Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 346 - 359: The Stratagem of Delayed Action
Su Xingyu felt extremely distressed. How much suffering does a naive child have to endure to learn how to lie?
What kind of inhumane torment had Han suffered in the past few days?
However, he was still too immature, and the lies he told could easily be exposed. No one in this world can read another person’s thoughts, even more so when the other person has autism.
She told Han, "No one is going to dig out your heart, come home with mom."
Saying that, she took Han’s hand and started to walk outside. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
Han reluctantly glanced at the fragile figure of Jue behind him and said to him, "Are you coming too?"
Jue looked at him with a vacant yet calm gaze, and seeing Han move step by step towards the outside, he slowly followed behind.
Only then did Lu Shifeng breathe a sigh of relief, and followed them as well.
They exited the eerie specimen room, walked through the hospital building’s corridor, and reached the entrance, reuniting with the sunlight.
Su Xingyu raised her head to breathe in the fresh air; the gloomy mood that had been weighing heavily on her heart also dissipated a lot.
Just as she was about to head towards the garage with Han, several bodyguards under Lu Shifeng’s command were already silently blocking her path.
She was startled and turned to glare angrily at Lu Shifeng, "What exactly are you trying to do!"
In the sunlight, Lu Shifeng’s tall figure stood on the hospital’s white steps, the deep black suit slightly stained with dust made him look as if he came from an abyss. He looked down upon the girl he had longed for day and night, and slowly spoke with a deep voice, "Xingyu, I want to talk to you."
Su Xingyu looked at his stern face, feeling both angry and sad.
She had been so busy with Han and Jue’s matters that she had no time to care for herself, but now as the dust settled, she looked at this man, and memories came roaring like a mountain, bringing myriad complex emotions.
But she did not want to talk to him.
She wished she could run far away, as far away from this man as possible.
She only wanted to return to Country F, back to Ouyang Yi’s manor. She even thought, if to avoid him she had to make some sacrifices, she... could marry Ouyang Yi.
She was afraid of him.
Afraid of the past that was too painful to recall.
Also afraid of his attitude towards Han.
If he could calmly dig out Han’s heart for Zhuang Heng’s child, what else couldn’t he do?
But all these thoughts just flashed in her mind; after suffering so much pain years ago, she knew very well that she shouldn’t confront this man head-on. She adopted a delaying tactic, "Lu Shifeng, I don’t feel like talking to you right now, Han has just been found, I need to check if he is hurt and calm him down. Anyway, S City is your base, Ouyang and I can’t leave easily, give me a few days, and once Han is settled... we can have a proper talk."
Lu Shifeng deeply gazed at her, the clear sunlight changed into bands of varying shades of gold, shining into her equally clear eyes.
She looked truly beautiful, still the petite figure from his memories, with eyes clear like crystals.
Her face was covered with a large mask, concealing everything below her eyes, was she recently unwell and afraid of getting infected at the hospital?
He felt an impulse to take off her mask and take a good look at the face he longed for day and night, but he knew he couldn’t do that; doing so would only provoke Xingyu’s aversion.
She was no longer the little bunny who went along with everything he said back then.
She had her own child, the hand tightly holding Han’s, the wary eyes watching him, clearly demonstrated who was now of paramount importance in her life.
Lu Shifeng felt a small pang of pain in his heart, like countless knives cut out fine marks.
Everyone present looked at him, holding their breath while waiting for his decision.
After a long while, Lu Shifeng finally said, "Okay."
He dared not say another word, fearing that if he said anything more, he wouldn’t be able to control the impulse to keep her, using all his self-control to restrain himself.
Su Xingyu dared not linger, having received his permission, she quickly took Han’s hand and walked out in quick strides. Ouyang Yi followed as well.
"Ah—" Jue, who had been quietly standing next to Lu Shifeng, now uttered a sound.
Han’s shaky steps paused for a moment, turning his head to look at Jue, softly saying, "Jue, I’ll come back to play with you next time~"
Reluctantly waving goodbye to the child with vacant eyes, only then did he follow his mother and walk away into the distance.
Under Han’s soothing words, Jue quickly stopped making meaningless sounds, his gaze constantly fixed on Han’s back until they were far away, disappearing from sight.
Lu Shifeng, like his son, watched the three of them leave all the way.
A man, a woman, along with a child, what a nice family trio.
The faint pain in his heart grew stronger, he looked with a complex expression at the distant Han, that child healthy, adorable, and well-behaved, anyone would like him—it must be Xingyu and Ouyang Yi’s son.
She...
Could give birth to a healthy baby.
And his child? Congenital heart disease, autism, fragile and weak, needing careful attention at all times; perhaps... it’s hereditary from him.
If she were with him, perhaps she could never have a healthy baby, just like Zhuang Heng, even the gentlest woman would become increasingly irritable facing Jue, sometimes shouting at the child, and then unable to stop crying, pitifully saying, "Shifeng, I’m sorry, I really couldn’t control myself... I really hate myself for not being able to take care of Jue..."
Maybe it was a blessing that Xingyu didn’t become like that.
A blessing borne from leaving him.
A small voice in his heart told him, Lu Shifeng, Xingyu is doing well away from you.
But Lu Shifeng was unwilling to admit that, no, no matter what, he wants her back by his side; he’s had enough of the days without her.
The sunlight of early autumn was clear and crisp.
Lu Shifeng bent down and picked up Jue, walking in the direction of the ward.
Zhuang Heng had already received the news that Jue was found and waited in the ward early on. Seeing them return, she hurried up to greet them, "Shifeng, are you okay? Why is your suit all dusty?"
Lu Shifeng placed the quiet Jue onto the bed and said, "I’m fine, the child was frightened."
Only then did Zhuang Heng turned to look at the child, covering her nose a bit, "Why does Jue smell bad? Where exactly did he run off to? I was so anxious, couldn’t find him anywhere."
Lu Shifeng called the nanny to change the child’s clothes and said to Zhuang Heng, "Probably he was frightened in the operating room and fled in a panic. Later was caught by Ouyang Yi’s people; Ouyang might hate how we treated his son, so he sent people to put Jue into the specimen room to scare Jue, as revenge on us. The smell on Jue is the scent of formalin; once he’s cleaned it will be fine."
This is the most reasonable explanation he could piece together about the cause and effect of the situation.
