Considering the ntal battle between George and him for many years, he could guess that George must have set the password as a specific series of numbers—numbers that held special aning in both his and George’s lives.
And the aning these numbers represent must be sothing George wants to humiliate him with.
Seeing him still unwilling to give up, Shi Nian hurriedly urged, "Sir, you should go quickly. I fear that George has designed more than just this low-voltage electrical ga; he might increase the voltage at any mont, and by then, we might have no escape!"
Huangfu Huazhang said nothing, pressed his lips tight and desperately recalled all the unfavorable, number-related information from his life’s intersections with George. Dates, amounts, license plate numbers, stock codes, proportions of board votes...
He tested one number after another, as if his forr life was replaying fra by fra. He rembered when he first arrived in M Country, isolated and helpless, surrounded by the proud Ford family who observed him. No one spoke to him, as if they ignored his existence. They only used their harsh gaze to silently accuse him: Why does an illegitimate child from the East get to have the noble blue eyes of the Ford family or the inherited looks of the Ford family?
He rembered George’s mother cursing his mother, who was still ill at the ti, against Anna’s hatred. She could only helplessly hold onto his sleeve and lift her aggrieved eyes to ask him, "Why does this woman keep cursing ?"
He rembered the day he finished his tense internship at the company and returned ho to find his mother missing. He asked the servants of the Ford family, who all looked at him coldly, not speaking, only shaking their heads. He knew they wouldn’t tell him even if they did know. He searched frantically all over the world until he finally found Anna and his mother in a church funded by the Ford family.
At that ti, Anna was holding his mother by the hair and pressing her onto the prayer mat, wailing loudly accusing, "Do you know, the Ford family are devout believers. Once Ford family mbers marry, they can never divorce! Especially not the company leader. But Ivan wants a divorce because of you, because of you, and he’s been defiant for years, facing off against the entire family! Huangfu Xi’an, you must be a witch sent by the devil, dare you lift your head to look at God? You’re guilty, guilty!"
Anxiously, he disregarded his own legs and stumbled forward to push Anna away.
For his mother, how could he care whether this was a church or under the watch of God? He knew only that he would set this church ablaze in a heartbeat if necessary!
He rembered that day leaving the church holding his mother, who had always let Anna bully her without retorting, suddenly stopping to look back at Anna, "Of course I know he’s a devout believer, he can’t divorce, nor does he support abortion. That’s why I had no choice but to keep my child..."
At that mont, his mother’s words were a retort to Anna, but she forgot to look at his face.
At that mont, he suddenly realized that perhaps it was only for this reason that his mother gave birth to him; not because of love, so she spent all these years hiding in her illness and forgot to protect him?
In the darkness, those past events he thought he tried so hard to forget beca even clearer before his eyes.
Over the years, he turned himself into a devil, learned to have a heart of stone, because only then could he forcefully leave those cruel experiences behind... but thinking about them now still made his heart ache repeatedly.
Because he knew he couldn’t fully fall into the path of the devil because of one person. Because of that person’s existence, his heart had to always retain human warmth, maintaining human warmth... That’s like Achilles’ heel, making it impossible for him to truly beco invulnerable.
So now, testing these numbers one by one, his heart was again crushed by the pain of the past, bloody and relentless.
This is what George wants, he understands. George would never pass up any opportunity to destroy his reason, and if he weren’t concerned about Shi Nian’s safety now, he would already be roaring madly!
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