After a long while, he said in a hoarse voice: "Yi Mo, I'm telling you the truth, you are the only woman in my life. No matter in the past, present, or future, there will only be you."
"Yi Mo, I know that I have neglected you for the past twenty years and caused you so much injustice. It is my fault. I am useless and failed to protect my wife and children."
Lan Rui explained painfully, "But I had to do that to minimize the harm to you. It's better for them to laugh at you than for them to kill you. God knows how much it hurts to see you like that. It's like you're tearing my heart apart."
"Yi Mo, I'm not making excuses for myself. I failed to protect my wife and children. It's my incompetence. I don't ask you to forgive me, but I won't divorce you. I just want to come over and see you when I'm free."
"Our Qingqing will be returning to Wangcheng with me in two days. Will you come with us? Our family of four will be truly reunited."
Lan Rui gently touched Shen Yimo's face and expressed his helplessness in a low voice.
"If I had known that being the head of this family would bring you so much harm and pain, I would have chosen not to. However, my background is unchangeable. If I didn't take the position, they wouldn't let me go. Because no matter who takes the position, they will regard me as a great threat. They won't be at ease until my family is dead."
He had no choice but to sit in this position. At least his family of four could still survive, but his wife and children had to suffer.
After a pause, Lan Rui said, "Yi Mo, am I very selfish? Very incompetent?"
"Hei has been committing all sorts of illegal acts in private. I've decided to pretend to be his accomplice and gather evidence of his crimes. If one day I die, you can go to our room and open the safe. Inside is the divorce agreement I've already written and signed."
"Let's get a divorce and give you freedom. You don't have to worry. Before I die, I will definitely help Zheng'er remove all obstacles so that he can smoothly take the position of head of the family. The reform of the Lan family is also being prepared. In short, I will take away all the bad things."
"After I die, if you want to live with your son, that's fine. Living with your daughter is also fine. I believe both children will be very filial to you."
"I will gradually transfer the property under my name to you and your two children. From now on, the Lan family will no longer be able to enjoy the benefits we bring them and do things that hurt us."
"If... you can meet a man who treats you well, then you should remarry. Although your children will be filial, their company is limited. They are young and busy with their careers. Besides, they also have their own small families and couples. If you remarry, you will have a companion."
He would rather die than let her go and give her freedom, but he also hopes that she will remarry. Everything he arranged in advance is like a thousand cuts to him.
He also understood that he and Yimo could never go back.
All he could do was to eliminate all potential dangers for his wife and children. Even if it cost him his life, he would be willing to do so. As long as his wife and children could live a peaceful life without danger, he would die with his eyes closed.
He is fifty years old now. In the first half of his life, he had a very hard life, too much repression, and too much to consider. He had to fight against the entire family and foreign enemies on his own. His nerves were tense every moment, and he crawled forward step by step with difficulty.
Now that his children have grown up and are capable of taking care of themselves, and his son has help, he has reached the end of his rope and it is time to start closing in.
Of course, in the end, it would be best if he could still be alive.
If he were still alive, after the dust settled, he would immediately give up the position of head of the family and accompany Yimo. Even if she did not forgive him, he would follow her. Wherever she went, he would follow her, just to see her every day.
He leaned over and rested his head on Yi Mo's body, but his tears soaked Yi Mo's clothes.
Lan Rui was already drunk. He leaned on his wife and slowly closed his eyes. He thought that he was closing his eyes to feel the feeling of being with Yi Mo.
Who knew that Duke Zhou would come to provoke him and want to fight with him? He refused to admit defeat, so he followed Duke Zhou to fight.
After the darkest moment before dawn, the eastern sky quietly turned white, and slowly, black was replaced by white.
Night and day alternated silently.
Shen Yimo woke up slowly, and her consciousness returned to her mind. Before she even opened her eyes, she felt a headache.
This is the consequence of drinking too much.
She wanted to continue sleeping, but she felt something heavy pressing on her stomach.
She instinctively reached for her belly and felt a head. She was so startled that she opened her eyes suddenly, sat up in bed, and quickly and frantically pushed the head that was resting on her belly to the side.
Lan Rui was pushed unexpectedly by her and fell to the ground. The back of his head hit the ground with a thud.
Chen Yimo hurriedly pulled the quilt to cover herself, and when she looked carefully at the man on the ground, it was Lan Rui.
She suddenly got angry.
He threw the quilt aside with all his might, then jumped out of bed. He grabbed a pillow, stepped forward, swung it, and began hitting Lan Rui with it, cursing at him as he did so: "Lan Rui, you bastard, you want to scare me to death, right?"
"When did you sneak into my room? What did you do to me? You old bastard!"
Lan Rui woke up and instinctively wanted to touch the back of his head. As soon as his hand touched the back of his head, his wife held up a pillow and hit him for no reason.
It didn't hurt when the pillow hit her, so Lan Rui let her hit it. It would be even better if she got angry. He was most afraid that she would look at him coldly and ignore him.
Shen Yimo slapped him for a while, and seeing that Lan Rui didn't seem to be hurt, he didn't fight back, nor did he say anything. He just lay on the ground, looking at her eagerly.
Could it be that he hit the floor when he fell and got hurt?
Shen Yimo stopped suspiciously.
If he really got into trouble, she would be responsible and she wouldn't know how to explain it to her children.
Thinking of this, Shen Yimo's expression changed, but he still kicked Lan Rui with his foot and shouted: "Lan Rui, get up now, don't lie on the ground pretending to be injured. The bed is less than one meter from the ground. Even if you hit it, it won't kill you."
"I'm telling you, even if you're really hurt or injured, I won't be soft-hearted. Get up, get up quickly."
Lan Rui still looked at her eagerly.
Ever since she went crazy, every time he saw her, she looked crazy and couldn't recognize her husband.
After she regained consciousness, she treated him coldly, even colder than she would treat a stranger.
How long has it been since he saw Shen Yimo so energetic?
I miss it so much.
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