When I was six, I stole half a piece of mung bean cake from Chen Ran, and he chased me for sixteen years. He chased me from primary school to middle school, then from middle school overseas. With all of Shanghai watching, he became my husband, burst into my bridal chamber, and fought me onto the bed. I truly thought we were a bickering couple destined to be together. But one day, at a Chen family banquet, he suddenly took the maid Wang Xiao by the hand and said coldly, "From now on, she is the wife."
I froze.
"Still pretending?" His eyes were icy as he shielded Wang Xiao, who was coughing. "You forced her to drop out of school and gave her lung disease! You used your power to bully her and thought you could get away with it?"
He held his new love close, as if protecting her from a venomous snake.
"She doesn't have much time left. This is her one last wish... I'll grant it."
"Once her wish is fulfilled, I'll give you back your place as the principal wife. Don't be so ungrateful!"
The jeers around me rang in my ears. I looked at them and swallowed the metallic taste in my throat.
He had been clever all his life, yet couldn't see through a maid's lies. And he had no idea that the person coughing up blood and waiting to die was me.
