"Cough, cough, cough..."
In the vision, Xu Ye found himself coughing.
His view shifted with the dead woman's gaze. She was lying on a bed in a cabin, with no one else in the room.
Sorrow welled up in her heart. The woman looked despairingly at her husband, a bearded man who was peeling an apple for her.
Apples were expensive these days. She hadn't eaten one in a long time.
"A Mei, just give in to him. Zhang Bin has gone out of his mind looking for his wife. I've seen her photo, and you look a lot like her. He even mistook you for her just now. If I hadn't stopped him, he would've hugged you."
"Let's see our good deed through to the end."
The woman struggled fiercely. "Have you lost your mind? I'm your wife! Haven't you put me through enough? Why don't you go be his wife? You just want that fifty-thousand reward!"
"Cough, cough, cough... You just want to squeeze the last bit of value out of me!"
"Do you resent me for wasting more money by going to the Uman Islands to find a doctor?"
"You just want me to die sooner, don't you? Then you won't have to waste money, and you can go chasing other women. I won't die! Zheng De, you're a fucking scumbag."
Zheng De lowered his eyelids slightly and grinned. "You really can't die. Otherwise, your son will be an orphan."
The woman went rigid. "You knew?"
Zheng De puffed away at his cigarette. "He's soft-skinned, delicate, and refined. I'm a rough brute. How could he possibly be mine? A Mei, you haven't been fair to me."
"Of course, I've raised him all these years. I don't mind keeping it up. He's got my surname anyway."
*Wow. A