Chapter 425 - Untitled (2/2)

What good was it for a man like him to be alive?

He asked himself mockingly.

Then, he took out his mobile phone and swapped the SIM card to transfer two hundred dollars into an account. That's right. He was 'A Sunny Day will Come'. He knew she liked to paint, and so he entrusted someone to take over that online illustration art studio. From there, he used the studio as his cover to hire her to work for him and maintained his distance while chatting regularly with her.

However, he did not make any attempts to inquire about her. He knew she was staying with a man, and that man had an adorable daughter. At times, Chu Lui thought he might already have his own child if he hadn't treated her that viciously. If he did, his child would have been about three or four years old. Although everything had happened in the past, his regrets were all the same.

In this world, there was no lack of apologies, but it was lacking things that didn't matter.

In this world, there was no lack of regrets, but many had lacked the foresight to preempt the future.

If he hadn't acted like he had, there wouldn't be a need for apologies that didn't matter now.

He had rendered her unable to conceive a child, and now, he was suffering from the same fate. This was his karma. He had always been an atheist, but now, he believed in God wholeheartedly. Finally.

This was his karma. He had planted the seeds himself and tasted the consequences.

It wasn't because he didn't deserve any retribution. It simply wasn't his time yet.

Yes, Li Manni. It wasn't because you didn't deserve retribution. Your time would come. His eyes started to narrow in cruelty but were suppressed by his years of tolerance.

He was no longer the same Chu Lui from four years ago, and he wouldn't do some things again.

However, he would be certain to seek his due compensation from those who had owed him. No matter what.

Nevertheless, who could tell him if he wouldn't find his child or have one of his own? Was it even possible? This was something that had no medical solution. Who could he seek help from? Who would compensate him or take the blame?

”Lui…” A gentle voice called out from outside the door.

A feeling of frustration washed over Chu Lui. He removed his hands from his eyes and opened them lazily as he stared at the door with semi-opened eyes, like a black panther waiting for its chance to pounce on a pig, to break its neck, drink its blood, and feast on its flesh.

Li Manni shuddered as she felt a sudden chill while she stood outside the study room. She wrapped her clothes tightly around her body while she wondered how quickly the weather had changed. It wasn't autumn yet, but the cold had come early. She was thinking of buying some new clothes as a backup because her belly was growing by the day, and she wouldn't be able to fit in her current ones. Eventually, the clothes she had now would be outdated after she gave birth. She would have to buy new ones again.

”Lui, are you in there? I made you some coffee.”

Li Manni stood by the door and knocked gently as she asked. The Chu Lui that she knew now was scaring her. She didn't dare to enter the study which was also his home office. It had always been so. When Chu Lui was working, he resembled more like a machine than a human being. There was a saying that aptly described him: 'let those who comply with me thrive and those who resist me perish'. Although he wouldn't curse her at full blast like he would to his employees in the office when she opened the door, she would still be subjected to his stern expression which would indicate his displeasure.

To a workaholic, being interrupted abruptly was definitely annoying.

There was no response from inside the study. Li Manni began to feel unsettled by arrogance and impatient. It was rushing up to her head, clouding her judgment.

”Lui, I'm coming in.”