Chapter 390: Chapter 390

When Ji Yu arrived, this was the scene she saw.

Her heart was heavy with unease.

Especially when she saw him standing in front of her. "If you have something to say, just say it directly."

Jiang Huai hadn’t seen a scene in a long time.

He looked at the person in front of him with a tinge of nostalgia. "Yu, I really haven’t seen you in so long. Do you even understand how much I’ve missed you in my heart all this time?"

Being the object of such a twisted obsession wasn’t something Ji Yu found flattering in the least.

Everything he did trampled on her last shred of tolerance.

Perhaps he himself didn’t even realize what he was doing now.

"Yu, why are you looking at me with that expression? I didn’t hurt your child. Aren’t you being a little too heartless toward me?"

He had always fantasized about leaving traces of himself in Ji Yu’s life. But now, confronted with the look on her face, he felt a sting of rejection deep inside.

"I don’t know what goes on in your head, but doesn’t saying things make you feel disgusted with yourself?"

She truly didn’t believe such a warped mind could harbor real emotions. If there was anything in his heart, it certainly wasn’t love related to her.

"Yu, do you think you know me so well? What I want most right now is to bring you back. But sadly, you’ve never trusted me. If you did, you’d realize how perfect the love we could have is."

He craved redemption, and Ji Yu was the one person who could redeem him. But unfortunately, Ji Yu didn’t believe in his so-called love at all.

"I know you might think all of this is awful, but I’ve long been trapped in your snare. I have no way to let go of you. If you leave me, Yu, I’ll make sure the people around you pay the price along with you."

Ji Yu wasn’t afraid of what might happen to her. Her worry lay with the potential risk to those around her. Just like now—he actually dared to target her child.

"Yu, I didn’t harm your child. Sure, his existence frustrates me a lot, but whenever I think about him being your child and how much he resembles you, I can’t bear to hurt him."

The child was important to him.

"I can treat him as if he were my own child, as long as you’re willing to stay with me. I wouldn’t care about anything else."

He had said so much, hoping to convince Ji Yu to stop thinking about everything else and just stay by his side peacefully.

But Ji Yu was particularly uncompromising about this. "My child only has one father, and that’s Gu Qixiao. I don’t know what you mean by this, but now that things have come to this point, I don’t want to waste time arguing with you about it."

All she wanted was to bring her child back home safely.

"But, Yu, have you forgotten? Gu Qixiao has known for a while that your child was taken, yet he hasn’t shown up. He didn’t even tell you about it. Does he really care about this child?"

He knew this would undoubtedly strike a painful chord in Ji Yu’s heart.

That’s why he always hoped she would let go of Gu Qixiao sooner rather than later.

"I’ve already said, the basic trust between Gu Qixiao and me is still there. Don’t think a word from you can change that. In my eyes, there’s only Gu Qixiao and my child. He’s the father of the child; how could he not care about this?"

She looked at the man before her and felt a wave of revulsion.

Perhaps her reaction was so obvious that it made him feel hurt.

He hadn’t expected his feelings to be perceived as so revolting in Ji Yu’s eyes.

He had such deep affection for her, yet this was how she treated him. "Yu, do you even understand what you’re doing? The way you’re looking at me is breaking my heart. You were the one who wronged me first."

Ji Yu couldn’t comprehend why he thought this way. "Why would you feel I wronged you? Everything I’ve done, by any standard, has already gone above and beyond. The things you said, the things you did—all of it strikes me as nothing but deranged."

The memories of what had happened caused chills to run down her spine.

"Are you referring to the lives I took, saying it’s intolerable to you? But it was their own fault. I never intended to kill them. They just wouldn’t cooperate with me, so I had no choice but to use these methods."

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He couldn’t ignore how much Ji Yu’s reaction to this hurt him.

"So, in your eyes, human lives are worthless? I don’t know how you view this, but don’t you realize how horrifying it is? All the things you’ve done—don’t they disgust you?"

She couldn’t fathom how someone could value human lives so little.

Those were real, living people. Even for animals, there would be at least some pity; how could someone be so indifferent when it came to humans who, until recently, were communicating and interacting just like anyone else?

"Yu, you’ll never understand. They served a purpose for science. People like that wouldn’t have lived long anyway. At least in my hands, they got a quick death and contributed to something greater. Shouldn’t that be cause for celebration?"

Ji Yu didn’t even know how to respond. Perhaps it was all just too much—far beyond what she could accept.

"I don’t understand why you think that way, but I can’t accept what you’ve done. I don’t believe those people freely offered themselves. At the very least, when I last saw them, they still clung to the will to live."

To her, what he was doing was no different from brutality.

Ji Yu didn’t want to see this sort of thing happen again, and so she did her best to intervene.

"Even if those people did have terminal illnesses, what about Song Xuan? Weren’t the two of you partners? Why was your hand so quick and decisive when it came to her?"

She still hadn’t gotten over the scene from the day before. His swift and merciless actions, the blood splattering onto her—it was as if they had an irreconcilable hatred between them.