FBH Chapter 44

Xiong Zhiyang was almost at the residential complex where Li Yuehua lived.

Wearing a mask, hat, and sunglasses, Xiong Zhiyang walked while carefully observing his surroundings, extremely vigilant.

As he entered the complex, Xiong Zhiyang suddenly saw a man wearing a hat and mask who looked familiar. It was indeed Li Yuehua, heading towards his apartment building.

Reaching only the fourth floor, Xiong Zhiyang was already out of breath and couldn’t help but cough. This cough caused pain in both sides of his chest. He spat, and saw a startling amount of fresh blood in his phlegm.

As he climbed, he took out a few capsules from his pocket and swallowed them. This was a central analgesic used to relieve pain caused by cancer. In fact, he had been taking drugs like tramadol and diclofenac sodium every day recently to alleviate the suffering from the cancer.

Finally reaching the 9th floor, he felt like collapsing on the ground. At the same time, he saw Li Yuehua’s figure disappearing into his doorway. In a moment of inspiration, he called out, “Li Yuehua!”

Hearing the voice, Li Yuehua stepped back and looked over. Seeing it was Xiong Zhiyang, he became very nervous.

“Don’t be nervous, I’m looking for you… I want to chat…” Xiong Zhiyang tried to dispel Li Yuehua’s concerns.

Walking up to Li Yuehua with a smile, Xiong Zhiyang suddenly pulled out the dagger he had prepared and held it against his chest, coldly saying, “Get back inside, and don’t shout!”

Xiong Zhiyang intended to let Li Yuehua know the truth, so he didn’t immediately attack. But before he could say what he wanted to say, several armed police officers appeared at the door.

Sun Rumin kicked open the slightly ajar door and pointed his gun at Xiong Zhiyang, who was facing the police with his back against the wall while holding Li Yuehua hostage: “Don’t move! Drop the weapon!”

Xiong Zhiyang’s face changed, but he quickly regained his composure and said with a smile, “Officer Sun, you guys are pretty quick.” In fact, he had already heard hurried and chaotic footsteps inside, and suspected that the police might be coming. He regretted not killing Li Yuehua decisively earlier; with the police here, killing Li Yuehua would probably not be so easy.

Sun Rumin didn’t bother with pleasantries, sternly saying, “Xiong Zhiyang, release the hostage now!”

Xiong Zhiyang smiled again and said, “I dream of killing Li Yuehua, how could I possibly let him go? Officer Sun, do you know why I want to kill Li Yuehua?”

Forty minutes earlier, Sun Rumin had learned from Wu Shuqi that the perpetrator of the “7.18” poisoning case was likely Xiong Zhiyang. Hearing Xiong Zhiyang ask this, he was curious and asked, “Why?”

Xiong Zhiyang said, “Because Li Yuehua is the murderer who poisoned your wife, you are sworn enemies!”

Li Yuehua couldn’t help but frown, wanting to argue but not speaking.

Sun Rumin also frowned, wondering if he was telling the truth! However, since Xiong Zhiyang had a hostage, Sun Rumin didn’t expose him, fearing he might become angry and harm the hostage.

“You can’t escape. Resisting the police is like hitting a rock with an egg. I advise you to release the hostage and strive for leniency,” Sun Rumin patiently tried to reason with Xiong Zhiyang. “You can’t do anything foolish. You should think about your son, Xiong Tong.”

Xiong Zhiyang seemed to remember something and asked, “How is my son?”

Knowing that he couldn’t deceive the police, Xiong Zhiyang wondered how he could kill Li Yuehua with one strike. While pondering, he glanced at a printed document under the table. The words “DNA test report” caught his eye, and he couldn’t help but frown. How could there be a DNA test report in Li Yuehua’s residence?

Li Yuehua didn’t seem inclined to pick up the test report.

Forced to do so, Li Yuehua had no choice but to pick up the test report with trembling hands.

When Xiong Zhiyang saw that the names filled in the “Tested Person” column were Li Yuehua and Xiong Tong, his heart sank. But he tried to reassure himself that Xiong Tong was his flesh and blood, and that Li Yuehua must have delusional disorder to take his son’s DNA and his DNA for a paternity test; the result would only be a harsh slap in the face.

Like a bolt from the blue, he staggered involuntarily, and at the same time, he gripped the dagger in his hand even tighter. He wished he could stab Li Yuehua’s entire body full of bloody holes, to wash away the shame of Li Yuehua cuckolding him!

The child he had painstakingly raised for more than ten years was actually his rival’s child! He couldn’t accept such a reality, no matter what.

It turned out that sixteen years ago, Li Yuehua and Lü Yuchan were workers in a garment factory in a coastal city. One was handsome, one was beautiful, and they fell in love at first sight, quickly starting a relationship. They both felt that the other was the one for them in life.

However, misfortune can strike at any time. One day, Lü Yuchan suddenly received a call from home, telling her that her mother had been diagnosed with stomach cancer, urgently requiring a large sum of treatment money. Her family didn’t have the money, but someone was willing to pay for her mother’s treatment, but on one condition: that she marry this person’s eldest son.

The person willing to pay for her mother’s treatment was Xiong Zhiyang’s mother.

If Li Yuehua had had the money to pay for Lü Yuchan’s mother’s treatment at the time, they would not have been torn apart by the cruel reality. Unfortunately, Li Yuehua was an orphan and had no money.

Lü Yuchan was very disgusted that her father was using her as a bargaining chip, but while disgusted, she couldn’t just stand by and watch her mother be tortured by illness until she died. She would feel guilty for the rest of her life.

But if she agreed to her father, it would mean that her relationship with Li Yuehua would end from then on, which she was very reluctant to do.

For this reason, she considered it painfully for three days, finally agreeing to her father and bidding farewell to Li Yuehua with tears in her eyes.

Shortly after returning home, she met Xiong Zhiyang. She was very disappointed with Xiong Zhiyang’s appearance, but he was very polite to her, which gave her some comfort.

Afterwards, they naturally obtained their marriage certificate, and not long after, they held a wedding.

Although she became a married woman, her heart was still with Li Yuehua, often calling him behind Xiong Zhiyang’s back.

One day, Lü Yuchan suddenly received a call from Li Yuehua, saying that he had come to the city where she lived and hoped she would meet him. She hadn’t seen him for two years. Hearing that her old lover had come specifically to find her, she was very touched and hesitantly agreed to him.

When they met, they talked about the good and bad times they had spent together, and both lamented their lack of fate. As they sighed, they couldn’t help but hug each other and cry bitterly.

At that moment, she realized that she still deeply loved this man; at that moment, she thought of eloping with this man.

However, she also thought that Xiong Zhiyang was very good to her, and that running away with Li Yuehua would be unfair to her husband.

That night, they spent a long-awaited night of passion in a hotel.

It was also because of this indulgence that Xiong Tong came into being.

After she gave birth to her son, she focused her attention on her son. At this time, Li Yuehua had a girlfriend, and for the sake of each other’s happiness, she gradually distanced herself from him, and later broke off contact completely.

Ever since Lü Yuchan broke off contact with Li Yuehua, she believed that she would never have any emotional entanglements with him in this life, and that those intimate scenes of the past would fade with the passage of time.

However, she overestimated her willpower.

More than ten years after Lü Yuchan and Li Yuehua parted, they reunited in Jincheng.

Li Yuehua had found out Lü Yuchan’s address from others, and then followed the clues to her doorstep.

Lü Yuchan remembered that day she was returning from attending a friend’s party. At the entrance to her residential complex, a tall, middle-aged man suddenly appeared in front of her. When she saw him, she couldn’t help but gasp, because she recognized him at a glance.

In a café filled with a warm and romantic atmosphere, they sat face to face, chatting for an entire afternoon.

In middle age, having experienced the vicissitudes of life and seen all kinds of human conditions, they had become mature. They were no longer like when he came to her city to live or die with her back then. They didn’t hug each other and cry bitterly as soon as they met.

They each talked about their life experiences over the past ten years since they separated: there were successes, there were also failures; there were perfections, there were also regrets; there were joys, there were also losses; there were memories, there were also regrets.

Lü Yuchan learned that Li Yuehua was currently engaged in We-Commerce, and his main battleground was in Jincheng. He was doing well, making a lot of money, and even taking out a loan to buy a house.

Li Yuehua had been in Jincheng for almost three years. He knew that Lü Yuchan and her husband had come to Jincheng a long time ago. When he came to Jincheng to develop his business, he hoped that one day he would be able to meet her unexpectedly, trim the candles by the west window, and relive their old dreams.

In the past ten years, there had been several women who had had emotional entanglements with Li Yuehua. Among these women, Lü Yuchan’s personality was the weakest. When they were in love, he was often scolded by her, but the only person he could never forget was Lü Yuchan.

How did he know Lü Yuchan’s address?

After returning, he couldn’t wait to find Lü Yuchan. He came to her door with complicated feelings, but because he was worried that her husband would be at home and that his rash behavior would cause family conflicts, he didn’t knock on her door. He just wandered around in the corridor for a few minutes before leaving.

This meeting between the two former lovers, seemingly a perfect reunion, was actually like opening Pandora’s box, laying the groundwork for the disaster that would befall them later, leading to the destruction of their families.

They added each other on WeChat to facilitate future contact.

Li Yuehua often sent messages and called Lü Yuchan, and also persuaded her to join his We-Commerce team, in order to find opportunities to meet her often.

As the saying goes: a man is like a wolf at thirty, and like a tiger at forty.

It was precisely because of this that one day she came to Li Yuehua’s house, and he warmly embraced her, expressing his desire to have a relationship with her. She only symbolically pushed him twice, and then rolled into bed with him.

She was surprised to find that he was “still vigorous,” and even more interesting and better at pleasing people than he was more than ten years ago.

After the first time, there was the second and third time. She was addicted like smoking opium; so was he.

He encouraged her to get a divorce, so they could be together openly.

Although she was obsessed with the joy that he brought to her mind and body, she refused to divorce him, because she was worried that her weak, introverted son Xiong Tong, who also had a physical disability, would be psychologically affected; in addition, he had a family, and for her to divorce and be with a man with a wife and son, where would she put herself?

She thought that maintaining an underground relationship was a very good choice.

Their extramarital affair lasted for half a year.

Later, Xiong Zhiyang saw that his wife had a close relationship with other men, and expressed his dissatisfaction to her. She accused him of being suspicious, and making something out of nothing.

After that, the affair between her and Li Yuehua reached Xiong Zhiyang’s ears. Xiong Zhiyang was very dissatisfied with her, and questioned her as to why she was having an affair with other men behind his back. She flatly denied it.

The reason why she refused to admit it was because she was still thinking about this family. After all, sexual pleasure wasn’t everything in life.

However, once the mirror of trust is broken, it’s difficult to piece it back together.

However, on the issue of the division of marital property, they had huge differences. Lü Yuchan demanded that she get no less than forty percent of the property, while Xiong Zhiyang only agreed to give her a maximum of fifteen percent. Because of the stalemate, the divorce was delayed.

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