Chapter 139: Step Aside, or I Will Die!

No matter how powerful he was, he could not withstand hearing her utter such heartless words with his own ears...

A complete severing of ties... a complete severing of ties...

She had made up her mind to draw a definitive line between them...

Someone who cared so deeply about children was now declaring that she would abort her own baby with her own hands...

How profoundly disappointed in him must she be to make such a decision, to speak such words just now...

Xiao Xuezheng unconsciously curled his thin lips into a bitter smile, feeling the world go black before his eyes. His tall, slender, and majestic frame swayed as if about to collapse.

Fortunately, he managed to grab the edge of the dining table just in time.

Her words just now were like a bomb dropped upon his head, blowing him to smithereens...

She was too ruthless...

Who said this twenty-something girl was kind and innocent? When it came to uttering wounding words, she was more formidable than anyone else...

For the very first time, Xiao Xuezheng experienced what it meant to feel pain piercing from the depths of his heart down to his very bones.

His entire body's blood surged in response, and every cell in his body seemed to ache along with it...

It hurt far more, infinitely more, than the day he lost Zaobao when he was eighteen...

Only now did he realize that, in truth, he loved Shi Runrun even more than he had loved Zaobao...

He had never noticed it until today, until she uttered such merciless words just now, that he finally understood his own heart...

It turned out that this woman named Shi Runrun had already taken deep root in his heart...

It was not because she refused the transplant surgery to save his grandfather, but because he heard her say she would abort the child with her own hands... because he heard her pronounce those four words of total estrangement...

Shi Runrun looked at him, raising a hand to fiercely rub her tear-filled eyes, wiping away the moisture from her delicate face. Then, steadying her body, she turned to walk out.

Outside in the deep night, the heavy rain was still pouring down.

The downpour seemed even heavier than before, drumming down as if the heavens themselves were weeping, shedding their sorrowful tears upon the mortal world.

Just as Shi Runrun reached the foyer and was about to rush out into the open, Xiao Xuezheng reacted with lightning speed, striding forward to block her path!

"Stop! You cannot leave!"

He spread his long arms, using his tall figure to bar her way, his back pressed firmly against the golden-thread sandalwood door to cut off her final retreat!

Shi Runrun had long anticipated that he would not easily let her go.

After all, his grandfather was lying in there, his fate unknown, still needing her heart!

She knew it—from the very beginning, he had only broken into her life because of this accursed heart of hers...

Ah...

From start to finish, the only reason he had suddenly forced his way into her world was this damn heart beating in her chest...

At that moment, Shi Runrun wished she could tear open her own chest with her bare hands, rip out her heart, and smash it fiercely into his face while telling him: *This is what you want, take it and get lost, let me go...*

Yet, without a heart, one dies...

Reality told her she could not do that...

She still had a plan, still had things she needed to accomplish...

Therefore, before he returned, she had prepared everything.

The next instant, a silver flash appeared as Shi Runrun felt behind her, pulling out a fruit knife she had stealthily taken from the kitchen and hidden earlier. Pressing it against her own chest, she laughed bitterly and spoke: "Are you not letting me go because of my heart?! To force me to undergo the transplant surgery? I am telling you, in your dreams! Give up hope! Even if I die this very second, I will never donate a portion of my heart to save your grandfather!"

Hearing her say this, Xiao Xuezheng could finally hold back no longer, and with a breaking voice, he shouted, "I never wanted your heart! Within days of marrying you, once I understood how important you were to me, I cast that thought aside entirely! Why?! Why won't you trust me?!"

As he spoke, his elongated, reddened eyes spilled over with tears, his voice laden with sorrow: "Within days of marrying you, I was captivated by you. From that day on, I grew to utterly detest the heart in your chest that could save my grandfather! I loathed it to the core! Why on earth did I approach you with such a scheme to begin with? I hated why my own heart could not be used to save him! I hated why it had to be yours! I couldn't bear to see you hurt, couldn't bear to see you sad, couldn't bear to see you cry—because I fell in love with you... Shi Runrun, I fell in love with you..."

He wept, murmuring in a low voice, his words heavy with anguish and grief.

As noble as he was, no matter how revered by all or how absolute his power, at this moment he was nothing more than a fragile husband desperately in love with his wife!

Yet, time and time again, Shi Runrun no longer believed him at all.

Not a single word he uttered, not a single syllable, not even a punctuation mark, would she ever believe again!

She curved her lips in a sneer: "Step aside, or I die right now. You choose."

With that, she tightened her grip on the fruit knife.

The fruit knife was extremely sharp, pressed hard against her chest. In the next moment, crimson blood began to seep through her snow-white clothing right over her heart!

This sight imprinted itself upon Xiao Xuezheng's vision, causing the pupils within his reddened eyes to violently contract!

He had never imagined that she could be so resolute in her determination to leave him...

So much so that she was willing to use her own life to threaten him...

The moment she turned her life into a bargaining chip, he was left completely powerless...

He dared not gamble; he feared she might actually harm herself, feared even the slightest scratch upon her, feared he would live to regret it...

To be hated by her was still better than having her dead...

Xiao Xuezheng's pale, thin lips lifted in a helpless, self-derisive smile before he turned sideways to clear a path.

The next second, without the slightest hesitation, Shi Runrun plunged into the rainy night.

The torrential rain beat down ruthlessly upon her body, threatening to drive her down into the mud.

In an instant, she was drenched to the bone, and whether the fluid streaming from her eyes was tears or rainwater was no longer possible to tell.

Yet she dared not halt her pace, fearing she would be stopped by him once more, dragged back, and trapped by his side.

A man like him was far too terrifying...

Clutching the fruit knife tightly in her grip, she braved the torrential downpour and hurried toward the garage.

She had long since placed the keys to one of the cars in her pocket.

Getting into the vehicle, she started the engine. She had obtained her driver's license long ago, though she had never actually driven on the road. But at this moment, driven by the desperate need to escape him, she cared for nothing else.

Even if she were to die in a car crash along the way, she would accept it...

Even if she perished, it would simply mean her time had run out...

Having been deceived and toyed with by him to this extent, Shi Runrun felt that death held no terror anymore; rather, it would be a release...

Her trembling hands engaged the ignition, and she slammed her foot down on the accelerator like a madwoman. The vehicle surged forward, roaring out of the garage and plunging straight into the deep, rain-swept night.

Xiao Xuezheng stood at the entrance of the villa, watching the car vanish instantly from his sight, his reddened eyes narrowing into a dark, profound gaze.

He immediately got into another vehicle, personally took the wheel, and gave chase.

Operating the steering wheel with one hand while pulling out his phone with the other, he dialed the head of the traffic bureau.

"Director Zhang, immediately help me intercept a white Maserati! The license plate is XXXXXXX! Yes! Use whatever means necessary, but you must stop that car for me!"

In the rainy, storm-lashed night, his roar echoed like rolling thunder.