My CEO Baby Daddy Keeps Falling for My Tricks-Chapter 821: Wanwan, can you save mom?

Lin Xiangwan calmly looked at the woman, unable to express joy, nor rage.

Perhaps it was because they had never met before, no different from a stranger, or perhaps the current special circumstances prevented any joy. In any case, she felt no strong surge of emotion. "Is it because you are trafficking drugs? Do you not want to acknowledge me, or is it simply because you don’t want to acknowledge me?"

Li Hongge laughed. "There are reasons for both!"

Lin Xiangwan, finding this answer acceptable, nodded. "Then why did you abandon me when I was born? Was it because I was an excess child, or you wanted a boy? Where is my father?"

Li Yonghong took a deep breath. "There’s no issue of preferring boys over girls; I am not that kind of person. But I was an unwed mother. In that society, I had no means to support you. You must understand, even in today’s Z country, it’s hard for a single woman to raise a child, especially an unmarried one!"

Lin Xiangwan really wanted to ask, how had she managed to raise a child then?

At that time, she had no parents, nothing to rely on, and couldn’t even take care of herself, let alone care for a baby crying for food.

She also had to work!

Forget it, she couldn’t measure others by her own capacity to endure.

"What kind of person was my father, then? Did he abandon you? Or did he have a family?"

"Hmm!" Li Hongge nodded. "He was a married man. It was I who initiated... He is a good person. However, you were not in his plans, but he still pulled some strings to get you a household registration, which you should know!"

Lin Xiangwan gave a sarcastic smile. "Thank you both for thinking of it, giving me a B city household registration. I didn’t see the benefits before, but now, having a B city Hukou really is useful!"

"Wanwan..." Suddenly, Li Hongge lost her composure and started to sob. "Mom didn’t mean to abandon you, I was young and I made mistakes, and then one mistake followed another, otherwise I would not be... in this situation now. You should understand, right?"

"..." Lin Xiangwan had no comment.

"Mom is sorry!"

"..." Lin Xiangwan took a deep breath. "There’s nothing about being worthy or unworthy; it’s all about personal choice. As long as you feel that you did right by yourself, that’s enough!"

"Hehe..."

"And then you said you lost your son? Who was your previous son then? Were you married and had children before you and my father? I don’t understand," asked Lin Xiangwan, puzzled.

Li Hongge wiped away her tears, her voice thick with congestion. "No, that son who died wasn’t my own, he was my husband’s child. He was a man I met later on, he treated me very well, and before he died he handed over the organization to me."

"So that’s how you started down the path of crime?"

"Mm..."

"..." Everything happened so fast, leaving her overwhelmed, unsure how to face it or how to deal with it.

"Will you acknowledge me as your mother? I know it’s a lot to ask, but daughter, your mother truly missed you. I wanted to find you before, but you know my situation, I don’t have the stability to face you," Li Hongge cried tearfully.

Faced with this question, Lin Xiangwan was even more perplexed; whether to recognize her or not was something she hadn’t considered. The reason she came was just to see this woman, a woman who was her mother.

She wanted to know what she looked like, whether she resembled herself.

That was all.

But confronted with her crying, her heart still felt some disorder. "Does it make a big difference, acknowledging or not acknowledging?"

She asked uncertainly.

Li Hongge shook her head. "Not much difference, I know you are doing well now, with a very good husband. That’s truly wonderful; Mom is relieved."

"..."

Lin Xiangwan pondered for quite a while. "Is there anything you’d like to eat? I can bring it for you!"

"...There’s nothing I want to eat. What’s the point? For someone about to die, everything tastes the same in a place like this," Li Hongge said bleakly.

"Then is there anything else you need? What about your living conditions?" Lin Xiangwan didn’t know what it was like inside the Detention Center, whether the beds were just straw mats, or something else. Were there rats?

Or maybe the conditions were better now, she really had no idea.

Li Hongge laughed. "Do you want to help me?"

"If I can be of help, yes!"

"Heh..." Li Hongge suddenly laughed. "You’re still my good daughter. I only took care of you for a month before I handed you off to someone else. I was so cruel to you, yet you still think of me, your mother. That’s enough, even if I die, I can die smiling."

Lin Xiangwan smiled. "Everyone has to take responsibility for their actions. Knowing full well it’s a capital offense, yet still doing it. Then you can only wait for the law’s verdict, no one can save you now!"

"But your family’s Qin Muchuan might be able to save mother!" Li Hongge whispered very softly, especially when she uttered the name ’Qin Muchuan,’ it was almost just her mouthing the words.

Lin Xiangwan shook her head. "He can’t do anything."

"He can, I am not involved in any homicide cases..."

Lin Xiangwan frowned. "The amount of drugs you trafficked is huge..."

"Under USA law, the most I’d get is life imprisonment, definitely not the death penalty. But... it seems like Qin Muchuan is working on something. He stopped me from being repatriated, he wants to punish me according to the laws of our country!" Li Hongge said through gritted teeth.

"You committed the crime in our country, it’s only right that you’re tried here!"

"But if you could stop him, at least you could save mother’s life. Don’t you want to help, to keep from watching your mother die?" Li Hongge asked in a low voice.

"Don’t discuss these things!" the nearby police officer interrupted her.

Li Hongge widened her eyes at Lin Xiangwan. "You can’t just watch your mother die, can you?"

"I don’t know. I don’t have the ability to save you!"

"Visitation time is up!" The police officer quickly took Li Hongge away.

Lin Xiangwan was also led out of the visitation room.

She couldn’t remember how she walked out; her mind was filled with confusion and insoluble questions.

"What did she say to you?" Xiao Qingyao asked.

Lin Xiangwan gave him a glance. The man before her was trustworthy, but Lin Xiangwan didn’t want to bring up the matter with him.

She felt so... excessive, actually considering whether to help that woman.

Even if she was her mother, so what?

She was a major drug lord, a smuggler, and a murderer, she even trafficked in arms, looking to disrupt the entire country. A woman like that was simply a criminal against the nation and country. Why should she consider pleading for mercy on her behalf?

No no no, she couldn’t do that. It would be utterly wrong.

But perhaps her mother’s thoughts weren’t wrong, were they?

She wanted to return to the USA for another trial; that was fair, wasn’t it?