Chapter 104: Liang Chaosu’s Phone Call
Liang Chaosu slowly got up, propped himself on the desk, and leaned in to look at him, “Shen Lichuan, your love is too full of distractions. Any of them could make you give up halfway. It’s truly thin, weak, and worthless.”
Shen Lichuan involuntarily stepped back, “How can you be so sure that the person she finds for the rest of her life won’t be as good as you?”
Liang Chaosu calmly spread his arms, exuding a majestic and confident aura, as if victory was assured, “Who could be as good as me? You?”
He was like a concealed, patient, peerless divine weapon. Meeting face-to-face at this moment, his most reckless, overbearing, aloof pride and killing intent suddenly erupted, spewing forth fiercely.
It was an earth-shattering aura.
Carrying immense power.
Crushing the enemy stuck in his throat.
“What right do you have to stand before me?”
Shen Lichuan’s retreating step came to a halt.
He lowered his eyes to look at his feet. Previously, he was dozens of centimeters from the desk. After this step back, the distance became one meter.
This one meter…
He slowly clenched his fists, so tight they turned green and white. He felt his chest cavity shatter, his flesh and blood, bones and remnants, scattered and messy. A mouthful of thick, **bloody** taste surged into his throat, and he could barely stand steady.
“But feelings are not something that can be possessed simply by being strong,” Shen Lichuan’s complexion turned pale. “Admiring strength is human nature. Most people will submit to strong rule, but there’s always a small portion who become more defiant the more they are oppressed. Their blood is hot, their spines are hard. I am a worldly coward, but Liancheng is not.”
He turned and walked to the doorway, gripping the doorknob. “You can never trap her.”
Liang Chaosu sat down. An undercurrent filled the room. He hid within it, his expression unclear, his contours silent, vaguely indifferent.
Time ticked by second by second on the electronic screen at the corner of the desk. When Liang Chaosu’s patience was running thin, he received a phone call.
“Mr. Liang, we’ve found traces of Miss Liancheng.”
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Following the information Old Ghost left behind, Liancheng drove through an ice field, passed a red-roofed small town, and into a natural vastness of black, white, blue, and green. Here, the houses were primarily white with vibrant red roofs, giving a lively feel. Upon seeing it, the sense of lonely wandering in the vastness of the heavens and earth dissipated.
Liancheng felt an eagerness to return to the human world from the primitive.
She actually shouldn’t have stopped. The dull ache in her lower abdomen had been spreading in waves since she disembarked, becoming increasingly persistent.
With a history of threatened miscarriages, Liancheng dared not be careless and drove into town to find a clinic.
The navigation guided her through a narrow alley. Liancheng hesitated for a few seconds before reversing and taking the main road.
Just as she turned the steering wheel, a team of Hummers, which had appeared like lightning on the road she had come from, faster than ordinary cars, with louder engines, and stronger grip on the snowy road, flashed into view in an instant, fanning out in an orderly fashion to surround her.
Liancheng’s careful reversing speed, in comparison, was like a ninety-year-old grandmother participating in a hundred-meter sprint, incredibly leisurely.
Those who were captured were also extremely leisurely.
“Miss Liancheng.”
The other party opened the car door. The leader, a burly man, was even equipped with a translator. “Don’t be afraid, we’re here to protect you.”
Liancheng: “…”
“This is Joseph, our captain. Next, he will personally provide close protection for you until you are safely escorted back to your country.”
The translator was a tall, thin, white young man. Among a team of muscular brutes, he looked particularly vulnerable, with a somewhat delicate and refined air.
Liancheng’s gaze lingered on him for too long. The translator raised a hand to signal, “Miss Liancheng, you don’t need to be touched. The people who were chasing you have already been intercepted by us. You are now very safe. You can unbuckle your seatbelt, get out of the car, and take a few steps to stretch your limbs that have gone numb from the long drive.”
Liancheng managed a weak smile, “Can I walk a few more steps if I get out of the car?”
“Of course,” the translator bowed and invited, courteously, “The captain can drive his car a bit further away. Miss Liancheng can walk as many steps as she likes. I guarantee you’ll get tired, and then you can get in the car to rest.”
Liancheng felt the pain in her lower abdomen seem to spread to her bones. The root of her tongue was bitter and astringent. She didn’t want to go through the false social circle anymore. “Who hired you? Liang Chaosu, or Liang Zhengping?”
The translator’s posture remained unchanged. “There’s a phone in the car. Please get in.”
Impeccably discreet, Liancheng didn’t engage in futile struggles. She took the opportunity to drive, but she couldn’t ram through the Hummers, and she wasn’t the type to kill someone.
A one-in-a-million chance in her heart, she hoped these people were hired by Father Liang. Whether it was Liu Lan reporting her, or something else, as long as Father Liang’s goal was to sever the forbidden relationship, she could argue a bit, and perhaps even turn enemies into friends.
If it were Liang Chaosu, she shuddered. Her heart turned to ice, layer by layer, refusing to melt, like an iceberg in the Arctic Circle.
After getting in the car, she was arranged in the back seat. The muscular captain blocked her on the left, like a mountain, silent but with his gaze fixed unmoving.
Liancheng noticed his muscles were tensed, alert and ready to spring. She suddenly remembered Old Ghost mentioning that a group of people were suspected to be armed. Her gaze involuntarily fell to the man’s waist.
Before she could see clearly, a mobile phone suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. The green screen, with its soft glow, and the number behind the area code pierced her eyes, piercing her last sliver of hope.
She slowly took it and put it to her ear, saying nothing.
The voice on the other end seemed to detect her slow, obstructed breathing. The man’s voice, devoid of emotion, penetrated the loudspeaker, “Is this the gift you’re giving me?”
Liancheng’s eyelashes trembled. She could also hear the man’s breathing, steady and powerful, with a slight change in pitch over the electricity, still like an abyss from which she couldn’t climb out.
She broke through the devouring waves of the dark night sea, leaped through the vast sky. The air of the ice field and snow sea was icy cold yet unusually fresh. The bushes were a gloomy black, and the coastline was so long that she could walk it for the rest of her life.
Liancheng had never thought of suicide. Why should she, for someone else’s mistake, punish herself by losing her chance to live vibrantly in the world?
At this moment, everything was submerged in the abyss of powerless struggle and fear that expanded uncontrollably. Everything became twisted, detached, and shattered into ten thousand pieces, melting before her eyes.
“Satisfied?” Her voice was hoarse. “This is my most sincere, heartfelt gift to you.”
“Very satisfied.” Liang Chaosu even showed a hint of a smile. His commanding presence was masterful, and he treated all provocation with almost contemptuous disregard.
Liancheng had always felt that without this forbidden relationship, he was impeccable. Yet, precisely because of it, he had to be a shining lunatic in her ordinary life, completely shattering the rest of her days.
“Liang Chaosu.”
Liancheng, filled with desolation and torment that drove her almost to madness, said, “Then from now on, I’ll send you gifts every year, without fail, until you’re struck by lightning, until you return to the earth.”
A loud burst of laughter suddenly erupted from the other end of the phone, spreading into Liancheng’s ears, rich, magnetic, and utterly delighted. “I will absolutely accompany you.”
It was as if the ice and snow sea of Iceland had poured down on her head. Liancheng was submerged in it. Although her limbs were ice-cold and she was suffocating, her heart burned like fire, consuming her from within.
