Chapter 81: Night Encounter with Assassins

Silently watching Ning Ruoxue, Chen Yu felt somewhat moved in his heart; this woman before his eyes had sacrificed too much for him. Why was he so blind in his past life, choosing to revolve around a woman with such deep schemes as Li Qingwan?

"What do you plan to do?" Chen Yu asked.

"Submit it and clear Chen Yu's name," Ning Ruoxue said coldly. "Make Zhou Lin face justice."

"But what good would that do? He is already dead," Chen Yu smiled. "Besides, letting Zhou Lin go in like that would be letting him off too easily."

"What do you want to do?" Ning Ruoxue turned back to look at Chen Yu.

"Some things do not belong to them; the way they obtained them is how they shall lose them," Chen Yu smiled. "The Chen Group has already been renamed the Qingwan Group, right?"

"Yes, named after Li Qingwan. Li Qingwan is the company's largest shareholder, followed by Zhou Lin. The two of them control the company. They will return from overseas soon, and the company will launch its IPO," Ning Ruoxue said.

"An IPO is good," Chen Yu smiled. "The more smug Zhou Lin and Li Qingwan are, the harder we will let them fall. The night before the IPO, we will send them a grand gift."

"Mm," Ning Ruoxue looked at Chen Yu and said, "I'm hungry, I want to eat something."

"You never eat late-night snacks, what's wrong today? Come, I'll treat you," Chen Yu adjusted his mood and smiled.

"How do you know I don't eat late-night snacks?" Ning Ruoxue looked up and asked.

"This... don't all girls avoid late-night snacks? Afraid of getting fat," Chen Yu paused, finding a random excuse to brush it off.

"You know about my hidden ailment, you know what medicine I take, you know I drink coffee without sugar, and you also know I don't eat late-night snacks." But this time, Ning Ruoxue did not seem so easily fooled.

She stared fixedly at Chen Yu: "You are also called Chen Yu, and you are very attentive to the affairs of my late friend. That feeling is as if it were your own business. Tell me, who exactly are you?"

"I am Chen Yu," Chen Yu smiled, "the same name as your friend, I..."

"You are him." Ning Ruoxue's eyes were red. She suddenly grabbed Chen Yu, her nails digging deep into his flesh: "You are that Chen Yu."

Chen Yu was stunned. A woman's sixth sense is extremely strong; perhaps she had already sensed something was wrong, but how was he supposed to explain it to her?

"Tell me the truth." Ning Ruoxue suddenly lunged from the passenger seat, pushed the seat back, and pressed down on Chen Yu's body.

Her soft, delicate body was burning hot, and Chen Yu felt a ball of fire ignite in his chest.

"Tell me the truth, I beg you. I don't know why you became like this, appearing by my side with such an identity, but I can feel it—you are him," Ning Ruoxue's tears fell like rain.

"You don't know how I've spent this past year or more. I didn't dare to sleep because as soon as I fell asleep, I would dream of you. When you were alive, watching you with my best friend, I was content just being a friend."

"But only after you were gone did I realize how much I loved you. Chen Yu, tell me, why did it turn out like this?"

Chen Yu did not speak. The woman before him was the regret he missed in his past life. Only now did he realize her worth, but now, saying anything was too late.

He gently stroked Ning Ruoxue's hair, pulled her onto his chest, and whispered: "Ruoxue, I admit it, I am him. I will tell you the truth, but now is not the time."

"Don't ask me what happened; that might implicate you. You only need to wait. Wait until that day when I am strong enough that no one can manipulate my fate, and no one can hurt the people around me again—then I will tell you everything."

Ning Ruoxue's heart trembled. She sat up abruptly, staring at Chen Yu in disbelief.

"This is real, you are actually..."

"Don't say it," Chen Yu gently covered her mouth and smiled: "Just knowing it in your heart is enough. Don't tell anyone, okay?"

"I won't ask, and I won't tell," Ning Ruoxue nodded desperately. Although she had a belly full of questions for Chen Yu, she had to hold them back.

"Can you... get down first?" Chen Yu said awkwardly. Now that Ning Ruoxue was pressing on him, a ball of wicked fire was burning fiercely in his chest.

"No," Ning Ruoxue arched her brows and reached out to undo Chen Yu's belt: "I missed you in my past life; in this life, I won't miss you again."

"Don't be like this, Ruoxue. I... I am not the him from before. I have a wife now, and my wife is pregnant," Chen Yu was shocked.

"I don't care, I just want you. Your wife can be the main, I'll be the secondary. I don't even need a title," Ning Ruoxue did not slow her movements at all.

Chen Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He was a normal man; it was already hard enough not being able to touch the beautiful Ye Xinyu every day. Was this a challenge to his bottom line?

Should he? Just give in?

Suddenly, an extremely dangerous feeling surged from Chen Yu's heart. He grabbed Ning Ruoxue and rolled into the back seat of the car.

The moment he rolled over, there was a soft 'pfft' sound—the sound of a gun with a silencer—and 'Bang!', the glass of the G-Wagon was shattered.

"What's wrong?" Ning Ruoxue gasped.

"Don't move, assassins," Chen Yu pressed her beneath his body and looked outside.

He saw three men in black suits holding guns, approaching from both sides.

Chen Yu seized the moment and kicked the car door. 'Boom!', the door was kicked off by him, and with a 'bang', one assassin was knocked to the ground.

Chen Yu quickly rolled out, keeping his figure low, and sprinted forward rapidly.

The other two assassins raised their guns and fired at Chen Yu. Chen Yu flipped and leaped up, already holding two pieces of broken glass in his hands. He flicked his hands to both sides, 'shoo shoo'—two sounds—and the other two assassins collapsed to the ground, clutching their necks.

"Chen Yu, are you okay?" Ning Ruoxue ran out and hugged Chen Yu tightly.

She knew that this man was a person from a past life. She hadn't held onto him in the previous life; in this life, no matter what, she could not let go.

"I'm fine. Why did you run out?" Chen Yu pulled her behind him and scanned the surroundings vigilantly. Only when he saw that all sides were safe did he heave a sigh of relief.

"Who are these people? Did Zhou Lin send them?" Ning Ruoxue looked at the people on the ground. She was somewhat startled and somewhat angry; these people had ruined her good moment.

"Not necessarily. My enemies now are not just Zhou Lin," Chen Yu stared at the people on the ground, pondering.

Suddenly, a burst of an infant's crying came from the Bamboo Forest to the side. The place where Chen Yu had parked was originally a very remote spot, and there was a Bamboo Forest on the edge.

The infant's crying was extremely loud, and in the night, it gave people a hair-raising feeling.

"Where is a child crying?" Ning Ruoxue was startled.

Suddenly, a figure flashed, and a half-meter-tall infant wobbled out from the Bamboo Forest.

The infant was made of a puppet; it had a large head, a small body, no pupils in its black eyes, and a large mouth that occupied almost half of its head.