“Su Wan, you killed my brother. Go to hell!”
The stage lights blazed as Zhou Suisui, consumed by a hatred that could shake the heavens, raised the gleaming knife in her hand and lunged at the woman who had just won Best Actress.
Her hatred was overwhelming, searing her to the bone.
Her brother—the brother who had depended on her and cared for her all their lives.
He had been such a good man, and he had given Su Wan his whole heart.
Whatever Su Wan wanted, he had placed in her hands without hesitation, helping her rise to the top of the entertainment industry.
And in the end, her brother had been falsely accused of attempted rape by Su Wan’s fans. His family had been destroyed, and he had been driven to suicide, while she stepped over his corpse to become an award-winning actress.
Her brother had died so miserably. Why did Su Wan get to live in glory?
“Thud!”
The sharp dagger sank into flesh.
“Hahaha! Brother, I finally avenged you!”
“Ah!”
“There’s been a murder!”
“Someone help!”
Screams erupted all around them.
The lively awards ceremony instantly dissolved into chaos.
With her great vengeance seemingly accomplished, Zhou Suisui stood there laughing as blood dripped from the knife in her hand, drop by drop staining the floor in a horrifying pattern.
“Brother, did you see that? I finally avenged you! I finally…”
She lifted her head, but the savage smile froze on her face.
Su Wan was hiding behind her bodyguards, her face deathly pale.
The knife had missed its mark. It had only sliced open one of her arms.
“H-How could this happen?”
Su Wan was still alive.
Several bodyguards rushed forward, wrested the knife from her hand, and pinned her firmly to the ground.
Clutching her arm, Su Wan looked pale and fragile as she sobbed toward the cameras.
“Suisui, I’m sorry about your brother’s death, but he brought it upon himself. I was only defending my rights as a woman.”
“Bullshit! You framed my brother! He loved you so much—how could you do this to him?”
As Zhou Suisui’s heart-wrenching cries rang out, Su Wan tilted her eyebrows smugly in a direction the cameras could not see.
“So what? Your brother was nothing but a dog I kept.”
“Zhou Suisui, you and your simp of a brother are equally stupid and useless.”
“Su Wan, I’ll kill you!”
Zhou Suisui’s eyes were red with tears, and her chest seemed to be filled with magma on the verge of eruption.
Why was heaven so blind?
The wicked prospered, while good people could only descend into hell.
She refused to accept it!
The true culprit behind everything had now become the entertainment industry’s one-and-only two-time Best Actress, with hundreds of millions of fans and limitless glory.
Even after she had risked everything to die alongside Su Wan, she had managed to inflict nothing more than a superficial wound.
“Su Wan, I curse you! May you never know a peaceful death in this life or any life to come!”
Zhou Suisui laughed until tears streamed down her face.
She was as good as dead. Su Wan would never let her go.
Her eyes, filled with hatred and unwillingness, remained fixed on Su Wan’s face as she turned and leaped from the thirty-second floor.
“Brother, I’m coming to keep you company.”
She spread her arms wide. The instant her face struck the ground, the corners of her lips curled into an eerie smile, and a pool of thick blood spilled from her mouth.
Brother, did you see that?
This was the woman you loved so much that you were willing to give up your life for her.
She wasn’t worth it… She wasn’t worth it…
Brother, don’t leave Suisui behind, okay?
Brother, is it cold underground? Should Suisui come keep you company?
She died with her eyes open.
Her bloodied fingers clutched the foxtail grass beside her, five vivid bloody impressions standing out starkly against the earth.
“No!”
Zhou Suisui suddenly opened her eyes. She sat up, gasping violently, cold sweat instantly soaking through her silk pajamas.
Above her was the familiar crystal chandelier, beneath her the soft, comfortable bed, and in the air lingered the white-tea fragrance she always used.
There was no blood. No pain. And no sinister face belonging to Su Wan.
She raised her hand in bewilderment. The skin beneath her fingers was smooth and flawless, without a single scar.
Could it be… that she had been reborn?
A deep question surged through her mind just as the carved wooden door was opened from outside.
A middle-aged woman in a crisp butler’s uniform entered, her eyes brimming with delight.
“Miss, you’re finally awake.”
“Sister Wu?”
Zhou Suisui studied the woman before her, her gaze slightly dazed.
Cui Wu was thirty-six years old and a graduate of the Royal School of Household Management in England. This year marked her tenth year as the Zhou family’s butler.
After the Zhou family went bankrupt and her brother was driven to suicide by Su Wan’s fans, Sister Wu had nearly emptied her entire savings to help her. In the end, she had been dragged down with her.
Zhou Suisui’s eyes reddened. “Sister Wu, where’s my brother?”
“The young master went to prepare a proposal for Miss Su.”
Cui Wu brought her a new dress and urged her, “The young master’s worldwide proposal is in one hour. Hurry and get dressed. We’re going to the venue to cheer him on.”
“What?!”
Zhou Suisui felt as if she had been struck by lightning.
Her brother was going to propose to Su Wan?
That was right. It was this very day that her brother had organized an extravagant, globally livestreamed proposal for Su Wan.
He had been filled with joy and anticipation.
But Su Wan had only intended to use him to boost her own popularity. She had never planned to accept him.
When he took out the Zhou family’s treasured heirloom diamond ring in front of the reporters, knelt down, and confessed his love with deep emotion, Su Wan had rejected him with an embarrassed expression.
“Thank you, but I haven’t considered dating yet. Right now, I only want to act in every role to the best of my ability and make my way in the entertainment industry through my own hard work.”
After that, Su Wan successfully created an image of herself as a strong, independent woman who “wouldn’t bow to wealth, dared to reject a super-rich heir, and was deeply dedicated to her career.” Her popularity skyrocketed.
Meanwhile, her foolish brother was torn apart by the media.
The sole heir to the Zhou family and president of the Zhou Group had actually gone to such extravagant lengths for a minor actress?
The company’s stock plunged for an entire week, wiping out more than ten billion dollars in value.
The shareholders lost faith in him and began threatening to withdraw their investments.
Zhou Suisui’s chest heaved violently as she drew in one ragged breath after another.
“Miss, what’s wrong? Why do you look so pale?”
“That bastard! Zhou Sui’an!”
Zhou Suisui’s face turned livid. She threw off the thin quilt and made for the door.
Sister Wu’s expression shifted, and she hurried after her. “Miss, no matter how urgent it is, you still need to put on shoes. You’ll catch a chill.”
It was March in the south, when the weather alternated unpredictably between warmth and cold.
Even through the floor, the bare soles of her feet could feel the biting chill.
Zhou Suisui suddenly came to her senses.
No. Her brother had already contacted the media. Even if she rushed over now, it would be too late.
In her previous life, she hadn’t failed to stop him or reason with him.
But her brother had only thought she was being childish and deliberately trying to make things difficult for Su Wan.
How was she supposed to stop him?
He loved Su Wan so deeply. He was in the throes of infatuation, and he wouldn’t listen to a word she said…
Zhou Suisui anxiously gnawed at her fingernail, at a loss for what to do. Then her gaze suddenly landed on Cui Wu.
Cui Wu stiffened. “M-Miss, why are you looking at me like that?”
“Sister Wu, did Brother Lin come to the house yesterday?”
Cui Wu didn’t understand, but she nodded.
Her husband often came over to help out and sometimes stayed here for a while.
“I need to borrow something from you.”
After saying that, Zhou Suisui turned and walked toward Cui Wu’s room.
Her eyes swept rapidly across the room.
Then she saw what she was looking for and strode toward it.
Cui Wu followed close behind her. The moment she saw what Zhou Suisui was holding, her usually dignified face flushed bright red. She hurriedly stamped her foot. “Miss! Don’t! That’s not a toy!”
No one usually went into her room, and she hadn’t had time to put away the things she’d just bought online.
Zhou Suisui gave an evil little grin and dialed Zhou Sui'an on WeChat video without the slightest hesitation.
New book coming soon! Welcome, my lovely princesses!
A fierce-but-clearheaded heiress + an aloof, sharp-tongued older man whose actions never match his words + an easily provoked, sister-protecting brother!
When my brother becomes a simp, I have no choice but to simp for his archenemy!
But the more she fawns over him, the more strangely he starts looking at her…
Pure indulgent fun, pure sweetness—please leave your brain at the door for now.
I will never abandon this book! If I do, may Xiao Mo gain fifteen kilos!
