That afternoon, Lu Yan received a call from Wu Yuqi, asking her to come to the school gate and saying that she wanted to apologize to her in person.

Lu Yan packed up her books, walked out of the classroom, and asked, "Why do you suddenly apologize?"

On the phone, Wu Yuqi said in a hoarse voice: "Shen Kuo told me to apologize to you face to face. If you accept it, he... he will let the Wu Group go. My dad asked me to come and apologize to you...

.Apologize."

"Oh~~"

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yan raised her lips and felt suddenly relaxed.

I originally thought I couldn't persuade him.

Shen Kuo is actually a tough talker...but he is actually soft-hearted towards her.

Lu Yan came to the school gate, searched for a long time, and found Wu Yuqi in the alley across the street. Wu Yuqi waved to Lu Yan - "This way."

She crossed the road and ran over, only to find a black car without a license plate parked in the alley.

Lu Yan instinctively stepped back out of defensiveness. Wu Yuqi smiled at her and said, "Don't worry, this is my mother."

Lu Yan looked at the black car, the door opened, and Wu Yuqi's mother Shi Ya came out wearing a windbreaker and sunglasses and waved to her.

Lu Yan felt a little more relieved.

That night, Lu Zhen rushed directly into Shen Kuo's office. Assistant Qin caught up with him eagerly and said repeatedly: "Mr. Shen, I can't stop him."

Shen Kuo was having a meeting with several directors. When he saw Lu Zhen barging in like this, he waved his hand, indicating that Assistant Qin could go out first.

Lu Zhen ignored the other people present and walked straight to Shen Kuo's table, grabbed his collar and pulled him up: "Where's Xiao Yan! Where did you hide her!"

Hearing this, Shen Kuo frowned: "Didn't you imprison her?"

Shen Kuo has not contacted Lu Yan since this morning. When he called her last night, she said she had gone home. Shen Kuo thought Lu Zhen had confiscated her mobile phone.

It happened that an important client came over in the morning, so he put the matter aside and planned to go directly to Lu's house after get off work to talk clearly with Lu Zhen.

Unexpectedly, Lu Zhen would find him and ask for someone right now.

"Her classmate said that she was picked up by a car at noon! She didn't go to the afternoon class, so who else could she be!"

Lu Zhen lowered his voice and said hoarsely: "Shen Kuo, I'm not kidding you."

Shen Kuo's expression changed instantly. He pushed Lu Zhen away and strode out of the office. As he walked, he took out his mobile phone and called Lu Yan.

The phone was still turned off, and the cold artificial tone made his heart sink to the bottom.

This is almost impossible to happen. It is impossible for Lu Yan to lose contact for no reason, let alone shut down her phone. It is already eight o'clock in the evening. At this time... she should not be unable to be contacted.

Shen Kuo turned to Assistant Qin and said, "Contact the school and search for me! Search every corner of the school!"

Assistant Qin immediately followed Shen Kuo's instructions and went to contact the school. Shen Kuo turned around and said to the other assistants: "Find the surveillance cameras. Find all the surveillance cameras near the school for me within an hour."

After everyone received the order, they immediately dispersed.

Shen Kuo turned around and asked Lu Zhen: "Have you called the police?"

"I reported it, but the police said... it had only been a few hours, maybe she was out playing with friends and her phone was out of battery, so they asked us to wait."

When Lu Zhen saw that it was not Shen Kuo who had taken away Lu Yan, he was even more frightened. Even his voice was shaking: "This won't happen! Xiao Yan is very well-behaved. She has never lost contact like this in so many years."

situation!”

Shen Kuo paced back and forth in the corridor with his arms crossed.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, news came from Assistant Qin: "Lu Yan is indeed not at school. Her roommate said that she left school at noon and has not come back since."

Hearing the news, Lu Zhen was about to collapse: "Something must have happened, my girl must..."

At this moment, Shen Kuo's cell phone suddenly rang, and the caller ID showed an unknown number.

Shen Kuo subconsciously felt something was wrong and answered the phone.

What came through the receiver was not a human voice, but the whistling cliff mountain wind.

Shen Kuo seemed to have a premonition and asked in a deep voice: "Who are you?"

"Who am I, you ask?"

On the other side of the phone, a woman's sharp voice came through: "You... destroyed my home, ruined my life, and now you want to destroy my daughter, who are you asking me?"

Lu Zhen saw that Shen Kuo's face looked strange and immediately grabbed the phone: "Hey! Who are you?"

"Lu Zhen, hello."

Hearing this voice, Lu Zhen almost stopped holding the phone.

"You are...are..."

"Did you forget so quickly what happened when you put my mother in jail and caused her to die tragically in prison?"

"Shi Ya!"

"Remember?"

Lu Zhen said excitedly: "Xiaoyan is in your hands? You took her away!"

"Don't worry, I'm not like you guys. I won't kill innocent people indiscriminately. Do you want to listen to her voice?" Shi Ya handed the phone to Lu Yan's ear on the edge of the cliff: "Come on, call daddy.

"

Lu Yan's hands were tied with a rope and she was on the edge of a cliff. Shi Ya put a thick stick against her chest. As long as she exerted a little force, she would be pushed down.

Lu Yan was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she even forgot to cry. Her voice was accompanied by the biting cold wind on the cliff, trembling: "Dad, I'm so scared, help me, dad."

"Xiaoyan, don't be afraid, Dad is here to save you and nothing will happen to you! Trust Dad, nothing will happen to you!"

"Shen...Shen Kuo..."

Shen Kuo snatched the phone away: "Xiaoyan, calm down, I will find you, okay?"

"Um."

The phone was suddenly snatched away by Shi Ya: "Lu Zhen, I'm not as ruthless as you, leaving no room for others. Now I'll give you a chance to save her."

"You...don't be impulsive. Let's talk carefully. Don't hurt her!"

Shi Ya smiled and said, "I'll give you half an hour. Come here and don't call the police. It's a waste of time. If half an hour doesn't come, you should never see her again."

"Okay, we'll be right over. Where are you?"

"Where are we? Guess, isn't Shen Kuo our provincial champion? He's so smart, he can't guess it."

"you..."

"It's only half an hour, let's start the countdown."

After hanging up the phone, Shen Kuo immediately took action: "Assistant Qin, call the police first."

"You can't call the police!" Lu Zhen stopped Assistant Qin: "Shi Ya has gone crazy, don't provoke her."

"First call the police and file a record, then go."

Shen Kuo ignored Lu Zhen's opinion and turned around and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window. He looked at the neon city night view outside the window. He thought for a moment and said, "Lu Zhen, go drive. They are in Cangnan Mountain."

"how do you know?"

"The sound of wind, there won't be that kind of wind in the city."

"Then...what if it's on the roof of the building!"

"In addition to the sound of wind, there is also the sound of leaves on the mountain."

Shen Kuo went straight downstairs: "It takes at least fifty minutes from here to Cangnan Mountain."

Lu Zhen hurriedly chased after him, not forgetting to turn around and say: "Assistant Qin, you... you contact the police, find a way, and give the green light all the way..."

"good!"

Lu Yan stood on the edge of the cliff, not daring to look back.

The wind swayed from the bottom of the cliff, blowing on her back, and the stick pressed against her left shoulder like an ice pick.

The woman in front of her had an extremely ferocious expression because of her extreme hatred.

But it was obvious that she was also scared, her hands were shaking... As long as she exerted a little force, Lu Yan might fall off the cliff.

"If it's because of the Wu Group incident, we can still talk. Shen Kuo listens to me and doesn't need to go to this step..."

Shi Ya sneered: "You really don't remember what you and your brother did to me back then."

"You really have the wrong person. Lu Zhen is not my brother, Lu Zhen is my father."

Lu Yan's voice trembled.

Shi Ya looked at Lu Yan with hatred, her eyes seemed to be filled with venom: "Even if you turn into ashes, I still recognize you. What you, Shen Kuo, and Lu Zhen did to me back then, I will never do in this life."

Will forget."

Wu Yuqi was locked in the car by Shi Ya and slapped the car window desperately. She was obviously frightened by her mother's actions.

She originally thought that Shi Ya just wanted to teach Lu Yan a lesson and help her vent her anger, so she tricked Lu Yan and dragged her away.

But she didn't expect that Shi Ya actually wanted her life!

Wu Yuqi cried and shouted: "Mom, what on earth are you doing! You...don't do this!"

"Shut up, you worthless thing!" Shi Ya turned around and scolded angrily: "Back then... I was so weak that I was bullied again and again by these people!"

In the car, the man wearing a mask locked the windows and muffled Wu Yuqi's cries inside the car.

He got out of the car and walked to Shi Ya, looked at the time on his watch, and said, "Madam, it's time."

Shi Ya looked back at Lu Yan and said with a sneer: "Look, it's not that I didn't give you a chance. If you want to blame me, just blame Lu Zhen for being useless."

However, before he finished speaking, at the mountain road, a black Bentley came speeding out of the hazy night.

After a sharp and squeaking brake, the car stopped in front of them, emitting white smoke.

Shen Kuo got out of the car and saw Lu Yan on the edge of the cliff. His heart that was hanging in the air finally dropped halfway.

"Shen Kuo!"

"Lu Yan, don't be afraid."

Even if you die, I will be with you, so don't be afraid.

"Xiao Yan!" Lu Zhen also crawled out and saw Lu Yan being pinned by Shi Ya on the edge of a cliff. His scalp felt numb and he instinctively rushed over: "Dad is here to save you!

"

"Stop!" Shi Ya shouted sharply: "If you take another step forward, I will push her down!"

Lu Zhen immediately stopped and said, "Don't... don't get excited. You can do whatever you want, but don't hurt her."

Shi Ya looked at the two nervous men and poked Lu Yan in the face with a stick: "You, they protected you when you were in school, and they still protect you now. At that time, I envied you so much."

"I really don't know what you are talking about!" Lu Yan's tears flowed down her cheeks.

"Of course you know." Shi Ya glared at her: "I have rehearsed the scenario of how to retaliate against you a thousand times, ten thousand times in my mind, hahahaha, and today it will finally become a reality."

"You...what do you want?"

"Let's play a little game."

Shi Ya turned around, her long hair raised by the mountain wind on the cliff. She said to Shen Kuo and Lu Zhen: "The rules of the game are very simple. You choose one person to stand on the edge of the cliff, and the other person to drive to hit him. I

If you don’t let me stop, don’t stop, okay?”

Lu Yan shook her head desperately and shouted at Lu Zhen: "She is crazy, don't listen to her! No..."

The two men looked at her calmly.

"Quiet." Shi Ya put her index finger on Yan Hong's lips and said with a smile, "Whether you want to listen to me or not doesn't depend on you, it depends on them."

She looked at Shen Kuo and Lu Zhen: "Since you love her so much, you are willing to die for her, right?"

The muscles on Lu Zhen's face twitched: "You are really... you are really crazy."

"My mother died tragically in prison. It's fair to exchange one life for another..."

"Your mother died of illness, what does that have to do with us? She was the one to blame for everything!"

Shi Ya shook her head and looked at Shen Kuo: "Lu Zhen has always been unreasonable, but Shen Kuo, you are a reasonable person, right?"

Shen Kuo's eyes were dark and cold, and he said in a deep voice: "One life, one life, I'll trade her."

After saying this, he walked to the other side of the cliff.

Lu Yan shook her head desperately and cried: "Shen Kuo, if you dare to go there, I will jump down immediately."

The man wearing a mask next to Shi Ya immediately pulled Lu Yan back and at the same time took out a dagger and put it against her neck.

Shi Ya said coldly: "Follow the rules of the game. You can die only if I let you die. If I don't let you die, you must not die. Do you understand?"

Lu Yan yelled at the top of her lungs: "Shen Kuo, please go back and I beg you, okay?"

Shen Kuo looked at Lu Yan, his eyes full of tenderness: "Xiao Yan, close your eyes."

Lu Yan was already kneeling on the ground, shaking her head desperately. She couldn't cry anymore and was only filled with fear.

"Ah, I suddenly feel that this is not interesting."

Shi Ya had an idea: "How about we have something interesting? Let me think about it, why not let the driver blindfold his eyes? Well, press the accelerator to the bottom and rush towards the target. If the car can stop within ten centimeters of the target

, I will let you all go."

"Ten centimeters, how is this possible..."

Lu Zhen looked at the distance from here to the cliff. It was difficult to estimate how far it was with the naked eye.

It’s impossible to drive accurately with your eyes open, let alone with your eyes closed!

Modifying the rules is not a dead end, but the way out is also slim.

If you drive blindfolded and make a mistake, you will lose two lives at the same time.

Lu Zhen looked at Shi Ya and said angrily: "You are simply crazy!"

Shen Kuo knew that Shi Ya had gone crazy. Her eyes were red and veins appeared on her temples. She was no longer in a normal state.

Now Lu Yan's life is in the hands of this madman. If he is not careful, he will regret it for the rest of his life...

No, he should not have the rest of his life.

"Lu Zhen, get in the car."

"Me? How could I? I can't do it. I have no sense of direction. I can't do it!"

"Lu Zhen, I believe you, get in the car." Shen Kuo visually measured the distance between the car and himself, and said: "Press the accelerator to the end, then count to thirteen in your mind, and apply the brakes."

Lu Zhen refused to get in the car: "You're still counting to thirteen, you really think you're a god! You tell your fortune!"

"I'll let you get in the car."

"Since Lu Zhen refuses to get in the car, Shen Kuo, why don't you come and drive with Lu Zhen instead?" Shi Ya touched Lu Yan's chin and smiled brightly: "Anyway, I believe Shen Kuo is so smart, there must be a way to save his life.

Well, not necessarily Lu Zhen, are you right?"

Lu Yan bit Shi Ya's hand and bit it down hard. Shi Ya screamed and even heard the bones crack.

Her hands were covered in blood, her flesh and blood were blurred, and she was almost fainting from pain.

"You fucking..."

Shi Ya turned around angrily and shouted at Shen Kuo: "Swap with Lu Zhen! You drive!"

She wanted Lu Yan to watch...watching the person she loved most kill her biological father. Even if the two of them survived such a blood feud, they would have to live with hatred for a lifetime. This was much more interesting than letting them all die.

Lu Zhen walked towards Shen Kuo without hesitation and stood on the edge of the cliff - "Shen Kuo, you drive."

Shen Kuo didn't move, and Lu Zhen saw the hands under his sleeves shaking.

He reached out and pressed Shen Kuo's shoulder: "Ever since we were little, you have always been better than me. I...I believe in you."

Shen Kuo didn't dare to look at Lu Yan anymore. He walked towards the car step by step, very slowly, slowly... towards the car.

Shen Kuo stood in front of the car door, paused for a few seconds, and finally got into the driver's seat.

The man wearing a mask pulled off his tie and covered his eyes tightly.

Soon, Shen Kuo started the engine and took a deep breath.

Lu Zhen was also taking a deep breath. He was also nervous and scared. He was so scared that he almost peed. But he couldn't show his cowardice. He had lost face in front of Shen Kuo for a lifetime. This last time, in front of his daughter, he wanted to be a hero.

"dad!"

Lu Yan's crying was so loud that her calves became weak. She knelt straight down, but was picked up by the man next to Shi Ya and pinned to the edge of the cliff.

"Xiaoyan, tell your mother...I...I will always love her, and you..."

Before he finished speaking, Shen Kuo started the engine, and the car sped towards Lu Zhen with a roar.

"Damn! I haven't finished speaking my last words yet, Shen Kuo, you're so..."

As soon as he shouted these words, he heard a long and harsh brake sound, and the car stopped straight in front of Lu Zhen.

"...My lord."

All this happened in a blink of an eye, and there was no reaction at all.

Lu Zhen watched helplessly as the car's license plate was stuck to the base of his calf...

Ten centimeters... No, it's not even three centimeters.

But, they are still alive!

Shen Kuo took off his blindfolded tie and got out of the car. His back was completely soaked with cold sweat, and his hands under his sleeves were shaking crazily...

Lu Zhen ran towards Lu Yan in surprise: "Xiao Yan! Your dad is lucky and lucky! He's alive!"

However, the next second, Shen Kuo saw the strange smile rising at the corner of Shi Ya's mouth.

"Good fortune and good fortune? I don't think so..."

After she said this, she stepped forward and pushed Lu Yan off the cliff.

"Go down and stay with my mother. You owe her this."

The relieved smile on Lu Yan's face didn't even have time to dissipate before she saw her thin body falling into the abyss of the cliff like a kite with its string broken.

The moment she fell off the cliff, a dark shadow flashed in front of Lu Zhen, and Shen Kuo chased Lu Yan and jumped off the cliff without hesitation.

"No!!!!!!"

Lu Zhen threw himself to the edge of the cliff, his eyes were bloodshot, and he stretched out his hands to catch them, but he was half a beat too late, and could only watch Shen Kuo and Lu Yan fall into the abyss: "No!!!!!!!"

The man's desperate cry echoed throughout the cliff bottom...

Shen Kuo hugged her weak body and pressed her head tightly into his chest.

"I won't let you leave me again."

He hugged her hard, like the sun and the moon in his arms. Even if he fell into despair, he would never be alone.

…

On the verge of death, countless fragments of memories suddenly flashed through Lu Yan's mind, strange ones, familiar ones...

The boy in black T-shirts and rough sneakers ran across the tree-lined playground, and Lu Yan trotted, chasing his figure.

The basketball in his hand fell at her feet.

The sun cast mottled light and shadow through the shade of the trees and fell on his shoulders. He suddenly smiled at her: "Xiaoyan, give it to me."

Lu Yan picked up the basketball and threw it at him hard.

Shen Kuo took the basketball and threw it to her feet again: "Xiaoyan, give it to me."

"Why do you keep asking me to pick up the ball?" Lu Yan held the basketball in her arms and refused to give it to him.

"Then do you remember who I am?"

"I know, you are Shen Kuo."

"Who is Shen Kuo?"

She threw the basketball to him, and the ball rolled to her feet.

Who is Shen Kuo...

The tip of my tongue touches this name, and the sense of familiarity is returning little by little.

She frowned: "Shen Kuo is..."

It was the boy who stood on the railway track, pointed at the train and said he wanted to go to the south;

It was the boy who shouted to the sky that he wanted to be with her forever;

It was the boy who clumsily bit his tongue when he kissed her for the first time...

Suddenly, tears flowed down Lu Yan's cheeks——

"Shen Kuo is...my baby."

Lu Yan suddenly opened her eyes, and the white ceiling came into view. There were still residual tears in the corners of her eyes.

She sat up suddenly.

Lu Zhen was sleeping on the bedside when he was suddenly woken up by the little girl: "Oh, please take it easy, you scared me!"

"Lu Zhen! I...where am I?"

Lu Zhen pressed her head: "What do you call me? No matter how big or small..."

"Lu Zhen!" Lu Yan grabbed his collar and shook it hard: "It's me! I'm Lu Yan!"

"I know, your brain is broken!"

"Am I dead? Or am I dreaming?"

"You and Shen Kuo fell off a cliff, but my daughter was lucky enough to be caught by a branch that crossed out and didn't fall..."

"How long have I been asleep?"

"Three days."

"The doctor said it's nothing serious. She's not in a coma, or just sleeping..." Lu Zhen rubbed the little girl's messy hair and said, "You must have slept for too long."

"Yes... I slept for a long time."

Longer than a century...

"Where's Shen Kuo!"

Lu Zhen said angrily: "Dead."

"Ah." Lu Yan was dumbfounded.

"Why are you scaring her?" Jian Yao frowned, walked over and said to Lu Yan: "Shen Kuo is next door and has just woken up. The doctor is doing a physical examination on him."

Lu Yan quickly got out of bed, not even having time to put on her slippers. She hurriedly stepped on one slipper and ran out with the other barefoot.

She stopped in front of the glass window of the next ward.

In the ward, Shen Kuo's arm was broken and the doctor put a support frame on it and hung it on his chest.

His face was scratched by branches and gravel, but he didn't seem to be seriously injured. He was holding on to the hospital bed and trying to stand up.

Sunlight penetrated through the screen window, illuminating his clear and distinct profile. When he turned around, he suddenly saw her.

The two people stared at each other through the small window. After an unknown amount of time, Lu Yan burst into tears.

The corner of Shen Kuo's mouth, which was hung with wounds, smiled - "Hi."

"Hi."

Lu Yan gasped and pressed her face stupidly against the glass window. Because of her warm breath, the window was gradually covered with a layer of white mist.

Shen Kuo pointed to the half-open door next to him: "Come in?"

Lu Yan wiped away the tears from the corner of her eyes: "I just... look at you."

Shen Kuo smiled, sat beside the hospital bed, and looked at her calmly: "Okay, let me show you."

"Shen Kuo, you have become so old! You have gray hair."

Shen Kuo stared at her, his breath suddenly hurt, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

He stood up suddenly, tripped over the small table in front of him and ignored it, staggered out of the ward, and took her into his arms forcefully——

"came back...?"

Tears welled up from the corners of Lu Yan's eyes and she was out of breath from crying.

Shen Kuo pressed the back of her head and buried his face in her hair: "I have always listened carefully to your words and kept fit. I hope you won't be too disappointed."

All the toughness and pretense in front of others are removed. In front of the one he loves, he is still the innocent young man he was before.
Chapter completed!