After Kissing the World-Weary Female Supporting Character [Transmigration] - Chapter 73

At the same time, the news of the Li Group’s bankruptcy was causing a sensation on the foreign internet.

In a hotel in New York, USA.

International police officers headed to the presidential suite on the top floor to arrest the political criminal, Li Nán (Li Yeběi’s grandfather). As they pushed open the door, they heard gasps and choking sounds coming from the four-hundred-square-meter suite.

“The Li, Li, Li Group is bankrupt, ah—, bankrupt, I, I…”

“Oh my god, he’s, he’s dead!” A foreign man ran in, helped Li Nán sit up, felt for a pulse, then placed his hand under his nose, exclaiming, “My God, he’s dead. Mary, this guy is dead.”

“I wish you were wrong, because I think so too, he’s dead.”

“Li, what should we do now? He…”

Li was the only Chinese person in the team. He had been specially dispatched by Sister Lin to handle Li Nán’s case to prevent the cunning Li Nán from escaping. He never expected that the founder of the venerable Li Group would simply be angered to death.

“It’s fine, I’ll handle this here,” Li nodded, instructed his team members to call for emergency services, and simultaneously reported to his superior. “Sister Lin, Li Nán was angered to death.”

Sister Lin was surprised: “What did you say, angered to death?”

Li: “Yes, angered to death.”

Sister Lin: “Then cremate him. Bring the ashes back to the family and make a public announcement.”

Li: “Understood. It should hit the foreign hot searches soon.”

China, Imperial Capital, Suburbs, Special Monitoring Ward.

Xiao Zhang, who had been guarding the former tyrannical CEO for a few days, was relieved: “Alright, you can leave now.”

Xiao Zhang’s partner, Xiao Li: “You’re really lucky! What you did was enough to put you in jail for life. Ji Ruyue actually traded the Li Group’s acquisition rights for your freedom? I, Xiao Li, truly don’t understand the mind of a woman!”

Xiao Zhang: “…” My brother has some issues.

Xiao Zhang: “You are officially released starting today. Hurry up and go. We need to get off work.”

“Ji Ruyue traded the acquisition rights for me?” Li Yeběi exploded in rage. “The Li Group was mine to begin with!”

Xiao Li: “Idiot. Even if you scream yourself hoarse, nothing can be undone.”

Li Yeběi: “You!”

Xiao Li glared back: “What ‘you’? A stain-ridden criminal dares to talk brazenly to me?”

Xiao Zhang: …Brother, please stop, okay? We’re from the Special Forces; don’t act so foolish! If we keep arguing with him, are we ever going to get off work?

Xiao Zhang blocked Li Yeběi and pushed him toward the door. “Hurry up and leave, hurry up. We’re getting off work.”

Li Yeběi walked out of the special “recuperation center.” Before leaving, the two men even returned the phone he had surrendered. Li Yeběi took out his phone and looked up at the sky—the blue was blinding, the clouds were heartbreakingly white, and the air was crisp and clear, seemingly frozen. The clear sky of the north was so beautiful and strange.

But his life could not be as bright and smooth as this blue sky and white clouds! This was all the fault of that madwoman, Ji Ruyue!

“Ji Ruyue!” Li Yeběi gnashed his teeth until his gums hurt. He dialed the eleven digits, and the call was answered after two rings. “Ji Ruyue! Are you satisfied? Playing politics in a commercial war, what a truly despicable tactic!”

Ji Ruyue scoffed. “Li Yeběi?”

“It’s me!” Li Yeběi ground his toe into the pavement and spoke viciously, “Ji Ruyue, you treacherous villain, shameless and despicable, you broke the rules and reported me to the top! May you meet a miserable end.”

Ji Ruyue flicked away non-existent dust from her clothes, considering how to make the male lead die a little more tragically to completely end this cycle.

Ji Ruyue said nonchalantly: “You’re out of options and just resorting to useless nonsense.”

Li Yeběi’s veins popped out in anger, his face livid. “Hmph! Why did you trade the Li Group’s acquisition rights for my freedom? You don’t want me alive in prison; you want to kill me?”

Ji Ruyue: “Idiot, are you recording this? You’d be better off worrying about your grandfather abroad than trying to provoke me.”

Ji Ruyue: He’s finally smart for once. Of course, I want to kill you. Why else would I let you out? To beg for scraps at the Ji Group?

Li Yeběi cried out in panic: “What happened to my grandfather? You vicious woman!”

“He died, angered to death.”

Ji Ruyue remained unmoved and hung up the phone.

The little squirrel, who had listened to the entire conversation, laughed so hard she tumbled in Ji Ruyue’s lap. “This villainous male supporting character is really playing his part! Hahahahaha! His words are so idiotic!”

Ji Ruyue, who had no principles when it came to spoiling her wife, affirmed: “You’re right!”

After laughing for a good while, Song Xingzi stopped and asked her, “Ji Ji, why didn’t you just let the villainous supporting character suffer in jail?”

Ji Ruyue suppressed her smile. “Of course, it was so I could kill him!”

“Wuwuwu,” Song Xingzi whimpered, adding, “Then remember to make it a very thorough death!”

Ji Ruyue: “I will!”

Li Yeběi walked a few steps, pondering whether Ji Ruyue’s words were true or false. Where should he go now? The Li Group’s beginnings were dirty, and Li Nán still had a large sum of money in a foreign bank that could be transferred out as capital to stage a comeback. If Li Nán was truly dead, he would have nothing left.

After thinking it over, Li Yeběi still entered Old Master Li’s number. He didn’t believe his imposing grandfather could be angered to death like that.

“Doo doo—”

Before the call connected, the men guarding him chased after him and stopped him. “Li Yeběi, stop for a second!”

They dare to call me by my full name! Li Yeběi had never endured such indignity. His eyes were wide with rage, and he opened his mouth to tell the man he was fired, but suddenly remembered he was bankrupt. He walked forward, fuming.

“Li Yeběi, you’re being called! Stop!”

Xiao Zhang caught up, blocking Li Yeběi’s path. “International police discovered Li Nán was angered to death during his arrest. The body has been cremated, boxed up, and sent back to the country. You need to collect the ashes at 38 Qianjin Road.”

“What did you say?” Li Yeběi grabbed Xiao Zhang’s collar, his eyes bloodshot. “My grandfather, he’s dead? He’s dead? You’re joking, aren’t you?”

“How is that possible? How could he die? I haven’t made my comeback yet, so how can he die?” Li Yeběi pushed the man away, laughed hysterically toward the sky, and then began to cry bitterly.

Is he crazy? This is not good. The leaders might think my partner, Xiao Li, drove him mad.

Xiao Zhang expressionlessly stepped forward to help Li Yeběi, intending to inquire about his mental state, but Li Yeběi violently pushed him away.

Li Yeběi clutched his head, muttering maniacally: “All of this should be mine! Song Xingzi, the Li Group, the Ji Group are all mine!! All of this was clearly mine!”

“Li Yeběi, I hate you. You may have my body, but you’ll never have my heart.”

“When did I ever say I wanted your heart?”

“Send her into surgery. Xiao Bái’s heart can’t last much longer.”

“Li Yeběi, you ruined my life. I won’t forgive you.”

“Li Yeběi, I beg you, I kneel and beg you, please spare the child. The child is innocent. Don’t hurt him…”

“The child cannot stay. This is what you owe her. I won’t allow you to give birth to my bloodline. Guards, take her to the operating table.”

“Li Yeběi! You are so cruel! I hate you! I hate you!”

The voices swirling in his mind and the fragmented dreams had never been so clear as they were in this moment. He finally found the source of those strange emotions and sounds, but it was all too late!

I once used her as a substitute. I tricked her into offering her heart. I personally aborted our child…

She’s with Ji Ruyue. She doesn’t recognize me. The Li Group is bankrupt. I will lose everything…

Two completely different sets of memories intertwined in his mind. Li Yeběi held his head, crying hysterically, banging his head against a roadside utility pole. His expression was insane, alternating between tears and laughter.

“No, don’t hate me. I regret it. I regretted it a long time ago, Xingzi, I didn’t, ah—”

“I didn’t do it! That’s not real! It wasn’t me, I didn’t, ah—”

Li Yeběi’s head was throbbing with pain. He hit it repeatedly, dozens of times. His face was covered in blood, and his short black hair was stained with blood, sticking to his skin. From a distance, he looked utterly pathetic and terrifying.

No way, he’s really gone mad? Are President Li and his grandfather’s feelings that deep? What a moving grandfather-grandson bond, but I can’t just watch him bash himself to death.

Xiao Zhang stepped forward and pulled the man away, cuffing Li Yeběi’s hands behind his back, simultaneously presenting him with a pair of connected platinum handcuffs.

Public servant Xiao Zhang was worried sick. He pulled the man into the recuperation center’s garden and spoke gently: “Do you have any relatives? I’ll call them to pick you up.”

Li Yeběi’s head was covered with damp, sticky hair, and his expression was manic: “Get lost, let go of me! All of this should be mine! I should be the Chosen One! The Li Group, the Ji Group, Song Xingzi are all mine!”

Xiao Zhang: “He’s crazy, he’s truly crazy.”

“Comrade Li Yeběi, for the sake of your mental health, please allow me to temporarily check your phone,” Xiao Zhang took Li Yeběi’s hand and pressed it onto the phone to unlock it. He found the top contact in the address book and dialed it. “Is this Miss Liu Bái? Sorry to bother you, but Comrade Li Yeběi is not in a good mental state. We hope you can pick him up promptly. The address is 72 Happiness Street, Xijiao. You’ll see him as soon as you open the door.”

Liu Bái was busy honing her acting skills in an old hutong, so she received the news later than most. She had just learned of the Li Group’s bankruptcy and was heartbroken. Her Elder Brother Li was treated like this! He only has me now. I must be good to him. Elder Brother Li is so capable; he will definitely be able to recover.

She was slightly nervous upon receiving Li Yeběi’s phone call, only to hear an unfamiliar voice. Her frail body, wrapped in a white dress, seemed precarious.

“What did you say? Elder Brother Li? What happened to Elder Brother Li?”

Xiao Zhang looked with pity at the deranged Li Yeběi, his tone unaffected: “He’s gone mad. Please come pick him up quickly. Also, on your way, please collect his grandfather’s ashes at 38 Qianjin Road.”

Liu Bái screamed: “What did you say? Elder Brother Li, how could Elder Brother Li go mad? What did you, what did you do to him?”

The woman’s voice was shrill and mournful, echoing endlessly. Xiao Zhang seriously suspected that he might have genuinely done something terrible to Li Yeběi.

“He was provoked by his grandfather’s death. Please come over quickly.”

Xiao Zhang hung up the phone. Liu Bái quickly took leave from the crew and brought people to pick up Li Yeběi. As soon as she got out of the car, the slender woman, wearing flat shoes, stumbled over, crying mournfully: “Elder Brother Li, Elder Brother Li, I, I’m here to see you. Xiao Bái is here.”

Xiao Zhang: …They’re filming a melodrama, aren’t they? Definitely.

Unfortunately, the male protagonist wasn’t cooperative. He shouted thunderously, “Liu Bái! Why are you here? It’s all your fault! Why did you ruin things between Xingzi and me?”

Liu Bái clutched her skirt, her teeth biting her lower lip. Tears shimmered in her limpid eyes. She turned to Xiao Zhang, her face pale, and said, “Elder Brother Li really has gone mad. I… it’s okay, nothing matters. Thank you, thank you, Comrade.”

Li Yeběi looked up at Liu Bái’s expression. His already bloodshot eyes filled with even more anger and unwillingness: “It’s all your fault! It’s all you and that cheap woman Ji Ruyue! All of this should have been mine! If it weren’t for the two of you, would I have fallen to this state? You conspired together to secretly harm me! Do you think this will make me, Li Yeběi, admit defeat? I tell you, it’s impossible!”

“Elder Brother Li, Elder Brother Li, what are you saying! Xiao Bái doesn’t understand. Don’t scare me,” the girl shook her head, her body trembling uncontrollably. A pure white lily slipped from her hair and fell to the ground, like their love, covered in dust.

Xiao Zhang: …Why are you wearing a lily behind your ear in the middle of summer!!! Are you my brother’s sister?

The girl clenched her fists and said passionately, “I must cure you! Elder Brother Li, Xiao Bái will stay with you! I will take good care of you!”

Li Yeběi’s frantic and pathetic face showed an icy sneer: “Get lost! Do you think I’ll still believe you? Give Song Xingzi back to me!”

The hurtful words became sharp knives, cutting into the girl’s heart, making her suffer unbearable pain. Yet, what wrong had she done? She was just a woman craving love!

The sorrow in Liu Bái’s eyes gradually turned into determination. I must help Elder Brother Li return to normal!

Liu Bái: “Comrade, I’m taking Elder Brother Li away. Thank you.”

Xiao Zhang, who had watched the entire scene: …The feuds of the wealthy are truly complicated… It’s not something an ordinary person like me can understand.

Xiao Zhang: “You may. Here’s the key to the handcuffs.”

Liu Bái took the key, and with the help of her assistant, she led Li Yeběi into the car, comforting him gently along the way. The car drove straight ahead, finally stopping just as Li Yeběi was on the verge of another breakdown.

The driver: “Teacher Liu, we’ve arrived.”

Liu Bái: “Elder Brother Li, we’ve arrived. Come out quickly.”

Liu Bái’s smile was pure and delicate, like a lily swaying in the wind, but Li Yeběi trembled slightly. He looked up, and in front of him was…

China’s First Mental Hospital?!