CHAPTER 260: CHAPTER 247: HAVE YOU GIVEN UP? 2

"Does it really matter who told me?"

"You and Xinya..." Tu Shaohong seemed oblivious to the thorns in Lin Zhenxin’s words, testing the waters with his inquiry.

"Elder Tu, I’m no longer that Lin Zhenxin who you could batter and throw out of the villa with just a word. Don’t you think that your superior, bestowed manner is outdated?" Lin Zhenxin didn’t give Tu Shaohong a chance to catch his breath and threw out another remark.

In fact, Lin Zhenxin had already guessed Tu Shaohong’s intentions through his choice of words.

If she hadn’t been tightly holding Li Yanan’s hand, he might have already had someone throw him out.

"Did you collaborate with Xinya or not? What will it take for you to return that 13% of the shares to the Tu Family?"

In the end, it all boiled down to the fear of the Tu Family’s shares falling into someone else’s hands.

Just 13%, and yet Tu Shaohong guarded against it day and night. How exhausting must it have been for him?

Clearly, Li Yanan’s patience was reaching its limit.

The tender atmosphere just now had been completely swept away, replaced by overwhelming anger.

"If you transfer it back to me, I’m willing to compensate with cash. You name the amount..."

Tu Shaohong could ignore Lin Zhenxin but could not ignore the man by her side.

While they were talking, a black BMW slowly drove up and stopped in front of them without any warning.

The car door from the back seat was pushed open from inside.

Almost instantly, the expecting Lin Zhenxin, particularly sensitive, caught a whiff of blood.

The smell almost made her retch.

Susan He’s figure unexpectedly appeared in others’ eyes.

If not for Susan He’s sudden appearance, Lin Zhenxin would have nearly forgotten that she had bought a house with the best view in the building across the street.

But before she could think further...

Bloodstains on Susan He’s suit were evident, large and blooming like flowers.

"Dad, long time no see." The voice was sinister and eerie.

Susan He, also known as Tu Xinya, curved a slow smile, looking at Tu Shaohong and speaking slowly...

They parted on bad terms.

Tu Shaohong left angrily, a hint of fear in his eyes as he departed.

Lin Zhenxin didn’t see it, but Li Yanan noticed and then turned his gaze to Susan He.

Feeling the look, Susan He met Li Yanan’s eyes.

His gaze was deep and cold, appearing very sharp.

After a brief silence, Lin Zhenxin didn’t even look in Susan He’s direction but turned sideways to say to Li Yanan, "Let’s go up."

"Zhenxin, I have something to say to you." Susan He suddenly opened her mouth, completely different from her earlier sinister demeanor.

Only then did Lin Zhenxin place her gaze on her.

"I don’t think we have anything to say to each other." For Lin Zhenxin, this wasn’t just an angry outburst; it’s what she truly believed.

Susan He looked at her face and her eyes quickly brushed past the burn scars faintly visible on her neck, showing a complex expression.

The door to the hallway was pushed open from inside, and Aunt Xu was coming down the stairs with Grandma.

Perhaps Susan He hadn’t expected to meet Grandma this way, showing a trace of panic.

Grandma was originally delighted to see Lin Zhenxin after so many days, but as her gaze fell on Susan He, it gradually changed.

Starting with confusion, then moving to hesitation, and finally showing signs of emotional collapse.

"Yanan, quickly take Grandma upstairs..." When Grandma appeared, Lin Zhenxin’s heart skipped a beat.

But before she could finish her sentence, a piercing scream suddenly tore through the silent space.

Before Grandma could rush over, Li Yanan had already quickly embraced her, getting unexpectedly slapped a few times on the jaw.

After a bout of chaos...

"Grandma, she..."

"My dad was burned alive in front of her, and then she went mad." Downstairs, only Lin Zhenxin and Susan He remained.

"Didn’t you have something to say to me? Let’s find a place, finish talking, and then don’t come looking for me again!"

Lin Zhenxin looked at her without expression, locking eyes with her.

Susan He’s eyes flickered, finally keeping her inner fragility concealed...

Inside the café.

Even though her suit was stained with blood, it didn’t diminish Susan He’s aura in the slightest.

She was looking at her.

Her long black hair was pinned up, revealing a delicate, fair face, with cool eyes and a touch of red lips.

Lin Zhenxin only ordered a cup of warm water.

She knew Susan He was sizing her up, and this was the first time they had spoken alone since that wedding.

"I want you to come with me to New York."

Susan He finished her appraisal and finally spoke.

Lin Zhenxin laughed at once, her gaze at Susan He also filled with irony.

"You want me to go to New York with you? Where do you get the confidence?"

"You are my daughter."

"Haha..." Lin Zhenxin continued to laugh, then lifted her cup of warm water and took a sip.

Silence made the atmosphere awkward for a moment.

"I can give you a better life. If you want, I can find the world’s best plastic surgeon to do a skin graft so you’ll never be troubled by those scars again!"

Susan He’s voice was slightly hurried, even wanting to reach out to hold Lin Zhenxin’s hand.

But Lin Zhenxin quickly dodged.

"You think these scars are what’s troubling my life, but for me, it’s Ms. Susan He who is the true culprit troubling my life!"

If she hadn’t come back, Lin Zhenxin might still have thought of her.

But now, she couldn’t even muster that thought.

Susan He killed it inside her, little by little, leaving nothing to grow.

"Zhenxin, I know you hate me, but you..."

"You’ve got it wrong. I don’t hate you, or rather, I no longer hate you, but on the contrary, I think you have very complicated feelings about my existence!"

Lin Zhenxin cut off Susan He’s words.

Her young age didn’t mean she couldn’t see or understand things.

Susan He seemed frozen as if she hadn’t expected these words from Lin Zhenxin.

"No matter what happened in the past, I’m living well now and don’t need your interference."

"That’s all I wanted to say, goodbye."

After finishing, Lin Zhenxin stood up to leave.

"Is this what you call living well now?" Susan He quickly reacted, pulling out a document from her bag and throwing it in front of her.

"Elliott is a full ten years older than you and is insidious and vengeful. Being with such a man, Zhenxin... you’ll get hurt!"

Lin Zhenxin didn’t speak, just looked down at the document Susan He had thrown out of her bag.

It was a biography about Li Yanan.

"I know, you married him for that house originally. Now that I’ve returned, you don’t have to suffer..."

"Shut up!" Lin Zhenxin suddenly raised her head, glaring fiercely at Susan He.

"What kind of person my husband is, I don’t need to find out from someone else!"

"Does it not matter that he once lived like a dog, as a beggar?"

Susan He continued.

Lin Zhenxin was about to refute it.

But suddenly, lightning struck her brain like she thought of something...

Her hands quickly flipped through the document.

Susan He believed she had come to her senses, letting her read.

As she read, Lin Zhenxin’s heart surged with roaring waves, unknowingly sitting back down before Susan He.

So that’s it.

So that’s why Li Yanan is reluctant to talk about that first meeting.

The beggar whose face was ulcered, with the most beautiful eyes in the world, was Yanan!

Lin Zhenxin still remembered those trembling hands reaching for her.

Frostbitten, oozing, bleeding.

"Not dirty, didn’t move."

Was it because of this, that he bought the picture of the girl in the red dress?

He desperately earned money in underground boxing abroad just to send it to her?

"Fool..." Only now did these mysteries unravel one by one.

But why didn’t he tell her?

"So what?" Lin Zhenxin suddenly calmed herself, looking up at Susan He.

"I love him, no matter how destitute his past was, I still love him."

Susan He suddenly fell silent, clearly seeing the softness in Lin Zhenxin’s eyes, the kind she once possessed too.

"I don’t agree! I don’t agree with you two being together!"

A shadow momentarily passed through her heart as Susan He spoke again.

"What right do you have to say that? What right do you have to disagree?"

"I’m your mother, I can give you a better life!"

"Ha, you’re not my mother, you’re Susan He, the aunt of He Bainian and He Nuoxin. In other’s eyes, we have no relation!"

Perhaps because Lin Zhenxin calmed down, every word she spoke now carried sharp thorns straight to Susan He’s heart.

"The scars on my body, my past life, the hardships I’ve endured... I assume you had someone investigate them, just as you did with Yanan."

Despite only meeting a few times, Lin Zhenxin could already imagine her way of doing things.

"You were absent from all the hardships of my past, so what gives you the right to meddle in the happiness of my future life?"

Lin Zhenxin didn’t exaggerate what she had gone through, she simply laid it out calmly and rationally in front of her.

Susan He seemed to want to say something but choked up, unable to speak at all.

"In today’s press conference, every word you said was in defense of He Nuoxin. If you wanted, you could completely understand the troubles she caused in my life, but you still chose to stand by the He family. I think... that makes everything clear."

"The so-called better life you offer holds no appeal to me."

No matter how rich her life was in New York now, how powerful her connections were, there was no temptation for her at all.