Grandpa Xia was in a car accident. Although the surgery was successful, he was already over eighty years old. It was as if the fast-forward button had been pressed. His hair and beard turned gray and dull. Since that day, he had been sleeping for longer and longer periods and being awake for shorter and shorter periods. She had sought help from the attending physician, but the physician was also helpless and only told her to spend more time with Grandpa Xia. So these past few days, she has been going to the hospital whenever she has free time.
Time flew by and the countdown began.
She actually knew all along that she and Lu Yan would inevitably meet; there was no way to avoid it.
The man opposite was still incredibly handsome, his gold-rimmed glasses concealing his wolfish eyes, giving him an air of refinement and gentlemanliness. This face had been frequently seen on television and online lately.
He is following his plan, step by step, toward the pinnacle of China.
“I’m not avoiding you, and I can’t avoid you either, can I? If I remember correctly, some experts predicted that if I announced my breakup with you, Xia’s stock would plummet, or even go bankrupt. Professor Lu, head of the Bai family?” Xia Yixin looked at him politely but distantly.
Xia Yixin, you
"You want to ask why it turned out this way?" She interrupted him, moving closer instead of backing down. "I should be asking you, Lu Yan, what do you take us for? Pawns that can be discarded at any time? You never trusted us from the beginning. You even had surveillance cameras all over the ancestral home. I can hardly believe that I trusted you in that environment. Even Grandpa's car accident was a move on your chessboard, wasn't it? Using him to gain the cooperation of the K Group, you did a great job."
Lu Yan's pupils contracted slightly. Her aloofness brought their relationship back to its beginning. Even explanations were no longer important to her; she didn't care anymore.
He suddenly realized that he had never wished she could be a little less intelligent as much as he did now.
He had anticipated such consequences, but the actual experience was far more painful than he had imagined.
It felt like someone had shot him in the chest.
A brief silence fell over the elevator.
Lu Yan looked at her with deep eyes and said slowly and deliberately, "I will not apologize for the car accident, but you are not part of my plan, Xia Yixin. As long as it's you, I will give you whatever you want."
The man's gaze was so earnest, and there was even a hint of panic he couldn't hide.
She averted her gaze as if electrocuted, reminding herself that the game was over and she shouldn't get carried away anymore.
She took a deep breath and looked at him earnestly. "The truth is, I want to leave. Leave you, leave all your plans. Lu Yan, please let me go, and let yourself go too, okay?"
"Impossible." Lu Yan's eyes were bloodshot as an unprecedented fear struck him. The desperate and cold days in his nightmares told him that life without her was worse than death.
Xia Yixin laughed, a chilling laugh. "You call this 'I can give you anything'? Forget it, Lu Yan. Don't worry, I won't expose you or stop you. If you want to put on a show, I'll cooperate, but that's all. As for leaving, I don't need your permission at all."
She had just asked that question as a final probing question, and the result was just as she expected: disappointment? Not quite, just disheartening.
"bite"
The elevator doors reopened, and Xia Yixin tried to walk past him to leave, but he suddenly grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms.
The pungent, cool fragrance made her heart skip a beat. She pulled away from him as if electrocuted, and he actually released her, only to slip something into her hand.
The elevator doors closed again.
She was shocked to find herself holding a gun. His large hand enveloped hers, the gun pressed against his chest, and he pulled the trigger without warning.
The moment she realized what was happening, she instinctively moved the gun barrel, but the gun still went off.
Peng!
The bullet pierced the man's right lung; if she hadn't forcefully deflected it, it would have pierced his heart.
"Lu Yan, you're insane!"
She watched as he resolutely pulled the trigger again, then forcefully threw the gun away and covered his still bleeding wound.
Looking at her barely concealed panic, Lu Yan smiled with satisfaction. "I've gone mad. No matter how many shots you want to fire for revenge, as long as you believe in me." He's gone mad for her.
His strong healing ability prevented him from collapsing immediately, but his face turned a little pale.
Xia Yixin was absolutely furious. "So what if you have Bai family blood? How could you be such a bastard like Lu Yan?!"
He laughed, took the woman's bloodstained hands in his grasp, and leaned down, his gaze intense. "Unless you kill me, I will not let go."
He was forcing her! Xia Yixin was about to say something when her lips were sealed with a kiss.
He kissed her fiercely yet tenderly, and with a "snap," the bowstring of reason snapped...
The memory of that kiss from that night surged back, and the forgotten trembling awakened in that instant, along with his uncontrollable desire, overwhelming him.
At first, Xia Yixin wanted to bite him, but the man grabbed her chin, forcing her to open her teeth.
When that strange yet familiar cold fragrance invaded domineeringly.
Xia Yixin's resistance crumbled in an instant, completely collapsing. Even if she didn't want to admit it rationally, her body's resistance gradually disappeared.
Did nothing he did ever move her? The answer is obvious.
But she found out too late, and anyway, nothing came of it.
Xia Yixin regained her composure and ruthlessly pressed her palm against his wound. The man, in pain, pulled back and pushed her away forcefully. As he approached again, she acted impulsively and slapped him across the face.
The two of them were stunned when the slap landed.
However, what the woman saw was complex, while the man could no longer suppress the gleam in his wolfish eyes.
He gazed intently at her. At that moment, her cheeks were flushed, her clothes were disheveled, and her almond-shaped eyes were misty, reflecting his image.
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