The aloof beauty always has weak legs; the crazy boss is too ruthless.

Chapter 166 Loss
Lin Chen hadn't slept all night, and his eyes were dry and slightly sore. He went into the bathroom to wash his face, and when he heard the door open outside, he ran out without even wiping his face.

Lu Siqi stood at the bedroom door, her face as pale as paper, devoid of any expression. Her voice was hoarse as she asked him, "Where's the medicine? Where's the medicine Dr. Che left?"

Lin Chen then realized what was happening, quickly strode to the coffee table, picked up the ointment, walked back to her, and handed it to her.

"Thank you." Taking the ointment, Lu Siqi turned and walked into the bedroom.

"Lu Siqi." Lin Chen called out to her, his voice filled with deep regret, "Last night... last night I..."

He dared not say anything more, as if he would lose this woman no matter what he said.

Although he has already lost...

But he simply couldn't bear the pain of watching her marry another man.

"I was confused last night. If I had thought about it for even a second, I would have known that what you said was deliberately meant to provoke me. It was my fault. Please forgive me. Give me another chance."

Lin Chen rarely begs someone in a humble way, but this time he felt that if he didn't lower himself, Lu Siqi might really leave him.

Because she was as calm as she was that day at Xiaomopo, seemingly calm and silent, but in reality, she hated him to the core.

"Lu Siqi." When Lin Chen called her name again, he realized that they always addressed each other by their given names, without any affectionate nicknames.

Reaching her, Lin Chen reached out and, with trembling arms, grabbed her wrist. Thinking of how roughly he had treated her last night, he immediately softened his grip and pulled her into his arms. "I really can't live without you."

Lu Siqi cried.

She buried her face in his chest, sobbing and crying. After a few minutes, she lifted her head from his embrace, looking up at him with a hopeful gaze: "Can you go back to the Special Economic Zone?"

This question troubled Lin Chen, and even made him feel somewhat helpless. "If you were in my shoes, would you still choose to go back?"

The question was posed to her because it was a dead question with no answer.

“If Gu Shi and Lu Yao hadn’t gone to Bangnan, I might have died there.” Those painful memories began to surface in his mind. They were the things he least wanted to face and the things he least wanted to admit, but now, he could no longer hide them. “The medication I was injected with was temporarily replaced by Lu Yao.”

He asked, "Do you know what this means?"

Lu Siqi tightened her lips, her eyes reddening again, because she had long guessed what he had experienced in Bangnan, but she never expected it to be so cruel.

“Gu Shi risked his life, threatening the people on Bangnan's side with explosives, saying that if they didn't switch my medicine, he would die with them.” Lin Chen became more and more agitated as he spoke, and even his eyes reddened. “The live broadcast you saw was recorded later.”

"The real live broadcast was when Gu Shi and Lu Yao fought a fierce battle with them, which pulled me back from the brink of death."

"If it weren't for Gu Shi and Lu Yao, I, Lin Chen, would never have appeared in front of you, Lu Siqi!"

“I will be like those undercover agents, my cold, lifeless body placed in a coffin, awarded a martyr's medal, and receive your bows and worships one after another. Finally, I will be cremated into a small box and buried in the martyrs' cemetery, where I will receive your tributes every Qingming Festival.”

Lu Siqi covered his mouth, stopping him from saying anything more.

The thought of almost being separated from him filled her with a suffocating pain that made it impossible for her to breathe.

"Lin Chen..." With her head pressed against his chest, Lu Siqi held back her tears, trying not to burst into sobs. "Do you hate the Special Administrative Region a lot?"

“Yes, I do hate it.” Lin Chen made no attempt to hide his ambition. “But I hate my indecisiveness back then even more. If I hadn’t been so playful and thrill-seeking that year, if I hadn’t met that bastard Shang Junyan, I would have been the one in charge of the Beicheng Special Zone! It wouldn’t have been Shang Junyan’s turn.” “I thought he would achieve great things, that he would be different from his brother Shang Junce, but you’ve seen the truth, haven’t you? He’s just a puppet! A puppet that can’t do anything!”

"If he had any power at all, how come out of the 50 comrades who went with us, only I came back!"

I recall the tragic deaths of my comrades, the images of them being turned into human pigs, and the scenes of people tearing each other apart in a fight for drugs...

Lin Chen could no longer calm himself down. "I can't do anything! I can't even help them end their lives!"

"I was an undercover agent in Bangnan for eight years, and every time I was on the verge of death. Do you know that? Once you become an undercover agent, you enter a vicious cycle. You follow one drug dealer after another. You take down one, and another one will be born. It's like a wildfire that you can't burn out or eradicate."

"I'm fed up with the injustice in this world! I can't stand this distorted education and arrangement! Who decided that being an undercover agent means being prepared to sacrifice yourself!"

"Why should sacrifice be considered sacred! Why should we be left to hide in the shadows and not receive any praise after completing our mission!"

"Why should we undercover agents have to be prepared to implicate our families?!"

"Why should we undercover agents have to suffer!"

"Who the hell made these rules?!"

Lu Siqi understood, "You're going to break these rules, aren't you?"

“That’s right!” Lin Chen no longer concealed his ambition. “If Shang Junyan can’t break it, then I will break it for him!”

……

It turns out that Shang Junyan was right; Lin Chen had long harbored the intention to turn Lin Chen against his own side.

Shang Junyan agreed to Lu Siqi's marriage to Sheng Huai'an in order to sever the relationship between the Lin family and the Lu family.

Her fourth uncle, Lu Yao, told her personally, "You can marry anyone, but you can't marry Lin Chen. You will only bring disaster upon him. If you don't want to implicate the Lin family and the Lu family, listen to your fourth uncle's advice: forget about Lin Chen and forget about Mu Sen."

Only Gu Shi told her, "Lin Chen is going to walk an extremely lonely road. Without the support of his comrades and brothers, he will be charging forward alone. As for the outcome, just look at Shang Junce to know. I don't want Lin Chen to suffer the same fate as Shang Junce. When we get to Hong Kong, we should try our best to pull him back to the starting point and not let him go down the wrong path."

Thinking of all this, Lu Siqi burst into tears.

Her heart ached so badly that she bent over and knelt down; the pain in her heart had replaced the tearing pain in her groin.

"Lin Chen...why...why...why..."

She kept repeating this sentence, tears streaming down her face as she buried her head between her knees, "Couldn't you have given Shang Junyan a little more time? Why do you insist on doing things that you know will fail!"

"You are the successor of the Lin family! The Lin family needs you! Why don't you become the president of the Lin Group!"

"Why do we have to fight Shang Junyan for power! Why!"

She no longer knew what words to use to describe her current state of collapse, because she knew that no matter what she said, this man would not change his mind.

News has arrived from Shang Junyan's side that Shang Junmo secretly returned to Hong Kong a few days ago. The Nie family is also poised to strike, waiting for the right moment to stir up another bloody storm.

……