The Tycoon's Enchanted Mermaid-Chapter 178 - : Are You Going to Fight Back?

Chapter 178 -178: Are You Going to Fight Back?

“But what can I do? I can’t just watch him reach a dead end. He is the father of my child,” Li Xue said with a bitter smile.

Ah Da was surprised; she didn’t understand why Li Xue didn’t just abandon Zhou Zhixiang, knowing full well he was not a good person.

A staff member walked over with a glass of wine, the leaf-shaped rim garnished with a slice of lemon.

“Please enjoy.”

Li Xue said thank you.

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After the staff member left, Li Xue turned to Ah Da and continued, “You must think I’m really stupid, and it’s okay, I think I’m beyond help, too. Like a lunatic, I let love cloud my judgement. Otherwise, how could I have been deceived into willingly getting pregnant before marriage, deceived to the point of being penniless now, with my parents seeing me as a disgrace, having a home I can’t return to, hehehe…”

“Actually, I’ve thought about turning back, but I don’t want my child to go through life fatherless. Blood ties can’t be changed, and besides, I once loved him deeply. When he knelt before me, begging desperately, I just… couldn’t remain indifferent.”

Listening, Ah Da felt an increasing pity for her.

Li Xue had fallen into a mire of her own making, and no one could save her but herself.

Li Xue lifted her hand and tucked her bangs behind her ear. Her face was beautiful, but her swollen eyes and purple corners of her mouth looked especially disheveled. “Thank you for helping me drive away Feng He earlier. If you hadn’t shown up in time, he might have beaten me to death. That scumbag has hurt quite a few actresses and online celebrities.”

“A few years ago, a female online celebrity committed suicide by jumping off a building because of his coercion. He spent millions to settle the matter and obtain the family’s forgiveness. I heard his family sent him abroad because of it, but I didn’t expect him to return less than a half a year later to cause trouble again. It was when he returned that my career started to look up, and he noticed me.”

“He invited me over and over again, sent me gifts. At that time, I was focusing all my attention on love and my career, not taking him seriously. I could never have expected things to come full circle, with me today crouching before him like a dog, subject to his beating and insults.”

Li Xue spoke calmly of her ordeal, her hand stroking her face, her eyes filled with a faint sadness. “I must look really ugly and embarrassed today.”

“No,” Ah Da said.

Li Xue paused, then lowered her hand. “When I was doing my makeup today, I thought that no matter what happened, I had to endure it. That way, the three of us could go back to how things were before. Whether it’s self-deception or false hope, there had to be an outcome.”

“But what I didn’t expect… I just can’t accept it. When he touches me, I feel like vomiting; when he curses at me, I want to hit him. He really… disgusts me to the core.”

“When he brought up my daughter, I couldn’t hold back and slapped him.”

“Really, I was shaking with anger at the moment. Now that I think back, I feel that I didn’t hit him hard enough. I should have kicked him until he was half-paralyzed, confined to a bed for the rest of his life.”

By the end, Li Xue’s eyes reddened, and she bit down on her teeth fiercely, with her manicured nails digging into her palm.

Ah Da, listening, also felt a surge of anger and said earnestly, “Do you want to go back and fight him? I can help you.”

Li Xue did not expect her to say that. Startled, she then broke into tearful laughter. “Miss Su, you’ve already helped me a lot. You don’t need to trouble yourself for me; I’m not worth it.”

Ah Da frowned slightly, comforting her, “You don’t have to talk like that. I think you’re quite good, and Nuobao is very cute.”

Li Xue’s smile was warm. “I didn’t expect Miss Su to remember my daughter’s nickname. Thank you so much, really. Thank you for being willing to listen to all this sentimental nonsense which isn’t much fun.”

“You’ve already said so many thank yous,” Ah Da reflected for a moment, then couldn’t help but say softly, “Miss Li, if I may be so bold to suggest, I think if you give up on Zhou Zhixiang, you might be happier and better off than you are now.”

Li Xue’s smile faded, her fingers clenched and then relaxed. Finally, she said, “I know. Thank you for your advice. I’ll seriously consider it.”

After everyone had gone, Ah Da stood up, leaned against the railing, the river churning tumultuously, the neon lights casting an unfathomable glow.

Li Xue’s plight was sigh-inducing. She trapped herself in a quagmire named Zhou Zhixiang. If she could climb out, she didn’t need to demean herself, relying on her capabilities.

Everyone has their own thoughts and choices.

Ah Da sat back down and picked up her phone, suddenly noticing a notification for a private message on Douyin.

She clicked it and found it was a picture.

Ah Dai suddenly sat up straight and tapped the screen to zoom in on the photo, which showed Little Pink Bottle and Jade Pot placed on a desk—weren’t they the objects that had been kidnapped?

“Is that you, what have you done to them?!” she messaged.

No sooner had she sent it than the reply came right back.

“Shh, don’t make a sound, don’t get worked up, I just took them as decorations,” came the reply.

“Forgot to tell you, I’m Lu Jing. Little merfolk wouldn’t have forgotten me, right? I’ve heard that fish have a memory of only seven seconds, is that true or false?” (smile)

Ah Dai’s back turned cold in an instant; how did Lu Jing know her DouYin account and even send her a private message?

“Get lost, release Little Pink Bottle and Jade Pot right now!”

Lu Jing wrote back, “Sure, we’ll talk about that when I return. You better keep yourself hidden; don’t let anyone catch you (laugh).”

Lu Jing added, “I spent quite some effort hiding you last time; don’t let it be in vain.”

Ah Dai was puzzled and couldn’t figure out his intentions. In theory, Lu Jing was a member of the Lu Family—shouldn’t he be trying to abduct her instead of helping her?

Thinking back carefully, last time at Wanrong, he had indeed been preventing her from going out, and at that time, her emotions were too troubled to pay any attention to his actions. Now it seemed he had indeed deliberately avoided her being captured.

But why did he do it intentionally?

What was his ultimate goal?

Unable to understand, Ah Dai chose the simplest method and directly sent a message to Lu Jing to ask him.

To her annoyance, Lu Jing very much deserved a beating as he replied.

“Curious, huh?”

“Not telling you.”

Ah Dai was left speechless…

She had indeed experienced Lu Jing’s detestable nature firsthand—in the room at Wanrong, he had asked her if she had a tail; just now he even mentioned how fish supposedly have only a seven-second memory span.

Ah Dai was so angry she wanted to cry. She questioned him why he knew her DouYin account, but he didn’t reply or even leave a “read” indication. Upon checking his profile, she discovered his account had been deactivated.

He sure ran fast!

“What are you looking at?”

A voice suddenly sounded from above, startling Ah Dai so much that her phone almost slipped from her hand.

It was Qin Yu! Ah Dai quickly raised her phone, “Lu Jing suddenly messaged me on DouYin; take a look quickly.”

Qin Yu frowned and took the phone to check.

Ah Dai watched him nervously. After a while, Qin Yu handed the phone back and said, “I’ll get Long Qi to investigate.”

“How could he possibly know my account?” Ah Dai held the phone, tapping her finger on the little bunny sticker she’d stuck on the back, thinking that she hadn’t added a single friend on DouYin and hadn’t posted anything except for going live…

Could it be the live stream…

Qin Yu rubbed her head, “Don’t worry too much. Right now, the Lu Family is hiding out like rats somewhere else. In Capital City, you are safe for the time being.”

Ah Dai burrowed into his embrace, her arms wrapped around his waist, her voice muffled as she said, “I’m not scared; I’m just worried about Jade Pot and the others. I don’t know where Lu Jing has taken them. Suddenly sending a picture like this, what is he trying to do?”