Chapter 212: You Overthought It

"Li Lang?"

Seeing the familiar figure before her, the woman opened her mouth and finally uttered these two words.

Not long ago, a voice had suddenly seemed to ring out in her mind, causing her to walk here in a daze.

After arriving here and seeing the person she had always wanted to see yet dared not, she did not know how to face the person before her.

The past was still vivid in her mind; when they met again, things had changed and people were no longer the same, not to mention that she was already no longer pure.

"Bitch, you actually dare to appear before me!"

There was no joy of a long-awaited reunion, only endless hatred. Upon seeing this woman, Li Zehai immediately felt the urge to kill; the once bone-deep hatred transformed into monstrous murderous intent.

The tragic death of his family back then had been caused by this bitch. If he hadn't caught her in bed with the young master of the Feng Family, how could that series of events have followed?

Thinking of this, Li Zehai could not suppress the murderous intent in his heart. He stepped forward and grabbed the other party by the throat; he wanted this bitch to pay the price.

"Li Lang!" The sensation of suffocation from her throat made the woman struggle involuntarily. Especially the coldness in his eyes, which pierced her chest like a sharp blade.

For countless days and nights, she had thought about just dying, and it was only by relying on her longing for this person before her that she had survived.

But now that they met again, the other party wanted to kill her to vent his hatred; the woman's heart died—there is no sorrow greater than a dead heart!

"You, you!" Suddenly, an unexpected change occurred. Li Zehai, who had been gripping the woman's throat, suddenly felt a feeling of extreme weakness spread throughout his entire body.

Moreover, he noticed that all his internal energy seemed to be uncontrollably surging toward the other party.

It was as if the power within his own body could be easily controlled and wantonly plundered by someone else.

In front of the woman, a small vortex seemed to have formed, devouring everyone who approached her.

Not just him, but even the Elders of the Xinghai Gang and that Deputy Gang Leader beside him were the same.

The internal energy of everyone here seemed to be absorbed by this seemingly frail woman; a lifetime of hard work was about to vanish in the blink of an eye!

Li Zehai wanted to pull his hand back, but found that even moving an inch was a luxury. "Bitch, you are so cruel!"

The other party had clearly looked very weak at first, so why was it like this now? Unless something had been done to him long ago—could the person behind him be her?

Had he been played in the palm of a woman's hand for so many years?

When the last bit of internal energy was completely drained, Li Zehai and the others were like terminally ill patients, collapsing onto the ground with only a single breath left hanging.

"Li Lang, I can't control myself, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

As she spoke, the woman wanted to step forward to help him up, but Li Zehai struggled and retreated repeatedly, fearing she would get too close.

"Don't come over! Now that things have come to this, why must you still put on this hypocritical act? Everything back then was intentional, wasn't it? You wanted me to become your Chess Piece, so you first struck me down into the dust!"

"You saved me when I was at my most painful and helpless, and then you naturally gained my loyalty!"

"Bitch, you have such a vicious heart, using such unscrupulous means to achieve your goals. 'The most poisonous is a woman's heart'—the ancients truly did not deceive me!"

"Li Lang, I didn't, I really didn't!"

"No, you did. Isn't that exactly what you thought back then?" Suddenly, another voice surged into the woman's mind.

At the same time, the memories that had been sealed in a corner of her mind suddenly opened up, and the various events of the past surfaced before her eyes as if they had just happened yesterday.

"This, this is impossible, I didn't do this!"

"You did do this. You wanted to be above others, you didn't want to be bullied—these were your choices back then!"

The cold voice rang out again, bringing the woman to the brink of collapse.

"I don't need any of this, I just wanted to live well, I never hoped for anything!"

"Is that so? Then how did I appear!"

The voice in her mind echoed, accompanied by streams of power surging into her body, causing her to rapidly transform from a weak woman into a top-tier expert.

But holding the power of the world in her palm or reaching the pinnacle were not what she wanted; all she wanted was to live a stable and peaceful life.

A husband plowing the fields and a wife weaving, with children filling the house—that would be enough!

"I didn't, this isn't what I did, it's you, you controlled me!"

"You are wrong. I have never controlled you; everything was your own choice, including my appearance."

"Because I am you, and you are me. The reason I appeared is your own choice; you shouldn't be escaping all of this!"

The expression on her face changed from helpless to cold, and then from cold to bewildered.

Various expressions flashed across one person's face so quickly that it left people dumbfounded. One always hears that women are good at changing their faces, but surely not this fast.

And Shen Yu, seeing this scene, had only one word flash through his mind: "Schizophrenia."

He could feel that this was not an external remnant soul occupying the magpie's nest, but another consciousness generated by the woman herself.

In this life and the last, this was the first time he had seen such a person; it was truly an eye-opener.

"Bitch, you, what is this..." This sudden change of face left even Li Zehai confused. Was this former fiancée of his a pervert?

"Li Lang, I..."

"What 'Li Lang'? He was just a Chess Piece of ours. Now that this Chess Piece is useless, kill him, go and kill this piece of trash!"

Suddenly, it was as if she had completely changed into another face—a face that was no longer soft, but cold, a coldness so intense that one felt they would freeze into ice shards just by getting close.

"No, we already wronged him back then, I can't do this!"

"Trash, truly a piece of trash! Romantic feelings will only hinder our progress. If we want to climb higher, we must know how to make trade-offs and learn to be unscrupulous."

"Only by reaching the very top can we avoid being bullied! Only by reaching the very top can we live the life we want, can we truly live well, do you know that!"

The two expressions switched back and forth, one delicate and the other cold, gradually making people understand the woman's current state.

One person with two consciousnesses—no wonder she was so unfathomable, and no wonder such things had happened back then.

After hesitating for a long while, Li Zehai still asked, "You, why did you have to do this?"

"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being too outstanding. Although your strength was low, your intellect was top-notch."

Saying this, the woman looked somewhat disdainful.

"Also blame yourself for being too good to her, making her sink so deep that she was unwilling to keep striving. Romantic feelings would destroy all our efforts, so I had to sever the relationship between you two and cut off her retreat!"

"Li Zehai, do you know? Back then, I was cast into a Brothel, suffering every humiliation. Do you know what kind of dark, sunless life I lived every day?"

"Every inch of my skin has endured the filthiest things in this world."

"Back then, I told myself that I had to climb upward, by any means necessary, at any cost!"

"I not only want to live, but to live well, to climb to the very top!"

"From now on, only I can bully others; no one can bully me, no one!"

The various things from the past that disgusted her surfaced before her eyes once more, causing the woman to let out an involuntary, shrill roar.

Taking a deep breath, she suppressed the emotions in her heart, then walked to Li Zehai's side; the woman looked down at him as he lay limp on the ground, her face devoid of any expression.

"You made her fall in love; that is the reason you must die!"

"So that's how it is!" Closing his eyes, Li Zehai gave a desolate laugh. "Over these years, I have imagined many reasons, but I never once thought it would be this."

"The doubts of many years finally have an answer. Do it; I have no regrets in death!"

"Good, you can be considered a man, what a pity!"

"Remember my name. I am Lu Feiyan, and my grandfather is the Medicine King Xue Muchen. One day, my name will resound throughout the entire world!"