After Escaping My Paranoid Wife's Control - Chapter 6

The only thing more tragic than dying miserably in a car crash is not being able to finish your last words before you die.

“Ah!” Song Yu shrieked.

She sat up from the bed, gasping heavily for air.

A car crash was truly too painful.

Such a large shard of shattered glass had pierced straight through her body.

She unilaterally declared that a car crash was the most painful way to die in this world.

After panting for a moment, Song Yu looked at the room before her eyes, which felt strange yet carried a hint of familiarity, and blinked her eyes in confusion, “Huh?”

“Where is this?”

And besides, hadn’t she died in a car crash?

How was she alive again?

Song Yu got out of bed and looked around.

It was a one-room apartment of about twenty-odd square meters.

The kitchen was right at the entrance, without even a partition separating it.

There was a narrow single bed, a cheap wardrobe, no desk, and only a glass coffee table, upon which several boxes of instant noodles were piled up…

Song Yu remembered.

This was the rented apartment she had lived in during the first year she started her business.

So, she had… turned back time and been reborn?

Song Yu picked up the phone on the nightstand and glanced at the date.

July 26, 2025.

“It’s eleven years ago.” Song Yu’s eyes widened in surprise, “I’ve really been reborn!”

After the shock passed, Song Yu covered her mouth in pleasant surprise.

In her past life, she hadn’t been able to break free from Ji Mingsui’s control because Ji Mingsui was too rich and powerful.

But the current Ji Mingsui was merely an ordinary employee in her company.

Moreover, the exact time Ji Mingsui fell in love with her was August 28, 2025, at 9:47:11 PM.

Right now, there was still more than a month left before Ji Mingsui would fall in love with her.

In other words, she could completely distance herself from that lunatic Ji Mingsui before Ji Mingsui fell in love with her, thereby thoroughly breaking free from her control.

With one hand on her hip, Song Yu dialed Ying Man’s number.

Ying Man was the company’s human resources manager.

Since her startup had just been established, its scale was small and its staff was few, so Ying Man, as her partner, was not only responsible for human resources work in the company but also served as the administration manager, logistics manager, operations manager, security chief, cleaning supervisor…

Anyway, except for marketing and finance, Ying Man managed everything else.

Song Yu said to Ying Man, “I want to fire Ji Mingsui.”

Yes.

The very first thing she was going to do after being reborn was to fire that lunatic Ji Mingsui.

Ying Man laughed, “Our company only has five people in total. If we fire Ji Mingsui, then our company will only have four people left.”

The company Song Yu ran was a cosmetics agency.

Counting herself, the company currently had five people in total.

Herself, Ji Mingsui, Ying Man, a finance girl, and an intern who had just joined less than a week ago.

Song Yu said, “Fire her anyway.”

“When we left work yesterday, you even told me that Ji Mingsui had strong management skills and excellent sales performance, and that you wanted to make Ji Mingsui the manager of the marketing department.”

Ying Man was perplexed, “How is it that after just one night, you want to fire Ji Mingsui?”

Ji Mingsui was responsible for the marketing department’s work in the company and had performed very well; just after becoming a regular employee, she had locked down the local agency rights for two brands.

Song Yu curled her lip.

Because if she didn’t fire Ji Mingsui, that lunatic Ji Mingsui would fall in love with her, and after deliberately plotting to possess her, would lock her inside that golden cage, monitoring her every move at all times.

Song Yu said, “I am the boss of the company. As for the employees in the company, I can fire whoever I want to fire.”

She emphasized, “Yuning Cosmetics Agency Company.”

Ying Man was startled, “Out of nowhere, why are you reciting the company name?”

Song Yu tilted her chin up.

Because the company’s original name was “Yuning,” not “Yusui.”

“Yusui” was a name Ji Mingsui had later forced through against her will.

Now that “Yusui” had finally changed back to “Yuning” with great difficulty, she naturally had to emphasize it properly.

Ying Man told Song Yu, “Ji Mingsui has already passed her probation and is a regular employee of the company. If you fire Ji Mingsui, you have to give her severance compensation.”

Song Yu nodded, “Pay it.”

As long as it allowed her to escape Ji Mingsui’s control, she would pay Ji Mingsui any amount of money.

“OK,” Ying Man responded.

“After the morning meeting is over today, I will go talk to Ji Mingsui about the compensation matter.”

After the call ended, Song Yu sat down on the chair feeling completely relaxed.

She had always thought that she would never be able to break free from Ji Mingsui’s control.

She hadn’t expected Heaven to treat her so kindly, giving her a chance to live her life over again.

This time, she would absolutely not get entangled with that lunatic Ji Mingsui ever again.

“Freedom.” Song Yu stood excitedly in front of the mirror.

She clenched her fist and swore, “In this life, I only want freedom!”

After making her vow, looking at this shabby rented apartment, Song Yu frowned with distaste.

This broken house wasn’t even as big as the walk-in closet Ji Mingsui had prepared for her eleven years later.

Song Yu opened the wardrobe, wanting to pick out an outfit suitable for wearing to work.

“Going to work.” Song Yu turned up the corners of her mouth, “Heh.”

She hadn’t gone to work for over ten years; suddenly being able to go to work actually made her feel quite excited.

Looking at those few outfits in the wardrobe made of low-quality fabric, with loose fits and rough tailoring, the corners of Song Yu’s mouth, which had not been turned up for long, immediately drooped down.

She complained, “Why are they all street-stall goods?”

Just after complaining, Song Yu realized what she was doing.

An outfit worth one or two thousand yuan could absolutely not be called street-stall goods.

It was because she had grown accustomed to wearing high-end custom designs from major brands and living in luxury for a long time that she looked down on these clothes in the wardrobe.

Yet these clothes were the ones she had gritted her teeth to buy back in the year she started her business just to keep up appearances.

It truly was easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

Song Yu warned herself, “I can’t be like this.”

Choosing between the two.

Between a rich but restricted life and an ordinary but free life, she would definitely choose the latter.

Therefore, she had to adapt to this ordinary but free life as quickly as possible.

Song Yu picked out a casual business outfit: a khaki blazer and a beige midi skirt.

She paired it with pearl earrings and black high heels.

Her long hair was tied up with a black satin ribbon, looking exquisite and capable.

After finalizing her outfit, Song Yu intended to go for a swim.

Swimming early in the morning was a habit of hers for many years.

“That’s not right.” Song Yu shook her head.

She suddenly realized that she was not living in a luxurious villa right now but in a tiny rented apartment, which didn’t have a swimming pool at all.

Since she couldn’t swim, she would just take a shower instead.

Song Yu pushed open the bathroom door.

The bathroom was only two square meters, extremely cramped, and the shower head could only point directly at the toilet.

Song Yu stood in silence for dozens of seconds, then forcefully slammed the bathroom door shut.

Even though they said going from luxury to frugality was hard.

This was simply too hard.

So hard that she had to sit on the toilet to take a shower.

It was almost making her cry from the hardship.

In the end, Song Yu still sat on the toilet to take her shower.

Because between a rich but restricted life and an ordinary but free life, she would definitely choose the latter.

After getting sorted out, Song Yu glanced at the time; it was already past eight o’clock.

She instantly panicked.

Oh no, oh no, oh no!

She had forgotten to report her hourly status.

Ji Mingsui required her to report every hour on the hour.

As long as she was awake, then every hour on the dot, she had to post a status on her WeChat Moments to report her itinerary to Ji Mingsui once.

Song Yu hurriedly picked up her phone, opened the camera, and took a selfie while making a peace sign with one hand.

Then she selected her location and quickly posted a WeChat Moment.

[Song Yu: At home, just got out of bed.]

The accompanying picture was that selfie of her making a peace sign with one hand.

Song Yu waited for dozens of seconds, but she didn’t get Ji Mingsui’s good morning call or affectionate messages, nor did she get likes from the sales representatives of major brands; she only got a comment from Ying Man…

[Ying Man: Are you sick? Getting out of bed and you still have to post a Moment to proclaim it to the world.]

Seeing Ying Man’s comment, Song Yu finally realized.

She had already been reborn.

Why on earth was she still reporting her status?

Her reporting behavior just now was purely due to muscle memory.

Song Yu gritted her teeth, “Damn muscle memory!”

After taking a moment to compose herself, Song Yu put on her high heels and hurriedly pushed open the door of the rented apartment.

Although she was the boss of the company and didn’t need to punch in or out, she had set the time for the morning meeting at 9:10 AM.

Therefore, she had to arrive at the company before 9:10 AM to hold the morning meeting for all the staff.

Time was tight in the morning, so there was really no time to eat breakfast; Song Yu left the house on an empty stomach.

However, from the place she lived to the company, it only took half an hour by car.

Heading to the company now, if there was no traffic jam, she would still have a few minutes left over to buy a breakfast from the breakfast shop downstairs from the company.

The place Song Yu rented was in an old residential community, on the sixth floor with no elevator.

As she walked down the stairs in her high heels, she was still sighing in her heart that eleven years ago, she had been truly diligent to actually set the company’s morning meeting time at 9:10 AM.

Whereas eleven years later, she always stayed up late playing video games and often slept until noon the next day before getting out of bed.

Old residential communities did not have underground parking lots, and cars were all parked in the public parking spaces within the community.

Song Yu strained her memory, taking more than ten minutes before she finally found her broken, second-hand little car.

Although this car was very broken, she was free from now on.

As she started the car, thinking about her new life ahead, Song Yu happily began to hum a cheerful song, “Today is a good day…”

As a result, before she could hum even a few lines, the car that had just started up suddenly stalled.

Song Yu was startled at first, “What’s going on?”

Then she immediately remembered.

In the first year she started her business, she didn’t have money in her pocket, but it was inconvenient not to have a car when running around for business, so she had bought this broken, second-hand little car that always broke down just to get a bargain.

Song Yu took a deep breath, picked up her phone, and dialed Ying Man’s number, “My car broke down again.”

“Pick me up on your way, will you?”

The place Ying Man lived was very close to her home; before she bought this broken, second-hand little car, Ying Man had always given her rides to and from work on her way.

Because of this, Ji Mingsui had always suspected that there was something going on between her and Ying Man.

So, after Ji Mingsui officially took over the company, the very first thing she did was to dispatch Ying Man to Europe, sending Ying Man to develop the European market.

With this development, Ying Man had stayed there developing it for ten years; right up until she died in the car crash in her past life, Ying Man was still developing the market in Europe.

However, one summer, when she and Ji Mingsui went to Europe for a vacation, they spent two days playing in the city where Ying Man was located.

During those two days, she and Ji Mingsui stayed in the guest room of Ying Man’s house. Ji Mingsui intended to assert her dominance over Ying Man, so when making love to her at night, the noises she made were exceptionally loud, and she kept crying out her name.

Fearing that Ying Man would feel awkward if she heard it, out of helplessness, she could only kiss Ji Mingsui’s lips the entire time to prevent Ji Mingsui from making any sound.

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