I'm In Love With the Guy I Grew Up With-Chapter 969: Love Is Fulfillment, Not Suffering (Part 2)

Though he was smiling, the smile did not reach his eyes, which were naturally cold.

This question stumped Ou Jundao, and he turned his face away, unwilling to face Ji Yebai.

Ji Yebai continued, "She already has someone in her heart. Forcing her to be with you is just in vain.

Love is about fulfillment, not making things difficult."

These eight words hit Ou Jundao where it hurt, and he was emotionally agitated: "You don’t understand! You don’t understand anything!"

"At least I, Young Master, know how to love someone better than you do." Ji Yebai’s expression was indifferent.

"You just make it sound nice! If she fell in love with another man, I don’t believe you would choose to fulfill them!" Ou Jundao shouted, pointing at Ning Xixi.

Ji Yebai replied confidently, "She won’t fall in love with someone else."

"Ha, where does your confidence come from? What makes you think so?"

"Simply because I am Ji Yebai."

"..."

After a long silence, Ou Jundao leaned on the wall in despair and smiled bitterly, "I only lost because she doesn’t love me..." 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

How could he be willing to accept this?

He wasn’t any worse than the man she loved, but so what? She just didn’t love him.

He lived a life of madness, melancholy, and obsession, only to find himself ending up in prison.

The Ji Family and Song Family had already ordered that no lawyer would defend Ou Jundao, and he would never get out of prison in this lifetime.

As for why he wasn’t sentenced to death, it was because death would be too lenient for him.

Sometimes living can be more painful than dying, which is why there’s a saying "a fate worse than death."

"Where are my parents’ ashes?" Ning Xixi asked angrily, her eyes blazing with fury.

Ou Jundao laughed loudly, "I won’t tell you! Even if I die, I want to rest eternally with your mother’s ashes!"

His almost maniacal laughter made Ning Xixi’s blood boil. "You pervert!"

Ou Jundao just laughed, feeling he had finally regained some ground, and laughed with extreme satisfaction.

Ning Xixi ground her teeth, "Dabai, let’s go."

She feared that if she stayed any longer with this lunatic, she wouldn’t be able to control her urge to kill him!

Ji Yebai furrowed his brow and promised, "Little Ning, I will definitely retrieve your parents’ ashes for you!"

Ning Xixi tugged at the corner of her mouth, smiling reluctantly, "Mm..."

But she knew that hope was surely very slim.

The two turned to leave when they heard a hoarse voice, "Ning Xixi, before your mom died, did she ever mention me?"

Ning Xixi paused in her steps, her voice calm and flat, "No.

She emphasized, "Not even once."

With that, she and Ji Yebai left the detention center, leaving Ou Jundao alone facing the wall. After staring blankly for a long time, he finally couldn’t hold back and sobbed uncontrollably.

...

Ning Xixi really couldn’t let go of Qiao Nancheng, so she urged Ji Yebai to visit him in the hospital together.

In the hospital.

Qiao Nancheng lay on the white hospital bed, his eyelids tightly closed, like an angel fallen to earth—he looked really good in his sleep.

Every now and then, small nurses passing through the hallway would stop, blushing and fluttering, looking at him through the glass window.

A girl with a ponytail rushed down from the elevator, and upon seeing Ning Xixi, charged over aggressively, "Are you Ning Xixi?"

"I am, may I ask who you are...?" Ning Xixi looked at this vibrant young girl, seemingly a middle school student?

"I am Qiao Nancheng’s woman!" the girl declared shockingly.