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I didn’t react to Christopher’s sarcasm at all, but suddenly found myself remembering events from before my rebirth.
Before my rebirth, Christopher and I had gotten into a fierce argument.
Here’s how it started: After college graduation, I had accompanied Christopher to New York for five whole years as he built his career. Now that he had achieved some success, I wanted to return to Texas to develop my own path.
Because I was an only child. That year, my father had a heart attack and passed away before we could get him to the hospital in time, leaving only my mother alone at home. I was very worried about her.
Because I was an only child. That year, my father had a heart attack and passed away before we could get him to the hospital in time, leaving only my mother alone at home. I was very worried about her.
When we first started working, Christopher had promised me that once we saved enough money, we’d return to Texas. But he kept delaying, claiming Texas had no prospects and wasn’t worth going back to.
When we first started working, Christopher had promised me that once we saved enough money, we’d return to Texas. But he
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kept delaying, claiming Texas had no prospects and wasn’t worth going back to.
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He even told me outright that he would never go back, suggesting we could bring my mom to New York to live with us instead.
But my mom wasn’t comfortable with big city life.
After all these years, I still didn’t feel like I belonged in New York.
That’s why I finally couldn’t hold back my anger at Christopher.
I said, “If you won’t go back to Texas, I’ll go back by myself!”
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“Are you really going to force me like this?” Christopher demanded. “What’s wrong with staying in New York? Do you want to be poor for the rest of your life? When our child is born, the education they’d get in Texas definitely won’t compare to New York.”
I was already five months pregnant at the time. It was precisely because I was pregnant that I wanted to return to Texas even more.
I knew very well that once the baby was born, leaving a city would become even harder.
Besides, Texas really wasn’t that bad. While it wasn’t an
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international metropolis like New York, it was still a well–developed state capital, nowhere near as terrible as Christopher made it sound.
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I said, “By your logic, are all the people who stay in smaller cities useless?”
“Only useless people would be content to waste their lives in small cities, living aimlessly without any ambition!” Christopher said disdainfully. “I despise that kind of person the most!”
“Is that how you see me?” I looked at him coldly.
“I don’t want you to become that kind of person!” Christopher declared righteously.
He added, “I never should have chosen to go to college with you in Texas back then–it wasted four whole years of my life! I should have come to New York with Madison from the start!”
Before high school graduation, Madison had confessed her feelings to Christopher, but he had rejected her. He and I had already fallen in love over time.
But ever since he had accompanied me to apply to Texas universities, he had said things like this many times over the
years.
At first, I thought Christopher was just joking, or perhaps indirectly telling me how deep his love for me was and how
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much he had sacrificed for me. Later I realized he genuinely felt regretful.
After the car accident, we had both unexpectedly been reborn together.
On high school graduation day, Christopher didn’t hesitate to abandon me and follow Madison to an out–of–state university, while I remained in–state.
We both knew the other had been reborn, but we tacitly agreed not to interfere with each other.
I had thought I’d never see Christopher again in this lifetime, but clearly he was waiting for me here.
Seeing that I wasn’t speaking, he mocked me again: “Now you finally know the consequences of staying in Texas. Look at yourself, then look at this bunch of losers. Which one of you is doing better than me? But it’s too late for regrets now–I’m planning to marry Madison.”
As he spoke, Christopher pulled out a huge diamond ring from his jacket.
The diamond was massive, looking to be about five carats.
The reason I could tell at a glance that the diamond was five carats was because it looked just slightly smaller than the one I had at home.
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Seeing that I wasn’t speaking, Christopher said smugly, “If you hadn’t been so stubborn, this ring should have belonged to you.”
In my previous life, when Christopher and I got married, he wasn’t as wealthy as he is now, so the ring he bought was quite ordinary. His bragging now was completely undisguised.
“Congratulations to both of you.” I walked past him indifferently.
I could sense that Christopher behind me seemed very unhappy.
This confused me.
This was his own choice. The life he was living now was exactly what he had dreamed of in his previous life.
I thought to myself: “Does he really need to see me regret it before he’ll be happy?”
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