readsfreenovel Chapter 21 The Heiress Who Was Rejected from the Engagement
Chapter 21 The Heiress Who Was Rejected from the Engagement
Here, Grandpa Zhou found Gao Qianning.
Of all the people around him that Zhou Ziheng had removed, only two loyal servants he had raised since childhood remained. Now, the only one who could pose the greatest threat to Zhou Ziheng was that fool.
He originally wanted her to poison Zhou Ziheng, but she refused. She even cleverly threatened that his men must take half of the medicine before administering it, and that the operation would be abandoned if any abnormalities were detected.
This wasn't Gao Qianning having a change of heart; she simply knew clearly that after killing a businessman, she wouldn't be able to spend any of her money, and she was doomed to die.
In order to get this money, she came up with a wicked idea for Old Master Zhou—
He would repeat Qi Qingran's past mistakes, causing Zhou Ziheng to be ostracized and forced back into his cage, where he would never find peace for the rest of his life.
In this way, Old Master Zhou was able to preserve his last bloodline in this world, and he was able to live his whole life in pain.
This is the best answer when there is no other solution, and it is also the only trouble that Grandpa Zhou can bring to Zhou Ziheng in the short time he has left.
"But I failed, what a pity." The old man looked at Zhou Ziheng and Ling Yi coming hand in hand, and regret flashed in his dim eyes.
He glared at Zhou Ziheng with hatred, his eyes wide with fury: "Don't you dream about the father and brothers you killed? Don't you feel uneasy every day?"
"Do the people around you know you're a beast? Will they accept your monstrous side?"
"No one can spend their life with a monster. Zhou Ziheng, you will eventually be abandoned by your lover just like you were abandoned by your parents."
Zhou Ziheng's only blood relative, lying on his sickbed, uttered the most vicious curses to him.
Zhou Ziheng's hand, which was resting beside him, tightened slightly. He chuckled as he looked at the impotent, furious old dog: "So what? You can't see it anymore."
"After you die from this world, I will send you to a second death."
"Your son, your grandson, your career, your ideals—everything will disappear with your death."
“I will dig up their graves, dismantle the Zhou family’s assets, and erase all evidence of your existence in this world.”
"And your eunuch grandson, when he's at his wit's end, he'll curse you and act like a good dog in front of me in exchange for a sum of money to survive."
Zhou Ziheng knew what the stubborn old man lying in the hospital bed cared about most, and he didn't hesitate to hit his sore spot: "You can't see my tragic future, but I will build your tragic future myself."
"You!" The old man's skeletal face twisted with rage as he glared viciously at Zhou Ziheng, who was spewing such venomous words.
Having vented his anger, Zhou Ziheng had no intention of entangled with him any longer. He grabbed Ling Yi's wrist and left amidst the increasingly weak and beastly cries of the old man.
His emotions seemed completely unaffected by the unpleasant meeting, but Ling Yi could feel his hands growing colder and a hint of fear appearing on his face.
"Wait." Before stepping out of the ward, Ling Yi broke free from Zhou Ziheng's hand and looked back at the old dog clinging to life on the hospital bed.
Behind her, Zhou Ziheng suddenly clenched his hands, his tense mind threatening to spiral out of control.
“You’ve done a good job of instigating me, but I won’t listen.” Ling Yi’s cold and indifferent words to the old man brought Zhou Ziheng back from the brink of a breakdown.
She bowed slightly and gave the old man a solemn gesture of respect, placing her hand on his chest: "Thank you for telling me about his vulnerability and anxiety."
“The little monster is adorable. I will love him even more and give him more love than I have in the past thirty years, until I make up for everything he has lost.”
"Now you can die in peace."
People who have just stepped down from the world of fame and fortune are impeccably dressed, as if they should be the most ruthless and profit-driven creatures.
Compassion, pity, and tenderness should not exist in her; they are like a knife, piercing straight into a person's body, causing immense pain.
It's like the strongest armor, making one impervious to swords and spears.
Artificial intelligence has its own scales; it judges right and wrong and delivers a heavy blow to those who inflict harm.
The carefully crafted split-screen script ironically led to Zhou Ziheng receiving more love, which was unacceptable to the old man lying in his hospital bed.
It could be said that Ling Yi's words of even greater love were more unacceptable to him than Zhou Ziheng's wish for a terrible death!
This backfired! How could we do this?
He pointed shakily at Ling Yi, whose tastes were bizarre, and then fainted from lack of breath.
Compared to his disheveled state, Zhou Ziheng's world was already ablaze with fireworks.
Even after learning all his flaws, she still chose to love him.
She called him little monster, saying she would make up for everything he had missed in the past.
In this sanatorium that he loathed so much, Zhou Ziheng revealed a bright smile for the first time.
He only needs a little love to live well.
He only needs Ling Yi's love to forget the past.
At that moment, he began to thank the old man who had schemed to ruin him.
To express his gratitude, Zhou Zi glanced at the old man's confidant, who was struggling in the ward, and gave the order:
"From now on, he is not allowed to enter the ward. Only the caregiver is allowed to enter the ward once every 24 hours to keep the old man alive and prevent him from dying easily."
He wanted to make the person who gave him new life unable to die, to let him wait for death in excrement and bedsores, leaving this world accompanied by despair.
Leading his lover out of the suffocating cage, Zhou Ziheng stood under the swaying shade of a tree, looking up at a certain floor of the sanatorium.
After a long pause, he suddenly spoke: "When I brought that woman here, I left my phone number."
"One day, my caregiver contacted me and asked, 'Aren't you going to come see your mother? She thinks about her son every day and misses you.'"
“But I know she’s thinking of her dead son, not me. She’ll only think about how I’m still alive.”
"Not only her, but all the Zhou family members wish I were dead so as not to disturb their family's life."
It's an extremely cliché story: a nanny switches the identities of the real and fake young masters. The real young master, who has suffered abuse for eighteen years, finally finds his original family, only to discover that his life has been completely stolen.
The fake young master is the favored son, but he is a wild child who disturbs the family's happiness. Therefore, his true identity is not recognized, and he is changed to be two years younger and becomes a pitied adopted son.
An adopted son cannot covet his parents' love, cannot covet the life of a fake young master, and certainly cannot covet the property that belongs to him.
But all of this should have belonged to him. Why is it wishful thinking for him to only want what he deserves?
Who caused all of this?
Was it the nanny who replaced the real and fake grandsons? Was it his adoptive parents who abused him for eighteen years? Was it the fake young master who stole his life? Or was it his biological parents who abandoned him like trash? Or was it the Zhou family patriarch who was unable to uphold justice?
Young Zhou Ziheng couldn't tell the difference, so he chose to take revenge on everyone.
The old lady was imprisoned for theft; her adoptive parents died in the rainy night while running around for her mother; the fake young master died after being repeatedly suppressed; her biological father died from the blow of losing power and his son; her biological mother went mad from the death of her husband and beloved son; and the patriarch was also stripped of his power and forced to leave for distant lands.
The vengeful ghost, who should have died when he was unpopular, eliminated everyone who stood in his way, but he was also trapped in the past until an overly warm hand pulled him out.