"Miss Shen, is there anything else you would like to say?"

Shen Qing, sitting on the sofa, was stunned for a moment. It was as if the sunlight streaming in from the floor-to-ceiling window had stabbed her eyes, making her eye rims instantly red. After a long, long time, she finally managed to find her voice.

"Yes, could you please record another one for me? I want it to be given to... my husband after I pass away."

The camera once again focused on Shen Qing's face. Her features were strikingly beautiful and ordinary, with a bright red mole at the corner of her left eye, adding a captivating allure to her beauty, enough to captivate all who beheld her.

However, at this moment, the face is bearing a shattered pain, towering and as if it might crumble at any time.

He slowly extended a pale, thin hand. When his fingers touched that high, prominent abdomen, his face lit up with brilliance. His brows curved upwards, as if the mole at the corner of his eye had also come to life.

This time, she didn't call him "Mu Er" respectfully as her husband requested. Instead, she called out the name deeply etched in her memory: Xiao Jiu.

"Xiao Jiu, I lied to you. It wasn't after being adopted by the Shen family that I started feeling good about you. Actually, as early as when I was eight years old, the moment you saved me from the ruins, I knew you were the one for me."

"Little Jiu, I love you. Throughout lifetimes, only you."

Little Nine, can you do it one more time for me, please?

This sentence, Shen Qing ultimately did not say, because deep down, he knew that he would never be able to go back.

He thinks it's dirty.

What's the point, even in death you can't escape your shame!

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Back at Qingcheng Ju, I suddenly remembered what the master had said when we were kids, running around with Qi Shengjing.

He advised him to become a monk, otherwise, he would not live past twenty-four.

At that time, Qi Shengjing said, "What master! He must be a fraud. In this day and age, who would still run away to become a monk!"

I didn't expect to not live past twenty-four.

In two more months, it will be my 24th birthday.

Shen Qingzi winced, abruptly pulled back from her thoughts. "Little... Mu Er, you're back... ah..."

He was pressed hard onto the bed, his eyes quickly covered with a black cloth. Only by covering his eyes could he pretend to be Shen Xueyao.

"Mu Er, it hurts... You..."

"Stop!" he cut off her voice with disgust. His handsome face, sculpted as if by the world's finest knife, was etched with obvious cruelty and impatience.

"Yaoyao, Yaoyao... Yaoyao, I love you..."

"Ah, Shen Qing almost forgot again. When doing it, one mustn't speak because the sound... is unlike Shen Xueyao's."

Pain, he wouldn't care either, because all he wants is to feel pain.

In his heart, he was a sinner, the one who had killed his beloved elder brother.

He could only carefully protect that high, swollen belly, lest his frenzy harm the child within.

The clouds have dispersed, and the rain has stopped.

Shen Qing was in so much pain that his fingertips twitched constantly. He looked down at the other person from above, his pupils were particularly dark, especially when they dilated, it was extremely mesmerizing. When he turned cold and ruthless, he became even more empty.

"Shen Qing, you freaking bastard!"

Mu Gui returned, taking a cloth and carefully wiping the fingers he had touched. It seemed as if he had just met not his wife, but some disgusting fly or mosquito.

"If it weren't for your face, which resembles Yao Yao a little, with such a despicable personality, just by looking at you once, I would feel disgusted!"

“I’m not, I have no one…”

"Heh!" Mu Gui Cheng laughed coldly, interrupting Shen Qing's words. "Shen Qing, marrying me, getting pregnant with your brother's child behind my back, even seducing him into a car to have an affair, ultimately causing him to be hit by a car and die... you say you are wronged? I think that elevates you!"

"I didn't!" Shen Qing shook his head vigorously, knowing that some things, once said out loud, he wouldn't be believed. But still, he wouldn't allow everyone to splash dirty water on him.

"My relationship with my elder brother is pure! That night five years ago, it was my brother who had something to ask me. His car had been tampered with..."

"Shen Qing, everyone saw the message on your phone. It was you who told Big Brother that Xiao Xiao is his child. You made an appointment with him at the old place to rekindle old dreams. Who gave you the face to defend yourself?!"

"After four years in prison, you still haven't learned to tell the truth?!"

"I have always been telling the truth, it's just that you are unwilling to believe it! Ke Mu'er, even if you don't believe me, I still have to say, five years ago, my elder brother and I were set up..."

Mu Gui's phone rang abruptly, and upon hearing the voice on the other end of the line, his tone was laced with unmistakable excitement and joy. "What? Yao Yao woke up?!"