Chapter 1 That's Enough, I've Had Enough
"Special news flash, Mr. Ye Chen, the chairman of Teng Long Group, has passed away at the age of eighty-nine due to illness! Mr. Ye Chen did not leave behind any family members. Before his death, Mr. Ye Chen made a will to donate his entire fortune of 400 billion to charity......"
"Hmm?"
Ye Chen slowly opened his eyes. He was in a shabby 2 bedrooms 1 living room rented apartment.
"What is this place?"
He let out a cry of surprise.
Without thinking, he scanned his surroundings.
The living room was less than fifteen square meters.
Cheap bottles of beer and cigarette butts were scattered everywhere.
An unbearable stench was mingled with the heavy smell of alcohol and tobacco in the room. The stench came from empty cup noodle containers strewn about.
The place was in such a filthy state that it looked worse than a dog kennel!
"Isn't this the house I rented sixty years ago?"
The familiar sight awakened the painful memories that had been repressed in Ye Chen's mind for the past sixty years.
Instinctively, he recalled the scene of people crying at his deathbed and he wondered if his spirit was brought back to this point in his life sixty years ago.
But before he could ponder more about it...
"Thud!"
The door to the house was pushed open from the outside.
"Daddy!"
A tender and clear voice of a child rang out.
A little girl of four or five leaped through the door.
Ignoring the stench and the filthy state of the room, she leaped towards him and clung onto his thigh. Even his messy and unkempt appearance did not deter her from embracing him tightly.
"Daddy, I miss you so much! Please don't argue with mommy again, okay? Please don't let mommy take me to grandma's house, okay?"
It was Youyou!
In that instant, Ye Chen felt like he was struck by lighting.
He felt the warmth on his thigh as his daughter clung onto him. He felt the dampness of her tears staining his pants.
Ye Chen's mind went blank.
He did not return to the past as a spirit? But rather, he was physically brought back to sixty years ago?
"Come back, Youyou!"
An angry rebuke interrupted his thought.
A woman in a dress appeared in front of his eyes. She was graceful, elegant, and refined. Yet underneath it all, it felt like she was exhausted and deflated, as if she had the weight of the world on her shoulders.
It was Chen Yinuo!
The woman that had appeared in his dreams countless times for the past 60 years. The woman that stirred him awake from his dreams in tears.
He lived for eighty-nine years, with sixty of those years filled with regrets.
If not for his foolishness, his wife, Chen Yinou, and his daughter, Youyou, would not have died.
It was he, who single-handedly caused the death of his family. It was because of him, that his wife and daughter did not die a peaceful death.
What was worse was that even after his wife's death, he still resented her for her betrayal, for dragging their daughter along with her to the grave.
It was not until six months later, after learning the whole truth, did he go to his wife's grave for the first time to pay his respects.
He cried continuously for three whole days and nights that time. He even went without food or water during that period. If the cemetery caretaker did not discover Ye Chen during his rounds, Ye Chen would have died there and then and be reunited with his family in death.
But this was unexpected.
God had given him an incredible opportunity.
He was brought back to life sixty years into the past!
"Yi...Yinou!"
Looking at Chen Yinou, the woman who he had dreamed of countless times, whose voice and smile had followed him for the past sixty years, Ye Chen struggled to call out her name with his hoarse voice.
"How much more pain do you want to put us through before you are satisfied, Ye Chen?!"
The house that she had cleaned five days ago had once again turned into a scene from her nightmares.
Chen Yinou broke down and yelled, as she walked over and pulled Ye Youyou to her side.
"Ye Chen, I beg you, please, just the divorce papers. I've had enough, I'll go crazy if this continues! Even now, I need sleeping pills to be able to sleep. Please just sign the divorce papers, and let us go. Show us some mercy, please!"
Chen Yinou pleaded as she tried to calm herself down. She half-raised her arms, shook her head, and tried to take in the dirty mess in front of her as if it was just another normal day for her.
She had thought she had found Mr. Right, the one with who she could live the rest of her life.
For this reason, she ignored her family's opposition, and gave up on more qualified suitors who were rich and handsome.
She was adamant about choosing Ye Chen, believing that they would be able to create a beautiful life together that they can call their own.
Because of this decision, she severed all ties with her family. She only mended her relationship with her family after the birth of Ye Youyou.
However, what she never expected was that her Mr. Right would make a 180 degrees change in his temperament after a failed business venture. He became an alcoholic, a gambler, an unmotivated and resentful man. He also started being violent, kicking and punching her at the slightest discontentment!
Chen Yinoo had given him numerous chances to turn his life around. She was eager to help him regain his will to live and to rebuild his life together.
But what she got in return were his fleeting remorse and ever-worsening behaviors.
That Mr. Outstanding of the past had become a hopeless wreck and a demon!
To fund his gambling addiction, he sold everything he could find in their house for money. Everything except her and their daughter, Ye Youyou.
The old and fresh scars under her clothes were all caused by his brutal and ruthless beatings.
To Chen Yinou's, this so-called husband had long since become a demon and her nightmare.
"Yinou, I...I know I have wronged you both. I dare not hope for your forgiveness with just the utterance of mere words. But give me a chance, I will change. I promise you, I will change!"
Ye Chen trembled as he spoke.
Without wavering, Chen Yinou shook her head and sneered,
"You will change? What will you change? How are you going to change? Can a useless dog change itself? You can't change, you can never change! How many hundred times have you have said the same thing to me? And how many times have you changed for the worse after that? That's enough, I've had enough!"
It is said that there is no greater sorrow than a hardened heart.
Chen Yinou, whose heart has hardened countless times, calmed down after she finished her tirade.
But as soon as the words fell from her lips...
Stomp, stomp, stomp-!
The sound of numerous footsteps suddenly rang out from the hallway.
Immediately, a dozen tattooed men, who were clearly up to no good, flooded into the cramped house.
The man who looked like the head honcho smiled playfully.
"Yoo-hoo, the family is all together!"