"A Ye, I don't deserve your forgiveness."
Liu Qiaoqiao's eyes were unfocused; the person she saw in the reincarnation world was a stranger.
The only person who had been good to her in this world.
Had been ruthlessly stabbed by Liu Qiaoqiao.
It was Wu Feng who had deceived Liu Qiaoqiao, and also her own heart.
If only she had been more resolute back then...
Regret suddenly took root and sprouted in her heart.
The brutal scenes were still playing out before her eyes.
"I have no regrets loving you."
Xiao Ye sat in the prisoner's dock, watching Liu Qiaoqiao with an unnatural calm.
Liu Qiaoqiao's anger flared at his words.
Her fist slammed onto the chair.
"Xiao Ye, you're still trying to deceive me with such lies even as you're about to die?"
Liu Qiaoqiao's face suddenly pressed against the glass, her animosity clearly visible.
"Love is too dirty coming from your mouth. You're the one who brought me nothing but pain!"
"When you locked me in that room, did you ever think about how helpless and scared I was?"
Xiao Ye gazed earnestly at Liu Qiaoqiao, observing her sudden emotional outburst.
"You were the one who broke up with me, you were the one who betrayed me, and you were the one who killed Wu Feng!"
Liu Qiaoqiao's eyes were icy. She looked at Xiao Ye, wishing she could physically harm him.
"Even if you die, Xiao Ye, I will hate you to the very end."
"Hate me?"
A ripple of emotion finally appeared on Xiao Ye's face.
Liu Qiaoqiao felt a flicker of satisfaction seeing that he seemed to care.
"Yes, on the day of your execution, I'll open champagne to celebrate your descent into hell."
...
Her A Ye, he must have wanted to speak with her before he died.
Yet, in the reincarnation, she had speared him with words that struck at his most painful points.
Liu Qiaoqiao refused to confront it. "I was that cruel back then."
Looking back at the memory now, she wished she could slap herself.
What must it have felt like for Xiao Ye, who was executed because of her?
An unbearable agony?
"A Ye, don't you resent anything? Don't you resent Liu Qiaoqiao even in death?"
Liu Qiaoqiao, along with the masses on Blue Star, shared this question.
But, they would soon receive their answer.
Xiao Ye leaned his emaciated face closer, separated by the glass from Liu Qiaoqiao.
He began to smile.
Liu Qiaoqiao had already prepared to leave.
Seeing Xiao Ye smile, her expression darkened. "What are you laughing at?"
"You've achieved your dream, reached the position you've always dreamed of."
Xiao Ye's smile was sincere.
"I am very happy."
He had protected Liu Qiaoqiao this far, and he had no regrets.
"Don't think I can't tell you're saying things you don't mean. You, the loser, must hate me to the bone, right!?"
Xiao Ye smiled. "Yes, you are the king, and I am the loser."
He would no longer accompany you on the road ahead.
Liu Qiaoqiao watched as Xiao Ye was pulled up by the prison guards. His slender figure seemed to be cleaved by the sunlight from outside.
As if he could vanish at any moment.
Look at A Ye one more time!
Just one more look at A Ye!
As he was being led away, Xiao Ye turned to look at Liu Qiaoqiao's retreating figure.
How he wished she would turn back.
Outside the reincarnation.
Liu Qiaoqiao broke down.
On the day of the execution.
Liu Qiaoqiao walked onto the red carpet, bathed in radiant light.
She appeared on various television screens.
Xiao Ye saw several of his fellow inmates watching Liu Qiaoqiao on television.
She held a champagne flute, her smile composed and confident.
"Everything I have achieved today, all the glory, is thanks to my persistent refusal to give up."
His girl, she looked beautiful today in her white dress.
Xiao Ye gazed at her for a few lingering seconds before the guards pulled him away for execution.
Before he died, a look of liberated peace settled on his face.
Perhaps he was simply too weary from the journey.
With a bang.
He collapsed to the ground.
Xiao Ye's belongings were given to Liu Qiaoqiao.
They were the two couple rings.
Liu Qiaoqiao saw Hao Ming with red eyes and casually told her assistant beside her.
"Throw them away."