The setting is fictional, so please don’t nitpick. Thank you.
She had been married to him for three years, living in a storeroom and wearing old clothes. When period cramps left her writhing on the floor, he was celebrating Su Xiaoxiao’s birthday.
He put another woman on a pedestal and ground her into the dirt.
Only when he lay dying in a hospital bed after being poisoned did she lean close to his ear and say, “Jiang Xun, I regret saving you back then.”
That was when he learned that the person who had desperately begged him not to fall asleep in that dead-end alley had never been Su Xiaoxiao.
Reborn, he clutched the dog-tooth necklace in his palm and asked her, eyes red, “What do you want me to do?”
She said, “Don’t be nice to me. I’m not used to sweetness.”
“Sweet things always turn bitter after you finish them.”
