Pregnant with the son of a rich and powerful boss, he tried his best to coax her

Ye Zhiqiu paused as he gently grasped Grandma Tao's wrist, and the color on his face slowly faded...

No matter how much he deceived himself, he knew that what Jiang Rubao said was the truth.

Grandma Tao was probably sensitive enough to sense something when he woke up after having a fever for a day and a night due to the poison.

Otherwise, she would not have insisted on taking her away from the small village and going to the big city to treat her face on the day she heard that foreign armed forces wanted to sneak in.

Also.

No matter how similar he plays the role of a grandparent and grandchild who have lived together for more than ten years, he can only paint the skin and bones but not the soul.

Jiang Rubao sighed.

"Xiao Qiu, can you tell me what happened? How did you become white-haired?"

"Perhaps, we can find a way to retrieve Bai Maomao's remains. It will at least be a final comfort to Grandma Tao..."

Ye Zhiqiu buried his head and stroked the dry skin on Grandma Tao's wrist.

After a long silence, he said:

"That time, after I escaped from the airport successfully, I just found the nearest flight and boarded it..."

"But I didn't expect that the destination of that flight happened to be a small country in West Asia..."

"I don't know if Elliot will continue with that crazy plan after I escape. On the one hand, I hope he gives up, but on the other hand, I want to try my luck..."

"If I'm lucky enough to find the mysterious tribe he mentioned, maybe I can still save my life."

"Even if I gain nothing in the end, at least I have tried my best... Even if I die, I will have no regrets..."

"So I traveled from that small country in West Asia to the western border of China, trying to cross the border and enter China."

Ye Zhiqiu raised his head and looked out the window, his eyes a little out of focus.

"I've been on the run for more than half a month, and everything went smoothly. This made me a little too proud of myself. I don't know where I gave myself away, or maybe the taste-seeking bees finally found me..."

"That night, when I was crossing the border, I was chased by a group of people in the mountains. I accidentally saw Bai Maomao who had fallen into a trap set by a hunter to kill large prey. Her legs were broken and she was bleeding too much. She was almost dying."

"I didn't want to save her at first, but seeing that she was a little girl with pitiful pleading in her eyes, I jumped in to save her."

"But she refused. She said she knew she was dying and was afraid she wouldn't make it out of the mountains."

"But she has a seriously ill grandmother at home, and she was really worried about her. She asked me to help her bring the herbs she picked back to her grandmother... and to tell her grandmother that her granddaughter was unfilial and that she would go to the underworld to wait for her in advance..."

"Later I said that my life was in danger and I didn't know if I could get out..."

"She pointed me to a secret cave down the mountain, saying that only people in their village knew about the cave, and told me to run quickly..."

"I couldn't bear to leave her behind, so I finally carried her out of the trap..."

"But when we reached the edge of a cliff, Bai Maomao asked me to put her down. At that time, she was already on her deathbed..."

"She asked me to change clothes with her and threw her off the cliff to make it look like an accident. Then she told me to run quickly and said that as long as I returned to the village, the villagers would definitely help me."

"I asked her at the time, you are still so young, are you really not afraid of death?"

"She said that she was afraid, but she was more afraid of living alone in this world, without any ties, because all her family members were gone, and the only one left was her grandmother, who was seriously ill and had no time left."

"She said she was just going down early to reunite with her family, so she wasn't afraid...but she was very sorry that she couldn't spend the last days of her life with her grandmother..."

"Even her last words were for me to tell her grandma not to be sad. She would go downstairs to find my parents and grandpa first, and then wait for grandma together. Then, their family would be reunited and would never be separated again..."

"Brother Xiaobao, do you know? She was smiling when she took her last breath in my arms..."

"At that time, I suddenly felt that death was not really scary. On the contrary, living without any expectations or hopes was the scariest thing."

"Later, I didn't throw her off the cliff as she wished. I just tore my clothes and hung them on the edge of the cliff to create the effect of an accidental fall..."

"I buried her under a big tree facing the sun, then put on her clothes, took the last dose of disguise potion you gave me, disguised myself as her, and returned to Grandma Tao's house..."

"I had originally planned to take Bai Maomao's place and spend her grandmother's last days with her, but I didn't expect that the poison would take effect on the first night I arrived in that small village."

"It was the worst this year... I thought I was going to die, and the villagers almost buried me..."

"I smiled bitterly at the time. If I had known earlier, I would have told Grandma Tao the truth. It would have been better than watching her granddaughter die in front of her eyes..."

"But I didn't expect that in the end, I survived again, but there was a poison spot on my face..."

"I guess it was because the poison scared Grandma Tao that time. After that, even though my personality is quite different from Bai Maomao's, Grandma Tao never showed any abnormality. She really treated me like her own granddaughter..."

"I felt a kind of family love from her that I had never felt before. After that, it was as if I no longer had any obsession with whether I had truly been detoxified."

"I thought, I'll just spend the last days of my life with Grandma Tao, and then I'll go find a way to detoxify her. If I can find one, it'll be a blessing, but if I can't, it won't matter..."

"I am alone in this world anyway. I came here naked and I will leave naked. It doesn't matter..."

As soon as Ye Zhiqiu finished speaking, the ward became so quiet that only the sound of Grandma Tao's heartbeat monitor could be heard.

"Beep~beep~beep~"

Faint, but persistent...

And I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but it seems to be a little stronger than before they entered the ward.

Ye Zhiqiu's expression was a little dazed.

In fact, these things happened not long ago, but when I think back on them now, it seems like a lifetime ago.

Jiang Rubao looked at his stunned face, couldn't help but sigh, and asked again:

"Xiao Qiu, can you tell me what's going on with all this poison in your body?"

This was a point he had overlooked before.

If Elliot's feelings for Ye Zhiqiu were genuine, then how could he use dozens of poisons to torture him at the same time?

To know one and dozens of...

Those are definitely two completely different concepts.

With each additional poison, the difficulty of detoxification increases exponentially...

Ye Zhiqiu paused slightly, lowered his head again, and gently stroked Grandma Tao's thin and dry wrist.

After a long pause, he said, "I poisoned myself..."