"Are you talking about Gu Peng? Impossible."
Lin Chuxia instinctively denied.
Li Guangyuan laughed again, "I knew you wouldnât want to believe it. Believing it would mean youâre blind, but even if you donât believe it, the facts are right there, whether you like it or not."
"Evidence? Without evidence, how can you prove youâre not just making things up? You also said Gu Peng wanted you to have no descendants, you hate Gu Peng, so you put the blame on him? Li Guangyuan, Iâm not as naive as you think, Gu Peng has no motive to kill me at all."
Li Guangyuan said that Gu Peng had a crush on her, and that he remained single in his previous life because of her.
These words Lin Chuxia could temporarily put aside.
But to say Gu Peng caused a car accident and killed her, Lin Chuxia would never believe it.
In his previous life, Gu Peng always appreciated her pulling him out of the mud, treating her as a benefactor.
In work, they trusted each other and were comrades-in-arms who could rely on one another.
No matter how confused or blind Lin Chuxia was, she didnât believe Gu Peng would kill her.
There was simply no motive.
"How can there be no motive? Do you know that with Gu Pengâs abilities, he long didnât need to remain beneath you as a mere assistant? He even secretly started his own tech company, whose annual revenue is no less than the entire Li Group. He invested all profits into a technology research project; do you know what project that is?"
Lin Chuxia watched Li Guangyuanâs thin lips move, forming the words, "Time Reversal."
Something seemed to strike her heart heavily, hurting more than being hit by a truck.
She instinctively shook her head, "Youâre talking nonsense, trying to deceive me. Even if Gu Peng had some research, I didnât even know, how would you know? Li Guangyuan, donât think remembering past lives means you can make up stories; I donât believe a single word youâre saying."
She didnât want to believe that Gu Peng would actually create a car accident for a technical project and take her life.
She didnât want the only sincerity from her past life to be a scam.
She was quite a failure in her past life.
"Of course he wouldnât let me know what he did, only some things went wrong, getting out of his control, allowing me to glimpse some superficial details. Lin Chuxia, do you know? I lived longer than both of you in the last life, and because of that, I know more than you."
He looked at Lin Chuxiaâs already pale face and finally felt some relief, speaking more recklessly.
"I donât think Gu Peng truly wanted to take your life. After his death, I investigated his assets using our connections; the Time Reversal project didnât require someone to actually die. I think maybe Gu Peng feared he couldnât persuade you or had other motives, so he tried to use a car accident to bring you back. But he accidentally went too far, the driver drank before the accident to avoid responsibility, turning your fake death into a real one. If everything went smoothly, maybe your return would have been earlier."
With Gu Pengâs calculations, after investing so much, he wouldnât let Lin Chuxia have a chance to marry him or Qin Yang.
"Do you know what Gu Peng became after your car accident? He nearly went crazy. Though you were still my nominal wife, he wouldnât let me touch your body. If it werenât for the police, I wouldnât have seen it at all. To force me to give him your body, he spent three days wrecking our companyâs finances; the entire Li Group faced bankruptcy, creditors constantly coming for money. Forced by no choice, I sold your corpse for 8 million. Lin Chuxia, have you ever thought that after you died, youâd be sold like a piece of property by me? And that the man who thought of you lovingly all his life only saw you worth 8 million..."
"Slap!"
Lin Chuxia couldnât bear it anymore and lifted her hand to slap Li Guangyuan across the face, "Youâre truly shameless."
Li Guangyuan rubbed his struck chin, licking his lips, suddenly laughing.
"Shameless? If I was truly shameless, Iâd keep your corpse, let it rot, decay into bare bones, leave Gu trapped in guilt and remorse forever, never attaining you."
He looked at Lin Chuxia, his gaze softened.
"Lin Chuxia, whether you admit it or not, I once wanted to genuinely live with you. You were the woman I treated sincerely, even knowing Gu Peng took your body for the chance at life, I still let go..."
"According to what you said, Gu Peng and I returned using Time Reversal, what about you? What about Lin Jiayi?"
Lin Chuxia didnât want to hear Li Guangyuanâs so-called affection, interrupting him.
Li Guangyuan thought for a moment, "Me? After Gu Peng took your body away, I kept a close watch on him secretly; although I didnât know his exact operations.
Suddenly, one day I saw him come out of his experimental base, seeming relaxed. During those days, he gave bonuses to all his employees, and donated all his remaining assets except that experimental base. Later, I received news of his death.
I suspected his death was odd and that it related to his experimental base. I leveraged the revived Li Group to acquire ownership of that base, but once acquired, most of the researchers who worked with Gu Peng were gone.
To restart that experimental base, I spent 5 years, finally succeeding but only halfway."
He didnât fully return but brought back memories of his past life.
Li Guangyuan couldnât help but give a bitter smile.
Unsure if the outcome was his luck or punishment.
"As for Lin Jiayi, I heard later that shortly after your death she also passed away. Your maternal family shed few tears when you died; they didnât bother informing us, it was your younger brother who returned for your sisterâs funeral, realizing you, the second sister, had left before your eldest, came to pay respects after the funeral. Only then did I learn of Lin Jiayiâs passing. Calculating by time, Lin Jiayiâs death coincided with Gu Pengâs Time Reversal for you."
Since confessing to Lin Chuxia last time, Li Guangyuan knew Lin Chuxia would never reconcile and be with him.
Even so, he continued to intermittently dream those dreams.
He knew those were events that happened later in the past life.
He began not rejecting that dream, even combining it with events from this life to gradually piece together and ponder.
These are the conclusions from his repeated pondering recently.