Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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The whole building was still under construction, so the ground was not smooth enough, there was a layer of dust and debris of building materials on the floor, and the noise of the wheels grinding slowly sounded extremely harsh.
This room was located at the deepest part of the third floor. It was designed as a high-standard suite.
The shadow was sitting in a wheelchair, and it looked like a tall and thin man judging by his profile. He was a lifeless mass in the dim light of the room. His facial features were hidden in the shadows, and there was a hideous scar on the side of his face that couldn’t be covered.
When Yan Qing saw this person, she instinctively felt uncomfortable, feeling dizzy and nauseated.
Huo Yunshen fixed his eyes on Yan Qing’s face, comforting her, then he turned around and met the eyes piercing his back.
The wheelchair stopped and there was silence.
Huo Yunshen’s dark white sleeves were stained with blood, and the tips of his hair swept his brows and his eyes were in a mess, but he didn’t look embarrassed at all, instead he had a fierce and oppressive feeling all over his body.
He stood silently amidst the bleak reinforced concrete, which was not even clean, but still made people look up to him.
For more than three years, the great sorrow and pain and the dire straits of the Huo family had long polished a mask for him, but after the mask was taken off, he had returned to the night outside the school when he learned that Huo Linchuan had taken Qingqing away. He desperately chased after her, using a stick picked up at random, he maimed seven or eight strong men who stood in the way, and Huo Linchuan who was trying to bully her.
After a long time, the identities and circumstances of the two were quite different from those at that time.
However, the moment when the person in the wheelchair faced Huo Yunshen, the most unbearable memory was still brought up, that night, Huo Yunshen also had the same look in his eyes as he had now, crazy and reckless, cutting through flesh and bone, and stabbing him down with a stick.
The lunatic he created with his own hands smashed his hard-won successor position into a dream.
Losing his fertility was equivalent to losing the right to inherit.
He fled abroad and didn’t dare to come back, and didn’t dare to let the Huo family know about it. He still had hope in himself and secretly visited famous doctors, but no one could cure him.
Just then the Yun family’s property was hit hard and needed help urgently, but because of the in-law relationship between the Yun family and the Huo family, outsiders didn’t have the courage to lend a hand. As the head of the family, Yun Chengze came to the Huo family for help.
At that time, his physical disability had not been known to his family, and he was still the upright heir of the Huo family. When he heard that Yun Chengze had come to beg for help, he immediately decided to grant him the favour.
He only put one condition in front of Yun Chengze, sending his daughter Yun Qing to him.
Huo Yunshen was not afraid of death, hiding her and occupying her was the most ruthless revenge he could take on Huo Yunshen.
Yun Chengze agreed without hesitation, and personally took someone to tie Yun Qing and deliver her to the door of his house. Before he boarded the private jet and set off, he was suspiciously worried that Yun Chengze would change his mind midway, so he sent someone to stop him before taking off and let him go alone to sign the Huo Corporation’s investment contract, and then sent the unconscious Yun Qing to another route to bring her to him.
He really liked her, even though he was disabled, he didn’t put this hatred on her too much.
She was just a little girl in college, and the Yun family treated her badly, so did she have no extravagant hopes for life? How could she possibly be satisfied with that rubbish, living in a rented house after getting in touch with the real world? And even if he couldn’t inherit the Huo family, he could still make her rich and prosperous with the wealth he had as one of the Huo family’s descendants.
As long as she changed her mind, stayed with him, and completely trampled Huo Yunshen into hell, he could slowly cultivate their relationship without hurting her.
But when Yun Qing woke up, what she gave him was a resolute resistance beyond instinct.
He pushed her down the stairs in a rage, and she fell on her head, bleeding all over the floor. He thought she was dead, but after the rescue, the doctor told him that she might have memory confusion due to severe injuries.
Thoughts appeared at that moment, memory confusion? Wouldn’t it be better if he could swap the Huo Yunshen in her impression with himself, make her hate Huo Yunshen deeply, and fall in love with him instead, so that she wouldn’t mind his incompleteness?
He paid a lot of money to hire a German doctor to implement it. He thought it would be easy, but he never imagined that Yun Qing who seemed weak, but her willpower was so strong that it was far beyond ordinary people. Especially for Huo Yunshen, no matter how much medicine he used on her, how much he ravaged her nerves, he couldn’t complete the swap.
She refused to replace Huo Yunshen with someone else.
In the end, the German doctor said: “Swapping is impossible, wash away the memory, or let her die.”
He gritted his teeth: “Wash it clean, and then transplant a new one, let her forget the past and who she is, can you do it!”
“Yes.”
“Also,” he said angrily, “just in case, add two restrictions.”
After a whole month of repeated trials and torture, when Yun Qing was about to be unable to bear the instruments, she finally became another person.
A brand new person who had lived in Canada since the age of 6 and never knew who Huo Yunshen was.
But it was also within this month that the news of his loss of male ability was accidentally leaked by a doctor who had treated him, and it reached the ears of the old man of the Huo family, and he was arrested and brought back to the country.
Before leaving, he hid Yun Qing and arranged for her the family members and social relationships that she now remembered. He thought that when he came back, he would vent his love and hatred.
But what was unexpected was that he was trapped for more than half a year after returning to China, and he was unable to leave. The grandfather’s favour he snatched from Huo Yunshen was lost overnight. And he was turned into a claustrophobic cripple.
He didn’t want all that he did to be in vain, so he buried another thread. When he was in good health, he hired a few starlets, and he picked the most timid He Xiangjin, and anonymously threatened him to send medicine to Yun Qing every year for reinforcement.
Even if one day his entire army was wiped out, there would still be He Xiangjin who would make Yun Qing forget him for the rest of her life.
In the next half a year, Huo Yunshen had been reborn and seized the power of the Huo family step by step. The old man passed away in the hospital, and those who hurt Huo Yunshen in the Huo family did not end well. He took advantage of the chaotic period and fled abroad.
He knew that he couldn’t escape, that he was going to die, and the only thing to be happy about was that the person Huo Yunshen couldn’t find would never come back.
When Huo Yunshen came to look for him, he was in a happy mood.
So what if he died, but Huo Yunshen would never know until he died. The woman he was looking for with all his heart was standing on a piece of land with him, and it was only a ten-minute drive from the cliff where they were.
He drove down the cliff, fell out of the skylight halfway, and grabbed onto the cliff.
He survived the explosion, but lost his legs and was paralyzed for three years before he could barely get out of bed.
The Huo family had already shuffled the cards, and the dust had settled. He was originally hopeless, and his life was no better than death. However, after he was able to move, he was unwilling to accept this, so he let Yun Qing come back to the country to trigger the two prohibitions, leaving Huo Yunshen with nothing, and to make him fall into purgatory, so that he could no longer stand up.
He thought that after such a long time, after enjoying enough of Huo Yunshen’s collapses and out of control behavior time and time again, he would have a chance to win today’s meeting and make Huo Yunshen a lost dog.
However, what was gained was lost again.
Huo Yunshen lied to him and everyone!
But it didn’t matter, he still had the biggest bargaining chip in his hand, didn’t Huo Yunshen treat Yun Qing as his life? He could see Huo Yunshen die with his own eyes, and he could also make Yun Qing, who had fallen in love with Huo Yunshen again, feel so much pain!
“Huo Yunshen, do you think you won?”
Yan Qing heard the man’s hoarse voice, and immediately recognized that it was the abnormal voice from before! He had planted the bomb, and there was a conspiracy behind him!
She sobbed urgently, hoping to drive Huo Yunshen away.
Huo Yunshen didn’t look back, turned his face slightly, and coaxed in a low voice: “Qingqing, don’t be afraid.”
In that one sentence, there was no panic in the tone, as if hitting Huo Linchuan in the face, years of hatred suddenly broke out, igniting his calmness that was on the verge of limit, he patted the armrest of the wheelchair heavily: “Think you can rest easy after cleaning up this group of trash, destroying the two old guys, and staying in Huo family’s heir’s position! Neither you nor her can get out today!”
Huo Yunshen’s arms were faintly tensed.
He was right.
Huo Linchuan didn’t intend to let Qingqing live either.
When she had regained her memory, he would kill her after seeing enough of her pain. It couldn’t be a temporary intention. He chose this place, it must have been arranged long ago.
What was it.
Set fire? Dynamite?
The details suddenly flashed through his mind, and Qingqing seemed to have been anxiously pointing him towards the electronic screen on the ground that looked like a clock.
Countdown.
It was dynamite.
Huo Yunshen was sure right away, but he couldn’t see the front of the electronic screen, so he didn’t know how much time was left, it wouldn’t be too long after all, he couldn’t afford to waste any more time.
He couldn’t notify the outside world, and couldn’t guarantee whether his own people could rescue Qingqing in time.
Everything had changed, so he must not die before the explosion.
He wanted to protect her.
Huo Linchuan should have brought a gun, he must get rid of it first, and more importantly, he had to make sure of one thing.
Because of the fight and the reversal of victory and defeat, this loss of time was beyond Huo Linchuan’s expectation, and every minute and every second was ringing a death knell. He didn’t want to die yet, he had to finish the last thing and get out quickly.
Between breaths, Huo Yunshen suddenly walked towards him, Huo Linchuan suddenly raised the thing he had been holding tightly, and pointed it at the center of Huo Yunshen’s eyebrows.
The muzzle of the black gun.
“You want her to recover her memory?” Huo Linchuan sneered gruffly, “Do you know what the key is?”
The distance between them was closing rapidly, Huo Linchuan hooked his finger on the trigger, and when it seemed that he was about to press it, he moved the muzzle of the gun unexpectedly, turning to Yan Qing in the distance.
He got his wish and saw Huo Yunshen’s face turn as white as paper.
“The key is you, brother.”
Huo Linchuan laughed, and specially gave Huo Yunshen a few seconds to react, and when he rushed to block with his body, he pulled the trigger.
The bullet should have hit Huo Yunshen’s heart, and then he could have admired his younger brother kneeling on the ground, dying in front of him in order to protect Yun Qing, listening to her desperate weeping.
How good, how enjoyable.
However, there was a deviation in the picture he expected. Huo Yunshen seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and he was a little bit wrong, and the bullet actually shot into his shoulder.
The impact and pain that normal people couldn’t bear at all seemed to him as if it didn’t exist.
Huo Yunshen didn’t even slow down, and continued to walk towards Huo Linchuan.
The white shirt above his left chest was completely stained with blood, and he looked like a ghost seeking his life.
Huo Linchuan was shocked, and stared at him getting closer and closer. The person who crippled him was rushing over like crazy. His hands couldn’t help shaking, and he shot another shot at Huo Yunshen’s leg.
Not accurate enough, but it made him bleed profusely.
Even so, Huo Yunshen only staggered, but quickened his pace.
Huo Linchuan only felt an overwhelming sense of intense oppression rushing forward, his whole body’s blood froze, and overwhelming fear suddenly rushed to the top of his head. Compared with the previous near-death experience, it was at this moment that he truly felt despair.
All his plans for Huo Yunshen seemed to be failing.
Three years, or even longer, moving forward to the year when Huo Yunshen’s mother jumped off the building and died, his heart, which felt that he had not been valued by his grandfather for a long time, was twisted, and he pushed his mentally ill younger brother into the abyss of eternal doom, snatching everything away from him.
He had the family’s attention, the inherited throne, and a woman who was not his.
But today, these things that he thought he could regain, seemed to be wiped out in an instant.
Huo Linchuan realized very clearly that he had fallen into Huo Yunshen’s trap.
Huo Yunshen was the one who laid the net!
He reached out with a bloody hand.
Huo Linchuan was in a state of chaos, desperately turning his wheelchair to escape to the only door in the whole house.
The countdown was almost over!
But the moment he turned the wheel, the anti-theft door that was originally open was pushed from the outside in an instant, and Huang Feng’s face flashed through the crack of the door.
After Jiang Ying and the six bodyguards fell to the ground, Huang Feng, who had lost the ability to resist, was given a break to breathe. After learning that the group’s secret operation was exposed and that Huo Linchuan had no chance of winning, he decisively chose to take the opportunity to escape. Trembling, he found the spare key that was kept on him.
Huo Linchuan yelled angrily: “Huang Feng! Open the door!”
Not only was there no sound of opening the door, but the creaking sound of locking it with a key sounded.
Locked with a key, it would not be able to be opened from outside.
Huo Linchuan broke down and shouted: “What are you doing!”
Huang Feng sneered through the door: “Huo Linchuan, you, a cripple, was just a pawn to be used. Why are you making a fuss, I thought you could really bring down Huo Yunshen, but I didn’t expect to be implicated by you!”
“As for Mr. Huo,” he was delighted, “If you’re dead, and if Jiang Ying is held responsible for the group’s affairs, maybe I won’t have to be held accountable. I can go back to the Huo family and sit on my seat firmly!”
Huang Feng also knew that time was running out, so he threw away the key and rushed down the stairs.
There was no more sound from outside, and Huo Linchuan’s expression was completely out of control. Before he could vent his anger, his hair was grabbed by cold five fingers, and pulled back violently. Huo Linchuan fell off the wheelchair and struggled on the ground. Huo Yunshen turned his head and pinched his sunken face. Huo Yunshen’s voice was like a knife: “You took her away from me.”
With great force, Huo Linchuan was pinched until his teeth loosened and blood oozed out, and his mouth was full of a fishy smell.
“You hurt her, you hit her.”
The bright red fist landed on Huo Linchuan’s lower abdomen, and he fell down with a low cry.
“You gave her medicine to change her memory.”
Huo Yunshen’s shoes also dripped dark red, and he seemed to be completely numb as he crushed Huo Linchuan’s useless leg.
Every word was like a murderous sharp knife, cutting and grinding Huo Linchuan’s will.
Huo Yunshen was crazy!
He had always been a perverted lunatic!
But when these tortures intensified and fell on him, Huo Linchuan was completely defeated by the double abuse, both physically and mentally. He tried his best to pick up a dagger left by the bodyguard and crawl to Yan Qing’s side.
Whether it was a knife or a gun, he wanted Huo Yunshen to die for Yun Qing, in front of her!
However, the moment he touched the dagger, Huo Yunshen had already lifted him up.
The countdown was running fast.
Roof lights dazzled him into turning dizzy.
Huo Linchuan stared at the face in front of him that he had hated since he was a child, and made a sound of fear where he couldn’t breathe.
However, Huo Yunshen smiled, and the tails of his narrow and long eyes drew out a gentle arc, and the scarlet in his pupils seemed to melt away, soaking his whole body into a frenzied and gloomy madness.
He opened his mouth and asked in a low voice: “The key to her recovery is that I protect her and die in front of her, right?”
Huo Linchuan suddenly shuddered.
Huo Yunshen did it on purpose, forcing him to act! And he did give up the gun that was out of reach in a panic and chose the dagger.
It was like telling Huo Yunshen that it didn’t matter what tool or method was, and what the real point was.
Huo Linchuan was completely disfigured, with blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, and he collapsed into the dust and smiled: “Do you know if it’s useful? The explosives are going to blow up in three minutes, and no one can get out when the door is locked! You have no chance, you will die! You know!”
“So what!”
Three minutes.
Huo Yunshen kicked Huo Linchuan away without delay.
Huo Linchuan refused to give up, he dragged his stump and desperately crawled towards the door, beating on the closed door.
Yan Qing’s eyes were red and swollen, watching the number on the countdown timer change to two minutes and fifty-nine seconds, time seemed to be flowing away like running water.
In her blank memory, the person who only left an impression of him for a day, he said his nickname was Wu Yun, was now covered in dust and blood, staggering towards her.
He ws hurt.
How could a gunshot wound not hurt.
Yan Qing was suffocated from crying, her throat was so blocked that she couldn’t breathe, Huo Yunshen rushed to her, removed the cloth from her mouth, and untied the rope that bound her with trembling hands.
“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid,” his voice remained steady, “I’m here, I won’t let anything happen to Qingqing.”
Yan Qing’s voice seemed to be choked, unable to speak, she tremblingly touched his wound, but he hid from her and coaxed her: “Hey, don’t touch it, it’s dirty.”
Less than two minutes.
Huo Yunshen insisted on picking her up, and walk quickly to the window.
This building did not have floor-to-ceiling windows, the window sills were set higher, and the glass windows that could be opened were even higher at the position of his lower abdomen.
His blood continued to flow, and the color on Huo Yunshen’s lips was gone. He tried his best to stay awake, and looked down, there were shadowy people standing downstairs, surrounded by a huge air mattress with enough area.
Before entering the building, he had sent a message to Min Jing, asking him to prepare an air mattress under a window that was known to be lit, just in case, but without his further instructions, he was not allowed to take any unnecessary actions.
What he wanted to ensure was that Qingqing could recover without being interrupted or disturbed.
They obeyed their orders and waited downstairs.
No one knew there was going to be an explosion a minute later.
Forty-nine, forty-eight…
Too late.
Not just now, since it would be too late in three minutes, shouting out the window to let them come up will only increase the casualties.
But very well, he could still save Qingqing.
The window opened, and the night wind suddenly poured in.
Huo Yunshen’s shoulders and legs felt so painful that they were numb. With the last bit of strength, he lifted Yan Qing up and let her sit on the narrow window sill.
Yan Qing lost her voice, and asked him hoarsely: “Do we jump out of the window? You come up too! You jump first, or we go together! There is no time!”
The corner of his lips raised and he said, “I’m the one who will protect you.”
Her long, wet hair was half-dried and stuck to her cheek, blown by the wind, and lifted to the corner of his eyes.
His dear, his treasure.
How fortunate he was in this life to be loved by her, hold her hand, and walk out of the cage that imprisoned him.
But if he had been more decisive after saving her in that alley back then, and hadn’t pursued her after she was disappointed and let go, would she have had an easier life?
For him, she broke with the Yun family, was questioned by her classmates and friends, did not have a good life, and suffered harm.
Everyone was unhappy, because of him.
He just wanted to be happy.
Originally, she could not love him.
Thirty seconds.
Yan Qing realized his choice, grabbed his arm in horror, and led him to the window sill, but the effect of the medicine was still in her body, and her hands were weak and she couldn’t use any strength.
Huo Yunshen said softly: “Qingqing, I can’t lift my right leg anymore.”
Climbing the height of the window sill was as difficult as reaching the sky for him.
Yan Qing was taken aback for a moment, and the tears she held back burst out instantly.
He was injured in the shoulder and leg to protect her! He couldn’t come up, but he wanted to protect her to go down alone!
Yan Qing choked up between his teeth: “Then I don’t want to go!”
Huo Yunshen held her tightly, and the blood flowing down her forearm stained her clothes red.
Ten seconds.
He stared at her crying face, and said with a smile, “I haven’t formally introduced myself to you today. My name is Huo Yunshen. How about you?”
Yan Qing opened her mouth, and was about to answer.
There were water marks in the man’s dark pupils, and the moment the countdown on the electronic screen reached zero, he pushed her out of the window.
Yan Qing went to grab his hand, but the blood made his hand slippery and she slipped away.
She fell into the cold night, staring at Huo Yunshen’s face behind the glass. At the same time, there was a deafening “boom”, and the burst of red flames was like a giant beast, completely engulfing the people behind the window.
Yan Qing’s world collapsed in this second.
The wind became the sharpest weapon, piercing her body from all directions.
The gate in her mind that had been repeatedly hit and still couldn’t be opened, flew open in a blink of an eye and turned into dust, and all the trapped memories roared out like a torrent.
Yan Qing’s eyes turned red, and distant shouts and explosions could be heard in her ears.
She wanted to call out his name, but she couldn’t even hear it clearly, and it lingered vaguely on the tip of her tongue until it became a hoarse cry.
I have been lost for a long time.
During the time I was away from you, I was always thinking that there was still a secret I didn’t tell you.
The first time I met you was not in the alley in the evening.
It was the summer when I was five years old, in the green corridor of the Huo Mansion.
That day my mother said, you’re going to meet the boy to who she promised me, and I’m going to marry him and stay with him for the rest of my life, so I put on the prettiest dress and stood where you would pass by and looked at you quietly.
But there was a finger-long worm on the leaf, which fell on my shoulder. I was so scared that I cried, but you ran over to help me remove it, and pinched my face in disgust, calling me a coward.
I sobbed and asked why you bullied me.
You bent down with a smile, your eyes very bright: “This is not called bullying, I squeezed because your face looked like cotton candy.”
From that day on, I was cotton candy.
Later you turned into a dark cloud, and others said you were a lunatic who could kill, so we had to draw a clear line and never communicate with each other.
But I knew how good you were.
From the moment I got to know the world and understand your existence, I knew how good you were.
I didn’t have the ability to get rid of the control of my family until I was in middle school, and then I went to school to find you, but you had forgotten your cotton candy because of your trauma.
It doesn’t matter, I came to chase you, even if I was left out in the cold, I never gave up on you, I was teaching you how to love me.
The world is dark and bitter.
But I want you to believe that there is a person who chose you, liked you, and loved you from a long time ago.
You are not optional.
Not alone.
“I haven’t formally introduced myself to you today, my name is Huo Yunshen, how about you?”
“My name is Yun Qing, and my past and the future belong to you.”
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