The rain had been falling steadily.
In the hospital room, Gu Ningning coughed incessantly.
The tissue she held to her mouth was stained with blood.
She was emaciated, skin and bones.
Her body was failing.
These years, she had poured her heart and soul into managing her husband’s business and serving her Adoptive Parents’ family, exhausting her spirit.
In the end, her own husband was secretly involved with her biological younger sister, even having three children and living a happy, fulfilling life.
Meanwhile, she had been caught in bed years ago, her reputation ruined, and her husband hadn’t spent a single night in her room since.
“Bitch, you actually emptied the company’s accounts and left it with high debts!” Lu Xueshi, looking well-dressed and only in his forties, forcefully gripped Gu Ningning’s neck.
His hands tightened.
Her neck was constricted, forcefully stopping her cough, but blood continuously welled from the corners of Gu Ningning’s mouth.
She didn’t struggle, only smiled mockingly.
After realizing how this man had schemed against her, she had already begun transferring the company’s assets.
She would absolutely not leave anything for the scumbag, the cheap woman, and those bastards!
“Slap! Slap!”
Seeing Gu Ningning’s smile, Lu Xueshi found it incredibly irritating, so he released her neck and slapped her twice.
He hit her with considerable force.
Already skeletal, Gu Ningning was knocked directly off the hospital bed by the blows.
The fall sent a sharp, agonizing pain through her bones.
Lu Xueshi didn’t stop; he lifted his foot and stepped hard on Gu Ningning’s ribs.
The piercing pain made Gu Ningning let out a muffled groan, and more blood spilled from her lips, yet she still smiled. With a smile, even more blood gushed out: “Scumbag, the company owes over 70 billion in foreign debt. You won’t be able to pay it all back even when you die.”
After speaking, she began to cough heartbreakingly.
But she was still unwilling to give up, so she continued before losing consciousness: “It’s okay, a selfish, cold-blooded, heartless person like you can sell your children, sell your daughter, sell your mistress.”
“Go to hell!” Lu Xueshi was furious, kicking Gu Ningning violently in the abdomen.
The pain made her curl up.
Yet she continued to smile.
Lu Xueshi grabbed her hair and forcefully slammed her forehead against the floor.
Still, he felt it wasn’t enough.
“Do you know, your biological parents have been looking for you all these years? But I’ll send them to their graves very soon, to reunite with you underground!” Every word Lu Xueshi spoke was squeezed out through gritted teeth.
After all his schemes, he ended up with nothing but massive debt.
He utterly detested Gu Ningning.
This Gu Ningning was also ruthless; not only did she leave his family of three homeless, but she also sent his Adoptive Parents to prison, awaiting their execution.
Thinking of this, he wouldn’t hold back; of course, he would stab her heart, knife by knife.
Gu Ningning, on the brink of death, glared at Lu Xueshi with bloodshot, wide eyes.
This devil.
Seeing her like that, Lu Xueshi tightened his grip on her hair, pulling out a large clump: “And also, back then, it was I who set up Lu Jingchen to sleep with you, to ruin you.
But he deserved to die too; without him, I… wouldn’t have been defeated by a slut like you!
He, for your sake, didn’t expose me back then, preferring to go to Xinjiang for reform, and even handed over all his maternal grandfather’s assets to me. He truly was a lovesick fool!”
He hated Gu Ningning, and he hated Lu Jingchen!
With that, Lu Xueshi began to punch and kick Gu Ningning again.
He even burst into loud laughter.
He continued to kick and beat Gu Ningning’s corpse for a while after she died before finally leaving.
In the guesthouse.
The temperature was a bit warm.
Clothes lay tangled on the floor.
The woman’s cries were like a cat’s.
The man’s movements on her were somewhat rough, and his thin lips assertively kissed her own.
He eagerly pressed her beneath him.
His large hands forcefully gripped her slender waist.
Between sleep and wakefulness, Gu Ningning opened her hazy eyes.
She remembered she had died, a tragic death in a hospital room.
Could she still have a spring dream even after dying?
At that moment, she saw a pair of peach blossom eyes and a high, straight nose.
Exactly as she remembered.
Her heart ached faintly; it was she who had caused this man’s death back then.
She felt an overwhelming sense of guilt.
Thinking that since it was a dream, she might as well go with the flow, she even began to cooperate.
Allowing the man on top of her to do as he pleased!
When dawn broke, there was a knock at the door.
Gu Ningning, whose back and legs ached, feeling as if she’d been run over by a car, reluctantly opened her eyes and grumbled impatiently: “What’s with all the knocking? Knock again and I’ll dock your pay!”
She rolled over to reach for her phone, but her hand met a muscular abdomen, a bare chest.
She quickly opened her eyes, and before her was a familiar, sculpted face with smooth, full bone structure and delicate, three-dimensional features.
His expression, however, was excessively cold and stern.
Lu Jingchen
She was somewhat bewildered: “Wasn’t I… dreaming?”
Couldn’t she wake up?
No, hadn’t she died?
How guilty must she be, to even offer herself as a ghost!
Thinking this, she raised her hand and pinched Lu Jingchen’s face. His skin was good, and it felt nice to the touch.
Of course, his physique was even better.
His abs were very firm!
The ice-faced Lu Jingchen just watched her, muscles taut, fists clenched.
He just watched Gu Ningning, waiting for her performance.
He certainly remembered everything that happened yesterday.
He knew it was a trap, but at the time, he couldn’t resist, especially since the person in his arms was the one he had thought of day and night.
She hadn’t struggled or resisted; she had been very cooperative.
So they had carried on all night.
Now, he would see what Gu Ningning would do next.
“Ningning, Ningning, are you there?” The knocking sounded again, and Lu Xueshi’s voice came through the door.
That voice made Gu Ningning’s heart clench, and with a jolt, she fully woke up.
She looked at the vibrant, handsome Lu Jingchen, her head throbbing as if pricked by needles.
She had actually been reborn.
Reborn to the day she was schemed against and ruined by that scumbag.
In her previous life, she had mistakenly taken Lu Jingchen for Lu Xueshi, leading to a night of absurdity.
When she opened her eyes and saw the person beside her, she cried and made a scene, immediately reporting it to the police.
Lu Jingchen, who had spent the night with her, was arrested that very day.
The twenty-five-year-old young regimental commander went to prison, sent to Xinjiang for labor reform.
Meanwhile, the scumbag Lu Xueshi claimed to understand everything, said he didn’t care that she had lost her virginity, and married her. Yet, he never touched her.
After marriage, Lu Xueshi smoothly took over all of the Lu family’s business.
Gu Ningning, feeling guilty, put all her effort into supporting Lu Xueshi.
She helped him rise from obscurity to become a renowned entrepreneur, eventually accumulating hundreds of billions in wealth.
Seeing her lost in thought, Lu Jingchen grabbed her hand, which was resting on his chest: “Ningning, he’s here. It’s not good for you to be spacing out like this!”
His expression was serious, showing no emotion.
His voice was hoarse.
It made Gu Ningning’s heart flutter; the passionate intimacy of last night was vivid in her memory.