"Lili, Lili..."
Listening to the desperately loud calls coming from within earshot, Lu Lili slowly opened her heavy eyelids.
Upon opening her eyes, Lu Lili's gaze instantly froze as she looked at the beautiful lady in front of her and in disbelief cried out, "Mom?"
What was happening? Didn't I perish alongside the enemy? Is this hell now?
After a brief moment of puzzlement, a joyous expression appeared on Lu Lili's face. Meeting her long-deceased mother here, wasn't it a felicitous occasion? She lifted her hand, wanting to touch her mother's face, but in the instance of raising her hand, she felt a surge of pain coming back. Her gaze shifted and noticed that her body was full of various tubes, and upon further inspection, she realised she was lying on a large hospital bed.
Realising all this, Lu Lili's heart skipped a beat. This was not hell, it was evidently a hospital!
"Lili, you're awake? You nearly scared me to death!" Upon hearing Lu Lili's cry, tears started rolling down the lady's cheek. She reached out and stroked Lu Lili's cheek tenderly, pleading, "Promise me you won't do such silly things again. If Luo Qingcheng wants to call off the engagement, let her be. Our Lu family simply can't rival the Luo family..."
Observing her son, who was on the verge of death on the hospital bed, the lady could only heave a long sigh in her heart.
This son of hers, born into a wealthy home, was naturally timid yet licentious, a typical bully. Back when the Lu family was thriving, the Luo family wouldn't dare suggest calling off the engagement. But now with the Lu family business on the brink of collapse, Luo Qingcheng, who had just returned from her overseas studies, had personally come to the Lu family to terminate the engagement.
The parents were well aware of the current situation of the Lu family and had no choice but to agree to Luo Qingcheng's request. However, their good-for-nothing son, upon hearing this news, acted like a shrew - crying, making a scene, and even attempting to hang himself.
Even after all his dramatics, he could not change the fact that Luo Qingcheng was calling off the engagement. Out of desperation, their son jumped from the third floor of the Lu family villa, giving the couple a half-death scare.
"Luo Qingcheng, calling off the engagement?"
Staring blankly at the woman, Lu Lili acknowledged indeed such an event had occurred. However, that was something from twenty years ago, on his 24th birthday.
Throughout his subsequent life, whenever Lu Lili thought about this, he found it both humiliating and amusing. The humiliation was, of course, from Luo Qingcheng calling off the engagement, and the amusement was his jumping from the building was not intended. He just got drunk with few friends on his birthday and did this ridiculous act.
"I know you've always had feelings for Qingcheng. However, it was something we couldn’t avert ." The woman's face wore a heavy worry, yet her eyes held another wave of helplessness.
"What on earth is going on here?" Lu Li, still puzzled by the current situation, shook his confused mind and tentatively asked, "Mother, where is my father?"
"Your father…" The woman opened her mouth and finally sighed softly, saying, "Your father is busy with the company's affairs, don't blame him for not visiting you, the company is really overwhelmed right now."
Hearing the woman's words, Lu Li was immediately filled with joy. His parents were alive and the Lu family’s company had not yet gone bankrupt. Taking into account the matter of Luo Qingcheng's divorce, he was struck with a thought he could hardly believe—he had traveled back in time, twenty years into the past!
If it was the old Lu Li, he would definitely feel resentful towards his absent father. However, the Lu Li who came back from 20 years in the future knew the dilemma faced by his father, Lu Yixiu. The Lu family was now on the brink of death. In fact, despite his father’s best efforts, he could not change the fate of the Lu family’s bankruptcy and dissolution.
However, his father did not know until the day he died that the bankruptcy of the Lu family was not due to poor management, but it was a conspiracy against the Lu family!
He only found out about this a few years after the bankruptcy, when his heart was instantly filled with endless hatred. From then on, he made the radical decision to exact revenge on everyone who contributed to the decimation of the Lu family.
Accordingly, he endured hardships, went abroad to join a mercenary group, experienced near-death trials which transformed his once weak persona into a cold and iron-willed one. He became an inner family master from an ordinary man and returned home after a few years. He established a mysterious assassin organization, "SkyNet" and initiated a frenzy of revenge against all his old enemies.
However, he still couldn't kill all his enemies. The death of his beloved caused great upheaval in his emotions, leading to major decision-making errors. His painstakingly nurtured 'SkyNet' was annihilated by a joint onslaught of his enemies and he chose to die with the enemy who had burst into his house.
But it seemed that fate didn’t want him to die filled with hatred as it had sent him back to twenty years ago!
LU Li was filled with emotions. Since he was given such an opportunity, he resolved that he would not allow the tragedies that had once befallen him to recur.
Seeing Lu Li silent for a long time, the woman's tears fell again. She tightly held Lu Li’s hand and choked, "Li, if you want to cry, just cry out. It's just you and your mother here, no one will mock you."
"Why would I cry?" Lu Li moved slowly, a chill flashed in his eyes, then replaced by an innocent smile, he said, "Mother, I'm fine. It's just Luo Qingcheng, it's nothing at all."
"..." Hearing Lu Li's words, the woman was taken aback. Wasn't her son head over heels in love with Luo Qingcheng? How could he suddenly say this? Had he really gotten over it after the suicide attempt?
Seeing his mother’s surprised expression, Lu Li, forcing down the pain in his body, propped himself up, gently patted the woman's hand, showed an unprecedented self-confidence on his face, and laughed, "Just wait, I will find you a daughter-in-law who is ten thousand times better than Luo Qingcheng!"
After that, a charming and eerie smile appeared at the corner of Lu Li's mouth.
Luo Qingcheng? In his past life, under Luo Qingcheng’s management, the Luo family jumped to become the top family in China, and Luo Qingcheng’s name was known all over the world. Even when he established "SkyNet", he still couldn't exact revenge against Luo Qing Cheng. This life, with an additional 20 years of life experience, he swore that he would trample Luo Qingcheng fiercely under his feet!
He, Lu Li, was never a gentleman, nor was he now! He was a person who recognized revenge and gratitude. If people respect him, he respects them more. If people offend him, he must retaliate!
Looking at the ceiling, he said to himself silently: Luo Qingcheng, the moment I leave the hospital will be the beginning of your regret!
