Chapter 107: Standing Firm for Her

Chapter 107: Standing Firm for Her

If Yun Mu were to acquire a 20% stake, she would become the largest shareholder of the Huo Group!

Uncles Two and Three of Huo Tingying were the first to explode.

Especially Uncle Two, "Huo Tingying, you want to die and still extort money from me? Don't you consider your own status? You're a bastard, and allowing you to remain in the Huo family is already a great blessing. And yet, you dare to ask for such an exorbitant amount!"

Even the usually refined and scholarly Uncle Three couldn't sit still anymore. He glanced at Yun Mu and sneered, "Tingying, have you been bewitched by this woman? Don't you know that this woman has been cheating on you everywhere? Aren't you afraid that after you die, she'll take the wealth you leave behind and use it to keep a boy toy?"

Yun Mu furrowed her brows, suppressing her anger as her gaze grew colder.

She felt that asking for 20% was actually too little!

"You all better speak properly. Whoever dares to mention death again, I'll make sure they can never open their mouths again!"

With those words, she suddenly kicked out with her left foot, sending a nearby potted plant flying several meters away, shattering upon impact...

Everyone's bodies involuntarily trembled.

She looked at Huo Tingying.

But he had clearly grown accustomed to the cold ridicule from the Huo family. His icy eyes remained calm and malevolently cold.

He coldly glanced at everyone, "When the Huo family faced a great crisis, if not for my mother's assistance, the Huo family might have already collapsed. Grandfather, I'm asking for this equity for Yun Mu, and it's not excessive at all."

"Either you give it willingly, or I'll take it by force. Your choice."

Old Master Huo stared at Huo Tingying, his face ashen.

He understood more than anyone else what Huo Tingying's actions implied.

After a long moment, he slowly nodded and said, "Fine, Second Brother, Third Brother, start working on the share transfer agreement tonight."

"Big Brother!"

"Big Brother!"

Uncles Two and Three were incredulous and immediately wanted to object, but Old Master Huo suddenly turned around, his aged eyes sweeping over them with a subtly terrifying gaze, "The Huo Group was built by me. You few branches have enjoyed its benefits for so many years, which is enough. Tingying is a descendant of the Huo family, and giving these 20% shares to his wife is only right and proper!"

The icy determination in the eyes of this elderly man brooked no refusal.

Uncles Two and Three remembered the ruthless methods of this old man in his youth and dared not speak up. Instead, they turned their gazes towards Li Yunlan.

The one most panicked by Yun Mu's acquisition of so much equity was Huo Jinzhou's position.

"Father, Jinzhou is still on a business trip abroad. Shouldn't we wait until Jinzhou returns to discuss the share transfer?" Li Yunlan said.

Old Master Huo raised his hand, "This matter is settled. This is what the Huo family owes Tingying and his mother. Yunlan, you understand this better than anyone."

Anyone with half a brain could hear the warning in Old Master's words to Li Yunlan.

Li Yunlan's expression suddenly changed, clenching her fists tightly without daring to respond.

Back then, it was Huo Tingying's mother who was the first to get close to Huo Jin. But in the end, it was Li Yunlan who preemptively married into the Huo family.

Who couldn't see through the intricacies of this situation?

With his goal achieved, Huo Tingying sneered, "Yun Mu and I have already eaten dinner, so we won't be staying. Let's go."

Yun Mu nodded, taking Huo Tingying from Feng Shuo and pushing him upstairs.

Once they returned to their room and closed the door, they finally managed to isolate themselves from the outside world's noise and filth.

"I'm really exhausted today. Everywhere I go, there are only troublesome people and matters. You... Huo Tingying, what's wrong with you?"

Yun Mu turned around, looking at the suddenly silent Huo Tingying.

Huo Tingying sat motionless in his wheelchair. It wasn't until Yun Mu stepped forward and held his icy left hand that he suddenly opened his eyes, dark and deep like an abyss.

His voice was clear, dark, low, and devoid of warmth, "And if I were to die, would you still be willing to stay in this troublesome Huo family?"

The veins on Yun Mu's forehead twitched slightly, her eyes deepening, "Are you done with this today? I've said it, I will save you! Even if I die, I won't let you die."

Huo Tingying lowered his head, his pupils filled with boundless darkness and malevolence, "Then forget it. I'd rather it be me who dies. I don't want someone to die in my place ever again."

Yun Mu sensed something ominous.

She took a step forward, squatting between Huo Tingying's legs, her warm hands resting on his legs.

"How did your mother... pass away?"

Huo Tingying's long eyelashes quivered lightly as he closed his eyes, hiding all emotions within. Yet, the corners of his lips curled into a cold, sinister, mocking smile.

"She died for me."

"She came to this country alone, naive but with a fortune. She thought she had met her true love. How laughable, this man merely wanted to defraud her wealth to save his family from crisis. Once the crisis was resolved, there was naturally no possibility of marrying her, nor could he accept the child in her womb."

"She could no longer return to her own family, being viewed as a traitor. She begged that man to spare her child, but he gave her a pill. Either she died, or the child died."

Yun Mu's eyes flickered slightly as she spoke with difficulty, "So, in the end, your mother gave birth to you and committed suicide by poisoning herself?"

"A slow-acting poison, not immediately fatal. By the time she died, she had already been driven mad. She was isolated in this country, without the protection of her family, without father or brothers. The year she died... I was four years old. She committed suicide. When she died, the ground was covered in blood. I went up to hug her, but she grew colder and colder..."

So... at the age of four, Huo Tingying had witnessed his own mother dying before his very eyes.

This Huo Jin was truly worse than an animal.

That's why he was afraid that she would also find herself isolated and helpless in China, which was why he was eager to secure her position in the Huo family.

This man, bereft of parents and forsaken by his clan's indifference.

Young as he was, he bore an incurable illness, living out his remaining days in a defiant and audacious manner, tormented by pain.

Yet, at the very end of his life, he still thought of her welfare.

Yun Mu curved her lips gently, her eyes twinkling with stars.

She raised her hands, warming them before cupping Huo Tingying's pale face.

Their eyes met, and she saw the repressed gloom in Huo Tingying's gaze.

He looked at her without uttering a word.

The starlight in Yun Mu's eyes flickered, her voice captivating, as if it could bewitch hearts and ensnare souls.

She spoke.

"Mr. Huo, it's all in the past."

"I too grew up without the love of my father or mother, facing the darkness alone, but I've lived well, stronger than anyone. We can't choose our parents or birth, but we can choose our own lives."

"In the future, you'll have me. If it weren't for that beast Huo Jin birthing you, you wouldn't have met me, right?"

Huo Tingying gazed at the girl before him, his eyes holding only her image.

Her eyes shone like flames, gradually melting the millennia-old ice in his heart.

After a long while, he curved his lips into a faint smile, his voice low and hoarse.

"Yes, that's the only decent thing he ever did."