On the bitterly cold operating table, Tang Xin woke up from a nightmare, feeling utterly alien in her surroundings. She was just at home a moment ago, how did she end up in this place?
She tried to rack her brains, but it seemed as if millions of machines were whirring inside her head, leaving her no capacity to think.
Suddenly, she heard hushed whispers, it was a man and a woman talking.
"When can we proceed with the operation?"
Tang Xin recognized the voice instantly, wasn't that her husband Yang Ze Kai? She wasn't sick, there was no need for surgery! Then what was this all about? The puzzle was solved soon enough.
"Another fifteen minutes, and we can start when Miss Lin arrives."
Lin Wan'er, her best friend, who had a heart condition. She had been told about the need for a heart transplant, but for some reason, it hadn't happened yet.
"If we replace the heart, will Wan’er recover?" There was a note of impatience in Yang Ze Kai's deep voice.
Replace the heart?
"Absolutely. Miss Tang’s heart is very healthy. After the transplant, Miss Lin will be fine. We just need to monitor for any transplant rejection afterwards. It shouldn't be an issue." The female voice confidently reassured Yang Ze Kai.
Tang Xin's heart skipped a beat as a horrifying, but highly plausible guess came to mind.
Yang Ze Kai planned to give her heart to Lin Wan'er. When did they... when did they get together?
To save her, they needed to use her heart. She's alive!
Her hand, resting by her side, clenched into a fist. Despair turned into raging fury and hatred. She couldn't let them have their way!
It's said that people tap into limitless potential when faced with danger. And Tang Xin proved this to be true.
A moment of utter chaos. Tang Xin desperately sprinted away, clueless about her means of escape or where her escape route lay.
Outside the sickroom, a nurse reported anxiously,
"Mr. Yang, Miss Tang has escaped, and she may have headed towards the rooftop!"
Yang ZeKai's countenance was dark and foreboding, much like the impending storm clouds. His anger was barely being held at bay.
He quickly advanced towards the rooftop, nothing could go wrong at this time!
"What's wrong with ZeKai?" Lin WanEr happened to approach at this moment. Observing Yang ZeKai's demeanor, she asked with cautious concern.
"Tang Xin has run off, towards the rooftop."
A cold firmness set upon Lin WanEr's eyes.
"Does she...know what we're planning? ZeKai, I'm scared..." As Lin WanEr grasped Yang ZeKai's arm, her beautiful eyes reflected fear. Pleading and sorrowful, they were difficult to resist.
"Don't be afraid, I won't let anything happen to you!" Yang ZeKai reassured her with a pat on her hand.
At the hospital's rooftop, Tang Xin was mustering the last bit of her strength.
Despite it being the peak of summer, she felt an intense chill sweeping over her from head to toe.
"Tang Xin, get down from there now!" At this moment, she heard a harsh voice, it was her husband, Yang ZeKai.
Tang Xin spotted Yang ZeKai embracing Lin WanEr from about three meters away. It seemed their relationship was quite intimate, she only realized her own foolishness at this moment!
"Get down? So you can rip my heart out of my chest? Yang ZeKai, you heartless man!" Even though she knew her words served no purpose now, she couldn't help but vent.
"I'm heartless? Is a heartless person going to take in a brainless woman like you, who's nothing more than a pretty face?"
A bleak and eerie smile was evident in Tang Xin's face.
She seemed to have suddenly understood everything.
In the past year that she was married to Yang Zekai, she had loved him dearly like a fool. She knew he didn't like her, but she still foolishly believed that love could be developed over time. That, someday, she could move him, and he would come to love her.
But now, everything was proving just how ridiculous her past thoughts were.
"Tang Xin, you should come down. Don't be silly!" Lin Wanyu, who was next to her, finally spoke.
"Shut up! Lin Wanyu, I treated you like my best friend. Is this how you repay me?! I gave you everything that I had, even introduced you to my brother. Where did I go wrong?" Tang Xin's emotions were spiraling out of control!
"You're kind to me? You were just trying to satisfy your own vanity. Why should you have so much?! As for your brother, I never liked him!
A toad hungering for swan meat! He wanted a girlfriend, didn’t I find him one!" Lin Wanyu's lips bore a sinister smirk.
Tang Xin's pupils contracted, it turned out that all those incidents with her brother were orchestrated by Lin Wanyu!
Filled with hatred, she gritted her teeth and clenched her fists so tightly that her nails sank into her flesh, but she didn’t feel a thing.
"Enough with the chatter, come down now!" Yang Zekai barked again, his patience apparently worn thin.
"If you want me to come down, that's fine. But I have some questions for you. You must tell me the truth!" Tang Xin managed to calm herself down.
"Speak!" Yang Zekai was visibly irritated, he didn’t want to prolong the conversation.
Tang Xin's smile became colder and more explicit. Nobody knew what was going through her mind.
"Was it you who added fuel to the fire when my father's company was on the edge, forcing it to finally collapse?" She already had a suspicion in her heart, but she still wanted to hear it from his mouth.
"So what if I did? It's his own fault for not being strategic. Isn't it better that he's bankrupt?"
She never knew that once a person shreds their pretense and reveals their true self, they could be so hideous. He had clearly promised to help her family through the hardship. Who knew that the moment she turned around, he would become the executioner who murdered her father!
"You said, 'Once husband and wife...'"
But before Tang Xin could finish her sentence, Lin Wan'er cut her off.
"Who said I was your wife for a day? Ze Kai never touched you! It was someone else that night. You are a dirty woman!" Her words once again pierced Tang Xin's heart like countless sharp swords.
Her heart was already covered in scars, bloody and unrecognizable.
"Ze Kai never loved you, never! It's only that you had some use in the beginning! The one he's loved from the start was only me!" Lin Wan'er seemed to be declaring her own victory.
How smug she looked, as if seeing her sad and hurt was equal to winning the whole world!
"Was it because of the title deeds in my possession?" The stuff her grandfather left her.
"You are knowingly asking! Step off if you know what's good for you!" Lin Wan'er had no intention of wasting her time.
At this moment, Tang Xin only felt the despair inside her gnawing at her bit by bit. With things as they were, what more was there not to understand?
Anger boiling over, she let out a laugh, a laugh that echoed with a tinge of desolation.
Lin Wan'er let out an involuntary shiver.
"What are you laughing at, Tang Xin?"
"You despicable man and woman, thinking of using my heart to save this wretch's life? Dream on!" With those words, Tang Xin leaped off the rooftop, her eyes closed. Tears slipped down the corners of her eyes.
Perhaps death was the best relief for her. In this life, she had been too foolish, too weak. One by one, her family members left her, and she was powerless, constantly deceived yet still blindly trusting those people.
If there were another life, she would certainly not be so weak!
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The surrounding noise disturbed Tang Xin, causing her to frown.
"Xinxin, wake up, the ceremony is about to begin!"
Tang Xin opened her eyes, each cell in her body seemed to pulse with surprise...
