Ti is up, Li Le Wen stared at the numbers marking the ti, exhausted all the waiting.
The executioner of Isee never shows rcy. When the ti is up, not a minute is delayed. His hand clutching the lighter, he walks again to the iron cage, reaches through the bars, and grabs Li Le Wen’s jaw, turning it towards the cara.
As if to let the world take one last look at the final impressions Li Le Wen left in this world.
Torture lies ahead, even the already resigned-to-death Li Le Wen couldn’t help but feel a chill all over.
But what he is about to endure is a fire execution. Could it be the warst flas in this world will surround his body, so perhaps he shouldn’t feel this cold? Yet, he still felt this cold, so cold that every muscle in his body contracted.
He understood, this cold was coming from the depths of his heart.
The fire execution inflicted on his body couldn’t warm his heart. It seed in his entire lifeti, it had never been warm.
.
The fire ignited, and all the audience watching through live television and the internet gasped.
The fire ford a line, rapidly approaching the iron cage from afar. Finally, after passing through the bars, it transford into a fierce fire serpent, roaring as it leapt onto Li Le Wen’s body.
This process actually happened very quickly, but in people’s eyes, it seed torturously slow.
Countless people burst into tears on the spot.
Unfortunately, these cries could no longer penetrate the screen, unable to reach Li Le Wen’s ears through the internet. At this mont, what he could hear was only the sound of the fire fueled by the wind, blazing; and his own skin and flesh twisting, breaking, and charring under the tongues of fire.
Yet he didn’t utter a single sound.
When the fire serpent finally arrogantly covered his head, wrapping even his head in flas, he finally scread out in pain. Most people couldn’t understand what he was shouting; they thought it was pain, or a cry for help, or a curse.
Only a small number of people could understand, he was shouting in Chinese, and not ordinary Chinese — he was using the dialect from the small Jiangnan village where Huangfu Hua Zhang was hidden during his childhood.
"You said, after I completed George’s mission, you would give what I wanted. I believed, I thought you understood my feelings; but who knew, what you ant by ’giving what I wanted’ simply ant transferring back to your side."
Amidst the roaring flas, he laughed bitterly, "Indeed, staying by your side is what I wanted, but... not in this way. Then I understood, with your wisdom, how could you truly not understand what I wanted; the reason you arranged it like this, was just to tell that what I wanted, I would never get."
"I was greedy too, I always thought as long as I worked harder, maybe there was still a chance. So, when you were creating your Taohuayuan, I volunteered to take on this task. I knew that was the place in your dreams, I knew that was your destination. So I snatched this task, I wanted to build that place for you with my own hands, I wanted, perhaps one day, I could accompany you to grow old in the idyllic countryside."
"Then she ca. Only then did I realize I was wrong. Naturally, what you did was all for her, just for her... So, I betrayed you again."
"You hate , I understand. Sending down this path, you wanted to tell everyone that anyone who dares to touch her and your child will die so tragically. I know, this is not just death, it’s actually hell."
"You are ruthless, but I don’t hate you. I think even if I’m going to die, I must be the most special one among all the people around you."
After that, he seed to say sothing more, but the fire had twisted his throat and damaged his vocal cords. The final sounds were his hoarse, sorrowful screams in the flas, but it was no longer discernible what else he wanted to say.
.
George told Shi Nian, he didn’t care.
Yet he still couldn’t control himself, as the final mont arrived, he rushed out of the dungeon, went back to the room upstairs and turned on the television...
Every word Li Le Wen spoke in the roaring flas was heard clearly by him.
He hated, his hatred was like those fire serpents, fiercely biting into Li Le Wen’s body. He still felt it wasn’t enough, clenching his fists and roaring, "Burn, burn him to death!"
Although he was already ntally prepared, knowing that even before dying, Li Le Wen perhaps loved and hated neither him, but the illegitimate child. Yet he didn’t expect the reality to be the scene before him.
In the end, although there was resentnt in Li Le Wen’s voice, every word was also full of deep affection towards that illegitimate child, wasn’t it?
In the end, Li Le Wen never thought of him even a bit.
He always thought he had successfully used Li Le Wen, but now he knew that from beginning to end, he never left any real mark in Li Le Wen’s heart.
He deceived Li Le Wen, saying he changed his face for Li Le Wen, to look like the person in Li Le Wen’s heart; now he realized, seeing his face, Li Le Wen really only regarded him as another person from start to finish.
In the end, Li Le Wen’s every confession turned into a hoarse howl, and George finally covered his ears with his hands, tears unconsciously streaming down his face.
Through tear-blurred eyes, he seed to return to many years ago.
Many years ago, he knew that to defeat the illegitimate child, he must learn the illegitimate child’s tactics. Although the illegitimate child seed isolated and helpless after coming to M Country, he had a group of diehard young people under him. He only realized later, the illegitimate child had been searching all these years for such children, then ticulously nurturing them to beco his team.
So after he was exiled to Asia, he also started to do the sa, seeking similarly brilliant and promising children. They also had to be orphans.
He, at that ti, also used the financial power of the Ford Group, funding orphanages, doing charitable welfare. Then through soone’s introduction, he t Li Le Wen.
At that ti, he didn’t know it was also the illegitimate child who set this trap for him. He only thought his efforts paid off, finally finding such an excellent good child.
At the first sight of that child, he wore the most ordinary white shirt and blue jeans that had faded with wear, his black hair and eyes gleaming under the sun, his deep, sharp facial features so beautiful as if a young man had walked out of an Italian museum’s painting.
He had cultivated many children, but he uniquely kept him by his side. Then let him enter the most normal recruitnt system, let him beco his personal assistant ’unintentionally’."
All these years, during those once lonely tis, those monts when despair nearly led to a ntal breakdown, it was always this child who stayed by his side.
At so point, he didn’t even realize that his dependency on that child had exceeded his imagination. He began to gradually fear imagining a day when this young man wouldn’t be by his side.
And by that ti, that child had grown up and began to have his own romantic relationships.
That child’s deep and sharp features, that child’s graceful and charming conversational style, attracted the affection of many, many won. Every ti he took that child to business gatherings, he would see that child surrounded by a large group of socialites.
Then he began to feel very uncomfortable, countless tis to stand alone at the top of the stairs, lowering his eyes and coldly observing that child shuffling fluently amidst the won.
He began to lose his temper, began to be cold to that child. He started bit by bit to despairingly discover that this feeling, was called love.
He had buried this feeling in his heart for a long ti. He found more despairingly that this feeling was just his own, Li Le Wen had no feelings for him at all. Even, Li Le Wen only liked won.
This feeling gradually slipped into despair, driving him nearly insane. So in the end, he had no choice but to pull out the last card: he brazenly revealed Li Le Wen’s true identity.
That night, borrowing the strength of alcohol, he mocked Li Le Wen with a cold smile, "You are not panicking at all? Haha, I understand, you think this is good too, even if you die, it’s for that person, so you are not afraid of death at all."
"But I tell you, this matter is not as simple as your life or death. You are a piece he placed by my side, so you have your tasks to undertake. He painstakingly managed this chess ga for so many years, and you let it fall short. What do you think he would regard you? You are a piece that let him down, one that destroyed his years of efforts, how would he rember you after your death?"
After he finished speaking, Li Le Wen’s face finally turned pale. At that mont, he thought he finally obtained this child.
Looking back now, if it weren’t for what happened later, if he could have resigned himself to being exiled to Asia and never going back to M Country, maybe he wouldn’t be unable to even say a last farewell when that child finally, finally went away.
He covered both his ears with his hands, tears unknowingly streaming down his face.
He had ntally prepared himself; he had said he didn’t care, but in the end, he still couldn’t bear to watch that child’s last, final mont.
His hands slipped down his cheeks, leaving blood stains. Struggling to look, what reached his eyes was his own sorrowful wailing.
That child he once loved and hated, was no longer of this world.
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