Chapter 23

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The candle burned fiercely, and the flame kept getting brighter. The rope was beginning to show signs of burning. If this continued, the two of them might really lose their lives here.

Luo Han’s face was so cold that it seemed to have been covered by a layer of frost. He stared at Guan Sheng.

“You want money, fine! But you have to let her go. As long as you let her go, I will immediately sign the agreement and inject capital into the corporation.”

Guan Sheng was a little tempted. As long as the capital injection was successful, why would he care about Guan Ju’s life? In the end, he wanted money, not their lives.

Thinking this, Guan Sheng was just about to speak when he was interrupted by Guan Ju.

“Han, don’t give it to him. I don’t have a father like him, and I definitely won’t leave you here to die alone.”

She said this resolutely. Guan Sheng was originally prepared to let her go, but his face turned dark when he heard her words.

“Yes, you should die with Luo Han.” He looked at Luo Han and smiled mockingly, “Having my daughter dying by your side… Think of it as me being kind enough to find you a partner in the afterlife. I’ll ask you one last time, are you going to sign it or not?”

“Let her go, and I’ll sign it.”

Luo Han still said the same thing.

“Do you think I’m an idiot?” In the time it took for two or three breaths, Guan Sheng had already reacted and shouted coldly, “She’s got skills. If I let her go first, won’t I end up getting caught and punished by you?”

“Since you’re not willing to give me what I want, then go to hell!”

He ignited another candle impatiently.

The two candles burned brightly, and the rope that held their combined weight was burning at a speed that was visible to the naked eye. In a few minutes, it would probably snap.

Luo Han looked at Guan Ju, his eyes filled with shame. “I didn’t protect you well.”

Guan Ju shook her head. “Nothing will happen to us.”

She glanced at the sky behind him. In the distance, a black dot was getting closer and closer.

She could not let Guan Sheng discover it!

At the thought of this, Guan Ju looked at Guan Sheng coldly and spat out harsh words from her red lips.

“Guan Sheng, you’ve sold your wife and daughter to get ahead in life. Even if Han injects capital into your corporation, you would still bankrupt the corporation in the end. You have no business sense or acumen at all.”

“Shut up!”

Guan Sheng was angered by her words.

Back then, he was an unknown small businessman. He did not have the capital to run his own corporation. Fortunately, he had a beautiful wife, who was Guan Ju’s mother. Relying on her to move around in the leadership and business world, Guan Sheng slowly accumulated funds and became rich. In the end, he managed to establish the corporation.

However, with such a capable and brilliant wife, he could not raise his head high among his peers.

Later on, he set up Guan Ju to be kidnapped and sold. His wife soon died of illness. He ran the company alone, and soon could not hold on any longer, leaving the Guan Corporation as an empty shell of its own glory.

Guan Ju’s words had undoubtedly pierced the deepest wound in Guan Sheng’s heart.

“If I die, Guan Sheng, you won’t have anyone to sell off to save the corporation.”

Guan Ju was still provoking him.

Guan Sheng’s eyes turned red, and his breathing became heavy. He threw the candle away.

He suddenly clenched his fists and picked up the knife!

“B*tch, you’re a b*tch just like your mother. Go to hell!”

Guan Sheng shouted loudly and raised the knife fiercely, slashing at the rope.

“Snap!”

The rope broke!

Luo Han and Guan Ju’s bodies instantly lost their support and fell downward.

Were they going to die?

Luo Han struggled to look at Guan Ju, as if he was trying to carve her appearance into his heart at the last moment of his life.

“In the next life, I still want to be with you.”

As he finished speaking, Guan Ju’s lips curled up.

“Okay.”

The next second, the two of them suddenly stopped falling.

They rolled across the wing. Guan Ju flipped over and grabbed the rope that Feng Yuan threw at her, and then used her feet to catch Luo Han.