Chapter 301

Chapter 301: 294: Secretly underwent IVF (in the grand finale) Chapter 301: 294: Secretly underwent IVF (in the grand finale)

Wen Changling walked up to the glass but didn’t go in. A police officer stood at the door, and Jiang Chengxue was awake, his body full of tubes, yet he wasn’t lying down. He was waiting for her, had been waiting for three days since he woke up.

“Wen Changling.”

He knew Wen Changling could read lips; no sound was necessary.

“That day, I only bit you once, I didn’t touch you otherwise.”

Through the window, his gaze was burning, so intense as if something was ablaze. In front of Wen Changling, he always loved to smile, he lifted the corners of his mouth, even at this moment, he still wanted to provoke her.

“I actually wanted to kiss you”

Wen Changling’s expression turned even colder.

How indifferent she was.

But he never got angry with Wen Changling. “Are you angry?”

He could read lips too; the second year after Wen Zhaoyang’s death, he went to Chevalier, and upon his return, he learned lip-

reading and sign language, but Wen Changling didn’t know; she hadn’t spoken a word.

“I like to see you angry”

Do you believe it, Wen Changling? I lit a Daydream Fragrance and saw you.

Do you believe it? I watched you like that for two hours. The freak who wasn’t even afraid of death, yet didn’t dare to kiss you.

The heart monitor alarm sounded; that damaged heart was erratically beating again.

Jiang Chengxue raised his hand, offering to Wen Changling the object he clutched, the oak Wishing Plaque she had rejected after he fetched it; her wish was for evil to beget evil.

“Your wish came true, Wen Changling.”

Jiang Wangtu once told him that those women were beautiful, so they should be dressed in red to forever belong to him – that was true possession.

Jiang Chengxue really wanted to possess Wen Changling, so he wanted to die with her.

Dai Qiu said, “Let her go, and let yourself go.”

He had let her go, not having given her a single drop of the wine laced with Uncaria.

“Beep—Beep—Beep—”

The Wishing Plaque fell to the ground, and with it, a few Uncaria leaves.

Jiang Chengxue closed his eyes and fell.

Dai Qiu was crying out, “Doctor!”

“Doctor!”

Xie Shang arrived.

He walked up to Wen Changling, took her hand, and said, “Let’s go.”

Dai Qiu sat on the ground crying, her blurry vision seeing Xie Shang’s back. Then, she completely broke down, crying and repeating over and over, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry...”

Jiang Chengxue, you’re so hateful and yet so pitiable, I know, you just really wanted Wen Changling to play with you.

“Your world is too dull, it seems death is of no great loss. To fulfill Wen Changling’s wish, you can take your own life, stop your medications, consume Hooked Cymbidium, as long as she spends a little time with you, just a little while, to build a snowman with you, buy you a snack, watch a movie with you, go through the same motions you did with Xie Shang, and then you would willingly die.”

“You were born a monster, raised by Jiang Wangtu. He taught you, at seven, to dress women in red dresses and preserve them in formalin. No one taught you how to be normal, so it was natural for you to become a monster. You didn’t know what was good or evil, what love was. You thought love meant playing together, rotting together, dying together.”

“No one wants to play with a monster, so you could only play with clowns, make them fear you. You had no attachment to this world, so you would come alone, and leave alone.”

“If you knew that the scapegoat the clowns chose back then was Wen Changling’s younger brother, would you have chosen not to start this game?”

“There is no ‘if’.”

“You even refrained from telling Wen Changling that it wasn’t your first meeting on the evening she planned to die with those four men. The first time was at Lantu Airport, where Wen Changling found out about her brother’s death and cried all night long at the airport; you watched her from outside of the waiting room. Actually, it shouldn’t count as the first meeting, because you only saw her trembling back as she wept, and you wondered what kind of emotions were worth such tears.”

“Only I know, only I know that what you’ve always needed weren’t kin and playmates, but someone to love you.”

Dai Qiu sobbed while knocking on the ICU door, “I’m sorry...”

Jiang Chengxue, I betrayed you.

*****

Jiang Chengxue is dead. His heart, his injuries, they would have killed him, but what really hastened his death was the consumption of Uncaria leaves. He chose the same way of death as Wen Yuan.

With his death, Tong Taishi and the others once again chose to reveal the truth—the truth that they owed Wen Zhaoyang for eight years.

The window in the room was left open, and the page of paper tucked within a book was blown away by the wind.

Wen Changling picked it up, and it was a physics problem. She understood physics, so she could comprehend what the numbers, the angles on that piece of paper meant.

By evening, Xie Shang returned from the police station.

Wen Changling waited for him in the room, “You knew there were problems with both race cars, didn’t you?”

Xie Shang even calculated in advance the impact force of the crash, the angles that would minimize his own injuries, betting that as long as he won, Jiang Chengxue would either die or end up in prison for intentional homicide.

“Yes.”

“Yet you still gambled with him.”

Xie Shang tore up the sheet of paper on the table, knelt in front of Wen Changling. The law couldn’t judge him, but Wen Changling could, “Changling, that was the fastest way.”

If Jiang Chengxue wanted to go down together, he would turn the tables on him. Extreme racing was his forte; he wouldn’t lose this life-risking game.

He hadn’t hugged Wen Changling for many days due to the injury on his arm. Wen Changling had long smelled the scent of medicine, “Get out, I want to sleep alone tonight, and I don’t want to argue with you.”

Xie Shang knew why she was angry; he had gambled with his life.

Some say that no one by Jiang Chengxue’s side would betray him, but that’s not guaranteed. Just by letting Dai Qiu learn one thing, she betrayed Jiang Chengxue.

The day Jiang Chengxue had a vasectomy at the hospital, he had his sperm preserved. No one knew why—it was impossible to guess what a madman was thinking, and it seemed rational to him to forcibly conceive a child with Wen Changling, even if it meant tying her down. His vasectomy was the day after he presented the Wishing Plaque to Wen Changling, asking her to be with him.

The Red Dress Case from years past had one survivor that wasn’t reported—a little girl, only seven years old at the time named Qiu Ying, who later changed her name to Dai Qiu.

The day Jiang Chengxue burned Jiang Wangtu alive, she was rescued. She loved Jiang Chengxue, and also hated him. Human nature is complex, not all lines between love and hate are distinct and clear.

She loved Jiang Chengxue, so she secretly underwent IVF. She also hated Jiang Chengxue, so when she knew he had stopped his medication and was resolved to end his life, she chose to cooperate with Xie Shang. She kept the child, sent Jiang Chengxue away, and personally delivered the evidence of his intentional murder to the police. Because as long as Xie Shang informed Jiang Chengxue that she had secretly had a child, Jiang Chengxue would surely not tolerate it; the only time he ever showed leniency was towards Wen Changling.