Zhu Yanyi tilted her head, thinking. Did she care too much? It was just a comparison between her past and present lives. Seeing Yan Aohan’s worried expression, she sighed.
“Aohan, imagine a girl who had a man who loved her very much. They fell in love freely, got married, and had a son. But that man died young. she passed away when their son was only eighteen. she also left behind a huge debt from construction projects. However, she was a good man at heart. she treated her parents-in-law like her own parents and her wife’s younger sister like a real sister. If that woman had another chance to choose, would she still choose her?”
“Isn’t that already a fact? Why look for another chance to choose?” Yan Aohan asked back.
Zhu Yanyi stayed silent for a moment before speaking slowly. “Aohan, do you think people can remember things from their past lives?”
“For people like us, isn’t it normal if we meet someone who remembers? We aren’t normal people anyway. Remembering one past life is fine. Even remembering a hundred lives is possible.” Yan Aohan said without hesitation. “The world is vast. Past and future, whatever you can think of or not, will happen given enough time. There is nothing strange about it.”
Compared to Yan Aohan’s calm acceptance, Zhu Yanyi fell silent again. She looked at him quietly. Was the thing she struggled to explain so ordinary to him? After thinking, she finally spoke. “Aohan, I don’t want to hide it from you. I remember my past life.”
“Past life?” Yan Aohan seemed surprised. “What happened in your past life?”
“In my past life, I was still Zhu Yanyi. But my dad was an ordinary farmer. She lived her whole life in Sichen Town. The farthest she went was to Yong City for fun. My mom was an ordinary housewife. She was warm-hearted but very careful with money. I had an older sister, Sister An’ni. I didn’t have a younger brother. There was no Doumiao in my past life.” Zhu Yanyi paused, then decided to tell everything.
“I was very ordinary in my past life. I didn’t study medicine. I wasn’t a genius. I was just a student at a third-rate college. Later, when the internet became popular, I started writing books online. I slowly became a writer. My works were published and turned into TV dramas. Then I became famous. But I died in middle age in my past life. I didn’t live long.”
“I think you are doing well in this life,” Yan Aohan said. “At least I promise you won’t die young.”
“That’s not the point,” Zhu Yanyi said helplessly. “The point is, since I remember my past life, I naturally remember everything about my sister. In my past life, my sister married a construction boss from Sichen Town. They also fell in love freely, got married, and had a son. Unfortunately, my brother-in-law was good in every way. She had a good temper, worked hard, was smart, and respected elders. She treated my parents like her own and treated me like a real sister. But she didn’t live long. She died in an accident, falling from a highway overpass, before her fiftieth birthday. In this life, my sister met Ta Shu Yuanxiang. Will that affect her marriage?”
Yan Aohan tilted his head and thought for a long time before asking, “Did you get married and have children in your past life?”
Zhu Yanyi paused. Where was the point? What was she focusing on? But she answered her curiosity anyway. “I got married, but had no children. In my past life, I was picky and waited until my thirties. Someone introduced me to a man. We didn’t know each other well. Or maybe it was to comfort my parents. Anyway, we got married after knowing each other for three months. Sadly, we married in the first lunar month. By the eleventh month of that year, I filed for divorce. The divorce wasn’t smooth. I fought the divorce lawsuit for two years. After that, I never married again. According to fortune tellers, I didn’t have a marriage line, so that failure was normal.”
“Which bastard bullied you?” Yan Aohan got angry. How could the person he cherished suffer such hardships?
Seeing Yan Aohan like this, Zhu Yanyi’s nervous heart settled. She even felt a bit sweet. “It’s okay. I didn’t like him. I got married in my past life because I was older and my family kept urging me. So I just picked someone randomly. I thought I would just make do. But I overestimated my ability to make do. So after less than a year, I asked for a divorce.”
“Who was that guy?” Yan Aohan felt his wife suffered in her past life. He must make that person pay in this life. He absolutely wouldn’t admit he was jealous. Jealous that he didn’t find Zhu Yanyi in her past life.
Zhu Yanyi looked at Yan Aohan, confused. “His name is Xu Ke. What’s wrong?”
Yan Aohan said seriously, “He made you suffer. I will make his life in this life worse than death.”
Zhu Yanyi admitted that hearing this made her feel satisfied. Anyway, this person had nothing to do with her now. In her past life, she married because her parents urged her. They didn’t build much affection. But she had truly considered married life. Even if it was just making do, she wanted to live well. She wanted a child and a peaceful life. But she was disappointed in the end. So she decisively asked for a divorce. She didn’t care about financial losses. She just wanted to divorce. Even so, it took two years of lawsuits to finally escape that marriage.
Because of this, she lost hope in marriage in her past life. She didn’t want to marry again. Even if someone introduced her to others or pursued her, she refused. If she couldn’t even make do, why bother? It was better to focus on taking care of her family. Later, she raised her nephew like her own son.
“I don’t know what she does now. But this Xu Ke was two years older than me in my past life. Her ancestral home is Zhou Town in Ci City. Her parents once worked on a farm. She worked as an inspector at a foreign trade company in Hangcheng. I don’t know more details. But if you meet her, remember to vent my anger for me,” Zhu Yanyi said with a smile.
Yan Aohan agreed, of course. How could he refuse his wife’s request? “Don’t worry. Leave this to me.”
She patted her chest. Although the information Zhu Yanyi provided wasn’t much, it was enough for investigation.