“… Is that Mrs. Gu? She caused her son’s death and yet she still has the audacity to attend his funeral! Has she no shame?”

“Yes, that’s her. She went to keep her appointment to meet her lover and locked the young master in the car. The poor young master Gu literally suffocated to death in the sixty-degree heat in the car!”

“Is she his biological mother? Surely she must be his stepmother! The Gu’s should take her to court for murder!”

Ye Tianxin’s eyes were like vacant, empty pools. All she could see was the black-and-white photo set in the center of the white chrysanthemums.

That was her son, Gu Yunjin.

Just a few days ago, she and her son had been discussing destinations for their vacation.

Today, however, her treasured son was a cold, lifeless corpse lying in the midst of a bed of white flowers.

Gu Yancheng, his expression cold and emotionless, walked over to Ye Tianxin and stood in front of her.

Looking like a savage beast, he grabbed Ye Tianxin’s slender wrist and, suppressing his fury, demanded in a low voice, “Ye Tianxin, have you not caused us enough public humiliation already?”

“Yancheng, that wasn’t me!” Ye Tianxin’s eyes were completely dry, not a single tear in sight, as she responded mechanically, “The woman in that photo is not me!”

Gu Yancheng laughed coldly. His thin lips were pursed into a straight line, and his eyes were burning with rage.

Everyone in the whole wide world knew about his cheating wife, who had made him the cuckold of the century.

Everyone in the whole wide world knew that his wife, who had been on her way to a tryst with her lover, had left his son to suffocate to death in sixty-degree heat inside the car!

And here she was, this promiscuous woman who knew no shame and even had the audacity to show her face at Jin’s funeral!!

“Ye Tianxin, do you think I’m blind?” he asked.

Ye Tianxin’s slender and delicate fingers trembled as she reached behind her back, pushed aside her hair, and pulled down the zipper at the back of her dress.

Right there, in front of all the family members and friends who had come to attend the funeral, she pulled her elegant little black dress down past her shoulders, exposing a butterfly tattoo on her ******.

Gu Yancheng’s icy cold eyes flashed with disgust.

Emotionlessly, he turned around and instructed the bodyguards, “Throw her out of here!”

Disgusting!

Utterly revolting!

To think that he had spent six years of his life living with such a repulsive woman.

“Madam, please!” The bodyguards walked over to Ye Tianxin, who at this time was clad in nothing but her black lace underwear, and stood in front of her.

Ye Tianxin looked at Gu Yancheng with disappointment. He didn’t believe her.

She had thought that Gu Yancheng, having been married to her for six years, would surely give her a chance to explain….

Oh, that was so very naïve of her!!

“Yancheng, look. Your name is tattooed on my ******! The woman in that photo doesn’t have it!”

Gu Yancheng turned around and looked at Ye Tianxin’s left ******. There was a tattoo of a dancing butterfly with three Han characters, “Gu Yancheng,” on its wings.

“The woman who was photographed with that man wasn’t me! I had no idea that Jin was in the car! Honesty, I didn’t mean to do it. He was my son, too! How could I kill my own son!?”

There was a lot of murmuring and whispering among the people attending the funeral. Their eyes were full of disdain and were like numerous daggers piercing her body.

Ye Tianxin simply did not care. She wasn’t at all affected by other peoples’ gossip or speculations.

All she wanted was for Gu Yancheng to believe her. If only he would believe her….

Gu Yancheng walked over to face Ye Tianxin. He wrapped his large hand around her waist and lowered his head, as though he were about to kiss the butterfly on her ******.

Suddenly, Ye Tianxin felt a sharp pain in her ******.

Wincing from the pain, her brows furrowed, Ye Tianxin realised that Gu Yancheng had savagely bitten into the butterfly tattoo on her ******. When he lifted his head from Ye Tianxin’s ******, blood spilled from the corners of his lips, making his exquisitely good-looking features appear more devilishly charming.

Accepting a white handkerchief that was handed to him from the side, Gu Yancheng calmly wiped the blood from his lips. He then repeated his command, and his cold voice rang in Ye Tianxin’s ears. “Someone come here and throw this woman out!”

“Yancheng, let me help her out. After all, she is my sister.”

Lu Qingxin walked over to Ye Tianxin and, stepping behind her, slowly pulled up the zipper of her dress.

Then, like a dutiful and caring little sister, she took hold of Ye Tianxin’s hand and said, “Sis, come with me….”

Ye Tianxin didn’t move an inch. Instead, she stared directly at Jin, who was lying in the bed of pristine white flowers, her clear eyes filled with reluctance to leave him.

She very much wanted another look at Jin, to take just one more look at her precious baby.

Standing on tiptoe, Lu Qingxin leaned into Ye Tianxin’s ear and muttered in a low voice, “Sis, don’t you want to know how Jin died? If you do want to know, be a good girl and come with me!”

Ye Tianxin turned around and looked at Lu Qingxin who, with a reassuring smile on her beautiful face, said, “There’s a good girl. Come with me!”

Lu Qingxin’s gentle and considerate posturing won her the silent praises and appreciation of everyone in attendance at the funeral.

“My dear sister, do you know why your Jin died? It was because I had told him that you were going to give him a surprise. That was why he snuck into your car and hid inside without you knowing about it.

“Of course, the woman in the photo also wasn’t you. She was just a model who I paid a good deal of money to have cosmetic surgery done to look like you. Regardless of how much I hate you for taking my Yancheng away from me, you’re still the daughter of the Lu family. How could I possibly cause embarrassment to the Lu family?

“I have here a video of your Jin suffocating to death. Do you want to see it?

“Sis, having heard all that I’ve told you, don’t you hate me to the core? But then, did you know that ever since I learned of your existence, I’ve always cursed and wished death upon you!? Did you know that I tried many times to have you killed, but fate decided to spare you each time? This time, however, you cannot hide. As of now, Ye Tianxin, you have lost everything…. Tsk, tsk, tsk, you pitiful thing! No one, absolutely no one, believes you!”

Ye Tianxin stared at her, her eyes wide open, as Lu Qingxin’s voice buzzed in her ears.

Although she heard every word Lu Qingxin said, Ye Tianxin still found it difficult to understand what she had told her.

Lu Qingxin glanced past her at a car driving toward them at a fast speed. Taking a quick glimpse at her wristwatch, she noted that the timing was perfect!

“Sis, don’t you want to look at the video of Jin?!”

Lu Qingxin took out her mobile phone and tapped open the video. In the display screen, Gu Yunjin could be seen banging hard at the car window, his face filled with despair.

He was screaming for help with all he had. His pitch-black hair was plastered to his forehead with perspiration, and beads of sweat continuously streamed down his face.

Slowly, Gu Yunjin grew weaker and weaker as his strength ebbed away.

Gradually, overcome by the sauna-like conditions in the car, he closed his eyes, but not before he had made a last-ditch effort to call out Mama, Mama….

Ye Tianxin’s eyes burned red with rage as she looked at Lu Qingxin with hatred. When Ye Tianxin first arrived at the Lu family, Lu Qingxin had welcomed and cared for her with kindness and warmth. This had led her into mistakenly believing that Lu Qingxin was sincere in accepting her as an elder sister.

That was then. But now, Ye Tianxin realized just how much Lu Qingxin hated her.

Lu Qingxin hated Ye Tianxin so much that she had suffocated Jin to death.

Lu Qingxin hated her so much that she had revealed that cruel streak in her by keeping a video of Jin’s last moments struggling for his life.

“Lu Qingxin, I’m going to kill you.”

At that moment, Ye Tianxin’s head was filled with nothing else but the thought of killing her. She wanted to kill Lu Qingxin.

She wanted to kill Lu Qingxin to avenge poor Jin….

Although she knew very well that Ye Tianxin was in imminent danger, Lu Qingxin didn’t move. Instead, she stood still and didn’t resist when Ye Tianxin grabbed her neck with her hands and tried to strangle her.

Seeing Ye Tianxin’s face twisted with pain and rage, Lu Qingxin mused over how ugly she looked!

How could her Yancheng have fallen for such an unattractive woman?

“Sis, killing me won’t bring Jin back to life….”

At Lu Qingxin’s words, Ye Tianxin merely increased the pressure on Lu Qingxin’s neck.

Out of the corner of her eye, Lu Qingxin saw the vehicle speeding toward them. Soon, very soon!!

Gu Yancheng ran fast, taking large strides, toward the frenetic Ye Tianxin. He pulled at Ye Tianxin’s hands and threw her behind him.

There was a loud “bang” as Ye Tianxin’s frail body crashed against the truck speeding toward them.

She opened her eyes and stared up at the blue sky above her. The next moment, dark clouds gathered, and it started raining heavily….

Under the continual pelting of the pea-sized raindrops on her face, she felt no pain at all.

Slowly, she turned her head around only to see Lu Qingxin nestling gently in Gu Yancheng’s arms, saying, “Yancheng, quick. Call 120 for emergency services. Sis… Sis….”

Pushing Gu Yancheng aside, Lu Qingxin went on her hands and knees and crawled to Ye Tianxin’s side.

“Sis, don’t be scared. The ambulance will be here soon!

“Sis, nothing untoward must happen to you!

“Sis… don’t leave me!”

Ye Tianxin wearily shut her eyes. She didn’t want to witness Lu Qingxin’s superb acting, not even for a moment. Lu Qingxin had been so good at putting up an act that she had deceived Ye Tianxin for so many years.

Like scenes from a movie, her entire life flashed before her eyes—Lu Qingxin’s gentle, loving warmth, and Gu Yancheng’s care and attention.

It was only in that instant before her death that Ye Tianxin realized that her marriage to Gu Yancheng was a one-sided union and wishful thinking on her part.

She only felt really sorry that her poor Jin was the sacrificial lamb for the love triangle between the three of them.

Jin, don’t be afraid. Mama’s coming to you.

Then again, she still felt too aggrieved.

If the heavens could give her a second chance to live her life again, she would definitely choose a different path….

She didn’t want her life to be entangled with those two—Lu Qingxin and Gu Yancheng—ever again.

If she could be reborn, she would definitely want them to pay. An eye for an eye.

If she could be reborn, she would make sure that human trash would spend their days in a living hell.

“Jin….”

“Jin….”

Roused awake from her nightmare, Ye Tianxin didn’t even have the chance to speak before her forehead was assaulted by the teacher with a small piece of chalk.

“Ye Tianxin.”

“Yes?”

“Dozing off in class and even talking in your sleep. Stand at the back of the classroom.”

Ye Tianxin wondered. Was this a dream?

She must be dreaming….

Right before her death, she had thought about how great it would be to get a second chance at life.

If she could start all over again, she would make sure that she got admitted to Capital University. She would definitely spar head-on with Lu Qingxin, one on one.

The heavens must have heard her prayer and had really given her another chance to start all over again.

In this life, she definitely wouldn’t be the bad student that everyone ridiculed and teased….

Leaning against the wall, Ye Tianxin’s deep-set eyes looked thoughtfully at the mathematics teacher, who was writing and drawing on the blackboard.

The Ye Tianxin of the past had neither academic knowledge nor skill. Now, as she looked once again at these mathematical exercises, she felt like she was seeing stars.

Moving her gaze from the classroom to the Chinese parasol tree outside the window, she noted that it was flourishing with dense foliage and emanating life-giving energy, just as it had in the past….

Ye Tianxin dug her nails into her thigh and exclaimed as the sharp pain coursed through her. “Ouch, that hurts….”

It hurt.

So that could only mean one thing—that she wasn’t dreaming!

She… she was really reborn?

On a corner of the blackboard, the words “100 days” had clearly been written as a countdown to the college entrance exams.

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