After being reborn, I stole the female lead's cheat ability and raised the empress.

Chapter 247 The Ending of Ali and Yu Yang

Yu Yang immediately retorted, "No, no, it's not like that. It's only after being back for so long that I realized it's not that I don't love you anymore. I love you. These days, all I can think about are the memories of the two of us... It's just that maybe we've been together for too long, and life has become mundane. For a moment, I can't distinguish between love and affection."

Xia Li said, "But I don't like it this way."

His eyes reddened, and he rushed forward to hug her waist, whispering, "Wife, we promised we'd never be apart. Have you forgotten those words? You said you wouldn't leave me as long as I didn't give up."

Xia Li felt a strange mix of emotions; there was neither pleasure nor heartache, only a faint sadness.

She was thinking,

Why do people only start trying to salvage a relationship when it's already too late?

"In one's life, in addition to facing the ups and downs brought by impermanence, there are also the mundane and trivial things that run through it."

Xia Li tried to speak calmly, "It's obvious that the trivial matter solved our problem."

"No, where is the triviality? Didn't you say that we would solve problems together, instead of letting problems solve us?"

Xia Li shook her head: "I did say that, but you didn't do it."

Her gaze was gentle yet unwavering. "I told you before to change, but you didn't. I also said there shouldn't be a third time, but you did it again and again. I also said you shouldn't let emotions linger overnight, but you listened to your brother and told me to calm down on my own. Back then..."

Xia Li looked at Yu Yang, but his gaze went through him and was directed at the Yu Yang of the past.

20-year-old Yu Yang held up a popular fruit basket in front of him and said, "If others have it, my wife should have it too. I won't let my wife envy others."

21-year-old Yu Yang bought her flowers as a surprise.

22-year-old Yu Yang said she would work hard to earn money, and the two supported each other.

23-year-old Yu Yang is busy building her career, but she is gradually having less and less interaction with herself.

It's always the seven-year itch. The passionate love gradually settles into a mundane routine after marriage, and it seems that it's hard to say whether what they have between them is love or family affection.

Xia Li's complaints grew louder and louder.

Yu Yang's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

Back then, in order to make a hairpin by hand, he would mobilize his whole family to find the best materials and designs.

Later, when he saw her asking for something, he said, "You're just greedy. You want everything that others have."

Xia Li was slightly taken aback.

She never imagined that her search for love would become a knife in the other person's hand, used to stab her!

It turns out that the person who said those words back then had long forgotten them.

So, that day she slowly said, "Yu Yang, let's get a divorce."

Yu Yang was stunned: "Why?"

"Do you remember what I said back then? I said, I only care about how good you are to me. If one day you stop treating me well, I will leave."

"..."

After a moment of silence, Yu Yang nodded in agreement: "I also feel that we've drifted further and further apart. Everyone has changed, and we're no longer compatible."

……

Breaking free from her memories, Xia Li looked at Yu Yang before her and said earnestly:

Do you remember what you said that day?

Yu Yang stood there, pale-faced, at a loss for what to do.

After a long pause, he finally found his voice: "I'm sorry, what I said that day wasn't very nice. It led us to this point. But I still want to keep you. I didn't do anything terribly wrong. I've reflected on myself since I got back. It's probably because I've been busy making money lately and neglected you. We haven't been communicating enough..."

Xia Li said, "What's the point? If the problems between us aren't resolved, we'll just separate again even if we get together. In that case, we might as well stop here and give our story a happy ending."

Yu Yang roared, "No, I'm not satisfied with this ending!"

Xia Li didn't reply, but in her heart, she thought, "I'm not willing either, but I dare not."

She was even more afraid that they would one day tear apart all those beautiful memories together.

Yu Yang hugged her: "Baby, believe me, I will change. The sense of ritual you want, the travel you want, the communication you want, all of these will come."

This embrace made Xia Li's heart pound.

She wanted to hug him tightly, forcefully, and as if she wanted to embed him into her body.

But the thought of the two of them sleeping under separate blankets after marriage made her heart sink.

She wouldn't allow herself to only see Xiao Yu's back view in the future.

Since she's after this person, then she should ask him to love her well.

Thinking of all this, Xia Li said coldly, "...You said it before, but you didn't change it."

Yu Yang felt as if he was about to lose her completely. His eyes were red and bloodshot: "Before, I thought you wouldn't... I will change in the future, I will definitely change."

Xia Li smiled bitterly: "So, you've repeatedly put me in a position where I might be lost because you never thought about me or didn't care about me at all."

"No, no..." He was speechless.

"Okay, stop talking. If you keep saying this, it makes me, who kept making excuses for you and giving you chances, look like a clown."

"..."

For a moment, the atmosphere fell silent.

After a long while, Yu Yang cautiously asked, "Is there really no possibility for us anymore?"

Suddenly, Xia Li said, "Xiao Yu, although we used to argue a lot, I don't think we ever went hysterical, right?"

"?" Yu Yang was puzzled.

Xia Li said, "How about this, let's make a deal."

Yu Yang looked up: "What?"

She looked into the distance: "Let's go find the answer now. If we're still single a year from now and still can't bear to part with each other, then let's stay together."

Yu Yang's eyes lit up instantly. "Okay."

Xia Li silently recited in his heart:

Goodbye, Yu Yang.

I stopped loving you the moment you said those words.

And now, you probably wouldn't do anything to make me fall in love with you again.

……

Xia Li is sick.

She suffered from insomnia for three whole days.

When Zhao Jihua came in, he saw her vomiting blood.

She rushed over to comfort him, saying, "Why did you throw up again? You didn't dump him, so why are you so upset?"

Xia Li's eyes were lifeless: "I...I don't know, I just..."

"What is it?" Just then, Li Haifei walked in from outside, frowning at her haggard appearance.

"I've only been gone a few days, and you've already made yourself look like this?"

Xia Li: "..."

"It's nothing, I'm just feeling a little unwell..."

"Alright, stop hiding it from me, I already knew." But Li Haifei dropped a bombshell: "Let me tell you: Men are like clothes. Uncomfortable? Change them! Don't look good? Change them again! Tired of wearing them? Keep changing! Change them whenever you want!"

Xia Li and Zhao Jihua: ...