CHAPTER 277: CHAPTER 263: BIRTH DATE AND TIME

Li Yanan still didn’t speak, just reached out to play with her small earlobe, then his gaze passed over her shoulder and landed on the bedside table.

There, lay the amulet that Lin Zhenxin had taken off before her bath.

Back in Vietnam, Zhi Hai had given it to her, claiming it could ward off disasters.

Originally, Lin Zhenxin didn’t believe in such things, but Li Yanan stubbornly insisted she wear it.

As Lin Zhenxin was thinking, Li Yanan had already reached out, grabbed the thin red string, and put it back around her neck.

"Keep it on, don’t take it off," he said.

Lin Zhenxin, however, reserved her opinion.

"What’s wrong?" It wasn’t until Li Yanan tucked the amulet into her chest that he looked up and met her gaze.

"I can’t quite say..."

Lin Zhenxin mumbled, a thought had flashed through her mind but disappeared quickly, and when she was about to speak, something seemed missing.

Li Yanan smiled, reached out, and pulled her onto the bed.

That DV, he had already found someone to set up the charging equipment, believing there would be news shortly.

Perhaps because it was too comfortable, after a while, Lin Zhenxin began to feel drowsy.

It didn’t take long for her to fall asleep.

Li Yanan listened to her even breathing, and silently kissed the top of her head...

Lin Zhenxin had a chaotic dream.

No matter how she ran or tried to escape, those two witchcraft dolls followed her everywhere, their eyes blood-red as if they were alive.

The sound of laughter echoed around, leaving Lin Zhenxin no place to hide.

"Zhenxin..." Suddenly, Lin Zhenxin felt a violent shake.

Li Yanan was also somewhat sleepy, but Lin Zhenxin hadn’t been asleep for long before she started to talk in her sleep, breaking out in a cold sweat on her forehead.

Feeling something was wrong, Li Yanan reached out to wake her up.

"Zhenxin... wake up..."

Lin Zhenxin suddenly opened her eyes.

It was like returning to reality from a nightmare, her pupils slightly dilated, and after some time, she finally calmed down a bit.

"I know what’s wrong!"

Perhaps Li Yanan hadn’t expected Lin Zhenxin’s first words upon waking to be this.

"It’s that doll..." Lin Zhenxin instinctively held Li Yanan’s hand.

Her pulse was racing.

"If mother really died, why would Li Yingying go out of her way to place a doll under your bed?"

Li Yanan’s actions came to a sudden halt!

"All these years, your investigations have always been based on the premise that mother was dead, but you’ve found nothing! Yet..."

Lin Zhenxin reached up and clung to his firm arm.

"But what if mother isn’t dead? I remember you told me when they fished her out from under the bridge, a day and a night had passed, and her appearance was beyond recognition..."

Lin Zhenxin still remembered Li Yanan’s original words.

— A swollen, waterlogged blue-white face.

In reality, Lin Zhenxin had planted the seed of doubt in her heart when she first saw those two dolls.

Witchcraft has always been used on the living, hasn’t it?

Li Yanan was instantly wide awake!

His eyes suddenly turned sharp...

United States, New York.

In a garden-style villa, Susan He looked around expressionlessly.

This was originally bought for He Nuoxin to recover in, with several caregivers specially hired just in case.

But yesterday, the caregiver called Bainian, saying He Nuoxin had run away again!

And this time, her escape plan was very successful.

He Bainian had pulled up the entry and exit records and confirmed that He Nuoxin had gotten on a flight to City J.

She still wasn’t giving up!

— Ms. He, you jest, we’re not one family, so how can we be in one house?

— Do you hate to see me happy that much?

— No matter what happened to you after you left, who bore resentment against you, who showed you kindness, these were never my burdens to bear!

— You think you can offer me a better life? You think you can make it up to me? You think you can control my life...

— Your so-called compensation is just for your own peace of mind!

Lin Zhenxin’s voice kept echoing in her ears, making Susan He instinctively close her eyes.

Lin Zhenxin...

Perhaps she never imagined that the name she picked so joyfully at the beginning...

Years later, would become like a thorn deeply embedded in her heart!

It has already been...

Seven months...

Zhenxin, she’s getting closer and closer to her due date...

In a high-end club in City J.

Tu Wanzi was the first to enter the private room, and in less than half an hour, a long-haired woman wearing a baseball cap followed her inside.

The waiter closed the door from the outside.

And the woman who originally wore the baseball cap finally reached out and took it off.

It was none other than He Nuoxin, who had disappeared for seven months!

Tu Wanzi suddenly tightened her grip on the teacup in front of her, struggling to resist the impulse to throw the tea in her face.

Seven months ago, the well-prepared wedding, He Nuoxin was one of the culprits too!

He Nuoxin was still as beautiful as ever, her milky white skin translucent and her lips red with a gentle smile.

The amber beads on her wrist were no longer worn, revealing the scars underneath.

"Lady Tu, don’t look at me with such hatred!" He Nuoxin laughed, her soft voice as if she were truly innocent.

"You can’t entirely blame me for what happened to your daughter!"

"Whatever grudges you have with my aunt, I can’t control, but I was used as a pawn."

Tu Wanzi’s brow twitched, her expression turning completely dark.

"At present, we do have a common goal... don’t we?"

He Nuoxin pursed her lips, smiling elegantly, but Tu Wanzi hadn’t forgotten the monstrous lie she told seven months ago, and the press conference held by T.N.C Group that truly embarrassed He Nuoxin and the entire He family.

"I’ll still ask, how can you be so sure I will team up with you?"

Tu Wanzi’s cold eyes stared at He Nuoxin as she laughed.

"I heard, Tu Haohao had part of her liver removed, and her womb extracted, what else?"

He Nuoxin spoke with a faint smile, her expression always giving people chills.

"Why is it that Lin Zhenxin is living so well now?"

He Nuoxin spoke with malice in her eyes.

She could hardly believe that Lin Zhenxin was actually her aunt’s biological daughter, no wonder her aunt was always lukewarm towards her!

And He Nuoxin only overheard this by accident during a phone call between He Bainian and her aunt!

How could Lin Zhenxin be her aunt’s daughter?

How could she be her aunt’s daughter?

She’s already taken everything from me!

She took Brother Yanan from me!

And now, she even wants to take my aunt away?

"There’s something I think I must tell Lady Tu..." He Nuoxin’s voice was charmingly melodic, even her expression was too.

"What?" Tu Wanzi’s heart, already twisted, became even more contorted upon hearing He Nuoxin’s previous words.

"The reason I approached Li Chengze back then... was on my aunt’s orders!"

Having said that, He Nuoxin put the baseball cap back on and stood up, a smile playing on her lips like an entrancing poppy.

Tu Wanzi’s facial features instantly twisted...

Li Chengze was currently working his part-time job at a convenience store.

He had swapped shifts with a colleague; after finishing a night shift, he began the day shift.

Thankfully, he had a day off from his marketing job, otherwise, he’d have no strength or energy to endure another five or six hours.

Bracing himself, Li Chengze was placing the newly arrived stock on the shelves.

The bruise around his right eye didn’t hinder his actions.

But after working nearly twenty hours straight, a canned good slipped from his hand, and it rolled away!

Perhaps due to exhaustion, it took Li Chengze a while to react.

He followed the direction of the rolling can.

Until the can stopped in front of a pair of high heels encrusted with jewels.

"Welcome..." The words halted abruptly when he saw the face under the baseball cap...

The alley outside the convenience store.

Li Chengze lit a cigarette, standing against the wall.

He Nuoxin smiled flippantly, just watching Li Chengze.

They hadn’t seen each other for seven months, but upon meeting again, He Nuoxin noticed a change in Li Chengze.

He seemed... more mature than before!

In the past, when with him, He Nuoxin always felt Li Chengze had an immature air, so unlike Li Yanan.

But now...

He Nuoxin’s gaze roamed over Li Chengze.

Due to his part-time work, Li Chengze’s physique had become more robust, yet he was leaner than before.

Unable to resist recalling their past days together, He Nuoxin felt something teasing at her heart.

"Resorting to this, are you content?"

He Nuoxin slowly approached, her soft fragrance seeming to want to embrace him.

But before she could get close, Li Chengze flicked his cigarette, and the butt landed on He Nuoxin.

Wearing summer clothes, He Nuoxin was caught off-guard and stumbled back, nearly falling.

"You..." She looked up sharply, furious with Li Chengze.

Her voice cut off upon seeing the look in Li Chengze’s eyes.

"Ha, do you blame me?" With just one look, any anger dissipated, and He Nuoxin chuckled lightly twice.

"Yesterday, I went to the hospital to see Tu Haohao, she..."

Before He Nuoxin could finish, she was violently pinned against the wall with unrelenting force.

Li Chengze did not hold back his strength, and He Nuoxin felt as if her organs were being squeezed out, unable to suppress a cry of pain.

But it was through this close contact that she caught his scent.

There was an inexplicable allure to it.

"Don’t harass her!" This was the first time today Li Chengze revealed his true emotions to He Nuoxin.

His lean, melancholic eyes were overshadowed by an obsessive and frenzied wrath, as if he were a different person.

He dared to truly care for Tu Haohao?

To He Nuoxin, this seemed outrageously funny!