Chapter 170
For the first twenty years, He Cheng was a well-known playboy in Beijing's social circles. Twenty years later, he met the woman who could make him cherish her and turn over a new leaf—Bei Banban.
However, Bei Banban had someone else in her heart, and she was also pregnant at the time.
Through a series of coincidences, Bei Banban inexplicably caught his eye, and afterwards he became a complete simp for her.
The playboy stayed by Bei Banban's side from before she became pregnant, through childbirth, and until she recovered her health after giving birth. Finally, he won Bei Banban's heart.
Afterwards, he sent out invitations to the entire Beijing social circle, announcing that he was going to marry this woman who had given birth to a child and whose father was unknown.
That night, countless women wept uncontrollably, while he deleted all their contact information.
Unfortunately, the bride disappeared right before their eyes on the wedding day, leaving behind a son and a daughter who were not even six months old.
He Cheng tried everything, but could only find a phone call from abroad.
Since then, the once-untainted young master of Beijing's elite circles has returned to his life of debauchery.
It was around that time that the Duan family, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, sent Duan Lingwu to his side. Coincidentally, the elders of the He family were urging him to get married, so He Cheng married her.
However, no one outside knew that He Cheng had a wife, and Duan Lingwu never dared to refer to herself as Mrs. He in public.
In her first life, Duan Lingwu, just as He Cheng had said, carefully raised the twins.
However, the older twin brother was never close to Duan Lingwu from a young age and was always taciturn; while the younger sister was very well-behaved, which gave Duan Lingwu some comfort in the face of emotional abuse.
Duan Lingwu, however, was unaware of this.
The real culprit who nearly killed her in a series of unexpected events was He Tinglan!
Although He Tingyao would affectionately call her "Mom," strangely, every time He Cheng showed any sign of wanting to warm up their relationship, He Tingyao would be inexplicably hurt. He Cheng would then feel that Duan Lingwu did not value her daughter, and as a result, he would become even colder towards Duan Lingwu!
Later, Duan Lingwu's sincerity may have moved He Cheng. Just when He Cheng was finally able to come home every day, Bei Banban returned.
Duan Lingwu saw how much care He Cheng took for Bei Banban;
Seeing He Tinglan, who had given all her maternal love but received no respect in return, she felt a deep longing for Bei Banban.
After seeing the ugly faces of his parents as they insulted him, calling him a piece of trash and saying he might as well be dead...
She jumped off the platform.
In her second life, she wanted a divorce but was persuaded to stay by He Tingyao, the only person who "loved" her in her previous life. Duan Lingwu looked at the little He Tingyao and saw the bewildered and helpless look in his eyes as he begged her not to leave, and her heart softened.
However, this soft heart became the catalyst for her second death.
She no longer pinned her hopes on He Cheng's love, nor did she expect anyone else to care for her.
She had her own small business, but the last straw that broke the camel's back was always the betrayal of the person she loved and was closest to the most!
She saw eighteen-year-old He Tingyao holding Bei Banban's hand, acting affectionately and coquettishly towards her, saying:
"Mom, don't be sad. Yaoyao hates Duan Lingwu the most. After all, it was her who caused you to leave, and Yaoyao and her brother haven't seen you for so many years! It's just..."
"Yaoyao was afraid that if her mother didn't come back, her father would marry a new woman, and if that new woman wasn't as stupid as Duan Lingwu, Yaoyao and her brother would be bullied."
Upon hearing these words, Duan Lingwu could no longer restrain herself and climbed onto the rooftop again. However, having finally had a second chance, she managed to convince herself at the last moment.
She divorced He Cheng, left the He and Duan families, used the money to buy a house in a remote town, got a job, and prepared to live an ordinary life.
But after a night shift, she was pushed into the lake. Even though she could swim, she couldn't withstand the force of the person who pushed her, a force that seemed designed to kill her.
Her resentment erupted completely at that moment, and before she died, she held tightly to the man who pushed her, and they went to their deaths together.
She couldn't understand, and her resentment kept her lingering in the mortal realm for three months. She witnessed with her own eyes the person on the shore when her body was pulled from the water—
He Tingyao.
She followed He Tingyao all the way back to Kyoto and witnessed He Tingyao giving a sum of money to the man who had pushed her.
He watched He Tingyao cry uncontrollably in front of He Cheng, yet she confessed at his own grave:
“When Dad is with Mom lately, he often thinks of you. The occasional wrong words he says, the occasional bad habits he has, and the occasional staring at your picture make Mom very sad.”
"Duan Lingwu, you love me the most, right? If you become a ghost, then come find me. I did everything. Mom doesn't know anything."
Duan Lingwu found it laughable because she saw Bei Banban when He Tingyao left.
Bei Banban leaned down to look at the tombstone, and said in her purest and most beautiful form:
She doesn't love He Cheng.
She has someone she likes, but that person doesn't love her back.
She had no affection for her son and daughter, because her son inherited her husband's tyrannical genes, and her daughter, at a young age, was full of scheming and plotting.
She also said that she knew everything, and that she chose to go back at that time because she didn't want He Cheng to fall in love with Duan Lingwu. She said she knew everything He Tinglan and He Tingyao had done, but she didn't care at all.
What she wanted was others' favoritism, so when He Cheng's favoritism gradually shifted to Duan Lingwu, she acted sad and subtly guided and allowed He Tingyao to hire someone to commit murder.
Duan Lingwu actually admired her, admired her selfishness and cold-bloodedness, and admired even more that no one knew about it, yet they still held her in their hands, afraid that she would get a single drop of blood on her.
This time, she also wanted to test how easily these "blind men" were swayed by the idea of being clean and innocent, and then send these vile, lawless "blind men" to prison.
——
Ling Wu opened her eyes, and the feeling of "eyes about to burst" disappeared after she woke up. The pain from being cut by the shards was also almost gone.
She picked up a soft pillow from the side and stuffed it behind her back, then sat up straight.
After the phone was turned on, messages flooded in one after another.
[Lingwu, you must take good care of Tinglan and Tingyao. You know the company's current situation; if He Cheng doesn't take care of them, the company will go bankrupt.]
[This company is your grandfather's life's work. How heartbroken he would be if it were to go down like this? He loved you the most when he was alive. You wouldn't want to see the last bit of your grandfather's existence in this world disappear so easily, would you?]
Ling Wu's expression was calm as her fingers lightly touched the keyboard.
[If Grandpa were still alive, he would only want me to be happy, and would never want me to marry an old man with children just for money.]
After sending a message, Lingwu added:
My grandfather's will stated that the company would be handed over to me after I graduated from university. Now that I've been out of university for two years, it's time to fulfill his will.
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