Chapter 162 Will you obey?
The wife always knew that her husband wanted a child to carry on their family name.
She turned to look at her younger brother.
The uncle understood what his sister meant, his brows furrowed deeply, and after a long while, he let out a long sigh.
He said, "You can keep the child, but you can't marry Lin Jiefang."
"……Why?"
The bride's face lit up with a smile when she heard that the child could be kept, but she burst into tears again when she heard that she could not marry Lin Jiefang.
The uncle, furious at his son's lack of self-respect, snapped, "Why do you want your child to have a murderer as his father? How will he ever hold his head high in the future? With a murderer's offspring in our family, where will your parents put their faces?"
"uncle……"
The bride knelt at her uncle's feet, crying and tugging at his trouser leg, "Uncle, the Liberation wouldn't kill people. There must be other hidden reasons. You have a way, you must have a way, right?"
Upon hearing this, the man nearly choked.
Her words were practically a direct invitation for him to find excuses to exonerate Lin Jiefang.
How capable is he?
Can you control a person's life and death?
Even after so many people witnessed Lin Jiefang personally admitting that he was the culprit?!
Does her niece even know what she's saying?!
The man's feelings for her went beyond mere disappointment.
He glanced up slightly and quickly scanned his sister and brother-in-law, observing their reactions.
My brother-in-law kept staring at my niece's belly; it was clear he really wanted the child.
The older sister was filled with shock, thinking, "How could this child be so insensible?"
The man understood what was going on and bent down to help his niece up.
The bride refused to get up, saying, "I won't get up unless my uncle agrees."
"My little girl!"
The mother, unable to bear it any longer, raised her voice, "You're letting your uncle break the law. Your uncle dotes on you, so how can you push your luck like this?"
"Mom, Jiefang and I have already registered our marriage and held a wedding banquet. I'm pregnant now. If he gets convicted of murder, he's finished, and so are I and the baby. Mom, I can't live without him. Please ask Uncle to save him this once. He was just confused for a moment. After this incident, he will definitely change..." The bride turned to her mother and cried.
The mother couldn't bear to see her daughter seemingly lose herself for a man. She wanted to scold her but felt sorry for her because she was pregnant. She also felt angry at Lin Jiefang for his malicious intentions, thinking that he had engaged in an intimate relationship with her daughter and grandson before marriage, and that he was using her daughter and grandson to blackmail both families and make a living for him.
“Darling, listen to your uncle. We’ll leave Lin Jiefang behind. Keep the child. Mom will stay with you. We’ll move to another city. After you give birth to the child and raise it for two years, we’ll come back. We’ll say that you married someone else, had a child, and your husband died. You’ve been observing mourning for several years, and your in-laws have been generous enough to let you have the child. If you want to remarry or not remarry in the future, your parents will respect your wishes. Okay?”
My mother thought about it a lot, but this is undoubtedly the best path for now.
The director nodded in agreement upon hearing his wife's words.
The bride refused, saying, "My child has a biological father, I have a husband, I don't want it, Uncle, please..."
The man looked at his niece's swollen eyes and sighed.
"I'll go see Lin Jiefang and find out what really happened before I make a decision."
The bride was delighted and wanted to say something, but the man looked at her and said, "If you don't like it, then pretend I didn't say anything."
The bride quickly shook her head.
"Brother?"
The mother looked over worriedly, and the director also frowned. The man shook his head, "The truth of the matter still needs to be told by Lin Jiefang himself."
As for whether his words are credible or not, that depends on whether he is honest or not.
"I didn't intend to kill anyone. I just wanted to teach Su Feng a lesson and get the 20,000 yuan back so I could fulfill my promise to Nannan..."
Lin Jiefang stood in the reception room, looking up at the man with a bitter smile. "Keeping a promise requires money. I truly love Nannan, Uncle. I did all this with selfish motives, but my starting point was..."
He saw the man frown, immediately stopped talking, and shook his head.
"I shouldn't have involved Nannan; it was my fault."
The man narrowed his eyes.
Lin Jiefang called his uncle, "I know I was wrong. Please give me a chance. I will definitely listen to you from now on."
"Will you listen to me?"
The man stared at him with a half-smile, “...If you had listened, none of this would have happened on the wedding day. When you were comforting the guests, my sister was telling me to give you a hand if I had the chance, because it would be better for Nannan if you got better.”
Lin Jiefang opened her eyes slightly, looking hopefully at the man's mouth.
"...I promise. As long as you can settle down and work hard for a few years, have children with your daughter and live a simple life, it won't be difficult to give you a ladder to success," the man said.
Lin Jiefang's breathing became slightly sluggish, and his lips trembled slightly.
The man gave a mocking smile. "Unfortunately, you're too arrogant. You caused such a mess at the wedding because you thought Nannan was pregnant with your child, so you were fearless and thought we would cover everything up for you?"
Lin Jiefang gripped the handcuffs so tightly that his fingertips turned white, but he didn't utter a single word.
The man glanced at his hand and sneered again, "Lin Jiefang, you have resources, you're cunning, and you have an indomitable spirit—these are all valuable qualities. That's precisely why we valued you, chose you, and agreed to let you marry Nannan. It's a pity you've lost sight of the bigger picture and failed at the last hurdle..."
He gave Lin Jiefang a deep look and sighed.
"Don't you have anything to say to me?"
Lin Jiefang pursed his lips. "I said, please save me this once for Nannan's sake, Uncle. I promise I'll never do it again. Will you save me, Uncle?"
"...Yes, but only because Nannan's child can't have a murderer as a father. Remember your own words, and listen to me." The man stood up, looking down at Lin Jiefang.
Lin Jiefang's chest heaved violently. His fingernails, gripping the handcuffs tightly, dug into his palms, causing him a sharp pain. He lowered his head in humiliation and said, "Yes, I remember."
The man received a satisfactory answer and turned to leave.
Lin Jiefang watched his retreating figure, breathed a slight sigh of relief, and when he released his hand, he saw the crescent-shaped bloodstains on his palm where his fingernails had pierced. His eyes flashed with a fierce light. He had lost this round against Li Banxia.
But when it came to power, he won the gamble.
Not long after the man left the police station, Li Banxia received a call from Xiao Zhanyou, "...Just as we expected, the bride's uncle went to see Lin Jiefang. The bride is more than two months pregnant, and she probably used this to get her uncle to agree to save the man..."
Li Banxia frowned, then instantly realized that she had just gotten the money back from Lin Jiefang.
She was a little confused. Was the bride's pregnancy Lin Jiefang's emergency plan, or was he trying to trick the bride into consummating the marriage early in case things went wrong?
Xiao Zhanyou said, "...The case may have taken a turn for the worse. The bride's uncle met with the poisoned woman's family. Not long after he left, the family recanted their testimony, saying that the woman had a terminal illness before drinking the poison and that she drank so much dichlorvos just to extort a large sum of money, but she didn't expect it to backfire... The bride's uncle is now trying to protect Linyi from liberation. What should we do?"
"Don't rush, let me think about it."
Li Banxia, while winding the telephone cord, pursed her lips and said to Xiao Zhanyou, "Take a note to the bride's uncle and write these words on it..."
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