Chapter 107 Love and Hate
Luo Shuixin thought Fang Zeheng had deceived and betrayed her, but she didn't know that this was Fang Zeheng's way of protecting her.
Fang Zeheng, as the next head of the Fang family, is still in the early stages of his career. He has to deal with a serious internal power struggle within the group's board of directors while also taking care of his father, who is in the late stages of cancer and is undergoing surgery abroad.
He thought countless times about giving up everything and rushing to his lover.
After his father woke up from surgery, he only asked him one question: whether he was going to give up the family business he had worked so hard for all his life for a woman.
On one side are family, on the other is a lover.
He wanted to break off the engagement with the Leng family, because the only person he wanted to marry from beginning to end was Luo Shuixin.
This marriage was arranged by his father without his consent.
Mr. Fang had just come out of the operating room when his son's words angered him so much that he was admitted to the intensive care unit, where his health deteriorated rapidly.
Fang Zeheng spent three months abroad taking care of his critically ill father, during which time he was restricted from communication and travel.
During this time, there wasn't a single day he didn't miss Luo Shuixin.
Only when Grandpa Fang pressured him with Luo Shuixin's life did he abandon his naive ideas.
"Just because you don't have the ability to protect your loved ones now doesn't mean you won't in the future."
These were the old man's last words before he passed away.
Fang Zeheng was born into the Fang family and was the heir personally selected and groomed by the old man.
He wanted to leave the Fang family, but the heavy burden on his shoulders meant he couldn't just give it up so easily.
The old man passed away, and the Fang Group was thrown into turmoil.
Marrying into the Leng family was his only way out of this predicament.
Leng Qiyi met him on the yacht and said she could have a marriage of convenience with him. She would divorce him a year later, once he had secured his position in the group.
He asked her about her conditions.
Leng Qiyi's condition was that after their divorce, she would want 15% of the shares in the Fang Group.
His heart, which had never wavered, began to waver because of Leng Qiyi's conditions.
Leng Qiyi said she hadn't thought of the second condition yet, but it wouldn't violate his principles.
He didn't hesitate for long before agreeing to Leng Qiyi's request.
As long as they hold their wedding abroad, Luo Shuixin will be safe.
He can return to China as soon as the wedding is over.
The long-standing tension and stalemate have found another solution.
He accepted the red wine that Leng Qiyi offered him.
Half a glass of red wine made him extremely dizzy.
He refused Leng Qiyi's offer to help him back to his room.
That night, he went to bed very early.
His consciousness surged like ocean waves, and he thought he was dreaming of his lover.
I had a wonderful dream that I hadn't had in a long time.
But when he woke up in his yacht room the next day, Leng Qiyi was sleeping next to him.
He then realized that he had been drugged.
By the time he realized it, it was too late.
After Leng Qiyi finished dressing, she told him that her second condition was that she wanted a child with him.
That was the first time Fang Zeheng had ever choked a woman, wishing he could strangle her to death.
Leng Qiyi calmly told him that she was the one who drugged him, otherwise he wouldn't have touched her.
Even if she only stays for one night, she might not get pregnant. She won't tell anyone; besides him and her, no one else will know.
She will definitely divorce him a year from now.
Leng Qiyi never expected Fang Zeheng to be so ruthless, having undergone tubal ligation surgery abroad.
I will no longer give her the slightest chance, and I will not let her get close.
From then on, he never touched any food or drink that had been prepared by her.
The wedding proceeded as scheduled, but her husband remained cold and disgusted with her.
The day before Fang Zeheng returned to China, she found out she was pregnant.
Leng Qiyi felt greatly comforted that her belly was behaving so well.
She asked her father and mother to help her make Luo Shuixin disappear.
The mother, who had spent most of her life practicing vegetarianism and chanting Buddhist prayers, stopped her father from carrying out his murderous act.
She hired bodyguards to escort Luo Shuixin away from Beijing.
Unexpectedly, the hired bodyguard developed lustful thoughts towards Luo Shuixin and defiled her.
After Fang Zeheng returned to China, Luo Shuixin seemed to have vanished into thin air.
In just six months, he quelled the internal strife within the Fang Group and seized real power within the group.
At that moment, he thought of his father's dying words.
But when he couldn't find Luo Shuixin anywhere, he stood on a high-rise building, staring at the cold lights and the city, none of it mattered to him.
Leng Qiyi gave birth to her child successfully, but failed to keep her promise.
Due to the divorce scandal, Fang's Group's stock price plummeted, plunging the company into a media storm.
Grandpa Leng was on his way to the hospital to visit his daughter, who was desperately trying to force Fang Zeheng to stay in the marriage, when he was involved in a car accident and could not be saved.
Before he died, Old Master Leng held his hand tightly and begged him to treat Leng Qiyi well.
“I know Qiyi is willful. Please don’t divorce her, considering that she gave birth to your child and for the sake of my life.”
This divorce turmoil subsided with the passing of Mr. Leng.
Fang Zeheng did not give up looking for his lover, and the search lasted for nine years.
He finally found his lover and their child.
He brought his wife and son back to the Fang family home, hoping to make up for what he had owed them over the years.
The eight years of hardship and poverty that Luo Shuixin and her son had endured made him resentful that he hadn't found them sooner.
But he was also relieved that it wasn't too late.
He can now protect his loved ones and son, and give them anything they want.
His wife's illness and his son's lack of closeness became his heartache.
It also serves as a reminder of the harm he caused to his loved one.
Now, the woman he loves has left him forever.
Fang Zeheng looked up at the cold, rising sun.
Leng Qiyi leaned against the car, her heart churning like a hundred ants gnawing at her.
She and Luo Shuixin had been competing for most of their lives, but this woman didn't fight or grab; she just lived in her own world.
The man she loved for most of her life never once looked at her.
Everything seemed to be in vain.
She caused her father's death because of this man.
She raised two children for him, just to secure her position as Mrs. Fang.
She no longer expected his love.
But when she met his cold gaze, she laughed until tears streamed down her face.
She would feel relieved if Fang Zeheng still harbored hatred towards her.
If she couldn't make this man fall in love with her, then she would make him hate her for the rest of his life.
But now, when he looks at her, he is calm and cold, as if he were looking at a stranger.
The arrival of the hearse broke the silence of the place.
The stretcher was loaded onto the hearse.
Fang Qizhou followed Fang Zeheng a few steps behind and got into the hearse.
Leng Qiyi moved her cold, stiff fingers, trying to pull her son, but saw that her son had gone to stand next to the hearse.
Fang Qibai's eyes were pleading, "Father, let me see Aunt Xin off on her final journey."
Fang Zeheng looked at the boy in the morning light who resembled him in appearance and was somewhat dazed.
His eldest son, whom he had never looked at properly, was already taller than him.
Over the years, he has hated Leng Qiyi, and consequently, he can't bring himself to like this son either.
But in that instant, he realized that all the choices were his own.
He was the one who caused all of this.
The hearse closed its doors.
Leng Qiyi stood there for a long time, staring blankly as her son left with the hearse.
The driver handed Leng Qiyi's phone to her and asked, "Madam, shall we follow them?"
Leng Qiyi collapsed to the ground, utterly exhausted. "She's dead. Why should I go to send her off? Go buy me firecrackers and fireworks."
As she spoke, tears welled up in her eyes.
All the joy and pleasure seemed to vanish with the departure of the hearse.
She looked blankly and numbly at the driver who had helped her up.
An angry female voice rang out from the driver's phone, "Leng Qiyi, you really have a conscience! Your own mother's cancer has spread, and you still want to buy firecrackers and fireworks to celebrate?"
The woman's voice reached Leng Qiyi's ears through the phone.
The driver tried to explain that he had noticed his wife's phone was ringing and wanted to give it to her, but he accidentally answered it.
Aunt Leng Qi's limbs and fingers, which had been numb from the cold, began to move.
She gripped the phone the driver handed her tightly, staring at the dialed number. "Leng Qixian, what did you say?"
The phone call was suddenly disconnected.
Is there something wrong with my mother's health?
Why is Leng Qixian only calling her now?
When she looked up and saw her reflection in the car window, neither human nor ghost, her hands trembled uncontrollably: "Take me to the Leng family's old house."
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