“No, I don’t agree with that! I will never agree! You have no right!”

Liang Xiuqin lunged forward, her body slamming against the bars separating Yun Xi and herself. She had no regard for how sane she appeared at this point as she desperately pushed her cuffed hands through the bars in an attempt to get to Yun Xi.

Her gaze was as sharp as a scorpion’s stinger. It was piercing and full of venom. Liang Xiuqin wanted to leap out of the cell and tear Yun Xi apart with her claws.

Yun Xi stood up and backed away slightly, her face full of amusement as she watched Liang Xiuqin desperately trying to reach out from behind the bars to get a grasp on her.

She might be twisted to feel the way she did, but Yun Xi enjoyed the feeling of power she had over Liang Xiuqin. Her hatred from her last life could only be pacified by the sight of Liang Xiuqin backed into a corner and at her wits’ end.

“You are a jinx. I should’ve aborted you! You have ruined me. You ruined everything. This would never have happened if it were not for you. When I’m free I will never let you go. You just wait.”

Yun Xi had never smiled more brightly than she did in the current moment. Her eyes were bright and sharp as she regarded Liang Xiuqin as if she were a stranger.

At that moment, Yun Xi felt as if she had finally cut off all ties and connections with Liang Xiuqin. Her mother had become someone who no longer had the power to hurt her. She had achieved her vengeance on her.

“Okay, I will wait.” She raised her eyebrows and made her way out of the visiting room. Then Yun Xi stopped suddenly as if she had remembered something. “By the way,” she said, shooting Liang Xiuqin an innocent look, “thank you for carrying me around for ten months. I will ask the court to give you more years.”

“You! Stop right there! Don’t go.”

The door of the visiting room slammed shut and cut off the yells from Liang Xiuqin. Yun Xi turned away from the door and gave the guard a polite nod before walking out of the facility.

Rain begin to pour as she stood by the gates of the detention center. Yun Xi looked up at the thin layer of fog that covered the grey cloudy sky. She felt a heaviness that was pressing on her chest. It was almost suffocating her and crushing her ribs.

Vengeance only lasts a moment.

She had ruined Yun Ziling’s life and she had crushed Liang Xiuqin’s dreams of luxury. She had fulfilled the vows of revenge that she had carried forward from her last life. Yun Xi knew she was supposed to feel relieved, but all she could fill was a depressing emptiness.

In the misty fog of the pouring rain, a figure walked steadily toward her with a large black umbrella.

The raindrops fell heavily on the roof of the walkway, and rhythmic thuds of raindrops echoed on the path. The fallen droplets slid down from the edge of the walkway, forming a veil of water between Yun Xi and the outside world. Yun Xi watched as the man clad in a deep green uniform walked through the veil and into her sights.

Their eyes met. Mu Feichi’s fond expression came into Yun Xi’s view and, for a moment, Yun Xi felt her eyes well up with tears.

Mu Feichi did not say a word as he looked down upon Yun Xi from under the umbrella. She looked drained and fatigued.

The hatred in her eyes was slowly washing itself out like the pouring rain washing the world around them. It revealed a desolate girl, vulnerable and weak like a kitten being left out in the streets.

“Let’s head back.”

Mu Feichi sighed, he tilted the umbrella and opened his arms. He gently pulled Yun Xi into his embrace. She surrendered, joining him under his umbrella.

The faint scent of mint that she was so familiar with wrapped around her. Yun Xi had thought she had control over her emotions, but this act from Mu Feichi filled her eyes with hot tears.

However, she chose to hold them in. Yun Xi buried her head in his chest and tried her best to blink away the sadness that was in her heart.

But Mu Feichi could feel that something was wrong. He stopped and pulled Yun Xi closer to him than before, his voice kind as he leaned down and whispered, “Don’t hold back, let your tears out. This rain is so loud, so no one will hear you.” He paused, “I’ll be here for you.”

She would have held back if Mu Feichi had kept quiet, but his gentle encouragement had sent her into an immediate flurry of tears.

The sky felt as if it was crying with her as she bawled into Mu Feichi’s arms. The sound of raindrops against the umbrella heightened from light taps to heavy thuds, and the mist of the rain blurred the two figures under the umbrella.

This was the first time in either of her two lives that she had cried in the arms of a man, and the first time Yun Xi had cried in the arms of a man she loved.

As the rain poured and scrubbed the world around them of the dirt and the debris, Yun Xi felt as if it had also washed away all the pain she carried with her.