Competition of misery

Luo Huian leaned back on the chair on which she was sitting. She looked at Xu Suisui who looked back at her. 

"On the contrary, I do not have anything to say to a fool," Luo Huian licked her front teeth. She studied her nails which were even more chapped after doing all that hard labour and gritted her teeth. What a shame for her beautiful body to suffer like such! 

Her hands which were softer than the touch of clouds were now like this. Luo Huian was rather furious at the thought. 

She turned her attention to Xu Suisui who looked shocked and arched brow. "What are you looking at? Do you think that you are the cat of an immortal? Born with ninety lives?" 

"Is it that easy to casually throw away your life at will? Do you even understand, that it's easy for a person to die but it's just as hard as for those who are left behind to live their lives." 

"Not to mention," Luo Huian threw her arm behind the chair. "It's a blessing for a soul to receive the gift of life. Do you even know how many souls line up daily in the underworld to get a chance to become human or even animal? They just want to escape the darkness where they are trapped and have no way out." 

"You speak as if you have seen the underworld," Xu Suisui chuckled and Luo Huian furrowed her brows. She looked offended. What did this mer mean by those words? Of course, she had seen the underworld. 

She went there with her daddy when she was five. It was part of the lesson for all the students of Peace Sect, that needed to learn with all their hearts. 

Xu Suisui of course did not know what Luo Huian was thinking. 

He chuckled softly. Xu Suisui then remarked, "Miss Luo doesn't understand. It's not that I wanted to die, it's that I was left with no choice!" 

He gritted his teeth when he thought about the things that Pan Xinyi had done to him. He glanced at Luo Huian and remarked, "Do you want to listen to my reasons?" 

Luo Huian did not have anything to do, so she nodded. Anyway, she had nowhere to go, she might as well listen to this mer's woes. She might as well eat this big melon. 

"I and my wife were childhood sweethearts," Xu Suisui took Luo Huian's silence as acquiescence. He sighed and began his story, "The two of us did not have much money in our pockets when we started to date, even studying was a novelty for us. It was I who worked hard together with my wife, that we were able to earn a decent living and finish our education." 

"Once we graduated, the two of us worked day and night before we laid down the foundation of our respective businesses," Xu Suisui had a mocking smile on his lips as he continued, "Unfortunately my wife did not have much skills in business at first. Compared to her, I fared better and was able to become a top fashion designer in a few years." 

"Of course, since I loved Xinyi… I couldn't watch her struggle. In the end, I gave her a few resources and helped her to where she is standing right now…it's not wrong to say that I am the reason for her success! And yet!" Xu Suisui clenched his jaw so tightly that his teeth creaked. 

"She betrayed me.. she even tried to give my business, the one that I raised to that shameless mer! For the sake of that mer, she doesn't even want our daughter… isn't it funny? I was the one who supported her and yet she turned her back on me the second a fair-skinned and young mer jumped in her arms!" 

When Xu Suisui thought about how his wife tried to make him forcefully sign the handover of his company to Du Mumu, Xu Suisui felt like he couldn't breathe.

"Is that all?" Luo Huian was waiting for some big explosion. Turned out that it was all because of the treason of a woman. This had to be a joke. 

Xu Suisui turned to look at Luo Huian and thought that she was joking with him but upon seeing the seriousness on her face, he gritted his teeth and stated, "I lost the love of my life! I have loved him for more than sixteen years ." 

"I was kicked out of the house where U was born and raised," countered Luo Huian. 

"My wife tried to force me into signing the property agreement of my company and transfer it all to that mer she is raising!"

"I met with an accident that broke six of my ribs. Nearly broke my spine and I was in a coma for a month. Yet when I woke up, I was removed from my family without a single penny in my pockets." 

"My wife tried to send my daughter away for that shameless fox!" 

"I have no memory and no money… I don't even know how half the things work in this world. Who do you think is more pitiful between the two of us?!" Luo Huian snapped at the top of her lungs. "Look at me! I am still a patient damn it! I was kicked out of the hospital because I did not have money to pay the bill!" 

"You want to talk to me about a woman's betrayal? Are you really serious?" 

Xu Suisui and Luo Huian breathed heavily while looking at one another. A second later Xu Suisui burst out laughing. 

"Damn…you…you really are more pitiful than me!" Xu Suisui exclaimed. What was wrong with him? Seriously, there were more pitiful people than him why did he even think of killing himself for a rotten woman? So what if she betrayed him? 

Many more women were waiting to stand next to him! He, Xu Suisui was not lacking in anything!

After laughing for a while, Xu Suisui turned to look at Luo Huian and asked solemnly, "Do you want to go to the hospital?" 

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