After the Young Master’s Death, He was Kissed by His Mortal Enemy! - Chapter 94

The atmosphere in the hotel room was heavy with silence.

The phone, with its speaker on, rested on Shen Ran’s lap. Huang Yiheng’s voice drifted through the line, sounding somewhat ethereal as she recounted a past filled with bitterness and darkness.

To the public, Huang Yiheng had indeed been that talented, famous, and beautiful senior. Back then, she favored long red dresses and wore her long hair in large, bouncy waves, appearing truly confident and radiant. No one knew that she was actually a girl who had come out of the deep mountains.

She was the third daughter of the Huang family, with a younger sister and a younger brother. Since childhood, her parents reserved all their love for the youngest two, while she and her two older sisters were ignored. They barely had enough to eat. Her older sisters were pressured into marriages as soon as they came of age, but Huang Yiheng refused to accept such a life. She worked incredibly hard to study her way out of the mountains.

Huang Yiheng was beautiful and intelligent. She lived alone, working and studying simultaneously, and no one could tell that she was actually mired in a struggle for survival—except for Chen Xu.

Huang Yiheng and Chen Xu had been in a romantic relationship throughout university. However, because they both kept a low profile at the time, no one besides those closest to them knew they were dating. Chen Xu knew her family background, understood the pressure she carried, and recognized her vulnerability. He offered his understanding with a gentle facade.

At this point in the story, Huang Yiheng’s voice choked up.

“I never intended to pin my future on a man. After all, I had survived all those years through my own hard work. It is just that…”

It was just that, for so many years, no one had ever empathized with her fragility. Once that door was opened, a sense of dependency—one that should never have existed—began to grow wildly like spring vines. It was a mistake piled upon a mistake, and there was no turning back.

By the time they graduated, Huang Yiheng had a stable and respectable job, and her relationship with Chen Xu had reached the point of discussing marriage. Perhaps because of that dependency, she was desperate to marry him. Only marriage felt like a formal establishment of a relationship. At that time, Huang Yiheng was blinded by the idea of a wedding, never stopping to think that she was essentially following in the footsteps of her two older sisters.

But by then, Chen Xu had already made up his mind to obtain something from Shen Ran. To seduce Shen Ran, to be with him, and to climb the social ladder using him and the Shen family would bring him far more than a lifetime of hard work ever could.

Chen Xu could never tell Huang Yiheng about such a shameful plan. Consequently, the wedding date was pushed back again and again. Huang Yiheng could not stand Chen Xu’s sudden coldness, and her desire for marriage became even more determined and persistent. She began to pressure him, becoming suspicious and hysterical. The once bright and beautiful girl was worn down by her own anxiety and by Chen Xu until she became a shadow of her former self.

One day at home, another argument erupted over the marriage.

“Huang Yiheng, I have realized that you have changed. You have become increasingly aggressive and unreasonable.”

“I am aggressive? You are the one who promised to marry me after graduation! You promised me a grand wedding and said we would be together forever! Who is the one who really changed?”

The man who was once gentle and kind now looked at her with a cold, hard expression. He remained unmoved by her desperate questioning, simply picking up a cup from the coffee table to take a sip of water.

“Look at you. You are acting like a lunatic.”

Chen Xu was not Huang Yiheng’s support; he was the hand that pushed her into the abyss. Hearing those cold words, she felt a ringing in her ears. The sweetness of the past few years tangled with her current agony, as if her heart were being carved into a thousand pieces. Her blood boiled, and she could no longer maintain her composure.

She lunged forward, grabbing Chen Xu’s arm and pulling him toward the stairs.

“I do not care what excuses you make or what reasons you give! Take your things. We are going to register our marriage right now!”

“Huang Yiheng, you are out of your mind! Is this something you can just do on a whim? Shouldn’t we plan it out first?”

At the time, they lived together in a loft apartment. The stairs leading down were narrow and steep. Under normal circumstances, there would have been no issue, but that day she had lost her sanity, and Chen Xu’s temper had been flared by her actions.

“Huang Yiheng, let go! If you want to be crazy, do it alone. If you are so capable, go to the Civil Affairs Bureau and register by yourself!”

As they struggled at the top of the stairs, Chen Xu, his face dark with rage, raised his hand and shoved her away with great force. When she was flung back, she lost her balance. Her foot slipped, and she fell.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye.

“Finally, I saw myself lying at the bottom of the stairs. At that moment, I knew I could not be saved. This was where everything ended for me.”

By now, Huang Yiheng’s voice was thick with emotion.

“I thought Chen Xu would be afraid, or regretful, or that he would rush me to the hospital. But he… he did not.”

As Huang Yiheng lay there, her body twisted at the base of the stairs and her neck resting limply against the cold, pale corner of the wall, Chen Xu stood still for a moment. He looked down, then looked away, and a smile appeared on his face—one he could not even suppress. That smile widened until it became something truly hideous.

He walked down the stairs slowly and knelt beside her. He reached out and gently rubbed her face, which was still warm, with his thumb.

“Ah… dead, then.”

“It is just as well. If you are dead, I do not have to waste my energy humoring you. I can focus entirely on Shen Ran.”

“Yiheng, I really did want to marry you. I really did love you. But you could not wait, and you were so unreasonable.”

“I am sorry. But this is all your fault. You brought this on yourself. We really could have been married.”

Huang Yiheng watched in horror as her heart died along with her body. Chen Xu did not call an ambulance; instead, he staged everything to look like an accident. Then, he called her family from the mountains.

In front of her parents, Chen Xu acted completely devastated.

“Sir, Ma’am, Yiheng was cleaning the house while she was alone and she accidentally. I found her like this when I got home.”

If parents loved their children, they would not have easily believed Chen Xu’s story. But when they learned their daughter was dead, they only felt regret for one reason: “Since you cannot get married now, we will not get the bride price. How will Yiheng’s brother and sister live in the future?”

It was incredibly ironic and pathetic. Chen Xu, realizing her parents only cared about money, felt a secret surge of joy.

“Sir, Ma’am, although Yiheng and I did not marry, you are like parents to me. I have some money for you.”

Chen Xu gave all his savings at that time to Huang Yiheng’s parents. They took the money with great joy and brought her ashes back with them. To them, selling a daughter was the same whether she was dead or alive. The matter was closed hastily.

How tragic.

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