Mingyu started out doting on Eunha, but towards the end, he was ostracized in the workplace and did not have a smooth career because of her.
His hatred towards Eunha deepened as a result.
He despised the three Yu family members, for because of them, he had no choice but to work a job he had looked down upon just so that he could put food on the table.
In their second year of marriage, Eunha gave birth to a son, and since Mingyu couldn’t find a better partner, he could only make do.
But he developed this bad habit of frequently hitting Eunha.
Since then, the high-and-mighty rich young miss turned into this madwoman that you see today.
And to Eunha’s mind, all this was all thanks to Lisa!
If it weren’t for her, how could she have turned out like this!!
Yet, she wasn’t able to break free of that disgusting Mingyu!
The more she thought about it, the more jealous and furious she got.
Lisa’s fair and flawless face, coupled with that cold sneer, made her completely lose her senses.
She broke free of the security officers’ restraint. Unfortunately, a customer had placed a fruit knife on another cashier counter, so Eunha grabbed the knife and stabbed it towards Lisa.
“Die, slut! Go and die, hahahahahaha!!”
Eunha laughed maniacally as she quickly edged closer to Lisa.
Many of those watching let out shrieks and quickly left the terrifying scene!
Even the cashiers knelt behind the cashier counter in horror.
Splat!
There was only a peal of soundless mocking laughter when Eunha pierced the knife towards Lisa’s chest.
A slim yet strong wrist grabbed Eunha’s arm, and with a gentle tap, made the fruit knife drop from Eunha’s hand.
Clang!
The fruit knife made a crisp sound as it fell on the ground.
Everyone’s heart tightened at the sound.
Eunha, who Lisa quickly subdued, could see an endless coldness in her deep eyes, bringing about a scalp-numbing sensation in the back of her head.
She regretted her actions.
*
“Are you alright?
Lisa was seated in the lobby when she saw Qi Yuefeng and the others enter anxiously in the busy Dayi City police station.
Seeing Lisa stand there looking perfectly fine, Qi Yuefeng heaved a sigh of relief, then anxiously asked, “What happened? Was someone nearly killed? You have me such a scare my heart nearly leaped out!”
Seeing everyone look towards Jungkook, who was entering behind, Lisa lowered her gaze calmly and explained in a brief few words. “It’s nothing much. Someone tried to kill me, but I quickly subdued them.”
“Kill you?”
Qi Yuefeng didn’t quite know what was going on when she arrived, and hearing the word ‘kill,’ she froze in shock.
Jungkook walked over and looked at Lisa with his deep eyes that exuded a hint of coldness. “What happened?”
Lisa quickly recounted what happened in the supermarket.
“Is she a lunatic? Is there something wrong with her head!”
Qi Yuefeng burst out scolding when she heard this.
“I’m okay now.”
Lisa comforted her, saying, “The police said they would detain her and wait for her family to come and settle this.”
“She absolutely must be detained! If something were to happen to you, I wouldn’t let her family off. Doesn’t anyone in that lunatic’s family take her in hand?”
Qi Yuefeng was incredibly angry.
Lisa then saw Tan Yalan and Yu Shaotian hurrying over, looking weighed down with age outside the police station.
“Eunha… Eunha…”
Before the duo reached the entrance, they were shouting for Eunha’s name.
And when they saw Lisa standing at the door, they widened their eyes.
They never expected to see Lisa around.
Of course, when they came, the police notified them that their daughter had deliberately harmed someone.
As for who she was trying to harm, they had no idea.
Seeing Lisa, Tan Yalan, and Yu Shaotian awkwardly stood outside the police station lobby entrance.
It wasn’t so bad for Yu Shaotian, who had never seen Lisa much before this compared to Tan Yalan.
When he saw her, he didn’t even instantly realize it was her.
On the other hand, Tan Yalan widened her eyes and mouth in shock.
However, they only merely froze for a moment before entering the police station anxiously to ask the police about the situation.
At the sight of these two, Lisa merely pursed her lips gently and said nothing.
When Qi Yuefeng saw them, she felt that Tan Yalan looked a tad familiar. With a frown, she recalled who this person was.
But she didn’t know that Eunha, who had tried to wound Lisa, was this woman’s biological daughter. She asked Lisa softly, “Lisa, is this your… biological mother?”
Although she was reluctant, Qi Yuefeng still said it out loud as a form of address.
Lisa nodded. “Mm, the person who tried to wound me is their eldest daughter.”
Qi Yuefeng felt like she was struck by lightning when she heard this.
Did this mean that the elder sister tried to kill the younger sister?
What the hell!
Jungkook’s gaze jumped between Lisa and the Yu couple for a moment.
He had a feeling that Lisa’s relationship with this family was not so simple.
However, the information he had indicated that Lisa never had much contact with the Yu family.
Other than being abducted back to the Yu family a few years ago.
After finding out Lisa was the person their daughter tried to harm, Yu Shaotian and Tan Yalan froze in shock.
Then, Lisa saw Tan Yalan walk over to her with a sorrowful and reluctant expression.
“Can… Can I speak with you?”
Standing before Lisa, Tan Yalan no longer had that same arrogant air.
She seemed to finally understand something and no longer called herself Lisa’s mother.
She had already grown very old.
The wrinkles on her face had visibly increased, and she was starting to show white hair.
If the Yu family were still as glamorous as before, Tan Yalan definitely wouldn’t look like she was.
She was a woman who knew very well how to live exquisitely, yet she was reduced to this state due to circumstances.
Lisa lowered her gaze and responded calmly, “Okay.”
Wary, Qi Yuefeng didn’t bother to be polite. “I hope you know what you ought not to say.”
Qi Yuefeng truly couldn’t stand the way this family treated Lisa, and she even knew about how they had abducted Lisa back to their home three years ago.
No way would she have good vibes towards them.
Tan Yalan was awkward hearing this.
Lisa gently pinched Qi Yuefeng’s palm as a sign for her not to worry, then glanced at Jungkook before going with Tan Yalan to one side to talk.
She actually also wanted to know what the present Tan Yalan wanted to say to her.
“I beg you to let your older sister… Eunha off! She didn’t do it on purpose. She’s a kind child. It wasn’t deliberate.”
Beside the carpark, indeed just as Lisa had expected, Tan Yalan begged Lisa to let Eunha off in a subservient tone.
Because the police had told them earlier that Eunha had, after all, attempted murder. At the time, she threatened to kill Lisa, and several ears had heard that at the supermarket.
If they were to claim Eunha was mentally ill, how was it possible for Eunha to be mentally ill?
With their current finances, there was no way for them to verify Eunha as mentally ill.
Hence, Tan Yalan was in great despair.
And because Lisa was perfectly fine, if she didn’t pursue the matter with Eunha, Eunha would probably be detained ten days to half a month.
This was why Tan Yalan had no choice but to plead with Lisa.
“You’re begging me?”
Upon hearing this, Lisa laughed. Her lips arched in a sneer. “Ought I to be glad? That one day you, the high-and-mighty Madam Yu, would beg me for something.”
Tan Yalan, who was not like the Madam Yu of back then, felt like a needle pricked her heart when she heard this.
She let out a bitter chuckle. “I know it was all my fault. I was overboard. But Eunha is innocent!”
After all, this was the only daughter she raised since young, so Tan Yalan couldn’t possibly feel any heartache.
“Oh, she didn’t do it deliberately. If it was not deliberate, does that mean she can do anything to me as she pleases? Do you know she tried to kill me? Thankfully, she’s no match for me. Or else you would be looking at a corpse right now. Honestly speaking, how could your ‘kind’ daughter do something like this? It’s so disappointing.”
Though she gently spat these words of sarcasm, her tone didn’t imply the same meaning. It was a cold tone of voice that sounded normal on the surface, but there hid a hint of imperceptible sorrowfulness in the depths.
It was so imperceptible that one might think they mistakenly heard that.
“I know she was wrong. I’m just begging you to let her off…”
Tan Yalan continued pleading pitifully. Lisa suddenly riveted her clear eyes upon her and asked her this, “I just want to ask you this one thing.”
Tan Yalan paused in surprise. “What?”
“Have you ever regarded me as your biological daughter?”
It was undeniable that she was Tan Yalan’s biological child, for she bore too remarkable a resemblance to the young Tan Yalan.
However, there was nothing that could explain Tan Yalan’s treatment of her.
She shouldn’t hate Lisa so intensely because Lisa simply hadn’t done anything wrong.
“I…”
Gazing at the current Lisa, Tan Yalan retreated backward under pressure when faced with this question.
She was shorter than Lisa now. Lisa had grown taller, slightly taller than Tan Yalan.
She was not that old, yet her back had started to hunch. In fact, she even had to raise her head slightly to look at Lisa with great effort.
That aloof demeanor resembled her in her younger days.
Tan Yalan felt like she was staring at a younger version of herself in her dazed state—that same arrogance and high-and-mighty aura.
The disparity with the present Tan Yalan was huge.
She was somewhat ashamed. However, some past matters gently stabbed at the depths of her heart like fine needles, bringing the intense heartache that made her unable to change her attitude towards Lisa.
“… I… I didn’t want that either!”
Agitated, tears started seeping from Tan Yalan’s eyes.
Tears slipped down her twisted face, bringing about a sense of repulsion in others.
“But, who told you to… you cause the death of Xiao Ye!”
Perhaps due to being overly worked up, Tan Yalan revealed something Lisa had never considered or heard of.
Back then, when Tan Yalan was pregnant, it was supposed to be a pair of twins, but when she gave birth, one of the babies was already dead.
The reason being, the other fetus had robbed the twin of her nutrition. Though such situations were extremely rare, they did exist.
To Tan Yalan, this was a thunderbolt out of a clear sky.
She had been happily waiting for the birth of her two children, but unexpectedly, one of her children was ‘killed’ by the other.
Although the doctor explained that this was an unconscious behavior by the baby who could not decide herself when she was in the womb, the more significant reason was due to the mother’s body.
But Tan Yalan insisted on pinning all the blame on the surviving baby, Lisa.
The Xiao Ye that Tan Yalan was talking about was the girl who had died.
She could be considered as Lisa’s younger sister.
Or perhaps because the matter had happened so long ago, Tan Yalan could finally say this out loud. However, as she stared at Lisa, there was a sense of reprimand and heartache in her eyes.
As though this unpardonable mistake was Lisa’s fault.
Lisa was stunned. She had considered various possibilities, including that she wasn’t Tan Yalan’s biological child.
But never once had she expected it was such a situation.
To think that there was such a story behind her birth!
However, she had already developed into an individual entity. And since she already bore such resentment in her heart for so many years…
When she heard this story, it didn’t even stir any ripples in her heart.
At most, she found it to be unbelievable, but that was all. Towards that Xiao Ye, whom she wasn’t fated to meet, Lisa didn’t feel a thing.
Looking at Tan Yalan’s face, which seemed to be expecting an apology from her, Lisa curled her lips. “You’re ridiculous.”
After finding out the truth, she didn’t feel relieved and only felt indignant for herself.
How could a baby decide something like that?
And because of this stupid reason, she had to endure such suffering in her previous lifetime.
She sympathized with that younger sister of hers who died before getting to see this world, but not the Yu family.
Seeing Lisa turn to leave, Tan Yalan got anxious. “I’ve already told you the reason. Aren’t you going to let your older sister off?”
“Let her off?” Lisa stared at Tan Yalan coldly. “Are you kidding me? She tried to kill me! She deserves whatever punishment is coming for her. Just accept how the police are going to deal with this!”
She was benevolent enough that she did not ruthlessly exterminate the Yu family. Under such circumstances, they even wanted her to let Eunha off?
No way in hell!
However rotten her life became in the future, it was just her reaping the fruits of her actions!
Seeing Lisa’s resolute attitude, Tan Yalan froze in surprise and collapsed next to a car with a panicked expression.
Even though she didn’t feel many emotions after learning of such a reason, Lisa still thought it laughable. She headed back into the police station and told the police that she intended to pursue the matter, then left with her mother.
She was a bit cold, and it was only after returning home that she started feeling warmer.
“What did you talk about when you were out there?”
Qi Yuefeng knew her daughter too well. She saw her face turn pale after that conversation with Tan Yalan.
Feeling anxious, she was worried that Lisa would get sick bottling things up in her heart, so she made her a cup of warm ginger tea.
Jungkook also sat by Lisa’s side quietly.
“Nothing.”
With the ginger tea in her hands, smoke rose from the cup. It was scalding on such a hot summer day.
It felt scalding.
Through the smoke, Lisa seemed to see some shadows from the past, making her go into a daze.
“What do you mean by nothing? You’re getting married soon, and yet these things are happening. That older sister of yours…”
Qi Yuefeng couldn’t hold herself back from directly asking, “Is there something wrong with her head?”
Lisa nodded in agreement, clearly distracted. “I suppose so.”
Qi Yuefeng was speechless.
She glanced at Jungkook, who stood up instantly and pulled Lisa up. “Lisa, come into the room. I have something to say to you.”
Qi Yuefeng also nodded, as though agreeing that Jungkook should have a good chat with her daughter about what just happened.
“Mm.”
Lisa nodded docilely, then followed Jungkook into her room.
“What did that woman say to you today? Be good and tell me, hm?”
Once they entered the room, Jungkook lifted Lisa. He sat by the edge of the bed and made Lisa sit on his lap.
He bit Lisa’s ear and asked about what happened today in his deep, magnetic voice.
Lisa leaned into Jungkook’s neck and rubbed against it, her tone sounding muffled. “I… You mustn’t tell Mom and the rest.”
With that, she told him everything that Tan Yalan said to her.
After hearing her recount the incident, Jungkook snickered. “Does she have a screw loose in her head?”
Jungkook’s thoughts about this were utterly identical to Lisa’s.
“I feel so too.”
Lisa agreed wickedly.
“Mm, but I feel that you’ve been keeping something else from me…
Jungkook ultimately asked her this.
Since the two of them were about to get married, he didn’t want other matters obstructing him and Lisa.
Lisa froze.
The events of the past flashed by before her one by one.
She had considered countless times whether or not to tell Jungkook about these.
What would happen after she told him?
Would he find her scary? Would he not believe her?
How many people could believe something like being reborn?
But perhaps because she wasn’t in the best mood that day, she wasn’t willing for Tan Yalan’s word to bind her in heavy shackles. Yet, it did affect her thinking.
Since Tan Yalan could remember and hate her for such a thing for so many years, what would happen if she and Jungkook were to become estranged because of it in the future?
“I… I’m going to tell you about a dream. A nightmare I once had.”
This memory was something she didn’t wish to recall at all. So much so that even talking about it now, Lisa could feel tears welling up in her eyes.
With a dry throat, she slowly recounted to Jungkook the past events with a heavy heart.
Perhaps he would be stunned. Or maybe he might have other thoughts about it.
But now, Lisa no longer wished to hide it from him.
Regardless of what consequences it carried, she was willing to endure it.