Rekindled Hearts: The Tycoon’s Reluctant Love
Chapter 498 - Chapter 498 Chapter 496 Rift

Chapter 498: Chapter 496: Rift Chapter 498: Chapter 496: Rift Other than when his grandmother died, Fu Yunshen had never felt so helpless and panicked, except for now.

He looked at Wen Yuci, who was within arm’s reach, yet he no longer had the courage to hold her in his embrace.

Wen Yuci didn’t hysterically question Fu Yunshen, and the more composed she was, the more panicky he became.

He would rather have her vent all her emotions out.

However, she didn’t.

“Fu Yunshen, let me go!” she said just that.

The large palm that Fu Yunshen had stuffed into his trouser pocket balled into a fist; tendons stood out, ridged on the back of his hand.

If he let her go, who would let him go then?

The handsome and distinguished lines of Fu Yunshen’s profile grew taut as he said in a low, hoarse voice, “I’ve said it, alive you’re mine, dead you’ll still be my ghost.”

Wen Yuci lifted her reddened eyes and gave him a quiet glance, said nothing more, and limped away.

When Wen Yuci returned home, that very night, Mother Wen swallowed sleeping pills.

Luckily the butler discovered it in time, called the ambulance, and she was rushed to the hospital just in time to be saved.

Wen Yuci lay beside Mother Wen’s hospital bed, her face pale as frost.

The closest person to her was Mother Wen; if she too were gone, Yuci wouldn’t want to live alone.

“Mom, don’t scare me, I was wrong, I really was wrong…”

When she was forced by her parents to break up with Fu Yunshen years ago, she originally thought it was their fault and considered cutting ties with them.

But she was pregnant and couldn’t go anywhere but stay at home.

Watching her belly grow day by day, though they complained, they still provided for her well.

One time, when her belly ached, they rushed her to the hospital overnight.

In the depths of their hearts, they loved her.

She had disappointed their expectations by getting pregnant so young; any parent would find it hard to accept.

Through the years and the many incidents she had experienced, Wen Yuci gradually understood just how much destruction and hurt her past relationship had caused her life!

Mother Wen looked at Wen Yuci, who had also become much thinner and haggard in just a few days, and a trace of heartache showed in her eyes.

“Ci Ci, what’s the point of me living? Your dad is gone, and you won’t listen, stubbornly pursuing a relationship with Fu Yunshen! If he hadn’t gotten people to attack your dad, would your dad have died?”

“You still want to be with him, you’re literally gouging out my heart!”

Wen Yuci buried her face into Mother Wen’s palm, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes, “Mom, I won’t be with him anymore, I will break up with him!”

Mother Wen stroked Wen Yuci’s head, “If you truly want me to live, not only must you break up with him cleanly, but you must also promise me that you’ll marry Ziyuan! Only if you marry Ziyuan will he stop bothering you!”

Wen Yuci’s tear-stained lashes trembled, “Mom…”

“If you don’t agree, I won’t live anymore.”

Seeing the determination flash in Mother Wen’s eyes, Wen Yuci’s heart quivered.

The closest person to her was Mother Wen, and she dared not take another risk.

She closed her eyes and said with a trembling voice, “Okay, I promise you!”

…

Imperial Palace Club.

Gu Siting made time to see Fu Yunshen amidst his busy schedule.

“Fourth Brother, you arrived just in time, please persuade Brother Fu, he’s drunk so much already!”

Of all their brothers, Fu Yunshen was the most calm and steady one.

No matter how big the issue, he could always confront it rationally.

It was rare to see him looking like the sky had fallen.

“What happened?”

Jih Feng spoke, “It seems that Wen Yuci’s father had a heart attack and died in prison.”

Gu Siting walked over to Fu Yunshen, took the almost-empty bottle of foreign liquor from his fingers, “Yunshen, that was an accident, you can’t blame yourself.”

Fu Yunshen held his head with both hands, feeling like he was back in that darkest time.

With a hoarse voice full of pain, he said, “Fourth Brother, she will never forgive me again. This time, I can’t hold on to her anymore…”

He never wanted to admit it, but he was still in love with her.

Because he loved her too much, that’s why his hatred was so bone-deep.

Why didn’t she keep their promise back then?

Why did she cruelly abandon him all those years ago?

Why did she put him and his grandmother in a life-or-death situation?

He always repressed the pain and hatred deep in his heart.

Starting a business abroad, he wasn’t that thirsty for power, but rather, he wanted to be so successful that he could make her regret, and have her parents receive their just deserts!

Perhaps, he had chosen the wrong way!

In Fu Yunshen’s slender phoenix eyes, there was a blood-red hue, and on his handsome face was an unprecedented look of helplessness and pain.

Gu Siting and Jih Feng comforted him for a while before ending up drinking quite a lot with him.

Fu Yunshen’s driver came to pick him up.

Sitting in the car, he closed his eyes; his temples throbbed with pain.

“President Fu, where to?”

Fu Yunshen unconsciously blurted out an address.

It was only after he spoke that he realized he had given the address of the apartment where he and Wen Yuci once lived.

Arriving at the apartment building, the driver helped him upstairs.

Fu Yunshen pressed his fingerprint on the lock and staggered into the apartment.

As he was changing his shoes, he suddenly sensed something off–the living room seemed to have lights on.

Fu Yunshen focused his eyes and saw what looked like a slender figure sitting on the sofa.

The drunken haze in Fu Yunshen’s mind seemed to fade significantly in an instant.

He didn’t even bother to change his slippers, quickly walking towards the living room.

It wasn’t a trick of his eyes–Wen Yuci really had come back.

Wen Yuci was dressed in black clothes, sitting quietly on the sofa as if abandoned by the entire world, with the light falling on her from above, coating her in a layer of serene glow.

Seeing her as if forsaken by the whole world, Fu Yunshen felt a sharp pain in his chest.

He rushed to her side in a few quick strides.

“Ci Ci…” His voice was too husky to recognize.

Wen Yuci slowly raised her head and looked at him.

He seemed to have drunk quite a bit, the blood-red tinge in his slender phoenix eyes showed signs of intoxication, his handsome face tense as he carefully watched her.

Her eyes held no emotion, only endless indifference and detachment.

Such a gaze made him feel incredibly estranged.

He would rather she hated him.

“Ci Ci, I know you’re deeply hurt by your father’s death, I didn’t expect such an accident to happen, I’m so sorry…”

Wen Yuci’s voice, calm and cold as still water, responded, “Fu Yunshen, have you had enough of this game?”

Fu Yunshen’s lean frame stiffened sharply.

He looked at her, his brows slightly furrowing, “What do you mean?”

“Can your revenge come to an end now? I’ve been humiliated by you like a dog for so long, my father has even lost his life, do you still want to continue this?”

In Fu Yunshen’s deep blood-red phoenix eyes, waves began to stir, “Do you want to leave me?”

“Do you think we can still go on? On the day my father was buried, my mother also tried to kill herself by swallowing sleeping pills.”

“Fortunately, she narrowly escaped death.”

“Fu Yunshen, if you’re still bent on revenge, you can stab me to death right now!”

She handed him a sharp dagger.

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