Chapter 136 Stupid to Death
He Li discovered for the first time that she still had feelings of shyness.
First of all, Lin Yao is actually an Omega, unlike AO.
Secondly, with his clothes half-open, his muscles were beautifully defined and strong, full of tension. Coupled with the undeniable ambiguity, he shed his usual aloofness and became very alluring.
"Damn it, you... put it on!! I believe you! I believe you!!!" He Li frantically grabbed his collar, not daring to look anymore, "Xie Xingchen will kill me."
Lin Yao frowned: "You've seen it before, haven't you? There were more when we went swimming before, weren't there?"
"This is different!!!" He Li felt like his head was about to explode, and he took three feet back. "Back then you were an Alpha, and we were the same sex, so of course it was okay. But now you... wait, you're an Omega. Xie Xingchen is still comfortable letting you live with me?"
“Yeah, because neither of us sees you as an Alpha.” Lin Yao pierced the heart with a single arrow.
He Li: ""
Silence, a long, silent silence.
After countless blows, I felt as if my heart had been shattered into pieces.
He Li said incredulously, "You can't treat me like an Omega just because I use the name 'Little Sweet Pear' in my abstract style. I am an Alpha, a true Alpha. You'd better watch your step when you're with me in the future."
Lin Yao stared at him for a few seconds, then swallowed back the hurtful words with difficulty: "Okay."
Upon learning the truth, He Li felt completely awkward, unsure whether to stand or sit: "Is it appropriate for me to be here? How about we let Cheng Boyan come over? Waiting won't work; he's an Alpha too."
He racked his brains for a moment, and finally came up with a candidate in the military region of the A-level scenic area: "Your sister-in-law, I'll have him come over. I... I'm afraid of things getting out of hand. If someone spreads rumors about us, it won't be good for your reputation."
Lin Yao couldn't help but laugh and said in a low voice, "No need, I don't need anyone to take care of me, I can go back in a little while."
She paused, then said, "I knew you'd react this way, that's why I haven't told you the truth. Can't you be normal, like before?"
"Can it really be exactly the same as before?" He Li wasn't sure.
"Hmm, Xie Xingchen doesn't mind, so what are you worried about?" Lin Yao muttered to himself, "Anyway, an Alpha might end up as someone's wife too."
"What?" He Li's ears perked up. "Who's going to be someone's wife?"
Lin Yao hesitated for a moment, then said, "It's nothing. Give me your phone, I'll call Xie Xingchen."
He Li picked up the phone that had fallen to the ground with suspicion and handed it over, his eyes still darting around, wondering what it meant. Whose wife was this?
Lin Yao dialed the number, but he had almost never encountered a situation where the call wasn't answered immediately; all he heard was a busy signal.
I dialed again, but it was the same.
He frowned: "No one answered. Did he say where he was going?"
Just then, I suddenly received a message.
【xxc】: You're awake?
[xxc]: I'm fine. I'm not available to answer right now, don't worry.
[xxc]: I'll come find you after I'm done with work.
Xie Xingchen sent the message while kneeling. After returning home, Xie Hengzhi coldly dragged him to the ancestral hall.
"Kneel down," he said.
Even now.
Xie Xingchen knelt here for five hours, and neither he nor his son said a word.
His phone kept ringing, and Xie Hengzhi irritably threw it at his feet, his voice as cold as a knife: "What a sweet couple. I never knew you could be so infatuated with Lin Yao."
"I'll reply to this message first," Xie Xingchen said, closing his eyes briefly. "He'll worry."
"You dare!" Xie Hengzhi watched as he took the phone and started sending messages, his suppressed anger finally erupting. "Xie Xingchen, look at the state you're in!"
Xie Xingchen kept his lips pressed together and remained silent.
“I’m going to see Yun Qing in a bit. You go and explain to him yourself, and see what a noble thing his good son has done.” Xie Hengzhi’s face was ashen. “After four years of lying low just to gather evidence to send his own father to jail, should I award you a Best Citizen Award?”
“You’re the ones who are wrong,” Xie Xingchen said in a low voice. “What did Lin Yao do wrong? What did those people who were taken away for experiments do wrong? I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what I did.”
Xie Hengzhi stared at him quietly for a long time, speaking slowly and deliberately, each word firm and resolute.
"You think we're cruel? Without this experiment, you would have died long ago. Did you think you could have lived a life of ease and wealth until today? You're still alive to find evidence to report us. It's utterly ridiculous."
"Do you think Pei Yizhong can wash his hands of this? No, you should say he's all brawn and no brains, with zero intelligence. When I first ran for alliance leader, he didn't approve of my and Yun Qing's approach of aligning our interests, and he openly sided with my competitor, Zhao Quan."
"Politicians don't always have clean methods. And what kind of good person is Zhao Quan? He appears upright on the surface, but behind your back he'll kidnap you and threaten you into withdrawing from the election."
"Yun Qing begged me to save you. He was just like you today. He knelt down all night, begging me and threatening suicide. There was blood everywhere."
"Xie Xingchen, no one in this world loves you more than him. He would give his life for you. How have you treated him?"
Xie Xingchen's pupils suddenly trembled. This was the first time he had heard these things; no one had ever told him before.
Now, the truth of the past is like a series of sharp knives, making my heart ache so much I can hardly breathe.
Xie Hengzhi's tone remained calm, but his eyes were red.
“I couldn’t bear to watch him die in front of me, so I had to abstain. Zhao Quan was elected that year.”
"That's why I say emotions are the most useless thing. You can control him, and he can control me. I've experienced it once. Having emotions creates a weakness, and it's terrible. I don't want you to repeat the same mistake. Is that wrong?"
"You were sent back, riddled with illnesses and on the verge of death. For more than half a year, countless medications were used without any effect. Yun Qing had no choice but to target some children, including the newborn Lin Yao, and begin the modification experiment."
“Lin Yao is innocent, I admit, but his physique is the most suitable for you. Five years, transform him into an experimental subject that is a perfect match for you, and bring him back to the capital.”
"But weren't you innocent when you were taken away and injected? You're alive and well now because Yun Qing saved you through experiment after experiment. Do you think he wanted to do these things? Nobody wants their hands stained with blood!"
Xie Xingchen looked up at him: "What about the blood plague? You captured children, and then you started capturing adults. In order to win the second election, you made them kill each other time and time again."
“It was something I had to do, it had nothing to do with him. In the process of saving you, I discovered that he had unintentionally developed a control drug, so I used it.”
Xie Hengzhi's expression returned to calm. "That's how the world is. Either you control others, or others trample and manipulate you. It's survival of the fittest, the simplest law of the food chain. The current alliance system has problems. I want to build a more ideal empire."
“You’re a twisted madman,” Xie Xingchen cursed at him.
"If you can't even protect your own family, there's no fun in being a normal person."
Xie Hengzhi reached out and pinched his cheek hard, mocking, "It's just that Yun Qing risked his life to protect this good child, and you gave him the most surprising gift. When you gave that evidence to Lin Yao, did you think about the consequences?"
Xie Xingchen raised his eyes, gritted his teeth and said, "That sounds nice, but you didn't protect him either. The evidence shows you completely absolved yourself of any responsibility."
"Because Yun Qing took it all on his own, acting like a complete idiot."
“He is meticulous and had prepared for today long ago, so he didn’t offer any explanation. From yesterday until now, he has only said one sentence, which is all true.”
Xie Hengzhi frowned slightly. "You inherited his stupidity. No, you're even more stupid than him, utterly stupid."
Xie Xingchen lowered his eyes, his Adam's apple bobbing heavily: "Take me to see him."
Xie Hengzhi pulled the man up from the ground: "I'm glad Lin Yao didn't hand over all the evidence. If he had stopped there, I would have used my connections to reduce his sentence. I don't know how much you found. If there's anything else, don't give it to him anymore."
Xie Xingchen remained silent, saying nothing.
"You really want him dead, don't you?" Xie Hengzhi raised his voice. "You want him dead, don't you?"
Xie Xingchen simply repeated, "Take me to see him."
He already didn't know how to cope, and the brutal exposure of his past only intensified his pain. He found it increasingly difficult to breathe with every kilometer he approached the police station.
He did nothing wrong, and Lin Yao did nothing wrong either, but why does my heart hurt so much?
The father and son sat in the visiting room and waited for a while before finally seeing Yun Qing come out in matching clothes. She was pale, but smiled at them and was still beautiful.
Xie Xingchen looked into his eyes, moved his lips, but couldn't utter a single word.
She lowered her head again, and after a long while, she choked out, "You...you can scold me if you want."
Yun Qing reached out and grasped his stiff hand, her voice soft: "You, I've raised you too well, you always surprise me. How could I scold you? It's just..."
The moisture in Xie Xingchen's eyes finally gathered into rain and quietly fell.
"Please, don't make things difficult for Hengzhi."
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