Chapter 1246 No one forces you to love her, everything is your choice

While giving Siyan an IV, Li Jinxing went to the children's room to call Sixu to have breakfast.

Si Xu had to go out. He was still afraid of Li Jinxing. In the past, he could hide behind his brother, but today, he had to face it alone.

"dad……"

Li Jinxing looked at Sixu's red and swollen eyes. Even though she was so afraid of him, she still tried to raise her head and look at him. The fear in her eyes was very obvious.

If it were in the past, Li Jinxing would have squatted down, hugged him, and comforted him.

Gu Wanqiu said that he had become the person he hated the most, but Li Jinxing didn't think so. At least he had given his two children a top-notch living environment, so they didn't have to worry about life and making money at such a young age.

No matter how indifferent he became, he would never abandon these two children, nor would he force them, exploit them, or use them.

Compared to him, what Gu Wanqiu did to the two children was much more cruel. She used a gentle face to give the other party a strong blow to the heart. She was good at deceiving and taking advantage of people's hearts. She was ruthless to him and the two children, always giving a candy and then a slap.

Li Jinxing was still thinking about the two children at this moment and did not tell them that Gu Wanqiu was taking advantage of them.

In the hearts of the two children, Gu Wanqiu is still their mother. She has preserved a piece of beauty in their hearts and did not destroy it immediately.

Li Jinxing recalled the past, things that happened before he was ten years old. The time was too long ago. When he thought about it now, it seemed like something happened in his previous life. Those scenes that should have been deleted by time have now become clear and vivid.

He recalled that when he was about six years old, about the same age as Siyan and Sixu, his mother would take him with her wherever she went, telling him stories and teaching him to write and recite ancient poems. His mother's singing was always so gentle. When he couldn't sleep at night, she would hold him in her arms, and her gentle hands would pat his back gently, and he would fall asleep soon.

When he was in the first grade, other children carried brand new schoolbags and had beautiful pencil cases, but his family was poor and had no money to buy these. His mother would find all the tools she could use, sew a schoolbag for him by hand, wrap his book covers with old newspapers, and make him a pencil case uniquely made of wood.

When his mother was healthy, he was never looked down upon.

When she was abused by a man, she was the first to protect him and would not let him get hurt.

His mother was the last warmth in his heart. Even though she had been dead for so many years, Li Jinxing felt a warmth in his heart whenever he thought of her.

Li Jinxing once thought that all mothers in the world would be like this. Even someone as bad as Gu Wanqiu would become gentle and considerate when she became a mother one day. But he thought too much. Not everyone is worthy of being a "mother".

Gu Wanqiu is the least qualified one.

"Why did you get up so late today and why didn't you have breakfast?"

Sixu answered timidly, lowering her head and not daring to look at Li Jinxing: "I'm not hungry, I don't really want to eat."

"Are you hungry now?"

Si Xu could feel that Li Jinxing had suppressed anger in his heart, and he didn't know what to do to prevent himself from losing his temper.

She wasn't hungry originally, but to obey Li Jinxing, she nodded: "I'm hungry."

"Go have breakfast."

Si Xu followed Li Jinxing obediently. It was the first time for the father and son to have a meal like this. Without Si Yan, the meal seemed to become quieter. The chef's cooking skills were still very good, but now the food tasted like chewing wax.

After Si Yan finished his breakfast, seeing that Li Jin Xing showed no signs of anger, he opened his mouth and asked cautiously, "Dad, where's my brother? Did he have breakfast?"

"He's still sleeping in his room. We'll eat when he wakes up."

It’s so late, how could my brother still be sleeping? He always wakes up earlier than me and has no habit of staying in bed. Si Xu had a hunch that something had happened to his brother.

"Can I go see him then?"

"He's still sleeping. What are you doing? When he wakes up, he'll come looking for you."

Si Xu didn't dare to ask any further, but with Li Jinxing's words, he felt a little relieved. Even if something happened to his brother, it shouldn't be a big problem. As long as he was still here, they would see each other sooner or later.

Sixu didn't dare to ask any further, for fear of annoying Li Jinxing and then not letting him see his brother.

Not long after breakfast, He Tian came here.

Seeing the father and son, he looked around and said, "Are you two the only ones here? Where's Siyan?"

"Still sleeping."

"Sleeping? It's already this late." He Tian obviously didn't believe it.

Li Jinxing could deceive Sixu but not He Tian. In front of Sixu, Li Jinxing didn't say much and changed the subject: "Come here if you have time today."

"I have something I want to talk to you in person." He Tian signaled to Li Jinxing with his eyes that he wanted to talk to him alone, and Si Xu could not listen to what he said.

Li Jinxing understood immediately and stood up and said to Sixu, "Your Uncle He has something important to discuss with me. Go back to your room and read."

"Yeah." Si Xu still kept her head down, and didn't even look at He Tian when she passed by him.

He Tian felt something was wrong. Si Xu was much quieter and more depressed than usual.

After Siyan returned to her room, He Tian said, "Let's talk in your study."

Li Jinxing had no objection, and the two of them entered the study. He Tian walked behind and closed the door, as if to keep it secret to prevent anyone from eavesdropping.

Li Jinxing frowned in confusion: "What do you want to talk to me about?"

He Tian looked at him with a complicated expression: "Boss, tell me the truth, is Si Yan really sleeping right now?"

Li Jinxing shook his head: "He is sick, has a fever, and is receiving an IV drip in the infirmary."

He Tian frowned and asked seriously, "What did you do to him?"

Li Jinxing asked back: "Why do you think I did something to him?"

He Tian folded his arms and said, "If it was just a normal cold, you wouldn't lie to Si Xu. You can only say that Si Yan got sick because of you, so you chose not to tell Si Xu. Am I right?"

Li Jinxing did not answer. He pursed his lips, sat on the chair, and looked down at his hands, as if recalling the slap he gave Siyan yesterday.

He didn't know how to tell this to He Tian, because he knew that once he said it, He Tian would definitely blame him.

But in fact, He Tian had known about it for a long time. He had people here, and any movement on Gu Wanqiu's side would be heard by him. He knew that something happened yesterday, so he rushed here in a hurry this morning.

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence?

If he hadn't been worried about Li Jinxing becoming suspicious, he would have come yesterday.

"So, what exactly happened yesterday? We've known each other for so many years, you can't lie to me. If I can't get anything out of you, then I'll have to use my own means to adjust the surveillance cameras. I set up all the surveillance cameras here, and I have backup connections. I can easily check all the surveillance videos in the villa in the shortest possible time."

Only He Tian dared to speak to Li Jinxing like that. If it were anyone else, he would have kicked them away long ago.

Li Jinxing glanced at him, supporting his forehead with his hand. After a while, he decided to tell He Tian everything that happened yesterday.

"Gu Wanqiu used Siyan again?" He knew that Gu Wanqiu had jumped out of the window, but the details were not clear to him.

He intentionally let the two children come here. When they saw Gu Wanqiu's situation, based on their feelings for her, they would definitely plead for her.

Li Jinxing should be able to listen to the two children's pleas. He Tian placed his hopes on these two children, hoping that they could persuade Li Jinxing to let Gu Wanqiu leave.

He wanted to plead for Gu Wanqiu, but he and Gu Wanqiu had no contact in normal times. Suddenly pleading for her would only make the suspicious Li Jinxing have wild thoughts.

"Boss, I advise you to let Gu Wanqiu leave. She is a troublemaker. If she continues to stay here, something bad will definitely happen." He Tian did not blame Gu Wanqiu for her actions this time. He understood the whole thing and roughly knew why Gu Wanqiu did this.

She just wanted to leave here. She jumped out of the window not to seek death, but to "coerce" Li Jinxing and wanted him to know her determination.

She was betting that Li Jinxing cared about the two children far more than she did.

If Li Jinxing wanted the two children to live a normal life and grow up healthy and happy in the future, he would let her go and they would never see each other again.

He Tian took a few steps and stood in front of Li Jinxing, put his hand on his shoulder, and said seriously, "For the sake of your two children, you should let Gu Wanqiu go. It's better not to have a mother like her. Parents' feelings have a huge impact on children. Think about your three children. You don't want them to become psychologically distorted and unhealthy because of the hatred between you, do you?"

Now that he knew the reason why Gu Wanqiu did this, he just needed to follow her ideas and add fuel to the fire.

He Tian's words had no less impact on Li Jinxing than what Gu Wanqiu said to him in the morning. His emotions had begun to become unstable.

Li Jinxing placed his hands on the armrests of the chair and clenched them tightly, the veins on the back of his hands showing.

"I will send the three children away, or send Gu Wanqiu away..." He paused, quickly thinking of a solution, "This way they won't see each other, and Gu Wanqiu won't be able to influence them in any way. In their eyes, Gu Wanqiu has already left."

"You want to hide her?" He Tian suspected that Li Jinxing had been poisoned. Why was he so paranoid and stubborn?

"Boss, do you know how long a lifetime is? How long can you hide her? Five years, ten years, or twenty years? Can you guarantee that she will never be discovered by these two children?"

Li Jinxing remained stubborn with a cold face: "When they grow up, they won't care about Gu Wanqiu anymore."

"They are mother and son, blood is thicker than water. Although he is not her biological child, their relationship is the closest. How do you define that they will not care about Gu Wanqiu in the future?" He Tian stood up straight, his tightly furrowed brows never relaxed, and he felt depressed.

I can't understand why Li Jinxing still wants to keep Gu Wanqiu by his side even at this point.

Could it be that Gu Wanqiu lost the bet this time?

Li Jinxing cares about her much more than these three children?

He could see that Li Jinxing was not happy at the moment. Ever since he had trapped Gu Wanqiu here by force, the gloom in his eyes had never dissipated.

How far can a person go to self-torture? He knows that doing so will only bring him unhappiness, but he still does it.

Li Jinxing had no extra expression on his face except for frowning. He looked down at his fingertips, as if he was thinking seriously about He Tian's words.

"I haven't tortured her enough... How can I let her go so easily? Wouldn't that be too easy for her?" There was confusion in the depths of Li Jinxing's eyes. He seemed to be trapped in a dark dead end and encountered the so-called ghost wall. He was looking for an exit while looking for light. In the process of constant searching, he kept hitting the wall. It is said that you won't turn back until you hit the wall, but he has hit all the walls and he has never looked back. It seems that there is no way out behind him.

He found a reason for himself and would not turn back even if he got beaten to a pulp.

Li Jinxing continued in a hoarse voice: "She poisoned me and sent me to prison ten years ago. She not only took advantage of my love for her, but also took advantage of the sincerity of our two children. When I was like a dog by her side, do you know what kind of life I lived..."

"But aren't you doing all this voluntarily?"

He Tian asked back, which made Li Jinxing look stunned: "I volunteered?"

"No one forced you to love her, no one asked you to treat her well. You volunteered to be her dog. She should have made it very clear from the beginning. You should have thought about the consequences since you went there. You resented her, but when she was eighteen, you had already taken revenge on her, causing her to fall from the clouds into the mud, losing the thing she was proud of. You marked her with a mark that belonged only to you, leaving your scent on her.

She sent you to prison because of the causes you created, including the poisoning you gave her this time. You clearly sensed her reluctance, and having suffered a loss before, you knew this woman wasn't some naive person. Yet, you still took the risk of keeping her by your side. You were poisoned, and now the poison has been removed, and she's crippled. You've been fighting for years now. That's enough, enough...

You hate her and love her at the same time, which ends up hurting both of you. It's fine if you're the only one suffering, but what did the three children do wrong? Do you really want these three children to be unhappy?

It’s really enough... Boss, think about the Gu Wanqiu back then. Even I, who looked down on her the most, had to call her Miss Gu. But look at her now. She no longer looks like the arrogant and spoiled young lady she used to be. Gu Wanqiu used to be so stunning and charming, and so many people liked her. But now, even if you throw her on the street, no one will even look at her. She doesn’t have a pretty face, she doesn’t have a healthy body, and her hands and feet are disabled. Is a woman like this really worth your revenge?

To have her transformed from a wealthy lady into someone worse than an ordinary person is a life worse than death for her..."