The Scheming Ex-Husband's Courtship-Chapter 699 - 604: Lit a Cigarette_2
Li Guojing was panting heavily, suddenly feeling like he had just picked up another lease on life. He stared at the ceiling, his mind a blank.
Nan Zhan returned to Jian Si’s ward, where she was still sleeping, her expression peaceful.
He sat back down by her side, holding her hand.
At this moment, he finally understood the meaning behind her "I’m sorry" and "I need to give up" - she was apologizing to her parents and was giving up on revenge after realizing that her parents’ car accident was related to Helan Ying.
It wasn’t that she wanted to forgive Helan Ying, but rather because Helan Ying was his mother, she did not want to put him in a difficult position.
The enemy she had been seeking for eight years was now someone she was willing to give up on for his sake; she had probably also gone to her parents’ graves to confess this to them.
She hadn’t told him anything, but he knew her heart must have been torn with a fierce struggle between holding on and letting go, like a bloody battle, where even if there was a victor, the sacrifice was extremely tragic.
Nan Zhan gripped her hand tightly, 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
"Jian Si, wake up soon."
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Upon hearing that Li Guojing had been arrested, the most panicked person had to be Helan Ying.
For several days, she was restless, no longer as serious and passionate about her work as usual, and her heart would tighten at the sound of a knock on the door.
"Dean He, you don’t have to worry, Li Guojing won’t betray you. You promised to take care of his family, he is not that foolish," the secretary brought her a cup of tea, "So many days have passed and nothing has happened, right?"
"I’m just afraid it’s the calm before the storm; my left eyelid has been twitching non-stop," Helan Ying took a sip of tea to calm her nerves, "Maybe I really am overthinking it."
Helan Ying had just set down her tea cup when the door was pushed open from the outside. The only person who would barge into her office without knocking was likely to be Nan Zhan.
Indeed, it was Nan Zhan.
Helan Ying’s heart skipped a beat, but her face remained expressionless: "Ah Zhan, why are you here? You could have given me a heads-up."
"I thought you were always waiting for me." Nan Zhan sat down in a chair in front of her, glanced at the secretary beside her: "There’s something I want to talk about with my mom, alone."
The secretary looked at Helan Ying, who nodded at him, and then he left the room.
"Tell me, Ah Zhan, what do you want to discuss?"
"Take a look at this." Nan Zhan threw the document he was holding onto the desk in front of him.
Helan Ying suspiciously picked it up, opened it, and her face instantly turned pale, disbelieving as she looked at her own son: "Ah Zhan, am I seeing things?"
"I assure you, you’re not seeing things, and you know perfectly well what I’m referring to."
Helan Ying slammed the document folder on the table: "Nan Zhan, I’m your mother, the one who gave birth to you and raised you, and you’re actually going to sue me for hit-and-run and for bribing someone to commit attempted murder. Do you understand what that means?"
"As a lawyer, I’m well aware. And as a dean, you should be even clearer than I am. To break the law knowingly is unforgivable," Nan Zhan stood up, his gaze at Helan Ying was a complex mix of pity, heartache, hatred, and helplessness.
Helan Ying was right, she is the mother who bore and raised him, but in the eyes of the law, everyone is equal.
"Mom, would you swear on the badge you wear, and swear that you haven’t done any of this?" Nan Zhan’s eyes misted over, "When you wake in the middle of the night, are you ever startled by nightmares? Have you ever considered how your mistake years ago took the lives of two people, shattered a happy family forever? You mock Jian Si for her poverty, for her downfall, but have you ever considered that her suffering is thanks to you? You stand under the national emblem in a solemn courtroom judging others’ rights and wrongs. Have you ever realized that you are a part of this darkness, that you are just like them, sinful and filthy?"
"Nan Zhan!" Helan Ying trembled all over, her facial muscles twitching violently; she pointed at the son in front of her, towering over her by a full head, her lips quivering, but she could no longer utter a single word.
"Mom, you haven’t thought about repentance at all, nor have you realized your mistakes. If you had even a shred of remorse, you wouldn’t have made things so difficult for Jian Si. You wouldn’t have incited Li Guojing to try to kill Jian Si after his return."
"For a woman, to get revenge for her, are you willing to send your mother to prison, to bring down the Nan Family, to completely disband our family? Is such a woman really worth making such a sacrifice for?"
"Yes." Nan Zhan answered her without hesitation: "Mom, do you know? The day Jian Si followed Li Guojing she saw you. She deduced that her family’s car accident was related to you, but what did she do? She gave up. She gave up the revenge she had been pursuing for the last eight years. She’s been drawing in that square for eight years just to find the culprit, but after she found out it was related to you, she made a decision that was agonizing to her. She wouldn’t pursue anyone’s responsibility anymore. And yet, when you discovered that the issue came to light, you even thought of killing her. Just a few days ago, she told me to go home and see you, to speak kindly to you, to reconcile with you. Despite how badly you’ve treated her, she still hoped that we, as mother and son, could let bygones be bygones. If such a woman doesn’t deserve my sacrifice, then who does?"
Helan Ying looked at him, astonished and skeptical: "What are you saying, you must be making this up."
"Whether I’m making this up is no longer important, mom. You should find a lawyer to prepare for this lawsuit. Jian Si is still in a coma in the hospital, and I will surely seek justice for her. Also, you better pray she wakes up soon."
