The Hidden Beauty

Chapter 68 Your weakness is his bargaining chip
"Brother Song." Jiang Shiwan saw his painful expression and knew that Meng Tingzhou had kicked him hard, so he ran over to help him up, "Are you okay?"

Song Huaizhi stopped her from trying to support him: "Your back injury hasn't healed yet, you can't use force, I can do it myself."

The words and actions between the two were undoubtedly extremely offensive to Meng Tingzhou.

He raised his chin and squinted at Jiang Shiwan. It was in vain that he had been worried about her all these days, running around and working hard, but she was here flirting with another man.

It’s ridiculous!

"Jiang Shiwan, you are so noble in front of me, but I didn't expect that you are so open in front of other men." Meng Tingzhou's face was as cold as ice, "I overestimated you."

Without waiting for Jiang Shiwan's response, he grabbed her and said, "Do you really want to elope?"

He was too strong, and Jiang Shiwan felt a piercing pain in her back. She bit her lip and said, "No."

"You're lying!" Meng Tingzhou shouted angrily, "It would have been better if I had been braver at the beginning...Didn't you say that?"

He looked at her lips that were slightly red from being kissed, and felt jealous: "If I had come a step later, would you have had skin-to-skin contact?"

Song Huaizhi supported himself against the wall and endured the pain as he slowly stood up: "Meng Tingzhou, let her go."

"Let her go? She is my woman, and it is not your turn to say whether to kill her or cut her into pieces." Meng Tingzhou pointed his finger at Song Huaizhi, "Shut your mouth, don't think that you can stand up to me just because you have the face in front of the emperor!"

"You can give it a try." Song Huaizhi said sternly, "Let's see if I have the ability to compete with you."

Meng Tingzhou stretched out his hand and pinched Jiang Shiwan's chin, his words full of joking: "Your lover actually wants to compete with me for you."

He was now extremely furious and would not listen to anything.

Jiang Shiwan simply gave up on defending himself.

Song Huaizhi confronted him: "Meng Tingzhou, why don't you give Meimei a chance to choose."

"Chance?"

Meng Tingzhou looked at Jiang Shiwan, glaring like an eagle: "What about you? Do you really want to leave so much?"

Seeing Jiang Shiwan close his eyes, Meng Tingzhou seemed to sigh: "Tell me, if Ah You knew that his mother was going to abandon him for her lover, how would he feel?"

He increased his strength and leaned close to her ear: "During the days when you were away, he cried and wanted to find you every night."

"It's a pity that his mother only cares about her lover." Meng Tingzhou said word by word, "I'll let you go and take him back now."

"Jiang Shiwan, I will give you freedom."

Suddenly, he let go of his hand, and Jiang Shiwan lost gravity and fell to the ground.

Meng Tingzhou turned his back to her and said, "Bring Ah You here and say goodbye to her mother."

Yu Feng brought Ayou in his arms. The little kid had no idea what was happening. When he saw his familiar mother, he babbled and fluttered his hands for a hug.

Meng Tingzhou held Ayou in his arms and looked down at Jiang Shiwan.

The child she had been thinking about day and night finally appeared in front of her. Tears flowed down her cheeks: "Ayou."

Meng Tingzhou took a step back while holding Ah You: "No, since you have chosen freedom, don't give Ah You any more hope."

Seeing that he was about to leave, Jiang Shiwan crawled over and hugged his legs: "Meng Tingzhou, don't go, give Ah You to me."

Meng Tingzhou pulled his legs, which were about to move, and glared at her coldly, his face calm: "Jiang Shiwan, you can't be greedy. You can't have both a lover and a child."

"You choose your own path, so you must be responsible for your choice."

She burst into tears and said, "I won't leave. I want Ah You."

Almost without hesitation, she gave the answer.

From the very beginning, I was the canary he raised and could never escape from that cage.

In the past, he was trapped, but now he is strangling himself.

Fate is never in our hands. Because of the tearing caused by the force, blood seeped out of her back.

Song Huaizhi came over to help her up, full of heartache: "Meimei, get up, your scabs are cracked..."

Jiang Shiwan didn't care about the pain behind him, and kept saying to Song Huaizhi: "I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."

When Song Huaizhi heard the three words "I'm sorry", he knew what they meant.

Try so hard, love so deeply, yet things always go wrong.

He smiled bitterly: "Meimei, don't say sorry to me, I understand."

Song Huaizhi smiled at himself and looked at Ayou in Meng Tingzhou's arms.

The child looked more and more like her mother. Maybe it was because he loved her so much, but he found that he couldn't even hate this child.

"Meng Tingzhou is undoubtedly wise. He knows that the child is your weak spot and his bargaining chip."

"You don't have to choose, because you don't have a choice."

Song Huaizhi was afraid that he would regret it if he looked at Jiang Shiwan any longer, so he turned around and said, "I wanted to take you to Suzhou to spend a few days, to relax with you, and to take you to burn incense for your mother."

"It seems that you can only go there by yourself when you have the chance. After you go back, you should take good care of your injuries, otherwise it will be easy to develop chronic diseases."

Song Huaizhi sighed silently in his heart, I'm sorry, Meimei, I gave up on you again.

How I wish I could gather all my strength to keep you here, even at the cost of giving up my grand plan, but I can't.

At least now I can't force you to go with me.

You lost your mother when you were young, and I can't let Ayou make the same mistake again.

Sorry, sister.

"Brother Song." Jiang Shiwan knelt down again and kowtowed desperately at his departing back.

She didn't say anything, just knocked the ground hard again and again.

It seems that only in this way can I make up for my guilt and disappointment.

Meng Tingzhou looked at her who was in disarray, and then looked at Ayou in his arms.

Just now when Song Huaizhi said to let Jiang Shiwan make her own choice, he didn't even have the courage to let her really make a choice.'

He subconsciously asked someone to bring Ah You over.

He admitted that Song Huaizhi was right and that he had selfish motives. He knew that the child was Jiang Shiwan's weak spot and his bargaining chip.

Only in this way will she be willing to go back with me.

Song Huaizhi walked onto the deck. Because of the strong feeling of suffocation, he could no longer hold back and bent over to vomit.

"Sir... Sir..." Xiao Su, who had been following him, ran over hurriedly, "Do you want to see a doctor?"

Song Huaizhi complained bitterly and shook his hand: "I'm fine."

He saw the magnificent ship docked nearby slowly moving away, and he knew that Meng Tingzhou had finally taken her away.

Seeing tears in his eyes, Xiao Su hugged him and said, "Take care, sir."

She said silently in her heart: I will always be with you, my lord.

Song Huaizhi stood facing the wind, watching the Governor's Office's ship go farther and farther away until it became a dot and finally disappeared in the vast river.

Just like the dreamlike ten-day life, it was eventually reduced to ashes.

(End of this chapter)