Chapter 489: How Boring

Shen Yuan certainly would not go out; she turned to run, but as she was unfamiliar with the terrain, she was quickly caught by the man.

The man recognized her as the bride the villagers had recently bought to carry on the family line.

"Please, I have a lot of money. As long as you can save me, I will definitely repay you in the future."

The man said something in a local dialect, turned around, and sent her right back.

Shen Yuan knew that a disaster surely awaited her, and she prepared to lower her pride and beg for mercy.

But she did not expect that the fat, pig-like man would directly pick up a hammer and break her legs.

A scream rang through the night sky.

Shen Yuan passed out; when she woke up again, she could no longer walk, and she knew her life was over.

Her future life could only be spent lying there, manipulated by others like a puppet toy.

Originally, this was the ending she had designed for Jiang Yue, but she never expected to fall into the same ending she had in her previous life.

Does she regret it?

If she hadn't been obsessed with Jiang Sinian after her Rebirth and had instead studied hard and lived her own life, would her ending have been completely different?

……

Li Mu's married life was not as comfortable as he had imagined.

Although he had married the woman he liked, he now had new troubles.

Ever since Shen Chi jumped from their family restaurant on the day of their wedding, their restaurant's business had plummeted.

His mother had endless complaints about Liang Yu and would nitpick whenever she had a spare moment.

His wife, Xiao Yu, was not a gentle soul either; when her mother-in-law made veiled criticisms, she would curse right back, even dragging out the eighteen generations of the Li family ancestors to insult.

He was caught in the middle of these two, feeling depressed and even regretting why he had married so early.

The young masters around his age were still out living a life of debauchery, while he was already being restrained by his wife.

Over time, such emotions naturally affected his relationship with Liang Yu.

To help the restaurant's business, Li Mu's mother hired a new batch of young, pretty girls.

Wearing sexy short skirts every day, they did indeed attract some customers with impure motives.

These customers would bully the young girls while drunk, and by a stroke of luck, Li Mu helped one of the girls.

That girl was only sixteen this year, at an age so tender she seemed ready to drip water.

Li Mu fell for her again.

But now that he had a wife, he only dared to like her in secret.

The young waitress felt she had latched onto the restaurant's young master and also stopped being content with her status, wanting to serve the customers.

She felt she should have the same treatment as Liang Yu.

Both were Li Mu's women; why was Liang Yu the young mistress while she could only be a little waitress?

The proprietress would always grow old one day; if she could get a hold on Li Mu, she would be the proprietress in the future.

It could be considered a major class leap from the countryside to the city.

Thinking this way, the young waitress decided to stir up some trouble.

This trouble reached Liang Yu's ears.

However, when Liang Yu saw her embracing Li Mu, she said nothing, and the smile on her face did not even change.

She just watched them quietly for a while, then hooked her finger at Li Mu, "Li Mu, time to go home."

Li Mu was naturally feeling guilty; although he had flirted with someone, he did not want a divorce.

He obediently walked to Liang Yu, coaxed her with sweet nothings, and Liang Yu led him home by his tie as if she were walking a dog.

The young waitress became the laughingstock of the restaurant, and not two days later, her parents from the countryside came looking for her and slapped her the moment they met.

"How dare you be a homewrecker! I'll teach you to be a homewrecker!"

It turned out that someone had used red paint to write on their courtyard wall about their daughter being a homewrecker in the city, and now their whole family had no face left in the village.

Good news doesn't leave the house, but bad news travels a thousand miles; the more the young waitress thought about it, the more humiliated she felt, and in a moment of despair, she hanged herself in the dormitory with a belt.

Now the restaurant's business was even worse, and the rumors became increasingly bizarre.

The death of the young waitress left Li Mu feeling depressed for quite a while.

Finally, one day, he couldn't help but ask, "Was the paint on the door of Nini's house something you had someone splash?"

Liang Yu blinked her eyes as she sat by the window combing her hair, "What? Don't I have the right?"

"Bu-but, you drove her to her death," Li Mu said, his emotions uncontrollably agitated, "She wasn't even seventeen this year, and besides, I was at fault in this too..."

Slap—

Liang Yu stood up and slapped him, "You finally realized that?"

"But, who told me to love you." Liang Yu, like a face-changing artist, hugged him, "So I can only forgive you, not her. By the way, Li Mu, do you still remember a promise you once made to me?"

Li Mu didn't remember and asked while holding her, "What?"

"Nothing."

Liang Yu put down her comb; it turned out she was the only one who remembered.

A promise—if it cannot be fulfilled, how is it any different from a lie?

She still remembered what she had told Li Mu: if one day you betray me, I will kill you.

Li Mu was in a bad mood, so he soon developed an addiction to alcohol.

He was drunk day and night.

Li Mu's mother felt very distressed and would blame Liang Yu whenever she had the chance, "You jinx, look at what you've cursed our family into!"

"A person like my son marrying you is your good fortune. Isn't it just that he liked a little waitress? What can't you tolerate? Do you have to kill my son too?"

Less than three days after these words were spoken, Li Mu really died.

He got drunk, fell into the river, and drowned.

Mother Li's hair turned white overnight.

Her spirit seemed to have gone along with her son, and she no longer even had the heart to blame Liang Yu.

The restaurant fell into Liang Yu's hands.

Although business at the restaurant was poor now, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse; she not only had the final say, but also possessed the small car that Mother Li had often driven.

She recalled that when she first wanted to marry Li Mu, it was precisely to live the kind of good life she had now.

But after the initial joy, she began to feel a bit bored.

This world seemed too quiet.

Li Mu was gone, Shen Chi was gone, Li Xuan and Shen Lan were also gone, and she didn't know when that annoying Shen Yuan had disappeared either.

Jiang Sinian's world was too far removed from her own, so far that she could no longer muster any interest.

How boring.

In this world, the people she hated were all gone, but at the same time, there were no people she liked left either.

Liang Yu began to suffer from insomnia night after night, and even thought about ending her life.

Because her life seemed to be too long.

At ten years old, she stared at the swaying ceiling and told herself she would only live until eighteen.

It would be enough to have seen this rotten world.

This year, she had just turned eighteen.

On her birthday, Liang Yu had a sudden whim to go see her cousin's family.

Regardless of anything else, although they had no blood relation to her, they were at least one of the few remaining ties she had in this world.

Liang Yu even thought that as long as they no longer held the past against her, with the authority she held at the restaurant today, she could help her cousin and her cousin's husband get jobs there; adding a wonton dish to the restaurant could also be considered a new marketing strategy.

But her cousin's family had moved away without telling her.

Liang Yu could not describe what she was feeling; today was her birthday, yet not a single person had wished her well.

On the drive back, she saw Si Rong at an intersection.

She had almost forgotten about her.

That woman favored by the heavens—Liang Yu slammed her foot down on the accelerator.