Chapter 417: Chapter 417

Ye Hua received a telegram from her son. Liu Hongmei had given birth to a daughter, and Fang Peizhong also mentioned that he wanted Ye Hua to help him immediately as the second batch of the return-to-city list had been released.

Fang Peizhong must return home.

Ye Hua put the telegram in the drawer, feeling uneasy and suffocated inside.

Her son needed to come back, but what could she do?

Now Fang Zhiyuan would not return home without getting completely drunk, like a pile of mud.

Old Sir Fang and Mrs. Fang looked down upon them even more.

They wouldn’t speak a word, not even if they were dying.

Ye Hua felt extremely unlucky; the only person who could help now was Fang Xiaohui.

Fang Xiaohui married Song Mohuan.

The Song family couldn’t refuse to help them; it’s not such a big deal.

It’s just a matter of a word from the Song family.

She had to go see Fang Xiaohui.

Ye Hua checked the time; it was already past six, and in the winter, it’s completely dark at this time.

But her heart was anxious; she had to go.

Today was Friday, Fang Xiaohui was still at nursing school, but she might return to her own home tomorrow, and it wouldn’t be convenient to find Fang Xiaohui then.

Resolutely, Ye Hua grabbed her purse and headed out.

Outside the courtyard, there was a shaded path, but due to the cold winter months, there was no shade here, yet Ye Hua disliked it.

Summer or winter, it was always shadowy, as if someone were always hiding among the trees.

She hurriedly increased her speed, wanting to pass through quickly.

A dark figure emerged from the shadows, causing Ye Hua’s heart to tremble as she clutched her purse tightly.

Was she going to encounter a robbery?

She had sent all her salary to her son this month; she had no money on hand.

A cool voice sent a chill down Ye Hua’s spine.

She stepped back, looking as if she had seen a ghost.

"Yes, I’m out. Thanks for your efforts to set me up, but unfortunately, I didn’t die and came out alive."

Wu Weiguo stepped out from the shadows, his wool coat still showing an air of elegance and nobility.

"What do you want? I warn you, you’re a labor reform criminal; if you dare act recklessly... Uh... let go... of me!"

Ye Hua’s words were strangled in her throat, coming out muddled.

A crimson blur filled her sight, her lungs felt like they were burning, and Ye Hua thought she was going to die.

She knew when Wu Weiguo got out, she would die, but she didn’t expect him to come out so quickly; wasn’t he supposed to be confined for life?

That bastard tricked her.

This is supposed to be a lifetime!?

"Let her go, take her away!"

Wu Weiguo coughed a few times, realizing his body was failing him; it was always , showing signs of aging.

The man in the black coat dragged Ye Hua into the grove, Wu Weiguo sat on a stone, and someone attentively placed a coat under him, Wu Weiguo removed his leather gloves.

Slapping the gloves against his hand.

Ye Hua struggled to see Wu Weiguo from the man’s grip.

"Wu... Wei... Guo, I have an... unexpected... secret, if I die... you’ll never know this... secret."

Despite knowing this secret offered her no advantage, she spoke up to save her life.

Just hoping to spare herself.

"Haha, is it that I have a daughter?"

Wu Weiguo’s warm voice chilled Ye Hua’s heart.

How did Wu Weiguo know?

Nobody knew this secret, buried in her heart for years, not even Fang Zhiyuan knew.

In this world, nobody knew this secret.

Ye Hua’s mind was in turmoil.

How did Wu Weiguo know?

How did Wu Weiguo know?

What else did he know?

Was Wu Weiguo here to settle accounts with her? She would never forget the cruel look in Wu Weiguo’s eyes the day after he saw her, the word out of his mouth, "Get out!"

If Ye Hua didn’t know Wu Weiguo wouldn’t kill women, she’d have feared he would have killed her.

It wasn’t a question, it was a statement.

Ye Hua felt utterly cold inside.

"No, Jiang Xiaoxiao isn’t your daughter, I sent your daughter away, to a place nobody knows, if you dare harm me, you’ll never see her in this lifetime."

The grip on her throat loosened, allowing Ye Hua to finally shout out a complete sentence.

With her breath free, Ye Hua’s eyes filled with tears, having just escaped death.

The feeling of surviving was truly touching.

"Haha, Ye Hua, it seems you don’t understand me well. Butcher, Ms. Ye Hua doesn’t like telling the truth! So, please teach her how to talk to me."

Wu Weiguo lit a cigarette, the flickering light making Ye Hua instantly pulled over.

A pair of cold hands touched Ye Hua’s arm.

The piercing pain shot through.

Ye Hua felt like fainting, but the man’s cold gaze with a mocking glint seemed to be waiting for her to pass out.

Ye Hua suddenly realized she couldn’t faint, if these people really wanted to kill her, she’d have no chance to cry for help.

She couldn’t lose her senses.

Given Wu Weiguo’s question, he already knew about Jiang Xiaoxiao’s existence, lying held no advantage.

Her mind worked quickly, like a machine running at high speed, thinking of an escape.

"I’ll talk! I’ll talk!"

Ye Hua felt a sense of survival as the hands left her, feeling like she had survived a disaster.

Wu Weiguo was nothing like the Wu Weiguo she once knew.

The current Wu Weiguo seemed covered in an icy aura, and those around him, unlike before, she didn’t know them, but she tasted their methods.

Her left arm drooped unnaturally, moving slightly sent a stabbing pain.

Fear filled her heart.

"Speak, or you want to try again?"

Wu Weiguo absentmindedly tapped the gloves in his palm, in the distant darkness, Ye Hua couldn’t see Wu Weiguo’s expression, but she sensed the man beside her clenching his fist.

The cracking sound of bones made her instinctively fearful.

"Jiang Xiaoxiao is your daughter!"

At this point, Ye Hua dared not hold any illusions.

In this wild land, if Wu Weiguo turned truly ruthless, she wouldn’t know how she’d die.

Compared to her life, Ye Hua feared death.

"Then why is she in the Jiang family’s hands? The Fang family can’t raise a single child? That fool Fang Zhiyuan, you can’t have told him whose child she is! You’d just leave your child with someone else?"

Ye Hua’s mind whirled, she alone knew the truth, no matter others’ words, nobody knew.

She couldn’t admit she deliberately swapped Jiang Xiaoxiao, deliberately abandoned her, confessing wouldn’t let Wu Weiguo spare her life!

"It was a mistake at the hospital. We raised someone else’s child. It was an unintended mishap."

If she didn’t explain so hurriedly, Wu Weiguo might believe there was such a possibility.

Unfortunately, Ye Hua was too anxious.

Her haste led to Wu Weiguo chuckling.

"Ye Hua, you can’t change your bad habit in this lifetime; your head drops whenever you lie, wanting to bury yourself underground. You wanted to abandon that child long ago, you did it on purpose, condemning my daughter to suffer her whole life. Ye Hua, people like you, why don’t you die sooner!"

Wu Weiguo’s chilling voice left Ye Hua frozen.

"I can’t die, I can’t die, Xiao Xiao knows I’m her biological mother. If she finds out her biological father killed her real mom, how can she live with herself? How do you expect her to go on?"

Ye Hua desperately argued, the only excuse she could think of.

No one would wish to have their child bear such suffering.

Wu Weiguo might not care about her, but Jiang Xiaoxiao was his blood.

Wu Weiguo showed up today not out of indifference towards that child.

That proved Wu Weiguo wasn’t as uncaring about this child as she’d thought.