After the divorce, the crazy CEO knocked on his ex-wife's door every night.

"Hahaha, Shen Xuan actually stayed there all by himself, what a sucker..."

"This idiot actually believed that Brother Yuan would give her the things Aunt left behind. It's ridiculous."

The other end of the phone was filled with unrestrained noise, and malicious laughter drifted freely in the night wind.

Shen Xuan's face turned pale. The man's unrestrained laughter was like a sharp blade, deeply piercing her heart.

"Brother Yuan really knows how to handle things. Shen Xuan was a troublesome rose that no one in the industry could deal with back then, but now, she's like a little dog, you can't get rid of her, she's always following you around..."

Those vulgar and harsh words kept drilling into my ears.

Li Siyuan didn't speak, but he let the sounds enter his ears.

Shen Xuan remained silent for a long time, and only spoke coldly when the laughter gradually subsided.

"Li Siyuan, you haven't hung up the phone yet."

The other end of the phone went silent instantly. Shen Xuan ignored it and hung up the phone.

In the darkness of night, the mountaintop was pitch black, and the bushes rustled in the night wind.

Shen Xuan rubbed her arm, which was throbbing from the scratches on her arm.

In the morning, Li Siyuan said he would take her to see the sea, so she specially wore a beautiful long dress. But because of Han Xin's words, it turned into a mountain climb.

Just as she was about to leave, Li Siyuan told her that the bracelet he had prepared for her had been left on the mountaintop.

It was a keepsake left by his mother, so she didn't want to upset him.

So she searched the mountaintop all night. If it weren't for that phone call she forgot to hang up, she wouldn't have known that she was just a plaything he had toyed with.

Is making fun of your mother's belongings because you want to see her make a fool of herself?

Shen Xuan stood blankly on the mountaintop, looking up at the boundless darkness, feeling as if a gaping hole had been torn open in his heart, allowing the cold wind to slip in.

After a while, she finally started walking downhill.

With her phone battery critically low, she could only use the faint light from the screen to illuminate the path ahead.

Suddenly, her foot stepped on a loose stone, and she slid down the slope.

boom!

A large tree suddenly blocked her slide.

Shen Xuan lay on the ground, each breath causing excruciating pain in her internal organs. It took a great deal of effort for her to barely get up.

She had already taken off her high heels, and a large lump had swollen up on her ankle.

Following the signs, the path down the mountain was easier to walk.

Shen Xuan found a tree branch to use as a walking stick and slowly made his way down the mountain.

It was three or four hours later when she reached the foot of the mountain.

She looked around, but the place was empty. The bodyguards Li Siyuan had mentioned and the car waiting for her were nowhere to be seen.

Whether out of habit or utter disappointment, Shen Xuan opened her phone once again.

After making the call, Li Siyuan didn't send a single message. On the contrary, Han Xin posted a message on her WeChat Moments half an hour earlier.

A slender, bony hand gently lifted her wrist, on which adorned a jade bracelet of emerald green.

The caption reads: My mother's belongings are her deepest love for me.

Shen Xuan looked at this post on her WeChat Moments, and the man was still wearing the watch she had bought a month ago.

What was supposedly a precious gift left behind on the mountaintop, intended for her, turned out to be nothing more than a bet played by Li Siyuan and his friends, and easily ended up on another woman's wrist.

pat!

A tear fell onto the phone screen, and every breath was filled with bitterness and pain.

Shen Xuan didn't know how long she had been standing there. It wasn't until her body became increasingly weak and the pain intensified that she took a deep breath and stepped towards the roadside.

She suffered multiple injuries as she slid down the hillside, most notably the redness and swelling on her ankles and the trickling blood from the corner of her mouth.

"Cough cough..."

When I cough, my chest and ribs ache.

Shen Xuan staggered forward step by step, the streetlights in the distance becoming increasingly blurry.

Boom!

Shen Xuan's vision went black, and she fell to the ground.

After an unknown amount of time, car headlights suddenly appeared in the distance, slowly approaching and shining on Shen Xuan.

After the car came to a stop, a man got out and, under the cover of darkness, gently carried her, who was lying on the ground, into the car.

Shen Xuan lay on the spacious back seat, her neck, arms, and legs covered with abrasions of varying sizes.

The car entered the city and headed straight for the hospital.

A long, slender, slightly cool finger gently traced the outline of Shen Xuan's face. "Shen Xuan..."

A gentle breeze wafted in through the slightly ajar window of the private hospital room.

Shen Xuan sat leaning against the headboard, looking extremely haggard due to a broken rib and several internal injuries.

The phone was playing Li Siyuan's dissatisfied words.

"Where did you go last night? Why didn't you come home? Xiaoxin was even planning to go up the mountain to look for you..."

"What do you want with me? Isn't that bracelet in her hands?"

Shen Xuan interrupted him, her voice slightly hoarse.

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, then someone said casually, "They love making these kinds of jokes, you know that, don't be so petty."

Don't be so stingy.

With just those words, tears welled up in Shen Xuan's eyes again.

Li Siyuan seemed to sense her displeasure, sighed, and softened his tone, "Where are you now? Do you need me to come pick you up?"

Again.

Shen Xuan gripped her phone tightly.

Li Siyuan always does this.

Before marriage, he was well aware of her feelings but neither accepted nor rejected them, maintaining a close relationship with her. It wasn't until after marriage that he confessed that he didn't love her and that he only got married because of family pressure, and that their relationship was in name only.

He used Han Xin to humiliate her, but then gave her a little treat just as she was about to leave.

"Why aren't you saying anything?" Li Siyuan's voice betrayed a hint of impatience.

"Li Siyuan, do you know how I got down the mountain?" Shen Xuan didn't answer his question and continued talking to herself.

"I was on a dark and cold mountaintop, groping around in the grass by the light of my almost dead phone, scratched all over by thorns. When I finally made that call to you, all I heard were your friends saying that I was like a dog."

Shen Xuan's voice suddenly became choked with sobs as she choked out, "I even rolled straight down the mountain, do you know that?!"

She growled in a low voice, tears falling in a steady stream onto her phone screen.

The person on the other end of the phone seemed surprised, even pausing for a moment before asking anxiously.

"Where are you now? I'm coming to pick you up. I don't know any of this..."

"no need."

Shen Xuan didn't say anything more and hung up the phone.

Only her aggrieved sobs remained in the ward.

She simply fell in love with someone; why did she have to go through all this?

Shen Xuan curled up on the bed, crying loudly, as if she wanted to vent all the grievances she had suffered over the years.

Meanwhile, a man was standing outside the half-open door of the ward.