Don't Ask Where People Go After Time Travel

Chapter 1476 Forced
"If a guest wants to join the game, he must first pay the chips." The maid stretched out her hand. Fang Zilan walked forward, but did not put the chips in her hand. Instead, she slapped them on the table.

The maid looked down, a hint of doubt flashed across her face, "My dear, compared to 100,000 taels, your half-broken token is too..."

Before she finished speaking, Fang Zilan interrupted her, "What kind of token is this? Can you see it clearly?"

Before the maid could take a closer look, a voice asked before her: "My dear, where did you get such a valuable thing?"

"I don't know when a secret gambling house would ask about one's origins." Fang Zilan looked up at the person who spoke, who was the man who accepted her Golden Plum Blossom and led her into the house.

"We won't ask for ordinary chips." The man's eyes were more scrutinizing, but Fang Zilan didn't care. She just pointed to the chair she had sat on not far away and said, "Excuse me, please move my seat over here."

Seeing that Fang Zilan had no intention of answering, the man looked unhappy. However, before he could speak again, a servant came out of the private room on the west side and said impatiently, "My master has asked, why don't you start?"

The man suppressed his temper, bowed hastily and said, "It's about to start." After that, he reluctantly dragged Fang Zilan's chair over.

Fang Zilan sat down at the gambling table. The maid didn't dare to accept her token rashly, nor did she dare to offend the nobles waiting for the game to start in the private room. She had to bite the bullet and said, "This game has begun. The winner is up to God..."

"Got it. Let's talk about the rules." Fang Zilan looked indifferent and interrupted the maid's next words, "I'm in a hurry. I guess you guys are busy too."

The maid bit her lip and said, "There are two guests in this game, so the one who bets the highest stakes will decide the rules."

"Okay." Fang Zilan took over the conversation naturally, "Then let's roll the dice and compare the size."

"The old guys in the Fang family are too rigid and inflexible. If they continue with their business model, the Fang family will be finished sooner or later. I don't want the business that my cousin has worked so hard to protect to be ruined by those old antiques." Fang Lihui said as a matter of course, "The businesses I have are all for emergency use, to help my cousin with cash flow."

"Your cousin is right. You are indeed more suitable for the position of the head of the Fang family." Fang Zilan raised the corners of her lips and smiled with relief. "Your unbridled character can lead the Fang family further."

"You're talking nonsense!" Fang Lihui retorted in a deep voice, with a hint of coldness in his eyes. "What basis does Lord Fang have to say that my cousin is not suitable? Do you know how much he has paid for the title of Patriarch? How could he not be suitable? He is the only Patriarch I recognize in my heart!"

When he said the last sentence, his voice had a hint of tears, and his head drooped lower and lower, murmuring: "If it weren't for him, how could there be the Fang family today, how could there be Fang Lihui today?"

Fang Zilan raised her hands to hold Fang Lihui's shoulders, looked him straight in the eyes, and said word by word: "Fang Lihui, who are you unwilling to let go of, Fang Liren or yourself?"

Fang Lihui's pupils twitched and he pushed her away fiercely.

Fang Zilan took a few steps back before she stood still. She straightened her clothes, sat on the mat beside the low table, and watched Fang Lihui fall to the ground quietly.

He hugged his knees with his arms and buried his head. His muffled voice and intermittent words drifted into her ears. "When I was born, my father's favorite concubine died of complications during childbirth. He thought I was his nemesis and never liked me. My mother was a cautious wife who never dared to disobey my father, and as a result, she didn't love me very much."

"As I grew older and reached school age, my brothers all had their own teachers, but I was the only one who was ignored. I didn't like studying, and my parents didn't care about me. Only my cousin who lived with us would drag me to the school in the prime minister's mansion every day."

"Most of the students in the school of the Prime Minister's Mansion are the students of the Prime Minister's uncle. They openly don't make things difficult for us for the sake of the Prime Minister's uncle, but they bully us behind our backs."

"Those people who wanted to be officials looked down on us who were born in business families. I was so angry at their hypocrisy that I secretly dealt with them a few times. I didn't expect that they found out and surrounded us and beat us up."

"My cousin almost had his legs broken by them in order to protect me. He has had a chronic disease since he was a child, and he always feels pain when it rains. But my cousin said that it doesn't rain twice a year in the capital, so it won't be a problem."

"I used to think that my cousin lost both his parents when he was young and lived under someone else's roof. He was only a few years older than me. Wouldn't he feel hardship? But he told me that even if the roof is lowered, there is always a piece of heaven and earth. At that time, I thought that I would definitely protect my cousin's piece of heaven and earth."

"When my cousin was 20 years old, he was competing for the position of head of the family. My uncle secretly pulled a few elders to do something bad. I found out, and I found someone to hold my uncle's handle against me. I threatened him and suppressed him, just so that my cousin could become the head of the family."

Fang Lihui raised his head, his eyes were red, his face was pale, and his voice was a little hoarse. "I thought he was just a tough orchid in my heart, leaving a little hope. But I don't know when he grew into a brocade flower, occupying the whole heart."

"Fang Lihui, even if he is the brocade flower in your heart, it is not as good as your own brocade life." Fang Zilan sighed quietly, "People, don't be too obsessed. You will regret it if you hurt others and yourself."

"It's useless for me to regret now." Fang Lihui turned his head away, looked at the deep night outside the window, and whispered: "I forced him to this point, there is no way back."

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"It's not like there's no way out." Fang Zilan had been sitting for so long that her legs felt numb. She stood up tremblingly and said, "I can pay for the money your cousin owes. If you wake up tomorrow and come to me after figuring it out, I'm willing to pay to help you break your obsession."

Fang Lihui looked at her swaying back and couldn't help asking, "Why did you do this?"

Fang Zilan stopped walking and didn't look back, but her voice was a little more lonely. "You thought you were going to live like the sun to warm others, but you didn't expect that you are not the only one who ended up living like the person you were obsessed with. When you sober up, just treat it as a dream that you want to talk about but can't."

A Wan was sitting on the stairs. When she saw Fang Zi Lan coming down, she quickly stood up and went to support her. Seeing her complexion and pale face, she couldn't help but worry, "Are you okay?"

She hummed softly, and her silence made Awan unable to say much, so she could only help her out of Yingchun Tower. As soon as they came out, they saw the carriage sent by Zhuge Yu to pick them up at the door.

Both of them were very tired, so they got on the carriage without any hesitation.

After an unknown amount of time, Awan hesitantly spoke to break the silence, "How is Fang Lihui?"