episode_0027

The rope slipped away like the wind, and your life flickered like a candle in the breeze…

As the tension in the rope vanished from her grip, the silver-haired beauty seemed to hang suspended in midair for a moment— weightless.

Then came a powerful yank from below.

Falling.

Luo Tianyou stretched out her hand desperately, but the balcony she had been so close to reaching grew farther and farther away.

She was going to fall!

The wind howled past her ears.

With a heavy thud, Luo Tianyou crashed onto the illegally extended balcony of the 11th-floor resident. The air was knocked from her lungs, her thighs spasmed, and she clutched her head, curling up like a shrimp.

It hurts… It really hurts…

“Holy shit! Enemy spotted! Damn it, trying to force your way onto the 11th floor in the middle of the night? Not that easy!”

“Today, I and my balcony stand as one!”

Noise erupted from the 11th-floor balcony, growing increasingly chaotic—she could even faintly hear the sound of a gun being cocked.

It took Luo Tianyou several seconds to recover before she managed to pull herself up from the makeshift metal structure, gripping the edge of her own balcony and barely dragging herself back inside.

She collapsed onto the floor, gasping for air.

Once she finally regained her senses, Luo Tianyou took out her phone, quickly navigated to the Taobao store, found her order, and left a one-star review under the product “Nylon Rope for Secret Rendezvous Floor-Climbing.”

It was the only negative review.

Probably because everyone else who bought it had already fallen to their deaths.

“If I ever see that shop owner in person, I’ll beat you up every single time.”

Luo Tianyou’s face twisted in frustration, her heart still pounding from the close call.

She had almost died.

Thank goodness for the 11th-floor illegal extension—otherwise, she’d be stuck fantasizing in her dreams forever.

“No, I can’t just let this go. Right now, Lin Yi not only has a fiancée, but there’s also that weird woman sneaking into his room at night—and she even lives right across from him! With a homewrecker like that next door, if I don’t do something, Lin Yi’s gonna end up molded into whatever shape she wants!”

Leaning against the glass balcony door, Luo Tianyou typed out a question in the WeChat group for her club.

[Pure Love is Invincible: Hey everyone, if the person you like has a fiancée, and there’s also a homewrecker living across from him who sneaks into his room at night, what should you do? Asking for a friend, of course—this has nothing to do with me.]

[Slay All Cuckolders: Easy. In a cuckold scenario like this, it’s all about first come, first served. Just get to him before that homewrecker does and mold him into your shape!]

[Chubby 🐱: That method’s no good. What if the guy you like develops some weird fetish because of your approach? You’ll just end up suffering while the homewrecker gets to feast. Then you’ll be the one getting cucked.]

[Homewrecker Slayer: Right. And if the guy you like already has a fiancée, you’ve gotta get rid of her first. Otherwise, if you keep sneaking around with him, you might accidentally awaken some new kink in him—and then you’ll be the one wearing the cuckold hat.]

……

The group chat buzzed with opinions, but none of them offered any useful advice.

Just as Luo Tianyou was about to give up, she noticed a user with a blank name and a profile picture of

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who said something particularly cutting.

[ : Uh, sis, you’re out here with a “Pure Love is Invincible” username while thirsting over a guy who’s already engaged? Does that even make sense? You’re the one eyeing someone else’s man. Sounds like you’re the real homewrecker here. Maybe check your own kinks first.]

[Pure Love is Invincible: Admin, can you mute this person?]

[ : Oh? Getting defensive now? Hit a nerve?]

Luo Tianyou clenched her fists, her face burning with anger.

Since when did liking someone with a fiancée disqualify her from pure love?

What kind of twisted logic was that?!

It wasn’t that she was after a taken man—it was just that the person she happened to like had a fiancée!

She was this close to leaving the group.

Weren’t they all modern, independent women with standards? Couldn’t they at least be a little tactful?

Was it so hard to be polite?!

She was seriously about to lose it.

Luo Tianyou returned to the living room, rubbing her sore butt—thankfully, she had enough padding there to cushion the fall.

She flopped onto the sofa and opened the live feed from the surveillance cameras she had connected to her phone.

Watching Lin Yi’s peaceful sleeping face in his bedroom, a blissful smile instantly spread across her face.

She kicked her feet playfully, tilting her head dreamily.

Ah.

As long as she could keep watching Lin Yi like this, she could always find happiness.

——

——

The sky gradually brightened.

A pale glow spread across the horizon.

Zhuang Yayun had already woken up, gathered all her belongings, and quietly left the room.

She took the elevator down to the underground parking lot, where Bai Shuang was waiting for her in the car.

“You’re really leaving?”

Bai Shuang helped load her luggage into the trunk.

“I have to. You know I got fired.”

Zhuang Yayun sighed and slid into the passenger seat.

“But you don’t have to leave the city, do you? With your qualifications, you could find a job at another company with the same salary.”

“It’s not that simple. I could tell the company was under a lot of pressure when they let me go. The CEO even pulled me aside and made it clear that firing me wasn’t her decision.”

“……So your family forced the company to fire you?” Bai Shuang’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Mhm. If my family’s involved, then no matter where I go in this city, I won’t be able to find work. I have to go far away—somewhere they can’t reach me, at least for now.”

Zhuang Yayun fastened her seatbelt and rolled down the window, resting her head against her hand, her expression faintly despondent.

“Then what about Lin Yi? He’s your fiancé… Oh, wait—no, your family probably pressured the company because of him, didn’t they?”

Bai Shuang suddenly understood.

“My family has believed in unions between women for the past hundred years, and they’ve stuck to it even now. I’ve always hated it. ‘Unions between women’? It’s a cult. Even I’m just an imperfect product of that ideology. In this world, only unions between men and women can produce truly healthy offspring.”

“Your current family head is a stubborn old relic. And the more stubborn they are, the more radical they become when the family declines—clinging to ancestral traditions until the whole lineage collapses.”

Bai Shuang sighed.

“Bai Shuang, I’m leaving Lin Yi in your care. I might not be able to contact you for a long time.”

Hearing this, Bai Shuang fell silent, starting the car and slowly pulling out of the parking lot.

Their destination was the airport.

And Zhuang Yayun’s destination was the far north—1,800 kilometers away from the city.

Zhuang Yayun gazed at the empty streets. It was only 6:30 in the morning.

Would Lin Yi be awake by now?

Would he be disappointed that she left without saying goodbye? Would he think she didn’t love him anymore?

But—

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to take him with her.

If her family had already tracked her down here, what would they do if she tried to leave with Lin Yi?

She was terrified of him getting hurt.

Rather than dragging him into her family’s schemes, it was better for her to leave quietly and face them alone.

As long as she stayed away from him, he would be safe.

Zhuang Yayun clenched her fists tightly.

The tides will turn. Just you wait—you think you can force me back like this?

Her parents were dead. She had no reason to judge right from wrong anymore, and she would never acknowledge her family.

And now, they dared to interfere with her and Lin Yi?

Just wait.

Once she had the power, she would crush this rotten family beneath her feet!

“Lin Yi… Maybe not in half a month. Maybe a month, two months, even half a year. But I’ll come back for you. And when I do, I’ll bring the grandest wedding to make you mine.”