The two of them were quite intimate, and Wei Zhen Hui had proposed to Su Mian. When Su Mian heard that he planned to return home and tell his family about this, Su Mian thought she was going to marry him soon.
However, the news about their marriage did not come. Instead, news about his engagement with her older cousin came.
For Su Mian, this was shocking!
She did not lose hope, thinking that there was some mistake and hoping that Wei Zhen Hui would explain things to her.
However, he did not have an explanation and only repeated the words 'sorry'.
Even after so many years, when thinking about that time, Su Mian could not help but burst into tears.
She hated Wei Zhen Hui, hated how he abandoned her without reason, but what she hated the most was herself. In a fit of anger, she had decided to marry Jiang Yi, who had pursued her before.
Before she got married, Wei Zhen Hui went to find her many times and warned her that Jiang Yi was not a good person and was mentally ill. He warned Su Mian to stay away from him, but she would not listen.
This willfulness came with a disastrous cost.
After marriage, Su Mian found out that Jiang Yi was truly sick.
Jiang Yi was born from an influential family of interstellar soldiers.
He appeared like a normal person but turned into a monster at night and tormented her. To this day, some scars remain on her body.
Finally, one night, Jiang Yi had gotten both himself and Su Mian drunk. Su Mian had used the influence of alcohol and killed Jiang Yi with a fruit knife.
"Su Mian, someone's here to visit you", the female prison guard's cold voice interrupted Su Mian's memory.
She stood up and followed the prison guard.
Her father had visited her once during her imprisonment. That was the only time someone had visited her.
No one saw her. Her younger brother had been executed by firing squad after being accused of murder. Her stepmother had contracted a serious illness after an anxiety attack and died.
Her father soon became depressed and died a few years after.
Su Mian did not know who else remembers her in the world.
The only other person who would visit her was Wei Zhen Hui, but she had refused to see him. The last person she wanted to see the most was Wei Zhen Hui.
He had steadily risen to the top. When Su Mian had been imprisoned, he was already a captain. There was no need for them to meet, and there was nothing good for them to talk about.
Su Mian walked unsteadily as the heavy fetters clanged on the black cement.
As soon as she entered the visiting room, a gorgeous lady had charged at her before she could steady herself.
The woman grabbed Su Mian's short hair and slammed her against the concrete wall, "Su Mian, you slut, you vixen. You killed Zhen Hui. Why have you not died yet! Why won't you just die!"
Su Mian was dizzy from shock, but the pain from the back of her head had kept her conscious.
She knew this voice. It was her older cousin, Su Hong.
Su Mian did not resist. Her entire body was like an old ragdoll controlled by Su Hong.
She was ill beyond cure. Other than supporting her body, she did not have any energy left to struggle.
After being imprisoned, she was given a slow-acting poison.
In the beginning, it was just dizziness and headache. After a few years, her skin began to swell. In the end, her organs began to deteriorate, and her skin began to fester. When she became aware of it, it was already too late.
After a while, the black cement had scarlet bloodstains.
"You vixen. I will beat you to death. You seduced Zhen Hui, and you seduced other men!", Su Hong smashed Su Mian's head on the wall a few more times.
"I don't know... what cousin... is talking about. After imprisonment... I had never met with captain Wei", Su Mian leaned on the wall as she continuously gasped for air.
Even if she died, she wanted to know why. She would never take on the insult of being called a vixen. Her relationship with Wei Zhen Hui was a pure one.
Su Hong finally let go and looked down on her. Her gaze was filled with malice that could gauge a hole straight through Su Mian's body, "Slut, it's all because of your plan to play hard to get. You fooled around with Zhen Hui for 30 years, making him anxious to the point of illness. When he wanted to come to visit you, why didn't you let him see you? Why!"
Su Mian bitterly smiled. Any excuse would serve a tyrant. Wasn't it already enough that she did not see him.
Su Hong moved her hands onto Su Mian's throat and hatefully pressed her on the wall, "Didn't you know that men are all lowly creatures. Things they cannot obtain are all seen as good things. The more you did not see him, the more he became concerned about you."
"I don't know what you're talking about. Isn't he your husband? Why would he be concerned about me?"
Before she could finish speaking, Su Mian was slapped by Su Hong on her left cheek.
Blood flowed out from the corner of Su Mian's mouth as her face started to swell up from the impact.
Her trembling hand moved to wipe the bloodstains.
"Are both of you treating me like I'm an idiot?! You had already performed the deed in secret that year. If I and my mom did not block you in time, then you would have probably been married to him, right?"
"What do you mean?"
Su Mian was shocked. The only people who knew that Wei Zhen Hui and her were in contact were Doctor Gao and the captain. Even the leader of the Interstellar Health Division did not know about them.
"Hahaha. There's no harm in telling you now." Su Mian proudly smiled, "Su Mian, do you know why I hate you so much?"
"You hate me?" Su Mian did not know how she had wronged Su Hong.
"Right. I hated you the day you enlisted in the Interstellar Army! Hated you to the point my head hurt! Hated you for stealing my title as the top female soldier! Hated how Doctor Gao took you as a mentee! Hated how you stole the man that I love!"
"I had already liked Wei Zhen Hui very early on, but he never looked my way even once!"
"For what reason, for what reason did he fall for you!"
"You were clearly a new soldier and he already fell for you?"
"Is it all because of your face?"
After finishing, Su Hong lifted up Su Mian's chin, maliciously took a look at her, and smiled in satisfaction, "With your current appearance, he probably wouldn't even recognize you."
Su Mian was as thin as a match. Due to not seeing the sun for a long time and the slow-acting poison in her veins, her skin had turned ash-colored, making her look like a 60-year-old elderly woman. She had already lost the beauty that made men and women turn to when she enlisted in the army.
"I have to thank my mother-in-law for being able to marry him. In order to get 1/3 hectare of land every year, she had even plotted against his own son. When she had told Wei Zhen Hui that she was going to bring the proposal to the Su family, he thought that she was talking about your family, but it was actually my family."
"Hahaha. What do you think Su Mian? Now that you know the truth, do you hate me?"
So it was like that!
Su Mian closed her eyes as tears uncontrollably flowed down her face.
When she had killed someone and was imprisoned, she did not shed a single tear. When she had been tormented by Jiang Yi every night, she did not shed a single tear.
Today, knowing the true reason why Wei Zhen Hui broke up with her made her cry.
She had hated and blamed Wei Zhen Hui for 30 years without knowing the truth of the matter.
However, she never understood why he never explained things to her and let her hate him for a lifetime!
Seeing Su Mian weep bitter tears, Su Hong became extremely delighted and added one more information, "Jiang Yi was my patient. I had already known about his illness."
"Did you feel comfortable about his service in bed?".
"Hahaha, Wei Zhen Hui did not touch me even once when he lived and let me live the life of a widow. I let the woman he liked to be bullied by a different man."
"How is it? The taste ain't bad right?"
"I was also the matchmaker between the two of you. With such good material, why would I give it to someone else! Hahaha!" Su Hong let out a sinister smile after finishing.
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