Love Me Harder, Mr. Fu - Chapter 191

It’s been days since she went to the company and if she got more absents, it might not be fruitful to her or her position.

She sits on the study table, tapping on the keyboard furiously and her eyes are settled on the screen. She scrunches her nose, committing mistakes as she writes in a hurry. It isn’t interesting or fun at all to do the company’s work in her home but she cannot go to the company until she gets the information from that man. She will be going today to meet him and she has been keeping her hopes high that it goes well.

After that incident, her father hasn’t brought up the old topics. He is more normal than before and not angry at her daughter. Shi Lian thinks that he may not want to go to that zone again, knowing well that his health cannot take it.

Since the morning, Evelyn has been calling her, and Shi Lian dodging her call. She knows that if she starts talking, she will end up telling her everything that’s happening and she does not want that. She wants Evelyn out of her messy family life.

She tries to complete the work, ignoring her phone buzzing. After she is done with her work, she had to go meet that man and end this as soon as she can. That man has been haunting them for months, she had to get rid of him.

While later, she gets ready to go out. Her mother is taking care of her father and to not disturb them, she chooses to tell Nanny Zhang about her going out for a while.

“If she asks, tell her I went to Evelyn’s.”

Nanny Zhang does not ask any questions and simply nods at her request. Giving her a small smile, Shi Lian heads out of the house and to her car.

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Her ponytail moves from side to side as she walks up to the building ahead. She scrunches her nose as the sun rays fall over her face. The weather is kind of unusual these days. Today is hot, yesterday it was like a monsoon.

Zichen immediately spots her when she reaches inside the building. She clutches on her handbag tightly, nervous because for no reason.

She smiles, her heart at ease seeing Zichen approaching her. He smiles and leans down to kiss her on the lips. She kisses him back, her heart fluttering like it’s the first time she is doing it.

“You can change your mind,” he says, do not want to see her near that creepy man.

She puts her hand on her hips and gives him a challenging look. “No, I am not.”

Shaking her head in a knowing smile, he takes her to his room. It’s the third time she is here but this place feels foreign to her. She does not even know where the man’s room is.

When they reach, he opens the door for her, worry etching on his face. She assures him by keeping her palm on his chest and heads in.

He closes the door and goes to look from the glass window. He wants to hear what they are talking about but Shi Lian has clearly said no to that. It’s itching him more now that the man has told him about his family secrets and also Mo family’s.

The man’s eyes are closed but when he hears the footsteps, his shots his eyes open which made Shi Lian flinch but she quickly recovers herself. “You again?” he grumbles, his face looks like he has seen something disgusting.

“Yes,” she forces a wide smile and takes her seat opposite him. “You are going to see until you spill everything you know.”

He rolled his eyes, appearing as if he is bored to have that talk. Shi Lian observes his face. He is skinnier than before and much more lifeless. His gray hair is more visible than it was before. His eyes sunken and his cheekbones hollower than those models. His lips are dry with no moisture in them and hair is starting to appear on his face more and more.

Ignoring the fact that he looks ugly, she comes to the point of why she is here. “I’ll ask you a question and you will answer me honestly” she politely tells him. Even though he doesn’t deserve that, she doesn’t want to make his head hot that sooner.

He scoffs, turning his eyes to looks the other way. “I didn’t expect you to be so naive, Shi Lian.”

Shi Lian smirks and takes out a remote from her handbag and shows it to him as if it’s a trophy. “Remember this? This will help me” she sneers, threatening him.

The smug smirk on that man’s face fades when she sees the familiar remote in her hand. The electric shock remote. The small chip is still pasted on his back and at that place where her hands cannot reach. His hands are locked from behind so he cannot do any violent act or hurt her in any way. “Bitch” he mumbles, narrowing his eyes at her.

She ignores that and asks her first question. “Why did you made Chuanli the scapegoat?”

“Again that question? I am not going to—Ahh!” before he can finish his sentence, a strong volt of current passes through his nerves and he cannot help yelling.

“Answer me” she demands, getting serious. She does not have time to fool around with him and she cannot let Zichen make him stay here any longer.

The amount of pain he is feeling is visible on his face. “You…Why do you even want to know about him?” he asks, his voice stiff.

“Because it is related to Mo family” she answers simply. She asks him again impatiently, “Now spill it fast.”

He has no other choice but to tell her. He does not want to die by electric shock. “He was naive and I was jealous of him,” he says through clenched teeth.

“Jealous of what?” she asks.

He does not answer her. She does not want to do it but he is forcing her again and again. She presses on the button of the remote again and the man yells with utter pain. “Stop being so rigid and answer me quick” she demands.

He hisses, cursing her with whatever words coming to his mouth. “He was my stepbrother. I didn’t like him. I hated him because, since the day he was born, my father forgot about me. He gave all his attention to him and I felt like an outsider” she reveals, his tone bitter. “I pretended to be fine with e everything but deep inside I was burning with hatred. The hatred grew so much that I even had a thought of killing him.”

The truth is shocking. The man continues and she is glad she does not need to bark again and again for him to speak. “At work too, he was appreciated by your family and I wasn’t. He worked with your second uncle and I with your third uncle.”

“So by that Chuanli wasn’t the one who stole the ring?” Shi Lian guesses and when he gloomy looks at her, she gets the confirmation.

“I wanted that ring but I knew the risk and I wasn’t going to take that risk for my life.”

“So you told Chuanli to get that ring for you” she adds the sentence for him, shocked by the truth.

He smiles bitterly, “He was naive and for me, he agreed to do it. Unfortunately, he was caught.”

“What about the second time he came to steal?” she questions, getting more and more curious.

Instead of answering obediently, the man turns his head to where Zichen is looking at the both of them. He smirks and says, “I had an interesting talk with him yesterday. ”

Annoyed, she tells him with her voice firm and demanding. “You seem to forget that your life is in my hand.”

“You don’t want to know what we talked about?” he ask with a smirk on his face.

“Not even one percent” she snaps. What possibly could they have talked about? And she has no interest in knowing what they talked about, all she wants is to know the truth.

She presses the button again and he starts to speak again. He needs a dose of that every passing time. “It was me who went to steal it. I was caught by your third uncle but after hearing my story he decided to make Chuanli the bad guy.”

Her uncle again! He has to be the bad guy everywhere. Chuanli was innocent and just because of these two evils, he was killed. This is so upsetting. His father had no idea about this and she cannot even tell him. Telling him is the risk she does not want to take. His health is already in a fragile state and telling him this will give him a big blow.

But there’s still one thing left to be solved. Keeping her rising hatred aside, she asks her last question. “Why did you came to revenge on us when you were the one who killed him?”