Rebirth: Once Again With You

"W-why is this? So many medicines…." Meng Renshu's voice trembled uncontrollably.

He reached out to a few bottles and checked the instructions one by one. Most of these medicines were antidepressants, but there were also a lot of medications to help with insomnia and abdominal pain. Aside from that, she also had pain relievers, supplements, and vitamins to increase appetite and immunity.

The more he checked, the more he felt a sense of fear bubbling inside him. When he received the phone call from the police, he thought there was no way Li Caiyi would ever do such a thing. Although the recent incident might affect her mind a bit, she was not the kind of person who would commit suicide? Why would she be when she had a lot of things many women could only wish for in her hand?

However, after he saw these medicines, a realization finally sunk down to him that Li Caiyi's life was probably not as happy as he thought, being his wife.

Li Caiyi had a reason to commit suicide.

That thought scared him because acknowledging that fact was tantamount to accepting her death news.

Meng Renshu did not want that. He refused to believe his wife was no longer in this world!

Meng Renshu quickly rose to his feet, then rushed out of the house. He took the car in the garage and drove towards the hospital. His mind was in chaos, and he did not care even if he violated traffic law on the way.

There was only one thing in his mind at that time: that was to prove that Li Caiyi was not dead! The victim in the hospital was definitely not her!

Meng Renshu walked briskly with his gaze straight ahead as soon as he reached the hospital. His steps staggered, and he bumped into a few people as he made his way to the place his assistant informed him. The assistant had gone ahead to check on the situation and was currently waiting for him at the morgue.

Every step he took felt heavy, and he became more apprehensive as time passed by.

When Meng Renshu arrived in front of the morgue, he immediately caught the sight of his assistant, who approached him. The next thing he noticed was a heart-wrenching cry coming from inside the morgue. It sounded like his mother-in-law's voice.

Meng Renshu's whole body felt cold in an instant.

Why would Su Suyin cry that loud? It couldn't be that she was fooled into thinking that the body inside was truly her daughter, wasn't it?

Li Caiyi was her daughter, yet she couldn't even differentiate her daughter from a stranger.

'This can't do. I need to make sure of it by myself,' Meng Renshu thought.

"President…"

Meng Renshu's step halted when he heard his subordinate's weak voice. "What?"

The assistant bit his lips with unconcealable grief in his eyes. "You might want to prepare yourself before you enter."

Meng Renshu scoffed. "What is this? Don't tell me you also believe that the one inside is my wife? I thought you would be smarter than this. I'm so disappointed."

Instead of getting angry, the assistant felt nothing but pity and condolences for the man in front of him. Even after coming this far, he still refused to believe the fact. The assistant was at a loss for words and could only retreat respectfully to make way for his superior.

Seeing is believing. No matter how hard it was to swallow the fact, the President eventually had to face it.

Meng Renshu looked up at the steel door in front of him. He could already sense the cold air from inside the morgue. No, did the chill come from within his body? He did not know anymore. What he wanted to do now was to make sure whoever was inside was not his wife, then scanned the entire country to search for his willful wife right now.

No matter how much she felt hurt, it was not a good idea to disappear just like that. What if something happened to her?

He slowly entered the room, and everything suddenly became black and white in front of him. The crying voices sounded distant, and he could not avert his gaze from the big, black bag on top of the steel table in the middle of the room.

The bag was the kind of bag used to carry a dead body, and the size looked enough for an adult to fit in.

Meng Renshu noticed Su Suyin kneeling beside the table, with her face messed up from over-crying. On the side, there was Li Jirong, who looked at the bag with a vacant gaze, and Li Junjie, who seemed to have aged a lot since the last time he saw him.

Looking at them made his conviction waver. He began to think about the worst scenario, causing him to freeze in his place.

None of them realized Meng Renshu's presence in the room. Their gazes nailed solely on the black bag with unfocused eyes, each of them busy with their own mind.

"Excuse me, may I ask who you are?"

A male nurse approached him with a questioning and careful look, so Meng Renshu replied weakly, "I'm…. her husband."

The male nurse made a knowing look before he made his way to him. "We have been waiting for you. Please take a look at the body and confirm your wife's identity first. However…" the nurse bit his lips and said hesitantly, "...the victim committed suicide by jumping from a tall building, so the body… might not be in one piece anymore."

Meng Renshu's legs trembled when he heard that. His lips quivered as his heartbeat erratically in his chest. The sound was so loud it shut out any other noises, even the male nurse's explanation.

Everything was so still, except for that black bag. The body should be in there, right? If he opened that, would he see Li Caiyi's corpse inside?

"Hah…hah…"

Meng Renshu suddenly found it difficult to breathe. His adrenaline rushed through him in the moment of fear as it took control of his action. He ran towards the bag.

That was when Su Suyin finally registered his presence. "Renshu… you are here."

However, her words fell into deaf ears because Meng Renshu only wanted to end this torture as soon as possible. He would open this bag and prove that Li Caiyi was not the one inside!

Finally, he unzipped the bag with one swift motion, and the bag was opened, revealing what was inside.

Meng Renshu: "...."

There was a loud thumping sound beside him, followed by a commotion. It was the sound of someone falling to the floor. However, Meng Renshu ignored all of that. His eyes gradually turned dimmer as he took in the sight in front of him.

He should have heeded his assistant and the male nurse's warning before carelessly opening the bag.

Meng Renshu had never seen a dead body before this, and his first experience just had to be his wife, a person who was supposed to be the closest to him… in such a ghastly state.

Confirmation? What did the police want him to confirm when there was barely anything left of her head at all?

Meng Renshu felt a wringing sensation on his stomach, and nausea immediately assaulted him. His knees gave out, and he crumbled while clutching his stomach and vomited hard, causing a further scene in the usually quiet and solemn morgue.

He seemed to be vaguely aware when Li Junjie and his assistant propped his body up, but he could not muster any energy to stand at all. He felt lifeless and empty, like a paper doll.

Meng Renshu could remember nothing after that. What he knew was that tears had rolled down his cheek uncontrollably before he knew it, accompanied by excruciating pain in his heart.

He thought it would be better to kill him directly rather than experience cruel torture like this.

He wanted to prove it was not Li Caiyi who was trapped in that suffocating black bag; that was why he was here. The corpse was in such a horrible state that identifying the victim became almost impossible, but ironically, he immediately knew once he laid his eyes on the body.

"Xiaoyi…"

That was all he could utter as everything turned black before him.