Crying, Mai Manxiang felt heartbroken and also roared with anger: "What nonsense are you spouting! How can you say we ruined your life, and only she is the angel of your life? Brother Mingyan, look at me, I love you too! I’m not just interested in you making money. If you just look at me, we could be happy together, I can suffer with you too!"

Mai Manxiang felt as if her heart was about to be pierced, punctured. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

With each word from Brother Mingyan, it felt more like she was being cornered in life by those hidden needle pricks.

Once she thought his refusal to marry her was painful enough, but compared to this moment, it was nothing!

His behavior, thinking of another woman with every breath he took nearing death, completely made her feel like she was falling into hell...

She persisted, and Qiu Mingyan just weakly smiled, saying nothing more.

The weakness brought everyone back to their senses, remembering why after waiting for him to change clothes, they discovered the abnormality only upon pushing the door open...

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About ten minutes earlier...

Everyone waited and waited for Qiu Mingyan to finish changing and come out to greet the bride, but he never emerged.

Outside the door, Chen Ah Jiu and a few boys from the Zhou Family nearby were getting impatient, starting to jest.

Chen Ah Jiu: "What’s taking so long? Did something happen?"

"Nonsense!" The Zhou family boy laughed, but his face quickly turned stiff.

As they exchanged glances, they all realized that when Feng Chengyue left those few days ago, Qiu Mingyan was in a practically soulless despair, a side of him that the entire village had never seen before.

Vaguely, many people felt that they might have gone too far, too cruel; even if they weren’t openly supporting the Mai Family, they had unwittingly acted like executioners.

But due to the dispute between the Qiu Family and the Mai Family, they couldn’t say anything.

The village had its own rules; debts must be repaid, life for a life. The Mai Family was so wretched, yet they had helped the Qiu Family so much, and being their village chief, while the Feng Family had done nothing for them and had somewhat bullied their relatives, they couldn’t encourage Qiu Mingyan to pursue Feng Chengyue, could they?

Therefore, when faced with the complex considerations of human nature, most people shuddered even as they falsely agreed and dissuaded Qiu Mingyan, "It’s good she left. Now you can stop being tormented. Mingyan, you’re still part of our village. The Feng Family isn’t one of us, just stay, and we’ll treat you well, and you can marry well with the Village Chief Mai’s family. This can be considered fate."

At that time, Qiu Mingyan’s eyes were filled with utter despair.

Every word of persuasion seemed to stomp him further into hell, pushing him into unbearable pain, yet no one in the village spoke for him, given all were supposed to be one family while the Feng Family were outsiders, and the Village Chief Mai even knelt down!

No one spoke a word for him.

In the days after waking up, he faced the coming and going of villagers aimlessly, saying nothing.

The youths who often watched were heartbroken, and at this moment...

They quickly rushed to push the door, found it was locked from the inside.

In their anxiety, the few of them kicked it open, and what they saw inside made everyone tremble, despair.

The bridal chamber, decorated beautifully the night before, was now stripped of all its red by Qiu Mingyan, packed away. The walls were painted a haunting pale white as he had requested before the wedding, now cold and hollow.

Not to mention the red satin quilt, flipped inside out with the underside facing up, making everything harshly white.

The red bedsheet had the top layer removed, revealing the snow-white layer beneath...

There wasn’t a trace of red left in the bridal chamber, it seemed Qiu Mingyan had intentionally tidied it, leaving only stark white, while Qiu Mingyan sat in the chair with a coffin propped up behind him.

The pesticide bottle in his hand was completely empty, and as he looked at the door that had just been pushed open, he said nothing, just checked the time on his watch, gave a self-mocking bitter smile, and spat out the first mouthful of white foam from his mouth...