Chapter 187 Despair is the Greatest Sorrow (1/2)
Finding Li Xiaomeng is pushing a knife against his chest, the man is surprised: “Darling, why do you push the knife against me?”
“Don’t move!” Li Xiaomeng stops the man who wants to move the knife and says with a grim smile: “I still had a hint of fantasy just now, but the fact is you are really here!”
“I’m waiting for you here! Darling, why are you covered with blood? What’s wrong with you?” The man looks surprised.
“You must have never thought I could stand in front you, staying alive.” Li Xiaomeng covers her belly tightly and glares at the man, “Indeed, if Beardman hadn’t save me at the cost of his life, I had died with the faulty car as you expected.”
The man’s eyes pop: “Beardman died? How could the car be faulty? Darling, what’s the matter on earth?”
Li Xiaomeng rebukes him angrily: “Enough! How long will you keep performing?”
“Darling, what are you talking about? Darling, you don’t look well.” The man looks innocent and wants to support Li Xiaomeng who is on the verge of collapse.
Li Xaiomeng throws him off with force. Then she feels dizzy and steps back to hold the trunk quickly. A stream of hot liquid gushes from her body again, and her belly aches more and more badly as if it is wrung. She bites her lips tightly, closes her eyes and manages to stand firmly.
“Three years ago, you appeared in my life suddenly. At that time, my mom just died and I needed a shoulder to lean against. I never thought I would fall in love with you and love you crazily. Seeing you make plans for our future again and again, I thought you really loved me as well. Seeing you feeling helpless because of money, I told you the secret of the coffer. I returned to B City with you to carry out the plan for the key. I sowed discord among Qiao Keren and others, seduced Han Siqi and framed Fu Zhengzheng with the meanest tricks, just for the future blueprint you designed for us! Unexpectedly, you want to kill me for money! You have never loved me from the beginning to end, right? Your love for me is fake from the beginning to end, right? Why are you so cruel?”
Li Xiaomeng becomes increasingly emotional and almost roars.
“Darling, don’t be emotional! It’s just accidental that the car’s brakes didn’t work!”
Li Xiaomeng points out his error immediately: “I just said the car was faulty. Did I say the brakes didn’t work?”
The man is struck dumb.
Li Xiaomeng chokes back tears that are almost gushing out, approaches the man, pushes the knife against his chest once more and speaks slowly: “If you had known the coffer wasn’t accessible without a map, you mustn’t have been so eager to kill me, right? You must be regretting bitterly, right?”
The man knows he can’t pretend any longer, so he splits her wrist with his palm when Li Xiaomeng is off guard. She feels hurt so her hand lets the knife loose. The knife drops on the ground, and the man steps it under his feet quickly and clutches Li Xiaomeng’s neck, baring his ferocious feature: “Give me the map!”
Li Xiaomeng is almost out of breath, but she still says intermittently and unconcernedly: “You…want…the…map? No…way…”
The man loosens his grip suddenly. Li Xiaomeng collapses on the ground and pants.
“Li Xiaomeng, I’ll give you one more chance. Give me the map, or I’ll kill you!”
Li Xiaomeng bends over the ground, panting and looking up at the man she loves deeply, with her eyes full of hatred and sorrow.
After quite a long time, she begins to smile quietly: “My mom told me there are many gold bars, diamonds and antiques. They were accumulated by my dad in more than half of his life by means of harming others. My mom said I wouldn’t run out of them even in several lifetimes. You are eager to open the coffer and pocket the treasure, aren’t you?”
The man keeps silent and just stares at Li Xiaomeng.
Li Xiaomeng laughs again: “I know you want it, but without the map you can’t enter. There’re lots of traps inside, if you enter without the map, you will die. Of course, if you blow it up with force, that’s OK…”
The man’s eyes light up. Li Xiaomeng pauses and continues with a smile: “When the tomb was built, a special interlayer was made and filled with highly corrosive liquid. If it’s blown up with force, the liquid will corrode the treasure and you will get nothing.”
“You!” The man is furious. He clutches Li Xiaomeng’s neck again and splutters: “Give me the map now!”
“I don’t have the map with me.”
“Where?”
“At a place that you can never think of. Just keep the key and dream of becoming rich in your remaining years.” Li Xiaomeng laughs grimly.
“Li Xiaomeng!” The man is mad.
Her belly is more painful and beams of sweat flow down her forehead. Li Xiaomeng doesn’t wipe them, because she sees the man’s murderous eyes. Gritting her teeth, she asks again: “Tell me, have you ever loved me? Even if only a little?”
“Do you really want to know?” The man looks down and sideways at her, bends down slowly and speaks softly near her ear.
Li Xiaomeng’s pale face becomes ashy. She points to the man and chokes with shock: “You… you should be…”
The man’s face is full of hostility: “Yes!”
“A father’s debts are paid by his child, ho-ho… Indeed, a man can’t serve the devil, or retribution will come in the end.” Li Xiaomeng, whose face turns ashy, talks to herself, covering her belly with hands.
This may be the retribution…
She killed Nie Wan’s baby for a man, so her kid paid for life with life?
Suddenly Li Xiaomeng draws a small fruit knife and stabs him in the chest. The man pushes her away with pain, kicks her with force and then steps back painfully, covering the bleeding chest.