Those words froze Wang Zehao. He stood motionless, unable to comprehend that events had escalated to this point. He had never imagined his wife would find out; he had never expected the secret he'd kept for so long to be exposed today. Now his scheme to trick her into transferring the shares of the lingerie company — worth over two billion — was in jeopardy.
"I…" Wang Zehao stammered, stunned and helpless.
From behind him, Zhao Yuanyuan — knocked back by Li Kexin's shove — sprang up and grabbed Li Kexin, trying to hold her still. "What are you doing standing there like an idiot? Move! Do something — stop this woman from making a scene before everyone notices!" she yelled at her lover, urging him out of his daze so they could silence Li Kexin before matters spiraled further.
Li Kexin, already blinded by rage, quickly rebelled, turning to Zhao Yuanyuan. She viciously pecked at the other woman's hair before relentlessly smashing her face and body with her fists.
"Stop it!" screamed Zhao Yuanyuan, trying to fend herself off with her hands. Wang Zehao, who had regained consciousness, rushed in, pulled the two apart, and pushed Li Kexin so hard that she stumbled away. As for himself, he immediately held Zhao Yuanyuan's almost naked body in his arms.
"You... You villain! How dare you push me and protect her!" Li Kexin shrieked, her eyes red as she stared at the two shameless people standing close together. She cried out in pain, "Why are you treating me like this? I have always been good to you, trusted you, and given you both my love and my honesty. And this is what I get in return!"
Zhao Yuanyuan, whose plot had been exposed, was aching all over her body. "You can stop talking nonsense. I'm the one who was betrayed!"
When Li Kexin heard this, her anger intensified, and she felt smoke coming out of her ears. "No, you b*tch! It's obvious that you two betrayed me, and you still have the audacity to twist black and white! Do you have any sense of decency, Zhao Yuanyuan!"
"You should know that the one who came later is you, not me!" Zhao Yuanyuan retorted in an equally furious tone. Then, to hurt Li Kexin even more, she revealed their secret relationship. "I was the only one who had been dating Zehao before. The two of us have been in love since high school. If it weren't for the fact that she was rich but so brainless, do you think I would let Zehao flirt with her!"
Zhao Yuanyuan's words stunned Li Kexin. A few blinks later, it was as if the whole world she had possessed had collapsed. She realized the truth: the love she had always devoted to her husband, including his affection for her for more than seven years, was a hoax. And her most trusted best friend turned out to be an enemy working with him to destroy her life from the very beginning.
Li Kexin shook her head in disbelief. Every word she heard made her mind go blank. She couldn't process the story at all, because everything was more than she could bear.
Zhao Yuanyuan, seeing the other woman's broken expression, laughed heartily. "I'll tell you that there are a lot of things you don't know, like your real child."
That sentence was like a hammer smashing into Li Kexin's brain. She paused, widening her eyes to look at her supposed "friend" in shock. Seeing this, Zhao Yuanyuan didn't hesitate and quickly delivered another blow. "Do you really think Mu Mu is your child, or are you completely stupid? I'll tell you the truth: Mu Mu is my child with Zehao, who took the place of your son!"
"As for your real child, you can wait for them to become fertilizer, because Zehao's mother is going to take that child from the orphanage and sell it to the child abduction gang... lol," Zhao Yuanyuan sneered, spitting out the cruel words.
She then turned to look at Wang Zehao, who was standing still with a dull expression. "I'll tell you, five years ago, it was Zehao who planned to swap her own child with her hand. She has been deceived by us all along, and she still dares to be arrogant!"
A wave of sarcasm swept over Li Kexin. She could barely keep her balance. The fact that her biological child was alone in an orphanage and about to be sold into danger, while she had lovingly raised a child who was not her own, caused her immense pain and almost heartbreak.
That wasn't enough. When Zhao Yuanyuan saw Li Kexin acting as if she couldn't take any more, she took the final action to solidify her victory by telling the complete truth:
"Anyway, I've reached this stage, I'll tell you one more truth. Do you think your parents' car accident was a coincidence?"
Li Kexin's eyes widened and trembled. "What do you mean?" she exclaimed in shock. The resentment pouring into her chest made her look like a small animal suffering and dying.
"Enough is enough, Yuanyuan," Wang Zehao interrupted.
But Zhao Yuanyuan didn't listen. She still raised her face and said sneeringly, "It was Zehao who set the scene herself, because if it wasn't for her parents, we wouldn't have been able to collect your treasure so easily!"
Zhao Yuanyuan's words echoed in Li Kexin's ears. Then, the events of that day replayed in her head: the image of her parents' car being destroyed, and the image of Wang Zehao running around the hospital all night, barely sleeping. The pain and sorrow on his face, and the exhaustion after arranging the funeral—it was all just a show.
Li Kexin screamed uncontrollably. It was as if a wild animal had been seriously injured by a hunter's trap. "It's not true...!"
Then the pain in her heart suddenly turned into uncontrollable anger, and she lunged at Wang Zehao once. She violently smashed her hands against his chest. "You will have to pay for both my parents and my children!"
Wang Zehao cried out in pain, "Oh!" He tried to fend her off, but when his face was scratched repeatedly, his anger flared and he lost his patience. He never imagined that a woman as weak and foolish as Li Kexin would dare to fight him so fiercely. He pushed her so hard that Li Kexin stumbled back, "Hey!"
The push caused a vase and a display case located behind Li Kexin to fall down and crash into her body.
Li Kexin lay face down on the floor, trying to call for help.
"Help me," she whispered, as blood slowly began to seep from her hairline.
Wang Zehao was shocked by what had happened. His face turned pale when he saw the blood pouring down Li Kexin's face. He never intended to commit such a violent act, nor did he want to kill her or cause her death, but...
Wang Zehao was confused and hesitant. Zhao Yuanyuan grabbed his arm and shook it anxiously. "Hurry up and deal with it! If you let her escape, we will definitely die; it will put us in jail."
Her words brought Wang Zehao back to consciousness. He looked at Li Kexin again, still confused.
Li Kexin stretched out her bloody hand to them, clinging to her last hope. "Yuanyuan... Zehao... help me."
However, Zhao Yuanyuan, consumed by her fear of being caught, quickly bent down, grabbed another vase rolling at her feet, and walked toward Li Kexin. She violently smashed the thick vase onto her head. The sound of "Thwack!" was loud and clear.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Bright red blood dripped down Li Kexin's face even more profusely. The image in front of her was blurry. It was as if everything was coming to an end, and as darkness rolled over her eyes, just before her consciousness was extinguished, her auditory nerve heard a woman's voice ringing out.
"Ong, Ong-a, Ong-a, Ong-a"
"Ah Abu A Tou Da Hia"
"Da Hia, Da Yu"
"Pea, Tia, Tuan, Tu"
"Bae Kea Sae Kimju"
"Kimju Sae Po Gum Jai..."
"This is my mother's voice, the song that she liked to sing when I was a child." Her tears flowed, mixing with the drops of blood that flooded her eyes.
"Mom, Dad, I was wrong. If I could go back in time, I wouldn't be stupid again, I wouldn't be obedient. I'll avenge my parents, I was wrong," she groaned in her heart. If she could go back in time, she would never trust a villain like Wang Zehao again. She would take revenge for her children and her parents.
And then, before her consciousness completely faded, the owner of the beautiful voice, who was singing a lullaby, uttered words that struck her like a second thunderbolt.
"Really, then I'll help you get revenge."
"Ke Xin..."