"It is more despairing and painful to learn that everything you firmly believed was false than to die knowing nothing."

Fu Yu looked up and kissed Li Zongci's lips.

"Li Zongci, am I very scary?"

"No, Ayu is most beautiful like this."

Li Zongci hooked Fu Yu's chin, deepening the kiss.

Kind-hearted Fu Yu, cunning Fu Yu, timid Fu Yu, brave Fu Yu.

He likes them all.

Fu Yu felt the oxygen in her chest getting less and less, and in her confused state, she was already being carried by Li Zongci.

Suddenly, the secretary's knocking broke the romantic atmosphere.

"Master, something has happened."

Once Fu Yao learned the truth, she naturally couldn't let Ji Yanli off the hook.

Who is Ke Ji Yanli? He's a scheming, ruthless scoundrel.

He learned to use his looks to seduce Fu Yao, and then gradually gained a foothold in the Fu family.

His heart turned black.

He knew Fu Yao too well; he could tell something was wrong with just one glance.

Ji Yanli still wanted to brainwash Fu Yao and squeeze out the last bit of value from her, but Fu Yao was no longer that self-deceiving fool.

She used the ether that Ji Yanli had given her on him.

A white towel was wrapped around the man's mouth and nose, and the strong man quickly stopped moving.

“Ji Yanli is, after all, a member of the royal family. His sudden disappearance is difficult to explain, both morally and logically.”

"Is there anything you can't explain?"

Li Zongci curled his lips coldly, "My dear wife, what are your thoughts?"

Evil people will be punished by other evil people.

Viktor has taken diplomatic steps to urge Emperor Li Zongci to search for the missing person.

What they had to do was buy Fu Yao as much time as possible.

Evil people should be tempered by other evil people.

An abandoned crematorium in the suburbs.

Ji Yanli opened his eyes and found himself bound in a crystal coffin.

The coffin is slowly moving into the cremation chamber.

Ji Yanli pounded on the coffin helplessly, completely devoid of his previous smugness and arrogance.

Fu Yao stood aside, calmly pressed the stop button, and opened the coffin lid.

"Fu Yao, as long as you let me go, I can forgive you. I will marry you and make you the happiest woman in the world."

Upon hearing this, Fu Yao did not show her usual happy smile.

Instead, he patted Ji Yanli's face and asked, "I have a question for you: why did you choose me?"

"Why do you have to bring disaster upon me and our Fu family when there are so many prestigious families in the empire?"

"Because I'm the only one who's been bewitched by you?"

"I didn't lie to you, I never intended to harm you."

"Even when you're about to die, you still won't tell the truth?"

Fu Yao pretended to close the coffin lid, and Ji Yanli, panting heavily, said incoherently, "Because you have no brothers or sisters, everything in the Fu family is yours. As long as I get my hands on you, I can have everything in the Fu family."

"Then why did you save me? Why did you take me away?"

“Fu Yu is Li Zongci’s weakness, but I can’t get close to them at all. I must find someone loyal enough to carry out my plan.”

As Fu Yao smiled, tears began to stream down her face.

She's that big grudge.

"Did you ever love me? Or did you love Fu Yu?"

At this moment, Fu Yao still clung to a sliver of hope; she could even accept that Ji Yanli preferred Fu Yu.

They also refused to believe that this seemingly devoted and loyal man actually had no heart and no love.

"I……"

Ji Yanli, who was usually eloquent and witty, was speechless at this moment.

"You love no one. Fu Yu and I are just pawns in your game. You'll stop at nothing for power..."

Fu Yao didn't want to continue, so she silently pushed the coffin lid shut.

As the coffin was about to close, Ji Yanli's last shred of reason completely collapsed.

He pounded on the coffin lid while glaring fiercely at Fu Yao.

"How are you any more superior than me! Fu Yao! Do you really only humble yourself because of me? No, you are vain, a bully, and arrogant. How could you lower your proud head for someone else!"

"You only covet the position of princess. You yearn for power second only to the emperor. You and I are essentially no different!"

The coffin was pushed into the crematorium.

When the army under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs found the crematorium, Fu Yao held the urn and stared blankly at the person in front of her.

Fu Yao was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a member of the royal family.

After learning of her sentence, she did not choose to appeal.

She lay on her prison bed, fantasizing that she would fall asleep and wake up back at the point in time she had chosen again.

To regain a happy and fulfilling life.

...

When the three months were up, Old Master Li came uninvited to Fu Yu to have the needles removed.

Why did you choose the Fu family in the first place?

As Fu Yu was grinding the silver needles, she suddenly asked a question.

Old Master Li clenched his fists. "I just wanted to choose the woman who would be most beneficial to Aci. I didn't expect that Fu Yao would be so terrifying. Maybe it's a good thing that she didn't marry into the Li family."

After speaking, the silver needle was not pulled out, but instead deepened a few centimeters.

"you……"

Old Master Li felt his eyes throbbing and his whole body was completely drained of strength.

"You, you want to kill me..."

"What's the difference between you and Ji Yanli? You chose the Fu family because of the secret of the Fu family's great-grandfather's longevity, right?"

A glint of light flashed in Old Master Li's eyes.

It's impossible to say there's absolutely no connection.

Who among those at the pinnacle of power doesn't want to live a long and prosperous life, lasting for generations to come?

"Since you are his adopted daughter, I think you should know the inside story, right?"

Fu Yu pursed her lips and leaned close to Old Master Li's ear.

He was talking while removing the needle.

Old Master Li's expression did not relax; instead, it grew increasingly tense and uneasy. His cloudy eyes darted around stiffly a few times before finally settling on Fu Yu's face.

"You, you..."

"May you have a safe journey."

Half a month later, Old Master Li died suddenly.

There's no secret to longevity; my great-grandfather actually died at the age of 90.

They kept the death a secret and used the adoption of Fu Yu to attract attention and divert focus.

Apart from his great-great-grandfather, none of the Fu family members were good at business.

He feared that once news of his death spread, the wolves and tigers around him would be drawn by the scent and attack him, so he resorted to this desperate measure.

Unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes.

His century-old family business was ultimately destroyed.

The old man's funeral was held according to state funeral standards, a grand and solemn affair, with dignitaries and media from all walks of life in the empire coming to mourn this legendary figure.

Several grandsons from collateral branches carried the coffin, while Li Zongci held up the old man's portrait.

Fu Yu followed behind him, wearing black sunglasses and with a solemn expression.

Suddenly, a member of the collateral relatives stepped forward to stop Fu Yu, suspecting that she was responsible for the old man's death.

Li Zongci's blue pupils coldly captured his expression.

He took Fu Yu's arm and said, "I know my wife. She would never do anything to harm the Li family."