After Being Targeted by the Gloomy and Obsessive Movie Queen - Chapter 33

Chapter 33: Reclaiming the Narrative – “No One Can Take You Away From Me…”

The planned marriage between the Yu and Shen families ultimately dissolved amid a commercial struggle.

High-ranking executives of the Shen Group in Country S were continuously exposed for kidnapping, extortion, and intimidation. All the evidence was collected by Yu Shujin and submitted to the International Court of Justice.

The Yu family allied with the Xu family and all groups in City A that had previously suffered under the Shen Group’s tyranny.

They began to shake the foundations of the Shen Group in China.

Yu Shujin learned a lesson from this incident. She gradually minimized her presence and influence in the entertainment industry. Subconsciously, she found a path she should pursue, emerging from the confusion of her previously dissolute life.

“Shen Nianbai sent an email, Boss Yu. Guess what she said?” Chi Xia sat at the small office desk opposite Yu Shujin, looking at her with a slightly heavy expression.

Yu Shujin didn’t even lift her eyelids. “Nothing but curses, I suppose.”

“She said that the Shen family and the Yu family will be irreconcilable from now on. This time, there’s truly no room for negotiation,” Chi Xia sighed.

Yu Shujin didn’t find it regrettable; she even felt it wasn’t enough. “Since the Shen Group invaded China ten years ago, how many local emerging enterprises have they suppressed? How many nascent forces have they deterred? They have usurped our place for a decade.

There is no coexistence between us and the Shen Group, only a relationship of threat and struggle. Don’t harbor fantasies of seeking gain from a tiger.”

Chi Xia nodded. Then, thinking of the recent kidnapping incident, where her boss had callously put Miss Xu in harm’s way, and seeing her now working obsessively, she suppressed her curiosity, not daring to reveal it in front of Yu Shujin for fear of losing her performance bonus.

Yu Shujin raised her wrist, looking at the expensive watch on her fair skin, and realized it was almost time for the meeting.

She immediately signaled Chi Xia to call the directors and the Chief Operating Officer.

Chi Xia’s eyes were vacant. She exhaled a weak breath, completely drained of energy.

They had been continuously working overtime, attending meetings, and preparing various reports for a solid half-month.

Yu Shujin wasn’t the type to obsess over details, but her pace was fast, and the progress she pushed for was equally rapid.

She was like a devilish teacher in middle school math class who, focusing on major concepts while skimming minor ones, rapidly advanced the curriculum, finishing a semester’s worth of material in less than half a month.

Chi Xia slumped in the soft chair and slowly walked out like a zombie.

Yu Shujin’s pen paused in mid-air as Chi Xia left. She hesitated for a moment, then took out her phone and opened the stacked message box.

The picture showed a frail, pale woman whose wrists were still wrapped in bandages, slightly lifting her chin, holding a glass of water, and taking small sips.

Yu Shujin also swallowed, watching for a while, saving the photo to her album before checking Xu Ruoying’s message from today.

Xu Ruoying: Miss Xu was conscious for half an hour longer than yesterday. She said she wants to meet and talk with you.

Yu Shujin’s eyes flickered slightly.

Xu Yinyu wanted to talk to her?

Talk about what? How to dissolve the marriage, how to set her free, how to disappear from her life.

A surge of anger, like fire, spread through Yu Shujin’s heart, extending to all parts of her body. There was a burning pain in her very bones and blood.

She violently pressed the screen off and immediately plunged back into work, foolishly trying to erase the text from her memory.

Xu Yinyu awakened from the immense emotional fog, deeply regretting her self-harming act.

She seriously examined her own cowardice.

Because of one failed relationship, she completely denied her own integrity, then fatalistically placed all her happiness on another person, surrendering her autonomy. When she didn’t receive the expected positive feedback, she shockingly chose a path of no return.

Fortunately.

Fortunately, Yu Shujin wasn’t completely heartless. She saved her, giving her a chance to turn back.

Then, she began to seriously contemplate her relationship with Yu Shujin.

She hadn’t understood Yu Shujin’s initial approach, even self-indulgently believing it was a proactive move by Yu Shujin, driven by deep affection for her.

It wasn’t until Xu Yinyu truly opened her heart to her that the blade, coated in honey but steeped in poison since their reunion, was firmly grasped by Yu Shujin and plunged mercilessly through Xu Yinyu’s heart.

Tens of thousands of emotional threads, like a woven web, flew apart at that moment, like blood-colored butterflies falling to the ground.

Xu Yinyu’s emotions had reached their limit.

The moment the blade sliced her wrist, all she felt was coldness.

The countless emotions in her chest were released as the blood flowed out.

Her hatred, her resentment, her grievance, her disappointment—all exploded as her body grew colder and colder.

Xu Yinyu had been awake for a week but hadn’t seen Yu Shujin. She proactively told Xu Ruoying that she wanted to meet and talk with Yu Shujin.

Their complicated, entangled relationship had long led them down a path of self-loss.

Xu Yinyu, at this moment, was determined to fight for her freedom from Yu Shujin, no matter the cost.

But Yu Shujin seemed to know Xu Yinyu’s thoughts. From the time she was hospitalized to her discharge, until Xu Yinyu was standing alone with a cold face, pulling a suitcase and attempting to move out of the villa.

Only then did Yu Shujin rush in, trailing the cold air of rain and snow from outside. She looked Xu Yinyu up and down twice before shifting her gaze.

“You’ve just been discharged. Strenuous activity like this is not suitable for you, A-Yu. Put the suitcase down, I’ll take you to dinner.”

Xu Yinyu’s complexion was better now than the pale look in the photo, but her slight figure was still worrying. She was wrapped in a beige long scarf, concealing her lips.

Xu Yinyu shook her head, stating firmly, “You are engaged to Shen Lu. You have unilaterally breached our agreement, so I can leave this place.”

Yu Shujin stepped closer to Xu Yinyu, instinctively wanting to hold her.

Xu Yinyu reacted strongly, stepping back, looking at her with an alert and unfamiliar emotion.

“I will also draft the divorce agreement as soon as possible and send it to you for signature,” Xu Yinyu’s words struck Yu Shujin’s heart, word by word.

It felt like a steel needle dancing on her heart.

The pain was harder to bear than ever before.

Yu Shujin was controlled by an extreme panic. Her lips trembled as she explained, “Shen Lu and I have already broken off the engagement. There was nothing between us from beginning to end.”

Unfortunately, these explanations sounded remarkably weak after the harsh words had been spoken.

Yu Shujin knew well that the fundamental reason their relationship had reached this point was not the engagement with Shen Lu.

It was her own self-serving stupidity.

Xu Yinyu had poured all her emotions into her. She had no strength left to blame the woman in front of her.

Because she had once sincerely liked her, had painfully missed her, and was even willing to swallow her pride and step back, piece by piece, to accommodate Yu Shujin.

She tried to mend the fragments of their broken mirror.

But all of this—a relationship dependent solely on one person’s emotional concession—was insufficient.

Thus, the feelings between the two were very easily and completely shattered on a certain dark night.

Xu Yinyu shook her head, the emotion in her eyes now very faint. “You know, I no longer possess anything you want.”

Yu Shujin’s expression abruptly collapsed, fracturing as she embraced Xu Yinyu. For the first time, she couldn’t bear it and lowered her head. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Please, please like me one more time. I’m begging you. People make mistakes. I know I was wrong. I know I was ridiculously wrong. I never intended to hurt you, A-Yu. Please, give me one more chance…”

In front of the emotionally collapsed Yu Shujin, Xu Yinyu was, for the first time, calmly detached, as if viewing the scene from the outside.

“It’s alright. I forgive you,” Xu Yinyu cupped Yu Shujin’s cheeks.

Beautiful women always receive everyone’s favor. Even choking on tears, she was still mesmerizingly beautiful.

Xu Yinyu gently placed her forehead against Yu Shujin’s cold one.

Yu Shujin’s throat constricted, and many sounds disappeared at that moment. Just when she thought everything could be saved in this second.

Xu Yinyu told her, “We failed again, Shujin.”

A broken mirror is hard to mend.

She and Yu Shujin had reached the end of the road.

“Let’s set each other free.”

Her voice was as light as a kite far away in the sky. If Yu Shujin wanted to pull it back, she could only rely on a fragile kite string.

Lacking sufficient security, she could only tighten her hands, harder and harder.

Wounding her own hands until they were bloody, and prematurely dragging the soaring kite down to the ground.

Yu Shujin’s ears felt muffled by layers of cotton. Although Xu Yinyu was treating her gently, she felt like cold water had been thrown over her.

She lifted her head, wiping away her tears, and seeing the document bag in Xu Yinyu’s hand, she violently snatched it, tore it to shreds, and threw it at her feet. Her eyes changed, and she said, word by word, “Impossible!”

“I will compensate you with a grand wedding. You cannot leave me, A-Yu. Of course, you can walk away, but what about Aunt Xu? If Aunt Xu goes without the best medical care environment for a day, her condition will worsen day by day.

A-Yu, stay with me. None of this will happen. I will find the best international medical team to care for Aunt Xu.”

Yu Shujin shed the guise of a lover. Using the tactics of a businesswoman, she threw down her bargaining chip, attempting to use it to secure Xu Yinyu once more.

Xu Yinyu looked at her coldly. “And then what?”

A flicker of panic crossed Yu Shujin’s face. “You won’t leave.”

“You know me well?” Xu Yinyu smiled, but the curve of her lips was flat, like self-mockery.

“I know you better than I know myself,” Yu Shujin’s voice was firm yet fragile.

“Me too, Yu Shujin,” Xu Yinyu said softly. “So I know that you won’t do that. Even if I leave you, even if I reject you, you will still help me.”

“So, Yu Shujin, goodbye. We are simply not meant to be.” Xu Yinyu struggled free from Yu Shujin’s grasp. She tightened her grip on the suitcase and moved toward the door.

The vast snow had started falling at some unknown time. They had been entangled from late summer to the first snow.

As Xu Yinyu looked up, a snowflake lightly brushed her cheek.

She hardened her heart, refusing to look back, focusing only on moving forward. But before she could take two steps, she was struck unconscious by a sharp blow to the neck.

Xu Yinyu suddenly lost consciousness. Her vision went black, and her body involuntarily fell backward, but she didn’t hit the floor.

Yu Shujin caught her in time, hugging her so tightly that Xu Yinyu’s bones faintly creaked under the strain.

Yu Shujin’s eyes were bloodshot as she restrained Xu Yinyu, her expression utterly obsessive and sinister.

Her breathing was shaky, but her words were clearly audible.

“No one can take you away from me.

Not even you yourself.”

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