Chapter 14: I Don't Want Him—I'd Rather Kill Him Than Let You Have Him

Wu Liping was not just like a mother leopard driven mad to protect her cub—she was one: “Bai Lu! You wretched woman, don’t you dare hurt my daughter! I will never allow it! I’ll strangle you right now!”

Yu Fuqing shielded Bai Lu behind him and easily pushed Wu Liping away. “Aunt Shen! For Xiao Lu’s sake, I still call you Aunt. Please have some self-respect. Don’t force me to call the police.”

The hospital security had already arrived, but none dared make a move. After all, this was the family affair of the nation’s beloved daughter.

Family affairs were not to be meddled in. If handled poorly, it could bring trouble to both themselves and the hospital.

With a simple gesture from Yu Fuqing, the security guards no longer hesitated. They rushed forward, restrained Wu Liping, twisted her arm behind her back, and escorted her away.

“Bai Lu! You wretched thing! May you die a miserable death!” Wu Liping’s venomous curse still echoed through the corridor.

Without a word, Yu Fuqing knelt down on one knee, gently grasped Bai Lu’s ankle, used his own sleeve to wipe her small foot, then helped her into her slippers.

This scene was witnessed by Shen Xinlu, who was hiding by the door; her long nails broke one after another as she gripped the frame.

In the end, when Yu Fuqing tried to pick Bai Lu up, she refused. “Brother Fuqing, Xiao Lu is strong.”

Yu Fuqing looked at his little girl, who was clearly devastated yet still trying to act tough, and his heart ached as if it would break.

“All right, Brother Fuqing will just support Xiao Lu.”

Shen Yanghong and Shen Xinlu hid in the hospital room, too afraid to get involved and risk being implicated. They didn’t even dare step out to ask what was happening.

Yu Fuqing helped Bai Lu back onto the bed. His expression was grim, but he forced himself to remain composed so as not to upset his little girl.

Eighteen-year-old Shen Xinlu was not only young but also foolish. Without Wu Liping to coach her, she couldn’t read the room at all. Not even Shen Yanghong tugging her sleeve could stop her.

“Xiao Lu, just now with Mom—” Shen Xinlu began.

Yu Fuqing’s brow furrowed. “That’s enough. Let Xiao Lu rest in peace.”

“Brother Fuqing…” Bai Lu gently pinched his sleeve. “You… do you hate Xiao Lu now?”

“How could I?” Yu Fuqing replied.

Bai Lu glanced at Shen Xinlu, then at Yu Fuqing, lowering her head in shame. “I made Mom angry just now.”

Even Shen Yanghong couldn’t bear it. “Bai Lu, stop blaming yourself for everything! Kindness is good, but being too kind is not! It’s not good!”

Bai Lu shook her head furiously, biting her lip as tears streamed down her cheeks. “No, Dad, just now… I know Sister likes Brother Fuqing too. Mom wants Sister to marry Brother Fuqing. Xiao Lu knows everything!”

Yu Fuqing was stunned. “What did you say?”

Shen Xinlu panicked.

Shen Yanghong clenched his fist, his gaze turning dark.

Unable to hold back, Bai Lu burst into tears like a child. “Why does Mom get to decide who marries Brother Fuqing? Why? She’s always favored Sister, always! The leading role, commercials, endorsements—I can give them all to Sister! But Brother Fuqing—”

Suddenly realizing what she’d just said, the girl stopped crying, clapped her hands over her mouth in fright, her eyes wet with embarrassment and distress.

Yu Fuqing’s heart nearly melted.

So, the argument between the little girl and Wu Liping had been all because of him!

He reached out, wanting to hug her, but she was too shy and dove under the blanket, refusing to let him hold her.

He couldn’t help but laugh, gently patting her back through the covers. “Xiao Lu, who Brother Fuqing marries is up to Brother Fuqing alone. All right?”

Hidden under the blanket, Bai Lu felt like she was suffocating.

After such a day filled with tears, she really might cry herself blind.

She threw off the blanket and glared fiercely at Shen Xinlu.

Her gaze was so fierce that Shen Xinlu shrank back, stumbling into Shen Yanghong’s chest.

Bai Lu was like a little tiger: “If you dare try to take Brother Fuqing, I’ll bite you!”

Yu Fuqing couldn’t hold back and let out a low laugh.

His little girl was just too adorable—how could she be both fierce and sweet at the same time?

Fiercely sweet, so cute it could kill.

Yu Fuqing reached to pat her head, but she dodged. “Xiao Lu, good children don’t threaten their sisters. No one can take Brother Fuqing from you, no one.”

Bai Lu batted his hand away and bared her teeth at Shen Xinlu. “Yu Fuqing, what’s mine, nobody gets to take. Even if I don’t want it, I’d stab it to death before giving it to you. Shen Xinlu, if you dare take what’s mine, I’ll sell you off to some rich man as a concubine!”

To be treated as an object and stabbed to death—and yet, Yu Fuqing wasn’t the least bit angry. Instead, he felt secretly proud, seeing it as her possessiveness toward him.

Shen Yanghong frowned. “Bai Lu, enough nonsense. I knew it was a mistake letting Wu Liping get you that awful TV drama. Look what you’ve picked up from it! Selling your sister off as a concubine? Is that something a child should say? No wonder Wu Liping was so angry—she’s got a temper, and you say things like that to her? Of course she exploded! Wu Liping was wrong to hit you, but you shouldn’t have said such things, either. Xinlu is your sister.”

That same awful TV drama—Shen Xinlu had a part in it too. She forced a smile, feeling a bit awkward.

For some reason, Shen Xinlu felt very uncomfortable hearing those words.

Dad and Brother Fuqing both thought Bai Lu was just a child, speaking nonsense. But she felt that Bai Lu meant every word.

Yu Fuqing scolded her gently, smiling. “Bai Xiaolu, Shen Xinlu is your sister. You can’t say things like that, even if you’re still young and don’t understand what those words truly mean. Do you understand?”

Bai Lu was silent.

Was there no justice left in the world?

Since coming back to life, she’d told so many lies and everyone believed her.

But the one time she spoke her heart’s truth, not a soul believed her.

It was… truly absurd.

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