CHAPTER 240: CHAPTER 227: BONDS FORM AND FADE 2

"People, ah, are always like this. The more desperately you try to hold onto something, the more it slips away; the more you want something, the harder it is to grasp."

When Tu Shaohong and Tu Wanzi arrived, they were stopped by Li Yanan and his men outside the rooftop.

Even Li Yanan did not approach, he simply allowed Lin Zhenxin to walk towards Tu Haohao.

"Haohao, be good, come down." The snow fell silently, amid the swirling snowflakes, Lin Zhenxin reached out her hand to Tu Haohao.

——No! No! Not at all!

——I never liked you, Tu Haohao!

"Sis, the happiness I thought I had in the first half of my life was all fake. The good father I thought I had, the good marriage, and my self-righteous persistence... now, I have lost, completely lost, and I accept it wholeheartedly."

Tu Haohao suddenly burst into laughter, like a child, looking at Tu Wanzi a few meters away, breaking her heart into pieces.

The snow covered her exposed body, that smiling face, even with makeup, still...

A pale blue hue spread across it.

"Haohao, you will have children, you will have your life, as long as you are still alive... you have to live first!"

Once a person dies, everything is gone!

"Don’t forget the gift I left with my sister, and... please tell my grandpa to indulge me one last time, spare the Li Family..."

Just as Lin Zhenxin was unable to react, Tu Haohao leaned back.

With arms spread, like a bird giving up on flying, she slowly closed her eyes!

"Haohao..." Lin Zhenxin screamed, her heart tearing apart.

The pearl bracelet Tu Haohao gave her on her wrist scraped against something, with a loud snap...

It broke apart.

The white pearls rolled down the rooftop one by one, pitter-pattering...

What do people think about before they die?

Tu Haohao closed her eyes, her mind racing with many images.

——You like me? You look like a pig, why would you think I’d agree?

It’s really embarrassing, so humiliating...

Suddenly, someone placed a hand on her shoulder from behind and bent down to kiss her.

The surroundings fell silent for a moment, then came the deafening cheering.

Her heart began to race, feeling dizzy and lightheaded.

She tasted the minty flavor in his mouth, clean and pure.

She couldn’t close her eyes in time, but saw him calmly kissing her with his eyes shut.

A single tear slipped from the corner of Tu Haohao’s eye, falling through the air to merge with the snow.

She remembered seeing a line in a drama once.

——People are not in pain because the world is unpredictable, but because of the mistaken belief that things can be eternal.

She... would always be his Juzi.

Yet she forgot, he was no longer the same person.

"Li Chengze, what a pity... we met, but I can’t love you."

With a loud splash, amid the guests’ screams, Tu Haohao fell from the rooftop into the hotel pool...

Li Chengze sped to He Nuoxin’s hotel, but as soon as he stepped through the revolving door...

His mind buzzed inexplicably, and his movements came to a complete halt.

——Li Chengze...

Suddenly, he heard someone calling his name from behind.

Instinctively turning around, he saw only bustling traffic, no sign of anyone.

He took a step forward.

——Li Chengze...

Unexpectedly, he heard the voice again.

The second time he turned around, Li Chengze looked behind in astonishment.

Tu Haohao, in a wedding dress, stood there, smiling lightly as she wrapped her arms around his waist.

This was impossible!

Li Chengze froze, standing in place.

"Li Chengze, goodbye!" she said.

And then slowly disappeared before his eyes.

Li Chengze’s hands remained in a hugging position, unaware of how absurd he looked to the security guard at the hotel entrance.

——Look, why does that guy look like a lunatic?

Li Chengze heard people talking about him, yet he couldn’t retract his stiff arms.

What just happened?

What did he see?

With a ding, the elevator doors slowly opened to the sides.

Li Chengze reached He Nuoxin’s door, knocking slowly...

The door opened from the inside.

The first thing that greeted his nose was a rich fragrance, followed by He Nuoxin in emerald green silk pajamas.

"You’re here?" Seeing Li Chengze, He Nuoxin tiptoed and stretched out her ivory arms around his neck.

Where was there any hint of the fear and panic from the phone?

"I knew you still couldn’t let go of me!" He Nuoxin smiled coquettishly, watching the still-distracted Li Chengze.

Li Chengze looked down at He Nuoxin, never before did he find her smile so terrifying!

"Are you... alright?" Clearly, this was the most obvious fact.

"Of course I’m fine, or do you wish something happened to me?"

He Nuoxin reached towards his chest with a bewitching grace, but this time Li Chengze fiercely pushed her hand away.

His expression was one of shock, disbelief, his mind blank.

"What are you doing! My hand is all red!" He Nuoxin complained, her wrist visibly red!

"Do you know what it meant for me to come here?"

Li Chengze had never felt so cold and regretful in his life.

He abandoned the wedding, the consequences he’d face afterwards, anyone with a brain would know!

"Are you angry? I was just joking, why are you so worked up?"

He Nuoxin leaned against the door, her exposed skin as fair as jade, her expression as innocent as could be.

——Even if I did it, so what? What? Does your heart ache?

——Shut up! Innocent? You say she’s innocent, then what about me?

In Li Chengze’s ear, Tu Haohao’s mocking voice echoed. If it wasn’t true, why would she admit it?

Why would she admit to those falsehoods?

"A joke? I ruined the wedding, I destroyed the Li Family, and you tell me it was just a joke?"

Li Chengze looked at her as if seeing He Nuoxin for the first time, was this just a joke to her?

He Nuoxin watched him with an amused look, which seemed even more terrifying to Li Chengze.

——You met with her again and again, you proposed to her, and when you were intimate with him, did you ever think of me?

"I shouldn’t have come, I really shouldn’t have come!"

Suddenly, Li Chengze’s heart felt like it was being torn apart, he didn’t dare imagine the expression on Tu Haohao’s face when he left...

"Surely she didn’t tell you anything?"

Suddenly, He Nuoxin widened her eyes slightly, laughing softly.

Li Chengze looked at her, bewildered, not knowing what she was referring to.

"I made a bet with Tu Haohao, to see who’s more important to you, me or her."

He Nuoxin casually revealed the truth, without any intention of hiding it, watching Li Chengze’s face twist in shock, her smile grew even more brilliant.

"Looks like I won."

"Why... He Nuoxin, what did I ever do to you?"

Overwhelming anger made Li Chengze want to strangle this woman.

"You did nothing to me, it’s the Li Family that wronged Brother Yannan. Even if you marry Tu Haohao, it won’t save the Li Family!"

Aunt said, as long as the wedding failed, the Li Family would be finished!

Brother Yannan could then seize the most substantial profits by taking full control of the Li Family during the Tu Family’s rage!

Brother Yannan, I did all this for you!

Li Chengze stumbled back a step, then immediately grabbed He Nuoxin by the shoulders and slammed her against the wall!

With a thud, He Nuoxin groaned, almost in tears from pain.

"Li Chengze, you’re useless, you’re trash, admit it!"

He Nuoxin lashed out in anger, her soft voice unhesitant in spitting the most hurtful words.

——You ask why I like you, honestly I don’t know.

"You have no skills, you can only rely on your family!"

——You’re proud yet insecure, you’re short-tempered yet don’t understand respect...

"Without the support of the Li Family, what are you even worth?"

——You’re like a spoiled child who won’t listen to anyone!

"Oh and, there is one thing you’re good at, that is..."

——You’re really unlikeable!

"Your skills in bed are quite good!"

——Chengze, you’re not trash, you just carry too many expectations that you can’t bear.

——But...

——I really do like you.

"Ah..." He Nuoxin’s words mixed with Tu Haohao’s, making Li Chengze let out a furious roar.

With a bang, his heavy fist brushed past He Nuoxin’s cheek, striking the hallway wall.

The force was so great, it left a crater in the wall.

Unknown how much time passed, Li Chengze’s large fist slid down, naturally hanging by his side.

Blood dripped down, soaking into the carpet.

"What a pity, Chengze, the game is over!"

He Nuoxin laughed happily, yet sending chills down one’s spine...

Outside the emergency room at the hospital.

A wedding ending in such a dramatic fashion, it had an inherently strong sense of irony.

Li Yanan took off his coat and draped it over Lin Zhenxin, who raised her head blankly, seeing it was him, she leaned into his embrace.

Now, the scene occupying Lin Zhenxin’s mind was of Tu Haohao’s body leaning back and falling from the hotel rooftop.

The scene wouldn’t leave her mind, making Lin Zhenxin tremble uncontrollably.

Tu Shaohong kept his composure while facing the media’s bombardment outside, while Tu Wanzi knelt by the emergency room door, her hair disheveled, her face pale and anguished.

No trace of her usual grace.

"She will be okay, right? At least... she didn’t land on the ground." Lin Zhenxin spoke softly.

Li Yanan remained silent, the situation wasn’t as optimistic as she hoped.

People often misunderstand, most think that falling into water from a height is better than falling on the ground.