After Escaping My Paranoid Wife's Control - Chapter 17

After eating lunch, Ying Man drove Song Yu to Wing On Department Store. Song Yu still sat in the back seat of the car, not daring to sit in the front passenger seat. Although she had already been reborn, the rules that Ji Mingsui had established for her still held a lingering awe. And it was a particularly intense lingering awe. Song Yu estimated that even if she successfully escaped from Ji Mingsui’s control, she would still have to adapt for six months to a year before she could live like a normal person.

“I won’t be driving you home after work,” Ying Man said, raising an eyebrow at Song Yu. “Tonight, I’m going to a bar to have fun.”

Song Yu became interested. “I’ll go with you.”

She had finally been reborn with great difficulty, so she absolutely had to celebrate properly.

Ying Man asked, “Aren’t you supposed to be quitting drinking?”

In the morning, she had seen Song Yu write the two large words “Quit Drinking” in her notebook. She had even listed a whole bunch of plans to quit drinking.

Song Yu replied, “Alcohol isn’t the kind of thing you can just quit whenever you want to. You have to take it slow; you can’t rush it.”

She raised her arm and sniffed the scent of citrus clinging to her sleeve, adding in her heart: quitting my wife is the same.

“Makes sense,” Ying Man nodded.

Song Yu said, “Tonight’s my treat. The two of us won’t go home until we’re drunk.”

“It won’t just be the two of us,” Ying Man told Song Yu with a smile. “There are also two of my junior schoolmates.” She introduced them, “One is from the acting department, and one is from the broadcasting department. Juniors.”

Song Yu’s face changed. “Then I’m not going.”

Ying Man was puzzled. “Why? Since you’re single anyway, go and get to know them.”

She and Song Yu had known each other since high school and were classmates in the same class.

Song Yu was an orphan. When Song Yu was in junior high school, her parents passed away due to gas poisoning. Fortunately, Song Yu’s parents had left her a considerable inheritance, which was enough for Song Yu to peacefully complete high school and university. Because she had lost her parents at such a young age, even with the inheritance in her hands, Song Yu’s psychological pressure was immense.

Throughout her entire student days, Song Yu put all her effort into studying and had absolutely no time to date. After graduating from university, Song Yu decided to start a business. A startup company had many things to handle, and Song Yu was so busy every day that her feet barely touched the ground—she didn’t even have time to sleep, let alone date.

“Now that the company is up and running,” Ying Man advised, “you should also take a breath and date someone. The two of us have known each other since we were 15. From the moment I met you, you’ve been single.” She began to count on her fingers, “Counting it like this, you’ve been single for 7 years.”

Song Yu shook her head. Who said she had been single for 7 years?

In reality, she had just ended an 11-year marathon of love with Ji Mingsui. Furthermore, she only wanted to break free from Ji Mingsui’s control; it wasn’t that she didn’t love Ji Mingsui anymore. With Ji Mingsui occupying her heart, she was completely unable to whisper sweet nothings and date anyone else.

Song Yu took off the suit jacket she was wearing. Holding the suit jacket in her hands, she lowered her head and forcefully sniffed the citrus scent clinging to it.

An open love or a secret crush are both forms of love. Since she loved Ji Mingsui, she now had only two choices:

1. Openly love Ji Mingsui: Accept Ji Mingsui’s control and rules—not being allowed to work, not being allowed to go to crowded and lively places, not even being able to make a single friend, not having any private space, being monitored by Ji Mingsui 24 hours a day, and having to report on the dot wherever she went…
2. Secretly crush on Ji Mingsui: Without Ji Mingsui knowing, love Ji Mingsui freely and secretly for a lifetime.

She truly could not endure the days of option 1. She loved Ji Mingsui, but she could not achieve being willingly controlled by Ji Mingsui for a lifetime just as Ji Mingsui wished. Therefore, she decisively chose option 2.

After successfully breaking away from Ji Mingsui’s control, she would not get to know new women or start a new romance. She would secretly love Ji Mingsui forever, remaining single until death, which would be equivalent to observing a lifelong widowhood for Ji Mingsui. If she passed away in this lifetime and was reborn again, then she would continue to secretly love Ji Mingsui, continue to stay single, and continue to observe widowhood for Ji Mingsui in the lifetime after next. The lifetime after that would be the same…

Song Yu curled up the corners of her mouth. Her brain was truly so clever to actually think of this kind of method where she didn’t have to be controlled by Ji Mingsui, yet could still love Ji Mingsui for a lifetime at her own whim. It was simply the best of both worlds.

It was just that the days of observing widowhood were quite hard to endure. She estimated that she would have to suffer through the torment for quite a long time before she could completely adapt to the arduous life of observing widowhood for Ji Mingsui.

Fortunately, Ji Mingsui was a business genius and, in the near future, would become an immensely wealthy capitalist tycoon. Although a capitalist tycoon was not exposed as heavily as stars or actors, they still frequently appeared in financial news and entertainment news related to charity. When the time came, if she missed Ji Mingsui and truly couldn’t see the real person offline, she could still go online to search for photos of Ji Mingsui participating in various meetings and attending various events.

Stan a star! Right. Just like stanning a star.

Being Ji Mingsui’s wife offered zero freedom, so she wouldn’t be Ji Mingsui’s wife in this lifetime. She wanted to be Ji Mingsui’s fan a wife fan!

However, the main reason she could break free from Ji Mingsui’s control was not because of how clever she was, but because she was lucky enough. Fortunately, she was reborn alone. If that lingering female ghost Ji Mingsui had also been reborn together with her, then no matter how clever she was in this lifetime, she wouldn’t be able to escape from the palm of Ji Mingsui’s hand.

Because she was merely clever. Ji Mingsui, on the other hand, was treacherous, insidious, manipulative, and cunning, stopping at nothing to achieve her goals and using every possible means to get her. Let alone living life over again for one lifetime, even if she lived over again for a hundred lifetimes, she would still be no match for that old fox Ji Mingsui.

Ying Man asked Song Yu, “Are you truly not going?”

Song Yu replied, “Truly not going.”

She lowered her head again and sniffed the jacket in her hands. Aside from Ji Mingsui, she was not interested in any woman.

Ying Man was bewildered, “Why do you keep sniffing that jacket?”

Song Yu hooked her lips. Because this jacket had Ji Mingsui’s scent on it. It smelled so good.

While waiting for the red light, Ying Man turned her head and sized up Song Yu, as well as the jacket Song Yu was holding in her hands, a few times. Seeing this, Song Yu vigilantly hid the jacket behind her back.

“What are you hiding?” Ying Man was helpless, “Song Yu, there’s something wrong with your brain, right? It’s just a jacket, I’m not going to steal it.”

Song Yu smiled upon hearing this. She admitted that she was sick.

During these eleven years together with Ji Mingsui, Ji Mingsui had used various methods to turn her into an absolute lunatic. She didn’t know how long it would take for her to recover and turn back into a mentally healthy, ordinary person after breaking free from Ji Mingsui’s control.

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