Reborn in the 80s: Everyone Falls For Me
Chapter 633: Story (2nd update)

Chapter 633: Chapter 633: Story (2nd update)

After speaking, he glared fiercely at Ye Xiangtian.

Everyone left, and the hospital room was instantly left with only Xu Niannian and Ye Xiangtian.

Xiao Bao and Da Bao had both been taken out.

"They’ve all gone out. What did you want to say to me?" Xu Niannian asked him.

Ye Xiangtian looked at her wary eyes and let out a wry laugh.

His low laughter was tinged with bleakness. His hair was messy, he leaned back in the chair looking up, laughed for a while, then looked at Xu Niannian again.

"I’m sorry."

Xu Niannian pursed her lips, remaining silent.

Sorry? She didn’t accept his apology. He had ruined her world, and now he came to apologize, how ridiculous.

She had agreed to meet him, not for his sake, but for Jin Yu’s.

She didn’t want to make things difficult for Jin Yu.

Seeing the resistance and caution in her eyes, Ye Xiangtian didn’t seem to care. He just felt an overwhelming discomfort in his chest.

Her bright eyes had always been his favorite, so luminous.

That was the feeling of light.

"Do you know who I am?" he asked with a smile.

"I know, Ye Xiangtian," Xu Niannian replied. Jin Yu had already told her.

Ye Xiangtian smiled and nodded: "Do you remember the first time we met?"

"I don’t!"

Ye Xiangtian smiled: "The first time, in Nancheng, you were coming out of the bank. We saw each other, and you almost bumped into me."

Xu Niannian pursed her lips, frowned - was that really something that happened?

After a moment of recollection, Xu Niannian began to recall the incident he referred to.

But at that time, he didn’t have this face, and although she knew of Ye Xiangtian and had seen his original face, she had never connected this face with that name.

It had always been mere speculation.

Now that he brought it up, Xu Niannian looked at him with astonishment.

Comparing the two faces, Xu Niannian found there was not a hint of resemblance.

This...

What amazing plastic surgery skills.

Ah, the focus is off.

Xu Niannian snapped her wandering thoughts back and asked him with a cold face, "Is that all you wanted to say?"

Ye Xiangtian didn’t mind her coldness and continued to smile warmly at her.

This reminded Xu Niannian of the first time they met, when he used the identity of Ye Tian.

Back then, Xu Niannian truly regarded him as that past benefactor.

It was just unexpected that these were two people from parallel timelines.

However, Xu Niannian thought that even if it was a parallel space-time, two people so similar should still be linked somehow.

Suddenly, she couldn’t keep a stern face anymore.

But there was no need for a pleasant expression either.

"Let me tell you a story."

Xu Niannian wanted to say she didn’t want to hear a story, but when she met his desolate and empty eyes, the words of refusal got stuck in her throat.

She remained silent.

Ye Xiangtian’s gentle voice slowly began.

"Once, there was a little boy. He had a father and a mother and lived very happily, but one day, both his parents died. After that, everyone in his family bullied him."

He kept it simple, without attempting to stir up any sad emotions, but Xu Niannian could sense a hint of sorrow in his tone.

It seemed like he was looking at her, yet also as if he was looking through her to something else.

"That boy used to be very timid. Knowing that his parents were gone, he could only stay alive by pleasing others. From a quiet boy, he turned into a child who tried to ingratiate himself with everyone."

"Laundry, cooking, mopping, doing the dishes... He was short and found it difficult to do these chores, but to avoid being abandoned, he kept at it, actively and optimistically, until one day..."

He let out a low laugh, his laughter now even more desolate: "The boy’s uncle gave him a candy and made him fall asleep."

"After that, it was endless torment."

As for how the torment happened, he didn’t tell Xu Niannian.

She saw him trembling as he reached this point in his story.

"Five years, five years of torment," he said with a hoarse laugh, his eyes growing darker and more sinister as he chuckled. "He bore humiliation and burdens until he finally had the power to send his uncle to hell."

Reaching this point, Ye Xiangtian paused, his gaze deep and for a moment returning to calmness.

"But he died, and that boy was ruined. He began to hate the world and wanted to stain everything utterly black."

"So you started to do bad things?" Xu Niannian asked him. She had a rough idea of what Jin Ruiyang had mentioned before—it must be something.

"No, I didn’t," Ye Xiangtian chuckled lowly. "They forced me."

Even if he wanted to hate the world, he never wanted to touch those things.

They forced him, drugged him, made him addicted to that stuff.

To quit, he went through hell, barely surviving. Just when he managed to wean off, those so-called family members, to control him and have him help with their affairs, made him addicted again.

Time and again.

The first time he knew someone in the family was involved with those things, he was only nine years old.

Back then, he didn’t understand anything.

To shut him up.

They tied up a nine-year-old him, dunked him into a water tank, making him face-to-face with a corpse soaking in the water.

He struggled out of fear, trying to escape, but was forcibly held down, almost suffocating, until they thankfully let him go.

Just as he finally surfaced for a breath of air, not even recovered from his terror, they dunked him into the water tank again.

Repeating the process, he stayed with that corpse in the water for an entire day and night.

He murmured the tale to Xu Niannian, who listened with surprise and shock.

For a moment, her emotions were complex.

"From then on, I wanted to make every person in this world go through the pain I’ve suffered."

His smile gradually turned cold, "I brought down everyone in the Ye Family; they all became puppets in my hands. I tell them to go east, they wouldn’t dare go west. I tell them to die, they wouldn’t dare cling to life."

"But it’s not enough, never enough. The punishment they received is far less than one-ten-thousandth of what I’ve endured."

"But the others are innocent."

Xu Niannian looked at his almost fierce expression and suddenly spoke out.

Her gaze was clear and cold: "I sympathize with your ordeal, and I think you’re right to take revenge on those who hurt you. I won’t persuade you to be kind, but what gives you the right to inflict your pain onto those who’ve never harmed you?"

"Do you know how many lives your drugs will ruin? They too have families, they too are innocent; they’ve done nothing to you, yet you’ve destroyed their lives. Do you know how hard it is to quit once someone is hooked?"

"Moreover, Jin Yu told me that if not for your betrayal, his two good brothers wouldn’t have died, and he wouldn’t have been injured. Back then, you were comrades. They never did you wrong. You say others have ruined your life, and you’re so innocent, how are you any different from those who have hurt you?"

"The two who died because of you were just as innocent."

Xu Niannian spoke with conviction; she had no good feelings for those who trafficked that stuff, utter loathing to be exact.

Knowing what he meant by "goods," Xu Niannian found it hard to put on a pleasant face towards him.

Caught up in righteous indignation, Ye Xiangtian, on the other hand, laughed. He casually uttered, "It wasn’t me!"

"Hmm?"

Xu Niannian blinked, her wide, doe-like eyes staring at Ye Xiangtian in a daze, and she stalled: "What did you say?"

Not him?

Then who?

As soon as he said it, Xu Niannian believed him.

Not because she knew him well, but it was a feeling.

Xu Niannian felt that Ye Xiangtian was someone disdainful of lying.

To be honest, Xu Niannian could sense the darkness within him but felt that it was an indifferent shade of dark, coming from a person too disdainful to lie.

Ye Xiangtian was quite pleased with her dumbfounded expression.

"I said it wasn’t me. The betrayer belonged to Old Master Ye’s side. They’ve been under my control for so long they wanted to turn the tables, but lacked the capability. So, they created a massive plot, making Jin Yu believe it was I who leaked the secret, to have Jin Yu come after me. Those drugs? I never sold them."

It was his men who dealt with it, their idea too; he merely didn’t interfere, nor did he stop them,

Over time, even his subordinates started to think he wanted to expand into this area, desperately finding him connections.

And him? Since he didn’t care, he was willing to make appearances for arrangements by Nuo Heng, nothing more.

It was always them talking, and he just listened.

"Then why didn’t you explain?" Xu Niannian asked.

"Heh... Explain?" Ye Xiangtian gave a bitter laugh, the corners of his mouth curving slightly. "Do you think anyone would believe it? Besides, I don’t need anyone’s trust. Let everyone hate me; that’s how I know I’m still alive."

Not a walking corpse.

"Then why would you tell me?" Xu Niannian furrowed her brows. "And if what you’re saying is true, you might not be the main dealer, but you still added fuel to the fire."