How I Became The Devil's Last and Only Love
Chapter 34: Ants on a Hot Pan

Chapter 34: Chapter 34: Ants on a Hot Pan

Zhou Xueqin lived in Saint Maria Private Sanitarium. The people residing here were essentially those whose illnesses had penetrated deep into their bones, beyond cure. They were here only to delay the inevitable, to receive the best care in their final days.

Under the escort of a nurse, Fang Anning arrived at the hospital garden and saw an old lady with white hair sitting in a wheelchair.

This old lady was Zhou Xueqin.

Illness had made her look much thinner and haggard. Her hair had turned gray, but from her features, one could tell she must have been a beauty when she was young.

After all, the Zhou family’s genes were not bad; otherwise, Zhou Zhaoguo wouldn’t have deceived her mother and then Chen Fengjiao.

"Auntie."

Fang Anning walked over, crouched in front of Zhou Xueqin, and opened up the set of jade cups to show her.

Zhou Xueqin had her eyes closed, it was unclear whether she was asleep or just basking in the sun.

Upon hearing the call, she opened her eyes and saw the familiar set of jade cups placed in front of her.

"Jade cups?" Zhou Xueqin excitedly reached out and touched them.

"Auntie, your jade cups, I’ve brought them for you," Fang Anning said softly.

Zhou Xueqin looked at her, puzzled and asked, "Who are you?"

Fang Anning smiled and said, "Auntie, I’m Fang Anning, Zhou Zhaoguo’s daughter."

"But your surname is Fang," Zhou Xueqin noted.

Fang Anning explained: "I take my mother’s surname. My father Zhou Zhaoguo divorced my mother before I was born and married a daughter from a wealthy family. So, I’ve been using my mother’s surname since I was young. But indeed, I am his daughter."

Having said that, she took out the newspaper she had brought.

There was a statement from Zhou Zhaoguo in the newspaper, which she showed to Zhou Xueqin.

After Zhou Xueqin put on her reading glasses and read through, she finally believed that she was really Zhou Zhaoguo’s daughter.

"Did your father send you here?" Zhou Xueqin asked.

Fang Anning shook her head: "He doesn’t know I’m here, I found this set of jade cups myself. I’m sorry, Auntie, I’ve learned why he was looking for the jade cups, and that’s why I brought them to you."

"I understand," said Zhou Xueqin, who had lived a long enough life to be unfamiliar with such little scheming.

"So, Auntie, you...?"

"I will follow your wishes, I will announce the will in three days. By then, your father will also come over. If you have time, you can wait here," Zhou Xueqin stated.

Fang Anning showed an expression of delight and nodded quickly, "Yes, I will wait here, thank you, Auntie."

"I’m tired, push me back," Zhou Xueqin told the nurse.

However, Fang Anning stood up, moved behind Zhou Xueqin, and pushed her back herself.

Zhou Xueqin looked back at her in surprise.

Fang Anning said, "Although I deeply resent Zhou Zhaoguo’s heartlessness, after all, I carry the blood of the Zhou family, and we are of the same lineage. Let me take good care of you these next few days. Don’t worry, I’m good at caring for people. I’ve been personally taking care of my mother ever since she was hospitalized after a car accident."

Zhou Xueqin, touched, murmured, "All my life I’ve drifted, childless. I never imagined that at the time of my death, I could still receive care from my kinsfolk."

**

Zhou Zhaoguo was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, pacing back and forth at home.

Chen Fengjiao’s eyes were all blurred from watching him pace, and she couldn’t help but speak up: "Can’t you stop pacing? My eyes are getting blurry."

"Why hasn’t that woman contacted us yet?" Zhou Zhaoguo said anxiously.

Chen Fengjiao pursed her lips and said, "How would I know? That woman looked sly and seductive. Something about her seems familiar, as if I’ve seen her somewhere before. She must have been deceiving us, with no intention of returning the jade cups."

"She won’t give us the jade cups, how can we go to the United States to see Auntie?"

That’s a hefty inheritance; if he could inherit it, he wouldn’t have to worry for the rest of his life.

To be honest, business hasn’t been great these years.

If it weren’t for sending Fang Anning to the He family, and they gave him a dowry and a project to work on, he probably wouldn’t have found a good project in the last half a year.

But that project won’t last long; he needs to get a sum of money fast to keep the company going.

Zhou Xueqin’s inheritance is like an unexpected windfall, a godsend in times of need.

"Have you found out the identity of that woman?" Chen Fengjiao asked.

Zhou Zhaoguo shook his head: "No luck, you know how it is, they’ve always been secretive about their clients’ identities. And the other party seems to have a complicated background; even my bribery got me nowhere. In three days Auntie will announce the will, if we can’t get the jade cups by then, we’ll miss out on this windfall."

"Who says we’ll miss out on this windfall if we can’t get our hands on the jade cups?" Chen Fengjiao snorted with laughter.

"You have a way?" Zhou Zhaoguo’s eyes lit up, he asked immediately.

Chen Fengjiao said: "Zhou Xueqin only has you as a nephew; even if you can’t get the jade cups, if you go and beg her, she is bound to soften her heart. Even if she doesn’t soften, it’s easy to forge a will for someone on their deathbed. Right now, we need to hurry to the United States, persuading her is the proper thing to do first."

"Honey, you really are smart. Hahaha, I, Zhou Zhaoguo, am blessed to have married you," Zhou Zhaoguo laughed heartily.

When Zhou Muyan returned from the hospital, she saw her parents looking happy and thought they had found the information she wanted.

She immediately asked: "What exactly is going on with Fang Anning?"

"What Fang Anning, what’s going on? What does it have to do with her?" Chen Fengjiao said.

Zhou Muyan stamped her foot: "Didn’t I tell you to find out why Fang Anning is still alive? Didn’t you investigate?"

"Yanyan, we’re all preoccupied with your grandaunt’s matter, how can we have time to deal with that dead girl. In the last ten years, not a single woman who married into the He family has survived; she’s just alive for now, but she won’t live much longer. Why do you always care about her?" Chen Fengjiao quickly placated her.

Zhou Muyan pursed her lips.

Of course, she cared about Fang Anning, all because that Lu Tianyu cared about her.

She had gone looking for Lu Tianyu, and he wasn’t hard to find.

Chen Haonan’s name was well-known in the south side of the city; she inquired in that area and soon found Lu Tianyu in a bar.

Unfortunately, Lu Tianyu was indifferent to her. When she told him who she was, Lu Tianyu even said he had no impression of her.

She was absolutely livid!

When had Zhou Muyan ever been ignored like this before?

Which man didn’t come fawning over to her?

And now this little ruffian, to completely disregard her, she was furious to the point of vomiting blood!

"You ignore me, don’t tell me you like that girl Fang Anning!" Zhou Muyan angrily accused him.

Zhou Tianyu, who had previously disregarded her, couldn’t help but frown, and asked with a furrowed brow: "You know Fang Anning?"

"Hmph, of course, I know. Fang Anning is the bastard my father had with another woman, but it’s no use you liking her. A month ago, she was sent to the He family to marry He Tingchen. You know He Tingchen, right? The King of Hell himself. So your affection for her is fruitless; she won’t live much longer."

"You’re talking nonsense, you say Anning married He Tingchen a month ago. But He Tingchen’s brides have never survived a month, if Anning really married him, how is she still alive?" Lu Tianyu said coldly.

Zhou Muyan was speechless!

Indeed, she couldn’t figure out this problem either.

So she went home and told her parents, asking them to look into it.

But it’s been two days, and there’s still no information.