My Lovely Wife is a Forensic Doctor - Chapter 164
Chapter 164 Bringing Everything to an End
“Don’t move!”
“Little Guo!”
“No!”
“Dad!”
“Don’t come close!” Wang Linhua had shoved Kiki away and glared at Rong Jian and the rest. “Nobody can stop me today!”
“Dad!”
“You stay away too!” he yelled at Kiki. “Today, I’ll end things with the Zhao Family!”
“Dad, don’t do it…”
“Hua, listen to me!” Due to his excessive movements, his injured hand bled even more and was scary to look at, especially for Kiki, who had been staring at his hand and crying nonstop.
Feeling pained and scared, Nie Xiaoxiang had fainted upon hearing Wang Linhua’s declaration. Mu Yu and Liu Xiaofan were busy performing first aid on her.
“He’s just an innocent child! He’s got nothing to do with this!” Rong Jian stared angrily at Wang Linhua, who was ready to harm his hostage.
“Innocent child?” Wang Linhua sneered. “What about Hua? Isn’t she an innocent child too? What right did Zhao Yongli have to change the course of her life?”
He now looked paler than before as he gasped for breath when he talked. He also unconsciously frowned and bit his lip, which gave away the extent of pain he sustained from the gunshot, and he was only trying hard to carry on.
Kiki observed everything happening and shook her head in tears. “Dad, it’s my fate. I am destined to have a suffering life. No one is to be blamed for that.”
“Okay. If you say so, I will be in this with you together. I…”
“Luo Mingan!” A call from Rong Jian caused Wang Linhua’s hand to freeze mid-air. He smiled bitterly at the mention of the name. “It’s been years since anyone called me by that name. I almost forgot that I once went by Luo Mingan.”
“Back then, you pulled off a wonder escape performance. Everyone thought that you’d really died from jumping into the sea. Even the police in Ping City had closed the case. I could only praise you for the outstanding show.”
“I didn’t escape! I tried to kill myself by jumping into the sea! The suicide note that the police found on the beach was real too!” Luo Mingan got agitated when he recounted the event. “I was simply lucky to be saved by someone.”
“If you have been alive for all these years, why did you only bother to find Kiki now? If you had come for her a few years earlier, she wouldn’t have…”
“I killed myself in despair because I thought she was dead!” Luo Mingan suddenly cried like a baby. “That b*stard Zhao Yongli sent me fake news amidst Lin’s murder. He said that Hua died soon after Lin was murdered. My daughter is the reason I keep on living; I chopped Jiang Yaoping and killed Lin in the process of finding my daughter. If Hua dies, I will have no reason to keep living. That’s why I chose to kill myself. Yes, I was foolish, and I should have seen through Zhao Yongli’s sly tricks. After I was saved by Sitong, I should have used her influence to find Hua and to validate her death!”
He looked extraordinarily regretful, and when he glanced at Kiki, he felt even more sorry. Sobbing, Kiki asked, “Since you believed that I was dead, when did you learn that I was still alive?”
“Who’s Sitong? Where did she bring you to after she saved you? And did she help you to get a new identity?” Rong Jian interrupted him with questions.
Luo Mingan’s gaze turned complicated as he sighed and explained, “Sitong is a Chinese merchant. Ten years ago, she saved me from drowning and helped me to change my identity before bringing me overseas. In that foreign land, nobody knew my past except for Sitong. Everyone called me Wang Linhua. Because of Sitong, everyone respected me a lot and wanted to befriend me.”
“Slowly, I started believing that God had taken pity on me and had given me a second chance at life. So, I gradually stopped thinking of suicide and got together with Sitong. She’s a strong and capable woman who taught me a lot. She helped to reform me from my appearance to my knowledge to increase my confidence and my business management skills.”
“In the second half of last year, I coincidentally became Jiang Yaoping’s business partner. He recognized me, and I thought that he’d report me to the police, but he instead apologized to me, saying that he was very sorry that he’d listened to Zhao Yongli’s instigation and destroyed my family, leading us to miserable lives. He also told me that Hua was alive and was sold by Zhao Yongli. Anyway, he didn’t know where Hua was sold to, but he heard that she met a tragic fate. Don’t come near me!”
It turned out that Rong Jian was finding a chance to inch closer so that he could save Little Guo, who was now conscious and trembling. When Luo Mingan saw through his plan, Rong Jian hurriedly diverted his attention with a question. “Who told Jiang Yaoping that Hua has a tragic fate?”
Seeing that Little Guo was awake and crying, Luo Mingan withstood the pain and took down the scarf to gag him before answering Rong Jian. He seemed to have wanted a listening ear for a long time. “I heard about it from Gong Lilan. She must have known Hua’s whereabouts. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find her after a few trips to Huacheng. With much difficulty, I found out that Zhao Yongli was in An City, but right when I was about to search for him, Sitong was diagnosed with a terminal illness. I had no choice but to rush back and accompanied her through her final days. As she was alone, she left all her inheritance to me after her death.”
“After her funeral, I had no interest in managing the company and only wished to find Hua as soon as possible, taking her in to make up the lost years. Three months ago, I came to An City in search of Zhao Yongli. When he saw me ‘resurrected’, he was very shocked and threatened to lodge a police report. Because I was shouldering the burden of a murder, I felt guilty and scared even though I had changed my name; after all, I was back in the country. I dared not do anything and paid him a huge sum of money in exchange for Hua’s whereabouts. However, he took the money and never told me.”
“Left without a choice, I went back to settle some company matters before coming back to An City again. In order to stay below the radar, I found a job as a water deliveryman that allowed me to have close contact with Zhao Yongli. During that time, I took every opportunity to talk to him and secretly investigated Hua’s location.”
“Once, I secretly followed Zhao Yongli to Camphor Forest and accidentally saw Hua there, but I dared not walk up to introduce myself in fear of scaring her away. After all, I was a ‘dead person’ for a decade. Also, I was scared that she would refuse to acknowledge me because it was my incompetence that landed her into hot water.”
“At the end, I made up an excuse for my colleague to give me the shift at Camphor Forest. Since then, I could see Hua all the time. When I saw her with men, I felt very pained and wanted to wait for a chance to talk to her. I never expected that one day I’d see that b*stard Zhao Yongli ordered her service; she’s his niece! That time, I wanted so badly to rush into the room and beat him up, but I didn’t have the courage to because he had a group of men with him. If anything happened, the police would start an investigation. Instead, I could only hide in a dark corner, curling my fists and gritting my teeth.”
“Even though Zhao Yongli was kicked out by Hua not long after, I had made the decision to kill him. Later, I got hold of his daily schedule and the internal map of Qing Tian Building. On the night of December 22nd, I prepared to take action on Zhao Yongli. I first followed him to Camphor Forest, where he again ordered Hua’s service; it made me hate him more. On December 23rd, around two in the morning, I followed the drunk Zhao Yongli into Qing Tian Building. After I made him faint, I taped his mouth and tied up his limbs. When he was still conscious, I used the knife that I gave to Doctor Mu earlier to cut open his chest. When his body was about to be drained of blood, I took out his heart and cut it into pieces.”
When Luo Mingan recounted the murder process, he sounded eerily calm as if he was slicing a fish. His calmness made everyone shiver, and only Kiki was squatting on the floor crying.
Right then, Liu Xiaofan could not help but ask, “If you’re that rich, why didn’t you pay an assassin to kill Zhao Yongli? Why did you take the risk yourself? Also, why did you kill Sun Meilan?”
A satisfying smile spread across Luo Mingan’s pale face. “Finding an assassin would not give me the pleasure of releasing my hatred toward him over the years. You’ve never killed a person, so you wouldn’t know how exhilarating it feels to take a life with your own hands. As for Sun Meilan… I murdered her as a practice.”
Liu Xiaofan was furious at his nonchalant attitude. “You treat human life as nothing! You have to pay back for killing them!”
“I don’t regret it. I don’t regret it at all! My only regret is that I have no time to spend with my daughter, and I cannot protect her anymore. Once I leave the world, she is all alone again.”
“Dad!” Crying, Kiki was inconsolable.
“Hua, do you know why I changed my name to Wang Linhua? That’s because your mom’s name is Lin. If I take the character apart, it becomes the character “Wang” and “Lin”. “Hua” is from your name. Both of you are my important family members, but sadly, I killed her, and you suffered a lot because of my incompetence! I’m so sorry toward both of you!”
“No, Dad, you have nothing to be sorry for.” She cried and shook her head. “You’re the best dad in my heart. It’s not your fault. We can only blame our fates; fate played a cruel game with our family.”
“My good daughter. My baby girl.” Luo Mingan started smiling as tears fell from his eyes. “If there’s a next life, I hope that you could still be my daughter. Then, I’d make money diligently and take better care of you. I’d try my best to make you live like a princess.”
“I’m willing to. Of course I am.” Kiki furiously nodded as tears rolled down her face. “Dad, if there’s another life, I’d still be your daughter. I’d greet you at the door every day on time, wash your feet, massage your back, sing for you and dance for you. I’d never allow myself to fall asleep waiting for you; I’d not miss a day with you.”
Smiling, Luo Mingan nodded at her promise and looked into her eyes affectionately while advising her, “Hua, I have listed you as the heir to all my wealth. Promise me one thing: as long as there’s still hope, you shouldn’t give up on your treatment. Okay?”
Kiki realized that something was wrong when he sounded like he was on his deathbed, and she shook her head defiantly. “Dad, I want you to accompany me. I don’t want to go to the hospital alone because I’m scared.”
“Good girl. You’re a big girl now. You…”
“No! I’m not a big girl. I’m just your baby daughter. I’m not mature yet, and I’m not grown up. I need you beside me. Dad!”
“Sigh! My daughter, Hua, could you call me dad one last time?”
Shaking violently, Kiki suddenly lunged and grabbed the knife from Luo Mingan without hesitation.
“Dad, I cannot allow you to…”
“Hua!”
A loud bang was heard, followed by the sound of a knife crashing onto the floor.
Luo Mingan was shot in the chest and let go of the knife in his hand. He stared at Kiki with teary eyes and called her name before falling down.
“Dad!” Kiki’s heart-wrenching cries echoed around the rooftop.
Rong Jian saw blood oozing from Luo Mingan’s chest, and his mind went blank. He had wanted to take advantage of the time when Kiki diverted Luo Mingan’s attention to shoot his arm. However, he didn’t expect Luo Mingan had pushed Kiki away at that moment. Due to the movement, he got shot in the heart.
Rong Jian came to the realization that he had killed someone.
“You killed my dad! You murderer! What a devil! You’re going to get a piece of me!” Kiki lost control of her emotions and abruptly grabbed the knife from the floor, aiming at Rong Jian’s chest in a frenzy.