Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

Father Liu became more and more angry as he spoke. He raised his hand and was about to slap Liu Rusi in front of the police!

Liu Rusi still kept her head down, motionless. There was no dodging, no fear, not even a hint of instinctive flinching. It was as if the slap that was about to fall was hitting nothing but empty air.

The police officer nearby was quick-witted and grabbed Father Liu's raised wrist, shouting, "Mr. Liu! Calm down! This is the police station! Don't use force!"

Liu's father was stopped by the police and became even more angry. He shook the police's hand and continued to roar at Liu Rusi: "Speak! Are you mute?! Why are you running?! Did I give you food or water?! Huh?!"

Liu Rusi slowly, ever so slowly, raised her head. Her face remained expressionless, a weariness and numbness etched deep into her bones. She stared at her furious father with a hollow gaze, her voice as flat as a straight line: "You have a thief there."

"Thief?" Father Liu was stunned for a moment, then sneered as if he had heard a huge joke, "What good things do you have that are worth stealing? A broken schoolbag or those old clothes? Don't change the subject!"

Liu Rusi stared at him intently. Deep within her hollow eyes, a hint of cold resentment seemed to ignite. Her voice rose slightly, carrying a bitter irony: "Whatever that aunt covets from you, her son will steal."

These words were like a needle, precisely piercing Liu's father's fury and poking at his most vulnerable corner. A flicker of embarrassment and guilt crossed his face, followed by a surge of rage. He clearly understood what Liu Rusi was referring to—beautiful appearance is naturally coveted, and a girl with nothing is even more coveted...

"You, you farted!" Father Liu's face turned red, but he denied it flatly!

"You have bad intentions, and you're blaming others?! I think you deserve to be punished! You're just like your mother!" He seemed to have found the perfect excuse and immediately turned his attention to her. "I can't control this matter! Whoever gave birth to the child should take care of it! Go find your mother!"

He turned around and yelled at the police, "Go find her mother! Let her take care of this evil! I don't care anymore!"

The police officer frowned and explained, "Mr. Liu, we have contacted her mother. Her mother is now in the Provincial Children's Hospital. Her little daughter has suffered a heart attack and is in critical condition. She is unable to leave..."

"Little daughter?" Father Liu's expression froze instantly, as if paused. He clearly had no idea his ex-wife had remarried and had children, let alone that she had a seriously ill child. This news caught him off guard, and a complex expression crossed his face.

However, after this brief moment of astonishment, instead of feeling the slightest bit of sympathy for Liu Rusi's situation, he seemed to have found a more perfect outlet for his own helplessness. He suddenly turned his attention to Liu Rusi again, his eyes filled with resentment and anger, as if she was the root of all his misfortunes:

"I told you you were a jinx! A jinx! A disaster! Wherever you go, you bring harm! Your mother would rather give birth to a sickly child than have you! You've brought unrest to my family! And now look what's happened! You've even killed someone! As a disaster, why don't you just…"

"Snapped!"

No one had made a move, but Liu Rusi had suddenly stood up! The chair legs made a harsh friction sound on the floor.

She was finally completely blown away!

The long-accumulated resentment, the grievance of being abandoned, the anger of being insulted, the despair of being pushed around like garbage... At this moment, under the verbal attack of his biological father, which was more vicious than that of an outsider, it exploded like a ignited powder keg!

Liu Rusi's body trembled violently due to extreme anger, and her pale cheeks were abnormally flushed.

Her eyes, which were always cold or disgusted, were now burning with flames that could burn everything, staring at the man in front of her whom she called father.

The voice was hoarse but carried a sharpness that pierced the soul. Every word was like a drop of blood bursting out from between teeth: "It's you she doesn't want!"

This roar made the entire room fall into a dead silence. Even the furious Father Liu was stunned.

Liu Rusi's voice was tinged with tears as she shouted at the top of her lungs:

"It's because you went out drinking and fooling around while she was pregnant! It's because you couldn't control your desires and kept getting entangled with other women! It's because you are a complete irresponsible loser! She could have been a good mother! She could have..."

Her voice choked, the overwhelming sadness and resentment making it almost impossible for her to breathe, but she forced herself to yell, yelling to this so-called father who always shirked responsibility, numbed himself with alcohol, and destroyed everything!

"She doesn't want me because I'm your child! Seeing me reminds her of her messy, infidelity-filled, deceitful, and disgusting marriage with you! I'm proof of her failure in life! A stain she wants to completely erase!"

Exposing the ugly truth behind all the veils exhausted all her energy.

Liu Rusi gasped for breath, her chest heaving violently, and tears finally burst out, as if mixed with years of immense hatred and unwillingness!

Father Liu's face flushed red at first, and he was nailed to the spot by his daughter's naked accusation and precise analysis. For a moment he was embarrassed and speechless.

But then, the madness that had been completely ripped apart erupted like volcanic magma! Like a trapped beast cornered, his eyes crimson, he roared with a ferocious determination to perish together:

"Since I'm such a rubbish, how can you be any good?!" His spit almost sprayed on Liu Rusi's pale face, "You are destined to be like your mother! A cheap bone! You will live your whole life relying on your face! You can't live without a man!"

This vicious accusation, which was full of strong gender insults and genetic curses, was like a poisoned ice cone, piercing Liu Rusi's chest, which had just erupted and was still heaving violently.

Liu Rusi's body suddenly stiffened, and her pupils, which were burning with flames of anger, suddenly contracted.

Unbelievable silence.

The entire space seemed to be vacuumed.

There was only the heavy breathing of Liu's father and Liu Rusi's extremely suppressed and broken breathing.

She looked at the man in front of her who was called her father. The last trace of kinship in her eyes was completely severed, leaving only a cold indifference as if she was looking at a stranger...

The silence lasted only a few seconds, but it felt like a century.

Then, Liu Rusi raised her head. Tears were still pouring down her cheeks, washing away the abnormal blush, but her eyes had changed.

It was no longer the grief and indignation from before, but a kind of calmness that was almost empty after burning to the extreme, but it also contained a heart-pounding power.

She slowly and fiercely wiped the tears from her face with her sleeve, her movements almost self-harmingly rough. Her eyes looked at her furious father, but also seemed to look through him to some distant future.

"You can't decide my life!"

The resolute roar was no longer a simple vent, but a determination to perish together with his enemies!

Every word was resounding, hitting the cold floor and Ling Yu's trembling heart.

Her voice was hoarse, but very clear:

"I will live well! Better than any of you can imagine!"

"I will use these hands—"

Her gaze abruptly retracted, fixing itself on her father's face, which was twisted by anger and alcohol. The corner of her mouth curved into a sarcastic and provocative arc: "Take control of your own destiny! I will stand where you will never be able to climb in your lifetime! Just wait, wait to witness my success! Wait to see your despicable behavior!"

Father Liu was completely intimidated by that cold and powerful will. He was furious but helpless. In the end, he could only angrily say, "Alright! You're awesome! I can't control you!"

He slammed a bank card on the table and said, "If you want to pay compensation, pay it! If you want to be sentenced, sentence him! If you want to be shot, shoot him! I can't do anything about this unlucky guy!" After that, he rushed out of the interrogation room without looking back, as if he was escaping from the plague, and slammed the door.

The video is still playing.

In the picture, the intense emotions on Liu Rusi's face receded like the tide, leaving only a nearly dead calm.

She no longer looked at anyone, but mechanically and numbly, actively cooperated with the police to complete the remaining record-keeping, inspection, and signing... The person who seemed to have a burning soul just now was just a brief illusion.

But Ling Yu was no longer looking at the screen.

He leaned against the cold wall and slowly closed his eyes.

All the fragments, those images that he once couldn't understand, was confused, and even peeked at with curiosity, were now spinning and colliding wildly in his mind, piecing together a complete and cruel truth.

Why can't any form of pursuit impress her?

Because her heart had long been hurt by her loved ones, and the ensuing malice had turned it into solid ice. Beneath the ice was an icy undercurrent - flowing with hatred, the obsession to escape from the dark fate, but not the gentleness left for romance.

She wants to become the world's top heart surgeon, and the possible motives behind this are... naked and sharp, filled with bloody resentment!

Her new daughter, whom her mother had spent all her energy to protect, suffered from heart disease. If she, who was abandoned as a "stain", became a top cardiac surgeon, this would be the most bitter irony in itself.

And these are the foundations that keep her alive! When she discovered that her psychological problems had affected her studies and her life, she relied on this hatred to stand up tenaciously, heal herself bit by bit, and grow flesh and blood on her own...

That unyielding power! It's the power of revenge!

Ling Yu left the police station, and the bulletproof car that had been modified by military industry was thrown casually on the side of the road.

He walked alone and aimlessly into the dark night.

The neon lights of the city flickered, but they couldn't illuminate the confusion and heaviness in his heart. His mind replayed the fragments of her uncontrollably:

When I first met her, the lingering pale blue color under her eyes, her frail and thin body, and her indifference and numbness were described as world-weariness.

In the corner of the library, as she looked down at the thick psychology book, a teardrop fell silently on the page.

As she ran around in circles on the university playground, her tired but unusually steady steps seemed to be trampling the mud of the past with every step.

But at this moment, all the urges to approach, test, and even protect him receded like the tide. Only one extremely clear and heavy thought remained in his mind:

He no longer desperately wanted to be near her.

He glimpsed the power of revenge that had carried her to this point, and understood the determination behind her words, "You can't decide my life."

To come closer was itself a disturbance, an offense to the fortress she had built with her dark past.

He just wanted her to live well.

Even if she lives for hatred, even if her road ahead is full of thorns.

As long as she can breathe, run, and move step by step towards her set goal - whether that goal is redemption or revenge.

...

After that night at the police station, Ling Yu's life seemed to have been reset.

Ke Jinfeng was sent abroad by his father again, but this time he took the initiative to leave.

Ling Yu went to the airport to see him off. This man no longer looked like the energetic young man he used to be. The encounter with Liu Rusi had obviously dealt a great blow to Ke Jinfeng, but he also looked calmer because of it.

Ling Yu also suddenly realized that he and Ke Jinfeng were actually in a different situation. He would make the same mistakes as Ke Jinfeng, but because he was more cautious and rational, and Ke Jinfeng had cleared the mines in advance, he was lucky enough not to trigger them... Therefore, he could not find a chance to appear because there was no chance at all.

Those attempts to obtain information about her to soothe my own anxieties now seemed ridiculous.

Ling Yu completely cut off the pathological "observation" path.

The campus forum section that once carried countless fragmented information about Liu Rusi was wiped out by him personally, along with the once noisy anonymous discussions and secretly taken photos, which disappeared without a trace.

He even made changes to the entire forum, forcibly canceling the anonymous posting function and posting an extremely eye-catching and sternly worded warning on the header: It is strictly forbidden to post photos, videos and unconfirmed rumors that violate the privacy of others. Violators will bear corresponding legal responsibilities.

This was like an icy gate, completely blocking the channel he once relied on and which also fueled his certain morbid concerns.

Life suddenly became much cleaner and more spacious. Liu Rusi's figure was like a stone thrown into the deep sea, the ripples on the calm surface he had deliberately created becoming increasingly weaker until they almost disappeared.

Ling Yu devoted almost all of his energy back to his original field - the research of "Brain-Computer Interface - Mechanical Warriors".

Before Ke Jinfeng was reported to the police, this ongoing project was also a springboard for him to get close to Liu Rusi.

At that time, he envisioned collaborating with Professor Qin on an interdisciplinary project called "Mechanical Replacement for Accidental Torso Defects," recruiting outstanding students from across the school, which naturally included the position he had "tailor-made" for Liu Rusi.

Looking back now, this idea itself was highly purposeful and irrational, trying to use a grand scientific research project to cover up his personal thoughts that were not to be shared with outsiders.

The project was finally launched.

Ling Yu retained its core value and scientific research significance, and eliminated all unreasonable "special" requirements designed only for her.

He followed the principle of fairness and openness, recruiting all qualified master's and doctoral students. The position once reserved for Liu Rusi was eventually filled by a man with great talent in biomechanics and neural control.

Ling Yu looked at the boy concentrating on debugging the robotic arm in the laboratory, and felt unusually calm and even relieved - this is what a project should be like.