Chapter 451: Revised: Chapter 461 Disillusionment
Leng Yixiu stared blankly at his right hand, now empty, holding nothing. He just watched helplessly as Lin Yixun disappeared from his sight, unable to do anything.
The man’s fingers gradually tightened, his gaze suddenly turning bloodthirsty. He slowly got up from the cold ground, step by step walking towards Cheng Ying, who was being held by bodyguards, and the next moment, he firmly gripped her neck.
"Why, why did you do this!"
"Why? Haha... Haha..." Cheng Ying suddenly laughed out loud. She laughed and laughed until tears streamed down, "You ask me why? Don’t you know the reason? I hate Lin Yixun, I hate her! If it weren’t for her, would you and I have come to this point? Now it’s good, that bitch Lin Yixun is finally dead! Hahaha... She’s finally dead!"
"I won’t let you talk about her like that!" The man’s fingers tightened further, his crimson eyes burning with the intent to devour Cheng Ying alive, "Cheng Ying, all these years, I’ve turned a blind eye to what you’ve done behind my back. You ruined Lin Yixun’s face, I considered your illness and thought maybe you were compelled, so I didn’t hold it against you; you indirectly caused the death of her parents, I thought I bore the main responsibility, so I didn’t pursue it. But why, why did you keep scheming against Lin Yixun, even going so far as to take her life!"
"If I let her go, who would let me go! Yixiu, my love, my life was completely ruined by that woman, shouldn’t I seek justice for myself? I am not a saint, I can’t forgive!"
"Yes, six years ago, Lin Yixun did wrong, but you’ve already ruined her face, made her parents leave her, isn’t that enough?"
"Not enough, far from enough, I want her dead! Only when she’s dead, will I feel avenged! Do you know, seeing her fall off the cliff, how elated I felt. Lin Yixun, that bitch, deserved to die!"
"Then, having killed her, don’t you deserve death even more!" Veins bulged on the man’s forehead, a murderous intent flashed in his eyes.
Cheng Ying sneered sadly, "Yixiu, do you want to kill me?"
"You forced me!" The moment Lin Yixun fell off the cliff, all his debts to her were utterly erased.
"Haha... You want to kill me? For that woman, you’re willing to kill me?!" Tears slipped from the corners of Cheng Ying’s eyes as she stared fixedly at the man before her, whispering, "Before you act, can I ask you a question?"
"Speak."
"These years, you stayed by my side, taking meticulous care of me, was it because you liked me, or because of that child who has died?"
The man’s gaze flickered slightly, after a long silence, he spoke gravely, "These years, I’ve been trying to make amends to you."
Leng Yixiu didn’t say it outright, but Cheng Ying had already understood his meaning. She smiled mournfully, "So, you no longer love me, treating me well, was merely out of guilt, haha... Haha..."
"Yes, five years ago, I stopped loving you."
Five years ago, on the day he divorced Lin Yixun, he realized his feelings. Lin Yixun, that arrogant and uninhibited woman, in just one year, successfully pushed Cheng Ying out of his heart and took over his entire heart.
"Five years?" The last glimmer of light in Cheng Ying’s eyes extinguished, "So, as early as five years ago, I was no longer in your heart, yet I naively kept dreaming my unrealistic dreams! Tell me, am I not very laughable?"
She believed, even though there was a year’s gap between her and Leng Yixiu, even though there was Lin Yixun’s intrusion into their relationship, that Leng Yixiu’s heart, from beginning to end, held her. She thought that his meticulous care was because of love; she thought that his agreeing to the engagement was because of love; even when Leng Yixiu suddenly announced the cancellation of their engagement, she took it merely as a challenge in their love.
But in the end, all of it was merely due to Leng Yixiu’s guilt towards her, his care was fake, the engagement was fake, everything was fake.
Her life was nothing but a complete joke!
Cheng Ying laughed mournfully, but determination flashed in her eyes. Suddenly, she didn’t know where she got the strength, she pushed Leng Yixiu away with a force, and turned to run towards the edge of the observation deck.
In just an instant, she stood where Lin Yixun had been moments ago. She paused there for a few seconds, turned back to give Leng Yixiu a deep glance, a desolate smile spread on her beautiful face, then with one leap, she jumped off the observation deck.
Cheng Ying was a perfectionist; she was often strict with everything, not allowing any flaws. In her view, nothing in this world was more important than Leng Yixiu.
To her, Leng Yixiu was a dream in her life. She had always been chasing the dream, but one day, her perfect dream was shattered, which for her, was undoubtedly a devastating blow.
She would rather die than carry on with a shattered dream.
...
What happened that night was somehow captured on video by someone, and at two in the morning, it was posted online. Instantly, the whole country exploded.
Who would have thought that a grand family feud, something only seen in prime-time TV dramas, would actually happen in real life? Many might not know Lin Yixun, but Cheng Ying and Leng Yixiu were familiar names.
"Cheng Ying? Are you talking about the big star Cheng Ying? No way, how could she be a kidnapper? And definitely not a murderer!"
"At first, I didn’t believe it either, but with video evidence, it’s hard to deny. I heard her agency has already made a statement distancing themselves from her. Tsk tsk... truly, people abandon when they’re down."
"Really?"
"Truer than pearls."
"But, why would she kidnap a baby not even a month old? Why push that Lin... what’s the name... off the cliff. Why give up being a star to commit such crimes?"
"Didn’t the papers say? Family feud, family feud! Do you know whose baby that was? Leng’s CEO and his ex-wife’s. Cheng Ying was abruptly unengaged by Leng’s CEO, and her former fiancé quickly had a child with his ex-wife, if it were me, I would also be infuriated."
"But she shouldn’t have done such extreme things."
"That’s true..."
Passersby spoke one after another, treating it merely as gossip for their leisure time. Yet for some, this news was devastating.
Ouyang Hao learned about Lin Yixun’s accident the next afternoon when he just boarded a plane to London. Before the plane took off, he habitually checked his phone and saw the news of Lin Yixun’s fall on the headlines.