NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1067-1073
Chapter 1067: Forced Marriage (9)
In the second-to-last entry, Cheng Weiwan learned she was called Han Zhili and her older brother was Han Zhifan.
The only reason why she read on was because she wanted to find out who violated Lili.
It wasn’t until the final entry when Lili said she was going on the operating table the next day to abort the child and she decided to change schools to distance herself from the demon, Cheng Weiguo…
Cheng Weiguo…
Cheng Weiwan was obviously very familiar with those three words, but it seemed like she didn’t recognize them. She stared for a long while as her mind went blank.
The college Lili mentioned earlier is the one Cheng Weiguo works at, so the Cheng Weiguo Lili wrote about is the same Cheng Weiguo I know…
After a long while, the gears in Cheng Weiwan’s mind started to turn.
As those thoughts drifted little by little into her mind, her body started to tremble violently.
That person who frightened Lili, drugged and raped her, and even recorded her to rape her again, turned out to actually be the Cheng Weiguo she knew…
All this time, didn’t he care about his self-image? Wasn’t he most afraid of dirtying his reputation? How could someone who cared so much about their image do something so monstrous?
Lili was younger than I am… I’m his daughter! How could he lay his hands on a girl so young?
Lili didn’t even have a boyfriend and she didn’t get the chance to live through the most beautiful romance in her life. He ruined it just like that… ruined…
It was no wonder Han Zhifan went after her; it was no wonder Han Zhifan planned the whole hero-saves-the-damsel-in-distress act; it was no wonder Han Zhifan didn’t hesitate to tell her to abort the child the second he found out she was pregnant…
His sister was ruined by my father like that, so how could he love me?
From the very beginning, he went for her with the intention of getting revenge on Cheng Weiguo…
It was no wonder she was always confused about what happened. So this was why he hated her so much. This was why…
Cheng Weiwan’s entire body started to tremble even harder.
If it was anyone else, I’m afraid they’d probably hate me to the max, right?
Cheng Weiwan thought there’d be more entries in the back, so she turned the pages with trembling fingers. There were, in fact, words in the back, but Lili hadn’t written them.
Front the handwriting, Cheng Weiwan recognized that Han Zhifan wrote it.
“If there wasn’t Cheng Weiguo, then you wouldn’t have gotten pregnant and you wouldn’t have died from blood loss during the operation.”
“Lili, big brother promises you that I’ll do my best to avenge you.”
Died… That woman, who was violated by her father and wanted to escape from him through getting the operation and starting her life again, died on the operating table?
So her father not only ruined the life of a young and beautiful girl, but he actually took the life of the girl after he destroyed her…
It was no wonder Han Zhifan treated me like that… treated me like that…
Cheng Weiwan didn’t know just how long her mind was in a mess before she heard the sound of footsteps from outside the office door.
She knew Han Zhifan had returned.
Cheng Weiwan, who hadn’t completely processed Lili’s diary yet, instinctively put the photo back into the diary and put it back under the sofa cushion.
Just as she finished doing all that, Han Zhifan pushed the office door open and walked in, carrying several bags.
The moment Cheng Weiwan saw Han Zhifan, she immediately thought about Lili’s diary and her body started to shiver uncontrollably.
Chapter 1068: Forced Marriage (10)
With the way she was now, she really couldn’t pretend like nothing happened. Having to face Han Zhifan, she needed to quietly be alone for a while and carefully think about the new information she incidentally came across tonight…
Cheng Weiwan got up without even waiting for Han Zhifan to say anything. She was afraid Han Zhifan would see something was wrong in her eyes, so she didn’t dare lift her head and look at him. She lowered her head and quietly said, “It’s late. Hanhan’s home alone, so I have to get back.”
With that said, she rushed over to the door.
After barely taking a few steps, Han Zhifan stopped her.
Cheng Weiwan instinctively lifted her eyelids only half-way before she quickly lowered them again. “I really have to…”
Before she could finish, Han Zhifan pushed her back down on the sofa.
“I…”
Cheng Weiwan spoke again, but she only managed to get out one word before Han Zhifan grabbed her leg. He pulled out band-aids from the bag of things he bought and stuck one on her wound.
Cheng Weiwan’s words suddenly cut off as she stared at Han Zhifan, who was concentrating on taking care of the blisters on her feet. All of a sudden, she thought about her father causing his biological sister to die, and her heart was overwhelmed by an indescribable sense of sadness which made her eyes water.
She was afraid the tears in the corners of her eyes would come crashing down and Han Zhifan would see them, so she instinctively turned her head to look out the window.
The room was silent. After Han Zhifan took care of the injury on her foot, he put on a pair of newly-bought sneakers on her feet. “Let’s go. I’ll take you home,” he said.
“No thanks, I…”
“It’s really late. It’s not safe to call a taxi. ” With that said, Han Zhifan got up and grabbed his car keys, Cheng Weiwan’s bag, and the pair of high heels she slipped out of.
Cheng Weiwan didn’t fight Han Zhifan on this. She got up and followed him out the door.
As the door shut, she saw the jacket on the coffee table.
When he brought her back to his office, he got a phone call. It seemed like it was take away.
He ordered take out which he still hadn’t eaten. It was early morning, yet he hadn’t eaten last night’s food?
“Let’s go…” Han Zhifan noticed Cheng Weiwan standing at the office door motionlessly in a daze, so he couldn’t help but cry out to her.
Cheng Weiwan snapped back to reality then let out an “Okay” and caught up to Han Zhifan.
Stepping into the elevator, she shot a few glances at Han Zhifan every now and then. She wanted to say something to him, but the words only lingered by her mouth. She moved her lips, but no words escaped.
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Han Zhifan’s diary seriously shocked Cheng Weiwan. She couldn’t stop thinking about Han Zhili’s diary for three whole days.
She actually knew Han Zhifan and her father might have some misunderstanding between them. Back then, when she found out the truth while standing at the door of Han Zhifan’s office, she only heard him say, “If you have to blame something, then blame the fact that she’s Cheng Weiguo’s daughter.”
She thought about asking Cheng Weiguo what kind of misunderstanding was between him and Han Zhifan. However, she was never able to really sit down and speak with Cheng Weiguo.
She also wondered what kind of misunderstanding was between them, but the only thing she could think of was how Cheng Weiguo was a doctor, so they must’ve had a doctor-patient issue. However, she never imagined that the problem would be as big as a grudge which involved someone losing their life…
Every letter of Han Zhili’s diary tested her silent endurance. Cheng Weiwan knew everything Han Zhili wrote was probably true, but Cheng Weiguo was, in fact, her father. Although her father had never truly played the role of a father, she still couldn’t accept that her father was that kind of person. She thought about this over and over again for the next few days until eventually, she took the initiative to call Cheng Weiguo.
Chapter 1069: Return (1)
Maybe it was because Cheng Weiguo hadn’t given up on the idea of Cheng Weiwan getting married to Mr. Liang, so this time, Cheng Weiguo quickly picked up Cheng Weiwan’s call.
Before Cheng Weiwan could speak, Cheng Weiguo said, “Why are you calling?”
Practically without giving any time for Cheng Weiwan to reply, Cheng Weiguo then added, “Mr. Liang called me today in the afternoon. Have you reconsidered marrying Mr. Liang?”
That day, I made my opinion very clear. Cheng Weiguo even slapped me on the face and kicked me out of the car as a result of my answer. Yet, he actually has the gall to bring up the situation about marrying Mr. Liang as soon as he picked up my call?
Deep down, Cheng Weiwan’s heart froze over, making her voice sound a little cold. “Where do you live? I want to see you.”
Regarding the incident with Han Zhili, Cheng Weiwan thought it would be better to speak to him in person. Over the phone, he wouldn’t just openly tell her if it was true or not; he definitely wouldn’t even talk to her about it.
Cheng Weiguo wanted to turn Cheng Weiwan away, but at the thought of Mr. Liang, he remained quiet for a short while but eventually gave Cheng Weiwan his hotel address.
After hanging up, Cheng Weiwan dropped Cheng Han off at Lin Muqing’s place and headed for Cheng Weiguo’s hotel.
Cheng Weiguo gave Cheng Weiwan his room number, so Cheng Weiwan immediately asked the lady at the front desk to activate the elevator to allow her to head upstairs.
At Cheng Weiguo’s door, Cheng Weiwan pressed the doorbell for a long time, but nobody came to open the door.
She furrowed her brows and reached into her pocket for her phone. Then she gave Cheng Weiguo a call.
The person who picked up the call wasn’t Cheng Weiguo, but his driver.
After the call, his driver quickly emerged from the elevator with the room key to help Cheng Weiwan enter the room. “Mr. Cheng had a last-minute meeting. He’s in the hotel’s meeting room right now, so he told me to let you in first to wait for him inside.”
“Thank you,” Cheng Weiwan replied politely.
The driver didn’t stick around. He bowed at Cheng Weiwan, shut the door and left.
Cheng Weiguo’s room was very luxurious; it was the best suite in the hotel and it was at least seventy to eighty square feet in size.
Cheng Weiwan scanned the room for a moment before she ended up finding a seat by the window.
This spot was really good. Through the window, she could see over half of Beijing.
Cheng Weiwan figured Cheng Weiguo must love working at this spot while staying at this hotel. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have put his laptop and USB on the small table.
USB…
As that thought came to mind, a key point flashed across Cheng Weiwan’s mind.
She was very familiar with this USB because many years ago, Cheng Weiguo had the same USB.
She remembered that in junior high, she went to the hospital to see him because she really wanted to get closer to her father. At the time, he was in the middle of a surgery. Other doctors took her into his office. At the time, she was only young and didn’t know better, so she went snooping around his office. Back then, she found this USB, but just as she touched it, he returned from the surgery and snatched the USB away. He lectured her harshly for a while then kicked her out of the hospital.
Chapter 1070: Return (2)
At the time, she was young, so she never cared too much about whether her father liked her. But now, thinking back, Cheng Weiguo seemed more flustered than disgusted by her.
Flustered… He was afraid I would get my hands on the USB…
She remembered that in Lili’s diary, there was more than one occasion when she mentioned, “He used the videos on the USB to threaten me.”
She was little at the time and didn’t really know better, yet he was so scared of her touching the USB. Don’t tell me this USB was the same USB Lili mentioned?
Cheng Weiwan stared at the USB in deep thought for a while before eventually opening the hotel laptop and inserting the USB.
There was a password on the USB, so there was simply no way to see what was on it. Cheng Weiwan didn’t know much about Cheng Weiguo, so she didn’t know what the password was. She attempted multiple passwords – she tried his birthday, her mother’s birthday, and numbers relating to her mother and his marriage and their birthdays. Seeing as they were all incorrect, she shut the laptop and pulled out the USB.
If a USB only had some innocent data on it, it wouldn’t have a password. Unless there really was some unspeakable secret stored on it…
Cheng Weiwan stood by the laptop and stared unwaveringly at the USB then put it into her pocket. Without even greeting Cheng Weiguo, she left the hotel.
Lin Muqing had a friend who was an expert with computers. After Cheng Weiwan left the hotel, she immediately grabbed the phone and called Lin Muqing.
Soon enough, Lin Muqing called Cheng Weiwan back and gave her the address of the laptop expert.
Cheng Weiwan hailed a cab and headed right for the target location.
Lin Muqing had given her friend a heads up, so as soon as Cheng Weiwan arrived, he immediately welcomed her in. He turned on the laptop and started to guess the password.
Lin Muqing’s friend was really awesome. In less than ten minutes, he was able to crack the USB password.
When he cracked the password, he probably scanned something in the USB, because the expression on his face looked visibly off. When he handed the laptop to Cheng Weiwan, he said, “Take your time looking. I still have some things to do” as a redness climbed up his ears.
When Lin Muqing’s computer expert friend walked into the study, Cheng Weiwan took the laptop he left behind and clicked on the USB folder.
It was filled with videos. Cheng Weiwan randomly picked one and caught sight of an unconscious girl lying on the bed as a man stripped her clothes.
Cheng Weiwan was more than familiar with that man. He was her biological father… Cheng Weiwan.
Cheng Weiwan’s face turned instantly pale.
She didn’t have the courage to watch all those revealing videos. She only watched the beginning then closed the video.
The USB had over a hundred videos and each video was of a different girl… which also meant that her father had molested over a hundred girls?
These videos shocked Cheng Weiwan. In comparison to when she accidentally read Han Zhili’s diary at Han Zhifan’s office, this was a bigger shock.
She really never imagined that her own father actually did something so deranged…
The corners of Cheng Weiwan’s lips trembled as she stared at the laptop screen for a long time. That was when her fingers shook and she clicked those videos again.
She watched one video after another, carefully searching for a long time before she finally found Han Zhili’s video…
Chapter 1071: Return (3)
So what Han Zhili said was all true. Her father really did kill Han Zhifan’s sister.
It was no wonder he hated me so much and was so harsh to me!
Cheng Weiwan never dared to love and the only time she did, it ended up being a lie.
It wasn’t that she wasn’t angry with Han Zhifan. But in the end, she found out that the only reason she had this kind of ending was all because of her father!
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Cheng Weiwan didn’t know how she got out of Lin Muqing’s computer expert friend’s house. All she knew was that when she snapped out of her daze, she was already standing at the door of the police station.
Behind her, cars drove back and forth on the road. In front of her was the dignified and respectful police department.
She tightly clutched the USB in her palms as her mind was torn for a long time. She couldn’t manage to take one step forward.
He was her biological father. Although he’d never truly treated her well, she couldn’t unveil his true identity with her bare hands.
But how could she let her father just get away with it all?
The dates were displayed on those videos. Her father did the same things to a woman just last month…
She knew Han Zhili died because of him. She didn’t know which of those hundred plus women had also lost their lives like this. Did they become crazy because of her father? Stupid? Given up on themselves? Or maybe they couldn’t bear it and left this world ages ago, like Han Zhili?
She had to stop her father. Otherwise, he would continue to ruin other women.
It was easy to write the words “to put her father to justice,” but it hurt to read those words. Labeling someone like that really was difficult…
Cheng Weiwan pondered it inside for a long time before she decided to hail a cab for Han Zhifan’s office in the end.
After stepping out of the car, Cheng Weiwan stood at Han Zhifan’s building entrance, hesitant to step forward.
Just as she summoned the courage after much difficulty and prepared to enter the building, someone from behind cried out: “Miss Cheng?”
Cheng Weiwan turned her head and looked over at Lin Sheng.
Lin Sheng walked up to Cheng Weiwan and said, “Miss Cheng came to look for Zhifan?”
Cheng Weiwan twitched her lips but didn’t say anything.
Lin Sheng rushed up to the door in front and made a hand gesture to welcome her in. “You’re just in time. I’m also here to see Zhifan. If Miss Cheng doesn’t mind, then let’s go up together.”
Cheng Weiwan stood motionlessly on the spot.
Lin Sheng took half a step before he sensed something was off with Cheng Weiwan and he stopped. “Don’t tell me I’ve made a mistake and Miss Cheng was just passing by here?”
Cheng Weiwan forcefully clutched the USB in her palms then harshly gulped and handed the USB to Lin Sheng. “I’m giving this to you.”
“What’s this?” Lin Sheng furrowed his brows with a confused look on his face.
“This is the thing he wants the most…” Cheng Weiwan was afraid Lin Sheng didn’t understand and added, “… It’s about my father.”
It’s about her father… Cheng Weiguo… Don’t tell me this is the USB mentioned in the notebook with videos of Cheng Weiguo bullying Lili?
Didn’t Han Zhifan hide Lili’s situation from her? How did she find out?
The more Lin Sheng thought about it, the more confused he was. “You know about Lili and Cheng Weiguo?” He couldn’t help but ask.
Cheng Weiwan lowered her head and didn’t answer Lin Sheng’s question. Instead, she said, “It’s best if you don’t let him see what’s on the USB.”
Lin Sheng knew what Cheng Weiwan meant.
Chapter 1072: Return (4)
Lin Sheng knew what Cheng Weiwan meant.
If anyone else saw their own little sister being bullied, they wouldn’t be able to take it either, right?
Lin Sheng nodded slightly and took the USB from Cheng Weiwan’s fingers. “Thank you.”
Cheng Weiwan really couldn’t muster out the words: “you’re welcome.” Even though she didn’t do those deranged things, she still felt guilty.
She pursed her lips. Without saying a word, she turned around to prepare to leave.
Before she could take two steps, Lin Sheng called out to her. “Miss Cheng.”
Cheng Weiwan’s footsteps came to a stop, but before she could turn her head, Lin Sheng’s voice rang out again. “He really does love you.”
Cheng Weiwan’s body swayed slightly and all of a sudden, she wanted to stop her head from turning back.
“Actually, he already liked you before he approached you with a motive over two years ago. It’s just that he kept on lying to himself because of Lili.”
Cheng Weiwan’s fingertips couldn’t help but tightly dig into her palms.
“After you left, he thought you really did abort your child, so he looked no different from before as though you really weren’t important to him. However, I caught him staring transfixed at one or two-year-olds many times. His eyes always seemed really sullen and I knew he was definitely thinking about the child you shared.”
“After you left, he didn’t dare go to Yongyi Gardens again aside from that one time when he was drunk. I took him there but he was the one who mumbled that he wanted to go. When he stepped inside Yongyi Gardens, he cried out your name just once, but it was clear enough for me to hear it. I never dared to confront him about that.”
“After you showed up again with Hanhan, he might have stolen Hanhan from you, but I could tell that he was really confused.”
“Do you know why he let you go?”
“Because he found out your father didn’t treat you well. He realized that his revenge plot ended up being a joke.”
“He let you down and you really wanted to go, so he let you go. But did you know that there was another reason why he let you go? It was because he didn’t want to let Lili down. He lost his trump card, so he wanted to tie himself with your father and ruin him by opening a financial case. However, in the process of ruining your father, it’ll also ruin himself…
When Cheng Weiwan heard this, she abruptly turned around and looked over at Lin Sheng.
“…Because of this, he wanted to let you go and he also gave you and Hanhan a big sum of money… After you left, he hasn’t actually been doing well. I can tell he’s unhappy every day, but he probably thinks it doesn’t matter since he’s going to go down with Cheng Weiguo anyway…”
“But even so, he never really stopped caring about you and Hanhan. Every day, he would make me send people to follow you and Hanhan… He was afraid something would happen to the two of you and no one would be there to take care of you both…”
It was no wonder that he showed up by my side when I was crouched on the street, crying.
So he’s always been paying attention to my condition.
So, although he promised to not show up outside my building again as per my request, he’s still secretly watching over me and Hanhan…
If Han Zhili’s situation hadn’t happened, then perhaps I wouldn’t be so conflicted. Han Zhili was so innocent, yet her life was taken by my father… I’m not someone who doesn’t know right from wrong, nor do I not understand everything that Han Zhifan did back then…
Chapter 1073: Return (5)
Cheng Weiwan knew she should’ve replied after Lin Sheng said so much.
But her emotions were erratic and she simply couldn’t think of what to say all of a sudden.
Lin Sheng wasn’t stupid. He could tell Cheng Weiwan was torn inside and he knew that one couldn’t just say they’d get over it and just get over it. He said what he had to say, but it still came down to how she thought about things. He didn’t continue pestering Cheng Weiwan by saying nice things about Han Zhifan; instead, he left with the words, “I’m heading up first” then he added, “Goodbye,” and stepped into the office building.
With Cheng Weiguo’s situation and Lin Sheng’s words piling up in Cheng Weiwan’s heart, her mind was in complete disarray.
She walked along the street and wandered aimlessly for a long time. It wasn’t until she got a call from Lin Muqing that she quickly composed herself and hailed a cab back home.
If she knew what was going to happen next, she would’ve definitely asked the taxi driver to drop her off outside her apartment building.
But she didn’t have the ability to predict the future. She remembered there was no food at home and she wanted to cook for Hanhan, so she told the driver to stop at the local supermarket.
She spent twenty minutes carefully picking some vegetables and fruit, paid, and prepared to take it all home. On the way home, she got a call from Cheng Weiguo.
When she took the USB, she knew Cheng Weiguo would look for her.
But she never imagined that he would realize so soon that the USB was missing.
That wasn’t right. It wasn’t really considered soon since the USB contained evidence that could ruin him – he must pay attention to it all the time. Normally, people wouldn’t notice it, but this time, she just happened to come across it, that was all…
Cheng Weiwan pulled out her phone, stared at the phone screen for a while, then took the call.
Just like when she called him that afternoon, she didn’t manage to get a word in before he said, “Did you take the USB?”
Cheng Weiwan didn’t say a word.
Cheng Weiguo had always carefully hidden the USB in fear of someone finding out his secret, so he even set a password on it. However, in the middle of the night last night, he was suddenly in the mood to take out the USB. Today, he woke up late because he wanted to admire the videos on it as he got drunk from red wine last night. After he got off the phone with Cheng Weiwan, he had a last minute meeting, so he hurriedly headed downstairs to the meeting.
After the meeting was over, he figured Cheng Weiwan was waiting for him in the room. He even thought about possibly drugging her, sending her to Mr. Liang’s bed, and using the footage to blackmail her just as he did with the women he had his eyes set on.
But he never imagined that she wouldn’t be in the room at all. He asked the hotel staff, who checked their security footage. They told him she left a long time ago… That was when he noticed that something was wrong. The first thing he did was look for the USB. He searched every corner of the room but couldn’t find it. That was when he realized that this was serious…
Having finished asking Cheng Weiwan that question, Cheng Weiguo noticed she wasn’t saying anything, so he spoke again. “Where’s the USB? Did you take it?”
This time, Cheng Weiwan didn’t remain silent but bluntly replied to Cheng Weiguo with a single word, “Yes.”
“Where did you take the USB? What did you do to the USB? Give the USB back to me!” Cheng Weiguo’s tone of voice sounded clearly desperate.
“You can’t get it back anymore…”
“What do you mean ‘you can’t get it back anymore’? I’ll say it one more time. Give me back my USB!” Cheng Weiguo’s tone of voice sounded a lot sterner.