CHAPTER 1526: CHAPTER 1430: JUST RIGHT FOR... KILLING WITHOUT A TRACE

"Your plan is to lure me to this island and set up all these traps and mechanisms?"

"You weren’t the main focus of my plan. The main focus was to bring Haotian here. I told you before, Yangyang, I never wanted your illness. If you want to blame someone, blame Haotian for being too obsessed with you. He wanted to take you away—how could I possibly let the two of you live happily together? That’s why I orchestrated the accident at the racetrack. Whether you got hurt or the child got hurt, there was no way you’d leave after that."

Xia Yangyang could only feel a shiver run through her entire body. "But Xingxing is your daughter—you could actually bring yourself to do that?"

"Why couldn’t I? She’s just like her father; she actually loves you more than she loves me, her biological mother. I regret giving birth to her—she’s nothing but a traitorous little ingrate. But you all got lucky; neither of you ended up hurt."

"So that’s when you decided to kill me. If I die, everything will come to an end, won’t it?"

Gong Xue’er walked up to Xia Yangyang and stood before her. "That’s right, Yangyang, you’re absolutely right. I should have killed you a long time ago—because only if you’re dead will Haotian completely let go."

"But if I die, Lu Haotian will still never be with you."

Xia Yangyang’s words seemed to spark something in Gong Xue’er.

Gong Xue’er said, "For all these years, the only obstacle between me and him has been you, Xia Yangyang, only you. Once you’re dead, I have ways to make him love me. Do you know, three years ago, I acquired a pharmaceutical company? I had them work on developing a drug that can erase memories. And soon—very soon—it’ll finally be completed."

Xia Yangyang found it inconceivable. "That kind of research is outright inhumane."

But Gong Xue’er appeared entirely unfazed. "Yangyang, if you lose your memory, if you forget Gu Qichen, forget everything that happened between you, you can start over with Lu Haotian. If you can, so can Haotian. He’ll forget everything and start over with me. But the prerequisite is that I can’t let you two run away together. Before my drug is perfected, I can’t let Haotian leave. So, Xia Yangyang, you’re standing in my way—I have no choice but to get rid of you."

Xia Yangyang spoke, "Gong Xue’er, just so you know, don’t harbor such delusions. That drug will never be successfully developed."

Gong Xue’er suddenly went mad. "I’ll succeed—I definitely will. But Xia Yangyang, I won’t allow you to ruin all my plans before I do. To be safe, you... should just die."

With those words, Gong Xue’er suddenly pushed Xia Yangyang back when she wasn’t prepared.

Xia Yangyang had been standing in front of a floor-to-ceiling glass window.

But the tempered glass seemed to vanish, as if by magic.

Xia Yangyang’s entire body fell backward.

Xia Yangyang plummeted straight from the fourth floor into the outside swimming pool.

Gong Xue’er stood by the doorway, overlooking the splashing water below.

"Xia Yangyang, do you know why I arranged for you to stay in this room?"

"Because the floor-to-ceiling window in this room is foldable and remote-controlled."

"This technology was developed by a tech company under Wilson Company and hasn’t yet been announced to the world."

"It’s perfect for... killing someone without leaving a trace."

After Xia Yangyang fell, Gong Xue’er pressed the remote control again.

The glass suddenly reappeared, fully intact.

Gong Xue’er turned around, walked to the door, opened it, and left.

Gu Qichen, as expected, was still at the doorway.

Gong Xue’er spoke calmly, "Yangyang just went to the bathroom. She’s been in there for a while. I won’t wait for her—I’ll be leaving first. You can go in and check on her."