“The system asked me to redeem the villain.
But in the fifth year of becoming his mother, I got into a car accident.
When I opened my eyes again, twenty years had passed.
Just when I thought the villain had enough love to change his life trajectory, he actually grabbed the female lead’s neck right in front of me!
Thinking of his doomed death, I was angry and anxious, and rushed up to lift his ear.
“Li Jingxiao, is this how I taught you to treat girls?”
The violent villain looked at me in shock, and even the female lead being choked was stunned.
1
On my way to buy a birthday cake for the little villain, I had a car accident.
I clearly remember the pain spreading through my limbs and bones.
However, not only did I wake up safe and sound at home, but I actually came directly to twenty years later.
After receiving the information given by the system, I said dissatisfiedly,
“The little villain’s corruption value has already been cleared to zero. What are you up to?”
The system spread its hands helplessly. “The villain’s corruption value has reignited. The host is rewarded with one resurrection. Please continue the redemption mission.”
Afraid of being scolded by me, it hurriedly left these words and disappeared.
All the previous efforts were in vain, but fortunately, I was still alive.
I exhaled a breath of turbid air, immersed in the joy of surviving a near – death experience, when suddenly someone outside the door shrieked the little villain’s name.
“I warned you not to see him again!”
“Li Jingxiao, let me go! You can trap my body, but you can’t trap my heart…”
Time passed, and the little villain was 28 years old!
Thinking that I could see the grown – up child soon, I pushed the door open nervously and excitedly, but was startled by the exquisitely decorated corridor.
The crystal lamp beside the spiral staircase was dazzling, and every corner of the spacious villa exuded luxury.
One wall apart seemed like two different worlds.
Only then did I realize that the simple room just now was not our original residence, but was deliberately replicated and preserved by someone.
2
Downstairs, a man and a woman were extremely good – looking.
They were immersed in their back – and – forth argument and didn’t notice my approach at all.
“Ji Shuyu, you’re rebelling against me? Don’t you want your father’s medical expenses?”
Li Jingxiao’s cold face was distorted with anger.
The woman with a delicate and beautiful appearance was crying pitifully, but the words she said were very stubborn.
“Li Jingxiao, I don’t want to be threatened by you anymore. I’d rather die to atone for my father!”
In the book, Li Jingxiao loved the female lead, Ji Shuyu, to a pathological extent.
In order to get her, he not only threatened her with her family but also restricted her personal freedom.
He even kidnapped the female lead at the wedding of the male and female leads, attempting to use the extreme method of dying together to make the female lead belong to him forever.
Li Jingxiao’s eyes were blood – red, and he raised his hand to choke the female lead’s neck.
“Ji Shuyu, if I can’t have you, no one else can!”
Thinking of the scene where the police shot and killed him to save the female lead, my breath hitched, and I immediately rushed to his side and accurately lifted his ear.
“Li Jingxiao, you bastard! Is this how I taught you to treat girls? I clearly told you to respect and love girls, right?”
As soon as I finished speaking, the system’s mechanical voice sounded: “Congratulations to the host. The villain’scorruption value has decreased from 60 to 55!”
I silently complained: “Tsk, it turns out the little villain just needed a beating.”
System: “…”
The current Li Jingxiao is the dignified president of the Li Group. With a flick of his finger, the entire City A would tremble.
Except for the hard times in the past, no one had dared to treat him like this for many years.
Li Jingxiao let go of the female lead, turned his head, and looked at me in surprise. His gaze quickly became sharp.
He twisted my wrist in reverse and said viciously,
“Who are you? Who gave you the guts to touch me? And I don’t need you to teach me how to do things!”
I cried out in pain: “You little brat, I’m your mother!”
Ji Shuyu stepped back to the side, and her fair and delicate face instantly lost its color.
Li Jingxiao’s long – dead mother was a taboo in the Li family.
Every time someone mentioned it, that person would end up either dead or severely injured.
What’s more, I had even cursed the moody and extremely violent head of the Li family.
She cast a sympathetic look at me and wanted to open her mouth to plead for me, but gave up when she saw Li Jingxiao’s gloomy expression.
When I had the car accident, Li Jingxiao was eight years old. He should remember what I looked like.
I pointed at my face and asked in confusion: “Li Jingxiao, look at me carefully. Don’t you think I look familiar?”
A flash of fleeting nostalgia passed through Li Jingxiao’s sharp phoenix eyes.
I looked at him expectantly, hoping he could recognize me.
This instead aroused his deeper disgust. He increased his strength and said disdainfully,
“Plastic – surgery to look like my mother, trying to gain my attention in a new way? Unfortunately, you used the wrong method! Butler Wu, throw this crazy woman out to feed the dogs!”
Me:?
3
At Li Jingxiao’s order, Butler Wu suddenly appeared like a ghost and reached out to pull me.
I quickly started talking about his secrets, trying to prove my identity.
“Li Jingxiao, you have a mole on your butt! You hate eating celery the most and like the plain noodle shop on Chunqing Road the best. Also, you’re most afraid of thunder. Every time there’s thunder, you hide in my arms and cry…”
“Shut up. Have you said enough?”
Hearing his privacy, he angrily stopped me, and I was so scared that I shuddered.
Li Jingxiao’s father abandoned his mother just a few days before her due date.
So, she transferred her hatred for Li Jingxiao’s father to the child.
When I transmigrated, the little villain had just been severely beaten.
He was only three years old, with big black – grape – like eyes, timidly calling me mom, and my heart instantly softened.
I vowed to protect him and give him a lot of love to change his ending.
But now it seems that the five years I accompanied him were still too short for his life.
Damn it.
After not seeing each other for twenty years, the child had gone astray, extremely astray, becoming a super – aggressive person!
Ji Shuyu beside was stunned.
She had been with Li Jingxiao for three years and didn’t know these things, but a young woman who came out of nowhere knew so much?
For some reason, she didn’t feel a sense of relief but rather felt a bit flustered.
4
After Ji Shuyu’s father passed away, she escaped from the Li family with the help of the male lead.
According to the timeline, at this time, she was still the villain’s canary.
Butler Wu followed the order and took her back to the room. The empty hall was left with only the two of us.
Li Jingxiao crossed his arms and looked at me warily.
“You managed to find out such private information. You must have spent a lot of effort to get close to me!”
This child was once insulted and beaten by the original host, which made him a bit inferior.
I spent a lot of effort encouraging him to be confident and bold. Unexpectedly, I was quite successful in this regard, even too successful…
I reiterated again: “I said, I’m your mother. I woke up in that room after the car accident!”
When Li Jingxiao heard the words “car accident”, a hint of vulnerability appeared on his face, but it was quickly covered up by his sneer.
The day I died, the landlord came to cause trouble and knocked over the birthday cake I prepared for Li Jingxiao.
He cried and asked me to buy another one, but I never came back after going out.
I could tell that this incident had a great impact on Li Jingxiao, otherwise he wouldn’t have kept our former residence in this luxurious villa.
I sighed and comforted him: “Li Jingxiao, the car accident wasn’t your fault. It was just an accident. You don’t need to blame yourself!”
He looked at me with a moved expression, then turned his head, and a layer of mist covered his eyes.
“Heh, don’t try to get chummy with me. All this information is available on the Internet. I don’t care at all that she’s dead…”
The typical duplicity of a domineering president was vividly demonstrated in him.
Whether he believed my identity or not, at least at this moment, with me speaking with his mother’s face, he was somewhat healed.
I just pretended not to hear and unceremoniously sat on the sofa, looked around, and asked, “This house is too cold and quiet… Where’s your sister? Isn’t she living with you?”
Mentioning his only relative, Li Jingxiao seemed to let down a lot of his guard.
His tone was indifferent, but a trace of imperceptible loneliness showed in his eyes.
“She’s busy with work and has no time to come back.”
Li Zhi was a child I picked up in the snow.
Her parents disliked her for being a girl, left a note, and abandoned her.
When I first brought her home, Li Jingxiao hated her very much.
The little him couldn’t bear that his mother, who had just started to care about him, now had a stranger taking away the love that belonged only to him.
Fortunately, Li Zhi was sensible and beautiful, as soft and cute as a small glutinous rice ball. Plus, I didn’t show favoritism and took good care of his feelings.
Gradually, even the cold – as – ice Li Jingxiao accepted her.
The three of us lived a happy life, although not wealthy, in the past.
At the moment before the large truck crashed into us, I was even glad that with Li Zhi by his side, at least Li Jingxiao wouldn’t have to face the cruel life alone.
But I forgot that a home without a mother sometimes falls apart.
Li Jingxiao’s performance made me realize that the relationship between him and Li Zhi was different from what I had expected before I died.
5
A person resurrecting twenty years after death with an unchanged appearance was indeed strange.
I couldn’t reveal the existence of the system.
For things that couldn’t be explained clearly, science would provide an answer.
I stopped arguing and just asked Li Jingxiao to do a DNA test with me.
He took my hair and then wanted to drive me away.
If I left, I would really have to sleep under a bridge.
Li Jingxiao had always been a tough – mouthed but soft – hearted person since he was a child. I pinched my thigh and quickly played the pitiful card:
“What if I’m really your mother? There’s a 50% chance! I’m penniless. If I go out, I’ll probably have to pick up trash. Wuwuwu, can you bear to see your own mother wandering outside?”
A hint of reluctance flashed across Li Jingxiao’s face, but his tone was still tough.
“So what if you’re my mother? You left us without a word. Now I don’t need a mother. Why are you coming back?”
My heart ached, and I fell silent.
Maybe not wanting others to notice more of his emotions, Li Jingxiao, with red – rimmed eyes, rushed upstairs in a hurry.
He slammed the door shut, and then opened it again after a few seconds.
When he came out again, he put his hands in his pockets and looked at me pretending to be indifferent: “Hey! I agree to let you stay in the Li family until the DNA results come out.”
I nodded repeatedly, and he added, “Don’t get me wrong. I’m just doing this to expose you on the spot, definitely not because I believe you’re my mother!”
His tsundere look somehow made me find him cute.
At least, I could feel that there was still room for redeeming the little villain.
6
The next day, when Li Jingxiao came to me with the test report, I was chatting and eating sunflower seeds with Butler Wu.
Butler Wu told me that there was compensation after my death, but at that time Li Jingxiao was too young and needed a guardian.
So, he and Li Zhi were sent to the original host’s brother’s house, whom she hadn’t contacted for a long time.
This man was an alcoholic, and his wife was mean – spirited. They not only embezzled my inheritance but also often beat and scolded the two children.
Li Jingxiao had to protect his sister and earn his own tuition and living expenses. His current severe stomach problems were caused by hunger in the past.
He had endured a lot of hardships, but in the novel, those sufferings were just casually mentioned as “working part – time to study and seizing business opportunities to succeed”.
For me, I just had a sleep, and my feelings for the two children hadn’t changed over the twenty – year time gap.
I felt sorry for them having to struggle for survival at such a young age and cried bitterly.
Li Jingxiao at the door looked at me, and his whole body became unusually soft.
Butler Wu didn’t notice him and was still talking vigorously: “Miss Li Zhi and President Li have depended on each other since they were young. If it weren’t for Miss Ji’s freedom, how could she run away from home? However, Miss Li is now a well – known painter and is doing really well. If I had such a daughter, I could die in peace…”
The two of them quarreled because of an outsider!
I stared at Li Jingxiao with resentful eyes.
He guiltily avoided my gaze and knocked heavily on the door.
“Butler Wu, say one more word, and you’ll lose your salary next month!”
No matter how big the gossip was, it wasn’t as important as a monthly salary of two hundred thousand…
Hearing this, Butler Wu immediately covered his mouth.
I wiped my tears, and Li Jingxiao walked up to me and awkwardly stuffed the report in my hand:
“Are you really my mother?”
I nodded and raised my hand to touch his head as I used to when he was a child, but then I remembered that he had grown much taller than me.
I retracted my hand in embarrassment, and the corners of Li Jingxiao’s lips curved into a pleased arc.
Taking advantage of his good mood, I cleared my throat and quickly suggested: “Xiaoxiao, can you listen to mom and let Ji Shuyu go?”
As soon as I finished speaking, Li Jingxiao’s face suddenly turned dark: “You came back just to tell me this?”
Immediately after, the system began to broadcast:
“The villain’s corruption value has risen to 75.”
I felt as if the sky was falling.
7
Li Jingxiao always expressed his dissatisfaction by locking himself in the room.
At that time, a small dessert could coax him well.
But now he was 28 years old. This method probably wouldn’t work anymore, right?
With a try-it-out attitude, I took a taxi to order his favorite fruit cake.
I took the cake and went to find him. He had already opened the door a little, just like his heart. It seemed tightly closed, but in fact, it could be pushed open with a little effort.
His first encounter with Ji Shuyu was like this.
When his first business venture failed, Li Jingxiao went to see Li Zhi with the last five hundred yuan, but his wallet was stolen while waiting for the bus.
After getting on the bus, he stood in front of the driver in embarrassment. It was Ji Shuyu who paid the bus fare for him, making him feel the warmth that he hadn’t felt for a long time.
People who lack love are easily emotionally dependent on others’ care.
I could understand Li Jingxiao’s obsession with grasping the light, but that didn’t mean it was right.
When Li Jingxiao saw me come in, he immediately started typing on the keyboard.
I pretended not to notice, took out the things in the box, and presented them in front of him, trying to please him:
“Xiaoxiao, mom is here to make up for the cake I owed you for twenty years.”
Li Jingxiao glanced at me and knocked the plate to the ground with his hand: “I’m not a child anymore. Don’t think I’m still that easy to coax. Besides, I haven’t eaten cake for twenty years. I don’t need it!”
My temper flared up, and I slapped him on the head.
“Li Jingxiao, I’ll give you a chance. Reorganize your words!”
He touched the place where I hit him and suddenly laughed.
I stared at him blankly, thinking for a moment that this child might have been beaten stupid by me.
Li Jingxiao said to himself: “Mom, there were many confused and painful late nights when I期盼 you could appear, even if it was just to beat me up… Now, my wish has come true.”
I patted his back, feeling a bit of heartache:
“Jingxiao, your mouth is for speaking well. If you don’t express your true feelings, no one will know what you’re thinking!
“Mom is back. Don’t worry, I can beat you up many times in the future!”
The sad mood was dispelled by my words.
Li Jingxiao suddenly said: “Mom, save me…”
His voice was as light as a feather, and I wasn’t even sure if it was a hallucination.
I was startled and subconsciously asked, “What?”
He picked up the fork with a wry smile, dug a piece of the remaining cake, and put it in his mouth, saying with a smile:
“I said, I thought I would never be able to eat the cake you bought again in this life.”
Did he ask me to save him?
This ambiguous sentence made me very concerned, but there was no sign of it on Li Jingxiao’s face.
His eyes were gentle as he savored the piece of cake that had been missing for twenty years.
The autumn wind outside the window rustled the treetops, and the dim light in the study cast a peaceful glow over the room.
Li Jingxiao’s birthday was no longer my death anniversary. He had finally moved on from the day he was eight years old.
I really couldn’t bear to disrupt this hard – won atmosphere, so I swallowed the matter of Ji Shuyu for the time being.
8
In the early hours of the morning.
The silent system suddenly sounded an urgent alarm, scaring me so much that I sat up straight in bed.
“The villain’s corruption value has exceeded 90. Please pay attention, host… Please pay attention!”
Before I went to sleep, it had clearly decreased!
This corruption value was fluctuating up and down like a roller coaster, really testing my heart.
I ran downstairs in a hurry, not knowing what was going on.
In the thick night, Li Jingxiao was standing in the villa’s courtyard, glaring ferociously as he grabbed Ji Shuyu’s hand.
“You met Lu Heng behind my back and now you want to run away? Ji Shuyu, what exactly is lacking in me compared to that poor guy Lu Heng!”
Ji Shuyu struggled frantically and shouted,
“You’re inferior to him in every way. He understands everything about me. Unlike you, you only know how to force me!
“Li Jingxiao, don’t bully a young man for being poor. Weren’t you a poor guy before? Lu Heng will succeed, and he needs my company on his way to success. I’m going to find him. You can’t stop me unless I die!”
Lu Heng was the male lead of the novel. According to the plot, he was at a crucial stage of starting his business at this moment.
There was no denying that Ji Shuyu was right.
After Li Jingxiao died, his secretary gave all of the Li Group’s confidential documents to Lu Heng.
Lu Heng used thunderous means to annex the Li Group, and since then, he became the dominant force in City A and truly entered the upper – class society. She also became the much – envied Mrs. Lu.
Li Jingxiao was stunned for a moment, and his anger reached its peak.
“Butler, take her down. Without my order, she is not allowed to leave the room even a step!”
Not again?
Every time Li Jingxiao was in front of Ji Shuyu, it was as if he was programmed to only say some over – the – top lines like a domineering president and go crazy.
This kid really knew nothing about handling relationships except for forced love!
I disapprovingly stopped him, “Li Jingxiao, imprisoning someone is illegal!”
At this moment, Li Jingxiao couldn’t hear me. His fierce eyes were fixed on Ji Shuyu, like a hunter locking onto his prey.
As he approached, Ji Shuyu somehow took out a utility knife and pressed it against her neck.
Just when I thought Li Jingxiao would show weakness and comfort her, he actually sneered.
“Fine, go ahead and die. After you die, I’ll make Lu Heng and your family pay for your life. Ji Shuyu, you know me. You should know that I always keep my word!”
Even in a novel, one should abide by the law!
A domineering president like him who was “very criminal” should be taught a lesson one by one!
I picked up the cleaning tool in the garden and unceremoniously hit Li Jingxiao on the butt.
He let out a muffled groan of pain, and both Butler Wu and Ji Shuyu were stunned.
“Letting you strangle people’s necks at every turn, letting you imprison… Do you still want to kill people? Do you think you’re the emperor? You still want people to be buried with you. You’ve gone too far!”
Li Jingxiao tried to dodge, but I grabbed the sleeve of his shirt.
I counted his crimes of the past two days, and the broom in my hand landed solidly on his body.
“I know you like her, but she doesn’t like you! Feelings can’t be forced. Besides, you’re so fierce to her every day. It would be strange if she could like you!”
By the end, I was exhausted and out of breath.
Li Jingxiao was stubborn, gritting his teeth without pleading for mercy or admitting his mistake.
But the system familiar mechanical sound came through。
“Congratulations to the host. The villain’s corruption value has decreased to 35!”
Me: “…”
After I stopped, Butler Wu was very observant and helped his boss.
Ji Shuyu, who had been highly nervous, lost her strength and slumped to the ground. The knife in her hand also slipped to the ground.
“The desserts I gave you, you never touched. But you can accept everything this woman gives you, and even when she hits you, you don’t fight back! Li Jingxiao, you already have another woman. I’m not important at all, am I?”
She raised her eyes, looking at Li Jingxiao with tear – filled eyes.
I was stunned and pointed at myself, about to explain, when I suddenly realized something.
Was the female lead jealous?
She minded my existence, so Li Jingxiao still had a chance!
I was about to secretly tell my dear son, but he disappointedly lowered his eyes.
“Ji Shuyu, in your eyes, is my love so fickle? I’ve explained to you that she is my mother, but you don’t believe me… You can go.”
When he said the last three words, it seemed as if he had exhausted all his strength, and he even swayed and fainted.
9
Ji Shuyu really left.
The next day, Li Jingxiao was sitting downstairs, calmly having breakfast, which made me even more worried.
I stirred the porridge in front of me, too guilty to look at him directly.
“Jingxiao, mom was a bit too heavy – handed yesterday. Are you okay…”
Li Jingxiao put down the chopsticks in his hand and shook his head.
“Your strength can’t hurt me. I should actually thank you for stopping me, allowing me to go against the will of the world for the first time…”
The following words stopped abruptly.
I looked at the little villain in shock, but he seemed as if nothing had happened and didn’t understand why I was staring at him.
Was the little villain controlled by the plot? The him in front of the female lead wasn’t the real him?
Generally speaking, the characters in the book couldn’t go against the will of the world.
The “save me” I heard might be a distress signal from Li Jingxiao to me!
And his fainting last night was the punishment for him.
I avoided everyone and told the system my speculation, but it was met with a long silence.
This further proved that my guess was correct.
The system sighed helplessly, “Host, you are from outside this world, so Li Jingxiao can briefly show his true feelings when facing you. But regarding the operating rules of this world, even if he awakens, he can’t break free on his own.”
It paused and then reminded me, “The things in the plot are bound to happen, just sooner or later. Please complete the redemption mission as soon as possible, host.”
He couldn’t break free on his own?
I suddenly understood something.
The system was reminding me that the plot would happen, but I, who was not controlled by the will of the world, could change the plot.
10
Butler Wu gave me Li Zhi’s contact information.
I just told her that I was still alive, and I didn’t even have time to send her the DNA test report with Li Jingxiao.
She immediately dropped all her work and took the nearest flight back.
At a charity dinner, the celebrities of City A gathered, and Lu Heng brought Ji Shuyu along.
Li Jingxiao and I ran into them head – on.
Lu Heng put his arm around Ji Shuyu’s slender waist, showing a victorious posture to the little villain.
“President Li, you seem to have become haggard in just a few days!”
As he spoke, he turned his head and kissed Ji Shuyu’s cheek, making her blush.
Oh no, no!
This blatant provocation was no wonder the little villain would go crazy on the spot.
In the plot, Li Jingxiao forcefully dragged Ji Shuyu, which was reported by paparazzi and sent to the headlines, causing the stock price of the Li Group to plummet. This was also the beginning of the decline of his company.
Thinking of this, I immediately held Li Jingxiao’s hand to signal him to calm down and stood in front of him:
“Of course he’s haggard. Our Jingxiao has been staying up for several days for the project in the east of the city. Fortunately, all the efforts paid off, and we finally got it.”
Lu Heng’s face changed, “Impossible. Your quotation clearly didn’t…”
He realized he had said the wrong thing and hurriedly swallowed the second half of the sentence.
I smiled and directly pointed it out.
“President Lu may not know that Jingxiao’s secretary was double – crossing. So, we’ve already fired him.”
Li Jingxiao raised his eyebrows indifferently and smiled, “President Lu, it’s just a piece of land. In the future, if the entire business district is built, I’ll probably be very busy.”
He was acting uncharacteristically, not even giving Ji Shuyu a single glance.
I actually saw a trace of disappointment on her face.
And this fleeting emotion was precisely caught by Lu Heng.
Already burning with anger, he could no longer pretend. He gritted his teeth and said,
“Li Jingxiao, you did it on purpose. I had my eyes on the land in the east of the city first! Why do you always come to ruin my good deeds?”
A hint of mockery flashed in Li Jingxiao’s eyes, “Oh? Just because you saw it first means you’ll definitely get it? President Lu may have forgotten that I’m a businessman. As long as something is beneficial to me, I won’t give it up to others!”
His words had a double meaning, and both Ji Shuyu and Lu Heng’s faces darkened, left speechless.
During the brief silence, a clear and beautiful voice came from behind and reached my ears.
“President Li is right. No wonder the Li Group can dominate in City A.”
I turned my head and saw a tall and beautiful girl come into view.
Whispers broke out around.
“Isn’t this the internationally renowned painter Gu Zhi?”
“It’s said that Gu Zhi swore never to set foot on the land of City A again!”
“Some time ago, the Lu Group spent a lot of money but couldn’t invite her. Who has such means today?”
Li Zhi looked exactly the same as when she was a child. I recognized her as my daughter at a glance.
Our eyes met. She was wearing a dark red dress, like a delicate little rose, rushing into my arms with a floral fragrance.
She called me mom over and over again, as if she was afraid that I would disappear in a blink of an eye.
I hugged her, feeling her body temperature, and tears streamed down my face.
“Zhizhi, don’t be afraid! Mom will always be here from now on!”
Ji Shuyu looked at Li Jingxiao, then at Li Zhi, with a very complicated expression.
She didn’t believe our relationship before, but Li Zhi, who had helped her leave, couldn’t be lying.
Li Jingxiao stood aside, feeling a bit awkward. After not seeing each other for so long, even though he cared, he didn’t know how to start a conversation at this moment.
It was Li Zhi who wiped away her tears and stretched out her hand first.
She smiled playfully, “Brother, first – come – first – served doesn’t work in the business world. But can you do me a favor and let me, the latecomer, open a gallery in the business district in the east of the city?”
Everyone was in an uproar.
“Gu Zhi’s paintings are all worth over a hundred million. She actually takes the initiative to enter the Li Group!”
“Didn’t you hear? They’re siblings!”
“Li Zhi and Li Jingxiao’s mother looks so young. But I remember she died a long time ago?”
Li Zhi changed her surname to mine when she went out to make a living, so everyone didn’t know her relationship with Li Jingxiao.
The reporters present were pressing their shutters and keyboards like crazy.
They were excited to get the first – hand news. Lu Heng not only failed to achieve his goal but also helped us promote it. He was so angry that he almost gritted his teeth to pieces.
Renowned Painter Gu Zhi is Li Jingxiao’s Sister
Li Jingxiao’s Mother is Young
……
The hot search terms topped the list, and the stock price of the Li Group rose accordingly. Staying any longer would be asking for trouble.
Lu Heng angrily pulled Ji Shuyu away.
The soothing dance music flowed in the hall.
Li Zhi complained to me that Li Jingxiao had become unlike himself after meeting Ji Shuyu.
Back then, Li Zhi threatened him to let go by saying she would cut off relations and never return to the Li family, but all she got was a “as you wish”.
I knew it was because the plot had started, but I couldn’t tell her. I could only comfort her by saying that Li Jingxiao was blinded by love.
11
Towards the end of the dinner, there was a sudden commotion in the hall. People were pushing and shoving each other, and there were many screams.
I curiously looked for the source of the sound. A thin and dry man holding a fruit knife suddenly闯入 my sight.
His fierce eyes were fixed on Li Jingxiao. My heart skipped a beat. Just as I was about to open my mouth to remind him, Li Zhi, who was standing beside me, rushed into the crowd first.
She shouted Li Jingxiao’s name loudly, but unfortunately, the noise drowned out all sounds. Li Jingxiao was chatting with familiar clients and didn’t notice that danger was approaching at all.
It was the man who first noticed Li Zhi coming to stop him. He immediately quickened his pace and rushed towards Li Jingxiao.
“Li Jingxiao, I want you to pay with your life!”
After he shouted, everyone around gasped.
My heart was pounding. I subconsciously closed my eyes, not daring to look at what was about to happen.
The world seemed to fall silent in an instant. Just when I thought the man had succeeded, I saw through the gap of my eyes that Li Zhi had blocked in front of Li Jingxiao.
She held the man’s hand with one hand and grabbed the sharp blade with the other, preventing everything.
Li Jingxiao woke up as if from a dream.
He raised his leg and kicked the man hard in the abdomen. The man let out a painful wail, let go, and fell heavily to the ground.
The security guards finally arrived and controlled the man.
My hands and feet were weak. I ran to Li Zhi’s side and looked her up and down.
“Zhizhi, how are you? Does it hurt a lot?”
Li Zhi held her wrist. The wound ran across the entire palm. She shook her head at me, indicating that I should rest assured.
After I confirmed that she hadn’t injured any vital parts, I felt a little relieved and took out my phone to call the police.
The man was pressed to the ground, his whole face turning red. He shouted hoarsely,
“Li Jingxiao, it’s all because of you that my daughter died, and my wife wants to divorce me! Why don’t you die!”
Li Jingxiao took off his suit jacket, pressed it on Li Zhi’s wound, and looked at the man with disgust.
“Secretary Zhou, you embezzled public funds and leaked company secrets. I was being kind to you by not sending you to prison. I’m sorry about your daughter’s death, but she was killed by yourself.”
The man hit his head on the ground in regret, his expression frenzied.
“President Li, you’re right. I shouldn’t have driven after drinking and shouldn’t have quarreled with my wife in the car. But if you hadn’t found out about me, none of this would have happened… I shouldn’t have been caught by you. Why did you know? Why… I thought I had hidden it so well!”
It was I who asked Li Jingxiao to investigate. And precisely because of my intervention, there was this plot that wasn’t in the book.
Fortunately, my existence was a variable, but I wasn’t the only one.
Because in the novel, Li Jingxiao didn’t have a sister.
There was no point in talking more to such a scumbag.
Li Jingxiao didn’t stay any longer. He and I took Li Zhi to the hospital.
12
In the spacious VIP ward, Li Jingxiao was irritably pulling at his tie. For the first time, I felt the emotion of fear in him.
“Li Zhi, have you ever thought that you might die? Or what if you can never pick up a paintbrush again in the future?”
Li Zhi was sitting on the hospital bed, getting an intravenous drip, and looking at him seriously.
“I didn’t think about it. I just felt that all the consequences were not as scary as almost losing you at that moment.”
Before Li Jingxiao could answer, she changed the subject and smiled sweetly to please him, “The doctor said it’s just a flesh wound. I’ll be fine in a few days.
Besides, if I really died, wouldn’t you avenge me, brother? Didn’t you send uncle and aunt to prison because they often beat me?”
Li Jingxiao exhaled a breath of turbid air and murmured, “What’s the use of taking revenge when the person is gone…”
I couldn’t listen anymore and quickly interrupted them.
“Don’t say such unlucky things!”
“Okay, okay, we won’t say it anymore! Dear mom, we’ll live to be old monsters and accompany you for a long time until you get tired of us.”
Li Zhi saw my panic, leaned over, and hugged me, acting coquettishly, which made me laugh and cry at the same time.
I contentedly rubbed her head, and then Li Jingxiao’s phone rang.
He answered it, and I heard Ji Shuyu’s voice.
She was coming to plead.
Because the police found out that Lu Heng might be an accomplice in this matter.
The identity verification at the charity dinner was strict.
If it weren’t for someone helping Secretary Zhou, he couldn’t have brought the knife in and gotten so close to Li Jingxiao so easily.
On the surveillance footage, it was Lu Heng who had someone give his access card to Secretary Zhou.
Ji Shuyu was so worried that she was on the verge of a breakdown.
“Jingxiao, for the sake of me being with you for so many years, please spare Lu Heng. What will I do if he goes to jail? Our wedding is next week.”
Li Jingxiao sneered and asked, “Ji Shuyu, he tried to harm me. Don’t you think your words are ridiculous?”
Ji Shuyu stammered for a long time and then blurted out, “That’s because you deserve to die. Lu Heng was taking revenge on me for being imprisoned by you!”
Li Jingxiao felt extremely disappointed again. He was in a daze for a long time, and I heard the system’s prompt that hiscorruption value had reached 100.
Damn it…
Two sentences made all my efforts in vain.
13
This time, the system was even more anxious than me. It was crying in my head:
“It’s over. Thecorruption value is full. Oh no, I won’t meet my performance target. Wuwuwu!”
I was completely confused. Only then did the system tell me the truth. The task of reducing the villain’scorruption value had been completed twenty years ago.
It made me die originally to send me back to the real world.
But the Transmigration Book Bureau detected that the villain’scorruption value soared again twenty years later, so the system had no choice but to send me back.
So, I was here to clean up the mess for this stupid system?
The system pleaded, “Host, in a few days, the male and female leads will hold their wedding. You must stop the male lead. The key to the task is redemption. As long as the male lead is still alive, my task won’t be considered a failure.”
I didn’t need it to tell me that. After all, he was my own son.
I just didn’t know if I could resist the power of the plot.
Just relying on the surveillance couldn’t prove that Lu Heng had helped or instigated Secretary Zhou.
And Secretary Zhou took the money and insisted that he had deceived Lu Heng, so he was quickly released.
Lu Heng probably wanted to prove himself. The first thing he did after getting out was to announce his wedding with Ji Shuyu to the public.
The setting of a new business tycoon marrying a poor girl could attract people’s attention in any world.
Li Jingxiao seemed calm when he heard the news, but hiscorruption value didn’t drop.
I had Butler Wu wrap a black cloth around Li Jingxiao’s body, and he tied a beautiful knot behind the chair, following my instructions.
In the past, only Li Jingxiao imprisoned others. He never thought that one day he would be the one being tied up.
Li Jingxiao’s eyes were deep and angry as he struggled, “Butler Wu, I’m your boss. I order you to let me go immediately.”
Butler Wu blinked innocently.
“President Li, I’m sorry, but I can’t obey. Just endure it for a while. Wait for the male and female leads to go through this plot and let the story end quickly! Although I’m an NPC, I’ve really had enough of being a butler.”
I was so shocked that my eyes widened. I almost thought I heard wrong.
“Butler Wu, you… Have you awakened?”
Butler Wu scratched his head in embarrassment, “Even if I’ve awakened, I still have to follow the plot. It’s not really useful.”
Li Jingxiao frowned, not understanding what we were talking about.
As for Li Zhi, she got inspiration from the tying up, took a photo, and then plunged into her room to create.
I asked Butler Wu to eat and sleep with Li Jingxiao these days and even arranged bodyguards around the Li family. But on the day of the male and female leads’ wedding, he still ran away.
14
The power of the world’s will was strong. Since the plot was bound to happen, Li Jingxiao was doomed to die.
I called out the system and asked, “How can I save the little villain?”
The system hesitated for a long time and then told me the solution.
“Host, as long as someone takes Li Jingxiao’s place in death, the plot will end!”
I had an idea in my mind.
The system quickly tried to dissuade me, “Host, last time I sent you back, I had already used up all my points. Now that the villain’scorruption value is full and the task isn’t completed, it’s even more impossible for me to resurrect you. You have to think this through!”
I knew what this meant.
But I couldn’t just watch my child walk towards death. I wanted Li Jingxiao to live because I was his mother.
I deliberately didn’t tell anyone and went alone to the place mentioned in the book and found Li Jingxiao.
He was holding a knife and abduct Ji Shuyu, standing on the cliff by the sea. When he saw me, he seemed to see a savior.
“Mom… I know why you tied me up. Save me. I can’t control myself.”
I was extremely anxious and wanted to get closer to him, but every step I took forward, he would take the female lead and step back.
Ji Shuyu was trembling like a sieve, humbly begging Li Jingxiao to let her go.
The sound of police sirens came from not far away. Li Jingxiao kept shaking his head and tears streamed down his face.
“I didn’t want to. I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”
The police behind raised their guns and used a loudspeaker to talk to Li Jingxiao, basically saying that if he released the hostage, they would guarantee his safety.
But his actions were controlled by the plot, and talking to him was useless.
I gave Ji Shuyu a look and grabbed the hand holding the knife.
At the same time, she raised her foot and stomped hard on Li Jingxiao’s instep.
Li Jingxiao let go of her in pain, and she immediately took the opportunity to run towards the shore.
However, before she could run a few steps, Li Jingxiao pushed me aside and chased after her.
He raised the knife and was about to strike. Seeing this, I pushed the female lead and stood in front of him.
— Bang!
A gunshot echoed in the sky, and a spray of blood bloomed from my chest.
It was so painful that I couldn’t help but shed tears.
The knife in Li Jingxiao’s hand fell to the ground. He seemed to be drained of strength and knelt straight in front of me.
“Mom, Mom… I was wrong. Don’t die. Please, don’t leave me again!”
He sobbed and held me, tears falling onto my face like rain.
The system sadly sent a prompt: “Congratulations to the host. The villain’scorruption value has dropped to 0. Wuwuwu, host, you can’t die. I’ll miss you…”
Stupid system, at least it has a conscience.
The plot ended, and Li Jingxiao became himself again.
I smiled slightly, looking at him with infinite love and attachment.
“Li Jingxiao, you’re free… Don’t be sad. It’s my duty as a mother to save you. Don’t blame yourself like last time… Maybe we’ll meet again after a hundred years.”
Li Jingxiao held my hand, his expression in despair, “Mom, there’s nothing that should be in this world. It’s me who caused your death.”
The sound of the waves was surging, and the sky above was gloomy. I felt an unprecedented tiredness.
Blood flowed down from the corner of my mouth, and I was crying so hard that I couldn’t say anything else.
Li Jingxiao knew what I was most worried about.
Before my hearing disappeared as I closed my eyes, he started babbling and promising me in my ear.
He said he would face the police with a correct attitude and admit his mistakes. He would take good care of Li Zhi, take good care of himself, and protect the Li Group.
Hearing this, I sank into darkness with peace of mind.
15
When I woke up again, I was woken up by the system’s voice.
Good news: I didn’t die!
Bad news: When I opened my eyes, I was in that familiar room at the beginning again.
I’m scared!
“System, why am I alive again? Where did you send me? It can’t be forty years later, right?”
The system waved its hand with a smile.
“Host, don’t worry. This is one year after your death!
“The moment you died, the villain’s will was liberated, and thecorruption value was cleared to zero. So, I got points again to resurrect you!”
It looked like it was asking for praise, and I was so grateful that I wanted to kowtow to it immediately.
The system was actually scared and hid.
A year had passed, and the male and female leads even had a child.
However, the system said that there were always quarrels between them. To make Ji Shuyu angry, Lu Heng even stayed in bars for days and nights, not going home.
After such a big change, I thought the Li family would also be completely different.
But except for Li Jingxiao spending a few days in jail, nothing had changed.
Li Zhi was still a cry – baby, and Butler Wu, who had wanted to leave, was still there.
After going out for a spin, he found that the jobs outside these days all had a monthly salary of three thousand yuan and only one day off a week. There was no job better than the one in the Li family with a monthly salary of two hundred thousand yuan.
I took a bite of the fruit that Butler Wu brought and looked at the ice – cold handsome man quietly stroking a cat in the yard. I smiled and said,
“Li Jingxiao has awakened his consciousness. Without the control of the plot, he won’t go crazy anymore. You, you’re simply the happiest NPC.”
He shook his head, not quite agreeing.
“I’m not as happy as you. I feel like you’re about to be a grandma.”
I was puzzled and said “ah”.
Butler Wu raised his hand and pointed to the corner outside the window.
I looked over and only then noticed that under the green banyan tree, Li Zhi was holding a drawing board, looking at her brother with eyes full of love as she painted.
Oh my god!
Pseudo – incest. I like it!
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