Chapter 55 I am the joke
Due to the intervention of the court, Fu Liaoyan ordered that all powers held by Fu Yunlu be temporarily revoked, and that he would consider whether to restore her to her original position after all the cases were thoroughly investigated.
Zhao Yi fell to the ground after hearing the decision. His fingers clasped tightly around his thighs, his nail beds white. His eyes were lifeless as he muttered, "It's over... It's all over..."
Fu Yunlu had very little time to rest in the past month. He had no appetite and could only be fed with nutrient solution to keep his body functioning. Perhaps because he was restless, he even forgot to shave off his newly grown stubble before going out. Wearing a pair of glasses, with a corner of his shirt sticking out of his waistband, he pushed open the door with a pale face.
His original intention was to come and comfort Zhao Yi, to tell his mother not to worry too much, that the power vacuum was only temporary, and that this time it was because many parties did not want him to have an easy time. Even if he was to be banished from the main city, he could come back and regroup in five or six years at most.
But when he entered, he saw Zhao Yi sitting on the ground, exhausted. He hurried over to help her up, but Zhao Yi grabbed his arm like a lifeline. With tears in her eyes, she looked up at Fu Yunlu and said in a trembling voice, "Yunlu, what should we do about your brother?"
Fu Yunlu said, "Mother, he was the fuse of my downfall. If I hadn't fallen, Fu Yunliang wouldn't have been in trouble, and accordingly—"
He has no power to use now, and he can only leave Fu Yunliang's affairs to fate.
Zhao Yi said, "No, no, Yunlu, Yunlu!!" Her eyes widened and she collapsed, "Yunliang just killed a civilian omega, why, why does everyone want him dead? You have to save him, he is your brother, you can't just stand by and watch him die-"
Fu Yunlu whispered, "Murder discovered by the public is illegal, and he did more than just this one thing. Mother, you know that clearly." He was extremely tired. "I can only do my best to get him a reduced sentence..."
"He can't go to jail!!" Zhao Yi roared frantically, "He is the prince of Nino and Ya! It's my child! It's mine and his—"
"..." Fu Yunlu touched her lips together, as if she wanted to say something, but Zhao Yi suddenly asked, "How did that video get out there?! Even if Yunliang is stupid, he wouldn't send it to anyone else. It must have been that beta from the Ji family who secretly recorded the video—"
Fu Yunlu was silent for two seconds. Zhao Yi lost her usual gentleness and urged sharply, "Speak!"
Fu Yunlu's head felt like it was being pricked repeatedly with sharp needles. He frowned in unbearable pain, and Zhao Yi kept asking him questions. He paused for a moment before saying, "...Ji Shun is dead. It was Fu Chaoyang who released the video."
"How did Fu Chaoyang get it?"
"..." Fu Yunlu shook off Zhao Yi's hand, slowly stood up, covered her face with one hand, and said in a hoarse voice, "Because of me."
"You gave it to Fu Liaoyan?!"
"I don't."
"You really are..." Zhao Yi's tears fell to the floor drop by drop. He turned a deaf ear to Fu Yunlu's explanation and immersed himself in his own regret. "You really are the same as that Alpha Fu Liaoyan. Jealous, suspicious, cruel and ruthless, not even sparing your own brother..."
She said viciously, "Everyone in the royal family makes me sick."
Zhao Yi poured all the freedom and yearning for love that she had never had into Fu Yunliang's future. In her previous fantasy, she only had Fu Yunliang as a child - if she was not a member of the Zhao family, if Fu Liaoyan had not taken the initiative to propose a marriage to the Zhao family, she should have married and had children with her beloved Alpha openly.
This was the second time Fu Yunlu had heard similar words from someone close to her. The first time was from Liang Guanyue, who had told her that royal love was cheap because she doubted him.
The second time is now.
It seemed as if every nerve of Fu Yunlu had turned into a sharp sword, piercing his slender body one after another. He first raised his head to look at the ceiling, then sighed, and finally laughed twice - he didn't know why he was laughing. Perhaps if he didn't laugh, he might have shed tears in a cowardly manner.
"Mother, you hate me, right?" Fu Yunlu didn't dare look at Zhao Yi, as if talking to herself, "Because I have Fu Liaoyan's blood in me, you never loved me."
"Even if I acted like a fool and did so many dirty things for you and the Zhao family without asking for anything in return, it was still useless." He clenched his teeth, his breathing trembling slightly, "You still hate me the same way."
"..." Zhao Yi did not refute this, but just repeated, "You have to save him... You have to save him."
"..." He was silent for a long time, closed his eyes, and turned away disheartened. "I can't save Fu Yunliang, Zhao Yi, just consider me dead."
"From now on, no matter what happens to me or you, we will not bother each other."
"Fu Yunlu!!!"
Zhao Yi called him loudly, and Fu Yunlu paused.
"Fu Chaoyang got the video and it had something to do with you. Do you actually want to evade responsibility?"
“…”
So the last bit of hope turned into Fu Yunlu's continued forward steps amidst crazy shouting.
He opened the car door, as if returning to a safe haven where he could temporarily take refuge, and lowered all the sun visors. The scenery outside the car kept rushing past, and the faces of Liang Guanyue and Zhao Yi kept spinning in Fu Yunlu's mind. In the end, Zhao Yi took Fu Yunliang and her lover away, leaving Liang Guanyue alone standing in front of him.
Liang Guanyue smiled and opened her arms to him, asking, "Aren't you coming over yet?"
Fu Yunlu quietly looked at the Liang Guanyue in her mind, and after a while she asked softly, "You hate me too, right?"
He shook his head aggrievedly: "I love you, brother."
"...Ji Wenting has sent you all the evidence left by Ji Shun, Liang Guanyue." Fu Yunlu said, "How long do you want to keep pretending?"
“…”
Fu Yunlu came out of his thoughts and opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was not the roof of the car, but a field of colorful snowflakes. The dizziness and vertigo did not end until two minutes later. He reached out and touched the hot gland. When the marked body was extremely mentally disordered, it would subconsciously seek comfort from Liang Guanyue's pheromones.
How ridiculous. Fu Yunlu raised her hands to cover her eyes and laughed at herself.
Nora sent him a message this morning, but he hadn't had time to read it. He guessed that it was probably asking him how he felt today, so he didn't rush to open it. Now he needed to reply to some irrelevant messages to stop himself from thinking about Liang Guanyue and what happened just now.
However, the first second after opening it, Fu Yunlu regretted it.
Such regret made him close the terminal immediately, but it was far from enough. Fu Yunlu's fingers gripped the leather chair with twisted bends and strength, breathing heavily, and the pain in his glands was so severe that if he had a knife right now, he would dig there without hesitation -
What? So everything you said was false?
All the "I love yous", really, really, not a single one of them is true.
I was fooled by him. Even though Fu Yunlu had already found out that Ji Wenting, Liang Guanyue and Fu Chaoyang had colluded to bring him down, people always have the most sincere and beautiful fantasy in despair.
For example, Liang Guanyue didn’t actually not love herself, he probably had some unavoidable difficulties; or maybe he really hated herself, but it was a mixture of love and hate, and even Liang Guanyue couldn’t tell the difference.
Ten minutes ago, Fu Yunlu wanted to find Liang Guanyue to ask for clarification.
In any case, he at least wanted to know why Liang Guanyue did this.
Why did she join forces with Fu Chaoyang, why did she betray me, why did she deceive him for so long.
But now Fu Yunlu's mind was only on the message Nora had just sent her - it was a ten-second video with the caption: 'I happened to meet you while I was on a medical visit. I thought about it for a long time and decided not to hide it from you.'
The protagonist in the video is not only Liang Guanyue. The other one, Fu Yunlu, also looks familiar. He remembers that he is from the Karafu wife's side, and his name seems to be John.
It was getting colder in late autumn. Liang Guanyue held John's hand and put it in her coat pocket. John said something, and Liang Guanyue, who was standing next to him, smiled and kissed him on the lips after hearing it.
They look like a very loving couple in the honeymoon period.
Fu Yunlu's stomach suddenly felt like it was being clenched tightly, his face turned pale instantly, and he bent over and couldn't stop dry heaving. He curled himself up into a ball as much as possible, and his whole body seemed to have lost all strength, and he could only tremble slightly.
He bent over in pain, watching the water droplets fall onto the carpet at his feet and then disappear. He touched the corner of his eyes belatedly and realized that he had been crying.
Fu Yunlu was stunned for a few seconds, and then for some reason he suddenly laughed with a hoarse voice. His laughter became more and more uncontrollable. He laughed like a madman, probably because he saw some joke -
I am the joke.
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Author's words: Fu Yunlu: Give me a reason to forget you who loved me so much...
(The final volume is around 250,000 words)
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