Transmigration; Married to My Ex-Fiancé's Uncle-Chapter 261; Lu Yuze 13

He could not remember what he had eaten for breakfast that morning.

He could not summon the name of his own company, the one he had built from the ground up.

But he remembered Shuyin.

Her face existed in perfect, painful clarity. Every fine detail was preserved: the exact curve of her smile at their engagement party, the devastating emptiness in her voice when he told her he was instead marrying her stepsister.

And most vividly of all, the way she had looked this morning in the boardroom, unbroken, formidable, radiating a power that had frozen the blood in his veins.

"I love you, Shuyin," he whispered into the sterile darkness, the words a broken record playing in an empty room.

The curse burrowed deeper with each repetition, rewriting neural pathways, erasing everything that wasn’t her. His memories collapsed inward like a dying star, and at the center of the gravitational pull was only one face, one name, one truth his damaged mind could no longer escape.

The whispers in the hospital corridors were a low, relentless current, flowing from shift to shift, room to room, impossible to contain.

"You’ve heard, haven’t you? Since the accident, all he can say is ’I love you, Shuyin.’ Over and over."

"Like a broken record. The nurses say it doesn’t stop. Even in his sleep."

"Do you think... Is it karma? Finally catching up to him?"

A pause, heavy with meaning.

"If it is, it came swiftly. Poetic, almost."

"He deserves every bit of it. What they did to her, framing an innocent woman, letting her rot in prison for a lifetime while they profited from her work."

"Can you imagine? If no one had found that evidence, she’d still be in a cell, paying for their crimes."

"And he would’ve gone on with his perfect life. New wife, new family, clean conscience." The bitterness was palpable. "Well, not anymore."

"Some debts have to be paid. Maybe this is how it comes due."

Near the nurses’ station, two older women spoke in lowered voices, though their words carried weight.

"I saw her once, you know. Lin Shuyin. Years ago, before all this happened. She was brilliant, sharp as a blade, but kind. Nothing like what they said about her in the trial." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"They destroyed her reputation. Made her out to be a criminal, a traitor to her own company and family."

"And now look at him. Can’t even remember his own name, but he remembers hers." A bitter laugh. "It’s pitiful. And frankly... a little fitting."

"The doctors say there’s no medical explanation. The scans are clean. He should be fine."

"But he’s not fine, is he?"

"No. And the way he’s going? He’ll be a shadow of himself soon. A permanent one."

The silence that followed was thick with unspoken agreement.

In the break room, a younger nurse sat with her phone, scrolling through old news articles.

"Listen to this," she said to her colleague. "’Lu Zeyan, CEO of Lu South Group Industries, announces engagement has been called off following the former fiancée’s conviction for corporate espionage and family murder.’ That was the official statement."

"Corporate espionage." Her colleague snorted. "They made her sound like a spy."

"And here.....’ Lu Zeyan is seen with Lin Yueling in private ceremonies and hospital visits.’ That was less than three days after Lin Shuyin’s sentencing." She looked up from her phone. "He didn’t even wait for the appeal before getting entangled with her stepsister..."

" And I even doubt that pregnancy is surrogacy! They must have been caught up with their acts!"

" Those two are definitely an item and they have been cheating on Lin Shuyin for several years before even the engagement was done."

" He couldn’t wait to move on!"

"Because he knew there wouldn’t be one. He knew she was innocent, and he let her take the fall anyway."

"You think he was in on it?"

"Had to be. You don’t frame someone that thoroughly without inside help. And he was her fiancé, he would’ve had access to everything. Her files, her passwords, her trust."

The first nurse set down her phone, her expression troubled. "Then this really is karma, isn’t it?"

"If you believe in that sort of thing." A pause. "I do, though. I think the universe has a way of balancing the scales. Maybe not immediately. Maybe not obviously. But eventually..."

"Eventually, you pay for what you’ve done."

They both glanced toward the corridor, toward the room where Lu Zeyan lay trapped in his own mind, speaking the name of the woman he’d betrayed.

"You think she knows? Lin Shuyin?"

"About his condition?" A shrug. "Maybe. Maybe not. Does it matter?"

"I suppose not. Justice doesn’t require an audience."

"No," her colleague agreed softly. "It just requires patience."

By the water fountain, an orderly spoke to a security guard, voice low but urgent.

"They’re saying she cursed him. Lin Shuyin. That she came back from prison with... I don’t know, some kind of power."

The guard rolled his eyes. "That’s ridiculous. This is a hospital, not a fantasy novel."

"Then how do you explain it? Guy walks away from an accident without a scratch, then suddenly can’t function? Can only say one thing, over and over?"

"Brain injuries are unpredictable...."

"The doctors can’t find anything wrong with his brain. No damage, no explanation. It’s like his mind just... rewired itself. Erased everything except her."

The guard shifted uncomfortably. "People fixate after trauma. It’s documented."

"On the person they betrayed? The person whose life they ruined?" The orderly shook his head. "That’s not fixation. That’s punishment."

"You’re being dramatic."

"Maybe. Or maybe some sins are too big to walk away from. Maybe the universe, or whatever’s out there, decides enough is enough." He glanced toward Lu Zeyan’s room. "All I know is, if I’d done what he did? I’d be looking over my shoulder every day, waiting for it to catch up to me."

"Well, it caught up to him."

"Yes," the olderly said quietly. "It did."