Chapter 1059: Chapter 1059 The Death

“Do you know the owner of the Jade Pendant? Who is she? Where is she now? What’s her name?” Bai Jingshan’s barrage of questions made Lin Yuan cough even more.

Bai Jingshan quickly handed a cup of water to Lin Yuan. She took a few sips and finally caught her breath.

“How did you get this Jade Pendant? If I’m not mistaken, this piece belonged to one of my good friends. But back then she said she lost it accidentally; how did it end up with you?” Lin Yuan recalled Yu Shaoya’s unnatural expression when she once questioned her about the jade. Although she had given an answer, Lin Yuan didn’t believe that excuse.

This Jade Pendant was the only memory Yu Shaoya had from her parents. Her parents were sent to work on a farm due to her and could never meet again in their lifetime. So Yu Shaoya treated the Jade Pendant as her lifeline, keeping it with her at all times.

Even that bastard Shang Feng didn’t get it; yet she told me she accidentally lost it, which I didn’t believe at the time.

And now, someone suddenly appears looking for the owner of this Jade Pendant. Isn’t that strange?

“This Jade Pendant belongs to a friend of mine. The owner of this pendant saved his life years ago. Later, she accidentally dropped it, and my friend has been looking for her ever since to repay the life-saving debt, but he never found her. Can you tell me where she is now?” Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Bai Jingshan finally saw a glimmer of hope.

Lin Yuan held the Jade Pendant, tears falling like a stream. “You don’t need to look for her. Her name was Yu Shaoya. Sadly, she has been dead for many years. She died twenty-three years ago. She no longer needs you to repay her debt.”

Her only good friend died so tragically, a woman so desperate to protect her child, sacrificing her life to save that little life.

The Yu Family should have found that child by now!

She remembers Yu Shaohua’s last call was about this. They encountered a child who looked exactly like Shao Ya, though she’s not sure how things are now. Unfortunately, her health is poor, so she has no contact with the outside world.

Moreover, she doesn’t want to bother the Yu Family, hoping they don’t think she’s trying to use past emotions to gain benefits.

She and Shao Ya were different. Shao Ya saved her own food rations to feed her. The two would steal sweet potatoes at night and roast them on the mountain to fill their stomachs. When they were desperately hungry, they would catch field mice. Two girls should be scared of field mice, but at that time, hunger blinded them.

All they could think of was eating; without food, they’d starve to death. To them, field mice were just food.

She recalls Shao Ya roasting field mice, always giving her the meaty parts while she gnawed on the bony bits. Many times, Shao Ya almost fainted in the field because she had given up her rations.

If it weren’t for Shao Ya, she would have starved to death.

Her background wasn’t good; she never got her food rations. If it wasn’t for good sister Yu Shaoya, the trees by her grave would have grown thick by now!

Bai Jingshan was stunned.

He thought that woman was living a tough and difficult life, but he never considered that she was dead.

How could that be possible?

That gentle voice, that blazing body in the dark, those eyes bright like stars, how could it be possible?

“Impossible? How could she be dead? You must be mistaken. This Jade Pendant doesn’t belong to the Yu Shaoya you’re talking about, does it? It must be a mistake.” He was at a loss.

Lin Yuan bitterly smiled and said, “How could I be mistaken! This Jade Pendant was Yu Shaoya’s lifeline, the only thing her parents left her. I wouldn’t and couldn’t get it wrong. In this gap of the Jade Pendant, Yu Shaoya’s name is engraved! Her father used a microscope to engrave it. If you don’t believe me, see for yourself.”

This secret was only known to her because Yu Shaoya told her.

“How did she die?”

Suddenly, all hope and fantasy collapsed into a bubble.

A bubble that burst with the slightest poke.

“She died of excessive bleeding during childbirth. Back then, there were no medical facilities. To save her child, she lost her life!” This wasn’t a secret, anyone with a mind could find out by investigating.

Besides, this man didn’t seem like a bad person.

Though her judgment wasn’t the best, this matter wasn’t an important secret. There was no need to deceive.

This was his way of repaying his sister’s kindness.

“Childbirth? Yu Shaoya was married?”

Though he had guessed it! But he never expected Yu Shaoya to truly be someone else’s wife.

A sense of extreme shame and guilt, and even greater apology toward this woman, because she must have been even more ashamed, having betrayed her husband. What woman could continue living calmly after that?

“That bastard Shang Feng abandoned Shao Ya, deceived her, and went back to the city to marry someone else, leaving Shao Ya in the countryside. Shao Ya was unmarried with a child. How could she tell anyone? She had to hide it. In the end, when she gave birth, she died of excessive bleeding to save the child. That bastard lived on in comfort, never remembering the woman who died for him.” Lin Yuan was full of anger whenever Shang Feng was mentioned.

This heartless man even disassociated himself from all the past acquaintances, claiming that the child in Yu Shaoya’s belly had nothing to do with him. If it wasn’t his child, why would Shao Ya give birth to it?

Besides, at that time, apart from Shang Feng, Shao Ya never had any close relationships with other men, so how could it be someone else’s child?

It just made one feel that Shao Ya wasn’t worth it.

“How could that man be such a bastard? How could he treat Shao Ya like that!”

Bai Jingshan was also furious. After hearing Lin Yuan recount the events, he understood the entanglement between Yu Shaoya and Shang Feng, and realized there were such shameless men in the world.

“Why not? Shang Feng is now the head of the Shang Family. I’ve heard he’s doing pretty well, running a business, and he’s quite prosperous now. But who would remember the woman who sacrificed everything for him? How could the heavens allow him to rise unchallenged? I really don’t understand. Perhaps there’s no such thing as retribution in this world. It’s something humans invented. How laughable. If it were true, my sister wouldn’t have died such a pointless death.”

Lin Yuan gnashed her teeth in hatred of Shang Feng.

Thinking of Shang Feng, she thought of Yu Shaoya’s death.

Bai Jingshan sighed. He thought he could repay a kindness but didn’t know the woman was already gone. His heart was lost, lost in the fact that he was a step late—not just one step, but late by twenty-three years.

“Where is she buried? I want to go see her.”

Though she’s no longer alive, he wanted to see what this woman looked like. He wanted to know what the woman who saved him looked like. This had been a long-standing wish of his and had become a nightmare.