Love Me Harder, Mr. Fu - Chapter 186

“How did you get this picture?” he asks, having no idea from where she got the picture.

“From the pen drive of yours,” she says in a bitter tone, looking with displeasure.

“But there wasn’t this picture….how?” he mumbles, asking to himself. He remembers only putting the Mo family secrets in the pen drive. So where the hell does this photo came from?

“Shocked, Tingyu Gu?” she scorns, “now answer with honesty, is Chuanli your biological brother or not?”

When Shi Lian saw the pictures, at first, she didn’t realize about the surname bit after looking the third time carefully, her eyes diverted to the nameplate, both the men were wearing. The question has been eating here since she realized this.

“Tell me!” she demands when the man remains silent. “He isn’t your real brother, right?” she scoffs, planting her ass on the seat again.

“He is!” he says, getting defensive. His forehead is damped with sweat which wasn’t earlier when she arrived and this place even has a fan settled on the ceiling. Her guess is right. He just isn’t saying the truth.

“I don’t understand why you lied to us. You hated our Mo family for killing your brother, I understand that but why to lie?” she questions.

He says nothing and stares at the picture placed on the table in front of him.

“You see, Zichen is more ruthless than the police here” she threatens him and it had his attention. He glares at her and then glances at Zichen who is standing outside the room, watching them through the glass window with his face twist into displeasure.

“You are such a fucking bitch. You only know to threaten me by your boyfriend’s name” he sneers, looking down upon her.

“Because he has the power. He can kill you with no mercy and no traces left” she retorts back.

He bares his teeth and then glares at Zichen. Zichen raises an eyebrow, giving the man a look. Although Tingyu Gu shows he isn’t scared of Zichen, deep down he is. Zichen tortured the hell out of him and if he stayed here in a condition like this, his soul will be sucked.

“Now, be a man and tell me” she demands. This time she tries to keep her tone neutral because yelling will not do any good and will result in her throat pain.

“Chuanli” he starts to her surprise, “is my stepbrother. My father married another woman after my mother died.”

She did expect the answer will be something like this but still, there are questions which aren’t been solved yet. “Why did you make him the scapegoat?” she implores, her eyebrows furrowed.

The man gulps hard and pretends to look at her with confusion. “What do you mean?”

She scoffs, “You seem to forget what you stored in the pen drive, Tingyu Gu.”

She gets up and asserts while moving from left to right. “The video in which you are discussing something with my third uncle and you mentioned Chuanli’s name. The video was dated 23 August, just two days before when my grandfather, father, and uncles planned on killing Chuanli.”

With every word she utters, it gets hard for him to breathe. He remembers storing the videos and pictures carefully and only those related to them, not his. How did he make such a reckless mistake?

“Why did you told my uncle about Chuanli’s deed? You were the one who informed my uncle and you are also the one who killed him!” she accuses him her eyes widening.

“Stoff bluffing, Shi Lian!” he barks, “do you think whatever you will think just by looking at the videos, it will be the truth?”

“It’s what’s in front of my eyes! I don’t need to bluff!” she argues.

“Whatever you said, none of it is true, you get that!” he bellows, giving her a murdering look.

“It is true” she scorns, planting her palms on the table and faces him. “Your expression tells everything. You are sweating profusely, Tingyu Gu.”

“Go! Go away! I don’t want to talk to you! Get the hell away before I start to create havoc!” he threatens her and starts to jump from his seat and as a result, the chair along with him jumped, making an annoying sound as it touched the floor.

Zichen is suddenly on alert and is only waiting for Shi Lian to press the button. He knows Shi Lian will not press it that early and also that she is stubborn. She won’t come out until her work is done. It’s something he likes about her but currently, it pisses him off.

“Go! I won’t answer any of your questions!” he yells, still making noises that are so annoying that Shi Lian had to close her ears with her palms.

Shi Lian thinks she will be able to get answers from him but looking at the current situation, it’s hard to even get one. The man is not in the right condition and he will not answer her question that easily.

Gritting her teeth in fury, she turns around and leaves the room as the man wanted.

Once she is out Zichen hurriedly goes to her and asks if he hurts her or not. “You okay? Did he hurt you?”

She sighs aggravated, “No, I am fine. I am not even half done.”

He sighs, seeing her worried. He hugs her, bringing her close to him. “Sometimes, it takes time. Be patient and don’t be worried” he assures her but Shi Lian does not want to hear that.

She pulls away and without meeting his eyes, she turns her head to look at the man through the window. He is sneering at her and that irks her to her core.

“You should go home now,” Zichen tells her, putting his arm around her shoulder.

“This is so frustrating!” she let out an annoyed yell, not caring that there are other men present other than Zichen.

He takes her out of the building and having no other option, she has to leave. Her eyebrows are press together and she feels like screaming but she can’t.

“I will come tomorrow,” she says, facing straight ahead.

Zichen frowns, “Again? No, you are not.”

She scowls, facing him. “You saw everything was safe today. No harm done! Please, Zichen, it’s important. ”

“I was thinking of handing him over to the police. That will be right” he tells her.

She gapes, shocked. “What? Why? Why are you involving the police now?”

“Because his place is in jail, not here. I don’t keep criminals for too long and he has done nothing to me. He is an enemy of your family so by that, he should go to jail.”

“No!” she objects. “My work still hasn’t finished! Just wait for another two days. After that, you can submit him to the police.”

He sighs, rubbing his forehead with his thumb and fingers. “Shi Lian—”

“Please, Zichen. For my sake? Please?” she says, acting innocent.

“Fine,” he says, his mouth twists into displeasure. “Just two days” he reminds her, giving her a look of warning.

Relief floods over her and she smiles, thanking him. He then ushers her outside the gate and to the car. Once, she is inside the car, the car starts moving and she is out of the area.

Zichen is in a big situation now. He cannot understand what to do. Keeping him here is not safe even though he is the leader here. Still, as a citizen, he is not allowed to keep a man in a condition like this.

He sighs and heads inside to sought other matters. Due to this, he hasn’t gone to the company for almost two days straight. He is glad Junjie is there so he does not needs to worry but the fact that his brother working there, makes him worried.

**

Reaching home, she finds her father in the Hall as if he was waiting for her. When he noticed her, his eyebrows immediately furrow. She walks in and tries to avoid eye contact with him. But Mo Zheng Yuan isn’t going to let her go that easily.

“Where were you?” he interrogates.

Making a nonchalant face, she answers, “Father, I am old enough to not report everything about me.”

Her answers piss him more. “You are being disrespectful, Shi Lian!”

She bites her lower lip, knowing very well she crossed the line. She is mentally tired and has no interest in answering her father’s questions.

“I apologize,” she says with a sigh.

“Tell me where have you been?” he asks again.

“Went to meet Zichen, alright?” she snaps, getting annoyed.

“What? I told you not to meet him, yet you did? Shi Lian, I am very disappointed in you!”

“I also told you that no matter what happens, I will not break ties with him” she fires back, meeting her father’s dark brown eyes.

With that, she descends upstairs but stops midway when her father yells at her. “Shi Lian! Either you stop meeting him or I’ll have to do something!”

She glares at him and grips on her phone tightly. “Sorry, father but I won’t stop meeting him!”

“You unfilial—” before he can finish his words, he suddenly falls to the ground.

Shi Lian’s eyes widen in horror and she runs to see her father. “Oh my god! father!” she yells, getting on her knees and shaking her father lightly. He is not responding.