Pain.
Excruciating pain, enough to make Shi Wan knit her brows.
Suddenly, her heart lurched.
Didn't I die?
Why am I feeling pain?
Shi Wan wanted to open her eyes and see what was going on.
But she found her eyelids felt like they weighed a thousand pounds, and she couldn't open them no matter how hard she tried.
Just then.
Footsteps approached, growing louder.
"Ruoyan,"
A middle-aged man's voice, deliberately lowered, spoke with evident urgency.
"What exactly is going on?!"
Shen Guanghua?!
Shi Wan clenched her hand, which was hidden under the covers, after confirming she hadn't misheard.
Her fingernails dug deep into her flesh, but she didn't feel a thing.
Hadn't Shen Guanghua been killed by Fu Tingchen himself?!
Just as Shi Wan was pondering, another familiar female voice rang out.
"I accidentally pushed her,"
Shen Ruoyan's tone was casual, clearly unconcerned.
"Who knew she wouldn't be able to stand on her own and rolled down the stairs."
She looked at Shi Wan, who was even in a coma, still stunningly beautiful, her eyes filled with mockery.
"I think, maybe she did it on purpose, wanting to avoid the marriage with the Fu Family."
Pushed down the stairs by Shen Ruoyan?
The marriage with the Fu Family?
Shi Wan raised an eyebrow.
This was something that had happened three years ago. Why was it happening again?
Could it be?!
An absurd, almost unbelievable thought popped into Shi Wan's mind.
"The Fu Family is coming to pick her up tomorrow," Shen Guanghua's voice was tinged with urgency.
"How are we supposed to explain this to them, with Wan looking like this?"
Of course, he wasn't concerned about Shi Wan's health. He was worried about whether they could successfully use Shi Wan to establish a connection with the Fu Family.
"Just say Shi Wan accidentally fell down the stairs. Have the Fu Family take her away tomorrow."
Zhang Rong frowned, her eyes filled with displeasure as she looked at Shi Wan.
"I say, it's better if this dead girl stays unconscious. Otherwise, if she knows we sold the hospital that old thing left her, and agreed to the marriage with the Fu Family, who knows how much of a fuss she'll make."
"But…"
Shen Guanghua still wanted to say something, but Shen Ruoyan interrupted.
"Dad, Mom is right," Shen Ruoyan said coldly.
"By the time Shi Wan wakes up, everything will be settled. It'll be too late for her to regret it."
Her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly.
"By then, we can say that the Fu Family was using their power to force us, and the Shen Family had no choice but to comply."
"No matter how angry Shi Wan is, she'll only be angry at the Fu Family, not at us."
The real reason she had married into the Fu Family in her previous life was actually like this?!
Shi Wan listened to their conversation, and her whole body felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, a bone-chilling coldness spreading from her heart.
It was precisely because of Shen Guanghua's words that she had harbored great hostility towards the Fu Family from the very beginning.
Now it seemed that she had been wrong from the very start, and terribly so.
"But then again,"
Shen Ruoyan's voice dripped with jealousy and discontent.
"That dead girl is really lucky, actually marrying into the Fu Family. I don't know what tricks that old man from the Shi Family used back then."
That was the Fu Family, an upper-class family at the top of the pyramid.
Shi Wan, by using the marriage contract with the Fu Family, instantly stood at a height she couldn't reach.
"Didn't Mom tell you?"
Seeing her daughter's unhappy expression, Zhang Rong immediately took her hand and whispered, trying to persuade her.
"Although the Fu Family is fabulously wealthy, the situation within the family is very complicated, almost like a den of dragons and tigers. And that Fu Tingchen is cruel and ugly; it's not a good marriage."
Speaking of this, she lowered her voice even further.
"Otherwise, Mom would definitely try to get you to replace Shi Wan, that dead girl, and marry into the family."
The discomfort in Shen Ruoyan's heart dissipated again, and a hint of disdain flashed in her eyes as she looked at Shi Wan, sneering.
"That's true."
Besides.
By connecting with the Fu Family, she could marry into any family she wanted.
Shi Wan's sacrifice had, in a way, benefited her.
"Alright,"
Shen Guanghua looked at Shi Wan, who was still unconscious, and sighed.
"Let's go eat."
After they left, Shi Wan slowly opened her eyes.
Looking at the time on the electronic calendar, her pupils shrank slightly.
She really had been reborn.
Reborn three years ago, on the eve of her marriage to the Fu Family!
Shi Wan's eyes were bloodshot, and her hand trembled slightly.
Rebirth.
It meant that everything had a chance to start over.
Including, her and Fu Tingchen's deaths.
Shi Wan thought of Fu Tingchen's despairing and lonely appearance, her heart clenched as if someone were squeezing it, causing immense pain.
"Fu Tingchen."
This lifetime, we will be well.
I will face my feelings for you, I won't run away anymore.
I will protect you well, protect us.
As for Shen Guanghua, and even the entire Shen Family.
Shi Wan's beautiful eyes, filled with bone-chilling coldness, slowly narrowed.
She would make them pay a heavy price!