Chapter 245: Chapter 178: Farewell to the Past
She would rather believe that Shen Hanxiu and Ye Jiayao had hidden the child together than to accept that the child had met an unfortunate fate…
Ye Jiayao shifted her position before continuing to speak: “It’s just that Ah Shu was careless. The person who was delivering the child developed ill intentions along the way and sold the child off. By the time Ah Shu found the child’s whereabouts, the child was already dead.”
Su Nian didn’t want to hear such words, nor did she want to face such a reality. She always felt that the child was alive and well somewhere unknown to her: “What crazy talk are you spewing?!”
Ye Jiayao then stood up, “Believe it or not, I’ve told you everything.” After smiled, she leaned in close to Su Nian’s ear, “Oh right, you better go back and check if those two children are still alright. After all… they also carry Ah Shu’s blood.”
Su Nian’s pupils dilated, and she immediately turned and ran back, her first instinct telling her that this was a ruse orchestrated by Ye Jiayao and Shen Hanxiu to draw the tiger away from the mountain…
In her rush to get home, Su Nian didn’t watch where she was going. Just as she pushed open the glass door, she ran into a hot wall of flesh and upon looking up at the man’s face, her expression became even more panicked, and she forgot to confront the man and quickly squeezed past him into the elevator.
Ye Jiayao saw the man standing outside the door and was momentarily stunned, then walked over with a coy and shy demeanor, timidly calling out, “Ah Shu…”
Shen Hanxiu was anything but tender, as he grabbed her by the throat and threw her against a wall: “Do you think Tang Shaosheng can protect you?”
With a heartache, Ye Jiayao looked at Shen Hanxiu but smiled, her voice strained as she forced the words from her throat: “In the worst case… I’ll just die…”
Her expression was one of desperate melancholy mixed with a trace of humility.
She was certain that he had heard everything she had just said to Su Nian; within those words, his professed love for her was false, but her love for him was true, and there was not a single falsehood in the grievances she had suffered for his sake.
Knowing all this and still being able to strangle her with such ruthlessness, what more could she hope or expect for?
Shen Hanxiu rarely laid hands on anyone, especially women, with whom he was even more gentlemanly. However, the thought that this woman was the instigator who made it difficult for him and Su Nian to reconcile, he truly felt like killing her!
Worried about the woman who was currently not in her right mind and might end up in trouble, Shen Hanxiu pushed Ye Jiayao away and turned to leave.
Behind him, after coughing fits, a voice followed: “Other than loving you, I don’t know why else I should live. Now that I no longer even have the right to love you, I won’t let you and Su Zhen be happy…”
However, Shen Hanxiu had already walked far away and did not hear this remark.
Arriving at the parking lot, Su Nian was nowhere to be seen, and Shen Hanxiu drove away at high speed.
Without hesitation, he headed straight home, and soon a white car appeared in his sight.
The car was speeding, likely at the fastest pace she could endure. He knew her driving skills well; at this moment, she was no longer rational, only thinking of going home to see if Su Zhen was still there. If a car suddenly darted out at any intersection… he dared not think further.
He floored the accelerator, the sports car emitting a low roar, finally catching up to the white Audi side by side.
Instead of slowing down, the speed increased, and after overtaking the Audi by a good distance, the sports car stopped on the roadside. The man got out of the car and stood in front of the Audi.
He dared not use his car to block her, for fear of hurting her.
Seeing the sudden appearance of a person in front of the car, Su Nian was shocked, then hurriedly stepped on the accelerator, bowing her head and closing her eyes, not daring to look ahead.
A huge braking noise shattered the quiet of the night.
Shen Hanxiu was relieved that after hearing Ye Jiayao’s words, she hadn’t hated him enough to drive over him with the accelerator pressed down.
But he knew how helpless she felt at the moment.
He walked around the front of the car, opened the door, and pulled out the woman in the driver’s seat, who was still in shock and covering her face in panic, holding her tightly in the cold winter night…
The car lights were still flashing, casting an exceedingly long shadow of the two embracing figures.
She didn’t move, just let him hold her, like a soulless doll. The familiar scent of him that filled her embrace threw her blank mind into disarray.
So it turned out to be just like she had thought, a conspiracy from the beginning, and she had fallen for him without any suspicion…
Hot tears cooled by the night wind carried disappointment and heartache…
“Is this the reason why you’ve been avoiding me?” His tone held helplessness and heartache.
He didn’t blame her, nor could he. Under the circumstances, he could understand her actions and sympathize with her predicament. In fact, the one who had been struggling internally all along was her.