmitted.