Chapter 425: You've Lost Your Male Function
Rejected 99 Times, the Aloof Campus Belle Comes On Strong
Boss Cutie
Yu Xi was dazed, a bitter smile flickering across his face. "I'm not a man anymore. I'm not whole. I… what's the point of staying alive?"
A cripple whose crippling couldn't even be seen—what future could he possibly have?
Even if he had taken Jiang Muye's place, did that make him whole?
He would never be Jiang Muye.
Nor would he ever become Jiang Muye.
Yu Xi felt the pain inside him, so very intense.
He curled up, tears of agony streaming down his face.
However, the doctor beside him watched Yu Xi's breakdown with cold eyes, clearly with no softening in the slightest because of Yu Xi's suffering.
Instead, he looked at him the way one might look at a clown, saying words of consolation, yet inwardly filled with utter contempt for Yu Xi.
Just as Yu Xi was in unbearable pain, a projection was cast onto his body.
"He's awake." Once the familiar voice sounded, Yu Xi abruptly lifted his head.
He saw a graceful figure standing before him.
A pair of beautiful eyes were fixed directly on him. Her eyelashes blinked slightly, and it was hard to tell too much from her expression.
The moment Yu Xi saw her appear, he instinctively grew agitated. "You came! Ruoli, I've lost everything now, and I've been treated inhumanely. Could you—"
Before he could finish, Yu Xi was slapped hard across the face.
Yu Xi's eyes went wide, and he stared in shock at Leng Ruoli's action.
Leng Ruoli lifted her beautiful face, looking at Yu Xi with cold aloofness. "Still going to keep pretending?"
She was utterly disgusted with Yu Xi.
How could a person be so malicious as to still be deceiving her at this point, still trying to win her sympathy and continue using her?
As Leng Ruoli looked at Yu Xi with revulsion, Yu Xi likewise felt her disgust for him.
His heart sank hard. "What are you doing? I've been turned into this by someone, and I'm your savior…"
Leng Ruoli ought to be loyal to him and unconditionally help him.
Why was Leng Ruoli now looking at him with such disgust?
"So you think I'm crippled too, and that's why you don't want me anymore?" Yu Xi immediately began to put on a pitiful act. His thick trembling eyelashes blinked slightly, his expression full of hurt and desolation.
He tried to use this face to stir up Leng Ruoli's sympathy and pity.
However, as soon as the words landed, another vicious slap.
The corner of Yu Xi's mouth was struck until it bled, the skin splitting right then.
He watched Leng Ruoli in shock.
So ruthless!
"Keep yapping here and see what happens. One word out of you, and I'll beat you once!" Leng Ruoli's eyes glared ferociously at Yu Xi. "You're not even an actor, what's with all this drama, and you're still putting on a show for me! From the moment you impersonated my savior, you deserved to die!"
Leng Ruoli was no saint.
She wouldn't feel the slightest sympathy just because Yu Xi had become a cripple now.
Mercy to the enemy was cruelty to oneself.
Leng Ruoli had experienced this deeply after what happened six years ago.
Especially since Yu Xi's appearance had created so many misunderstandings, causing a rift between her and Jiang Muye, nearly leading to a breakup—just for that alone, she hated Yu Xi to death.
Yu Xi being alive now was already Heaven turning a blind eye.
But Yu Xi now was better off dead than alive, which could count as Heaven's best arrangement.
Letting scum like this drag out his life was a form of torment too.
A hint of panic appeared in Yu Xi's eyes. He could no longer stay calm.
He had never imagined Leng Ruoli would know the truth. "You… how do you know?"
"If you want no one to know, don't do it yourself. I don't know how you learned about what happened six years ago and came to impersonate someone, but I won't let you off easily. As long as I'm around, I won't let you live well." Leng Ruoli's stunning face was filled with coldness.
The hands hanging by Yu Xi's trouser legs began to rub helplessly.
Leng Ruoli's words were no joke.
Given her temper, she could do it.
"I was forced into it. You don't need to do anything to me. I'm already… not a real man anymore." Yu Xi smiled bitterly. He didn't even have the strength to resist now.
He closed his eyes and said to Leng Ruoli, "Just kill me."
"I won't let you die. I want you to suffer forever, to live in hell."
Leng Ruoli's gaze was cold to the extreme.
She looked at Yu Xi stubbornly, without a fraction of warmth.
A hint of mockery appeared in Yu Xi's eyes. "Can you really be cruel to this face? This is the face of the person you like."
As soon as the words landed, Yu Xi's neck was seized by Leng Ruoli with one hand.
Leng Ruoli looked down at Yu Xi. "It's precisely because of this face that you deserve to be like this! You think just because you got plastic surgery to look like Jiang Muye, you can become him? Impossible. No matter how closely you imitate him, you're nothing but a fake!"
Yu Xi raised his head and looked at Leng Ruoli, greatly astonished. "How do you know?"
"If you want no one to know, don't do it yourself. You think your stint as a kept songbird can be hidden from anyone? No matter how much you cover it up, a rock is still a rock. You can never become his lost radiance."
Leng Ruoli was stern and ruthless.
It appeared she wasn't lying.
Yu Xi thoroughly felt like a clown. He'd thought victory was in his grasp, and in the end he had nothing.
"Hahahaha—" Yu Xi burst out laughing.
As he laughed, tears welled up and spilled from his eyes.
Leng Ruoli watched Yu Xi coldly, without a trace of pity.
"Right, you're not wrong. No matter how much I imitate him, I can't replace him. Why did I ever think I could become him…" Yu Xi murmured despondently.
The past he so wanted to hide was now being torn away, skin and flesh together.
His hand reached up.
Leng Ruoli instinctively dodged away, as if being touched by him were something dirty.
Yu Xi didn't attack her, merely gently stroking his own face.
"Three thousand cuts in all, each one crueler than the last," Yu Xi's eyes glistened with tears. "When I peeled off the gauze, I told myself I'd never go back to my past life. Looking at myself in the mirror, I kept asking myself who I was, but at least I wasn't that Yu Xi who sold smiles."
Yu Xi covered his face in agony.
The sensation of having his bones shaved, his flesh carved, the injections, the fat dissolving—it all still lingered vividly in his mind.
He had called out in pain, cried, endured, and then continued finishing this face.
This face that belonged to someone else.
He had thought he could completely become a different, distinctive self.
Yet he grew more and more unfamiliar.
He had only wanted to break with the past—he didn't want to embrace the darkness of the past anymore, didn't want to be touched by anyone again, didn't want to become a commodity for trade.
But he didn't know when it started, but he found that his present self was even uglier and more unbearable than the past.
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