923 A Million Times for You 285 (1/2)

The door opened with a loud and crisp sound, and in came Tuoba Gucheng, just like An Xiaoning had expected.

Standing with his hands behind his back, he said with a sullen expression, ”Are you still refusing to admit it now?”

”Admit what? Are you afraid even though all of you are in cahoots?” she sneered sarcastically with a smile.

”I can't believe you're still smiling when things have already come to this.”

”Am I supposed to fulfill your wishes by crying? Am I supposed to plead with you and beg you for mercy? Like I mentioned before, I'll never concede and give in to you ever again from now on. However, do you still remember that get-out-of-jail-free card that you'd given me in the past? You said that you'd spare my life no matter what happens, as long as it's not related to Jin Qingyan. I still have that message. Would you like to keep your promise, Your Majesty?” she asked, staring at him.

He would have forgotten it if she had not brought it up.

He suddenly recalled it now that she mentioned it.

It was just a casual promise that he had made back then. It had never crossed his mind that she would actually put it to use.

”I will keep my promise, but not right now. You may be spared from death, but you can't be spared from the punishment. Don't think that there's nothing we can do about you just because you refuse to confess and because we don't have any solid proof. I shall see if your beloved man will come and save you now. I shall see if he'll let himself get embroiled into this because of you.”

After a moment of silence, An Xiaoning said, ”Why are you standing up for Lin Shishi when you don't even love her at all? I refuse to believe that you're on such good terms with your parents-in-law. You claim that you love me, yet you try to kill me time and time again. You clearly knew that it was the Lin family that tried to poison me and my family. You were well aware of that and yet you didn't try to stop them. I can never figure out what you're thinking, Your Majesty. You really have a very unique way of handling matters. I shouldn't have thought that you were different from your mother when I entered the Autumn Palace back then. I used to think that you and your mother were vastly different individuals. However, I gradually realized that you're no different from her. You've long been influenced by your mother's vicious ways. Perhaps it's just in your blood all along. How I wish my biological father could return to his position as the president now! I may not wish to acknowledge him at all, but my biological father would at least treat me way better than my half-brother!”

Tuoba Gucheng was shocked out of his senses.

”Ever since you became the president and Lin Shishi became your wife, both of you have begun drifting farther and farther away from your morals. I've never thought of reincarnating as a human in my next life. Perhaps I'll be banished to the eighteenth level of hell and suffer a great ton of pain in the netherworld. However, I'm not going to allow you people to insult and bully me and my family while I'm alive. As long as I'm still breathing, I'll never allow it!” An Xiaoning said while he was remaining silent.

Tuoba Gucheng was seething with anger after hearing her words, which were like hard slaps to his face.

”Are you never going to confess even if you die?” he questioned sternly.

”I'll need to see the evidence before pleading guilty. Where's your evidence? Please show me the solid proof before you talk to me about owning up!”

”How are you going to explain the fact that you tried to harm Shishi?”

”Both you and I know clearly what is going on. Is there really a point in asking such a redundant question? Lin Shishi tried to shoot me dead but she failed and, in turn, she decided to shoot herself instead. What a fool!”

”We only know that you tried to kill Shishi but failed to do so and hence you shot her in her leg instead. I reckon the citizens will definitely stand together and request the governement to execute you for attempting to murder the president's wife.”

Clenching her fists tightly, An Xiaoning said, ”I think it's the citizens' misfortune to have you as their president. I'm looking forward to the day that you're dethroned.”

”What did you say!?!” he hollered, glaring at her sternly.

”I said that I'm looking forward to the day that you're dethroned, are you deaf? Although the presidency of S Nation follows a hereditary system, I doubt there has been any president in the past who has lost his position in less than two years, is there?”