Chapter 52 By What Right Do You

Liu Zhuyin left the hospital and came straight to my place.

She couldn't figure out how to talk to me either.

Through all their interactions lately, she knew very well that I was no longer the person I used to be.

In the past, she could be indifferent in front of me, or even throw tantrums.

But now... fear arose in her heart.

She didn't dare anymore.

She didn't even have the qualification to throw a temper.

Looking back over the past five years, all the devastation was brought by her.

What face did she have left to point fingers at me?

Yet, she still had to fight for this!

Ning Yuanzhou had saved her life, and it was precisely because of this thought that she had ignored me again and again, pouring her heart and soul into Ning Yuanzhou.

Knocking on my door, Liu Zhuyin's face was plastered with a smile.

"Yichen, I... I'd like to have a word with you, is that okay?"

She was cautious, uneasy, and apprehensive.

That very demeanor made me feel even more ridiculous!

"You're here for the liver donor, aren't you?"

"Heh, Liu Zhuyin, oh Liu Zhuyin, as expected, you are willing to lower your pride for him."

"Then come on in. Let's see just how far you're willing to go."

I sat on the sofa with a cold sneer, while she stood gracefully right before me, her face tense with nervousness.

"This liver source can save Ah-Zhou's life, so I have no choice but to fight for it."

"I know you're unhappy that I came to beg you for his sake."

"But... but he saved my life, I couldn't just not come."

Liu Zhuyin was still trying to shut me up with that kind of rhetoric.

She truly regarded me as a three-year-old child to be fooled.

"That's your business."

"It has nothing to do with me! Let alone the fact that we are already divorced, even if we weren't, it would still be fine for me to meddle in this affair."

"After all, I simply look down on him."

I had nothing to be hypocritical about.

Before, I was too lazy to bother with Ning Yuanzhou, unwilling to waste energy dealing with him.

Even now, I still didn't care to deal with him; he wasn't worthy.

As for handing over my organs just like that—absolutely out of the question!

Liu Zhuyin's expression turned ugly as she let out a sigh.

"I know, it's because of me..."

"But these are two different matters. Saving a life is better than building a seven-tier pagoda, Yichen, can't you just..."

She was actually capable of saying such things.

I waved my hand, cutting her off directly.

"No, I can't!"

"I am no saint!"

"Nor do I possess the merciful heart of a bodhisattva."

Then I might as well play the villain all the way to the end.

Let her think whatever she liked.

"Yichen, what... what do you want me to do for you to agree?"

"Just name it, and I will definitely nod."

Liu Zhuyin was at her wit's end.

Yet, to my surprise, she actually started negotiating terms with me.

To be honest, I desperately wanted to say that as long as she agreed to a divorce, I would consent.

But after a moment of thought...

The divorce was something I was determined to secure, and it shouldn't be entangled with this matter.

Even if I exerted all my strength to get a divorce, I would never let that scoundrel Ning Yuanzhou benefit from it.

"Just how far are you willing to go?"

I sneered, staring straight at her.

I wasn't trying to make things difficult for her; I genuinely wanted her to understand her own heart.

Stop putting on a hypocritical act in front of me, claiming she couldn't live without me, only to be willing to sacrifice everything for Ning Yuanzhou.

I understood as well that a life-saving grace was heavier than the heavens.

But was this debt of gratitude born purely from saving a life?

Or was it because feelings were already there, and the life-saving act was merely an excuse?

"Tell me! I'll agree to anything."

"Money, projects, or... or aren't you annoyed by me constantly clinging to you?"

"I can also disappear from your life and sincerely bless you and Luo Mingzhu..."

She bit her lower lip, and as she spoke those words, her eye rims turned red.

I sneered in utter contempt.

"You really are a master of conversation."

"In just two sentences, you've managed to absolve yourself completely."

"What Luo Mingzhu said to Ning Yuanzhou, I'll repeat to you now."

"Don't project your own dirty thoughts onto others! Luo Mingzhu and I are just friends."

"But are you and Ning Yuanzhou just friends?"

I already had the answer to this question, and I had believed in it unwaveringly.

As for her... perhaps she had the answer too, but simply refused to admit it.

"Yichen, you've really misunderstood."

"I did used to have a crush on Ning Yuanzhou, but that was just a thing of his youth."

"When he left back then, I was indeed heartbroken, but because of you, I moved past it."

"When he came back, I was genuinely glad, and since he saved me, I... I ended up putting my thoughts onto him."

"But rest assured, I truly know where my mistakes lie now."

The same old rhetoric, repeated over and over again.

I was truly sick of hearing it.

"Liu Zhuyin, it seems you still haven't figured out your own heart."

"Let me ask you this, if we hadn't divorced, do you think you would have changed?"

"If I had continued to maintain that crumbling relationship, do you think... you would have remained steadfastly loyal? Or would you have eventually abandoned me one day?"

I had wanted to say these words for a long time.

If I hadn't divorced, if I hadn't walked away from her side.

She would never have realized any of this.

She would still have treated me like a houseboy, a subordinate, a tool for making money.

She would still have flirted and messed around with Ning Yuanzhou.

And sooner or later, worn down by Ning Yuanzhou's relentless persistence, she would have abandoned me.

That was why I foresaw it.

And that was why I left!

I loved her, but I needed dignity too.

I was no bootlicker!

Liu Zhuyin's body trembled, her complexion instantly turning ashen.

"I... I wouldn't..."

She still cared so much about her pride!

So eager to give me an answer.

"You wouldn't?"

"Liu Zhuyin, just how hypocritical can you be?"

"Are you really that afraid to face your own heart?"

"We've been married for five years; for the first two years, you were healing your emotional wounds, acknowledging me as your husband in name, but what about in reality? Did you ever care?"

"Later on, Ning Yuanzhou came back. Out of gratitude for saving your life, you grew thick as thieves with him. Do you dare admit you had zero feelings for him?"

"If you refuse to admit it, I'll just use your own words to answer you."

"You once said that our affection grew over time."

"Yet ever since he returned, have you spent more time in each other's company, or more time with me?"

"Will your affection grow over time with him, or with me?"

I stood up, walked right up to her, and looked straight into her eyes.

As for her... her gaze flickered incessantly, unable to hide her evasion.

She understood my words, and she could foresee where her heart truly belonged.

"One is a husband who helped heal your wounds, never once taken seriously by you, never once making your heart flutter, and never truly loved."

"Yes, we respected each other like honored guests, acting like the perfect couple, but that was only because I tried my utmost to please you, sparing you from any distraction or worry."

"From business affairs down to your daily food, clothing, and shelter, I took care of every single detail with the utmost care! I gave you nothing to complain about, which is why you treated me with superficial respect!"

"And what about the other? The former white moonlight who also saved your life. Whether out of instinct, or because you treasured him above all else, you would always care more about him."

"If things went on like this, even a three-year-old child could figure out who you would choose."

I answered for her!

Yet I did not blame her.

Because this was human nature!

Human beings are the most intelligent primates precisely because of our rich emotional spectrum.

I also respected her choice.

That was why I took the initiative to leave.

What disgusted me, however, was that my departure actually made her turn back—what was that supposed to mean?

"Liu Zhuyin, since we've brought it up today, let me speak even more bluntly."

"What exactly did you take me for?"

"A husband who provided you with a sense of security, whom you never truly cared about."

"Now that your chaotic white moonlight has returned, you're exhausted and suddenly realized I was good all along?"

"Are you the heavens itself?"

"The hell are you acting so picky for!"

"What gives you the right!"