Lin Luoqing listened to his usual tone and became relieved. His heart had been beating hard just now and he thought that something had happened to Ji Yuxiao. It was good that this wasn’t the case.
“Who misses you? I just wanted to see what you were doing.”
Ji Yuxiao gave a low laugh. Lin Luoqing listened to his laughter and felt that this person seemed to be laughing at himself. He was a bit embarrassed.
“What are you laughing at?”
“I’m laughing at your cuteness.,” Ji Yuxiao said warmly.
Lin Luoqing, “……”
Lin Luoqing quickly changed the topic. “So what are you doing now?”
“I’m talking to someone about business,” Ji Yuxiao answered calmly. “What about you? Have you finished filming?”
“Yes, I finished early today.” The moment Ji Yuxiao said he was talking to others, Lin Luoqing was too embarrassed to interrupt. “Then you should be busy first. I will hang up first. We will talk when you aren’t busy.”
“Okay.”
Lin Luoqing hung up the phone. Then he continued to read the script. The scene here was about to finish. Then he could go back to see Ji Yuxiao and the two children.
He didn’t tell Ji Yuxiao about this. He intended to quietly surprise Ji Yuxiao when the time came.
Lin Luoqing thought about Ji Yuxiao’s surprised expression and couldn’t help smiling. He really hoped that he could finish filming and go home tomorrow.
Wei Junhe came fairly quickly. He directed the medical staff to help carry Tan Jiaji to the ambulance and had them treat him properly.
Ji Yuxiao said lightly, “Tell me when he wakes up tomorrow.”
“Okay.” Wei Junhe pushed him into the elevator and walked to his car. “Then should I take you to your father’s place now?”
“Yes,” Ji Yuxiao said as he stood up, pulled open the car door and got in.
Wei Junhe, “???!!!”
“When did you recover?!”
Ji Yuxiao laughed. “Are you surprised?”
“I’m really surprised, okay? Didn’t you just manage to stand up before? Now you can move on your own?!”
Ji Yuxiao saw the joy in his eyes and said sincerely, “Thank you.”
From the time he woke up after his car accident until now, his friends had always cared about him and helped him. Especially Wei Junhe, he would go with him every time he went to the hospital for a check up. He would care about what changed with him this time, whether Ji Yuxiao was better and whether he would get better.
Ji Yuxiao had always been grateful to him but hadn’t expressed it. Now he could finally say these two words.
Wei Junhe chuckled. “Why are you being polite?”
He smiled and helped Ji Yuxiao move the wheelchair to the trunk. Then he got into the driver’s seat.
“Does Luoqing know that you’ve recovered?”
“He doesn’t know yet. I plan to surprise him,” Ji Yuxiao said softly. He seemed to think of something and his eyes were gentle. “Once this matter is over, I will go to see him. At that time, I can stand and wait for him.”
“Okay,” Wei Junhe said with a smile. “Once I go back today and tell Zhuang Yue and the others, they must be very happy.”
“Don’t rush yet,” Ji Yuxiao said. “Wait until this matter is completely over.”
“Okay, I’ll keep it a secret for you first.”
“Yes.”
Approximately half an hour earlier, they arrived at Father Ji’s house.
Wei Junhe stopped the car and looked at him in a worried manner. “I’ll go with you.”
“No need,” Ji Yuxiao refused. “Just wait for me here.”
He got out of the car, took his wheelchair and sat in it.
Wei Junhe was a bit worried about him. “Then call me if something happens.”
“Okay,” Ji Yuxiao agreed.
Father Ji was watching the TV in the living room. Once he heard the movement, he subconsciously looked back and was a bit surprised to find it was Ji Yuxiao.
“Why are you here?”
“I came here to talk to you about something.”
Father Ji turned off the TV. He was used to going up to the study so he headed to the stairs. He took several steps but found that Ji Yuxiao didn’t follow. Father Ji looked back and saw Ji Yuxiao stopped in front of the stairs, looking at him quietly.
It was only then that Father Ji remembered that Ji Yuxiao’s legs were inconvenient and he couldn’t go up the stairs.
“Let’s go to the living room.” Father Ji walked back down the stairs and walked in the direction of the living room.
Ji Yuxiao stared at the stairs in front of him and suddenly said, “How long have I been like this?”
Father Ji stopped after hearing this and looked back at him.
Ji Yuxiao turned his head and looked at the other person. Ji Yuxiao’s eyes were filled with incomprehensible sadness as he said, “It has been almost a year. It is so long and this place hasn’t changed at all.”
“There was no elevator before and there isn’t any now. There is no need to have it in the future.”
Father Ji hadn’t expected him to mention this suddenly. When the car accident happened, he really didn’t notice that Ji Yuxiao was different from ordinary people. This meant he didn’t install an elevator at home. Later, he realized but at that time, the relationship between them had deteriorated. He didn’t want to bother installing an elevator for a son who could make him so angry.
His feelings for Ji Yuxiao were too complicated. On the one hand, he loved Ji Yuxiao and regarded him as a son. Ji Yuxiao had grown up very well and was excellent. On the other hand, he hated Ji Yuxiao for being self-defeated and marrying without permission without listening to him.
At the same time, he was secretly jealous of Ji Yuxiao due to the inheritance left by Ji Yuling. If it wasn’t for Ji Yuling’s will, at least half of the inheritance would be his and there would be no need to worry that Ji Yuxiao had more shares than him.
Ji Yuling was dead. He might’ve written a will but if Ji Yuxiao was filial, Father Ji could share half of it privately. However, Ji Yuxiao wasn’t like that. Father Ji felt more and more like he wasn’t filial or a person, so Father Ji was more dissatisfied with him.
Now that Ji Yuxiao bluntly talked about the elevator, the father-son affection in Father Ji’s heart flooded again. This was indeed his negligence. After all, Ji Yuxiao had been disabled for so long. Every time he went home, Lin Luoqing even had to carry him up and down the stairs. Ji Yuxiao was such a strong person but he had to face this type of thing every time.
No wonder why he was increasingly reluctant to come back.
“If you want, I’ll have someone come and install it tomorrow.” Father Ji comforted him.
Ji Yuxiao shook his head. “No, I don’t want it. It isn’t necessary.”
Father Ji didn’t understand. “Why is it unnecessary? Won’t you go home in the future?”
Ji Yuxiao smiled. “Dad, I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear?”
Father Ji was puzzled. He looked at his son and didn’t know what tricks he was up to.
“What good news?”
“I found the real murderer who killed my brother,” Ji Yuxiao said calmly. “Moreover, I have already avenged my brother.”
Father Ji was shocked. He stared at Ji Yuxiao in a shocked manner.
Ji Yuxiao’s voice was gentle as he asked, “Then do you want to know what the bad news is?”
Father Ji forced himself to calm down and whispered, “What is it?”
“What a pity.” Ji Yuxiao sighed. “The murderer is your illegitimate son, Tan Jiaji.”
Father Ji subconsciously clenched his fists and stared at his son in disbelief.
How could he know?
How could he find out?!
Father Ji pretended to be calm. He deliberately pretended not to understand and said in a confused manner, “Xiao Xiao, what are you talking about? I don’t have an illegitimate child. Isn’t this Tan Jiaji recommended by your third uncle to join the company?”
Ji Yuxiao saw the hypocrisy on his face and sneered, “Dad, do you still want to pretend with me at this time?”
He found it quite boring. “If I don’t have conclusive evidence, how could I appear here now and tell you this? Isn’t this a warning?”
Father Ji shook his head. “Xiao Xiao, I’m becoming more and more confused about your words.”
“Then I will tell you something you can’t be confused about,” Ji Yuxiao said calmly. “Tan Jiaji has now entered the hospital and is injured. I helped call an ambulance for him. You don’t need to thank me. Tomorrow when he wakes up, the police will take him away. The crime is embezzling the company’s property. Your son, your dear illegitimate son Tan Jiaji, took 70 million from the cooperation with Aoyu.”
“I know what you are thinking. 70 million is just a small amount. You just need to give him the money and let him make it up, and he will be fine after you give him some help. However, that is impossible. I came here today to tell you that if you really dare to give him this amount of money, Tan Jiaji’s future will only be unluckier.”
“You are still alive and can protect him, but you are already at this age. You are much older than him. Can you protect him for a lifetime? If you help him this time, you had better take Tan Jiaji with you before you die. Once you die, I will continue to abuse him, humiliate him, give him hope and then make him despair.”
“At that time, I will break his fingers one by one before destroying his legs. Then I will connect his legs and break them again. I will let him leave prison on purpose and then catch him back, again and again.”
“Of course, I might not be so extreme. I might just set up a situation again, put him in jail for a few years. Then I let him out, let him go in and let him out again. You should know your son, right? Based on Tan Jiaji’s personality, it isn’t difficult to let him go to prison, right?”
“Do you want to bet? Bet on what type of person I will be? But no matter what, I will bring his ashes to you once he dies. In front of your grave, I will feed his ashes to dogs.”
“Do you think this result is acceptable? If I treat him like this, are you satisfied as a father?”
Father Ji hadn’t expected him to say such a thing and was completely stunned.
Of course, he knew that Ji Yuxiao had a bad temper compared to Ji Yuling. He had fought and caused trouble since he was a child. Father Ji just never expected Ji Yuxiao to say such things to him in such a tone.
Who was this?
Threatening him?
Using the rest of Tan Jiaji’s life to threaten him?
“Of course, you can help him this time.” Ji Yuxiao’s tone was indifferent, without a trace of anger when mentioning the enemy. However, it was this type of nonchalant disdain that made Father Ji even more deeply aware that he wouldn’t let Tan Jiaji go. In Ji Yuxiao’s heart, Tan Jiaji was already a dead man.
“But you had better kill me this time when you help him. Otherwise, there will definitely be a next time. He will receive the next charge and I will definitely let him go into prison. I will make him pay for my brother’s life. This is impossible to change. Even if I die, he must also die with me. Otherwise, I will crawl back from hell and kill him.”
“Yuxiao…” Father Ji instinctively called out his name.
Ji Yuxiao tilted his head and said calmly, “Of course, if you really protect him this time then I don’t mind letting everyone in the family know about Tan Jiaji’s true identity. I will let them know how you used my second and third uncle and how you raised Ji Mu as a shield. I don’t know what their reactions will be once your younger brothers know about this? In particular, Third Uncle. Will he still think you are his good older brother?”
“Ji Yuxiao, you are threatening me!”
“So what?” Ji Yuxiao raised his chin and said proudly. “I came here today to tell you that if Tan Jiaji doesn’t go to prison then just wait for your secret about Tan Jiaji to come out. Put away your useless thoughts. Don’t think that you can hide it if you have others give him this money to help him and that I won’t pursue it. If he doesn’t go to prison this time, I will definitely blame you and I won’t let Tan Jiaji or you go.”
“You have already cleaned up for Tan Jiaji once. If you dare to do it a second time, don’t blame me for being an unfilial son.”
Father Ji saw the determination in the other person’s eyes and for a moment, there were no words.
He knew that Ji Yuxiao would do it. He could definitely do it. This was Ji Yuling, the older brother he cared about the most. This was the relative he grew up relying on and in his heart, Ji Yuling was more important than his father.
“It won’t help if you kill me now,” Ji Yuxiao said lightly. “If I die, you and Tan Jiaji will be in even more danger.”
Father Ji was in disbelief. “Do you think I would kill you? Yuxiao, is this how you see me?”
He roared angrily. “Even if I did something I shouldn’t have done, I just wanted to save my remaining children. I only have three children and I don’t want to lose any of them again.”
Resentment filled Ji Yuxiao’s eyes along with his words. “It is a pity. You will definitely lose another one.”
“Yuxiao, he is also your younger brother. Why do you…?”
“I don’t have a younger brother!” Ji Yuxiao simply couldn’t understand how he could say such disgusting words. “I only have an older brother, an older brother who was killed by him. He killed my brother and he must die. Ji Zhenhong, I have already finished my words for you. I advise you to think carefully so you don’t do anything you really regret.”
He finished speaking and turned the wheelchair, pushing it toward the door.
Proofreader: Wei
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