Tenant's Secret Love

Chapter 20: Castle in the Sky (2)

I stood on the parapet facing the wind, my eyes wide open, trying to find the reflection of "Castle in the Sky" on the rippling river surface, but all I could see was the city's glitz under the flashing neon lights.

After I came to my senses, I realized that I was actually so afraid of death, afraid of being submerged in the bottomless moat.

I looked back at Renee, but she looked so indifferent.

"Are you really not going to persuade me?" I asked Renee with a frown.

"Why should I?"

"But if I jump, I'll really die!"

"It's you who'll die, not me," said Renee, still with the same expression of nonchalance.

I jumped off the parapet and angrily said, 'I was right about you. You're a poisonous woman who doesn't mind if others die in order to achieve your own ends."

"I don't have any ends. You're the one who said you wanted to jump into the river,' Renee said calmly.

I was even more furious, pointing at Renee and saying, "Can you stop being so calm and driving me to my death? ...I remember calling you to talk me out of jumping, and according to the script I set up, you shouldn't have acted like this!"

"When I arrived, you were lying there like a dead person, and you wouldn't have jumped anyway, so why did you bother calling me? Is it fun to play with me?" Renee's words finally contained anger.

I was a bit stifled. At that time, I did jump out of impulse. Who knew that my life was not meant to end, and suddenly the effects of the alcohol came rushing back, making me pass out.

I didn't know how to explain it to Renee, so I blurted out, "I really wanted to jump into the moat. Just as I was about to jump, I remembered that I still owed you more than 10,000 yuan. It's fine if I die, but then no one will pay you back, so I made up my mind not to jump. Because I have a conscience and a moral bottom line, I would never do something immoral like not paying back my debts."

"That's really tragic!" Renee said, looking at me with a smile.

"It was really tragic, okay? You have no idea how I struggled. On the one hand, there was the relief of death, and on the other, the condemnation of my conscience if I didn't pay my debts. It was hard to choose! Of course, in the end, I made the difficult choice to uphold my moral bottom line, so I'm still alive." I said with an exaggerated expression.

Renee seemed unwilling to listen to my nonsense anymore, and stood up from the ground, ready to leave.

"Wait." I called out to Renee.

"What is it now?" Renee's words were already very impatient, and she said she put on the jacket she had just covered me in.

"Have you been sitting here watching over me since this afternoon?"

"I came to collect your corpse, not to persuade you, so I came in the evening," Renee said with her characteristic calm.

"Who are you kidding, you came to collect my corpse and help me put on a jacket?" I revealed Renee's lie with a meaningful smile.

Renee looked back at me coldly and said, "Don't you know that a body is covered with something to hide the face?"

I was speechless at Renee's words, and I just stood there, my attention jumping out of the fight with Renee. So the alcohol that I had not yet fully digested began to stir up trouble in my body again, and I felt dizzy, followed by a strong feeling of vomiting.

I leaned over the guardrail and emptied myself into the moat, vomiting the contents of my stomach. I had really drunk too much at lunch.

After vomiting, I sat down against the guardrail as if I were about to collapse. I closed my eyes, and as I became more and more conscious, the images I experienced at Harlan and Natalie's wedding at noon once again appeared in my mind, followed by a wave of tearing pain filling my body.