Chapter 263: The Basement

Sunlight could not reach inside at all.

In a certain dark and empty little room, the place was incomparably quiet.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps broke the silence.

Before long, a beautiful girl with black hair and red eyes walked down from above.

Her gaze was complicated as she looked at everything here.

Her hands kept trembling.

This place was a basement.

Its location was not far from the An Family Villa.

Yet even so, even in such an obvious position, in her previous life, no one had been able to discover this place until the very end.

Until An Yu’s death.

That was right.

The red-eyed girl was An Qing.

And this place was the basement that had once imprisoned An Yu.

Even An Qing herself did not know why.

After her rebirth, she had immediately bought this place back as her first priority.

Whenever she could no longer bear it, she would always come here to clear her mind.

Clearly, it was here that she had witnessed An Yu refusing to turn back even in death.

Clearly, everything she possessed here were nothing but painful memories.

Yet An Qing had still bought this place.

Perhaps… those thoughts still remained in her heart.

The girl lowered her head.

In her eyes was a sorrow that was rarely seen at other times.

This place was filled with memories of her and An Yu.

However, not a single second of them was beautiful.

At this moment, this place was still just an ordinary basement.

There were no traces of human life, nor was anyone being held captive.

However, even though no one was locked up, An Qing had still prepared a prison cell and chains in advance.

That was right.

On the surface, this place was an ordinary basement.

But if one walked deeper inside, they would discover that an iron door and chains had shockingly appeared.

She did not know for whom they had been prepared…

She slowly arrived in front of the prison cell.

Her gaze was complicated as she looked at the empty interior of the cell.

She did not know what she was thinking.

An Qing touched the iron door of the cell.

In the end, she left without saying a word and came to another room.

The girl opened the door to the room and walked inside.

She subconsciously looked around.

This place was filled with photos of An Yu.

There were even some items that An Yu had once used, as well as all sorts of miscellaneous documents.

Without exception, all of those documents were related to An Yu.

They detailed the differences between An Yu’s relationship network in her previous life and this one.

There were also some possibilities of An Yu changing.

She did not know when it had started.

An Qing, who could not come into contact with An Yu, had begun doing this kind of thing.

Taking revenge on An Yu…

Clearly, at the very beginning, she had not yet forgotten her hatred and had still been thinking about taking revenge on An Yu.

Yet even during that period, she had still been doing this kind of thing.

Until now, she had never stopped.

Collecting An Yu’s small belongings.

Taking photos of An Yu.

Recording everything An Yu did.

But even after doing all this, An Qing still did not understand An Yu.

She still could not comprehend the meaning behind her actions.

An Qing’s expression was blank.

She took out the hair accessory in her hand and found an empty spot to hang it up.

She only knew one thing…

She could not leave An Yu.

She wanted An Yu to look at her.

She wanted An Yu to feel that she was important.

The things she could understand were only these.

An Qing’s hatred, from the very beginning, had not been born from betrayal or schemes.

She hated An Yu.

She hated that An Yu had abandoned her.

She hated that An Yu had chosen others.

Yet she had never hated An Yu for coming into contact with her.

An Qing wanted to destroy An Yunfan.

She wanted to destroy Jiang Qinghe.

She wanted to destroy Chen Guang.

But… what about An Yu?

Perhaps she only wanted An Yu to turn back and look at her once.

However, even such a simple thing was something she could not achieve.

An Qing casually pulled out a chair and sat down.

She casually fiddled with a photo.

“What should I do, An Yu, Big Sister?”

What she wanted was actually not complicated.

She simply wanted to live the most ordinary days together with Big Sister An Yu.

However, even such a simple request was something she could not realize.

It seemed that from the very beginning, An Qing had been a complete failure.

The expression on her face was filled with an irresolvable blankness.

An Qing was like a useless machine that could only attract scum.

She simply attracted them to her side, yet she could not filter them out.

And these scum were far more capable than her at attracting An Yu’s gaze.

An Qing could not understand it.

She would never be able to understand the reason.

Clearly, it had not been like this at the beginning.

Her position had been more like Ning Dongli at the comic convention, protected by An Yu.

She still remembered.

In the beginning, An Yu would always tell An Qing to stay away from this person, to stay away from that person.

Just like how An Yu protected Ning Dongli.

An Yu could always tell at the first moment who was scum.

Even later on, because she could never tell scum apart, An Yu had even prepared self-defense weapons for her…

Thinking of this, An Qing suddenly froze.

An Qing abruptly stood up.

She forcefully pulled open the drawer beside her.

Inside, it was almost completely filled with weapons.

Most of them were electric shock guns, the same type An Qing had used last time.

She seemed to have discovered the root of the problem.

Because she had been reborn, she wanted to protect herself.

Why had she prepared electric shock guns?

This had been An Qing’s habit from her previous life.

Because she always attracted scum…

No, that was not it!

Someone had told her to use these to protect herself.

“Ah…”

The girl subconsciously let out a somewhat trembling sound.

Her eyes were also filled with disbelief.

Who was that person?

An Qing’s red pupils trembled violently.

It seemed she had finally discovered what was wrong.

Fragments of flashbacks appeared in the girl’s mind.

“An Qing is an idiot who can’t tell bad people apart.”

The girl’s voice was young and cold, yet filled with concern.

“So having a weapon is better. When the time comes and it’s too late, you can still save yourself.”

An Qing still remembered the concerned expression on that girl’s face at the time.

Because she had always been chasing after the love of a bunch of scum, that girl had used this method to directly remind her.

So who was that girl?

Of course it was An Yu.

Only An Yu would remind her!

“Haha…”

The girl stood up.

She seemed to have remembered even more details.

She seemed to have long forgotten that An Yu’s intuition was many times more accurate than hers.

She had also forgotten even more that, whether in her previous life or this one, An Yu had never been able to tell who was bad either…

So from beginning to end, An Yu had always known that those pieces of trash were scum.

Because the only one who craved their love was An Qing alone.

An Yu had never cared about these things.

How could such an An Yu possibly like the people of the An family?

How could she possibly like Chen Guang?

From the very beginning, An Yu had always been protecting her from these people’s hands.

Why?

Why had she forgotten?

“Huff… huff…”

An Qing kept taking deep breaths, yet she could not calm the emotions in her heart.

Why had she forgotten?

It was because she had been blinded by hatred!

She was an idiot.

An idiot who only remembered hatred!!!

So…

So!

An Yu’s reason for doing those things absolutely could not have been because of those scum.

Everything she did had other reasons behind it.

Now, An Qing truly understood.