In Yue Yunfei's anger, the ashtray went straight towards Ding Jie's head, but Ruian Lin grabbed Ding Jie at this moment and actually blocked the ashtray with his body. The ashtray fell squarely on Ruian Lin's sun. On the acupuncture point, he covered his head and screamed "Ah", and the hot blood came out instantly, but he still protected Ding Jie tightly, shouting in panic, "Mr. Yue, don't... don't do it, Xiaojie is just angry."
"Old Ryan" Ding Jie screamed, hurriedly pulled out a stack of tissues from the bedside table and pressed it on Ryan Lin's hideous wound, then turned back and glared at Yue Yunfei and shouted, "Yue Yunfei, are you still a man? If you have the guts, you can shoot me to death. Why are you venting your anger on Old Ryan?"
"I...I'm fine, Mr. Yue is confused." Ruianlin waved his hands feebly, and was about to say a few more words of persuasion, but Yue Yunfei stepped forward, pointed at Ding Jie angrily, and said, "Ding Jie, even if I, Yue Yunfei, have been sorry for you before, but you have avenged everything tonight. From now on, we are cut off from each other. You can go find your little lover, and your life and death will no longer have anything to do with me."
"Okay...it doesn't matter, right?" Ding Jie watched Yue Yunfei keep nodding, her pretty face gradually filled with disappointment and despair. She said nothing more, let go of Ruian Lin, turned around and ran out. Ruian Lin realized that something was wrong and hurriedly wanted to catch up, but Yue Yunfei snorted heavily, "Let her go to hell."
"I... I'd better go take a look and don't let anything happen." Ruian Lin hesitated, then turned around and chased out, but there was no figure of Ding Jie in the corridor. He stepped forward and pushed open Ding Jie's door. Ding Lili, who heard the quarrel, was standing beside the bed sleepily. When he saw the furious Ruian Lin, he asked in a daze, "Uncle Ruian, did my sister and uncle-in-law have a fight?"
"No, go to sleep quickly." Ruian Lin waved anxiously towards Ding Lili and quickly closed the door. However, while closing the door, he couldn't help but feel deeply sad for Ding Lili. They were obviously his biological parents, but because of too many interests involved, he was asked to call one sister and the other uncle since childhood. Ruian Lin, who had been divorced three times but never had children, often thought that if Ding Lili were his own child, even if she went to beg for food, he would have to ask her to call him father.
"Jingjie…"
Ruian Lin was running in the corridor calling Ding Jie's name, and the quarrel between Yue Yunfei and Ding Jie almost woke up everyone around him. When Ruian Lin shouted in the corridor, Thomas Li, who was only wearing pajamas, immediately opened the door and ran out with Ding Jiandong, and asked in surprise, "Mr. Ruian, what happened?"
"It's okay, you guys go in and go to bed." Ruian Lin naturally knew that family scandals should not be publicized, and waved his hands to let the young couple go back to sleep, while he continued to catch up in a hurry, but the apocalypse's nerves were not uneasy with Thomas. Who could sleep after they were making such a fuss, and they opened the door one after another to see what was going on.
When Ruian Lin rushed to the swimming pool, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and finally saw Ding Jie here. However, when he saw Ding Jie's current state clearly, his heart that had just been relieved was tightened again.
Ding Jie stood on the edge of the terrace, balancing on a Thomas square table that was only a few dozen centimeters shorter than the stainless steel railing. Although the height of the three-story building was not a bottomless abyss, a slight shift in Ding Jie's body could easily make her fragile form disappear from this world!
Ding Jie was not alone at the scene. Sweating profusely, Ryan Lin realized he had arrived too late. If it weren't for Jack being here, Ding Jie, whose heart was filled with despair, might have already jumped. At that moment, Jack was anxiously persuading Ding Jie, standing two or three meters away with his hand outstretched, but Ding Jie seemed resolute, only shaking her head with a bitter smile, refusing to come down no matter how Jack pleaded.
"Ding Jie, what could possibly be so unbearable? If you're not afraid of death, why fear living?" Jack looked at Ding Jie on the table with a complex expression. Her frail body trembled in the cold morning wind, and her flowing white dress seemed to foreshadow her complete departure from this chaotic world.
Jack had originally come here to check the safety situation with Bai Ru and the others. After all, he had forgotten to call them after a night of craziness with Ding Jie, almost causing them to worry to death. But just as Jack was feeling guilty and apologizing, Ding Jie burst out like a whirlwind. If he hadn't shouted out in a hurry, she would have definitely jumped by now.
"Jack, you don't understand, you really don't understand!" Ding Jie shook her head in despair, choking as she looked at Jack and said, "Let me ask you, if you wanted to soar like Marcus, would you use me, use my body to exchange for your future..."
"I..." Jack didn't know how to answer this question. If it were him, he definitely wouldn't, he would rather die than do that. But Ding Jie was asking this now, merely seeking affirmation for her fatal choice from someone else. Jack didn't dare to give her the answer she wanted, so he could only try to persuade her gently, "Ding Jie, can you come down first? Let's discuss this properly. I can help you, don't be afraid!"
"Tell me, will you..." Ding Jie suddenly shouted loudly, her excitement causing the veins on her forehead to bulge. Her footing became unstable, and the small wooden table that was holding drinks swayed precariously, threatening to collapse and easily bury the poor Ding Jie.
"Slow down, slow down, don't get agitated!" Jack quickly reached out both hands to gently press down, trying to calm Ding Jie's emotions. But thinking about her troubling question, Jack truly didn't know how to respond, his mouth moved but no words came out.
"Jack..." Ding Jie looked at Jack with a face full of despair, speaking to him with a calmness that felt like the eye of a storm, "Don't make it hard for yourself. I know you won't. You're just not saying it because you don't want to lie to me, haha... I, Ding Jie, have been harmed by a heartless man named Dexter my whole life. I never expected to be fortunate enough to meet you in my final days. Why wasn't it you I met back then? Being with you would surely be very happy, right?"
"Ding Jie, let's talk this out properly. Please don't get stuck in a corner, okay?" Jack looked at Ding Jie helplessly. Persuading a woman seeking death was not his strong suit, and he was sweating profusely, having never imagined that the woman he had just been passionate with would suddenly want to jump off a building. He could only look to Ryan Lin for help. By the poolside, everyone who should have come out was there except for Ding Lili, even Yue Yunfei stood among the crowd with a grim expression, coldly watching Ding Jie.
"Ding Jie, come down quickly! President Yue is here too, you should come down!" Ryan Lin was anxiously pulling his hair, feeling utterly helpless, while the people around him were also loudly persuading her. However, Ding Jie not only ignored them but slowly closed her eyes, a sense of resolute determination finally appearing on her mature and graceful face.
"Ding Jie, how long are you going to make a scene? Get down here now!" Yue Yunfei suddenly shouted, yelling at Ding Jie, "Do you think that dying will solve everything? If so, you will always be a failure, a foolish woman, just like those garbage who have turned into living corpses, worth nothing!"
"Yue Yunfei, do you only see money in your eyes?" Ding Jie slowly opened her eyes and said with a heart-wrenching smile, "I have long been the most failed and foolish woman in this world, ever since I became a mistress for that old man for you. I have given so much for you, yet you have never been willing to care for me even for a minute. Do you know how hard my life is? Do you know how bitter it is to smile while being pressed down by others? My greatest dream in this life is to marry you, but you won't even give me a wedding photo, and you even let your own daughter call you 'uncle'!"
"Goodbye, Yue Yunfei. If you still have a conscience, I hope you can repay me in your next life…"
As a hot tear rolled down from the corner of Ding Jie's eye, her light body slowly leaned towards the outside of the building. Everyone on the scene held their breath, and even the seemingly stone-hearted Yue Yunfei showed a pained expression at that moment.
"No…"
Jack shouted, gathering all his strength and lunging towards Ding Jie like a cannonball…