Chapter 1931: A Great Awakening

"Pah!"

Yagang spat on the ground in disgust, making no effort to hide his loathing for her: "Stop being so conceited, you vicious woman. That I once liked you is the greatest shame of my life. I wouldn't ask for you to be let off; letting you off is Lady Yano's decision."

"No, that's impossible!"

Yafang screamed: "How could it be her who wants to let me off? I hate her so much I want her dead, why would she let me off? Has she gone stupid?"

"Because she is a kind woman, while your heart has long since turned black."

Every word of Yagang's mockery pierced her heart like a steel fork.

She still did not believe it; she did not believe Shi Youxuan could have such a kind heart.

She had to go find Shi Youxuan and ask her clearly, ask her why she wanted to let her off.

There must be some conspiracy.

But she was blocked outside the door before she could even see Shi Youxuan's face.

Litian walked out of the room, and Yafang looked as if she had seen hope, exclaiming in surprise: "Aifei, are you Aifei? You've grown so big? If Yafei were still alive, how good that would be. If she saw you now, she would surely..."

She could not go on.

Yafei's son looked exactly like the Pirate leader; if Yafei were still alive today, she would likely collapse every time she saw this face.

"I am not called Aifei, I am called Litian. And don't go harassing my mother. My mother asked me to bring you a message: she is letting you off, not because she forgives you, but because she does not want to see such cruel punishment."

"Jealousy only twists one's mindset and makes one uglier; love is the most powerful force in this world. Only by giving love can one harvest love."

After Litian finished speaking, he turned and went back inside.

From beginning to end, he merely repeated his mother's words coldly, without even looking at the woman before him.

This woman made him sick.

Using the name of "doing it for your own good" to righteously commit vicious acts, while in reality satisfying her own dark psyche—what was there to say to such a person?

He did not understand why his mother wanted him to say these things to this woman; in his opinion, one shouldn't care about such a person at all, and letting her fend for herself would be best.

Yafang kept muttering one sentence over and over: "Jealousy makes people uglier and uglier?"

"Does jealousy really make people uglier and uglier?"

Yafang walked outward with her head down, repeating and whispering this sentence incessantly.

Passing by a beautiful house, the curtain wall glass outside the house reflected an old, haggard face, and she screamed in fright.

"Who are you? You ugly monster, don't scare me."

The person in the mirror also made the same expression as her, and issued the same question as her.

Yafang had not looked in a mirror for many years; from the moment the first white hair appeared on her head and the first wrinkle appeared on her face, she had never wanted to look in a mirror again.

When she realized that the old, haggard ugly monster in the mirror was actually herself, she became firmly convinced of Shi Youxuan's words: "Jealousy makes people uglier and uglier."

That's right, for so many years, jealousy had firmly occupied her heart.

And now that she was already this ugly, while Shi Youxuan was still so beautiful and so young, could it be that she was wrong?

Had she been wrong for all these years?

Others' warnings do not necessarily make a person realize their own mistakes.

Only when seeing the consequences does a person truly have a great awakening!

Yafang was like that now; she began to reflect on everything she had done for so many years—was it right?

If it weren't for her jealousy of Shi Youxuan back then, would she have become friends with Shi Youxuan?

Even if they didn't become friends, just being someone with an ordinary relationship rather than becoming enemies, her life would have been completely different.

If it weren't for her jealousy of Shi Youxuan back then, and her argument with Yagang, she wouldn't have left in a fit of pique; instead, she would have married Yagang and would now be living a life of abundance, free from worry, with children all around.

Even if she had left in a fit of pique back then and met her first husband.

If she had continued working as a chef at Sheng Hanyu's Resort, she would also be living well now, because the employees of Dingsheng have the best benefits of all enterprises in Jiangzhou.

And her former mother-in-law was also a very good person...

The more Yafang thought, the more she regretted; she walked to the seaside without realizing it, her heart completely dead.

In life, one can only move forward, never backward, and there are certainly no "ifs"!

She had reached this point and finally regretted it—was it still in time?

It was too late.

She had been wrong in this life, wrong in a way that was far off the mark.

Then let her start over in the next life.

The tide was coming in.

Yafang walked into the sea step by step; although villagers clearly saw her, no one saved her.

It was better if she died; such a person living would sooner or later be a scourge.

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Yafang's corpse was washed back by the tide; the villagers were all disgusted and did not want her to dirty this place, wanting to throw her far back into the sea so that she would be eaten by fish until nothing was left.

Yagang pleaded for her, hoping the villagers would agree to bury her in the village.

Since the sea had washed her back, it must be heaven's will!

Finally, after intense discussion among the villagers, Yaqing personally made the final decision to agree, and Yafang was buried in the village, though it was just a lonely mound of dirt without even a tombstone.

Yafang was dead, and the Pirates were still locked up in the village; there had to be a place to deal with them.

Yaqing reported it to Q Country, and the maritime police came to take all these Pirates away.

But only a few days later, these people were released.

The reason for their release was simple: these people were all impoverished commoners, and being Pirates was their way of survival.

There were many such people nearby; if they were all thrown into Prison, the prisons of Q Country would not be able to hold them at all!

As long as they were not heinous villains and the Pirates had no human lives on their hands, they could not be held for more than a few days.

These people came to the village again, and the villagers faced a formidable enemy, standing in battle array!

The Pirate leader waved a white flag and shouted, "You have misunderstood; I am not here to seek revenge. I want to have a few words with the person here named Litian. I guarantee that as soon as I finish speaking, I will never harass you again."

Yaqing was originally still hesitant, not knowing whether she should agree.

But Litian took the initiative to step forward and agreed, "I will talk to him. Don't worry, he won't do anything to me."

Yaqing prepared a separate room for them, and the two met alone.

As soon as the door closed, the Pirate leader excitedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed with a "thud, thud" sound.

"Boss, you have finally returned! This is great! From now on, the brothers will follow you, and we will never go hungry again..."

Litian was startled, yet he felt that this scene was somehow familiar.

He remembered that back when he was a Special Forces Soldier, another Pirate leader, Shouhou, had once also knelt on the ground excitedly like this and called him "Boss"...

It was precisely because of that one time he was called that, his background was revealed, and he was forced to retire, leaving behind his dear comrades and the troops he loved.