Chapter 333: Chapter 223: The Crematorium Chase Begins, Chen Yuan’s Questioning

Chen Yuan pointed at the two sisters. His fingertips were visibly trembling. He was gritting his teeth, holding back ten thousand things he wanted to say.

But he couldn’t get a single word out. He only felt a furious rage surging through him.

He stared hard at the scene before him, as if trying to burn it into his brain, to remember it for the rest of his life.

A lie that had been constructed over a full year, now torn apart by his own hands.

Chen Yuan watched the two sisters’ reactions. Jiangg Yao shrieked, scrambling to hide in a futile effort. She must have wished she could shrink down to nothing and disappear into any unnoticed corner—a drawer, a crack in the floor, the space under the trunk, even one of the socks hanging on the balcony.

Jiangg Ning was so frightened her face was deathly pale. She hadn’t even begun to process what was happening. If you looked closely, you could see her pupils had shrunk to the size of pinpricks.

’The trunk burst open!’

’My boyfriend just jumped out of it!’

’The twins’ lie is exposed!’

’Why was he in the trunk?’

’How could he have possibly come out of the trunk?’

’Is this a dream?’

In an instant, countless thoughts flooded her mind, but slowly, one overwhelming, despairing thought pushed all others aside: ’We’ve been exposed.’

Jiangg Ning, of course, knew how severe the consequences would be. In the first few days after agreeing to her sister’s plan, she had been too anxious to sleep at night.

She had been terrified of this day coming.

You can’t wrap fire in paper. In the end, the flames would burn everything down.

But as the days slowly passed, she had gradually adapted to the rhythm of being a twin in a relationship. She was just getting into the swing of things, her mindset finally adjusted.

But this... this came completely out of the blue.

The happiness of yesterday was still so vivid in her mind, but in this one second, the fabricated happiness was shattered. The hidden flames burned away their disguises and the final barrier between them. Standing several meters apart, all she could do was stand there, completely at a loss.

Jiangg Ning saw the agony on Chen Yuan’s face, saw his trembling fingers.

All she and her sister had left to face him with was their hasty, flustered, true selves. Nothing more.

"You and her... you’ve been lying to me since we started talking online. If I hadn’t noticed something was wrong and started investigating, I’d probably still be in the dark. After all this time, is it fun? Toying with someone like this?"

"You two sisters, a pair of twins, you don’t consider anyone else’s feelings at all, do you? You treat love like a game: breaking up, getting back together, taking turns dating me. You did everything you could to spin this monstrous lie, crying about some childhood illness, some multiple personality disorder... Then you watched me worry. You hammered it in relentlessly, watching me panic and pour my heart out for you. That was fun, wasn’t it?"

"Painting a beautiful future, without a single honest word out of your mouths. Saying how much you longed for it without even batting an eye. I told you so many times I wanted a pure relationship, and what did you do? You turned around and let someone else defile your boyfriend. Is this kind of ’sharing’ some selfless, great love in your eyes? Don’t you feel any guilt? Do you not have nightmares? You threw my heart to the dogs and had the time of your lives watching me get played for a fool, didn’t you?"

"Did you even see me as a person?"

"And in the end, I’m the one who was kept in the dark, the one paying the price for all these emotions. I even had to comfort one of you for being jealous of the other?"

"You love love triangles that much, huh? Jiangg Ning, why aren’t you saying anything?"

Chen Yuan spoke word by word, moving closer and closer. Jiangg Ning looked at him, the color drained from her face.

She had the urge to back away. Faced with such an interrogation, she couldn’t utter a single word in her defense.

"I... I didn’t."

"You didn’t what?! You didn’t lie about having multiple personalities? Or you didn’t take turns dating me? Or you never lied from the very beginning, and this is all just me going crazy and hallucinating things?"

"I didn’t... want to lie to you."

"Oh, you were forced? You had your reasons? Go on, I’m listening."

Jiangg Ning pressed her lips together so tightly her teeth nearly drew blood. But how could she explain? She had, in fact, done it all. Not a single word Chen Yuan said was wrong.

Before this love triangle began, no one had asked for his opinion.

It was just she and her sister, assuming things should be however they wanted them to be.

Even in a divorce, a small child has the right to be asked by a judge, "Who do you want to live with?"

People have their own dignity. That is undeniable.

But they hadn’t granted Chen Yuan that dignity. They had treated him like an accessory to be fought over, belonging to whoever could win.

"And you, Jiangg Yao!"

With her, Chen Yuan was even more direct and rough.

His anger toward Jiangg Yao was several times greater than his anger toward Jiangg Ning!

Ten times!

’Acting. That’s what Jiangg Yao does best.’

’All sorts of lies. Not a single honest word from her. She smugly and skillfully deployed her talent for it.’

Her name was called.

Jiangg Yao flinched, terrified.

"I... I was wrong," she apologized instinctively, her eyes wide.

But the next moment...

Chen Yuan grabbed the back of her collar and hauled her up.

"Don’t you feel disgusted with yourself, Jiangg Yao? Huh?! Let me ask you, when you were crying that night, did you feel guilty? When you saw me unable to sleep all night, were you happy? Did you ever ask if I wanted to date your sister?!"

One sharp question.

Jiangg Yao’s tears instantly started to fall. They streamed down her face, dripping everywhere.

She had never imagined a day like this would come.

But this moment, which no one could have predicted, had arrived without any warning.

It was like a thunderclap on a clear day, leaving her utterly panicked and lost.

She was probably still wondering just where things had gone wrong. True remorse might not have even set in yet.

"And you? Jiangg Ning, did you ever ask if I wanted to date your sister? What the fuck am I, an escort? A male host at a KTV, is that it? Do you even know if hosts have the right to refuse a client?"

"Chen... don’t say such awful things."

"Still calling me so affectionately? Who are you trying to disgust?"

Jiangg Ning was choked speechless by his words. She unconsciously fidgeted with the hem of her clothes, her face flushing crimson as if she’d been slapped.

But the feeling in her heart was far more painful than a physical slap.

"Cry! Go on, cry your heart out." Chen Yuan let go of Jiangg Yao, shooting her a look of disgust.

In the living room.

Traces of the sisters’ earlier play-fighting remained. The room was a mess. Since Chen Yuan had broken the trunk apart, pieces of foam were scattered everywhere. Everything was in disarray.

Including the two sisters’ hearts.

No one spoke.

They didn’t even have the courage to look up at Chen Yuan. Yaoyao was trembling uncontrollably. Only two words echoed in her mind: ’It’s over.’

Everything was over.

It was G.G.

The game cut to a black screen. Two words reflected on their identical, haggard faces.

「GAME OVER」

No exclamation point.

No emotional coloring.

No emotive particles.

From the moment the two of them, counting on their luck, started sharing the same online relationship, they had committed a crime: the crime of disrespecting pure love.

In that small Lanjing restaurant, during the breakup, Jiangg Yao hadn’t mustered the courage to defy her mother’s ban. Jiangg Ning didn’t want to lose her job, and she also wanted her sister’s "illness" to be cured.

They didn’t confess the truth—that they were both in the online relationship—and instead told a small lie.

After thinking it through, Jiangg Yao took another wrong turn. She went behind her sister’s back to get back together with Chen Yuan.

When Jiangg Ning found out, the two of them just fought over him. Twins had to have the exact same things, otherwise seeing their twin sister’s different life would breed resentment.

Perhaps there was love. Perhaps as time went on, through the rapport they built, they came to see what kind of guy Chen Yuan was, and their simple fondness turned into love.

But this love was narrow-minded, selfish, and unreasonable.

It wasn’t built on a foundation of mutual respect.

They NTR’d each other, focused only on farming their own affection points, and dragged a normal boy who respected love into the vortex of a love triangle.

They made the wrong choice again and again, until what had been a perfectly good relationship became a toxic mess.

He panted for a moment, catching his breath.

Having apparently made up his mind, Chen Yuan said coldly, "We’re breaking up! Both of you! We’re all broken up! Take this love triangle and go play it with someone else!"

He walked toward the door alone, not forgetting to close it behind him.

With a soft, un-forceful CLICK...

...a boy’s first love came to a close.

In the living room, the afternoon sun swayed, casting interlocking patterns of light and shadow.

Jiangg Yao slowly sank to the floor, her body trembling as she cried.

Jiangg Ning also collapsed weakly onto the sofa, a complex expression on her face.