My Best Friend Slept with My Boyfriend - Chapter 18
Chemotherapy was making my body weaker day by day.
Perhaps at the brink of life and death, he finally began to recall those memories he had always so easily overlooked.
The way he looked at me grew more affectionate with each passing day.
He started drinking; once he got drunk, he would come to sit by my hospital bed, holding my hand with an unsteady grip, apologizing to me.
“Forgive me, Jiangjiang.”
“When you get better, let’s get married.”
“Let the things in the past truly stay in the past, alright?”
“In the face of life and death, what is there that can’t be let go?”
I lay on the bed, silent.
I always remembered-it was a drizzly autumn afternoon.
When Zhou Xuan came to see me in the hospital ward, he suddenly said he had heard from someone about a cancer specialist with a lot of experience, though he had already retired.
“I’ll go to the neighboring city and ask him to come help with your treatment.”
But the next time I heard news of him, it was through a call from the police.
“Hello, is this Ms. Li Jiangjiang?”
“Because of grabbing the steering wheel, your boyfriend Zhou Xuan got into a car accident on the highway and died at the scene.”
“There was also a pregnant woman with him at the scene, who’s been sent to the hospital for emergency rescue…”
It was as if countless bubbles were rising by my ears, muffled by a distant roaring sound. I lowered my head and looked at my phone.
On the screen, I had been discussing with Zhou Xuan’s competitor company about how to sell my half of the shares.
Thinking about how to make the now-successful Zhou Xuan experience the same excruciating pain as me.
But before I could put it into action, news of his death arrived.
That pregnant woman, the one who was with him, was Lin Xingyue.
Even until today, things between them had never truly ended.
At the police station, I received Zhou Xuan’s belongings-a bloodstained phone.
When I turned it on, I saw the chat messages, the new ones between him and Lin Xingyue, messages he hadn’t had time to delete.
Even with that twisted love and hate between them, they were still tangled up with each other.
There never was any retired oncology expert.
It was all lies.
All lies.
