2343: Despondency amounts to hatred.

Despondency amounts to hatred.

On this bleak, dreary night, where there was not a star in the sky, Yun Yecheng knocked off from work and went home straight.2

After parking his car in the garage, he walked along the windy path leading toward his apartment building. Right then, he suddenly heard a familiar, deep yet aloof-sounding voice bellow his name.

"Yun Yecheng!"

Startled, he turned around only to see a woman looking expressionless while quietly standing behind him with her hands shoved into her hoodie's pockets.

Her countenance was indescribably aloof. It might be due to the sinister-looking scars all over her face, but coupled with her cold expression, her visage gave one the creeps for some reason.

Nevertheless, delight sprouted within him!

"Nana?!"

He recognized that voice at once and managed to identify the woman after examining her face closely for a while. Exhilarated, he rushed up to his daughter and wrapped her in his arms excitedly.

"Y-You're still alive?! You're still alive?!"

His voice was trembling from the overwhelming pleasant surprise he received.

Tears flowed down his face as he uttered her name thankfully. "Thank God you're alive! Thank God you're alive! I-I… I thought you passed away like your mother…"

Yun Na, however, pulled away and retreated from him, spitting, "Don't touch me!"

His eyes widened in shock at her aloofness toward him. He tried drawing closer to her again, but she took another step backward once more. She tugged her lips coldly. "Thank God I'm alive? Hah! Weren't you living blissfully while I was away? Without me, you didn't have any stumbling blocks in your life. The cheek you've got to tell me that!"

On the night of New Year's Eve, she stood behind a tree outside the villa and watched her father, through the windows, grinning from ear to ear while he hugged Youyou in the living room.

Large snowflakes had accumulated all over her body, but the coldness in her heart had far surpassed the cold, snowy ground.

At the thought of this, she clutched the bottle of sulfuric acid in her pocket ferociously, her smile becoming frighteningly cold.

The older man did not notice her small movement as he called her name anew in trepidation. "Nana—"

"Shut up!" she snapped with a pokerface. "You have no right to call my name! Yun Na? She's already dead! The person standing before you now is here to exact vengeance!"

The bone-chilling words made his heart skip a beat.

Never, in his wildest imagination, had he imagined that the darling daughter, who was standing in front of him now, was a devil incarnate who had followed him all the way here just to claim his life.

"What happened to you in these few months that you went missing?!"

He felt choked. "I thought that you had left with your mother. Your mom's body was found a while back; I was so worried and afraid that you might've also encountered a mishap. W-Where have you gone all this while?!"

"Where have I gone? Ha ha… Worried?! Were you even worried at all, Yun Yecheng? You were living a happy yet carefree life while your wife and your daughter went missing!" Yun Na scoffed as though she had just heard a hilarious joke.

If it weren't for me, my mom's body would still be under the sea, her bones, skin, and flesh devoured clean by the fishes there, yet he had the cheek to say that he's worried?!

"You were living well all this time while I was missing. What a good father I have!"

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