Oops, I had a ONS With My Secret Ex-husband-Chapter 495: Nothing But a Plaything

"Are you talking about that old woman? If it’s about her, I guess we can talk properly. After all, she left something for you before she died."

As he spoke, he arranged for someone to give Lin Zhiyuan a phone.

The images on the phone clearly showed that the old lady had been subjected to brutal torture.

His eyes instantly reddened, though it was unclear if it was from heartbreak for his mother or hatred for him.

"How dare you do this to my mother?"

"It was only because she refused to cooperate. If she’d told me everything back then, this could have ended smoothly, and everyone would be happy. But she insisted on burying the truth, so I had no choice but to use these methods." His tone carried no remorse as he spoke.

It was as if all of this had been just a dream.

"The matter with Yu is far too important to me, so I had to resort to this. You’d be better off not mentioning anything else." Initially, all he wanted was to uncover the truth.

But there are always those who waste time on purpose.

Seeing that things had escalated to this point, Gu Qixiao had no choice. "If you don’t release her, I can’t guarantee my people won’t take action. I believe you understand this situation is far more complicated than you imagine."

"You can stop thinking about releasing her. The thing I enjoy the most is a challenge, and Yu is my challenge this time."

These were precisely the tactics he wanted to use.

For Gu Qixiao, Ji Yu represented his youthful obsession.

Seeing her again now, there was no way he could let her go.

But what he didn’t know was that Ji Yu had already walked out of the room.

When he realized something was wrong, he turned his head and saw Ji Yu standing right in front of him, though he hadn’t noticed when she had arrived.

"Yu, why did you come out?" His look at Ji Yu was full of helplessness. He hadn’t anticipated this and only felt that Ji Yu’s current behavior was extremely dangerous.

"I can’t stay here any longer. I don’t know how much longer you’re planning to hold onto this stubbornness, but I’m really exhausted now. I need a proper rest."

She hadn’t rested in such a long time; it had driven her to the brink of collapse.

"Yu, you have to understand. This situation isn’t what you think; you can’t think like this. You must know that I love you."

This kind of sentiment was something perhaps only he could comprehend.

"Jiang Huai, stop dragging this out. If you want me to survive, then stop torturing me, okay?"

The pleading in her gaze as she looked at Jiang Huai was evident.

It was rare for him to see Ji Yu like this, but her actions at this moment seemed intent on pushing him away.

"Yu, don’t you think your behavior is unnecessarily cruel? Can’t you see how much love I’ve given you?"

It had been a long time since he’d encountered anything that completely overwhelmed him, yet meeting Ji Yu had left him unravelling for days.

The current situation had nearly broken him.

"Yu, you mean too much to me. If you’d just stay by my side, I’d feel nothing but joy and happiness."

This kind of emotional plea was something perhaps only he understood.

"Jiang Huai, people should learn not to be so selfish. Your so-called love is nothing but hell for me."

Rarely did she feel such repulsion toward anything, but Jiang Huai happened to be the exception.

There were tears in her eyes.

In this moment, Jiang Huai couldn’t understand what it was he was chasing after anymore.

Had Ji Yu expressed even a hint of doubt on this matter, he might have convinced himself. But the state of things left nothing but despair.

"Would you really abandon me like this?"

But Ji Yu’s gaze grew colder by the second.

The way she looked at him no longer carried the emotions it once did.

"Jiang Huai, people should learn not to be overly confident. What you consider gestures of care are no more than torment to me."

Such torment had already driven her to the verge of madness.

She didn’t know when she had grabbed a knife.

Jiang Huai had long realized this but refused to believe Ji Yu would actually be so ruthless.

When the knife finally pierced his skin, he was struck by the realization that something could indeed hurt this much.

"Yu, you’re truly vicious. How can there be a girl as cold-hearted as you in this world?"

His hand was trembling as he spoke.

He could distinctly feel his blood draining.

Yet these things seemed no longer important to him.

"I only want to survive. I knew long ago that I had no way out. This is what you brought upon yourself, isn’t it?"

That much was undeniably his own doing.

It had been such a long time since he’d felt pain, but when it came to matters involving Ji Yu, he could never maintain his composure.

"Yu, as long as you don’t leave, even with this knife buried within me, I wouldn’t feel pain. I would treat you well. Please don’t leave me."

Jiang Huai had already gone to such extremes for her, yet in Ji Yu’s eyes, it all amounted to misery.

"Don’t you think all of this was caused by you? If it weren’t for you, things wouldn’t have spiraled like this."

Ji Yu’s gaze was cold, and her words matched its chill.

"Yu, what do you mean by that? How could I have wanted to create this mess? You must have misunderstood."

Jiang Huai clutched the sleeve of Ji Yu’s shirt, his refusal to let her leave apparent.

Even while his entire body trembled in pain, he still refused to release his grip.

"Ji Yu, you can only belong to me."

At this moment, his demeanor was scarier than a demon dragging people to hell.

Yet Ji Yu remained unflustered, perhaps because she had encountered situations like this so many times before that she felt nothing now.

"Ji Yu, do you even realize what you’re doing?"

"I’m more aware than anyone else about what I need to do. If you think you can trap me in your palm, then get out of my way." She displayed no trace of guilt, acting as though the situation before her was pure simplicity.

"Yu, don’t leave me like this. I’m begging you. I know I’ve done wrong, but everything was merely my delusion. Please give me another chance."

He once again played the role of the wounded lover, but this was only the beginning. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"Gu Qixiao, can you deal with their people now?" Ji Yu didn’t bother to look at his expression anymore. After all, forcing two incompatible people together could never lead to harmony.