1202 I Want to Make You Stay 80 (1/2)
”Isn't it a woman's duty to give birth? It doesn't matter how many children you bear. Besides, the child will still be your flesh and blood. We don't have to worry about the costs of raising a child anyway. We can totally afford to raise them. I like children too. If we end up with lots of children, don't complain that they're too noisy or annoying.”
”Why would I complain? I would be over the moon. You're right, Lele. Hurry and have something to eat. You must be famished,” he said in a gentle and tender voice.
Wen Lele nodded and began eating while sitting cross-legged on the bed.
”By the way, I actually want to know about something. Could you answer me truthfully?”
”Speak.”
”There are lots of rumors and theories about you online. However, I'd like to hear it from you. Why did you divorce An Xiaoning and Jin Qingyue?”
”Well, I utterly detested An Xiaoning, and my grandfather was the one who arranged for me to marry her. I wasn't willing to comply at all. We were merely married in name and I didn't get intimate with her at all. As for Jin Qingyue, I did fancy her quite a bit and I married her willingly. However, we started facing some problems after we moved in together and we had lots of conflicts. We would inevitably argue every now and then. Later on, she tried to destroy me by colluding with her brother to acquire my company. They even caused me to be put behind bars for a few years. How could I continue living with such a woman? The truth speaks for itself, and it's proven that I had made the right choice by divorcing her.”
”That just means she's not fated to be by your side for the rest of your life. If she didn't divorce you, I wouldn't have been able to marry you.”
”Yes, yes, you're the one whom I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. Hurry and eat up.”
Shi Bao'er had been eavesdropping on them while standing behind the full-length curtain. She bit her lip and stood rooted to the ground.
To her astonishment, her father did not leave the room and instead rushed to consummate his marriage before nighttime even arrived.
He had no idea that Shi Bao'er was hiding in his room. As a result, she heard everything while he got intimate with his new wife.
Having satisfied his desires, Shi Shaochuan left the room while Wen Lele dozed off slowly.
Shi Bao'er finally tiptoed out of the curtain. She recalled the incident wherein she tried to set Bu Xianxian on fire using some perfume and lighter. However, her plans were foiled in the end because Bu Xianxian had managed to run out of the room in time.
Shi Bao'er had learned from her experience after a failed attempt. This time, she took out a rope that she had prepared beforehand and squatted down beside the bed. She tied the rope gently around Wen Lele's ankles to bind her to the bed.
She then walked to the headboard and painstakingly tied Wen Lele's arms to the bed while trying her best not to wake her up.
She then returned to her own room and brought a can of petrol, which she had found in the garage, back to Shi Shaochuan's bedroom. The can was rather small. In order to hide it in her room, she'd had to place it elsewhere after stealing it from the garage and waited until midnight to smuggle it back into her room.
Wen Lele did not have her guard up against Shi Bao'er at all. Thus, she had no idea that she had already been put in danger while she was sound asleep.
By the time she was jolted awake from her dreams, she was already covered in flames from head to toe. She shrieked in terror at the top of her lungs while struggling to break free, not knowing what had happened at all. She was clueless as to who had tied her to the bed and lit her ablaze. She had no idea who was trying to kill her!