On the day Lang Cha is discharged from the hospital, Lang"s mansion is restored to its former liveliness. Lang Qin and his son return from abroad, and Lang Li returns to everyone"s sight once again.
Besides, Lang Hongyue couple, and Yan Hua and her son who were specially requested by Lang Cha to come together, all the living members of the Lang Family have arrived except Lang Jia and Lang Jie, who were still at school outside.
"Dad, why don"t you let Jia and Jie come back?" Lang Hongyue pretends to be calm and asks, "Jia called me yesterday and said she was worried about your health!"
Lang Cha is sitting on the middle sofa, expressionless. Hearing this, he glances at her. "Let her come back? Come back and see what her mother has done?"
"Dad..." Lang Hongyue looks at her mobile phone and rests a.s.sured. "What"s wrong with you? Last time I went to the hospital, you were very choosy about me. What did I do wrong? Tell me?"
Lang Cha glances around the crowd and finally fixes his eyes on Lang Ruoxian. "Has the person come?"
"He will be here immediately." Lang Ruoxian stands up and walks to the door when speaking. Almost at the same time, they hear the sound of the engine. Then Lang Ruoxian opens the door and an acquaintance comes in.
"I"m sorry, Old Master, I"m late." The man wears a pair of gla.s.ses, middle-aged, elegant.
Lang Cha raises his hand. "It doesn"t matter. Let"s start!"
"Dad! Why do you ask Lawyer Liu to come here?" Lang Hongyue asks hastily.
They all know this man, who is Lang Cha"s lawyer.
Lang Cha ignores her. Lawyer Liu opens several doc.u.ments and looks at Lang Cha. "Old Master has changed his will. Some doc.u.ments need Miss Yan to sign."
"Me?" Yan Hua doesn"t expect that it has something to do with her. Lang Ruoxian secretly nods at her and reaches out. "Gungun, let the house maid take you to the kitchen to eat pudding, okay?"
Gungun is in Lang Cha"s arms. He raises his small head and says, "Great-grandpa, I"ll come and play with you later!"
"Go!" Lang Cha touches his little hand.
When Gungun and the house maid have left, Yan Hua takes the doc.u.ments and read a few lines, then she frowns. "Grandpa... Is this inappropriate?"
"There is nothing inappropriate. That"s all my stuff and I have the final say."
Lawyer Liu reads out the doc.u.ments loud. "Lang Xuanyuan, from the second branch of Lang Family, will get 30% of the company"s shares. From now on, the dividends will be owned by the mother, Ms. Yan Hua. When Lang Xuanyuan is 18 years old, he will manage it in person..."
"Dad!" Lang Hongyue looks at Lang Cha incredibly. "Are you crazy?"
Lang Li and Lang Qin each has only 18% of the shares and she has only 10%. Why does Lang Cha give so much to a small child?
"Besides..." Lawyer Liu hesitates and continues to read, "In addition, Mr. Lang Cha"s private villa and the three chateaus in Italy are all left to Lang Xuanyuan, which will be managed by Ms. Yan Hua before he is 18 and will be handed over to Lang Xuanyuan after his age of 18."
"Dad!" Lang Hongyue screams, "This is not fair!"
Lang looks at her. "Fair? If it were fair, you would have long been kicked out by me by now and wouldn"t get any money."
"Dad... What are you talking about..." Lang Hongyue"s face turns white, and Tian Bocheng hurriedly holds her.
Lang Cha closes his eyes. "You are pregnant now. You"d better not be so excited. The child is your own. If something bad happens, you will suffer by yourself."
"Dad..." Lang Qin also lets out a cry.
He is interrupted by Lang Cha. "What? Do you have any objection?"
"I didn"t make you angry!" Lang Qin smiles, "Why are you mad at me? I just want to say, isn"t there a manor of mine next to your three chateaus? Just today I borrow it to make a gift to Gungun."
"Yukun has no objection?" Lang Cha asks.
Lang Yukun smiles. "Of course not. Dad and I were not in China for the past two years. We haven"t even given any New Year"s money to Gungun. Let"s take it to make up him!"
"Lang Qin?" Lang Hongyue shouts, "Why do you two involve in? Dad is getting old and muddled, so are you?"
"Hongyue, don"t get too excited." Lang Qin points to her belly. "Dad has reminded you that you are pregnant now. Be careful."
How can Lang Hongyue not be angry? She has spent so much energy and time but fails to get so many shares. Yan Hua and Gungun, the widow and orphan, who have done nothing, get the lion"s share on the contrary. How can she accept the result willingly?
"Dad, you have to give us a reason why you want to do this." Lang Hongyue suddenly looks at Lang Li, who has kept silence. "Li, do you hear me? You speak quickly!"
"What should I say? Cough..." Lang Li"s voice is still hoa.r.s.e. "Dad gives his stuff to whoever he wants to. Besides... Zeyu was dead, only leaving the single child Gungun. Dad is right to be partial."
Lang Hongyue trembles with anger. "Why? What if I have a son later?"
"You should feel lucky I am old." Lang Cha says slowly, "I can"t control you now. If I were young, let alone the baby in your belly, I would even smack you to death."
"Dad... Dad, what are you talking about?" Lang Hongyue shakes her body. If it weren"t for Tian Bocheng hurriedly giving her a hand, she would be about to fall.
Lang Ruoxian, who has not spoken for a long time, suddenly answers the phone and says, "Grandpa, here they are."
"Let them in." Lang Cha looks at Lang Hongyue with complicated expressions in his eyes, but finally he cannot bear to say, "You"d better sit down, and don"t get excited no matter what you hear, not for nothing else, but for the sake of the baby in your belly."
Tian Bocheng nods and helps Lang Hongyue sit on the sofa. Lang Hongyue"s hand tightly clutches his hand and her fingernails even pierces his skin. The two persons make eye contact, both revealing a bit of panic.
Several bodyguards escort a middle-aged man into the room. Lang Hongyue glances at him and then looks at Tian Bocheng. Seeing his pale face, she knows that they can"t avoid failure...
"You ordered someone to make a car accident and wanted to kill this person, didn"t you?" Even as Lang Cha"s voice dies away, the middle-aged man shouts angrily. "Tian Bocheng! You want to kill me? Didn"t you say you would save me and send me abroad?"
Lang Ruoxian walks near him and shows a mocking expression to him with his back to others. "Why should he save you? What have you done?"
"You... You are, ah, ah!" The man suddenly cries out in fear, "Don"t come here! I didn"t do you any harm. It was my master who took the money. I didn"t know anything. I didn"t know anything!"
Lang Ruoxian grabs him and says, "Look carefully. You claimed the life of my cousin, not me."
"No... not you?" Luo Jin murmurs and looks at Lang Ruoxian, "How do you look so like him... Exactly the same..."
Lang Qin says with a frown, "Ruoxian, what is going on?"
"Grandpa. "
Lang Cha looks at Luo Jin coldly. "Speak up and tell us what you did in those days."
"I... I tell. I will tell you everything, but then you must let me go when I"m done!"
Lang Ruoxian smiles at the man and says, "Okay, go ahead, then you can go." Yan Hua thinks that he smiles like a very polished scoundrel.
"Mr. Tian found my master and asked him..."
The s.p.a.cious sitting room is very quiet. They can only hear Luo Jin stammering statement, and occasionally gasps of members of Lang Family.
"I only went there with my master twice, and I really didn"t know anything." Luo Jin cries. "Mr. Tian and his wife requested my master to give a person who looked very much like this gentleman drugs that were not compatible. Later, my master said the dosage was too large and changed the drugs into foods."
They fed Lang Zeyu with incompatible foods every day, and they kept feeding him like that for five years. For five whole years! Luo Jin watched indifferently that a person who was originally healthy slowly became decayed.
"Later, I didn"t know why Mr. Tian and his wife said that such a person looked too unhealthy. My master also nursed him for body conditioning for a period of time. Unfortunately, his body was poisoned too deeply and he certainly would not live long."
Bang! A vase is pushed to the ground by Lang Li, which interrupts Luo Jin"s memory and brings those people who tremble with fear back to reality.
"I"m sorry..." Lang Li"s hoa.r.s.e voice is restrained with a kind of forbearance. "I accidentally knocked it off."
Lang Ruoxian picks up the vase and puts it back. "Dad, are you okay?"
"I am okay... I was just deeply affected by his statement just now as if I had experienced it myself. I am like your poor cousin, better dead than alive. It is unknown to me when I will die."
Lang Hongyue has been shivering violently and Tian Bocheng has a pale and bloodless complexion. They don"t even have any strength to refute Luo Jin"s words.
"I... I have said all I know. You must let me go!"
Lang Cha raises his hand. The bodyguards get the man out of here. Luo Jin"s cry comes from the outside. Lang Hongyue feels numbness in her limbs as if her bones are removed.
"Do you have anything to say?" Lang Cha looks at her. "Since you were a kid, I have known that you are selfish and greedy, but it doesn"t matter because you are my daughter. Even if others don"t like you or hate you, they dare not bully you."
"But I didn"t expect that, because of my indulgence to you, you were with desperate daring and didn"t have any conscience. You even dared to cruelly do harm to your brother!" Lang Cha says more and more excitedly, coughed a few times and points to Lang Hongyue couple. "That"s your nephew, your nephew."
"He was the only child that your second elder brother had left behind. If you found him but didn"t allow him to find and recognize ancestors or return his clan, I would have to accept it." Lang Cha"s eyes moisten and he says painfully, "But you unexpectedly killed him. You killed him alive..."
Lang Qin hurriedly asks the butler to take the medicine, and Lang Ruoxian also mollifies Lang Cha. "Grandpa, don"t get excited. Your body can"t stand it."
"If I die today, the reason is because I am so angry with her who is worse than a beast!" Lang Cha takes the medicine and his mood gradually stabilizes.
Lang Hongyue and Tian Bocheng huddle together, shivering. Lang Qin asks her coldly, "Hongyue, aren"t you afraid of retribution?"
"I was wrong... I was wrong!" Lang Hongyue holds her belly and kneels down. "Dad, I really didn"t mean it! At first, I just wanted to make him a bit weak. Then when I brought him back, I could control him. I... I could get the shares of second elder brother. I... I didn"t mean to let him die..."
She cries out of breath. When she raises her head just to face Lang Li"s eyes, she is startled. Lang Li stared at her as if he wants to tear her alive. When she looks at him again, he doesn"t look like that.
Everyone looks at her coldly. Lang Hongyue is very scared. Her eyes flash and she pushes down Tian Bocheng, who is kneeling beside him. "Dad, it was not me. It was him! It was all his idea!"