Chapter 148: From Now On, Don’t Love Me Anymore—Love Yourself Well!

“Should we tell Yin Haoting?” Lin Qingyou hesitated as she looked at the tattered manuscript in her hands.

If Yin Haoting found out, he would be heartbroken.

After all, Bai Ci had never loved him from the beginning.

But if they didn’t tell him…

Lin Qingyou felt that Yin Haoting was truly pitiful.

Yin Hanyu took the handwritten manuscript, remaining silent for a long time.

Finally, he spoke.

“Of course, we have to tell him…”

How Yin Haoting chooses to view his mother after learning the truth is up to him.

But he had loved her deeply for so many years—he had the right to know what kind of person she truly was.

Lin Qingyou nodded, carefully storing the manuscript before bringing it to Yin Haoting.

After reading it, Yin Haoting remained silent for a long time, simply clutching the pages tightly, his hands trembling slightly.

Lin Qingyou felt a pang of heartache.

In truth, Yin Haoting was a truly kind-hearted person.

“I’m sorry…”

These words came from Yin Hanyu.

For years, he had resented Yin Haoting and had said many hurtful things to him.

Yin Hanyu said, “If you must hate someone, hate me…”

“Why would I hate you?” Yin Haoting replied. “I’ve known from the beginning that you are not my child.”

“I don’t even hate my mother…”

Yin Haoting set the manuscript down. “In fact, she never deceived me from the start.”

It was only him—he had fallen in love, one-sidedly, with a girl doomed to suffering and complexity.

Yin Haoting stood up, his voice tinged with bitterness. “Sometimes, I really wish she had lied to me…”

“You…”

“I’m fine.” Yin Haoting turned away. “Honestly, I’m not a fool. Aside from how she and A Si met, I had thought about many things.”

Because, when Bai Ci was dying, she kept saying “I’m sorry” to him.

“How… how did my mother die?”

“She always wanted to kill her father. So, she had been secretly gathering evidence against the Pei family…”

“But when she finally found what she was looking for, she realized the Pei family was far more terrifying than she had ever imagined…”

“She was the first to discover that the Pei family had a human experimentation base in Yanshan.”

“She barely managed to escape at the time, but she also realized she could no longer protect you…”

“So, she came to me.”

“And I took you and your mother to the Yin family.”

“But even then, she didn’t tell me her full plan…”

“What she truly wanted was to kill her father and avenge her mother.”

“It was an obsession that had driven her all these years…”

“In the end, she went and killed him.”

“She succeeded…”

“She was happy…”

“But…” Yin Haoting’s voice choked with emotion. “But she also became a victim.”

“While trying to escape, she was injured by a strange-looking man. That man injected her with a special virus…”

“When she came back, the first thing she did was check on you. At that time, you were still asleep.”

“But the virus was too strange and agonizing—under its influence, she almost killed you…”

“Frightened, she fled from where you were sleeping. Meanwhile, the pain became more and more unbearable, making her realize that she didn’t have much time left.”

“So, she came to find me. She just wanted to ask me to take care of you in the future…”

But the virus was relentless, ferocious, like a monstrous beast consuming Bai Ci whole, plunging her into unimaginable agony.

Before she could finish her words, the excruciating pain engulfed her, as if thousands of venomous insects were gnawing at her bones. She writhed on the ground, unable to utter a complete sentence.

In just moments, Bai Ci’s face turned deathly pale. She trembled violently, beads of sweat rolling down her forehead, soaking her clothes, making her appear both pitiful and fragile.

Seeing Bai Ci suffer so much, Yin Haoting’s heart shattered.

Finally—

Just as he resolved to end her pain, gritting his teeth and steeling himself—Bai Ci suddenly summoned her last ounce of strength and grabbed his wrist, holding onto the hand that clutched the knife.

“Ah Ci…”

Bai Ci struggled to speak. “Yin Haoting, let me do it myself…”

“I have already let you down enough… If I force you to kill me with your own hands, you will live in guilt and pain for the rest of your life, never able to move on…”

“Yin Haoting, I’m sorry… I don’t deserve your love…”

“Yin Haoting, from now on, don’t love me anymore—love yourself well…”

With those words, Bai Ci snatched the knife from his hand and, without hesitation, plunged it into her own body.

In an instant, blood splattered everywhere, staining the floor. Her body slowly collapsed, like a withering flower, drained of all life.

“No—!”

Yin Haoting let out a piercing, grief-stricken wail, his voice shaking the heavens, as if the entire world had been torn apart.

Even just remembering that moment, Yin Haoting felt as if he was being ripped apart from the inside.

Yin Hanyu hesitated for a moment, then reached out and placed a hand on Yin Haoting’s shoulder.

Yin Haoting was slightly taken aback before he reached out and grasped Yin Hanyu’s hand.

“Actually, I was the one who wronged you the most…” This was also why he had always endured Yin Hanyu’s verbal attacks over the years.

“That night, my mother’s death broke me completely… to the point that I overlooked you…”

“I didn’t even realize when you were taken away…”

Yin Haoting looked at Yin Hanyu with guilt. “You must have suffered a lot over the years.”

Yin Hanyu simply said, “It’s all in the past now.”

Seeing that Yin Hanyu didn’t want to talk about it, Yin Haoting didn’t press further.

He said, “Later, we led a special forces team to Yanshan. Just as my mother had said, we found the human experimentation base.”

“When we investigated further, we discovered that the Pei family had been conducting illegal human experiments for a long time.”

“When the higher-ups found out, they were furious…”

“They directly ordered the destruction of the Pei family.”

“But we never found the strange and terrifying man my mother had mentioned.”

Yin Haoting sighed. “At the time, I thought maybe the virus had caused hallucinations, and she had seen things that weren’t real…”

“But now…” Yin Haoting felt a chill down his spine at the mere thought of Shang. “Now that I’ve seen Shang with my own eyes, I finally know—it was all real…”