Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 280 - 293: Seaside Villa

Zhuang Heng’s face was deathly pale.

After all these years together, she had long known that Lu Shifeng felt no love for her. Yet, she always believed that even without love, a long association would bring some warmth.

But he was always so cold. As he spoke plainly now, he didn’t care about her dignity at all.

Why?

The woman in the elegant white suit was filled with despair. She thought, Lu Shifeng wasn’t like this before!

Su Xingyu...

It must be Su Xingyu!

It must be that woman, Su Xingyu, who somehow bewitched Lu Shifeng, turning him into this!

Zhuang Heng gritted her teeth in silence. She would surely settle this score with Su Xingyu!

On the surface, she had to squeeze out a burdensome smile and say to Lu Shifeng, "Shifeng, I understand your intentions, but I don’t understand why you would choose Su Xingyu. In what way am I inferior to her?"

Lu Shifeng frowned slightly, showing some impatience: "Didn’t you say you had serious matters to discuss with me? If not, you can leave." His reasons for choosing Su Xingyu were simple: he wanted to compensate for the harm he had caused her in the past and wanted to marry someone without an illustrious background, that’s all. But there wasn’t any need to explain this to Zhuang Heng; it involved his conflicts with his family’s elders, and after all, Zhuang Heng was an outsider.

Zhuang Heng’s face remained deathly pale, knowing that no good results would come from asking further today.

Yet she was unwilling, and mustered up the courage to ask the final question: "Shifeng, just consider the many years we’ve known each other, answer just one thing for me... only one thing... Did you plan to let Su Xingyu bear your child from the start? Or did she somehow sway you along the way to change your mind?"

Lu Shifeng’s gaze turned cold. What did she mean by swaying him?

"No one in this world can sway me," he said curtly. "From the beginning, I planned to have a child with her."

A tumult of emotions surged in Zhuang Heng’s heart, so why did Su Xingyu take contraceptives?

Instinctively, Zhuang Heng sensed there was a big problem here.

She managed a smile and said to Lu Shifeng, "Shifeng, thank you. I won’t give up." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

She turned and left the office.

Step by step, thinking things over, she returned to the photography center. Su Xingyu had already gone out to shoot the day’s project, and the double portrait with Lu Shifeng on the desk looked so glaring.

So, there was a possibility of marriage between Su Xingyu and him?

Though Zhuang Heng found it incredible for someone of Lu Shifeng’s status to marry an ordinary person like Su Xingyu, he had already made his stance clear regarding the child.

Gazing at the trembling girl in the photo frame, looking so delicate and timid, Zhuang Heng wondered who gave her the courage to take contraceptives behind Lu Shifeng’s back? If she was not staying with Lu Shifeng to leverage her way into fame and fortune by giving him a child, then why?

Su Xingyu...

Does she love Lu Shifeng?

For several days, Zhuang Heng pondered this question and resumed her frequent visits to the photography center, covertly observing Su Xingyu with casual intent.

Su Xingyu was completely unaware of this, but Fang Luohua did talk to her: "Xingyu, have you noticed lately that Miss Zhuang looks at you strangely? I find it a bit creepy. Be careful."

Su Xingyu smiled and said to him, "Thank you, I will be careful."

She was indeed cautious, trying to avoid Zhuang Heng as much as possible, unwilling to provoke unnecessary conflict.

But because all her focus was on guarding against Zhuang Heng, she inadvertently neglected someone else...

This day after work, Lu Shifeng wasn’t at the company, so she took the bus home by herself.

As she reached the bus stop, she was suddenly pulled into a nearby parked minivan, and before she could even scream, it sped away.

"Who are you? What do you want?" she swiftly realized she was being kidnapped and asked cautiously.

The men who kidnapped her looked sleazy, smiling lewdly at her: "Miss Su, rest assured, we’ve been commissioned to take you somewhere, you’ll certainly be surprised."

Su Xingyu was perturbed, never having encountered such a situation before, and pursued questioning the kidnappers about where they were taking her, but they fell silent.

The minivan twisted and turned, eventually arriving at a remote villa in the suburbs.

The villa faced the sea, the winter scenery was bleak, and there were few people around.

As unease brewed inside her, imagining 108 gruesome scenarios, the kidnappers pushed her into the main bedroom on the second floor, and there she saw a man: "Qin Mu?!"

It was indeed him who had kidnapped her!

Qin Mu waved the kidnappers away, approached Su Xingyu, and gazed at her deeply: "Xingyu, you’re finally here."

"What do you mean by kidnapping me here?" she asked anxiously, warily analyzing how to escape.

Qin Mu sighed even more deeply: "Xingyu, you must understand me; I resorted to this out of necessity. Every time I urge you to leave Lu Shifeng’s side, you never listen. Now everything’s fine—it’s just the two of us; you can thoughtfully heed my advice. Come back to me, Xingyu, I know you still love me."

This side of him only repulsed her.

Back when their engagement was annulled at Su Xingqi’s coming-of-age ceremony, she could attribute it to his misunderstanding of her, justifiable in some way.

But later, he publicly abandoned Su Xingqi successively without a shred of responsibility; such a man was purely scum!

"Our bond snapped long ago, Qin Mu." She forced herself not to lash out, trying to reason with him, "Don’t tangle with me anymore, you’ll find a woman you love someday."

"You are that woman!" Qin Mu stepped closer anxiously, "Xingyu, I know you don’t love Lu Shifeng. You must still be hurting from me abandoning you before, hence you dare not be with me despite still loving me! I promise to treat you well from now on. Return to me, Xingyu, Lu Shifeng is a beast! He doesn’t deserve you!"

"You’re wrong, I love Lu Shifeng," Su Xingyu tried to speak calmly, not daring to provoke him, but some things needed stating clearly, "Now, I just want to live peacefully with Lu Shifeng."

Qin Mu shook his head, refusing to believe anything she said.

Yesterday, Zhuang Heng came to him, telling him Su Xingyu was unhappy, forced to stay with Lu Shifeng.

Zhuang Heng divulged that Su Xingyu was taking contraceptive pills and even showed him a photo of her medical record, explaining that Su Xingyu was risking permanent infertility to take those pills just because she couldn’t let go of him! Otherwise, who wouldn’t want to have children with someone as handsome and prestigious as Lu Shifeng?!

Qin Mu was deeply convinced.

He hadn’t given up on Su Xingyu initially, and upon discovering her lingering feelings for him, he immediately got excited.

Zhuang Heng encouraged him, "If you like her, go and get her, even if it requires forceful means. Tomorrow, I’ll secretly swap Xingyu’s contraceptives. I’ve calculated; these days are her danger period, most likely to conceive. If you truly love her, let her get pregnant; once a woman has a child, she’ll follow you wholeheartedly. Otherwise, continue delaying this, and one day she will be conquered by Lu Shifeng!"