CHAPTER 236: CHAPTER 223 IF YOU DON’T COME, I WON’T LEAVE1

Lin Zhenxin and Tu Wanzi turned their heads simultaneously to where...

The returning Tu Haohao stood quietly, unsure how long she had been listening!

Tu Haohao’s face was deathly pale, devoid of any color.

The reason she came back was because she realized she had left something behind, but didn’t expect to see her mother sitting face to face with Sister Zhenxin upon returning.

Anxiety began to stir within her as she walked close enough to hear their argument.

In the exchange, so many secrets were revealed!

Tu Wanzi’s expression shifted from excitement to panic; a mother knows her daughter best, and just by seeing Tu Haohao’s expression, she knew she had heard everything!

Lin Zhenxin was equally unprepared, she never intended to hurt Tu Haohao.

"Who exactly is my dad?" Tu Haohao’s voice was excessively calm as she walked over, fixing her gaze on Tu Wanzi.

She had known for a long time that she was a person without a father.

She was content having the love of her mother and grandfather.

Tu Haohao had fantasized countless times about how her father might look, and whether he would suddenly appear.

She never imagined learning about the embarrassing mystery of her background in such a manner on this day!

Tu Wanzi’s lips trembled, unable to speak.

Just as Tu Wanzi knew Tu Haohao, Tu Haohao understood her mother as well.

"I’m sorry, Sister Zhenxin... I’m sorry..."

Never before had Tu Haohao felt such guilt and shame!

Back then, she even found Sister Zhenxin to ask her to donate a kidney; thinking of this made Tu Haohao vulnerable.

"Haohao, don’t get worked up..." Even though she resented Tu Wanzi, Lin Zhenxin didn’t want Tu Haohao to be sad as well.

If not for this accident, she had planned to keep this secret from her for a lifetime!

"No... I’m sorry... Really sorry Sister Zhenxin..."

Tu Haohao’s tears flowed profusely, her face, already pale, now as colorless as paper.

"I am not wrong! You don’t need to apologize to her, I am not wrong!"

Tu Wanzi still maintained.

Lin Zhenxin felt suffocated, not knowing how to console Tu Haohao and unable to completely overlook Tu Wanzi, she clenched her bag and walked out of the store, and when she breathed the first breath of fresh air, her tears...

Involuntarily fell down her cheeks...

Lin Zhenxin did not go home.

She hailed a taxi to go to the T.N.C Group headquarters where Li Yanan had taken her before.

The receptionist was a newcomer who didn’t recognize her, until a colleague nearby inadvertently looked up and was instantly startled.

At this time, Lin Zhenxin was calling Li Yanan, and once the call connected, she handed her phone to the receptionist.

Soon, someone came out of the elevator to bring her up.

Li Yanan was in a meeting, and Lin Zhenxin waited in the president’s office, where the assistant told her she could rest in the lounge if she got tired.

The door was closed from the outside.

Lin Zhenxin entered the lounge.

The lounge was about fifty square meters with complete facilities.

A shirt of Li Yanan’s was casually thrown on the bed.

Lin Zhenxin lay down, clutching the shirt, and inhaling the familiar masculine scent, she soon fell asleep.

When Li Yanan pushed the door open, she was not sleeping soundly.

Perhaps due to a nightmare, cold sweat moistened the strands of hair on her forehead as she whispered incessantly.

"Zhenxin..." Li Yanan touched her face with his hand.

"Don’t..." Lin Zhenxin suddenly opened her eyes, seeing Li Yanan, she sat up and tightly embraced his waist.

She panted heavily, which made Li Yanan uncomfortable and he patted her back.

"What were you dreaming about?" The room was warm, and wearing only a shirt, Li Yanan allowed his little girl to rely on him.

She had dreamed a lot, but most were bad things.

Whether it was that great fire or Tu Wanzi’s previous words, she even dreamed of Tu Haohao’s wedding, and in the dream...

On the day of Tu Haohao’s wedding, it would snow.

"If I wasn’t me, if I were someone else... I..." She had just awakened from the nightmare and was incoherent.

Li Yanan stroked her back gently yet firmly.

Minutes or perhaps hours passed before Lin Zhenxin finally became thoroughly awake.

"I dreamt that I left you." She confessed.

Li Yanan’s expression darkened suddenly.

"It won’t happen." He reassured.

Lin Zhenxin replied softly, burying her face in his embrace.

After a long time, she slowly recounted the day’s events.

"Yanan, I always feel a sense of impending doom, like a storm gathering."

Lin Zhenxin had never felt such anxiety, Tu Wanzi’s words had indeed left a shadow in her heart.

Tu Haohao’s wedding, which she originally thought to be an end, she never imagined, could be the beginning of something else happening.

"Don’t let your imagination run wild." Li Yanan reached out to press her head into his arms.

"If you really leave, to the ends of the earth, I’ll find you." He added.

"What if you can’t find me?" Lin Zhenxin still worried a bit.

"Then I’ll wait for you right here. If you don’t come, I won’t leave, it can only be you."

Li Yanan’s words finally calmed Lin Zhenxin’s chaotic heart.

"Me too!" Lin Zhenxin wrapped her arms around his waist in return.

"It must be you, no man could do except Li Yanan!"

Two days later would be Tu Haohao’s wedding.

The wedding had drawn the attention of the entire J City from the start.

The first reason was Li Yanan’s attendance with his wife Lin Zhenxin, and the second was the appearance of Susan He, the Chinese tycoon renowned in the international financial sector.

The former was due to the complicated relationships with the Li Family, and the latter for her distinguished status.

However, that morning, Lin Zhenxin just stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing at the gloomy weather, uncertain what worried her.

That day’s dream had been so vivid that she couldn’t shake it off until now.

In the dream, on Haohao’s wedding day, snow as thick as goose feathers would soon cover the entire J City, clad in a beautiful silver coat.

But, Tu Haohao...

Lin Zhenxin lowered her head, looking at the pink box Tu Haohao had given her earlier.

"What are you thinking about?"

The suit on Li Yanan was custom-made by an Italian designer, perfectly tailored and exceptionally noble.

"The weather is so gloomy, it seems like it might snow."

Lin Zhenxin turned to look at the man walking towards her, speaking softly.

Her long black hair was styled by a professional designer.

She rarely wore makeup, but today her face was adorned with delicate features matched with a magnolia-colored dress, dignified and graceful.

"Indeed, the weather forecast says it will snow today."

Li Yanan responded to her, his voice low, as he embraced Lin Zhenxin’s soft body from behind, eyes out the floor-to-ceiling window.

Such weather wasn’t ideal for a wedding day.

"I have a feeling something might happen today."

Lin Zhenxin’s voice was low, though she didn’t want to think negatively, she couldn’t help it.

Li Yanan didn’t reply, based on what he knew of He Nuoxin, on a day like this...

"We should go..."

In the bride’s lounge, Tu Haohao had just finished her makeup.

Her phone suddenly rang, and when she looked down, it was an unfamiliar yet familiar number.

"You all can leave now." After she spoke, the makeup artists left the lounge, leaving it quickly empty.

She answered the call.

Soon, scornful laughter came from the other end.

"Remember the bet between us?"

The voice over the phone was noisy, but Tu Haohao recognized it as He Nuoxin’s voice.

Tu Haohao’s gaze remained pure as she looked into the mirror, taking a lipstick out of her makeup bag, during He Nuoxin’s speech, she applied the lipstick to color her lips with a dark mauve red! Instantly, with the change in lip color, the entire style of the makeup evolved dramatically.

"I remember." Tu Haohao coldly uttered these two words.

"Tu Haohao, you’re bound to lose, ha ha ha..." After He Nuoxin said this, she hung up the call!

In contrast, Tu Haohao placed her phone silently on the vanity.

The wedding dress was the style she had always wanted, yet because she was thinner than when it was custom-fitted, it felt a bit loose on her.

No one knew how much time passed before another figure appeared in the mirror.

Their gazes intermingled in the mirror until finally, it was Tu Haohao who turned away first.

"Meeting the groom before the wedding doesn’t bode well." She spoke softly, standing up and walking slowly toward Li Chengze.

She walked slowly, and the distance to Li Chengze felt like a lifetime.

Li Chengze didn’t speak; he only looked down at her.

Today, Tu Haohao was exceptionally beautiful, so much so that... Li Chengze had trouble recognizing her.

Her lip color, a trending dark mauve, was somewhat sensual but mixed with a mysterious despair that made Li Chengze’s chest tighten.

He instinctively reached out to grasp Tu Haohao’s wrist, pulling her close.

Her lips unintentionally brushed against his suit, though thankfully it was a stiff black, so it wasn’t visible.

"I won’t see her again." Even Li Chengze wasn’t sure why he would say such a thing, nor did he know...

Why upon seeing Tu Haohao, his heart felt gripped by an invisible hand.

Tu Haohao smiled silently, reaching out to tug Li Chengze’s tie.

Due to her actions, Li Chengze involuntarily bent down, his face close to hers.

"Is that so." In the moment he was distracted by her fair neck, he suddenly heard Tu Haohao’s unperturbed voice sounding in his ear.

It wasn’t even a question; it seemed more casual.

Li Chengze, you say you’ll never see her again, but, unfortunately...

Tu Haohao lightly caressed Li Chengze’s tie, her ivory fingers slender and her crystal red nails neatly manicured.

Unfortunately, I don’t believe you.

But this, Tu Haohao didn’t voice to Li Chengze.

Suddenly, voices of delight from the makeup artists outside caught their ears, as if it was snowing.

Simultaneously, Tu Haohao and Li Chengze turned to look out the floor-to-ceiling window of the room, seeing the white snow quietly beginning to fall.

This was the first winter snow J City had seen since winter started!

"It’s snowing." Tu Haohao chuckled softly, while Li Chengze, after taking a glance, refocused back on Tu Haohao’s face.