Capítulo 1: If You Were Mine (1)
"If it was me, this would never happen. If only I wasn't too late, you wouldn't have to die like this."
The tears that spilled from his eyes shocked Su Xiaofei. She hadn't expected that in her last moment, he would suddenly show up. Lu Qingfeng, the little boy who used to follow her around when they were younger, was now a handsome young man.
Su Xiaofei lifted a hand and cupped the side of his face. She could feel her eyes stung with tears now. She thought that she would die a lonely death, without seeing anyone, but as she looked at Lu Qingfeng's teary eyes, she felt a warmth that she hadn't felt for such a long time.
"If you were mine, I'd protect you from everyone." Lu Qingfeng continued.
These were the words she had longed to hear from her wretched husband. And yet, here's another man saying the exact words her heart yearned to hear.
"Don't cry, Lu Qingfeng." She told the young man. "It's big sister's own fault that she ended up like this."
He was a man and yet he was shedding tears for someone like her. However, Su Xiaofei never thought that it was a weakness on his part. Lu Qingfeng might be a man, but he was still a human who knew how to feel hurt and sad.
Su Xiaofei's heart ached as she looked at him. Here she was, on her deathbed, abandoned by her own husband as he took everything from her while he cheated on her with her father's real daughter.
In the first year of their marriage, she thought that she and Mo Yuchen got along perfectly well. However, in the end, all of it was just his perfect scheming to get her mother's wealth and her inheritance.
Five years of marriage, and all of it was for nothing. She fell into the intricate trap and schemes of the man she thought loved her dearly and Ye Mingyu, her father's real daughter.
If only she could turn back time, she vowed not to make the same mistakes again. Alas, there was nothing else for her to do but to accept her end. If only she hadn't been blinded by love, she wouldn't end up like this.
"Su Xiaofei, I beg you don't die on me." Lu Qingfeng begged with tears flowing down his handsome face. "I wouldn't have any reason to live if I lost you too." He said as he lowered his head, his grasp on her hand tightening as he continued to cry.
"It's so unfair." He continued, "if only I was born a little earlier than you. If only I wasn't too young to stand next to you."
"Lu Qingfeng, what does your age have to do with all of this?" She asked softly, not sure what her childhood friend meant by his words.
"Everything." Lu Qingfeng lifted his head and stared at her pale face. "You wouldn't have fallen into Mo Yuchen's scheme and marry him, if only I was born a little earlier. The place beside you should be mine, not his."
"You…" Su Xiaofei stared at him in confusion. Why was he saying this?
As if knowing what was going on in her mind, Lu Qingfeng smiled bitterly.
"Because I love you."
The moment Su Xiaofei heard those words, she felt like all her remaining defenses collapsed at that very instant. Tears began to roll down her cheeks uncontrollably as she continued to stare at him.
Next to her, Lu Qingfeng felt pain as he saw tears fall from her eyes. He placed his hand on top of her hand and shook his head. He spoke to her in a gentle voice, telling her that none of this was her fault.
The same voice that reminded Su Xiaofei of the times when Lu Qingfeng would drop everything he was doing, no matter how important it was, to come and accompany her, assuring her like what he was doing today.
She had been a fool to believe that what she and Lu Qingfeng had was only an affection between siblings. She had been a damn fool not to notice that he cared deeply about her, making him feel helpless and miserable at the same time.
"Why? Why didn't you tell me?"
Lu Qingfeng only smiled. He didn't answer her. She should know the answer to her question anyway. Because of her obsession with Mo Yuchen, she had been blinded and had ignored the things that had nothing to do with Mo Yuchen.
Su Xiaofei understood his silence and it only made her cry more.
'You're such a Goddamn fool, Su Xiaofei.' She scolded herself inwardly.
"It doesn't matter. What's important now is for you to recover, okay?"
She shook her head. The doctors told her that she wouldn't be able to live much longer. Her days were already numbered. The poison that Ye Mingyu had fed her for years had caused irreversible damage to her body. Even if she survived, she would forever suffer chronic pain that would never go away.
"It's already too late now, Lu Qingfeng. There's no hope for me, but you still have your whole life ahead of you."
"No. No. No." Lu Qingfeng refused to let her go. "Xiaofei…"
"I cannot be by your side anymore, so you must take good care of yourself. Don't cause your grandfather any more troubles in the future, okay?"
Lu Qingfeng nodded absentmindedly as he continued to cry next to her. She was lecturing him once again, but he'd already tuned out her words. She would never understand that he cannot be without her.
"In the future, find a woman who will truly love you. Who'll never hurt you like I did and would cherish your feelings. When you find her, be good to her and live a good life with her, understand?"
If only she could return to the past, she would do everything in her power to not only to protect herself and her mother, but also Lu Qingfeng's heart.
Capítulo 2: If You Were Mine (2)
Su Xiaofei thought that the moment she died, she wouldn't be able to see the end of the cheating couple who harmed her and family. She hadn't even expected that she would witness her own funeral. What kind of torture was this? She wondered.
Hadn't she suffered enough from her past life? Why are the deities forcing her to watch the events that took place after her death?
Just as she expected, not so long after Lu Qingfeng found her, she died peacefully in her sleep. Her last thought before she succumbed into darkness was how pathetic she had been, arguing and competing with Ye Mingyu arrogantly, not knowing that she wasn't the real daughter of the Su family.
But she didn't expect that in the end, she was the villainess whom everyone hated for her viciousness and arrogance. Because she had always been a pampered and spoiled child, Su Xiaofei had often forced people to do her bidding, never knowing how to repent and had been a proud woman all her life.
The moment she regained her consciousness, Su Xiaofei found herself standing in front of her tombstone. As expected, even in her death, her father's shadow couldn't be seen anywhere. Perhaps it was for the better. She didn't want that homewrecker and Ye Mingyu to shed crocodile tears at her funeral.
She resented her father for marrying her mother for money. Yun Qingrong, her adoptive mother, had loved her father deeply. But in the end, what did her mother receive? Her mother died with a grieving, lonely heart, leaving Su Xiaofei on her own.
Just a month after her mother's funeral, her father had the audacity to marry the homewrecker and lived with her lavishly using her mother's wealth. Su Xiaofei had no doubt that her father, along with the homewrecker and Ye Mingyu were celebrating her death.
Living with those three after her mother's death, Su Xiaofei felt like an outsider while they pretended to be a happy family. In the end, she realized that the only family that cared for her was her adoptive mother.
Everyone painted her as the arrogant sister who kept bullying Ye Mingyu and she was the wicked witch who dared to step in between her sister and her lover. Ha. How could they ignore the fact that she was Mo Yuchen's fiance and it was Ye Mingyu who stole her man?
In front of her tombstone, there was only one person who hadn't left even after the funeral had ended. Lu Qingfeng stood with a pair of listless eyes as he stared at the inscription of her name. This once handsome young man who had always paid attention to cleanliness, remained standing under the rain.
Su Xiaofei fisted her hands on her side. She was already dead. What could she possibly do to help this young man be happy again? Did she really have to witness how the others continue living their lives happily after her death?
Lu Qingfeng was younger than her by three years. At the time of her death, Lu Qingfeng was already twenty-five and yet, here he was, putting the remains of the woman he loved to rest while other men his age just started to consider starting a family of their own.
The next scenes were blurry for her. Su Xiaofei wasn't sure how many months or years had passed, but as she witnessed Lu Qingfeng kicking her father's family out of her mother's home, she noticed that he had aged and was unrecognizable.
"Mr. Lu! Why are you doing this? This is also our late Xiaofei's home! How could you evict us from our own house?! What do you think Feifei would think if she knew what you've done to her family?" Su Haoran asked Lu Qingfeng with a pale expression on his face.
"That's precisely why I have to eradicate the pests and termites like you. As to whether or not Xiaofei would be pleased with my actions, only she has the right to reprimand me." Lu Qingfeng said with a viciousness that Su Xiaofei had never seen on him when she was alive.
If looks could kill, Su Haoran and his family would have dropped dead from the intensity of Lu Qingfeng's hatred towards them.
To think that the young boy who used to nag and follow her around when they were younger had become a tyrant after her death. Su Xiaofei felt guilty for turning into this person she's looking at. Lu Qingfeng wasn't a chatty person, in fact, he was cold to everyone around him, except for his grandfather and Su Xiaofei.
Night time came and Su Xiaofei still found herself in the mansion where she used to live with her mother. She saw Lu Qingfeng returning past midnight with an urn in his hands and climbing up the stairs silently before stepping inside her bedroom.
Why did he come to her bedroom? Did he kick out her father and snatch back the Bluemedia, her mother's company to avenge her death? Not only that, he also went head to head and destroyed Golden Star Entertainment, which was owned by Mo Yuchen's family.
Su Xiaofei knew he had done all of it for her sake. If not, why would Lu Qingfeng target her enemies and destroy the man who hurt her the most?
Lu Qingfeng didn't have to do this, but Su Xiaofei would never understand that he had never cared about other people except for her. Since Su Haoran, Ye Xing, Ye Mingyu and Mo Yichen were the ones responsible for his beloved's death, he was willing to send them to the afterlife if needed.
"Xiaofei, your mother is home now. Are you happy?" He asked as he held the photo of her that was on the bedside table with the same helpless and miserable look he had the last time they were together.
Why did her heart ache so much when she was already dead? Why couldn't Lu Qingfeng let go of her despite the fact she'd asked him to move on and love another woman?
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