The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 1969

Jake's words were so casual that there was a trace of bitterness in the corner of his mouth.

No one knew what he was thinking, but he knew it best.

He had been an orphan since he was a child and grew up in an orphanage.

Every day, he lived a life of being bullied. Every time someone wanted to adopt him, there would always be an emergency that made him unable to adopt him anymore.

Over time, Jake had begun to think that he was a jinx. In this life, he should grow old alone.

So he began to close himself and didn't pay attention to anyone. He lived alone like a ghost. Why did he say he was alive? Because he wanted to die again, but he didn't succeed. The dean he cared about most, the dean who loved him the most, was killed because of his suicide.

Those people left him a note, which said, "Stay alive. Your life is not yours. If you continue to seek death, there are many ways to let you know what it means to live a life worse than death."

That was the first time that Jake knew what it meant to be unable to die.

Later, he went to school in a daze and transferred to another school. There seemed to be an invisible force behind him that kept controlling him, making him unable to be free until he got to know Rita.

If the first eighteen years of Jake's life had been dark, then Rita used the light in her to tear apart the darkness in him, bringing him the only warmth.

He still remembered the scene when Rita brought him breakfast for the first time.

At that time, no one found that he never ate breakfast. It was not that he didn't want to eat, but that he didn't have money to buy. His money was only enough to maintain his daily living expenses.

However, Rita discovered it.

Rita then started to bring breakfast for Jake every day. Moreover, this breakfast was not sold outside. Her family had carefully prepared it for her, but she gave it all to him!

In the beginning, Jake also rejected it, but Rita was not affected at all. If he threw it away, she would continue to send it until he ate it.

Sometimes, Jake couldn't understand how much she had brought for breakfast to the school and how she was able to fight him to the end. However, in the end, he still compromised.

It was because of hunger, as well as Rita's insistence and enthusiasm.

After that, the girl began to occupy his life.

She had become his shadow. Apart from going to the bathroom, he was basically in Rita's place wherever he went. But she didn't make any noise or disturb him. She just quietly watched his every move.

In Rita's eyes, she seemed to have become an existence that people yearned for.

This kind of feeling of being paid attention to and being protected was really too warm so Jake's heart was moved. He even imagined if there would be a happy ending between him and her that day.

But fate was cruel to him after all.

Those people found him again and asked him to get close to Rita with a purpose. They even said that in order to capture Rita, they could use some special means.

It was only at that time that Jake found out Rita's identity.

She was the little princess of the Ye family!

The Ye family!

It was also on that day that Jake found out his identity and mission.

There was a feud between the Fang family and the Ye family.

His aunt, Isla, used to be Rita's biological grandmother.

Although the relationship between him and Isla had long surpassed, even if there was anything between him and Rita that did not belong to him, he finally knew that the relationship between him and her would never happen.

He was sad.

He would rather leave then kill the light in his life.

At that time, the only requirement that he had to leave Rita and ensure that the Fang family would not find trouble with her was that he would go through a traning in Death Island.