The Tycoon's Mysterious Darling Wife
Chapter 322 - 324. Couples in Adversity (44 more updates)

Chapter 322: 324. Couples in Adversity (44 more updates)

"Captain, I’ll find a way to hold them off—you escape," Meng Liang said.

They were speaking Chinese, which King couldn’t understand, but Allen did. "Fu Hengyi, there’s no going back for you this time. Blame it on yourself for taking away the most important thing to me."

Fu Hengyi seemed as though he didn’t hear him, his Dagger pressing tightly against King’s carotid artery, making King dare not move an inch, "Let us go, or I’ll kill him."

Allen burst into a haughty laugh, as if he had heard a tremendously funny joke, "Fu Hengyi, I’ve dreamed of killing you. Now you expect me to let my enemy go for someone I despise? Do you think that’s possible?"

Fu Hengyi’s eyes darkened slightly, but before he could respond, King spoke out first, "Allen, you bastard."

Allen chuckled, "If I can trade your life for Fu Hengyi’s, that would be absolutely fantastic." King had once hurt Shen Qinglan, and that was an account Allen hadn’t forgotten. If Fu Hengyi were to kill King, and he then took care of Fu Hengyi and took Shen Qinglan away, that would indeed be the most perfect ending in this world.

Allen raised his hand, about to fire his gun, but the sound of gunfire instead hit Allen’s arm. His gun instantly dropped to the ground. Meng Liang followed the noise and saw that Mu Liancheng had arrived with backup.

He breathed a sigh of relief, Liancheng had arrived just in time. Had it been any later, he and Fu Hengyi might truly not have been able to return.

King saw the people who had arrived and a cold light flashed in his eyes. With a sudden strike, Fu Hengyi’s grip loosened, and King broke free from his hold, but not without a fresh wound on his neck. Though it hadn’t hit the artery, the bleeding looked frightful.

King immediately covered the wound, his eyes filled with venom as he gazed at Fu Hengyi.

Both sides stood in a standoff. Liancheng had already seen Qian Fei lying on the ground and his gaze toward King and his group became even colder.

Gunshots rang out in an instant. With King injured, he naturally was no match for Fu Hengyi, who turned to flee, and Fu Hengyi chased after him immediately. This pursuit caused Fu Hengyi to disappear without a trace.

Fu Hengyi kept his gaze locked on the figure ahead. King stopped, "Fu Hengyi, you’ve been chasing me for three days. Aren’t you done yet?"

Fu Hengyi looked at him coldly. He needed to take King back to face legal penalties. He couldn’t let his comrade, his fellow countryman, die in vain.

King was covered in wounds, but Fu Hengyi wasn’t faring much better.

King’s look was sinister, "Come on, Fu Hengyi." After running for three days with Fu Hengyi hot on his heels, King was tired of fleeing and no longer intended to run.

The fight was brutal. Fu Hengyi quickly sustained numerous injuries, but King didn’t fare any better, with even more wounds than Fu Hengyi. With a groan, King fell to his knees, gasping for air.

A Dagger was plunged into his abdomen; he grimaced and pulled it out, bringing a trail of blood with it.

Suddenly, he looked behind Fu Hengyi and laughed, "Hahaha, Fu Hengyi, goodbye."

Fu Hengyi’s instincts kicked in. He rolled to the side, narrowly avoiding a barrage of bullets. Fortunately, there was a large enough tree nearby to provide cover. When Fu Hengyi caught sight of who was approaching, he realized it was King’s men, and his heart sank. He and King had been running through the jungle for three days with no sense of direction, yet King’s people managed to find them quickly—that was highly unusual.

His gaze fell on King, who was removing an earring. Fu Hengyi understood immediately. It seemed King had been prepared, perhaps leading him to this exact place from the start.

Fu Hengyi’s suspicion wasn’t wrong. Although King had agreed to cooperate with Allen, he didn’t trust him. After devising one plan of action with Allen, he fashioned another alone. It was just that Beyoncé arrived with reinforcements a day later than King had anticipated.

Jin Enxi’s expression changed when he heard the gunshots; he quickened his pace. By the time they arrived, they saw King on the ground with a bullet hole in his chest, while Fu Hengyi lay not far away, his state of life or death unknown.

Fu Hengyi wasn’t dead but severely injured; seeing Jin Enxi and the others, his expression changed, "How did you find this place?"

Andre helped Fu Hengyi up from the ground without answering his question, saying only, "Leave this to us; you need to go. An is waiting for you in the back."

Hearing that Shen Qinglan had also come, Fu Hengyi’s face turned completely pale.

"Go now, An is waiting for you to return," Andre said, pushing Fu Hengyi away and joining the fierce battle.

Fu Hengyi intended to leave, but his leg was wounded and he couldn’t move quickly.

When Shen Qinglan arrived following the traces left by Jin Enxi and the others, she saw Fu Hengyi drenched in blood, standing before her. Upon seeing him still on his feet, Shen Qinglan’s eyes instantly reddened.

Fu Hengyi also saw Shen Qinglan, but at that moment, his consciousness was fading slowly; his vision was blurry and he couldn’t make out Shen Qinglan’s face. He tried hard to see her clearly, but darkness overtook him, and he collapsed.

"Fu Hengyi."

**

In Beijing, Shen Junyu rushed directly to the airport and booked a flight to the border.

Shen Qian was fully engaged in the search and rescue for Fu Hengyi. Knowing that Shen Qinglan had entered the jungle, he was even more determined to lead a team in himself. It was at this moment that Shen Junyu arrived. Seeing his son before him, Shen Qian’s expression grew heavy.

"Who allowed you to come here?" Shen Qian asked. Although this wasn’t a military base with strict access rules, it was a place where most people wouldn’t dare to venture.

"I’m going with you to search for them," Shen Junyu stated.

"This is nonsense. Is this a place for you? Get back immediately," Shen Qian rebuked sternly.

"I’ll go by myself, or you take me with you," Shen Junyu said earnestly.

Shen Qian looked at him steadily, and Shen Junyu returned his gaze without flinching.

Knowing his son’s stubborn temperament all too well, Shen Qian ultimately lost to his son’s persistence.

**

"Fu Hengyi, you must hold on, don’t sleep," Shen Qinglan patted Fu Hengyi’s face in the cave, trying to keep him awake.

Fu Hengyi struggled to open his eyes, holding Shen Qinglan’s hand, "Okay, I won’t sleep." His voice was very weak.

Shen Qinglan looked at the wounds covering Fu Hengyi’s body, her eyes cold. She gritted her teeth, "Fu Hengyi, wait here for me, I’ll be right back."

Fu Hengyi grabbed her, "Don’t go."

"I’ll be quick," Shen Qinglan removed Fu Hengyi’s hand and said before quickly disappearing into the cave.

It was just the two of them here, and they had lost contact with Jin Enxi and the others. Half a day ago, when she found Fu Hengyi, he was already covered in injuries. She and Eden had moved Fu Hengyi, but they had encountered another group on the way. Eden, in order to protect them, had lured the group away.

Shen Qinglan had helped Fu Hengyi walk for a long time before finding this cave.

Soon, Shen Qinglan returned, carrying a handful of herbs. She chopped the plants with the dagger she carried, chewed them up, and applied the paste to Fu Hengyi’s wounds.

These plants all had hemostatic properties, something Eden had told her during their jungle training sessions.

Fu Hengyi’s injuries were too numerous and some were very deep. If they didn’t stop the bleeding quickly, even if someone came to rescue them, he would have lost too much blood.

Shen Qinglan tore off her own clothes to bandage Fu Hengyi’s wounds, then held him in her arms, "Fu Hengyi, talk to me, don’t fall asleep."

Fu Hengyi tugged the corner of his mouth, trying to smile but failing. He held Shen Qinglan’s hand, "You shouldn’t have come here."

She nodded, "Yes, I know. I should have stayed at home waiting for you. I was being willful this time, so you can punish me however you want when we get back."

"How could I bear to punish you," Fu Hengyi said softly. "Qinglan, if I can’t make it out this time, you must live well."

Upon hearing this, Shen Qinglan’s face immediately darkened, and she looked straight at Fu Hengyi with a serious expression, "Fu Hengyi, listen to me. If you don’t survive this time, I’ll die with you, along with our child. Without you, I don’t know what the meaning of living would be. I won’t wait until the child is born to find you, because I’m afraid that once the child is born, I will be unable to leave it. So Fu Hengyi, if you don’t want to see me cold-hearted, you must survive."

Fu Hengyi saw the tears welling up in Shen Qinglan’s eyes and felt a pang of pain in his heart. He wanted to wipe the tears from her face, "Don’t cry. Seeing you cry, I don’t know what to do."

"I’m not crying." She touched her face, only to realize that she didn’t know when tears had started flowing down her cheeks, "Fu Hengyi, this is saline solution, not tears."

Fu Hengyi chuckled softly, but it aggravated his wounds, making him cough, "Alright, it’s saline solution."

The night grew darker, and it was very dangerous to walk in the jungle at night. Shen Qinglan, a pregnant woman, with a severely injured Fu Hengyi, naturally couldn’t enter the nocturnal jungle.

She had some food and water on her. She gave Fu Hengyi some water, but he couldn’t eat any food, "I can’t eat right now; you have it," Fu Hengyi said.

Seeing that he really couldn’t eat, Shen Qinglan didn’t insist. She gave him a little more water and then spoke softly, "Fu Hengyi, now we truly are a couple in adversity, along with our child."

She placed Fu Hengyi’s hand on her stomach, "Look, it has grown quite a bit in a month, hasn’t it?"

Fu Hengyi tried to move his hand away, "My hand is cold." Shen Qinglan didn’t let go, pressing his hand, "Fu Hengyi, do you want to feel it, talk to it? The doctor said it can hear us now."

Fu Hengyi felt the smooth skin under his palm, his eyes softened, "Yes, it has grown a lot."

Shen Qinglan kept talking to Fu Hengyi, preventing him from falling asleep, and Fu Hengyi put in all his effort to stay conscious.