CHAPTER 289: CHAPTER 272 THE FIVE-YEAR AGREEMENT 2

Just as everyone hadn’t reacted yet, the Swiss Army knife that Li Yanan carried unfolded like that, his hand raised and the knife fell...

"Uh...cough cough cough..."

Xun Chen timely patted He Nuoxin’s back vigorously, something from her mouth was just spat onto the floor.

Along with the gushing blood, it was all spat out.

When Assistant He Hu Po clearly saw what He Nuoxin spat out, her face turned deathly pale!

She couldn’t utter a single word!

It was actually...

That thing was actually...

Actually, half of He Nuoxin’s tongue!

With a bang, the Swiss Army knife stained with He Nuoxin’s blood was forcefully stabbed into the floor by Li Yanan.

His sinister gaze fell on Assistant He.

"Remember what you said today."

After a flurry of commotion, He Nuoxin’s wound finally stopped bleeding.

After sending away the private doctor, Hu Po returned to stand beside Assistant He, but her face was still pale as paper.

"That Li Yanan, his actions are too ruthless, Madam...you..."

Every time Hu Po recalled the scene of Li Yanan’s hand moving with the knife, her heart still raced with fear.

Assistant He also pressed her lips together tightly.

"Keep an eye on her."

The ’her’ naturally referred to He Nuoxin.

Hu Po didn’t speak but nodded to Assistant He.

"Later, send someone to tell him the location of Elliott’s mother’s remains and the infant’s incubator."

"Alright, I understand."

The rain outside was still pouring.

Tu Wanzi hadn’t closed her eyes for two days, her nerves continuously tense.

If she was fearful initially, then after these two days, she only wished Tu Xinya would give her a quick end!

She would rather have a swift death than endure this humiliation any longer!

Without food or water, stomach growling, even relieving herself where she was, the weather hot, and the basement foul and unbearable.

Yet even so, Tu Wanzi still didn’t think she was wrong in treating Tu Xinya that way initially.

She was jealous of her, and she hated her!

From a very young age, she knew she had no rights to the Tu Family inheritance, no matter how good her father was to her, no matter how exceptional she was!

In contrast, Tu Xinya, besides the inheritance rights, had billions left by her mother to inherit as well!

Why was Tu Xinya fawned upon by others since she was young?

And she was merely a laughing stock at the high society’s gatherings?

Why are people categorized into different classes at birth? Why?

No one could provide Tu Wanzi an answer to this question, yet the seed of jealousy and resentment in her heart continued to grow crazily.

Until...

Creaking noises sounded nearby as the door leading to the basement opened from above.

"Bring her out." It was a familiar voice, void of emotion.

Tu Wanzi sneered inwardly, so they were going to release her?

But quickly, reality dealt her a harsh slap!

As Tu Wanzi was brought up, she immediately saw an urn.

The rain outside was torrential, Tu Xinya’s bodyguard stood straight outside with a large umbrella.

Assistant He’s single hand rested on the urn, seemingly just dug out from the ground, with mud still on the floor.

"Tu Wanzi." Assistant He seemed in good spirits, gazing at the rain outside, back turned without looking back.

"Weren’t you in love with him? To death and beyond? Now, I brought him here."

As Assistant He’s voice landed, Tu Wanzi’s entire body’s blood solidified. She had thought she wouldn’t be afraid anymore, but hearing Tu Xinya’s words made her terrified!

"You...dug him up?"

Yet the latter half of the sentence never came out of Tu Wanzi’s mouth.

"Rest assured, I’ve reached an agreement with Li Yanan, the Tu Family won’t be touched for now."

As Assistant He spoke, she turned around, her eyes showing a complex emotion.

"Do you want to go home?" Assistant He asked softly.

Whether it was because of those eyes, Tu Wanzi nodded.

"Alright, I’ll let you go home." She never thought Assistant He would finally relent.

"Come over here." The next second, Assistant He motioned, summoning a bodyguard.

"Cut her mouth open and feed her these things bit by bit. Once she finishes, send her back to the Tu Family."

As the words fell, muffled sounds came from Tu Wanzi’s throat, like struggling.

Assistant He smiled and pinched Tu Wanzi’s jaw, forcing her to raise her head and look at her.

"Don’t worry, I promised to let you go home and I won’t go back on my word, but you have to deliver a message for me to Elder Tu..."

The fingers seemed to want to dig deeply into Tu Wanzi’s flesh.

"Tu Xinya is dead, but I, Assistant He...have returned!"

Xun Chen drove the car slowly.

After leaving the hotel, Li Yanan seemed like a soulless shell.

"Why did you promise?" Li Yanan was already thirty-two, and if it was truly as Assistant He said, in five years, he would be thirty-seven.

How many five years are there in life?

"Zhi Hai once said, as long as I could leave her, none of this would have happened."

Not knowing how long it passed, Xun Chen finally heard Li Yanan’s voice.

"Damn it, how can you trust the words of that old bald donkey!" Xun Chen was immediately furious, rarely swearing.

Li Yanan then fell silent again, but soon, his phone rang.

His mother’s remains, Assistant He would send someone to deliver them, and as for his and Zhenxin’s child...

"Go to the hospital."

Xun Chen glanced at the address and stepped hard on the accelerator...

When Li Yanan saw the child for the first time, he was still lying in the incubator.

Due to being premature, when born, he was tiny and thin, directly sent into the incubator.

Gazing through the incubator, Li Yanan’s eyes immediately filled with pain.

The child hadn’t yet opened his eyes, a tiny lump, like a glutinous rice dumpling.

Li Yanan wanted to reach out, but upon seeing the blood on his hands, he paused.

Repeatedly wiping his hands on his shirt.

Until he felt clean, then he placed his hand on the incubator.

Although it was past visiting hours, Li Yanan forcefully pushed his way in despite the nurse’s obstruction.

This was his and Zhenxin’s child...

"I am daddy." Li Yanan said.

The child in the incubator slept soundly, entirely unaware of the happenings outside.

"From now on, let’s call you Tuantuan, okay?" Tuantuan, as in reunion.

"Lin Tuantuan."

Having spent half his life lonely and without support, only Zhenxin was his sunshine, so let the baby take her surname.

"When mom comes back, we’ll let her give you a formal name."

Li Yanan softly spoke, then rested his forehead on the incubator.

None saw, a tear slowly rolled down his resolute cheek.

In the next moment, the severe dizziness and headache finally overpowered him, collapsing beside the incubator...

Li Chengze knocked on the hospital room door, then pushed it open.

His job at the convenience store, due to the previous accident, had been terminated by the manager, and he was still job hunting these past couple of days.

Carrying a bag of fruit, his rain-soaked face bore a smile.

It was the happiest moment of his life.

"Haohao, today I bought you..." Li Chengze’s voice abruptly stopped.

Tu Haohao’s frail body turned slowly toward his voice, looking at him with eyes filled with a faint sense of distance and indifference.

In an instant, Li Chengze felt as if all the blood in his body had frozen.

She looked at him just like on that wedding day.

"Haohao, you...remembered?" He tentatively asked, heart-wrenching.

"No." Tu Haohao softly responded, yet threw the newspaper onto the coffee table.

It was a newspaper from seven months ago, brought to her by someone unknown.

"Is what’s written in the newspaper true?" She asked.

"You ran away from the wedding to another woman’s side and left me alone?"

Tu Haohao’s voice was calm, but that calmness pierced Li Chengze’s heart.

"It’s true." Though he had wished repeatedly for it to be a bad dream, though he hoped the heavens would give him a chance to do it over again.

But he couldn’t, he couldn’t rewind time.

Tu Haohao was silent, her gaze settled on the rain outside the window.

"I think, you probably don’t like me." When Tu Haohao spoke again, Li Chengze’s heart was suddenly gripped tight.

She slowly walked to the laptop, which she had borrowed from the nurse.

On it, news about Li Chengze was everywhere.

Even without approaching, he could imagine the overwhelming negative comments about his past self.

"But why would I like someone like you?"

Tu Haohao’s clear eyes looked at him, seemingly puzzled.

"Like a spoiled child, with a bad temper, irresponsible and disrespectful..."

"Li Chengze, did I really like you? So much that I gave up everything to be with you?"

Li Chengze’s limbs were icy cold, trying to speak a few times but unable to respond.

The past self, was indeed worthless, wasn’t it?

Apart from Tu Haohao’s love, he possessed nothing else.

"But I...don’t like you now."

After some time, Li Chengze slowly walked to her, finally standing before her.

His tall figure contrasting sharply with Tu Haohao’s frail form.

He leaned slightly, resting his forehead on hers.

Tu Haohao didn’t move away, looked up at Li Chengze.

Suddenly, water dripped from above.

Tu Haohao blinked curiously, soon, water dripped into her eyes, and fell down again.

He was crying.

And she, seemed to be crying too.

Li Chengze couldn’t answer, he...really couldn’t...

Answer.

Such an unbearable self, even he despised...

She once, really recklessly, liked him...

Lin Tuantuan, because he was born prematurely, stayed in the incubator for nearly two months before Li Yanan brought him home.