Upon hearing Duan Muxing's words, Lin Xingwan's face was filled with an expression of disbelief.
Although she had already considered leaving, due to the immense difficulty of her future path and the fact that she had become Duan Muxing's pawn, this man would not stop until he achieved his goal. If she didn't leave Zhou Jinbai, the ultimate outcome would be Zhou Jinbai not surviving for more than six months.
For both public and private reasons, she had to leave Zhou Jinbai.
Seeing Lin Xingwan's conflicted expression, Duan Muxing couldn't help but speak, "Of course, if you regret it, you can call Zhou Jinbai right now and have him come pick you up. After all, I truly admire his love for you, to the point of daring to kill Elder Liang and causing such a huge mess. Who knows how many people in the Dongfang family are excited, as they've been waiting to find leverage against Zhou Jinbai."
Lin Xingwan naturally understood Duan Muxing's words.
He was telling her that Zhou Jinbai was currently facing attacks from both sides: the Liang family from the Black Triangle seeking revenge, and his own family members stirring up trouble. He was in a situation of being besieged.
"I won't go to Zhou Jinbai, so you can give him the antidote now."
Lin Xingwan spoke, this time she would do what she wanted to do.
"If you don't appear before him, then that medicine in his body will have no hidden dangers. After all, why should I believe that you will never appear before Zhou Jinbai in this lifetime?"
Duan Muxing said, then looked at Lin Xingwan with a half-smile.
Lin Xingwan knew that this man was not someone who easily trusted others, so she didn't dwell on the matter any further. As long as Zhou Jinbai was not in mortal danger, that was enough.
"You said last time that when this day came, you would tell me about my mother. Now that I've made my choice, you can tell me about my mother, right?"
Lin Xingwan now only wanted to avenge her mother, and Duan Muxing was undoubtedly the key figure.
Duan Muxing put down his paintbrush. He was painting a picture of a blue sky and a vast sea, with many seagulls on the painting, giving a sense of exhilaration.
However, Duan Muxing directly threw the painting into the trash can, then turned around and spoke to Lin Xingwan, "Do you know the Cen family in Yanjing?"
Lin Xingwan nodded, "Yes."
After all, the Cen family in Yanjing had a very intelligent female heir named Cen Zhiyuan, who had been groomed as a successor since childhood and was Zhou Jinbai's fiancée!
Lin Xingwan had even looked up her information countless times. Naturally, she had some understanding of the Cen family in Yanjing.
Their strength was even comparable to the Dongfang family. However, in recent years, the focus of the Cen family in Yanjing had been overseas, which was why they were not as feared as the Dongfang family.
But the Cen family in Yanjing and the Dongfang family, these two major influential families, were existences that all other influential families could not surpass, nor did they have the opportunity to.
"I think my question was a bit redundant. After all, Zhou Jinbai should have told you a lot about the Cen family in Yanjing. However, what I'm about to tell you is not about the current generation of the Cen family in Yanjing, but about the previous generation."
Duan Muxing pushed his wheelchair, moving slowly in the vast room.
The man's slightly deep voice felt extremely comfortable in such clear weather.
"About the previous generation?"
Lin Xingwan's face was full of confusion, and Duan Muxing nodded, speaking again, "Cen Zhiyuan is just the heir of our generation, and Cen Zhiyuan's father was a once-in-a-century talent for the entire Cen family.
When I was young, my parents also took me to meet Cen Zhiyuan's father once. Even now, when I recall it, he was an exceptionally charismatic man. His name was Cen Jue. He was very rebellious from a young age. I heard my parents say that Cen Jue was a spoiled second-generation rich kid his whole life, but it must be admitted that no matter how much of a playboy Cen Jue was, he was still a genius of his generation. He often skipped classes, but his grades were always first in his grade; he disliked women, and the women who liked him from childhood could form a line to another country; even the tasks assigned by the Cen family to their heirs, Cen Jue would always complete them the earliest and most perfectly.
He even brought the Cen family a profit of twenty billion yuan at the age of twelve. At that time, twenty billion yuan was an astronomical sum, and any industry that Cen Jue took an interest in would immediately become a dark horse that broke through the competition. Every time my parents talked about Cen Jue, they hoped I could become like him."
Mentioning his parents, Duan Muxing's face showed an unconcealable sense of loss.
If it weren't for that person, he wouldn't have become like this, and it was all caused by that woman!
But he would soon be able to avenge his parents.
"How have I never heard of this man?" Lin Xingwan's tone was full of confusion. If he was the most outstanding person in the Cen family, there should be records of him online. But Lin Xingwan had searched so much information online and found no news about this man named Cen Jue!
"It's very normal that you haven't heard of him, and that you haven't seen him online, because all information about Cen Jue has been erased from the internet."
Duan Muxing was not surprised at all, and even chuckled, "Do you think what you see online is real? That's just what others want you to be able to find. As for Cen Jue's matters, only some slightly older influential families would know."
Lin Xingwan nodded, this time she didn't intend to interrupt.
"Cen Jue was young and arrogant. Because he had everything others envied, he considered himself aloof, but he didn't expect to fall for a woman. Even the companies managed by Cen Jue suffered many losses under this woman. Cen Jue met this woman because of a stunning online business war. This woman was a genius in computers. She not only disrupted the then-called most perfect defense system but also suggested improvements to the defense system developed by Cen Jue's company. Back then, any computer produced by Cen Jue's company would display the words 'trash' left by this woman upon booting up. These two words were also Cen Jue's dark history. At that time, anyone who saw these words would automatically think of Cen Jue, which shows how influential it was."
Lin Xingwan could completely imagine that scene. A proud son of heaven, who was adored wherever he went, was reduced to a laughingstock by that woman. Let alone Cen Jue, even Lin Xingwan felt she couldn't swallow this insult.
"At that time, Cen Jue always believed that the hacker who humiliated him was a man and vowed to deal with him! He even offered a bounty on the dark web, rewarding ten billion yuan to anyone who could capture this person! Back then, a million yuan was a sky-high price that could buy several houses. Ten billion yuan was an unprecedented temptation for all the top assassins and top detectives in the world. Everyone thought that Cen Jue would catch the instigator in a short period. But then a month passed, two months passed, even half a year passed, and no one claimed the ten billion yuan.
Later, the Cen family felt that Cen Jue was not young anymore. After all, he was not an ordinary man; he bore the important responsibility of continuing the Cen family line. Moreover, with Cen Jue's excellent genes, he should have more children, so that the overall genetic level of the Cen family could be improved, and there would be more excellent heirs in the future.
When the news of Cen Jue getting married was released, it was not just Yanjing that shook, but the entire Earth. Girls of marriageable age were collected from all over the world and then selected. Moreover, in order for the Cen family to achieve strong gene combinations, the list of candidate girls ranged from the globally most intelligent, to the globally most beautiful, to the globally most virtuous... The old master of the Cen family wished he could build a harem for his son, with three thousand beauties for Cen Jue to choose from, but Cen Jue was not interested in any of them. In the end, Old Master Cen became very anxious, and even arranged for him to meet his comrade's granddaughter."
Lin Xingwan saw a hint of excitement on Duan Muxing's face and knew that there was definitely something between this Cen Jue and the comrade's granddaughter.
"Did Cen Jue later fall in love with his comrade's granddaughter?" Lin Xingwan asked.
"Yes, and he loved her so much that he almost broke ties with the Cen family and turned his hair white overnight." Duan Muxing chuckled as he said this. He truly didn't understand why such love existed in the world. Turning white overnight, what kind of sorrow was that?
"Old Master Cen's comrade was from the Helian family, and the Helian family had a daughter named Helian Lingruo. She was not interested in feminine things since childhood and even went to the border with her grandfather to guard the frontier. It can be said that she was a modern-day Mulan. Later, the Helian family strongly opposed a girl constantly appearing in public, so Helian Lingruo had to return and was even forced by her grandfather to a blind date. At that time, Helian Lingruo and Cen Jue were both very dissatisfied with each other.
One was a playboy, and the other was an unfeminine socialite. The moment they met, they almost got into a fight because they had a feud before. However, fate always loves to play tricks on people. The two individuals with completely opposite personalities were arranged to meet more often. Cen Jue and Helian Lingruo met several more times, each encounter like a life-and-death struggle. However, Cen Jue surprisingly gradually found Helian Lingruo interesting, unlike those women who wanted to flatter him.
Just as Cen Jue was slowly developing a good impression of Helian Lingruo, he unexpectedly discovered that Helian Lingruo was the hacker who had caused him to lose face last time. Of course, at that time, Helian Lingruo didn't know that her identity had been revealed. Cen Jue began to tease Helian Lingruo. Many things happened between them that could lead them to sacrifice their lives for each other. However, in the end, the person Cen Jue married was not Helian Lingruo, but Helian Lingruo's sister."
"Why?"
Lin Xingwan blurted out the question immediately, while Duan Muxing said faintly, "Otherwise, there would be no you. Or you should be called Cen Xingwan now, not Lin Xingwan. As for why, I think the final answer should be revealed by you."
"You can tell me everything at once." Lin Xingwan saw that Duan Muxing seemed unwilling to continue speaking. Sometimes she really wanted to hit this man. He would only say half of things, and that feeling of being tormented drove people crazy.
"I don't plan to tell you the rest. Many times, many things need to be investigated by yourself to distinguish right from wrong. If I tell you everything now, you will analyze everything with my prejudice, and I hope you can have your own thoughts and ideas to do what you want to do. Although you are just a pawn of mine, I hope this pawn is the most perfect move I have ever made."
After Duan Muxing finished speaking, Lin Xingwan knew that even if she continued to ask, it would be meaningless.
She lowered her head in some dejection, and Duan Muxing then spoke again, "By the way, there's something I almost forgot to tell you."
"What?"
"Congratulations, you're going to be a mother."
Duan Muxing's words made Lin Xingwan's eyes widen instantly, "What did you say?"
Lin Xingwan felt as if her ears were hallucinating, and a look of utter disbelief appeared on her face.
"You're pregnant. Based on my many years of medical experience, you should be about twenty-odd days pregnant. Whether to keep this child is your decision, but I want to give you a gift."
After speaking, Duan Muxing pushed his wheelchair to Lin Xingwan's side, then handed a white box to Lin Xingwan.
The box was very small, only about the size of a palm.
Lin Xingwan couldn't help but ask, "What is this?"
"You have too many questions today. I think it's more meaningful for you to open it yourself than for me to answer."
With that, Lin Xingwan took the box and opened it.
What appeared inside was a folded, light flesh-colored object. Lin Xingwan touched it; it felt cold and disgusting. When Lin Xingwan unfolded it, a very lifelike human face appeared before her.
Lin Xingwan was so startled that she immediately threw the thing on the ground. As it floated gently to the ground, it looked like a human face on the floor, appearing very terrifying.
"What disgusting thing did you give me!" Lin Xingwan frowned, casting a look of disgust at Duan Muxing. Did this man have some perverted hobby?
For a moment, all sorts of perverted things that a pervert might do flashed through Lin Xingwan's mind.