Chapter 457

Chapter 457: Chapter 457

Looking at the flustered and exasperated Lin Jiji, Chenyang laughed mockingly. "Stop running your mouth. Are you even in a position to make things hard for me anymore?"

"Of course I am!"

After grinding his teeth and letting out an angry snort, Lin Jiji turned to Liu Yue. "Xiaoyue, you said you didn’t love my career or my fame, but me as a person. I know I have no right to talk about loving you anymore, but there has always been a place for you in my heart.

I don’t dare talk about marrying you anymore, but I can give you a guarantee—a guarantee that you’ll be set for the rest of your life!"

Liu Yue chuckled lightly. "In your current state, what kind of guarantee can you possibly give me?"

"I still have money! A sum I’ve been secretly saving up all this time! It’s enough for you to live in luxury for the rest of your life!" Lin Jiji grabbed Liu Yue’s hand. "As long as you use those chips and have Rose help me deal with Chenyang, I’ll tell you where the money is immediately!"

Liu Yue looked at Lin Jiji, then raised a hand to gently caress his face, which was still red from Lin Xiaoyue’s slap. "Jiji, I really did love you once. I even dreamed of marrying you!"

"I know. Your love for me, I know all about it. You..."

"No, you don’t."

Liu Yue cut Lin Jiji off. "You only know that I love you, and you use my love for you to deceive me and take advantage of me as you please! But you have no idea how much I’ve sacrificed to love you, to be with you!"

"Xiaoyue, I was wrong!"

SLAP!

Before the words were even out of his mouth, the hand Liu Yue had been using to caress his face suddenly swung up and slapped him hard across the cheek.

The sting from Lin Xiaoyue’s slap hadn’t even faded yet, and now, getting slapped by Liu Yue, the pain intensified. His cheek went from merely red to swollen.

Being slapped in public by two different women in a row was deeply humiliating for Lin Jiji.

Boundless rage surged from the depths of his heart, and he almost instinctively wanted to retaliate viciously.

But he held back.

He knew he still needed Liu Yue to get him out of this mess. He couldn’t hit her. If he did, all hope would be lost.

After taking a deep breath, he said with feigned remorse, "If hitting me helps you vent, then please, hit me a few more times! Hit me however you want! As long as it makes you happy."

Liu Yue sneered, "Lin Jiji, you’re so hypocritical. You’re disgusting!"

"I..."

"Shut up!"

Liu Yue cut him off. "I loved you, gave you everything, and even when you slept with other women right in front of my face, I endured it. I always told myself you were just playing around with them, that you were truly sincere with me.

I held onto my fantasies, hoping and dreaming we could walk down the aisle together. But you disappointed me with your constant lies, drove me to despair by using me over and over again, and shattered every last one of my illusions with your hypocritical, disgusting behavior!"

"Xiaoyue, I know I was wrong. Please just give me one last chance. Trust me one more time, okay?"

"Where the fuck were you before? Why didn’t you say this when I loved you? Why didn’t you come to your senses when I still had illusions about you? Now that you’re fucking finished, you suddenly remember me? Why don’t you just go die?"

Liu Yue grew more and more agitated as she spoke, nearly working herself into a frenzy.

As she reached the end of her tirade, she raised her hand again and began slapping Lin Jiji’s face with all her might.

Once, twice...

SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! She landed three or four consecutive blows, each one with nearly all her strength, as if trying to vent all the years of injustice she had suffered.

Lin Jiji desperately wanted to block her or even fight back, but for the sake of getting his revenge on Chenyang, he endured it.

When Liu Yue finally stopped, exhausted from hitting him, he spoke through his swollen, pig-like face, "Now that you’ve let it all out, just help me this one last time."

Liu Yue ignored him and squatted on the ground, starting to sob.

She had vented her anger, but now the full weight of her grievances came rushing back.

Seeing this, Lin Jiji hypocritically moved to embrace her, planning to coax her into helping him. But just as he reached out, he heard Sister Rose laugh coldly. "Don’t even dream of it. At this point, how could Xiaoyue possibly help you?"

"No! The deeper the love, the stronger the hate! Xiaoyue hates me, but she loves me even more. She’ll definitely help me."

"Heh. Chenyang was right, you really are a fucking idiot. Xiaoyue never had any intention of helping you from the start. Coming forward just now was purely for revenge. Or rather, slapping you was the final step of her revenge!"

Hearing this, Lin Jiji’s head snapped up. "What do you mean?"

Sister Rose sneered. "Isn’t it obvious? Xiaoyue didn’t just see through your hypocritical facade during all this. She saw through you a long time ago. That’s why all of this just happened."

"You mean... all that news that just broke... Xiaoyue was the one who leaked it?"

"Who else? Among everyone here, besides Xiaoyue, who would have that much dirt on you?!"