Chapter 831 The Sweet Time Before the Storm (2)
Aunt Luo went home after cooking.
Le Yan and Fu Nian'an enjoyed a quiet dinner undisturbed by others.
The atmosphere was relaxed and sweet, like that of a newlywed couple.
After finishing her meal, Leyan took a while to digest before changing into her yoga clothes and exercising in the living room.
The premiere is in two days, and she can't relax for a moment.
While she was exercising, Fu Nian'an would go to the study to work.
Around nine o'clock, Le Yan finished her exercise, but Fu Nian'an had not yet come out of the study.
After resting for a while, seeing that Fu Nian'an had not yet come out, Le Yan went back to her room to take a shower.
When I came out of the shower, my phone on the bed was vibrating.
Another unfamiliar number.
After hesitating for a moment, Le Yan pressed the answer button.
A sinister, hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone: "Lin Leyan, it's me."
Le Yan's breath hitched, and her grip on her phone tightened slightly.
It's Xu Chengyang!
He actually dared to call her!
"Xu Chengyang, where are you now? You hit someone and ran away, do you know that the police are now after you?!"
"If I don't run, am I supposed to just wait to be caught?!" Xu Chengyang said angrily, "Isn't it all because of you two, mother and daughter, that I've been ruined! If it weren't for you, how could Xu Rongfang have caught me red-handed, and how could I have ended up with nothing? It's all your fault!"
Le Yan found it utterly absurd and couldn't help but scoff, "So what? You're not calling me now to ask me to compensate you, are you?"
"I want to go abroad, you have to give me money!"
“I have no money,” Le Yan refused without hesitation.
"Stop pretending with me!" Xu Chengyang roared, "Don't think I don't know you've hooked up with Fu Nian'an now! It was the expert team he found for your mother that pulled her back from the brink of death! Fu Nian'an has so much money, you just have to ask him for it, he'll give you as much as you want!"
“Even if he were willing to give it to me, I wouldn’t ask.” Le Yan’s voice was icy. “Xu Chengyang, what makes you think I would give you money? As a father, what have you ever done for me in this life? Do you even deserve for me to abandon my dignity and beg for money? Besides, you’re a wanted criminal now. If I help you, wouldn’t I become an accomplice?”
"You bitch!" Xu Chengyang cursed on the other end of the phone, "I should have strangled you the moment you were born! You stole my son's nutrients while you were in my belly, killing him and leaving my Xu family without an heir! Your mother was right, you are a jinx. You killed your brother and almost killed your mother, and now you're bringing misfortune upon me! Lin Leyan, you are a scourge, you should never have been born!"
Le Yan had long since given up any expectations of kinship with Lin Xiuying and Xu Chengyang.
She thought she was already indifferent to their verbal abuse, but hearing these words again now, she couldn't help but feel a surge of anger.
If she had a choice, she wouldn't choose them to be her parents.
But fate is cruel and unfair.
Lin Xiuying and Xu Chengyang loved their son so much that they desperately wanted to have one to achieve their goal.
But fate had other plans: the son died in the womb, while she, the unpopular girl, survived.
Fate was so unfair that Le Yan resented fate and them, so she never had any expectations of them. She always regarded Lin Minsheng as her father, but the blood ties were something she could not get rid of.
When Lin Xiuying was on the verge of death, the hospital called her immediately. As her biological daughter, she couldn't just sit idly by, and in the end, she had to trouble Fu Nian'an to handle the situation.
Human life was at stake, so she accepted it.
But Xu Chengyang was different. From the time she was born until now, he had never given her any fatherly love, only scheming. He had even tried to force her to sell herself countless times...
This kind of scum doesn't deserve a peaceful end!
"I won't give you any money." Le Yan took a deep breath, her tone cold. "Xu Chengyang, you can't escape. I advise you to turn yourself in as soon as possible; that way, you might get a lighter sentence!"
"Make me turn myself in?" Xu Chengyang sneered. "Le Yan, you really won't learn your lesson until you're faced with a death sentence. Do you think I took such a big risk to call you for money without any preparation?"
Upon hearing this, Le Yan frowned. "What do you mean by that?"
"I saw the poster. You have a performance on the 6th." Xu Chengyang's voice was like a devil's. "It's okay if you don't give me money. I still have some big scoops about you. I think after your opera performance, more people will notice you. Then, I'll take these scoops and sell them to the media. How much do you think I can get for them?"
Le Yan fell silent.
Throughout her years in the entertainment industry, she has never accepted any unspoken rules, and she is quite certain that she has nothing to hide.
"Xu Chengyang, your threats won't work on me. I won't fall for them..."
"You haven't forgotten why Lin Minsheng sold his fishing boat when you were 13, have you?"
Le Yan's breath hitched.
“Le Yan, I don’t want much, just 5 million. Give me the money, and I’ll let you go!” Xu Chengyang’s voice was sinister, like a demon from hell. “I don’t really want to force you, but I have no choice. If it weren’t for you and your mother, how could I have ended up like this with Xu Rongfang? You and your mother owe me this. I don’t expect anything from your mother now that she’s half-dead. Le Yan, now if you can help me, give me the money, and I’ll keep that matter a secret forever. Otherwise, I really will have to go to the paparazzi. You’re not just a simple female celebrity now; you’re also the girlfriend of Fu Nian’an, the big boss of Beicheng. If what happened when you were 13 is exposed, do you think… Fu Nian’an will become a laughing stock across the country?”
Le Yan's face turned deathly pale.
Her hand holding the phone trembled slightly.
Many images flashed through my mind.
Fragmented, painful, scarlet...
Lin Minsheng's painful and angry roars echoed in Le Yan's mind—
"She's only 13 years old! You beast, I'll kill you, I'll kill you..."
Le Yan covered her head and squatted down, her phone slipping from her hand.
She clutched her head in anguish, murmuring, "No, don't kill anyone, Daddy, don't kill anyone..."
The phone slammed to the floor, Xu Chengyang's voice, like a vengeful ghost, sounded especially clear in the quiet bedroom: "I need the money in three days, Le Yan. I'm only giving you three days."
Beep beep—
The call ended.
Leyan's nightmare was far from over.
Those painful memories that she and Lin Minsheng had deliberately sealed away and forgotten gradually became clear under Xu Chengyang's threats.
Le Yan remembered.
That desperate and terrifying night...
She covered her head, feeling as if the images flooding her mind were sharp as razor blades, cutting away at her reason inch by inch.
Tears welled up in her bloodshot eyes.
A chill gradually enveloped Le Yan's heart. Just moments ago, she was immersed in the sweet daily life with her lover, but now she felt as if she were in hell, and the future seemed to be nothing but darkness in an instant.
Fu Nian'an is so perfect and outstanding, while she... how is she worthy of him?
Her existence seems to only make Fu Nian'an a joke.
What should she do?
Should she tell Fu Nian'an that secret?
Will he... find her repulsive?
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