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◎If he lets her go, it might really be over between them◎
The press conference was packed with guests.
The audience was also packed with reporters from various media outlets.
When Jiang Suiyun appeared at the venue pushing He Linchuan's wheelchair, he immediately attracted the attention of all media.
He Linchuan was wearing a custom-made suit, and his eyes behind his gold-rimmed glasses were calm. His legs had recovered better than expected, and one leg could already bear some weight. Although the other one was still lacking, it still made Jiang Suiyun feel a little relieved, as if the burden on his shoulders had been lightened.
Many people came to the press conference today.
Many of them are familiar faces.
Off the court, Chen Lin was wearing a jeweled dress. When she saw Jiang Suiyun, her eyes were filled with undisguised disgust, but deeper inside, there was a subtle hint of wariness and guilt. Her eyes flickered, and she almost didn't dare to look her in the eye.
Jiang Suiyun had been He Linchuan's canary for two years, so naturally he knew Chen Lin. He also knew that she didn't want him to get mixed up with He Linchuan. When he noticed her unfriendly look, he didn't think much about it.
Backstage corner.
Xiaoyun's palms were wet and her heart was beating like thunder.
While the staff wasn't paying attention, she replaced the promotional video that was about to be played with a USB flash drive that she had prepared in advance.
Just as she finished her action and was about to leave quietly, a deep voice sounded behind her: "Feng Yun."
Her whole body stiffened, her blood froze instantly, she turned around mechanically, and saw a familiar face.
He Chifeng stood in the shadows, his figure tall and straight, with an oppressive air. His face was murky in the dim light, but his eyes were as sharp as a knife, staring straight at her face.
I don't know how long he has been watching here.
"He... Second Young Master."
Xiaoyun was nervous, but she remained calm. As long as he didn't catch her, she wouldn't be exposed.
She was getting ready to leave.
He Chifeng suddenly said, "Feng Man, she's your sister, isn't she?"
To Xiaoyun, these words were like thunder exploding in her head.
Her face instantly turned pale, her pupils constricted in extreme fear. He actually knew! In an instant, a huge fear gripped her. Being discovered by the He family would almost mean the failure of her plan!
She subconsciously turned sideways, blocking the crucial USB drive on the console behind her. "What did you say? I don't understand."
He Chifeng's voice was very cold: "You don't need to play dumb with me. Since I said it, there must be evidence."
In one word, her escape route was completely blocked.
At this moment, several security guards seemed to notice something unusual and walked towards this direction: "Who's over there?"
Xiaoyun felt a little desperate. If today's plan failed, finding another opportunity would be extremely difficult. She glared at the person in front of her, "What do you want to do? Stop me?"
She has been preparing for so many years just to overturn her sister's case one day. Even if it means sacrificing herself, she will go all the way to the end.
He Chifeng looked at the person in front of him with a desperate and hateful look, his eyes were complicated and difficult to read.
The security guard got closer and closer, and Xiaoyun's heart was in her throat. She was waiting for this man to expose her, but the expected scene did not come.
She heard He Chifeng say to the security guard calmly: "I came over here to take a look. You have nothing to do here."
Xiaoyun found it a little unbelievable.
He actually helped her?
He Chifeng turned his head and his eyes fell on the USB drive behind her.
As he was on his way here, the balance in his heart kept swinging.
He Chifeng was very sure that his brother had disposed of all other possible evidence, and this was the only one that slipped through the net.
As long as he takes action now and destroys the USB flash drive, the final evidence of the car accident two years ago will be completely gone, and Jiang Suiyun may never know the cruel truth in his life.
Destroy it.
The thought tempted him like the whisper of a devil.
He admitted that he had never been a good person. On nights when alcohol numbed his mind, he even had a dark thought that as long as he locked Jiang Suiyun up, he could keep her forever.
And now... there is an opportunity before him...
Xiaoyun looked at He Chifeng warily.
Catching a flash of cruelty in his eyes, her heart stopped and her alarm bells rang! If He Chifeng wanted to withhold the evidence, she would not be able to resist.
However, He Chifeng finally looked away with great difficulty. His eyes were extremely complicated, full of struggle and pain, but in the end, it turned into a determination that was almost exhausted.
He looked at her deeply, said nothing, and left.
He didn't know whether what he did was right or wrong, but it was just instinct and he couldn't kill the truth with his own hands.
He didn't dare to gamble on anything built on lies.
Moreover, this is not fair to Jiang Suiyun.
Xiaoyun looked at his departing back and almost fainted. She tightly grasped the spare USB flash drive in her pocket.
Without having time to think about why he let her go, she seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and blended into the crowd.
Inside the hall, the press conference proceeded according to procedure.
When it was time to play the promotional video, the big screen suddenly went dark, and then a blurry but recognizable video popped up - it was not the glamorous image of the group, but a surveillance clip of a woman falling from a high-rise building, and a secretly filmed recording and picture of Shen Lin trading with a blurry-faced man!
The whole audience was in an uproar! The reporters were like sharks smelling blood, and they immediately became agitated.
Shen Lin's expression changed drastically, and she stood up suddenly: "Turn it off! Turn it off quickly! This is malicious sabotage!"
Jiang Suiyun was bewildered at first, but when the photo of the truck that had been etched in her memory appeared, her face turned pale! That was the truck that had killed her mother!
She suddenly looked at He Linchuan beside her. The calmness on the man's face froze instantly. His gold-rimmed glasses reflected the cold light of the screen, and her eyes could not be seen clearly. But the knuckles of his hands on the armrest of the wheelchair turned bluish-white due to the force.
She felt a chill in her heart.
At this moment, Xiaoyun broke through the security guards, rushed to the front of the stage, grabbed the microphone, and her voice trembled with excitement and hatred: "This is not sabotage! This is the truth! Chen Lin! How dare you say that my sister's "suicide" back then had nothing to do with you? And that car accident two years ago, didn't you have anything to do with it?"
The entire place was dead silent, and then a huge commotion broke out! All the media cameras seemed to smell blood.
For the first time, cracks appeared in He Linchuan's eyes, which were always deep and unfathomable. It was the embarrassment after the conspiracy was torn apart, and after seeing Jiang Suiyun's eyes, there was a kind of panic and paranoia that was almost crazy and about to lose everything.
He tried to hold her hand, his voice still trying to keep steady: "Dear, things are not what you think. Let's leave here first, I will slowly untie..."
But Jiang Suiyun took a step back suddenly, avoiding his touch.
She looked at Xiaoyun on the stage and recalled last night's nonsensical "Don't go to the press conference." It wasn't just a casual reminder; she had known it all along...
An extreme sense of absurdity poured down on her head like ice water, instantly freezing her limbs.
"Explain?" Jiang Suiyun violently shook off his hand, her voice distorted by extreme anger and sadness, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably. "Then tell me! What's true?! Was my mother's death real?! Saving me...wasn't that just part of your plan?! Just to make me more obedient and more grateful to you?! Right?!"
Her questions were like tears of blood, and even in the noisy conference hall, they were still extremely clear.
He Linchuan looked at her red eyes and completely broken expression. Those carefully woven lies seemed pale and powerless in the face of such naked truth. Paranoid madness surged in his eyes: "No, no, I just... can't watch you leave. I will go crazy. I love you... dear."
"Love?" Jiang Suiyun didn't expect that he could say such words at this time. It was like she had heard the funniest joke in the world. After deceiving her from beginning to end, he told her that he loved her.
It's really ridiculous.
“Bang!”
A loud and crisp slap hit him hard on the face!
Jiang Suiyun used up all her strength and her palms were numb from being beaten. This was the first time she hit him and she was almost furious. No one could remain calm after discovering that she had been living a lie.
He Linchuan's face was hit to the side, and clear fingerprints quickly appeared on his fair face.
Jiang Suiyun's hands were burning with pain, and her whole body was shaking. She stared at him intently, asking word by word, "The USB drive you had before was fake, right?"
Silence. Everything is said without words.
"He Linchuan, your love really makes me sick."
"Do you really understand what love is? Do you love me? If you loved me, you wouldn't think of destroying the evidence and keeping me in the dark like a fool!"
The press conference was in complete chaos.
It was like pouring a bucket of cold water into a red-hot oil pan. The reporters went crazy, with their cameras and cannons.
"Mr. He! Is the content of the video true?"
"Mrs. Shen, please respond to the accusations of forcing Feng Man to death and hiring a killer!"
"Ms. Jiang! Are you a family member of the victim targeted by the truck in the video?"
"May I ask if anyone in the He family knows about this?"
Jiang Suiyun was stunned by the sudden huge wave.
The whole world seemed to be silent in an instant, and then suddenly magnified to the extreme. The camera lights flashed wildly, like countless sharp thorns piercing Jiang Suiyun's eyes; the reporters rushed to ask questions, the crowd exclaimed, Chen Lin's shrill denials, He Linchuan's low growl trying to maintain order... all the sounds mixed together, turning into a buzzing, disgusting torrent of noise, impacting her shaky nerves.
She felt dizzy and her legs went weak.
Countless microphones and cameras were almost pointed at her face, interrogating her and spying on her collapse and embarrassment at the moment.
He Linchuan wanted to reach out and pull her, but was separated by reporters and the chaotic crowd. His face showed anxiety and loss of control that she had never seen before, but that only made her feel more ironic and disgusted.
Just when she felt she was about to be swallowed up and suffocated by the chaos, a strong arm suddenly wrapped around her waist, and the other hand protected the back of her head, pressing her whole body into a broad and familiar chest.
It’s He Chifeng.
"Let go..." Jiang Suiyun struggled almost instinctively. She didn't want to see anyone related to the word "He", including him!
He Chifeng's heart suddenly contracted violently and the pain was extremely sharp because of the undisguised hatred and struggle in her eyes.
Although he had already anticipated her reaction after knowing the truth and had prepared himself mentally, when she really looked at him as if he were her enemy and tried her best to escape from him, the overwhelming pain was still beyond his imagination.
His tone was softer and more humble than ever before, completely devoid of his usual irritability and coldness. His warm breath sprayed on her ear, with an almost desperate earnestness: "I know... I know you don't want to see me now... but it's too chaotic here. Let me take you out first. If there's anything, we can talk about it when it's safe. I beg you... Jiang Suiyun..."
His voice was low, almost drowned out by the surrounding noise, but the words "I beg you" and the rare humility in his tone were like a tiny needle that suddenly pricked the soft spot in Jiang Suiyun's heart.
Her struggling movements suddenly stopped.
A glimmer of clarity emerged from her chaotic mind. Yes, this place was too horrible, and she couldn't stay there even a moment longer. And at this moment, it seemed that only this embrace could temporarily isolate her from this devastating vortex.
Her body softened and she buried her face deep in his chest, as if this was the only way she could absorb a little bit of thin oxygen and isolate herself from the madness of the outside world.
Feeling her obedience, He Chifeng felt relieved, but more pain surged up. He no longer hesitated, and used one arm to firmly protect her head and face, and with the other hand, he pushed the crowd away, like an icebreaker, carrying her, and squeezed towards the exit with difficulty but determination.
The reporters wanted to catch up, but were barely stopped by the surrounding bodyguards and the hotel security who arrived in time.
In the chaos, He Linchuan watched He Chifeng take Jiang Suiyun away, his eyes so gloomy that water could drip out of them, but he could not protect himself and could not stop it at all.
"Bang!" The heavy fire door blocked out all the noise outside. The world instantly became quiet, leaving only the two people's rapid breathing echoing in the empty stairwell.
The light in the emergency passage was dim, and the green emergency indicator light emitted a faint glow.
Jiang Suiyun leaned against the cold wall weakly, turned his face away, refusing to look at him, his voice hoarse and cold: "Now, can you let me go?"
He Chifeng looked at her pale profile and tightly closed eyes. His heart felt like it was being gripped by an invisible hand, a dull pain spreading through his limbs. Instead of letting go, he took a step forward, enveloping her in his shadow once again.
He inexplicably had a feeling that if he let her go, everything between them might really be over. This realization made his heart shrink.
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