Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

Mui faltered in shock.

"T-That is not true! I didn't feed you any poison…!" Her chest heaved breathlessly.

Alix ignored her rant and continued.

"You know, I kept wondering. Why were you always so weirdly obsessed with Jin? I have lost count of the times you asked me to stay away from him and his family. At first, I genuinely thought you had my best interests in mind."

"I did," Yuze said unfazed.

"That's cute of you to think that. Whether it was at the company party or the art gallery exhibition or so many other times I cannot keep track of - you kept hammering in my head that we shouldn't get too close. Our families don't really match for us to stand as equals."

"What is wrong with that?" His eyes narrowed. "I was telling the truth."

Alix arched his brow. "You do realize that Mrs. Liu Nana comes from a humble background, right?"

He blinked.

"Yes, she is the daughter of the Liang family, also a big and rich family, but at the time she married Mr. Liu Jinhai, their backgrounds were hardly a match. A giant corporation versus a small restaurant."

He said nothing.

"It is the same with Xing Bi and Zhou Ai. But do you see them devastated now just because they married rich guys? Look at Zhou Ai. She is happily stuffing ice cream and celebrating her second pregnancy."

Yuze rubbed his temples in impatience. "You are making things up at this point, Alix-"

"But it's a reality that you screwed Jin's first business deal."

He froze.

Alix rose on her feet and laughed, enjoying every moment of this confrontation.

"That's why I like you in a way. You seriously never let anybody doubt you even for a second because you had made the perfect shield for you. Han Shui. Your confession to her wasn't out of love. You wanted to make me jealous this whole time."

His expression slightly hardened.

Alix's eyes shone. "You panicked when I woke up from the coma and found that my mental state was recovering. I wasn't chasing after you anymore so you thought to use Shui to make me feel the threat of losing you. You kept getting closer to her to provoke me but the opposite happened instead. You got provoked the more you saw Jin and me spending time. And so your warnings and all."

"But then you heard that I was working from the Liu Corps and your fuse just went poof! You thought that to save my company, I will come to you for help, considering our history and family closeness. But you never imagined that I would ask for Jin's help which angered the hell out of you. You were supposed to be my knight in shining armor, not Jin."

She lazily blew her breath over her nails. "It was after I started working at the Liu Corps that you decided to ruin Jin's business and reputation. You interfered with his fintech deal. It wasn't because you thought that Jin was playing with Shui's feelings but because in your mind, he was seducing me. Right, Mui?"

Mui jolted with her unexpected call and she couldn't respond.

"See? Her panicking state confirms. Poor girl is still trying to understand how the hell I figured out everything."

He smiled sarcastically. "Please enlighten me too. I want to understand the basis of far-fetched stories."

"Ooo I like stories," she clapped her hands in delight, "Every character feels like they are the tragic heroes of the story. That perception is so amazing if you think about it. On one hand, the world thinks that I confessed to you and you broke up with me but you just have to flip things around and voila! Now Kang Yuze becomes the main character~"

She grinned. "The tragic hero who loved a woman with all his heart but alas, the relationship couldn't last. The heroine couldn't tolerate the hero's overly controlling and toxic behavior and broke up. And now begins the arc of the birth of a villain! The villain who would go to every length possible to get her back. If not when she is sane, then insanity is the way~"

Yuze burst into laughter. "Okay, let me entertain your wild fantasies. Fine. Maybe I did this because of you. Then why would I support Mui to be the CEO? Why would I supply faulty raw materials when it is the company of the woman I love so much?"

She blinked twice. "I thought I already explained that. Crazy, helpless and crippled? You simply wanted to corner me from all sides. Making me go insane and unable to handle the company and controlling my company through Mui was all your scheme for me to become completely dependable on you. For that to happen, I had to lose all my independence and sense of self.

Basically your end result was to make me say - 'I cannot lift even a finger without Yuze. I need him in my life at all costs.' But I wonder who needed who. When you saw that I was drifting away from you, you thought to restart your insanity project, which is why…"

Alix stepped closer to him with a smile.

"Mui mixed that same poison in my drink at the company party, right?"

Mui's face went ghostly pale.

"It wasn't some one-night stand drug. We got confused because of Shui's reaction after she had the drink. It was the first time for her so her body immediately went all protective mode. It made her body hot and dizzy with fever to fight the poison but we mistakenly assumed that the heat was the aphrodisiac doing its job."

He chuckled. "And you think your own sister will work with me to this extent against you? Do you hear yourself?"

"I am hearing you and myself just fine. But the thing about my sister is that she is dumb. To poison me everyday, you obviously needed someone close to me who lived with me under one roof. Who else but my sister fit the role? But to make her poison me, you first had to make me the villain in her eyes. Bring cracks in our sisterhood, which is what happened when she fell for-"

Alix paused. "What was your crush's name again?"

"D-Dai Qi-"

"Whatever. Don't care. She fell for that useless guy or it is more right to say that you made that useless guy impress her. Mui being Mui, easily got charmed. I opposed her crush as you had expected and voila, you got her on your side. This happened after our breakup."

"Isn't it far-fetched to say that just because you opposed her crush, she would go that far to poison you?"

She yawned. "Oh yes. Surely, she did some things here and there in your favor but feeding someone some unknown medicine? Obviously, she would wonder what that drug is. I give her that much credit for not being that stupid. But…"

Alix tilted her head. "When stupidity cannot be made use of, fear can. That is why she easily got threatened when you showed how that useless guy had recorded their intimate make out acts - which you could make it public anytime you want."