"It was never mine to begin with. And even if it were, so what? Not being meant for this world, its fate was sealed from the start. Did you really think a child could tie me down? Or win you the position of Madam Li?"
He stripped away Lin Jingxue's elaborate scheming without the slightest bit of courtesy, his handsome face a mask of utter contempt. He was a devil like that; he could be this cruel and merciless to anyone in the world, uttering such words without so much as a blink, because he simply did not care. For someone he didn't even deign to look at to dream of getting something out of him was sheer delusion.
If Lin Jingxue had stayed in her place, he would have provided her with a privileged life for the rest of her days. What a pity... having climbed up from the bottom, her heart had been poisoned by the colorful and extravagant world of high society, making her increasingly greedy and ugly. She had genuinely started to think of herself as a princess, when in reality, he had never once deigned to look at her.
Chapter 523