Chapter 442 Heartlessly Aborting Our Child

“My child… is the heir to the Lu Group… He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he is the most outstanding and excellent person in the world…”

He Yanqing had never witnessed Lu Junyan's birth or growth, yet she fantasized about Lu Junyan's present and future to make herself feel better.

"No, Mom, I'm your son!"

Whenever Joker said this to He Yanqing, it was as if he had dragged her from heaven to hell.

"You're not my son! You're not my son! You're a bastard, you're a devil!"

Whenever He Yanqing is forced to confront her reality, she vents her resentment and pain on Joker.

She punched and kicked the young Joker, and almost every day, the Joker was bruised and battered.

At first, Joker thought his mother had gone mad.

He knew he didn't have a father, and he would never have one.

He also knew that his mother didn't love him.

He knew even better that the environment he and his mother lived in was more terrifying than prison.

But he still wanted to live a good life.

He is in good physical condition and works hard despite his young age. The managers in the group like him quite a bit.

However, the more the executives in the group liked him, the more He Yanqing disliked him and the more violent she became towards him.

Joker is not powerless to resist.

He just didn't want to.

After all, He Yanqing is his biological mother.

Joker once thought that his mother only had him to rely on.

Even though He Yanqing kept beating him and telling him that he was not as good as his brother, he never thought that he actually had a brother.

It wasn't until He Yanqing committed suicide due to drug addiction that Joker entered the assassin training camp and graduated with excellent grades, only then did he uncover He Yanqing's past.

It turns out that He Yanqing and Lu Yexiong had indeed had a child through Yang Liyun's surrogacy.

And that child was exactly as He Yanqing said every time she beat him: he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, very outstanding, and became the head of the Lu Group at a young age.

Joker admitted that he was jealous of Lu Junyan.

If it weren't for Lu Junyan, He Yanqing might not have been so cold and violent towards him.

Why is Lu Junyan, the son of He Yanqing, entitled to a life of wealth and power as a young master of a wealthy family?

And he had to live a life of constant danger, day and night.

Joker began to take Lu Junyan as his role model and climbed up step by step.

He wants to take away what's most important to Lu Junyan.

Since he suffered so much because of Lu Junyan's existence, then Lu Junyan should be in unbearable pain because of his existence now.

"Joker's twisted hatred for me... was all written in his diary."

Lu Junyan sighed helplessly.

“His initial goal… was the Lu Group. He thought that what I cared about most was my career and my wealth… so he used Chu Qingxue, hoping that after Chu Qingxue became Mrs. Lu, he could use her power to help him obtain 25% of the shares of the Lu Group and make him the second largest shareholder of the Lu Group.”

"So that's how it is..."

Hearing Lu Junyan's explanation, Jiang Ning suddenly understood.

No wonder the Dragon Fang Gang and Joker went to such lengths to help Chu Qingxue harm her.

It can be said that without the Dragon Fang Gang and Joker providing Chu Qingxue with manpower and resources, many of Chu Qingxue's schemes against her would not have been able to be carried out.

"But later...Joker realized that the Lu Group was not important to me at all...He realized that you were my first love, you were the most important thing to me...So he changed his goal and became killing you in front of me, making me lose my love forever, just like he never got his mother's love in his life."

After Lu Junyan finished speaking, a deep sense of self-reproach and guilt appeared on his handsome face.

“I’ve dragged you into this… From beginning to end, Joker’s target was me, and those past grudges all started because of me… I investigated Joker several times, but the Dragon Fang Gang protected his information very well. I really couldn’t have guessed that there would be such a tragic connection between us… I never thought that because of this, you would live in fear and narrowly escape death… I’m sorry…”

Lu Junyan spoke his apology with utmost seriousness.

He gazed into Jiang Ning's eyes, his eyes overflowing with apology.

Although the result was that the Joker was beheaded, the process was still extremely dangerous.

Especially the final Russian roulette game; even if they made thorough preparations beforehand, the slightest mistake during the process could cost Jiang Ning his life.

Even if he gave everything he had, he couldn't bring Jiang Ning back to life.

At that moment, Lu Junyan felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of fear.

Jiang Ning noticed that Lu Junyan's expression had turned extremely grim and guessed what Lu Junyan was panicking about.

"Now the two of us are standing here... and the Joker is lying in there... that's the result."

Hearing Jiang Ning's resolute voice, Lu Junyan smiled.

"You are very brave."

Jiang Ning, who had been in the juvenile detention center years ago, involuntarily came to mind in Lu Junyan's mind.

Jiang Ning dared to talk back to the instructors as soon as he entered the juvenile detention center. Even after being locked in solitary confinement, Jiang Ning did not become timid and submissive after he came out.

He should have realized it back then—

Jiang Ning's seemingly frail body hides a very brave heart.

"However... although you are brave enough, it cannot make up for my mistakes... if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have encountered so much danger."

"Yes, you're right."

Jiang Ning nodded decisively and looked at Lu Junyan.

"So, to make it up to me, can you tell me the truth?"

"truth?"

Lu Junyan tilted his head, unable to understand Jiang Ning's meaning for a moment.

In his memory, he never lied to Jiang Ning after realizing he had fallen in love with her.

What truth do you want to hear?

The moment he asked the question, he noticed that the smile that had been on Jiang Ning's lips gradually disappeared.

A gust of wind swept through Qingqiu Cemetery.

In the height of summer, perhaps because we were in a cemetery, the wind brought a slight chill.

Jiang Ning's expression turned serious, and his large, dark eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of dust, obscuring their original brightness.

After a moment of silence, Lu Junyan heard Jiang Ning let out a soft sigh.

"I want to know... you cruelly aborted our child back then... was it just because you loved Chu Qingxue and not me at that time, is that right?"

The cemetery became even quieter.

There wasn't even a breeze.

The air was like solidified concrete.

It's very heavy.

One breath is enough to make you suffocate.

Jiang Ning originally felt there was no need to ask this question, but remembering what Gu Lanlan had said to her last night, she asked it anyway.

Lu Junyan remained silent until this point, offering no answer whatsoever; the answer was obvious.

Jiang Ning grinned, his smile full of self-deprecation.

"Let's go back..."

Let's go somewhere else!

Lu Junyan interrupted in time.

Jiang Ning looked at Lu Junyan, whose expression was even more serious than hers.

She couldn't help but wonder, "Where should we go to change to?"