Chapter 820: The Bottom Line of Being Human
There were two crisp cracking sounds, and the wrist bone in Han Qingjue’s right hand had already been crushed by She!
All of Xia Ji’s usual composure and calm, that unruffled, detached air of hers, in this moment all turned into a ferocious rage. She truly had never imagined that her seamless, utterly unexpected plan would actually be ruined by Han Qingjue!
Based on her understanding of Han Qingjue, even if She were given ten thousand times the courage, She still wouldn’t dare defy her!
She had even, just in case, arranged for Ling Yue to follow She, yet She had still managed to fool her!
Even now Xia Ji still couldn’t accept this fact, that she, of all people, could miss one flaw among a hundred careful moves, and that it would all be ruined in Han Qingjue’s hands!
Xia Ji’s eyes were filling with bloodshot veins, almost turning scarlet, and her voice became shrill and piercing: "Do you have any idea what you’ve done?! You actually dared to fool me, you little—bitch—are you insane? Han Jing stole your man, and you still show mercy to her daughter, has a donkey kicked your brain?!"
Xia Ji simply could not believe it: Han Qingjue, who was so selfish and self-serving that for her own ends she could even harm her benefactor who saved her life and her own Mother, would actually at this moment show mercy to the child of her love rival. There was no joke in the world more ridiculous than this!
"You lunatic, you think that because you saved their daughter, Su Yu will be grateful to you? I told you five years ago, all those things you did—once he finds out, he will never forgive you as long as he lives! You’ve already been stupid once, and you can still be stupid a second time. Even if you help him a hundred times more, save him ten thousand times more, you think he’ll be grateful to you? Stop dreaming!" Xia Ji’s words at Han Qingjue grew colder and colder, each one like a sharp blade, vicious and merciless, stabbing straight into Han Qingjue’s heart.
Han Qingjue had already run completely out of strength, but her wrist hurt far too much, the pain so intense that she finally regained a bit of clarity.
She forced a smile at Xia Ji and said with difficulty, "So... what... if I did?"
Xia Ji’s face twisted slightly: "So what if you did? Do you know what you’ve done? Sacrificing yourself to fulfill their little family of three? Han Qingjue, you really are laughable. Someone like you can still come up with something this stupid? Even if you died ten thousand times, in their eyes it’d still be what you deserve, you’d die and not be missed! Do you understand?!"
"Just based on what you’ve done, they will never forgive you for the rest of this life or the next!"
"I... know." Han Qingjue closed Her eyes, and only after a long while did She manage to open them again, smiling as She said, "I know... but so what... if I do... Everything I’ve done isn’t... isn’t for them... to forgive me, even less... is it for him... to be grateful to me."
"I..."
"I just feel... feel that I’m still a human being, not... not a beast like you."
"I can... can, for my own selfish desires... go... steal the Beiming Pearl... to... hurt people... but I... I can’t even... even a child... I can’t bring myself... not to spare."
"This is... this is the bottom line... of being human."
She wasn’t some great person. She also knew very well that what She had done could never be forgiven. No matter how She tried to make up for it, She could never make up for the sins She’d committed, so there was really nothing for Her to "make up" for.
She was only holding on to Her own bottom line as a human being.
After all, She could be a very shameless person, but She could not... be inhuman.