Continuing from the last time, I returned to the bell tower again, and I could see how big a trap my second uncle's sincerity towards me had set for him. But it wasn't my fault, it was Old Fu's fault, and I was just a pawn in the same cage, so I dragged my weak body and ignored the gun in Qi Cheng's hand and walked up to ask him.

"What right do you have to blame me?"

My second uncle was stunned, and smiled with the corner of his mouth pulled. He pressed the knife on Zhizhi's neck even tighter, as if threatening me.

I laughed too: "It's up to you, we'll all die together, including your son, your granddaughter, and your grandson. I can't live anymore, let's all die together."

"What are you talking about?" My second uncle finally got a little nervous. He looked me over carefully and saw my shriveled belly. "Did you give birth? How's the baby? Is he okay? Did Chengcheng go home?"

"It's all good, except that I can't make it." I raised my head, the evening breeze dried my tears, and I pointed to the files on the ground: "Second Uncle, don't bother, I know that pile of papers is empty and useless. If you could use this to threaten us, why did you give up your hundreds of billions of assets and run here like a stray dog? If the real mastermind knows about you, you'll be finished. Zhizhi can only force me, but can't stop that person. Why don't you be nice to me at the last minute and burn that pile of things to warm me up. I'm a little cold."

"Do you think we are stupid?" Qi Cheng said with a grin.

I lowered my head, rubbed my arms and just waited. Sure enough, within a moment, my second uncle put away the dagger he was gesturing with and took out a lighter from his pocket. The fire flashed, and the papers burst into flames when they touched them. The bright red, yellow and orange illuminated the sky, as if pulling back the setting sun and delaying the extinction of life.

The second uncle gave up the argument and simply sat on the railing. His old body could not bear a day of escape. After the showdown, he simply rested there panting. It took a long time before he spoke again: "Shishi, the second uncle has let you down in this life. I hate you, but I envy you more, because all the best things in this world seem to be prepared for you. I have tried my best, but I can't change my background, so I want to annihilate you, maybe those benefits can be dispersed and fall on me a little. It's a pity that it's all wishful thinking. Now that it has come to this, I only ask this one favor of you, let your brother go, he is a simple-minded person, he really loves and protects you, when he gets angry, he can go against his father, so just tell me your conditions, I don't care about the mastermind, just tell me what you want, and I can also let Feng Shizhi go now."

Qi Cheng was terrified when he heard this and hurriedly stepped forward: "Second Master, this won't work! We have to see the young master down the mountain, right?"

"You don't know her? She's only good at talking. In fact, wasn't she even more ruthless when she confronted William? We've gone easy on her." Second Uncle shook his head vigorously and raised his chin towards me. "And if she really wanted to take revenge on Shu Chen, she would have been dead long ago. What are we still trying to gain here? Even if she really went down the mountain and entered the Chen family, Chen Yining wouldn't risk her life for Shu Chen. There's no need. If we give up, we can still keep Zhou Zhi's bloodline."

I sneered, covered my mouth and coughed: "You are quite open-minded."

"In this situation, what can we do if we can't get over it?" He squatted, lit a cigarette, and looked at me as kindly as before.

"But I clearly remember that you took a lot of cash with you before you left. Why didn't you bring more people with you?"

"Everything is gone. I was hoping that if I passed away one day, I could leave some benefits for this grandson who had the greatest chance of survival. If I was lucky, I could let him take care of his younger brothers and sisters. I have nothing left."

"You really care about your descendants. Sometimes I think, it would be great if you were really my father, Second Uncle. I still remember you said you wanted to adopt me as your own. It's been ten years since then."

"What can I do if I don't consider it? My life has already been wasted. If I hadn't had Shuchen, I would have been alone for the rest of my life. I wouldn't have argued with you."

When he said this, he really put the most unwilling and resentful emotions into it.

The effect of the painkillers gradually faded, and I began to feel the failing organs pulling me one by one. Under the unprecedented fatigue and pain, there was only Zhizhi in front of me. I was really grateful that he loved me so much, and I really hated him for loving me so much. What kind of education could make him willing to be a pawn? Before leaving Linjiang, I clearly told him to find himself, but now he came to this place for me and was willing to make unfair sacrifices.

Everything will be fine without me, right?

I waved my hand: "Second Uncle, let Zhizhi come over. I will tell you a secret after he is safe."

Zhizhi had a tense face, his lips were pale from biting them: "Shishi..."

I also looked serious like him, and made a face as if I was slashing my neck with a knife: "Don't be impulsive, or I will jump with you."

"I..." Zhizhi was speechless and looked at my second uncle's expression with me.

He raised his head and said: What are you looking at? Go ahead.

Zhizhi was helpless and didn't know what I was going to do. Even if we all jumped together, he wouldn't agree with me. He came over slowly, and Qi Cheng kept pointing the gun at him. I pulled him a few steps faster, protected him behind me and pushed him down the stairs myself. After he disappeared, I wiped away my tears and turned back to approach my second uncle.

Qi Chengren was almost dumbfounded, and just kept holding the gun and yelling: "Don't move!"

I patted every spot on my body that could hold something. "Uncle Qi, why don't you come and search me yourself? I really didn't take anything. Besides, there's no need to hurt you myself. Look at those snipers downstairs. Any one of them can shoot through your head."

"Then what are you doing here!"

I made a shushing gesture: "Of course, secrets should be told up close."