After Being Targeted by the Gloomy and Obsessive Movie Queen - Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Shura Field – Memory Recovery

Xu Yinyu was enveloped in the embrace of the hyacinth scent.

She felt the fiercely intense heartbeat of the person holding her, a chaotic, off-rhythm pounding, like hail falling during a heavy storm.

It fell hurriedly, leaving behind a mess.

“A-Yu,” Yu Shujin’s chilling voice dropped close to her ear. She moved her hand from Xu Yinyu’s waist to her thin wrist bone, then slowly uttered a phrase,

“You’ve lost weight again.”

The final cadence held helpless pity and absolute familiarity.

The moment the voice fell, Xu Yinyu’s eyes widened in horror. She instinctively struggled, but Yu Shujin easily locked both of her hands with one of her own. She also increased the force around Xu Yinyu’s waist, holding her tightly in her embrace.

Across from them, Victoria watched the scene quickly escalate to an unacceptable point. Her eyes were bloodshot as she glared at Yu Shujin, furiously trying to stop Yu Shujin’s more excessive actions. “President Yu, you are hurting Xu.”

Xu Yinyu shyly buried her head. She felt more and more unfamiliar gazes fixed on her. “Let go of me, Yu Shujin.”

Xu Yinyu didn’t believe Yu Shujin would dare to act so recklessly in a public place.

Yu Shujin certainly had much to consider, but at this moment, she ripped off the mask of the elegant, composed, arrogant, and dignified CEO of Wanyu Group. She revealed her inherent wickedness, forcefully broke free from Victoria’s obstruction, and in front of everyone, leaned down and pressed her lips against Xu Yinyu’s.

But Xu Yinyu felt no tenderness in Yu Shujin’s kiss. In fact, it couldn’t be counted as a kiss at all; it was punishment.

Yu Shujin bit Xu Yinyu’s lower lip, and the thick scent of blood diffused between their lips.

In shock, Xu Yinyu summoned her strength and finally broke free from Yu Shujin’s frenzied restraint. She quickly ran to a spot far away from her, trying her best to put distance between herself and Yu Shujin.

Yu Shujin looked like she wanted to drag Xu Yinyu back to her side, but unfamiliar onlookers had already gathered, blocking Yu Shujin’s sinister gaze.

Xu Yinyu leaned against a pillar behind her. The doctor, Lila, supported her, not forgetting to gossip. “What’s wrong with you two? You seemed like you had a pure relationship last time. Why does meeting this time make people so excited?”

Xu Yinyu gritted her teeth. Just as she was about to speak, she heard Yu Shujin’s voice.

“Everyone, she is my wife. We were just role-playing,” Yu Shujin took out a marriage certificate from her coat. On the red background, white shirt photo, the two equally matched faces were clearly Xu Yinyu and Yu Shujin.

“This is our marriage certificate. We have been married for almost three years.”

The public in Country S is open-minded and highly accepting of this kind of thing, with a certain nonchalance born of familiarity. Moreover, the two women were well-matched in looks, with Yu Shujin perhaps even more beautiful. Their beauty inspired leniency and trust, and the onlookers immediately relaxed their scrutiny of Yu Shujin.

The doctor next to Xu Yinyu let out an “Oh~” and looked at Xu Yinyu, with a look of confirmation toward her colleague. “Aiya, I thought you were lying to us. So you really are married, and you like things this exciting.”

All color drained from Xu Yinyu’s and Victoria’s faces.

Xu Yinyu stared at the marriage certificate in Yu Shujin’s hand and Yu Shujin’s sinister, dominating gaze in disbelief. Her legs felt weak as she clutched the doctor’s sleeve, as if grasping at a final straw.

Lila noticed Xu Yinyu’s excessively pale face. Her expression changed, and she whispered, “Aren’t you two just having a moment?”

Xu Yinyu’s face was deathly pale. She could only shake her head uncontrollably and say, “I can’t be taken away by her, Lila. I don’t want to.”

Xu Yinyu’s last sentence was very soft, so quiet that Lila, who was close by, didn’t hear clearly, but Yu Shujin coldly caught it.

She walked toward Xu Yinyu. Victoria blocked her. “She doesn’t want to. You can see that.”

“And so what,” Yu Shujin looked at the young woman in front of her who didn’t know her place, repeatedly crossing her bottom line. Her voice was low and clear, with an absolute sense of oppression in her eyes. “We are legally registered lovers, who have bowed to heaven and earth. And who are you to her?”

“Come here, A-Yu.” The next sentence was directed at Xu Yinyu.

Xu Yinyu violently clutched Lila’s sleeve and instead retreated backward.

Yu Shujin’s expression darkened again. Her eyes looked at the place where Xu Yinyu’s fingers were clenched. She didn’t speak again, nor did she make any move, but the warning in her eyes was too obvious.

“A-Yu, it’s time to go home.” Yu Shujin softened her voice. She placed her hand on Victoria’s shoulder, her eyes fixed intently on Xu Yinyu.

Victoria frowned and shook off Yu Shujin’s hand.

At this moment, Xu Yinyu’s gaze froze. She understood the threat in Yu Shujin’s eyes. She opened her mouth, her eyes filled with conflict.

The memory-recovered Yu Shujin had once again violently barged into her life with an authoritarian, non-negotiable attitude, personally shattering the small steps they had slowly taken toward each other since their reunion.

Xu Yinyu hadn’t truly let go of the past, but she was once again forced to face Yu Shujin.

Yu Shujin’s eyes softened slightly. She reached out her hand to Xu Yinyu.

Xu Yinyu hesitated for a moment before taking it.

Victoria watched Xu Yinyu’s choice to walk into the trap in disbelief, looking at Xu Yinyu with anger and frustration.

Her words were filled with rage. “Xu, you are personally burying your own freedom, choosing the weakness and indignity of the past. Please don’t ever regret it later.”

With that, Victoria slammed her cup down and walked away.

Xu Yinyu looked at her retreating figure with a desolate expression.

The doctor, too, had a worried look, trying desperately to reason with her.

“You,” Xu Yinyu hesitated. “You remembered?”

Yu Shujin gave a cold laugh. “Yes, I remember everything. You must be very disappointed, having failed to get rid of me again.”

Xu Yinyu’s expression was blank for a moment. She didn’t know how Yu Shujin could recover her memory so quickly, but the resentment in Yu Shujin’s eyes was so intense and obvious that it made one tremble with fear.

“Since you have been so obsessed with me, regarding me as your wife, enough to portray yourself as a deeply devoted wife to outsiders,” Yu Shujin paused.

“I will fulfill that for you, A-Yu.”

Xu Yinyu recalled the words she had spoken while Yu Shujin had amnesia. Her face darkened. At the time, she was entirely banking on the fact that Yu Shujin didn’t remember her, nor did she remember that she was the wife Xu Yinyu claimed she loved fiercely. That’s why she spoke so carelessly, even deliberately exaggerating a false image of a wife she was madly in love with.

Yu Shujin abruptly dragged Xu Yinyu into her arms, then shoved her into the back seat of the car, getting in after her.

Xu Yinyu looked panicked. “What are you doing? I need to go to work tomorrow. Let me out.”

Yu Shujin gripped Xu Yinyu’s jaw, her voice thick with viciousness. “Xu Yinyu! This is the second time!”

If Yu Shujin hadn’t come to Country S for business, hadn’t chosen to relax in a bar, hadn’t noticed Xu Yinyu in that bar.

Then she might truly have forgotten completely.

She would have reached the end of her life alone.

And Xu Yinyu would have truly been willing to let her face it alone.

Xu Yinyu saw extreme despair and sinister, paranoid obsession in Yu Shujin’s eyes. How could she not want to leave Yu Shujin?

How could she not be afraid of Yu Shujin?

When one person’s power far surpasses another’s, even if the latter tries to stand straight, the immense gap, accumulated day by day, has already bent her back without her knowing.

Her first step to straightening her back was to leave Yu Shujin.

But Yu Shujin didn’t care about any of this.

Xu Yinyu pursed her lips, her eyes low and fragile. “I… I must leave you.”

“Must leave me?” Yu Shujin repeated. With a loud “snap,” she lowered the privacy partition. “Xu Yinyu! Am I some kind of heinous villain in your eyes, no matter what I do? Yet if someone else smiles at you, you’ll be charmed away, following them without hesitation, leaving me alone, lying alone in a pool of blood!”

Yu Shujin’s voice, by the end, was practically a scream. The grievances in her heart were shouted out through this anger.

But Xu Yinyu’s eyes were clear and calm, utterly unaffected, allowing Yu Shujin to be hysterical in front of her.

Xu Yinyu deliberately kept her voice steady. “You promised me that we were even long ago. You shouldn’t, and have no reason, to restrict me anymore.”

“Even?” Yu Shujin laughed, an inappropriate sound, as if she had heard a joke. “It’s not even. We are still legally married partners. How can we be even?”

Her voice was husky and low. When intentionally softened, it had a bizarre gentleness.

A chilling, strange feeling rose in Xu Yinyu again. She looked at Yu Shujin with reluctance.

“Yu Shujin, we can divorce,” Xu Yinyu proposed a solution.

Yu Shujin’s eyes suddenly darkened. Her voice was exceptionally calm, like the final peace before a storm.

“Slap!”

Before Xu Yinyu finished her sentence, a sharp gust of wind from a palm attack came, but it stopped abruptly just before it landed on her face.

Yu Shujin fiercely slapped herself instead.

Xu Yinyu froze in place, utterly stunned.

Yu Shujin’s cheek instantly turned red and swollen. She continued, “Say that word once, and I’ll slap myself once. You can keep talking.”

She was crazy.

A true lunatic.

Xu Yinyu’s mind was left only with the absurdity of the scene before her.

Yu Shujin’s dark, bloodshot eyes reflected a pair of elegant, tranquil eyes.

Xu Yinyu no longer easily said that word. “Anyone can live well without anyone else. Shujin, in the past two years, in the two years without me, you also lived a glorious life.

You just subconsciously value me too much, but the fact proves that you can live perfectly fine alone.”

Yu Shujin silently rolled up the cuff of her shirt. Xu Yinyu flinched, thinking Yu Shujin was about to punish her again.

But instead, Xu Yinyu saw several cuts on the jade-white wrist.

They were scars layered upon scars.

The scabs might not have fully healed before being torn open again, consuming the pain.

Xu Yinyu’s mind went blank. She lowered her head and gripped Yu Shujin’s wrist. “Why?”

“No why. I just thought about it and did it.” In the two years Yu Shujin had amnesia, she often lost the will to live. Yet, every time she was about to lose consciousness, a blurry, familiar face would appear before her eyes.

Even if she couldn’t see clearly or remember, from then on, she knew she had something to yearn for, a place to belong.

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