Chapter 21.2 (1/2)

I hit him right on the mark, and only then did he lift his head in the direction of my voice. His face immediately dropped.

”Yan Xiao, I want you to come down right now.”

In high spirits, I spat, ”Pei! Yin Li you b.a.s.t.a.r.d, cheater, son of a b.i.t.c.h! You even dare to call the police to catch me! You think I'm scared of you?!”

He lifted his head up and his voice regained its past gentleness. ”Then you come down first. Talking from up there isn't convenient, it's too dangerous.”

I'd just started going at him. If I stopped here, wouldn't I lose face? So I continued to loudly exclaim, ”I happen to enjoy looking down on people like this, don't think you can stop me! The air up here is so much more fresh and clean! I only took a few things from your house. That's already me being polite and let you off lightly. Go ask your own conscience, how have you've treated me? You stinking swindler! Despicable, shameless a.s.shole, this marriage was all a scam! A plot! And you still have the b.a.l.l.s to turn around and accuse me of stealing?”

”I didn't report you to the police for theft. I asked a friend in the police department for help, I merely said that I made my wife so angry that she ran away.” Yin Li tilted his head, his face looking almost like it was turning a little red from embarra.s.sment. Then he lifted his head back up and once again stared at me with a burning gaze. ”In any cause, from this day forth, all of my possessions belong to you too. The situation isn't as bad as you think, I'll tell you everything when you come down, okay?”

Yin Li rarely spoke in such a humble manner, but I didn't buy it.

I dusted the dirt off my hands and sat my bottom down on the thick tree limb. In a unpleasant voice I said, ”Liar! You obviously were thirsting after my beauty and purposefully rammed into me until I became foolis.h.!.+ Are you still thinking of me as an idiot? I absolutely am not a French major, I'm a ballet dancer!  Yet you still wanted to run me over! You wanted to murder me! I even used to believe that I was like the frog to your swan, it really troubled my conscience for a while! But turns out that you're the frog!”

1 Yan Xiao is referring to the phrase ”癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉” aka ”frog wants to eat swan meat”. It's used to describe when someone (the frog) is aspiring to something impossible/unachievable (swan) For example when someone who's unattractive (YX rip) wants to date someone beautiful (YL).

Yin Li's eyebrows scrunched up even more into a deep furrow. ”Yan Xiao, I don't have any murderous intentions towards you. I've never had any. You car accident also wasn't premeditated by me.” He vehemently explained, ”Before you lost your memories, we weren't even acquainted.” Then his voice changed back into a tender tone. ”Come down first, it's too dangerous to stay up in the tree. I won't do anything to you.”

His response shocked me into silence, and a million conjectures once again flashed through my mind. I never would've thought that Yin Li had never even had a place at all in my past life. And it was at this moment that I felt both sorrow and ridicule. Just a second ago I'd been dancing around in the tree, leaping up and down like a monkey. But it was all just a bluff. Faced with the truth, I still paled with helplessness.

My chest hurt slightly, but I calmed down and dipped my head down towards Yin Li standing under the tree to ask, ”Then in the past did you ever hear about me? Tell me, when you look at the past me, then look at my current mannerless and vulgar self, don't you feel upset to death?” Without waiting for his response, I continued to say to him, ”You owe me the truth. I want you to tell me everything, starting from the very beginning. This can also help me return once again to my previous life.”

Yin Li responded in a low voice, ”This, I can do. Yan Xiao, I'll agree to anything you  want, I only want you to come down so we can have a proper discussion.”

I thought about it for a bit, truthfully squatting in a tree like this wasn't that great, so I began to climb down. However, getting up a tree is easy but getting down is hard. My hand grasped the tree trunk tightly, but I accidentally missed and stepped onto empty air. In the end, Yin Li carried me down from the tree. Unfortunately the skin on my ankle had been rubbed raw against the tree bark and now it was a bit red and scratched up.

I grimaced and hissed in pain, but Yin Li looked even more pained than I, as if he himself had been injured. He bent down in front of me and felt my ankle, then wrapped his hands completely around it. The heat of his palms felt almost hot enough to burn. Then he softly let out a sigh.

I stared down at him, and at that moment I had a clear view of each and every expression on his face. The painful ones, sweet ones, patient and enduring ones, and complex yet lively expressions.

I suddenly understood.

I roughly forced my ankle out of Yin Li's hands, and then dipped my head down and made an announcement to him in a voice full of maliciousness.

”Yin Li, it's over for you.” My tone was both confident and vengeful. Filled with pleasure, I whispered to him, ”It's over for you, Yin Li. You're a liar. But you fell in love me.”

Yin Li had always been a reserved person. Like a quiet trapper, he silently waited for his prey to get caught in the net. He rarely revealed a clear picture of his emotions because he knew that would be a fatal error. His feelings were his weak point. At this moment, a black cat seemed to reside in my heart and like a curse it swiped its sharp claws. Reaching through the fear and resentment that had arose in me as the truth gradually revealed itself, it finally cut away that foolish appearance I'd always worn, tearing everything down with a fierce a.s.sault.