Chapter 329 I'm not leaving, I'm going back to jail.

The last time Yi Mohan saw Fang Ke was at the hospital, where Yi Xiuyong was still under observation in the intensive care unit.

Inside the private hospital at night, surrounded by layers of bodyguards, Fang Ke appeared out of thin air like a ghost.

Yi Mohan, who was sitting in the corridor in a daze, was startled when he saw Fang Ke and immediately stood up.

"You...how did you get here?"

His voice was full of joy, but Fang Ke glanced at him indifferently, and Yi Mohan stood there stunned.

He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that Fang Ke at this moment was completely different from the Fang Ke who had come to save him before.

At that time, although Fang Ke looked disgusted, he still had some humanity.

But at this moment, Yi Mohan felt that Fang Ke's gaze was very condescending, and that he was not treated as a living being at all.

Yi Mohan was startled, then became angry.

Why was that look so familiar to him? Because he had often looked at others with that look throughout the first half of his life…

He took a few steps over, trying to close the distance between himself and Fang Ke.

"Fang Ke, I want to talk to you."

Fang Ke stood outside the glass of Yi Xiuyong's intensive care unit, expressionless, lost in thought.

Yi Mohan thought she didn't want to talk to him, and his heart sank, but then he heard Fang Ke's elegant voice say, "What do you want to talk about?"

Yi Mohan was secretly delighted, but at this critical moment when human relationships were so cold, she almost felt a pang of sadness and shed tears.

"Fang Ke, I don't know if you remember, but a long time ago, when I first met you, I genuinely wanted to start a relationship with you. Our parents arranged our meeting, and I took it very seriously. Unfortunately, you went to study abroad, and the two of us were separated by the ocean, so I..."

He stopped talking. What had he been doing? Had he fallen for another woman in the middle of all this?

What woman would like to hear that?

Yi Mohan clenched his fist. "If you're willing to give me another chance, let's try starting over, okay? This time I'll treat you with all my heart, okay?"

Fang Ke looked over, and Yi Mohan followed her with eager, nervous eyes.

Fang Ke thought Yi Mohan was quite a talent. This person never had internal conflicts or reflected on his actions. He was extremely confident and had a thick skin.

Even with his father lying inside, he could still think about such romantic things.

She said, "You're wrong."

"What?"

"When I first met you, you were only 11 years old."

Yi Mohan was stunned. Fang Ke said, "While I was discussing cooperation with your father in his office, you were being chased around by your nanny outside, being fed bite by bite."

Yi Mohan: “…………”

Yi Mohan was incredulous. "How is that possible?!"

When he was 11, Fang Ke was only five or six years old at most...

Five or six-year-old Fang Ke is discussing a collaboration with his father?

Fang Ke shook his head. "It's a pity. Back then, you left me with the impression of being mentally challenged, so it's hard for me to see you as a normal man. Don't you think you're like a giant baby?"

Yi Mohan: “…………”

Yi Mohan's face turned ashen from the blow, but she forced herself to say, "But, but you loved me so much before... I don't believe Fang Ke... You must love me... You must still have feelings for me..."

Fang Ke put a finger to her lips and said, "Shh."

Fang Ke emphasized to him one last time, "So, do you think that person is me?"

"Varied……"

Yi Mohan felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over his head; Fang Ke's question had truly struck at the depths of his soul.

He opened his mouth, and after a long while, he trembled as he said, "Then tell me, who is that person?"

Fang Ke said, "I don't know yet, but she has most likely already left this world."

Yi Mohan took another step back, her face pale, and for a moment felt a suffocating pressure in her heart.

"So you really never liked me at all?"

Fang Ke simply said, "I'm sorry, you've never been in my consideration."

Yi Mohan almost immediately clutched his heart and chuckled self-deprecatingly. He was still unwilling to give up and wanted to ask if it was because of Su Yao.

But Fang Ke's attitude was already very clear: he had never caught her eye.

If he asks again, he will only humiliate himself.

Perhaps there was once an opportunity for him to develop feelings for Fang Ke, but now he has no chance anymore.

He said bitterly, "...Okay."

The two stood there for a while longer. Yi Mohan calmed down considerably and, adopting a more sociable tone, asked her, "So, you came here today... to see my dad?"

Even after saying this, Yi Mohan still felt strange, wondering if it was true or false that Fang Ke had talked about cooperation with his father when he was five years old.

"Um."

"I heard... my dad went to see you, and then he suddenly had a stroke..."

Fang Ke finally broke into a mocking smile. "So?"

"Don't misunderstand, I believe you, and my men also told me that he suddenly suffered a stroke almost two hours after you left..."

At this point, Yi Mohan frowned. "I didn't know my dad would make things difficult for you in order to find me... I'm sorry."

Fang Ke's smile slowly turned scrutinizing and sharp, her eyes dimming slightly.

She felt that it was useless to talk to some people about propriety, morality, and ethics. Only when you had money, power, status, and strength to overpower them would they stop and reflect on their actions and offer an apology.

Yi Mohan is indeed a product of elite education, a piece of trash who utterly despises human rights.

He may never have felt a single bit of remorse towards Fang Ke, who was infatuated with him.

Fang Ke, no longer wanting to communicate with him, turned to leave.

Yi Mohan called her name again, "Fang Ke, if my dad's condition improves, I'll let you know. Thank you for visiting him today."

Fang Ke slightly turned her head and said, "You should take care of yourself first."

As she spoke, she turned her head, and her slender figure, wrapped in a trench coat, quickly disappeared into the corner.

That was the last image Fang Ke left for him; her half-face in the light and shadow would often reappear in Yi Mohan's dreams at midnight in the future.

Yi Mohan quickly understood what Fang Ke meant by "take care of yourself." He was overwhelmed with problems. Company matters were overwhelming him, a woman came to his door with a pregnancy test report insisting she was pregnant with his child, and Su Yao called him every day, accusing and cursing him. He was extremely annoyed.

All of this was still manageable, but when Yi Mohan was actually summoned for questioning by the Economic Crime Investigation Department, detained for 72 hours, banned from leaving the country for two years, and frequently summoned to cooperate with investigations, and then it was announced that he was involved in financial crimes, facing exorbitant fines and possibly five years in prison, the female college student suddenly disappeared with some of his money, and Su Yao also vanished.

He was left with only a few servants who had followed him since childhood. His billions in assets and business empire seemed to have crumbled overnight.

Yi Xiuyong's former subordinates said they would cover for him to smuggle himself out of the country, and that the Yi family still had assets overseas and could make a comeback.

That was two years later, and Jingzhou had undergone several major changes since then.

He stood by the dock, looking at the huge posters of Fang Ke on the Lingang LED screen. She was still breathtakingly beautiful. All the movies and TV series she starred in were huge hits, and now she was known to everyone in the streets and alleys.

After finishing a cigarette, Yi Mohan said, "I'm not leaving. I'm going back to jail."

The former subordinates: "...Why?"

Perhaps due to his low point, Yi Mohan's state of mind had been worn down to the extreme in the past two years.

He gave a bitter laugh. "I don't want to run away anymore. I want to come back openly and honestly. My dad... he's still under their watch."

The others sighed and said he was a man of high character and deep affection, but Yi Mohan remained noncommittal.

News of their impending departure was reported, and a line of police cars arrived with sirens blaring.

Yi Mohan was already quite familiar with the economic crime investigation captain who often treated him to tea, so he walked directly to him and said, "Thank you for coming to pick me up. Let's go."

The captain raised an eyebrow and asked him, "Why didn't you leave?"

Yi Mohan sat in the police car for a long time and said, "I'm afraid that if I leave, I'll never come back."

At that point, he will truly never see the person he wants to see again.

For the first time, the captain looked at him with approval, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, five years in prison will pass quickly."

"...Thank you."

As the sound of ship horns faded into the distance, Yi Mohan closed his eyes, unable to suppress a bitter feeling.

Will I regret it five years from now?

But at least for this moment, his heart felt at ease and comforted.

He glanced again at the huge poster in the distance, and Fang Ke's bright and radiant face was imprinted into his gray life, becoming the final splash of color.