Chapter 40: Confession, Gu Yanli's heart hurts

Gu Yanli saw that she was in a bad mood, so he held the girl's clenched fist.

Feeling the temperature, Lin Yuan slowly raised her eyes and looked at the man in front of her. She pursed her lips and said, "You don't want to ask me why I attacked An Zhi? You saw it."

"Yuanyuan." Gu Yanli looked at the girl in front of him. She was very thin to begin with. At this moment, she was curled up on the bed, her body leaning against the pillow, looking so broken that it was heartbreaking. Her long hair was disheveled, and her drooping eyelashes covered all the expressions in her eyes.

He knelt on one knee on the bed and moved closer to the girl. As the girl trembled, he gently held her in his arms. "I am your husband. Even if the whole world stands against you, I will stand by you without reservation. I will only believe in you."

Lin Yuan rested her head in the man's arms.

"Fang Xiaohui didn't easily tell me that she was uneasy. She only told me twice..." Her voice trembled, "Gu Yanli, I'm very scared..."

She grabbed the clothes on Gu Yanli's arm and squeezed them hard until they were deformed.

"It'll be fine." Gu Yanli's eyes were deep.

Gu Yanchen, you idiot, you are dead!

"I'll go get you a glass of water. Let's calm down. We will arrive at Haicheng Airport in about an hour. It takes half an hour to drive from Haicheng Airport to the hotel where your sister-in-law is staying." He touched the girl's head and lightly touched the girl's cold lips with his thin lips.

He then slowly let go of the pitifully thin girl in his arms, stood up and went to the tea room to make a cup of tea. He walked over with the cup in his hand, and the girl hugged her knees with her hands.

This was the first time he saw such uneasiness in Lin Yuan.

His grip on the cup tightened.

He had never regretted a decision he had made, but now Gu Yanli regretted it. He had underestimated the importance of Fang Hui to Lin Yuan and overestimated his own abilities. He shouldn't have believed that Gu Yanchen would take good care of Fang Hui.

He walked over slowly.

"Yuanyuan, drink some water."

Lin Yuan took the cup of water, she looked a little dazed at this moment.

"Gu Yanli, do you think Fang Hui and I are crazy?"

Gu Yanli sat down beside her and asked gently, "Why do you ask that?"

"Because Fang Hui and I shouldn't be so familiar with each other. We have had no contact since childhood. How could two people who have no contact develop such a deep relationship in just a few days?"

Lin Yuan tilted her head and looked out the window. In the night sky, you couldn't see anything clearly. It was like being immersed in a hopeless abyss. She pinched the cup with her fingers and said hoarsely, "Haven't you investigated all this?"

It seems like a question but it is actually a certainty.

Gu Yanli didn't say anything.

Lin Yuan didn't need him to answer: "It's normal to investigate."

"Fang Hui and I don't know how to tell you, but I can only say that we were raised by an old lady. We have stood out since we were young. Everyone who saw us would ask my grandmother for the price, asking how much she would sell us for. Every time, my grandmother would yell at us and beat them out."

"I didn't understand at that time. I asked my grandmother what buying a daughter meant. Did she buy me and then I would have parents? That was the first time my grandmother hit me. She cried while beating me. Fang Xiaohui ran out and lay on top of me, taking the beating from my grandmother."

Her voice became softer and softer, almost disappearing into the night sky. After a long while, she continued, "After a few days, I understood why my grandma beat me."

"I was not in good health. I was out of breath after walking a few steps. I often had a high fever and could not go to school. I asked for leave that day. Fang Xiaohui went to school alone with a flashlight. I waited for her in the yard as usual. She came back and told me what interesting things she had learned in the textbook today."

"I waited and waited until the moon came out, but grandma didn't come back, and Fang Xiaohui didn't come back either. I was scared at that time."

"I ran to ask next door, and Li's sister said that Fang Xiaohui was taken away by Wang Laoer next door on the way home from school. They tried to stop them but Wang Laoer was very fierce, so they didn't dare to do it. They just watched them take Fang Xiaohui away."

Lin Yuan's eyelashes trembled slightly. "That was the first time I tried to climb a mountain by myself. I realized how tired Fang Xiaohui was every time she took me to school. I walked very slowly and it took me three hours to reach Wang Laoer's home. I could hear Fang Xiaohui screaming from a long distance away."

At this point, Lin Yuan choked up and couldn't continue.

Gu Yanli looked at her for a long time. He reached out and stroked the girl's face. His fingertips were stained with moisture, which were Lin Yuan's tears. He still didn't speak.

"I rushed forward like crazy. It was the first time I wanted to kill someone. I don't know where I got the courage from. I went to the kitchen and got a kitchen knife. I held the knife with both hands and pointed it at Wang Laoer and the others.

I knew I couldn't beat them, so I put the kitchen knife against my neck. The knife was so sharp that my neck started bleeding just by touching it lightly. Fortunately, they got scared because my neck was bleeding, so I brought Fang Xiaohui out."

Lin Yuan lowered her eyes: "Fang Xiaohui got a high fever when she returned home. In fact, Wang Laoer did not do anything to Fang Xiaohui, but I know that they were discussing selling Fang Xiaohui."

"We can sell it across the sea from this mountain. Wang Laoer said that we can get a lot of money there. Fang Xiaohui is also worth a lot of money."

"After grandma found out, she went to Wang Laoer's house. She didn't know where she got the strength from, but she slapped Wang Laoer twice. After she came back, she hugged us and cried, telling us to grow up quickly, leave here and never come back..."

Lin Yuan knew what grandma meant.

Grandma thought that the people here were too ignorant, and the two girls were too beautiful. The older they got, the more dangerous they would become. She was also getting older and older and no longer able to protect them.

She was afraid that they would be trampled upon after her death.

So he tried his best to send them both from a mountain village to a big city.

"After grandma passed away, Fang Xiaohui and I moved out of the mountain village where we lived and went to the town. We were really poor. We wanted to spend one dollar as if it were one hundred dollars. We were so poor that we had to eat plain noodles for a month to save enough money for tuition.

We were so poor that Fang Xiaohui had to go to the market every morning to pick up unwanted vegetable leaves. That’s how we grew up. We earned money and bought our first house. The moment we had our own home, we both cried. ”

Lin Yuan raised her hand to wipe away her tears. She looked at the man in front of her with red eyes.

"Gu Yanli, you know now, maybe we don't belong here. I only have Fang Xiaohui here. I will die without her."

Gu Yanli was a little surprised, but he quickly reached out and hugged the girl again. He gently touched the back of the girl's head, and his heart was tightly pulled by this girl named Lin Yuan.

The girl's eyes and nose were red, her tears wet her eyelashes, and her eyes were full of pleading, praying that Fang Hui would not get into trouble.

The plane landed.

The journey originally took thirty minutes, but Gu Yanli shortened it to twenty minutes and they arrived at the hotel entrance. When they got off the car, they saw the tall Gu Yanchen standing under the street light with another girl. The two were talking about something with smiles on their faces, but Gu Yanli's eyes were colder than ever before.

He walked over holding Lin Yuan's hand.

"Brother, why are you..."

Before Gu Yanchen could finish his words, Gu Yanli raised his foot and kicked his brother in the stomach, knocking him to the ground.

Chen Lin was frightened by the scene and screamed.

Gu Yanli stepped forward, stepped on Gu Yanchen's belly, and said in an extremely cold voice: "I asked you to come to Haicheng to discuss business, but you left all the work to your sister-in-law. Gu Yanchen, I want to ask you, where is your sister-in-law?"