Chapter 1880: Huo Zhenteng is a Great Sucker

She understood her father; for her sake, he would exhaust everything he had.

She did not want to become a burden to anyone, so, right now, death was the only path left!

Li Xueer gritted her teeth and climbed onto the railing... "Oh no, someone is going to jump off the bridge!"

"Someone come quickly, help!"

Li Xueer's actions were discovered, and kind-hearted people immediately surrounded her to pull her back.

Li Xueer was held back, still struggling: "Let go of me, you all let go of me..."

Zichen was coming out of the police station and passing by the bridge when he happened to spot Li Xue preparing to commit suicide.

He hurriedly stopped his car, lunged over to grab her, and pulled her down without a word.

Seeing Zichen, Li Xueer's emotions became even more agitated.

"Don't stop me. I've ruined you; why won't you let me die? This is what I deserve. If I die, everyone will be at ease..."

Li Xueer used all her strength to struggle, determined to die.

She had left a suicide note in her bag, which detailed the entire process of how she had met Huo Zhenteng.

As long as she died, this suicide note could be exposed, and then, even if Huo Zhenteng had heaven-reaching abilities, he wouldn't be able to do anything to Sheng Zichen.

But Sheng Zichen was stubbornly holding onto her, refusing to let go no matter what.

"Don't be foolish. What kind of earth-shattering problem is there that can't be solved? Let's live well and solve it together..."

"If you die, what will your father do? He went to fight Huo Zhenteng for your sake and is now locked up in the police station. If anything happens to you, he won't be able to go on living either."

Mentioning Lao Litou, Li Xue finally became less resolute.

She hesitated for just a moment, and was pulled down by Sheng Zichen.

The two sat in the car, and Zichen asked her why she had lost the will to live.

"I want to, I don't want to live anymore, I've lived enough."

She clearly did not want to tell the truth.

Zichen stopped asking and instead stated the answer directly: "You want to use your death to ruin Huo Zhenteng's plan so he can't stir up trouble behind my back. Do you think your death will make him find his conscience?"

"It won't at all. That kind of person has no conscience to begin with. If you die, he will still oppose me, and he might even slander you, claiming you committed some unspeakable act that led you to suicide..."

Li Xue became anxious the moment she heard this. She took the suicide note out of her bag and handed it to Zichen: "You're just like my dad, always thinking I'm impulsive and brainless. I have a brain; I wrote a suicide note. I've exposed Huo Zhenteng's true face in it; he won't be able to get away with it."

Zichen said unhurriedly: "Even if you expose it, what can you do? At most, he will face moral condemnation, and after a while, no one will remember you, except for your father... and me!"

"We will feel guilty, and because of our own negligence, we will have lost your young life. We will feel guilty for the rest of our lives, and our consciences will never be at peace!"

Li Xueer began to shed tears, falling like beads from a broken string!

Seeing this, Zichen didn't comfort her, but instead added fuel to the fire: "Cry. Being able to cry means you aren't completely stupid yet, there's still hope!"

Hearing him say this, Li Xueer stopped crying and glared at him fiercely.

She wanted to say, can you not have a little sympathy?

But then she thought, she didn't need sympathy; only the weak hope to be sympathized with. Deep down, Li Xueer was still very strong-willed; she didn't like others pitying or sympathizing with her.

Thinking this way, she stopped crying.

"I've caused big trouble. Huo Zhenteng won't let me go..."

Zichen said: "No, you've got it backward. It's not about whether he lets you go, but that I won't let him go."

The two conspired together for two hours, and by the time the car drove away, Li Xueer had completely abandoned the thought of suicide!

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The news of Li Xueer trying to jump off the bridge spread to the internet, causing a huge uproar.

The exorbitant breach of contract fee at Caifeng Restaurant was the key, attracting many people's attention.

At this time, a Lüshi stepped forward, pointing out that such a contract was illegal and that the person in charge of Caifeng Restaurant should be held accountable.

Because of the Lüshi's intervention, it also caught the attention of relevant departments. Caifeng Restaurant was ordered to rectify its operations due to suspected malicious competition and fraud against employees, and it was temporarily forbidden from opening.

After the matter continued to ferment, the investor behind Huo Zhenteng could no longer sit still. He summoned Huo Zhenteng and scolded him severely, telling him to eliminate the impact immediately, otherwise he wouldn't spare him!

Huo Zhenteng agreed timidly, his head spinning!

He couldn't afford to offend his boss. Although the thin man in front of him looked refined, he was a truly ruthless character and even had underworld connections.

If it were in the past, Huo Zhenteng would not have been willing to cooperate with such a person, because these people were cruel and very difficult to deal with.

But now he had no choice; his money had been exhausted in his several battles of wits with Sheng Zichen.

His life's work had all gone down the drain, and he felt such hatred in his heart that he risked everything to accept the boss's investment, preparing to fight Sheng Zichen one more time!

But the boss wasn't willing; the boss wanted to make money and didn't want to become a tool for him to use!

As the boss left, he issued a harsh threat: "Eliminate all impact within three days and open for business to make money, otherwise I won't let you see the sun on the fourth day."

Huo Zhenteng stewed at home for two days, unable to think of any solution. With no other options, he had to bite the bullet and go to Sheng Zichen to apologize and admit his mistakes.

"Chairman Sheng, I was wrong. Please be magnanimous and let me off the hook, considering that I once helped you make money..."

Zichen sneered: "I let you off? If I let you off this time, will you bite me again once you recover? How many times have I experienced such things? I don't want the story of the farmer and the snake to play out on me over and over again."

Huo Zhenteng knew that a few simple words could never make him change his mind.

Without hesitation, he knelt down with a "thud."

"As long as you let me off this time, you can set any conditions. I will agree to everything; I just want to keep my life."

Based on his understanding of Sheng Zichen, as long as he knelt, Sheng Zichen would definitely soften his heart.

This person was smart, but kind and soft-hearted.

In his impression, kindness and soft-heartedness were synonymous with cowardice and uselessness; such a person could never accomplish great things!

But he still kept an ace up his sleeve, after all, he had offended Sheng Zichen too severely.

There was also a possibility that Sheng Zichen wouldn't soften his heart.

If he didn't soften his heart, it would just happen to fall into his trap, and then he would turn from passive to active, and everything would be easy to handle.

Huo Zhenteng was thinking of a scheme to kill two birds with one stone, but he had not expected that Sheng Zichen would actually have a third solution.

However, Sheng Zichen only glanced at him indifferently, without the slightest intention of softening his heart, much less any intention of telling him to get up.

"Yo, are you trying to make things difficult for me, trying to force me to do as you ask? Or did you secretly bring a camera, wanting to put on a bitter ruse and release it to win sympathy? If that's really the case, then just keep kneeling; I wouldn't want to ruin your plan."

Huo Zhenteng:...

He never imagined that the brilliant plan he had racked his brains to come up with would be seen through in an instant.

"I didn't, don't you wrong me!"

"Whether it's a wrong or not, it will soon be clear. If you are old and have a bad memory, I will help you recall how many times you have plotted against me."

"The first time, I was a freshman in university..."

Sheng Zichen went through every single incident of Huo Zhenteng plotting against him, one by one, as if he were counting his own family treasures.

Several times in the middle, Huo Zhenteng tried to interrupt, but was stopped right at the start: "Don't be impatient, just kneel properly and listen to me finish; you only need to answer whether it's true or not."

"If there is a single word of falsehood in what I say, you can refute it immediately, and then we will verify it right away..."