You got your marriage certificate and then abandoned me? I'll feed the richest woman in the wor

A fishy-sweet taste lingered in my mouth.

She lay on the cement floor, which was covered in oil stains.

The cheap black and white waiter uniform was already soaked through with sewage from the floor.

The old injury on his knee was slammed hard against the stone slab, and dark red blood seeped out.

Inside the banquet hall, separated by only one wall.

The thick soundproof walls couldn't block out the deafening screams and thunderous applause from inside.

The auctioneer's excited, cracking voice clearly pierced Lin Qinghan's eardrums through the half-open vent.

"Three hundred and fifty million! Sold!"

"Thanks to Mr. Chen Yuan of Xingchen Venture Capital for acquiring this Ming Dynasty jade Buddha for a record-breaking price of 350 million!"

Mr. Chen stated that the jade Buddha will be donated directly to the Jianghai City Sunshine Orphanage.

"Let's give Mr. Chen a round of applause to express our gratitude for his extraordinary act of kindness!"

wow——

A thunderous applause erupted, creating a wave of fervent cheers within the arena.

Those capitalists who are usually stingy and calculating are now clapping their hands with all their might.

They were currying favor with the young deity sitting in the center position.

Lin Qinghan lay on the cold, damp ground.

Ten fingers dug into the rough cement floor.

The edges of the nails are curled up, and blood is seeping out.

350 million.

Even at its peak, the Lin Group, which she was once so proud of, couldn't have raised that amount of cash flow.

Chen Yuan simply held up a sign casually.

It was as casual as buying a bunch of greens at the market back in the day.

He donated the money to the orphanage without batting an eye.

The Sunshine Orphanage, which her parents once brought people to disrupt and which she regarded as a symbol of poverty.

The spasms in my stomach felt like a blunt awl.

It churned and twisted wildly inside her internal organs.

She was in so much pain that she couldn't straighten her back and could only curl up like a shrimp next to the slop bucket.

Acidic fluid mixed with blood and foam kept oozing from the corners of his mouth.

She thought that as long as she humbled herself...

As long as I can sneak into this venue, even if it's just to carry a plate.

At least I can still catch a glimpse of him from afar.

At least it will let him see how hard he is trying to survive.

But reality slapped her hard in the face.

In Chen Yuan's world.

She doesn't even deserve to be a waitress.

The man didn't even give the order to expel him.

It was just a gaze that was cold to the bone.

The security guards below treated her like a plague carrier, kicking her out of the gate as if she were trash.

This is the gap between them now.

A seemingly insurmountable, bottomless chasm.

Drip, drip.

The old cell phone in my pocket, its screen shattered like a spiderweb, emitted two faint beeps.

Lin Qinghan's hands trembled as she took out her phone.

The screen has poor contact and flickers with pale white spots.

It was a short message.

The sender was Lin Jianguo.

She used her muddy thumb to swipe open the text message.

"Qinghan, have you raised the money yet?"

"Your dad's finger is rotting all the way down to the bone, and his high fever won't go down."

"The homeless people under the bridge thought we smelled bad, so they threw our tattered blankets onto the street."

"We don't even have a place to shelter from the wind anymore..."

The message ended with a string of incoherent gibberish.

It was clearly a random press of the button by the sender in a state of extreme panic and cold.

Lin Qinghan stared intently at those few lines of text.

The pale light from the screen shone on her ashen face.

My eyes stung terribly, but not a single tear fell.

My tears have long since dried up.

No money.

She couldn't even come up with a single penny.

The few glasses of red wine that were spilled on the rich lady's dress just now.

Not only did it cause her to lose the 300 yuan she earned from her part-time job.

The agent even sent her a message saying that they would confiscate her ID card to pay off the debt.

The parents are waiting to die on the street.

She lay sprawled like a rag doll in the back alley of the five-star hotel.

And the man who once cherished her dearly.

Sitting in the brightly lit inner venue, he casually threw out hundreds of millions of yuan in charity donations.

They enjoy the admiration of thousands.

The stark contrast transforms into the world's deadliest poison.

It slowly eroded the last vestiges of her fragile sanity.

It turns out that, from beginning to end, the only fool was herself.

She treated a real dragon like a mudfish that she could command at will.

They completely ruined a winning hand.

Boom—!

A muffled clap of thunder suddenly boomed in the night sky.

The sky, which had just been gloomy, was instantly torn apart.

A biting wind swept through the dark alley, carrying a chilling chill.

The raindrops started falling without warning.

Large, cold raindrops pelted Lin Qinghan's body.

The cheap black and white uniform was instantly soaked through, clinging tightly to his emaciated body.

The cold rain poured down her neck.

She was so cold that her teeth chattered uncontrollably.

It makes a soft, gurgling sound.

She didn't dodge.

They didn't have the strength to hide.

He just let the rain wash away the mud and blood from his face.

The garbage can next to me was soaked by rainwater, giving off an even stronger sour smell.

This taste is her ultimate destination for the rest of her life.

The phone screen flickered twice under the rain before going completely black.

Even the last faint glimmer of light went out.

Lin Qinghan clutched the blacked-out phone.

The finger bones were a horrifying bluish-white from excessive force.

A hissing sound came from her throat.

His shoulders began to shrug violently.

It's not crying.

Instead, he burst into a blood-curdling laugh.

He laughed at himself for being blind to the truth for five years, and laughed at himself for losing his entire fortune to a swindler.

She laughed at herself for only realizing how unattainable that man was when she had nothing left.

The torrential rain poured down, and Lin Qinghan huddled in the shadow of the trash can, like a broken wooden puppet that had lost its soul, letting out a chilling laugh.