The Downtrodden Villain In A Redemption Romance Novel Chapter 51

Chapter 51 Testing

Xu’s chest was full of mixed feelings, which finally turned into a soft sigh.

He looked at the heavy card in his hand, his fingertips tightened and loosened, and finally he gently pushed the card back onto the table in front of Lu Qingrang.

“Brother Lu,” he raised his head, his eyes clear and firm, “I can’t take this money.”

Lu Qingrang’s eyes darkened slightly, and his slender fingers unconsciously tapped on the table, making a slight sound.

But he didn’t speak immediately, he just looked at Xu Wen quietly, waiting for his next words.

“I’m not being polite to you, nor am I disbelieving you.”

Xu Wen scratched his hair and tried to sort out the chaotic thoughts in his mind, “This money was earned from Nangong Yu using your identity as ‘A’. It is your confidence and reliance.”

He paused and said in a more serious tone: “We are grasshoppers on a rope now, and your plan is my plan. But you must control the money. When should it be used, where should it be used, and how to use it to achieve the greatest effect, only you know best. Put it here with me, and what will happen if something goes wrong.”

Having said this, Xu Wen clenched his fists unconsciously.

He recalled the days when he was still worrying about three meals a day not long ago, but now he was suddenly faced with such a large sum of money, which made him feel uneasy.

Lu Qingrang listened quietly and did not look at the card that was pushed back. His eyes remained calmly on Xu Wen’s face.

He saw the persistence in Xu Wen’s eyes. It was not alienation, but a kind of clumsy maintenance.

“Xu Wen,” he said, his voice softer than before, “you made a mistake.”

“This is not my confidence alone,” he tapped the card lightly, “this is ours. Without you, I might be a cold corpse now, let alone the existence of the account ‘A’. Therefore, every penny here, of course, you have the right to control.”

He leaned forward slightly, closing the distance between the two of them, his eyes sincere and focused: “You are right, I need to make the plan, and I need to handle the flow of funds. But because of this, this joint asset needs to be kept by you.”

“Why?” Xu Wen asked subconsciously.

“Because I need insurance.” Lu Qingrang’s voice softened, with a hint of pleading, “Xu Wen, I can’t trust myself. The shadow of the past is too heavy, and I’m afraid that one day it will drag me down again. Only you can keep me awake.”

He looked at Xu Wen’s slightly widened eyes and continued to speak slowly: “Moreover, Xu Wen, if I hand over the money to you, I will have no worries. I know that no matter what happens, you will guard our last retreat. Only if you hold it can I feel at ease.”

Speaking of this, Lu Qingrang unconsciously touched the old scar on his wrist.

This subtle movement did not escape Xu Wen’s eyes.

Xu Wen suddenly realized that for Lu Qingrang, handing over this card was not only entrusting money, but also handing over his last defense.

These words instantly opened all the knots in Xu Wen’s heart.

He refused out of an almost instinctive protection.

And Lu Qingrang told him that this was the last resort.

This is no longer charity or entrustment, but entrustment and sharing.

Xu Wen looked at Lu Qingrang’s eyes reflecting his figure and felt the heavy weight on his shoulders, a weight of complete trust.

He was silent for a few seconds, finally took a deep breath, stretched out his hand again, and held the card tightly in his palm, as if he had taken over some kind of sacred mission.

“Okay.” His voice was not loud, but he was extremely firm, “I will keep the money. I will guard our retreat, and I will also… watch you.”

Lu Qing let the smile in his eyes completely melt away.

He sat up slightly and his tone became calm and controlled:

“This money, and all subsequent resources I acquire through ‘A,’ are all for one goal.”

His voice was very soft, but calm and firm: “When everything is ready, I will start the code program in the sky.”

Lu Qingrang looked past Xu Wen and towards the gray sky in Lincheng outside the window, but his eyes seemed to have penetrated time and space and landed on the bustling city they had fled in a hurry.

“When it’s such a mess over there and there’s no time for him to take care of…”

Xu Wen’s heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

Lu Qingrang retracted her gaze and looked at him again, her eyes terrifyingly calm: “Let’s go back to City A together.”

Not to run away, not to avoid, but to go back as a liquidator to end all betrayals and injuries.

Xu Wen clenched the card in his palm, and the cold touch actually gave rise to a hint of warmth.

At this moment, he suddenly understood what he had been unable to figure out all these days.

The redemption value was stable at 40% but began to stagnate. He once asked the system:

“System, why doesn’t this redemption value move?”

[Host, the core of salvation is to heal the root trauma, rather than simply changing the situation.The current target’s source of psychological trauma has not yet been cleared.】

He never fully understood the meaning of this sentence.

Until this moment, Lu Qingrang said “Let’s go back to City A”. These five words “clicked” like a key, opening up all the mysteries.

It turns out that those injuries never really passed, they were just buried by time and turned into poison buried deep.

There is no point in escaping and covering up. What Lu Qingrang needs is to go back to the place where it all started, carve out the rotten flesh with his own hands, and complete a thorough bone scraping to cure the poison.

End the past that engulfed him, end the nightmares that gnawed at him day and night.

“Okay, I will keep him safe.”

Lu Qingrang looked at Xu Wen, who had gone through a lot of brainstorming and finally seriously agreed to him, his eyes narrowed, and the smile at the corner of his mouth got wider and wider.

The smile soaked into his eyes, and he felt the satisfaction of getting what he wanted.

He clearly knew that what he handed over was not just a card, but also a carefully crafted collar.

What he proposed was not just a plan, but a yoke from which there was no turning back.

He was testing Xu Wen’s bottom line, testing how far this loyalty could go for him.

Every word is carefully considered and every expression is practiced repeatedly.

He knew Xu Wen too well and knew what method to use to make this kind man unable to refuse.

The result was better than expected.

Xu Wen accepted this future without hesitation, and even took the initiative to put all the weight on it.

This means that from now on, they will be true accomplices, allies who share all secrets and sins.

Xu Wen’s kindness, responsibility and pure desire to protect became the perfect reins for him to accurately utilize.

Tie him up.

This realization made Lu Qingrang’s heart tremble slightly with excitement.

He wants to use common secrets, common enemies, common funds, and even common crimes in the future to tightly tie Xu Wen to his chariot and integrate him into his own flesh and blood.

He wanted to make Xu Wen’s world the only one left with Lu Qingrang, who could no longer be separated or escaped.

This process must be slow and careful, like weaving a spider web and waiting patiently for the prey to walk into the trap.