Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 410 - 423: Wei Linnan’s Conditions

At that time, she loved him.

But he didn’t love her; he only wanted a wife to bear him descendants.

After experiencing so much betrayal and hurt, her heart died, and she ran away. Even if she returned with the child, she would only treat him as a stranger. Yet ironically, he had fallen in love with her.

Maybe fate just loves to play such cruel, wicked jokes. In the vast sea of humanity, it’s already hard enough for two people who admire each other to meet, but even harder for them to both love each other at the same time. Alas, they never had such luck.

Su Xingyu thought wildly to herself as she looked at the sleeping Jue, wrapped in a thick blanket on the middle seat of the extended Bentley.

This time, when Lu Shifeng carried Jue out, he didn’t wake him. The child’s peaceful sleeping face was like a fragile angel.

Su Xingyu watched him for a while and softly asked Lu Shifeng: "Where is Zhuang Heng?"

A heart transplant is no small surgery. Could it be that the child’s biological mother doesn’t care? Su Xingyu felt grievance and anger for Jue.

Lu Shifeng glanced at her before saying, "I haven’t informed her. She doesn’t know the child is having surgery now."

"Why not inform her?"

"I guess you wouldn’t want to see her." That’s why Lu Shifeng didn’t notify Zhuang Heng. After all, every meeting between Xingyu and Zhuang Heng ended unpleasantly, always ending in discord. Now that Jue was undergoing major surgery, everyone was on edge, and it wouldn’t do for Zhuang Heng to cause another conflict at the hospital with Su Xingyu, adding more trouble.

Su Xingyu felt a slight ache in her heart, not understanding what kind of emotion it was.

So, to consider her feelings, he hadn’t informed the child’s biological mother at all?

She turned her head slightly, looking at the man before her. His side profile was cold, determined, and handsome, just as she remembered.

But the man himself had changed greatly.

If it were four years ago, he wouldn’t have considered her even a little.

But even now, what difference does it make?

Once feelings are broken, they’re broken, and they can never be mended. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Outside the car window was endless darkness. The road they traveled was silent, without other cars, and even the streetlights cast only a dim glow.

Amidst the shifting shadows, Su Xingyu softly spoke: "Notify Zhuang Heng. It’s such a big deal; she has the right to know."

Lu Shifeng glanced at her again before saying, "Alright. I’ll have someone prepare a room near the operating room for Zhuang Heng and have her kept inside to avoid any disturbances when seeing you. Xingyu, if the child is fine, we’ll let her out when we leave. If something happens to the child midway..." Lu Shifeng didn’t finish his sentence. The risks of a heart transplant were significant; one small mistake, and Jue’s life might not be saved.

"Jue will be fine." Su Xingyu’s voice was soft but firm.

Nevertheless, Lu Shifeng noticed her clasped hands resting on her knees trembled slightly.

His heart softened. His Xingyu was always so kind, like a lovely little rabbit, taking care of even a child without blood relation.

He reached out, his dry palm covering her cold, slightly trembling hands.

Su Xingyu didn’t expect this from him, her body quivering, and she attempted to pull her hands back. But he tightened his grip, holding her hands firmly, not allowing her to retreat.

Her body unknowingly tensed, like a little rabbit facing a hunter, nervous yet gradually easing as the taut string in her heart relaxed, seemingly less worried about the dangers Jue might face during the surgery.

At this moment, she really needed someone to support her, to assure her that the child would be fine.

And he was like the anchor in the storm.

Her heart gradually calmed, thoughts unknowingly wandering. Her voice lightly echoed in the peaceful space inside the Bentley: "Jue will definitely be okay, right? Lu Shifeng, when you took me to Wei Linnan’s underground base a few days ago for treatment, that base was very advanced, wasn’t it? But this time, for Jue’s heart treatment, you didn’t ask for their help because there’s no need for them to get involved, right?"

Lu Shifeng was silent for a moment before saying, "Jue’s condition doesn’t necessitate asking Wei Linnan."

Thus, Su Xingyu felt a bit more at ease.

However, she, in her simplicity, did not realize that when Lu Shifeng said it wasn’t necessary, he didn’t mean Jue’s condition hadn’t worsened but rather...

Seeking Wei Linnan’s treatment came with conditions.

And those conditions, most people in this world couldn’t afford.

Even he had come upon it by chance; due to the Lu Family being in the same city as the underground base, the two powers had interacted here and there over the centuries. So, Wei Linnan agreed to grant him one request out of a bit of goodwill.

Yes, a request.

That man, Wei Linnan, stood so high, and no matter how great the powers that approached him, they had to bow their noble heads.

No one knows what that man occupies himself with daily, but he truly had no time to waste on ordinary people’s birth, aging, illness, and death. He provided Lu Shifeng with a simple choice: "To treat your woman’s face or to perform a heart transplant on your son, you can only choose one. Want to choose both? Sure, unless every member of the Lu Family becomes my experiment, and the Blade Group serves my underground base for generations. Otherwise, don’t be too greedy."

With such harsh conditions, how could Lu Shifeng possibly agree?

The Bentley’s air conditioning made it as warm as spring. Lu Shifeng sat closely to Su Xingyu, his finely tailored shirt and trousers fitting impeccably. Yet, despite his cold, godlike demeanor, he felt an extreme cold deep inside, indescribable by words of the mortal world, like an ocean of flaming ice or an endless abyss, tumultuous, roaring, demanding change...also breeding profound unease within.

This was the feeling he’d had ever since agreeing to become Wei Linnan’s experiment and being injected with an unknown serum.

He used this condition to maintain Su Xingyu’s complete appearance.

Lu Shifeng subtly adjusted his posture, trying to suppress the strange sensation within his organs.

He recalled standing in Wei Linnan’s lab, negotiating with that mysterious man: "I can become your experiment, but you must ensure the experiments on my body won’t affect my responsibilities towards the Lu Family, Xingyu, or the entire Blade Group, nor affect my future children with Xingyu."