Snowflakes began to drift in the sky. Wang Feng Yi came. By now, Xia Xin Wei had been transferred to the intensive care unit, her entire body filled with various tubes, a pale and emaciated face wearing an oxygen mask, her breathing very weak. She looked at Wang Feng Yi standing by the bed and nodded slightly to Qian Zhi, signaling her to leave. Qian Zhi said nothing and turned to walk out. The long corridor was deathly silent.
Qian Zhi leaned against the wall outside the room, blinking at the snowflakes dispersing outside the window. The door was not fully closed, and the conversation inside drifted into her ears, though only one voice was speaking.
“…Xia Xin Wei, I never thought you’d end up like this. Perhaps this is the price for seducing someone’s husband and destroying a family. All these years, although he has always been by my side, I know he never forgot you. What right does someone of your lowly background have to share a husband with me? I hate you both… Xia Qian Zhi is not Shi Yao’s daughter. I knew this from the day she was born. Do you know why?” Wang Feng Yi revealed a cold smile: “Because that night when you were raped was not an accident, but something I personally orchestrated. The hospital where your daughter was born had doctors who were acquainted with me… Surprised? Want to know why I never exposed her identity all these years? Because I hate you both so much! Because I wanted him to discover for himself that the daughter he raised for years is not his own flesh and blood, but someone else’s bastard! Your daughter probably doesn’t know her biological father is a thug who would do anything for money, right? But your daughter is more capable, actually bewitching my son to the point he would die for her!
Xia Xin Wei, you will never enter the Xing family’s door in this lifetime, and neither will your daughter! Don’t even think about it! You want to see Shi Yao? Impossible now, don’t wait, he will not come to see you…”
Wang Feng Yi’s icy voice cut like a sharp blade into her heart. Xia Qian Zhi stood stiffly and numbly, her vision gradually blurring. She closed her eyes.
