Lu Jingci's body stiffened abruptly, his fingers involuntarily curling up, his fingertips digging into his palm.

Lu Hehua gave him no chance to breathe, pressing on relentlessly: "How did he die? Such a lively person, you drove him to his death?"

"I warned you to keep up the pretense, otherwise the fate of your mother and me would be the same as yours. Why didn't you listen?"

Lu Jingci's breathing became rapid, his eyes were bloodshot, and his clenched fists tightened, the veins bulging and trembling incessantly.

"Where did you hide her?" Lu Hehua's gaze passed over Lu Jingci's shoulder and landed on the dimly lit room door. "The bedroom?"

"Her father probably still doesn't know she's dead, does he?"

Upon hearing the word "death," Lu Jingci's eyes filled with bloodshot veins, his lips trembled, and his chilling voice was so loud it seemed to shake the entire villa:

"Enough! Ningning isn't dead!"

"Weren't you supposed to be watching over my mother? What are you doing here? Did you come to laugh at me? Get out of here!"

Lu Hehua was not afraid; instead, he suddenly smiled.

Although he was smiling, a morbid, obsessive coldness surged in his eyes as he spoke, each word deliberate and deliberate:

"Lu Jingci, I'm here to tell you that I'm going to bury the Xu family girl, just like you buried your mother when I wasn't looking."

Lu Jingci's gaze suddenly turned icy: "You dare!"

Lu Hehua's maniacal laughter deepened. He stared at him, his face burning with stubborn hatred: "Why wouldn't I dare? Lu Jingci, now you know the pain. Sure enough, no one can truly understand the pain unless they bear the scars themselves."

"Let me tell you, if you weren't my son, I would have killed you ten thousand times over for the fact that you buried your mother when I wasn't looking!"

"Do you know how desperate I felt when I went to collect your mother's belongings and came back to find her gone?"

"I once attempted suicide by cutting my wrists. If your mother hadn't appeared to me in a dream and told me to watch over you as you grew up, I would have gone to join her long ago."

"Lu Jingci, you're a jinx that's an eyesore. What's the point of you being alive? You've prevented me from seeing your mother and from going down to be with her. It's all your fault."

"What did you do to ruin such a bright and beautiful girl like Xu?"

"Your mother died of cancer, not because I forced her to. But Lu Jingci, you're even more ruthless than me; you personally drove your lover to her death!"

In an instant, Lu Jingci's face turned almost transparently pale. He seemed to have lost his soul, shaking his head and staggering back several steps before falling to the ground.

His lips were bloodless and trembled incessantly, but he couldn't utter a single word.

Seeing his expression, Lu Hehua seemed to realize that her words had been a bit harsh, and her fingertips under her sleeve trembled slightly.

But the thought of his wife being buried filled him with hatred: "I'm telling you, Lu Jingci, I came here today to see if you're still alive, and then to tell your mother."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to see you."

"You'd better watch yourself!"

Lu Hehua is gone.

The villa's doors were closed again, all the light disappeared, and it was plunged into endless darkness.

Lu Jingci stumbled to his feet, falling twice in the process, and then pushed open another door in a daze.

Sometime during the day, a statue of a deity was hung in this room, and the incense in the incense burner was still burning, with the three sticks of incense already more than half burned.

Those who didn't believe in gods and Buddhas in the past were now kneeling there, kowtowing repeatedly.

Blood was drawn from his forehead, flowing down his cheek.

His voice, choked with sobs, was broken and broken: "Please, please give Ningning back to me, okay? Please..."

"I gave my life for this. I shouldn't have been born. I'm the one who brought misfortune to my father, mother, and wife. I shouldn't have lived..."

Those people who were once so noble and proud now crawled humbly and lowly beneath the idol, their backs bent and trembling.

Desperate cries filled the room, and endless tears mixed with blood stained the floor.

"Ningning, please don't leave me... Ningning..."

"From the year I was in the kidnappers' den, I've lived for you. Now that you're gone, I don't know what to do anymore. I don't know how to live... Ningning."

"Please don't leave me, okay? Please."

I'm begging you...

"They all abandon me. My mother is gone, my father hates me, and even you don't want me anymore... Ningning..."

Another drop of scalding tears fell, landing on the prayer mat.

He huddled helplessly in the corner, clutching his arm in a disheveled state.

With a hoarse voice and tears streaming down her face, she pleaded painfully, "Just stay obediently in front of the statue... I should be able to see Ningning tonight, right?"

"I'll wait here... Ningning will come back to see me."

"Just wait patiently..."

-

System station.

Xu Wuning stared at the scene before her, her eyelashes trembling violently.

She jumped to her feet and grabbed Xiao Ke: "Quickly ask your dad where he is! I need to go back right now, hurry!"

Xiao Ke scratched his head: "Huh? Aren't you afraid of Lu Jingci? Aren't you afraid of being imprisoned by him again?"

Xu Wuning pointed at the screen: "Look at him now, how can he even have the strength to imprison someone? He's gotten so thin!"

Xiao Ke met Xu Wu Ning's gaze: "Host, your eyes are so red. Your nemesis is in such a terrible state, shouldn't you be happy? Why do I feel like you're very moved?"

"You wouldn't happen to have fallen for Lu Jingci, would you?"

Xu Wuning gritted her teeth like a cat whose tail had been stepped on: "What nonsense are you spouting? Do you want to get beaten up again?"

"He imprisoned me for so long, I'm going back for revenge! He has nothing now, his company is gone, he's powerless, this is the perfect opportunity."

"I'm going to go back and kidnap him to the villa, then imprison him, keep him as my mistress, and let him experience the humiliation and torment of being forced into love."

"Hurry up, have your dad take me home right now..."

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