50. He cried like a cat, like a dog
Chu Yanhui put on his glasses and suddenly saw clearly that the glittering waves in his eyes were... tears.
Not knowing what mood she was in, she shook her head vigorously: "You can't kill him, it's against the law!"
"You care about him so much? Why? What's so good about him? What makes you love him so much?"
Fu Rongshen looked at her, his hand trembling with anger as he gripped her arm. Water gathered in his eyes, forming a single tear that rested on his lower lid. His gaze was clearly filled with cruelty and resentment, but the tears softened it to a false bravado, a look of profound pathos and weakness.
It was the first time she saw him cry.
It looks like some kind of animal, like a cat and a dog, a bit pitiful.
I was obviously afraid of him, but when I saw this tear, I felt inexplicably heartbroken.
I was stunned for a moment and couldn't answer.
The man suddenly realized his loss of composure and stood up, turning his back to her. He took a deep breath, looked up at the ceiling, and held back the remaining tears.
Chu Yanhui also stood up with his hands on the carpet, his back pressed against the wall, his voice trembling: "...I don't care about him, but I don't want you to kill anyone! What I said that night was not from the heart."
This matter was so absurd that she didn't know where to start explaining it or how to explain it.
Her voice lowered: "Uncle, I left you... not because of Gu He."
"It's because of you."
Fu Rongshen turned around suddenly, only to see the mockery in her eyes. His body froze, his heart plummeting into the abyss. A suffocating feeling overwhelmed him, and his face turned pale in an instant.
The voice was incoherent: "I..."
Did she know that he was spying on her...
You know everything?
How is that possible!
I was almost panicked and scared.
He hurriedly tried to hold her hand, but she dodged him. His heart ached like a needle, and his eyes turned red with grievance.
Mumbling pleadingly: "Chu Yanhui, I, am not..."
Chu Yanhui turned sideways to him, looking at the lake view of the central lake through the floor-to-ceiling window, and did not see his humble and begging expression at the moment.
She thought of the insults she'd received at the Fu family's old house, sniffed, and said self-deprecatingly, "If I don't leave you on my own initiative, do I have to wait until your father spreads our scandal and makes me infamous before I draw a clear line?"
Fu Rongshen paused.
Suddenly she realized that she was talking about something else, and she had not discovered his hidden secret.
The fear in my heart was driven away in an instant, but the remaining shock in my eyes had not yet dissipated.
I realized it later, and it felt like a huge stone had been lifted off my shoulders.
I feel like I can breathe again.
In just a few moments, it was as if he had died and come back to life.
"To thank Grandpa Fu for helping me clear my name, I went to his house to express my gratitude... but I was met with the most humiliating misunderstanding of my life. He accused me of seducing my own uncle."
She turned her head, tears in her eyes filled with hatred, aggrieved and angry: "I seduced you...Uncle, how did I seduce you?"
"You didn't seduce me," he looked at her, seeing the tears in her eyes because of him, and the guilt in her eyes, "It was me... I, Fu Rongshen, who seduced and forced you."
She choked with laughter and stopped looking at him.
This world doesn't make sense.
"I don't want to be branded as someone who seduced my uncle," Chu Yanhui's expression was pale and transparent. "I have no choice but to leave Shuixie Hua Ting."
"It has nothing to do with Gu He."
"The phone call that night was a misunderstanding."
"I originally wanted to accompany Dad to recuperate, and return to Haicheng when he is better. I don't want to be entangled with you and Gu He anymore, and I don't want to endure other people's curses anymore..."
Recalling what happened that night, her expression was filled with pain and disgust: "But Gu He found the hotel where I stayed, and he wanted to take revenge on me in this way..."
The voice was tinged with tears.
"Uncle, if I don't say those words to you as he asked, then what you will hear will be the sound of me making love with him..."
"I have no idea what to do!"
"If I choose the latter, not only will I be insulted, but you will also suspect that I'm still having an affair with him..."
Fu Rongshen seemed to stand still, listening to her words, each one a stab in his heart. His body was covered in lead, so heavy that he couldn't move.
The fingers hanging on the side of his suit trouser legs curled up and clenched inch by inch until they trembled.
Only his eyes were burning red with anger.
His back teeth ached from biting, and his once clear voice was hoarse as he spoke: "He's lived too long, he's tired of living."
The words seemed calm due to the suppressed emotions, but each word was filled with a terrifying murderous aura.
After a long time, he slowly said:
"I'm sorry, I should have dealt with him sooner... I shouldn't have waited until today."
Chu Yanhui's voice trembled: "You still want to attack him...Does it have to be this way?"
She didn't want to see anyone killed on his hands.
"I will ask my dad to agree and will never let your reputation be damaged." The man unclenched his fists, his hands already stiff.
"Yan Hui, if you trust your uncle, he will take care of everything."
Ever since they developed into a romantic relationship, Fu Rongshen was very reluctant to mention the issue of their seniority. He didn't allow her to call him uncle in bed, and he rarely addressed himself as uncle to her.
I would only say this when I wanted to give her a sense of security and reassure her.
Because when she was a child, whenever she encountered a problem she couldn't solve, she would always pester him until he said, "Okay, uncle will help you," before she would give up. Gradually, it became a habit.
He asked very restrainedly: "But tell me the truth, if these problems are solved, will you still leave? Don't lie to me."
The girl lowered her eyes under his gaze and did not lie: "I want to go back to Haicheng."
It’s not “want”, but “need”.
Firm and without hesitation.
"I've walked a long and difficult road to return to my hometown, and I've been entangled with you. I've been questioned, criticized, and insulted for this... To be honest, none of this has shaken me, but my father is sick."
"The moment he fell ill, I realized that compared to my parents, everything else was unimportant. I am his only child, and I must be filial to him and spend more time with him."
Fu Rongshen said, "I can take them back to Hong Kong City and arrange for top doctors to treat your father."
"It's not that I can't come back, but that I don't want to come back."
She stared at him with tearful eyes and said word by word:
"Everyone in Hong Kong knows that my father pissed off my grandfather to death. They could have killed him with just a spit from each of them."
"This is the infamy he's carried for his entire life. It's like a mountain on his back, and he's never let it go in all these years... Uncle, are you trying to force him to death by asking him to come back?"
The man fell into a long silence.
Chu Yanhui took off his glasses and wiped away his tears, his eyes red from wiping. He calmed down and whispered:
"Besides, there's no way they would accept our relationship."
"Seeing Grandpa Fu's disgust and contempt, it suddenly dawned on me that my parents would have the same attitude."
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