Chapter 263 Li Tingxi, This is Your Punishment

Karina nodded with a wry smile: "I understand. I will tell Chairman Li that I voluntarily withdrew from this project."

Li Tingxi glanced at her and emphasized again, "Besides, teaching a four-year-old to change their way of speaking shouldn't be a difficult task for you."

Not long after Karina left, Li Tingxi unsurprisingly received a call from Li Fengmin, who wanted to meet with him in person.

Li Tingxi had long anticipated that getting Karina to withdraw from the bidding project wouldn't be so easy, so he rushed back to City A overnight.

However, he didn't plan to rush to see Li Fengmin, but went straight back to Li's mansion.

...

After arriving at the hotel, Karina didn't rest. After putting Lele to sleep, she made a call to her assistant, her expression very serious: "Try to get my flight information and retrieve the airport surveillance footage from today. Then contact a private investigator to help me find out about the woman I saw at the airport today..."

After hanging up the phone, she stood on the balcony, trying to calm herself down by blowing in the cold wind, but the panic in her heart still kept rising uncontrollably.

She started pacing back and forth because of anxiety, and couldn't help biting her nails.

It's too similar... If that woman hadn't died back then, wouldn't her reappearance five years later mean that I have no hope of becoming the wife of the president of the Li Group?

Absolutely not!

Karina's eyes suddenly turned cold. She stood still and gripped the railing on the balcony tightly with both hands, her eyes filled with determination.

Even if it really is that woman, she would never let her return to Li Tingxi's side. She has worked so hard for so many years, Li Tingxi can only be hers!

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The Li Mansion.

Li Tingxi's fatigue from the long journey vanished almost instantly upon entering the house and seeing the women's slippers placed in the entryway.

This was a strange habit he developed during the period of mental confusion after Su Youling fell into the sea, as if placing a pair of Su Youling's slippers here would prove that she still existed in this space.

A replica is ultimately different. Only here can he truly feel the traces of Su Youling's existence, and only the Li Mansion can give him such a sense of belonging.

Li Tingxi's eyes dimmed. After going upstairs to the bedroom, he saw that the walls were covered with photos of Su Youling, as well as the ultrasound image that Su Youling had given him years ago, which he had framed and hung above his bed.

He even carefully treasured every little thing that Su Youling bought with him five years ago before they boarded the cruise ship, using each one as a decoration and ornament in the room.

After looking around, he walked to the wall facing the bed, gently turned the vase next to it, and the entire wall turned around, revealing a huge open wardrobe.

Inside were all of Su Youling's clothes, shoes and bags, and right in the center of the room was the wedding dress that Su Youling had ordered five years ago.

Over the past five years, Li Tingxi had imagined countless times the scene of Su Youling wearing this wedding dress and marrying him, but unfortunately, fate no longer favored him.

"Su Su, do you think this is God's punishment for me?" Li Tingxi murmured, his eyes unconsciously reddening.

It was late at night, and he tossed and turned in bed for a long time before finally feeling sleepy and soon drifting off to sleep.

Wearing a pure white wedding dress, Su Youling extended a hand to him, smiling brightly: "Li Tingxi, I'm marrying you today, are you happy?"

Li Tingxi's hands trembled with excitement as he eagerly tried to grab hers. "Su Su, there's nothing in the world more exciting than this..."

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That made me happy.

The smile on Su Youling's face vanished instantly, replaced by hatred and disgust in her eyes. She roared at him, "Li Tingxi, you killed my baby! I'd rather die than marry you!"

The next second, the place they were in transformed into a giant cruise ship.

Su Youling stood high on the ship's railing, the hem of her wedding dress billowing wildly in the wind, making her sway precariously.

Li Tingxi felt as if his heart was being squeezed by an invisible hand, and for a moment he couldn't breathe.

He wanted to go over but didn't dare, and could only plead in a hoarse voice, "Su Su, I was wrong! Please come back to me, okay? Please..."

"Li Tingxi, this is your punishment. Remember this: you killed me and the child in my womb. Goodbye forever!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Youling closed her eyes and fell backward, instantly being swallowed by the seawater.

"Su Su!"

Li Tingxi woke up with a start, his forehead covered in cold sweat and his body soaked through.

The dream felt just like five years ago, when Su Youling fell into the sea and was drowned by a school of fish.

This nightmare haunted him for five years. Every time he woke up from the dream, he couldn't close his eyes again. All he could see when he closed his eyes was Su Youling's face, crying and questioning him.

After breathing heavily for a while, Li Tingxi suppressed his palpitations, took out a small medicine bottle from the bedside table, poured out a few pills, swallowed them dry, rubbed his temples, and couldn't help but laugh at himself.

This is all his own fault.

Less than half a month after Su Youling fell into the sea, he developed depression and bipolar disorder, and in severe cases, he would even self-harm.

He was unable to get over it for a time. If it weren't for the need to prevent Yi Tao from being ruined by Li Fengmin and Li Qidong, he probably would have become a cripple.

Later, he saw many psychologists and was finally able to appear in front of the public somewhat like a normal person.

However, his insomnia problem could not be cured. The doctor said it was psychological and that medication could only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

After taking the medicine, Li Tingxi calmed down, but he also lost all sleepiness.

He picked up the photo frame from the bedside table, looked at Su Youling in the photo, and suddenly the image of the back he had seen at the airport earlier that day popped into his mind.

Is it possible that it really is her?

Li Tingxi unconsciously tightened his grip on the photo frame, and his heart beat faster.

Completely unaware that it was already 3 a.m., he immediately called Qin He, "Have someone check the surveillance footage from C City International Airport today, and make sure to find a woman whose back view looks a lot like Su Su."

Upon hearing Su Youling's name, Qin He on the other end of the phone instantly sobered up. Although he didn't have much hope, he couldn't bear to discourage him. "President Li, I'll have someone investigate right away."

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Lanjiang New Garden, City C.

Yueyue woke up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night because she ate too much ice cream. When she came back and was about to climb back into bed, Xingxing in the next bed suddenly spoke up, her voice very low: "I told you to eat less ice cream, didn't I?"

Yueyue turned her head and, by the moonlight, saw the reproach in his eyes. She stuck out her tongue and asked, "Second Brother, did I wake you up?"

Xingxing shook her head. "I can't sleep."

Yueyue climbed into bed, burrowed under the covers, opened her eyes wide, and asked curiously, "Why?"

As soon as she asked the question, Yangyang, who was sleeping with her back to the stars, rolled over, got out of bed, and stared at the two of them with calm eyes: "I can't sleep either."