A second chance with my billionaire husband-Chapter 1454 - 283: Accept Fate and Preserve Yourself (Part 4)

Pei Xinyi suddenly didn’t know what to say, only feeling a heart-wrenching pain.

"Why bother doing this? Forcing ourselves to be together won’t bring happiness."

"Do you really think you’ll be happy with Jiang Li? He’s just a man without responsibility," Yan Nanrong said through gritted teeth.

Pei Xinyi averted her gaze, taking a deep breath, "Yan Zi’s child is gone, how am I supposed to face her?"

"I will handle it. I will take you and Si’er away from here, and we’ll never come back." It was only when he was really about to lose her that he realized regret. He could lose everything, but he couldn’t lose her, the woman he loved most in his life. Even though she betrayed him, deceived him, trampled on him, he still couldn’t let go of her hand.

He thought self-deprecatingly that he was doomed to fall at her hands in this lifetime.

Pei Xinyi couldn’t tell what she felt deep down. There was bitterness, there was also emotion. Yet, she knew very clearly that their feelings were like a mirror; once shattered, they could never be whole again.

He said, "I’ll give you time to think."

As he reached the door, he suddenly turned around, asking, "Did you ever love me?"

His voice was very soft, cautious, as if waiting for a divine verdict on his fate.

Pei Xinyi was taken aback. Did she love him? Perhaps she did.

She gently nodded.

He suddenly smiled. When a serious person smiles, it’s very adorable. This answer was enough for him to gamble his life on.

He left.

Could the broken mirror ever be fixed? Even if it was, the crack would still exist. What face would she have to stay by his side?

She suddenly felt a churning in her stomach and quickly ran to the bathroom, leaning over the toilet to vomit, until even stomach acid came out.

She turned on the tap and splashed water on her face. Looking at herself in the mirror, she suddenly thought of something and placed her hand on her abdomen.

Those lifeless eyes suddenly lit up with vitality.

Pei Xinyi collapsed onto the sofa as if exhausted, curling up into a ball. As night fell, her world was engulfed in complete darkness. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

She dreamt of many years ago, when she was still a little orphan girl in the orphanage, always at the mercy of bullies. She was beautiful from a young age, and the unattractive girls always bullied her. She neither cried nor fought back, only hugging her head and curling up in a corner, shrinking into an imaginary turtle shell.

Later, she was chosen and brought into a wealthy family. She thought she was lucky to escape that life, but little did she know she had jumped from one pit into an even deeper one.

At that time, she didn’t understand what being a child bride meant. She thought she was just the young master’s maid, only needing to serve him well. Despite his horrendous temper, she silently endured it. Her life—good food, good clothes—was much better than at the orphanage, and as long as she didn’t have to go back there, she was willing to endure this tyrannical young master.

When she was seven, the young man’s first evil reached out to her, on a thundering, rainy night. Small and scared, she cried and screamed, but no one came to save her. She watched the sinister young man with a lewd smile, while she lay beneath him like a little rabbit—the more she cried, the more thrilled he became.

He was a devil, a pervert, and from then on, she was utterly degraded, suffering his torments day and night. She wished for death. It was the darkest nightmare of her childhood, leaving her later terrified of every thunderous, stormy night.

No one knew that the young master was impotent due to a congenital disorder, his perverse mindset cultivated from early on. Therefore, he vented all his resentments on her. At twenty, she encountered an opportunity to change her life.

In college, she met someone, a ray of moonlight in her otherwise gray sky. Desperately trying to hold onto it, the young master discovered it, his rage pushing him to beat her senseless and even seek out to kill that person.

She couldn’t bear it any longer. Tampering with his race car, inevitably, he died in a crash.

A doorbell woke her from this dream. She wiped away her tears, sitting up, as the bell continued to sound insistently.

She walked over and opened the door. Standing outside was a figure draped in a cloak, the broad brim of a hat obscuring their body and face.

Under a play of light and shadow, the figure slowly raised her head, half her face hidden in darkness, but the pair of clouded eyes were deep and dark.

Her heart skipped, "Mom, why are you here?"

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"I don’t want to go with you tomorrow, it’s too boring," Yun Ya mumbled before bed that night.