Someone as calculating as Shen Chuhe would do anything to establish herself in the Rong family. She had once even manipulated him completely.
A woman like Shen Chuhe would commit suicide? Would she really be willing to die?
How was that possible? It was simply ridiculous!
Rong Yuchuan waited for a long time, but there was still no response from the other end.
It was as though he had thrown a punch into a ball of cotton.
“What? Is threatening suicide your new way of attracting attention? But let me tell you this, Shen Chuhe. Even if you die, I will have your body thrown to M Country! I find it disgusting just looking at you in Beicheng!”
Shen Chuhe had thought she would be heartbroken when she heard those words again.
But now, she seemed to feel nothing at all.
She had probably finally understood what she was to Rong Yuchuan.
A tool to be exchanged for someone else’s life, a vessel and blood bank for his illegitimate child and his beloved woman, a substitute who could be sacrificed at any time.
A toy he kept around when he had nothing better to do.
When he was happy, he would tease her a little. When he was displeased, he would trample on her without a second thought.
Once he was completely tired of her, he would treat her like grass and discard her like worthless trash.
The ridiculous thing was that she had actually fallen in love with such a man.
She was wrong.
Perhaps she had been wrong from the very beginning, when she first got involved with him.
Terribly wrong.
She only felt sorry for her child.
Her arms tightened around the urn a little more.
“Goodbye, Rong Yuchuan,” she whispered silently in her heart.
She no longer had anyone else to say goodbye to, so she might as well say farewell to herself.
Then she closed her eyes and, without the slightest hesitation, leaped.
It was liberation, acceptance, and resolve.
If she were ever given another life, she would never love Rong Yuchuan again. She would stay as far away from him as possible!
At Rong Corporation, Shen Chuhe had remained silent for so long that Rong Yuchuan finally hung up the phone with a snap.
He did not want to waste any more time on that crazy woman.
But the bodyguard immediately called again.
A trace of irritation flashed across Rong Yuchuan’s brows. The moment he answered, he said, “Put Shen Chuhe on a plane immediately! From now on, you don’t need to tell me anything about her.”
“Rong Ye, Miss Shen, she… jumped from the building!”
A tremendous rush of wind seemed to fill Rong Yuchuan’s ears.
“What did you say…?”
When Rong Yuchuan arrived at the hospital, the accident site had already been surrounded by people.
But the wooden urn that had been smashed into pieces on the ground was one he had seen not long ago.
His pupils suddenly contracted.
The blood on the ground stained the checkered shirt Shen Chuhe was wearing red, and it seemed to stain Rong Yuchuan’s eyes red as well.
How was this possible?
How could Shen Chuhe possibly be willing to die?
At that moment, everything around him became eerily quiet.
It seemed as though something had suddenly pierced straight through Rong Yuchuan’s heart.
“Doctor, why hasn’t she woken up yet?”
“She suffered an injury to her brain. It will take some time before she wakes up.”
The hospital room smelled strongly of disinfectant.
It was the kind of smell Shen Chuhe had hated most when she was alive.
“My head hurts…”
Shen Chuhe was still dazed, but some instinctive part of her sensed that something was wrong. She suddenly opened her eyes and met a pair of probing eyes.
Rong Yuchuan!
She instinctively recoiled.
What was going on?
She had jumped from such a great height, yet… she had not died?
Standing beside Rong Yuchuan were Grandpa, her father, her mother, and Rong family’s uncles and aunts.
But Grandpa should have been paralyzed in the hospital by now, and her father, who had already died, was also standing alive right in front of her!
Shen Chuhe touched the wound on her head.
Her heart skipped a beat.
She casually picked up the phone from the table beside her and turned it on.
She died in 2021 at the age of twenty five.
So this was three years earlier.
She had been reborn?!
She had been reborn into the fourth year of being Rong Yuchuan’s “secret lover,” the fourth year of loving him with all her heart!
That year, she had just graduated from university, and it was also the year when many things happened.
It became the true turning point of her life.
Shen Chuhe raised her hand and lightly tapped the bandaged wound on her head.
It hurts!
So this was not a dream. It was real!
She touched her lower abdomen, her eyes growing slightly warm.
She did not notice the increasingly unreadable look in Rong Yuchuan’s eyes as he watched her.
“Is she awake yet? If she isn’t, let’s go! I still have afternoon tea with my friends. I don’t want to waste my time on someone like her!”
“Oh, looks like she’s awake? Who would have thought that beneath that usual timid and cowardly act, she’s actually such a vicious woman! It’s only because our Rong family is kindhearted that we brought such a ruthless, ungrateful wretch to the hospital for treatment even after she tried to kill someone!”
“It’s only because the injury on her head accidentally saved A Yu.
Otherwise, who would care whether she lived or died?”
“Heh, saved someone? She was putting on an act! We’d be lucky if she didn’t hurt anyone!”
“What is she trying to pull now? What kind of trick is she planning this time?
Don’t tell me she’s going to pretend that she has amnesia!”
“Shen Chuhe, you’re just an illegitimate daughter, yet our Rong family has still given you good food and taken care of you all these years. We never treated you badly, but you actually staged this whole thing, hired people to kidnap Sister Jiasi, and almost got her killed. How could you be so vicious?
I can’t believe I once treated you like a good older sister!”
The people speaking were her former Second Aunt, her younger aunt, Second Aunt’s two daughters, and her younger aunt’s youngest son.
According to these people, they had originally come to the hospital to visit Rong Jiasi and had come by to see whether Shen Chuhe was dead yet.
She remembered exactly what had happened.
Three years ago, around this time, Rong Jiasi had staged a kidnapping and framed her, hoping to drive her completely out of the Rong family.
Rong Yuchuan cared deeply for his niece Rong Jiasi. After learning that she had been kidnapped, he personally took part in the rescue operation.
While negotiations were underway to secure her release, one of the kidnappers took advantage of the chaos and grabbed a brick, intending to attack him from behind.
Shen Chuhe had followed them and taken the blow for him.
Later, because Rong Yuchuan had already made arrangements in advance, all the kidnappers were eventually captured.
Because of the kidnappers’ statements, everyone became convinced that she had been the one who kidnapped Rong Jiasi. Even the injury she had suffered was regarded as an act, something she had deliberately done to curry favor with the future head of the Rong family and make sure he owed her a debt of gratitude.
She thought that perhaps this was the moment in her previous life when Rong Yuchuan had decided she was vicious and scheming.
He had believed his own niece’s words without question.
In her previous life, he had refused to believe her and had misunderstood her, and she had struggled with the hurt for quite some time.
But in this life, she would not.
“So?” Shen Chuhe’s gaze swept over everyone present.
“If I’m really as vicious as you say, why don’t you drive me out of the Rong family completely and publish a statement in the newspapers severing all ties with me? I can accept that.”
In her previous life, she had never done any of those things, so naturally she had refused to admit to them no matter what. Yet no matter how much she tried to explain, these people simply refused to believe her.
They had already decided that she was vicious.
There was another reason as well. Her identity itself was not respectable, so they felt entitled to bully and insult her without restraint.
She was an illegitimate daughter.
That was her original sin.
Her father, Shen Yi, had married into the Rong family.
His biological daughter with her mother, Rong Shuhua, had been taken away by someone immediately after she was born.
Four years later, Shen Yi brought four year old Shen Chuhe back.
His explanation was that he had adopted a daughter to ease Rong Shuhua’s longing for a child and had given her the surname Shen.
Rong Shuhua loved Shen Yi deeply and believed everything he said. On top of that, she had lost her biological daughter, so during those years she poured all her energy and affection into Shen Chuhe.
It was not until Shen Chuhe turned fifteen that Shen Yi got drunk and started talking nonsense, finally allowing Rong Shuhua to discover his deception.
Her biological mother was Shen Yi’s first love, whom he had abandoned in order to marry into the prestigious Rong family.
And she was Shen Yi’s illegitimate daughter born from an extramarital affair.
The adoptive mother who had once loved her most became her stepmother.
From that day onward, everything changed.
That same year, Rong Jiasi was found and brought back, making Shen Chuhe’s position even more awkward.