After Lu Yuanhong put the younger child to sleep, he returned to the bedroom and saw Jia Nanfang drinking his wine. He said irritably, "Why aren't you back yet?"
"You're so eager to get rid of me. You think I'm old and faded, and you don't even want to look at me anymore," Jia Nanfang said with a smile, setting down her wine glass.
Lu Yuanhong said agitatedly, "What time is it now? You still have the mood to say these things. I think it's best for you to hurry and take that child and leave Lancheng to hide somewhere."
"And you? Don't you think you're already being watched by the police? I feel like the person who should leave Lancheng the quickest is you," Jia Nanfang reminded him.
"Don't you understand? Even if I want to leave Lancheng, I have to wait until the acquisition of the Shu Group is successful," Lu Yuanhong opened another bottle of wine and said, "The police have only cracked one factory. What evidence related to me could be in a factory? That damned A Mei, even if she gave the USB drive to the police, what does the content have to do with me? And that A Ban, even if he's an undercover agent, I haven't let him access any core operations, so what useful evidence can he get?"
"It's fine as long as you think you're okay," Jia Nanfang already had her own plans. She felt that all these incidents were directed at Lu Yuanhong, which only meant that the police had been watching him for a long time, and he would have an accident sooner or later.
Now that Shu Yan's revenge had been served, she only wanted to turn a blind eye to Lu Yuanhong's arrogance and self-righteousness. Before he had an accident, she wanted to transfer his assets as much as possible and pave the way for herself and Shu Yan's child.
As for her feelings for Lu Yuanhong over the years, she had grown indifferent. His desire to acquire the Shu Group was his own obsession, and it had nothing to do with her. Now, she only wanted to secure her own benefits.
Lu Yuanhong ignored her and continued drinking by himself.
Jia Nanfang said with boredom, "Then I'll be going. Take care of yourself. Do A Mei's two children need to be placed with me first? For safety, those charitable foundations under your name can..."
"No need. I've already contacted schools abroad for those two children to study. Someone will send them over," Lu Yuanhong interrupted her. "As for the money laundered under the guise of charitable foundations, I'll transfer some of it to your name as living expenses and education funds for Xiaoxiao. It can be considered a small compensation for Yan."
"Alright, since you have arrangements, I won't say anything more," Jia Nanfang said, picked up her bag and car keys, and left.
To be honest, she didn't want to stay here for another moment, especially since this bedroom used to be where Lu Yuanhong and A Mei lived, which made her feel disgusted.
Lu Yuanhong called out to her retreating back, "After the acquisition is done, we'll get married. After we're married, all my money will be yours, so you don't need to be so anxious."
Jia Nanfang looked back at him, and her past feelings resurfaced. "Okay, I'll wait for the day we can officially get married."
Lu Yuanhong waved at her, and she left the house. She got into her car, and the sky was already starting to turn light.
...
Not long after Lu Yuanhong left the children's room, the older boy opened his eyes and ran to the bedroom window, pulling the curtain open a crack to look out at the garden.
In fact, the older boy had also been woken up when his younger brother was crying and asking to find their mother.
When Lu Yuanhong returned to the children's room with his brother, he pretended to be asleep because he had just had a terrible dream where his mother said she was leaving them forever, and his father stood beside her with a ferocious expression.
The streetlights in the garden were dim at night, but he could still see two people digging a hole by the garden wall, with something wrapped in a white sheet next to them.
"Brother, the sheet is wrapped around Mama," the younger one, who had somehow come to his side, also leaned by the window, looking blankly at everything happening in the garden.
The older boy disbelievingly said to his brother, "Don't talk nonsense. Mama is sleeping now, how could she be there?"
"I'm not talking nonsense. I just saw Mama's face, but no matter how much I cried, she wouldn't wake up. That Grandma Jia also said Mama was trash to be thrown away," the younger one said earnestly. A bodyguard, who was digging, accidentally bumped into A Mei's body wrapped in the sheet, startling him. He kicked it, and the already loose sheet became even looser, revealing A Mei's blood-covered face.
"Mama, it's Mama, I want to go find Mama." The younger one was still completely unaware of what was happening, thinking that the blood on A Mei's face was red makeup.
The older one understood much more. He quickly covered his brother's mouth to prevent him from running into the garden to find A Mei. He realized that his mother was dead, and the blood on her face was not makeup. He whispered to his brother, "Don't go, don't go. If that man finds out, he'll kill you too."
The younger one tried to break free from him, not understanding what he was saying, and was about to cry loudly to find his mother. The older one vaguely knew that his father must have killed their mother because the two uncles digging the hole were his father's subordinates. He decided that he would never call that man "Dad" again. He hated that man, but he was also very scared. He had to protect his brother and himself, and then avenge their mother when he grew up.
"Be good, you saw wrong. That's not Mama. The woman below is not our Mama. Our Mama would never wear such ugly makeup," the older boy coaxed his brother.
The younger one stopped crying and asked, "Brother, you're right. Our Mama is so beautiful, so beautiful."
The older boy nodded, gently closed the gap in the curtains, and pulled his brother to bed to sleep. "We should sleep. When we wake up tomorrow, we'll see Mama."
The younger one stopped fussing and fell asleep as soon as he lay down. The older boy, however, nervously and fearfully covered his head with the quilt. From tonight on, they had no mother, only a devilish father.
...
Qin Tianyi had been staying at Su Kangxi's place for the past two days and hadn't gone out. He only followed the acquisition of the Shu Group online. Lu Yuanhong was only three percent of the shares away from having an absolute advantage. Xiao Anjing, perhaps out of options, had publicly confronted Lu Yuanhong in the acquisition of the Shu Group. Meanwhile, Susu couldn't show herself yet, and the Shu Group shares she held couldn't be revealed, which was their final trump card in this acquisition battle against Lu Yuanhong. If Xiao Anjing could hold on for one or two more days, the dawn would break, and the current situation would be completely different.
As he was thinking this, Su Kangxi's call came through. As soon as he answered, he heard Su Kangxi's excited voice, "The arrest warrant has been issued. Our bureau is about to send people to arrest Lu Yuanhong."
"That's great!" Qin Tianyi's eyes instantly turned red. "The arrest warrant has finally been approved, that's really great!"
"Wait for the good news of Lu Yuanhong's arrest," Su Kangxi said and hung up.