After three years of misplaced affection, Mrs. Yu is no longer willing to pretend to be obedient.

"What's wrong, sister?" Jane Ailing walked into her sister's room.

A large "喜" (happiness) character was pasted above the bed, and the whole room was decorated with a festive atmosphere.

Jane sat in front of the vanity mirror and took off her face mask.

"Are you nervous?" Jane asked, sitting on the edge of the bed. "Wow, time flies! You're getting married tomorrow."

"Tomorrow is just the engagement, not the official wedding." Jian Aiying looked in the mirror, touched her face, and smiled.

"That's only a matter of time. You and your brother-in-law have such a good relationship, you'll be officially married soon, right?" As she spoke, Jane Ailing lay on the bed, a smile curving her lips. "Congratulations, sister. I hope my future husband will treat me just as well."

Although Jane still sometimes couldn't suppress her envy and jealousy, her blessings were sincere.

From any perspective, this marriage is a great joy for my sister and the Jian family.

"Ailing, you should take some time to get this little birthmark removed with laser treatment." Unexpectedly, Jian Aiying gave an irrelevant answer and instead focused her attention on the small birthmark on her body.

Jane looked at her sister with some confusion, then looked down at the small birthmark.

She has a small red birthmark near her armpit, which is not noticeable normally, but it will show when she wears a tank top.

Although she was laughed at by her classmates when she was a child, Jane Ailing didn't think it was a big deal. On the contrary, she thought the shape of the birthmark looked like a small butterfly.

"That's my little butterfly, a part of me." Jane Ailing pouted unhappily. "You're getting engaged tomorrow, so don't meddle in my business."

Jane Ai-ying had known about this small birthmark on her since she was a child, but she had never mentioned it to her before.

Recently, however, this matter has been brought up repeatedly, more than once.

"Aren't you afraid Zhou Ze'an will look down on you?" Jian Aiying teased. "If it were me, the first thing I'd do after starting a relationship is get laser treatment to remove it."

Jane Ailing frowned, her discomfort intensifying. She turned her head to the side. "Don't worry, Ze'an isn't that kind of person."

"Just don't wear a halter dress to my wedding."

"Okay!" Jane Ailing was very unhappy with her blatant disdain. "I'm going back to sleep."

That night, Jane Ailing inexplicably couldn't sleep.

Because of her delay, they left home 15 minutes later than planned, just in time to encounter the morning rush hour traffic jam.

"Jane Ailing, it's all your fault!" While stuck in traffic, Jane Ailing yelled at her younger sister, "If you hadn't been so slow, we wouldn't be stuck in traffic!"

Because of Jane Ailing's delay, they left home 15 minutes later than planned, just in time to encounter the morning rush hour traffic jam.

"I'm sorry, I don't know why..." she kept apologizing, but Jian Aiying was still angry.

"I know a shortcut; we should be able to get there faster," the driver in front said. "It's just that the mountain road isn't very smooth."

The hotel where we held our engagement banquet today is located halfway up a mountain. It has a quiet environment and offers a great view of the distant lake and mountains.

Jane had heard from her sister that the Yu family was also one of the shareholders of that hotel.

"Then let's take the mountain path! The faster the better, we have to get there!"

Her parents attached great importance to this wedding banquet, and Jian Aiying was no less so. Even though they had already left the main road and avoided the traffic jam, she kept urging the driver to go faster.

"Sis, don't rush me, we're already driving pretty fast."

The car turned onto a winding mountain road, which had only one lane in the opposite direction and was very narrow.

Jane was a little worried and silently fastened her seatbelt.

"Isn't all this rush because of you?" Jian Aiying rolled her eyes at her. "We're already late! The makeup artist is already waiting there. What if we're delayed and don't have time for makeup?"

"Couldn't we just ask the makeup artist to hurry up a bit?" Jian Ailing said helplessly. "You should fasten your seatbelt first..."

Jian Aiying touched her face and glanced at her sister. "Almost all the elders of the Yu family will be here today. I have to serve them tea one by one and take photos, so of course I need to put on makeup properly."

Knowing how much her sister cared about her appearance, Jane had no choice but to keep quiet.

Urged on by Jian Aiying, the car drove up the mountain road, and the speed did not decrease much.

As the driver was making a sharp turn, he belatedly realized that another car was approaching from the opposite direction.

To avoid an oncoming car, the driver immediately turned the steering wheel, but there was a fence next to the narrow road. Even though he stepped on the brakes hard, the huge inertia still caused the car to crash through the fence and rush straight down the hillside!

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. Jane screamed, completely unaware of what had just occurred.

The sounds of metal tearing and glass shattering exploded in my ears.

She watched as Jane Aiying, who was standing next to her, was thrown out.

Jane Ailing subconsciously reached out to grab her, but only managed to touch the hem of her clothes; she couldn't grasp anything.

"Buzz—"

The whole world suddenly went silent, and Jane felt dizzy.

Excruciating pain shot through her body, making her feel burning hot all over, as if she were on fire.

"Sister... Sister..." Jian Ailing gasped for breath, enduring the pain as she turned her head and called out in a weak voice to Jian Aiying, who had been thrown to the front, and the driver in the driver's seat.

Nobody paid any attention to her.

We have to find someone, we have to find someone to save them...

Jane used her last bit of strength to unbuckle her seatbelt and barely managed to push the car door open a crack.

Her legs were too weak to stand, but there were still two people in the car waiting for rescue. Thinking of her sister and the driver, Jian Ailing dared not stop and could only crawl forward with all her might.

The gravel grinding against her wound made her burst into tears. A faint smell of blood filled the air, and her face was wet and slippery, indistinguishable between blood and tears.

"Help...help..." Jian Ailing wanted to shout for help, but found that she couldn't make a sound at all.

A loud bang suddenly came from behind her, and she was thrown over by a powerful blast of air, eventually losing consciousness.

……

When Jane opened her eyes again, she found herself lying in a hospital bed.

She tried with difficulty to move her body, but still gasped in pain.

"Ailing, you're awake?" Wang Shuqin's concerned voice came through the phone.

Jane, who was standing on the other side, raised the hospital bed, and Jane Ailing saw Zhou Ze'an standing beside him.

"It's all your fault! Why didn't you save your sister!" Jian Ailing opened her eyes in a daze. Before she could react to everything around her, she was suddenly slapped and turned to the side.

Her left cheek was numb with pain, and she was completely stunned by the blow.

My ears were ringing.

"If you hadn't selfishly abandoned your sister, she wouldn't have..." Jian Hui was emotional and wanted to continue forward, but Wang Shuqin stopped him.

"Stop hitting him! Don't take your anger out on Lingling!" Wang Shuqin stood in front of the hospital bed and forcefully pushed Jian Hui away. Seeing this, Jian Sen also went over and pulled his father away from behind.

Zhou Ze'an stood by the bed, pulled Jian Ailing into his arms, and held her tightly.

"It's amazing she even survived!"

Leaning against Zhou Ze'an's chest, her ears were still ringing, but she could still faintly hear her parents' conversation.

"If only she hadn't been so self-centered and taken Ai Ying with her, Ai Ying wouldn't have died!"

dead……

My sister is dead?

The sharp arguing continued, and Jane huddled up, desperately covering her ears, feeling a splitting headache.

My eyes are dry and sore, but I can't shed any tears.

-

Because her fracture had not yet healed, Jane Ailing attended her sister's funeral in a wheelchair.

It was only when she entered the mourning hall that she truly felt that her sister had really left her.

Almost all of Jian's close relatives came, and unsurprisingly, no one gave her a friendly look.

As the survivor of the car accident, she became the sinner of her family.

Perhaps everyone has had that secret and wicked thought—if only the older sister had survived.

In the crowd, Jian Ailing saw Yu Yunting again.

The man was dressed in all black, with a solemn and dignified expression, and his whole body looked pale and haggard.

She suddenly felt that this person was very distant from her, no longer the one who would sit next to her and listen to her call him brother-in-law with a smile.

As if by telepathy, Yu Yunting turned his head, his gaze passing through the crowd and landing on her.

Those deep eyes were cold, looking at her sitting in the wheelchair without a trace of pity.

Jane Eileen knew that he, like her family, believed he was responsible for her sister's death.

Perhaps we shouldn't blame him. After all, if even his closest relatives think this way, it seems normal for outsiders to have the same idea.

Two weeks later, Wang Shuqin and Jian Sen came to pick up Jian Ailing from the hospital.

Ironically, her family had been busy with her sister's funeral and the financing of Chaoyuan Group, and they visited her in the hospital less often than Zhou Zean did.

Her mother was very considerate to her throughout the journey and never said anything harsh. Her brother was also very considerate of her feelings.

When Jian Ailing got home, she found Jian Hui already waiting for her.

But to my surprise, he seemed like a completely different person, asking her how her wound was healing and whether she was in pain.

This scene gave Jane a feeling of time travel, as if her life had returned to before the car accident.

Her parents are still the same parents who care about her. Even if they are biased, they still love her.

Are they... going to forgive her?

Just as Jian Ailing was slowly letting her guard down, Wang Shuqin said something that caught her completely off guard: "Lingling, could you marry into the Yu family in place of your sister?"