"Guess how old she is?"
"Forty?"
"No, she's only twenty-seven."
"Impossible!" Bai Wanrou exclaimed, doubting how a woman in her twenties could become like this.
"She eloped for love, breaking off from her family. Her husband, like Su Yan, is a mechanic. They have two children, and their household is poor. She works four jobs, from dusk till dawn, and still needs to care for the children at night. She hardly gets enough sleep. A woman must take care of herself. Without self-care, a woman is like a flower without water, wilting quickly. If you continue with Su Yan, you'll become just like her."
"Impossible!" Bai Wanrou shook her head in denial. No matter how exhausted, she could never stoop to such a low.
"If you don't believe me, go ask her yourself. Look at her ID, see how beautiful she once was."
Bai Wanrou did as suggested, and the result was exactly as her mother had described.
Looking at that woman, she felt like she was seeing her future self.
"Mom, I don't want to end up like this! I don't want to!" She grabbed Meng Shaomei's hand as if it were a lifeline.
"Then leave Su Yan!"
Bai Wanrou fell silent.
Meng Shaomei took a bite of her food, "I'm not asking you to leave Su Yan forever, just temporarily. Wait until he returns to the Su family, takes control of it, then you can be together again!"
Bai Wanrou opened her eyes wide, "Really?"
Could she still be with Yan after leaving him?
"Of course, trust your mother. I won't deceive you. I'll make sure you live a good life." Meng Shaomei's words seemed to hypnotize Bai Wanrou, who found herself unwittingly nodding in agreement.
So, when Su Yan was kicked out of the Su family, after two months and twenty-five days, and just when he thought he was safe and secure, Bai Wanrou left him.
She left a letter behind, saying that she was frightened by what had previously happened, that she felt she had been too selfish. She didn't want to be the reason for Su Yan's downfall - he who was always held in high esteem. She didn't want to burden him anymore and wanted him to return to the Su family.
She was leaving and didn't want him to find her.
She hoped that he would be well.
Bai Wanrou staged a dog-blood drama of grand sacrifice for love.
So dog-blooded, it made Su Yan want to vomit blood.
In five days, just five days more, he could have won the wager, they could have been together. But, she left!
The reasons didn't matter, she had left!
No matter how prettily it's phrased, she had left!
She made him lose the wager, lose his love, and lose his pride.
Made him...
Want to kill!
Su Yan didn't go looking for Bai Wanrou.
He was a proud man. He had repeatedly assured Bai Wanrou, asked her to believe in him, that they won't live a hard life, that they could go back to their old lifestyle soon. He who adhered to the principle of not repeating his words, broke it to comfort her. Yet she didn't believe him!
A woman who doesn't trust him despite his efforts, no matter how much he loved her, he didn't want!
She wanted to leave, then let her be!
He smashed everything in the room.
As he sat exhausted amongst the wreckage, Bai Xue appeared.
She appeared victorious in front of him at his lowest point.
His resentment turned into hatred!
Su Yan, the golden spoon-fed man, the favoured child of heaven, all his misfortune started because of Bai Xue.
His blissful family life was wrecked by Bai Xue's mother, his carefully curated love was ruined by her.
He had proclaimed to the whole city; he would only marry Bai Wanrou.