Chapter 168 The Final Mercy

It took Shen Jiheng four years to process what Gu Hanxi had done back then, and he has gradually forgotten his hatred for her.

Who would have thought that he had been treated as a joke for the past few years? How could Shen Jiheng tolerate that?

He wanted to hear the woman's explanation firsthand.

Gu Hanxi felt uneasy when she heard that someone was coming to visit. When she nervously arrived at the reception room and saw Shen Jiheng, she looked as if she were facing a formidable enemy.

She turned to leave but was stopped by a prison guard who grabbed her arm and pressed her into a chair.

Shen Jiheng's face was gloomy, and he didn't look at her, but Gu Hanxi was still afraid.

She wasn't sure why Shen Jiheng had come, and thinking about the notification she received yesterday, she wondered if the child had already passed away.

She forced herself to remain calm and asked, "Ji Heng, is the child gone?"

Shen Jiheng lifted the curtain, his sharp gaze like a blade piercing her, making Gu Hanxi almost stop breathing.

No, if it were his child who had died, he would definitely have appeared very sad, but his expression now is clearly full of hatred.

"What's wrong? Is there something you want to tell me?"

Shen Jiheng parted his thin lips slightly and asked in a cold voice, "Whose child is Tongtong?"

Gu Hanxi replied quickly without hesitation, "Of course it's your older brother..."

"Think carefully before you answer, otherwise you will never have another chance to speak. I promise I mean what I say!"

Shen Jiheng sternly interrupted her. He wasn't sitting here to listen to this woman's nonsense.

Gu Hanxi felt a pang of panic. No wonder her eyelids kept twitching when she woke up this morning. She thought something had happened to the child, but it turned out to be herself.

Judging from Shen Jiheng's reaction, he must have found out something. Could it be that Han Xi has already told him the truth?

wrong!

These past two days, Gu Hongyi has been running around trying to get her sentence reduced, and he even used his connections to leak information that she could be released from prison in just six months.

Han Xi lives at the Gu family's house, so there's no reason she wouldn't know about these things.

"Ji Heng, I don't understand what you mean."

Shen Jiheng glared at her, which startled Gu Hanxi so much that she shivered.

"Can't you understand human language? I'm giving you one last chance."

As soon as she finished speaking, Gu Hanxi knelt down with a thud, startling the prison guard behind her. Shen Jiheng, however, remained calm and composed, his face expressionless.

Not only that, Gu Hanxi slapped herself twice.

"It's my fault, it's all my fault. Tongtong isn't your older brother's child."

Sure enough, Shen Jiheng gritted his teeth, thinking of all the worries and efforts he had made over the years, and his anger surged to the top of his head.

If Gu Hanxi were a man, Shen Jiheng would beat her to a pulp.

“I’m sorry, Ji Heng. Back then, you wanted to kill me, but I didn’t want to die. Luckily, your older brother had a photo on him, so I had to impersonate Bai Xue.”

Shen Jiheng frowned: "Bai Xue? You're saying the person in the photo is Bai Xue!"

When Shen Jiheng found his elder brother's body, he was devastated. While cleaning the body, he found the photo of the two of them in his arms.

The photo is not very clear because of the bloodstains, but the appearance and attire are those of Gu Hanxi.

In addition, Gu Hanxi's performance was so realistic that Shen Jiheng was so immersed in grief that he didn't think too much about it. Instead, he felt gratified that his elder brother had left behind descendants.

Little did he know that all of this was actually an elaborate scam.

What surprised him even more was that the person in the photo was actually the white moonlight in his heart.

Gu Hanxi nodded: "Yes, this woman was a pure and innocent girl in your eyes back then, but I know she was unruly and lingered around you brothers, trying every means to marry into a wealthy family."

Shen Jiheng frowned deeply; all the beautiful things he had once held in his heart crumbled at this moment.

“I didn’t originally intend to hide it from you for so long. I’ve been looking for a chance to slip away, but you’re so strict that I can’t leave at all. Then I realized that I really fell in love with you and wanted to keep you with the child in my belly.”

Shen Jiheng felt disgusted, and everything he had done was a laughing stock.

“I know I deserve to die. As Tongtong grows up, his condition gets worse. I know that only you have the ability to save him, so I selfishly kept it a secret.”

"Are you done talking?"

Gu Hanxi shook her head, knowing that if she didn't defend herself now, she would never have another chance.

She said sincerely, "I have been living in self-blame and regret all these years. I was not able to be by my child's side when he was sick. I am not worthy to be his mother. Didn't you say that you could bail me out so that I could go out and be with him? I want to go now."

Shen Jiheng looked at her with indifferent eyes, his gaze devoid of any other emotion.

If Gu Hanxi had reacted this way when she received the notice, perhaps people would still believe that she had feelings for the child.

But now, it's all over.

Shen Jiheng stood up, and Gu Hanxi reached out to grab him, but he dodged away in disgust.

"From today onwards, you will stay here obediently until you die of old age."

"......"

Gu Hanxi's body went limp, and she shook her head in panic: "Ji Heng, I really know I was wrong. Please let me go, even if you lock me up for another two years as punishment, please don't be so ruthless."

Shen Jiheng didn't want to listen to her nonsense, so he turned and left without hesitation, sparing her from immediate death in prison as a final act of mercy.

Gu Hanxi wanted to chase after him but was stopped by the prison guards. She knew that once this man gave the order, there would be no turning back.

No matter how much she called out, Shen Jiheng did not turn around again.

As Shen Jiheng walked out of the prison, a gloomy feeling seemed to hang over his heart, making him feel particularly uncomfortable.

In the early hours of the morning, the doorbell rang at the Gu family's house.

It sounded especially loud in the quiet night.

Moreover, the person was pressing the buttons in a very rhythmic manner, probably mistaking them for buttons, pressing them a few times and then stopping every now and then.

Gu Beichen was woken up and turned on the surveillance camera. He saw a staggering drunkard leaning against the door, but he couldn't see his face clearly.

Gu Beichen was furious and charged out with a baseball bat in hand.

The housekeeper, worried that something might happen, followed him. Gu Beichen opened the door and started cursing.

"That blind drunkard dares to come to my doorstep and cause trouble. I think you don't want to live anymore. Get out of here right now... Shen Jiheng? What, it's you?"

Gu Beichen's pupils dilated when he saw who it was. The drunkard he had been cursing was actually Shen Jiheng.

Shen Jiheng took two steps toward him and almost fell, prompting Gu Beichen to quickly support him.

Gu Beichen had never seen this arrogant and never-say-die man drunk.

"Why did you drink so much and even come to my house?"

"Han Xi, I want to see her."

Gu Beichen rubbed his forehead and took out his phone to show him the time.

"Brother, wake up! It's past midnight, she's already asleep. And based on my experience, I can tell you for sure that women hate it when someone comes to them drunk."

Shen Jiheng had never tried it before, nor did he want to listen to him. He pushed him away and staggered inside.

Gu Beichen caught up with him and grabbed him: "Stop messing around. You're waking up my family in the middle of the night. I have elderly parents and young children to take care of. You should also consider other people's feelings."

If Shen Jiheng were to consider this, he wouldn't have appeared outside the Gu family's gate.

He looked up and shouted, "Han Xi, come out here, I have something to say to you."