Yue Yu''s faint breaths were loud against the silence, and black eyes as deep as the abyss were fixated on the girl under him.

    "Brother Yu, get off." She seemed to cry out unconsciously, and her voice was reproaching. "You''re very heavy."

    Then there was a pause.

    She had used such a coquettish voice that he had never heard of it.

    "Right," he replied after a long pause.

    He rushed to get off of her and almost fell off the bed. He then covered up his reddening face with a cough.

    Another deafening crackle thundered loudly, bringing Yue Yu back to reality.

    He ignored the biting cold that seemed to seep into his bones and suppressed the discomfort in his body as he forced himself to walk back to his position.

    Every step seemed to exhaust all his energy.

    He was tired, dizzy, and nauseous, but he did not forget to take Yue Ran''s handkerchief from the muddy ground and carefully inspect it when his surroundings suddenly brightened up under the light of the thunder.

    Yue Yu''s face appeared a little sinister because of the light.

    The conspicuous red embroidery could be seen clearly in a flash.

    Blooming red peonies.

    Boom!

    There was another thunderclap.

    Yue Yu carefully wrung the handkerchief dry from the rain, squeezing out both dirt and water from the damp and dirty white cloth. After doing so, he cautiously kept the handkerchief inside his clothes, making sure that it would not fall out of his body.

    His series of meticulous actions looked like he was handling some kind of precious treasure.

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    …

    A few hours ago, in a certain remote village far away from the capital…

    "How is it?" Asked Yue Ran as she let out a laugh. "My acting is not bad, right?"

    At this time, Yue Ran does not look like a soulless porcelain doll anymore. Her eyes were bright and radiant as she flashed a childlike smile toward Ming Ze. It was as if she had completed a great prank and succeeded in fleeing without getting punished.

    Yue Ran literally glowed with that smile and that natural lightness in every movement.

    Ming Ze, who saw it, could not help but beam with joy.

    "It really is not bad," Ming Ze said while clapping his hands together. "Our Ran Ran is naturally great and will always be the best!"

    Yue Ran, who was being cheered at, raised her chin and smiled brightly.

    "That is natural," she said.

    After a short while of celebrating, Ming Ze suddenly turned serious.

    "Ran Ran, what are you going to do in the future?" he asked. "Are you going to stay in this remote village all the time?"

    A week before jumping off the cliff, Yue Ran and Ming Ze had a serious discussion with one another to go over their agreed-upon plan.

    The house in front of the two was purchased with Yue Ran''s private money, and Ming Ze was responsible for renovating and decorating the inside of the yard.

    So when they had planned to jump off the cliff regardless, Ming Ze had already prepared everything so that they would not be hurt.

    Yue Yu had always thought that he was the real mastermind behind the scenes, controlling the fleeing direction of the bandits and putting Ming Ze and Xia Zhan on edge to allow Yue Ran to clearly see the two men''s faces, but he never knew that there were others behind him.

    This conforms to the idiom: the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it.

    The cicada is Xue Lu, the mantis is Ming Chen, and the oriole is Yue Yu.

    Ming Chen made a plan to get Xue Lu''s affection, while Yue Yu controlled the scene and ended up being the one who benefited from it all.

    However, the oriole neglected the presence of the silent and cunning giant snake behind it. This giant snake is, naturally, Yue Ran, a predator who waits patiently to harvest the greatest prey with the highest nutrition content.

    "Who knows?" Yue Ran asked with a shrug. "I will just take each step slowly."

    First of all, Yue Ran only planned to take a short rest and live her life freely to get out of the plot for a while. She will naturally appear later, but before that, she will have to increase Ming Ze''s favorability for her first. It was better to make it full.

    The original body''s role in the plot has not yet ended, and Yue Ran has already pushed the waves and acted as a driving force to advance the plot.

    If her guess was right, then she would be able to compact the years of the time of the plot into a few short months, and hence her task would be done very quickly.

    Yes, in this world, Yue Ran was supposed to stay for a long time, but she had no patience to do so. Therefore, she had created this opportunity so that she could immediately go to the next world after this one was completed.

    Yue Ran would only appear when the situation had somewhat stabilized.

    "But how about you, A Ze?" Asked Yue Ran.

    Ming Ze smiled at Yue Ran''s question, giving the girl a look that said, "Do you still need to ask about this? Are my actions already not obvious enough?"

    "Naturally, I will go wherever Ran Ran wants to go," Ming Ze said.

    Whether it was going to hell or to his demise.

    All as long as his Ran Ran was happy.

    After all, he fell in love with her at first sight, so he would happily sink with her during the hard times or happily be with her during the happy times.

    He would stick by her side until the end of the world.

    Not even death could keep them apart because he would find her even in hell or heaven.

    …

    The Yue Mansion

    Today''s Prime Minister''s Mansion is completely silent, with white silks hanging all over the mansion, fluttering from the blowing wind.

    Apart from Yue Yu''s pain and sadness, Prime Minister Yue and his wife, Yue Ran''s father and mother, do not show much sadness, or rather, they do not show any sadness at all. It was as if they were attending a stranger''s funeral.

    Yue Ran''s body was not found, which left Yue Yu in a daze and with a little bit of hope.

    As long as he did not see Yue Ran''s body, does that mean that there was a chance that Yue Ran could survive such a fall?

    Yue Yu was not sure, but he hoped that it was so.

    The end of the funeral reception can be regarded as a joy for both the people in the Yue Mansion and the guests invited.

    Ning Ying, Yue Ran''s cousin, has always been "comforting" Mother Yue, who does not look sad for the death of her only daughter, throughout the funeral reception. While Prime Minister Yue only had his own grand cause in mind, how could he put much thought into his own daughter''s death? It was just an insignificant thing.

    Such a scene made Yue Yu feel more stuffy and uncomfortable. There seemed to be bags of cotton stuffed into his chest so that he could hardly breathe.

    It turned out that everything Yue Ran said was true. She grew up with neither her father''s nor her mother''s love, which made her easily decide to leave this world without any hesitation!

    The more he thought about it, the more pain he felt in his heart.

    Yue Ran''s bones and body had not been found yet, and no one even knew if her body had been eaten by wild beasts at the bottom of the cliff. Yet everyone does not seem to care about it. They looked as if they were spending any other normal day where everything went as usual.

    Yue Yu stared coldly at the smiling people around him. Even the polite arc of his mouth had disappeared. His heart was pounding hard and fast, and blood surged to the top of his head, rushing to his throat.

    Yue Yu gritted his teeth, clenched his hands into fists, and tightened his lips. A trace of blood almost flowed out from the corner of his mouth until he pressed his lips together firmly, suppressing the pain in his heart and the urge to throw up a mouthful of blood.

    He lowered his head and closed his now-bloodshot eyes. He tried his best to calm all the emotions in his heart, suppressing the sadness and pain that were greater than death inside him.

    Those who made Yue Ran sad and suffer during this lifetime deserve to die. He has not yet taken his revenge on those people, so he still needs to endure it for some more time.

    Everyone. Everyone present is responsible for Yue Ran''s suffering and death! It was they who made Yue Ran live as a joke—to live as everyone''s object of ridicule since she was a child!

    It was they who made Yue Ran live in pain since she was a child!

    Ming Chen and Xia Zhan are too! Both should be damned!

    All these people''s lives should be buried to appease Yue Ran!

    That was right. Since he was suffering, since he was unhappy, then everyone should not be happy. Everyone has to suffer along with him. Everyone must taste what it feels like to be him!

    Not one person in the world can be happy as long as he is not happy!