Dai Mao had sunk into deep self-doubt. He had even lost all hope of staying alive.
He wanted to die, to be free, to forget all this pain.
Chen Changan studied Dai Mao carefully. Though they hadn't known each other long, Dai Mao didn't seem like a bad person.
Being cuckolded once or twice was one thing, but eighty times? That was truly unreasonable. And by the same person, too. There had to be more to the story. They would have to dig deeper.
"You don't actually want to die. You just think you can't escape being cuckolded again and again, so you want to run away. Am I right?"
Dai Mao was a man with an obsession. Someone like him wouldn't truly want to die. He simply couldn't face this reality and wanted to escape it.
Chen Changan didn't believe Dai Mao truly had no desire to find out why he was being targeted, or why he kept getting cuckolded.
"I really have thought about dying. If I weren't too weak to reincarnate on my own, I'd probably have reincarnated long ago."
"But I'm even more worried that, even if I reincarnated, that person still wouldn't leave me alone."
"Meeting you was an accident, but I truly meant it when I asked you to find a way to kill me."
"Do you think I wanted to get married so many times? I had no choice."
"First, I wanted to see if anyone would truly stay faithful to me. Second, I wanted to see if he really was targeting me specifically."
"The facts proved that no woman would stay faithful to me, and they also proved that he was targeting me."
"I just can't figure out why he would do this."
"Did I fucking dig up his family's ancestral grave