Free Web NovelChapter 896: Chapter 338: If Only Time Could Turn Back (Part 7)_2
He closed his eyes and struggled to stand up, then said to the butler, "Give me the car keys."
Tears were still flowing, and his voice was extremely hoarse.
The butler didn’t know exactly what was going on, but he was aware of the news that the Lin Family had been pushed to the brink, assuming there was a sudden situation at the company, which was why Miss Lin had woken up startled in the middle of the night.
"Please go back to your room and change your clothes first. I’ll go to the garage and get the car to drive you there..."
"Hurry up!"
Lin Chu interrupted the butler’s words.
She had no ability to think, her feet seemingly welded in place, unable to move an inch.
The butler had never seen Miss Lin like this before, so he guessed something was wrong and didn’t dare to ask any more questions. He quickly went back to get the car keys.
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In the early morning hours, there were very few cars on the road.
Lin Chu’s hands, gripping the steering wheel, trembled as she stared intently at the road ahead, hoping to go faster, and faster.
The sound of her teeth chattering was loud enough to almost shatter her eardrums.
Her pale lips forced a difficult smile, "Dad, you’re joking with me, right? You love me so much, how could you possibly leave me alone."
"I’m not envious of others at all, having you is enough. Those kids who have both parents might not be any happier than I am."
"Zhouzhou knows a lot of people. Though we can’t reach him now, he might come looking for me in a few days. He could help us a lot, the funding issue might be solvable."
"Dad, I know you’re tired. Can you hang on a little longer?"
"I was even thinking about making your favorite breakfast to take to the office tomorrow morning, afraid of oversleeping, I set multiple alarms."
"It’s so late already, why are you still working? Didn’t we agree that you’d rest for a few hours after midnight? Caught not keeping your promise, huh, then tomorrow I’ll learn from you."
"Dad, I know I was wrong, scold me one more time, I should have listened to you earlier, none of this would have happened, I’m starting to regret it..."
"..."
Lin Chu wore a Bluetooth headset, repeatedly dialing a number that no one answered. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
She kept talking non-stop, no logic to her words, seemingly unable to bear even a second of silence.
Faster.
Faster.
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Outside the Lin Building, the screech of an emergency brake was piercingly loud.
The headlights illuminated the dark road.
A person lay quietly on the ground, enveloped in the circle of light, light passing through every strand of his short hair. Blood was flowing around him.
In a suit and tie, with a lot of white hair, he seemed to be a career-oriented middle-aged man.
He wore an old watch on his wrist, its glass shattered, and the hands had stopped moving.
Just lying there silently.
Lin Chu, her face ashen, stood motionless, staring at the man who was familiar yet so alien, as if she too had come to a standstill, even her breathing notably slow.
It was unknown how long it took before she pushed open the car door.
Every step she took felt like walking on a scorching needle bed.
The thirty-meter distance took her twenty minutes.
A person who fell from the 28th floor was already in a gruesome state.
’Thud!’
Lin Chu knelt on the cold floor, her outstretched hand trembling desperately. She tried several times but couldn’t stop the fierce shaking.
In the end, she was draped over her father’s body.
It was an embrace.
The two people she loved the most left on the same day.
Mr. Lin disappeared from her life, Lu Huai’an vanished in her heart.
"Dad, why didn’t you wait for me? Was I too slow..."
"Leaving me alone, what am I supposed to do?"
"I regret it, the outcome of a moth flying into the flame won’t be good. I’m sorry, my stubbornness ruined your lifelong reputation."
"Dad, I don’t want to live in this world anymore either. Take me with you, okay?"
"Dad, you’re going to be a grandpa..."
"..."
The car lights went out, and the father and daughter lying in the blood were completely enveloped in darkness.
...
The sky was beginning to lighten.
The first passersby discovered the people lying on the ground.
The blood covering the ground had already coagulated, impossible to tell whose it was.
"Oh my God! Someone jumped off a building, call the police quickly!"
"That seems to be the Lin family’s daughter, she’s still breathing, help by calling an ambulance!"
"If that’s Miss Lin, then the one she’s holding, all mangled and bloody, could that be her father, Lin Zongjun?"
"It might very well be. Lin Zongjun made money against his conscience, causing so many children to be bedridden. I heard the court had already launched an investigation and that he would surely spend the rest of his life in prison. He probably couldn’t handle such a major change and chose to jump off the building."
