Wholeheartedly Willing Chapter 56: Epilogue (Extra)

Epilogue – One Month Later

One month later, Lin Xi followed Yu Xiucheng to Iceland.

Here, he bought a piece of land and built a standalone house, inside of which he placed his mother’s ashes and his father’s belongings.

“I heard that they have started re-investigating the case from eight years ago back in the country,” Lin Xi said, her high heels clicking on the stone path in front of the house. “But how’s your business doing recently?”

Yu Xiucheng held her hand and glanced at her. “If you’re talking about your senior, then you can rest assured that he can’t make much of a fuss.”

After she threw her phone into the sea that day, she thought all contact with the country had been cut off. However, these past two days, she traveled with Yu Xiucheng from the Middle East to Northern Europe, and when she logged onto WeChat, she saw the messages that Luo Quan had sent her after that day.

From the chaotic content with long voice messages lasting 60 seconds to gradually returning to his usual way of speaking, Luo Quan had informed her about the case being reopened.

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“So, you weren’t able to see your father’s body, huh?” On the table next to the ashes was a pocket watch, heavily worn, indicating that it had accompanied its owner for many years.

“Um.”

Yu Xiucheng nodded. “At that time, I didn’t have the means to bring him back.”

The second in command had plotted for a long time. After killing the boss, his first action was to turn around and get rid of any potential future problems.

At that time, Yu Xiucheng wasn’t truly the second in command; he only had a handful of loyalists to his father and a small amount of weapons. He knew he couldn’t directly confront the second in command, so he made a decisive decision and began guerrilla warfare with his loyalists.

This went on for two years.

During those two years, he tried to avoid direct confrontations with the people under the second in command as much as possible. This strategic move greatly reduced casualties, but it also greatly diminished morale.

During that period, Yu Xiucheng was under tremendous pressure, barely getting any substantial sleep. Coupled with the rapid deterioration of his stress disorder, he had to carry Lin Xi’s competition recordings with him every day, craving her music and voice like a drug.

Later, he personally eliminated Abbas and completely eradicated his gang, which prompted him to start looking back for people.

However, the timing of his encounter with Lin Xi was incredibly unfortunate. By that time, she had already disappeared into various major competitions, and when he tried to contact the organizers, all he could get was her nationality.

“Pfft, you started searching with just her nationality? Isn’t that like finding a needle in the ocean?” Lin Xi found it amusing; she never expected Yu Xiucheng to have such an impulsive and stubborn side.

The man cast her a casual sideways glance. “But I did find her, didn’t I?”

“…”

She had to admit he had a point.

In truth, Qingcheng was the city with the lowest priority in Yu Xiucheng’s mind at that time. He loathed the city to the core, but in the end, he searched all the cities in the country except Qingcheng. Five years had passed, and he had to temporarily set aside the matter of Lin Xi and decided to settle the score with Yan Lang.

Precision component manufacturing was the legacy left by his father, serving as their protective cover. In recent years, Yu Xiucheng had invested part of his efforts from the main arms business into it and quickly brought it to the trading floor of Wall Street.

He knew that to enter a country where arms trading was strictly prohibited, he needed an even more powerful identity.

As expected, Qingcheng, a city in urgent need of industrial development, warmly welcomed Dongsheng. It was during a dinner with the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Qingcheng that Yu Xiucheng met Yan Lang, who had already taken the position of the head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau.

During their first meeting, Yu Xiucheng handled it well, occasionally mentioning that he heard about the prevalence of arms trading in Qingcheng, expressing simple admiration for Yan Lang. Privately, he launched an investigation into Yan Lang.

Yan Lang’s commuting time, usual routes, private entertainment activities, and favorite leisure places… Yu Xiucheng’s people followed Yan Lang for half a month and got a clear picture. At that time, Yu Xiucheng’s intention was simple—to settle the blood debt with blood. The people under his command, who were still loyal to his father, began to get restless. Their assassination experiences were extensive, and even if Yan Lang died, it wouldn’t be traced back to him in the slightest.

But it was at that time that Yu Xiucheng finally pulled out the needle that had been stuck in his heart for so long in the vast ocean.

The blood debt plan was temporarily set aside, and until now, Yu Xiucheng had to admit that it was the most correct decision he had made in these years.

“But you were too impatient. What would you have done if his wife and daughter hadn’t gone to Dubai at that time?” The scenes at the end still felt like a fleeting dream to Lin Xi, making her feel incredulous even now.

“Then I would have kidnapped them,” Yu Xiucheng said calmly, uttering terrifying words.

“When I realized that our goals aligned, I had no patience left.”

So he would have directly forced Lin Xi to stand on the same side as him through that choice, using Yan Lang’s greatest weakness to coerce him into obedience. Partly because it was in Yu Xiucheng’s nature to act this way, seizing the opportunity without hesitation, and partly because he feared that the night was long and filled with too many dreams.

At that time, Lin Xi didn’t fully trust him; he could sense her reservations. But the more reserved she was, the more urgently he wanted to occupy that part of her completely.

He wanted all of her.

Meanwhile, he chose not to inform Yan Lang directly but instead opted for a more roundabout and, for him, crueler approach.

In recent years, Yan Lang had climbed higher and higher in rank, but media restrictions had also grown. In the early years, several major cases he cracked received specialized interviews and countless praises, but later, news related to arms, even if positive, couldn’t make it to mainstream media. In recent years, some people didn’t even know who Yan Lang was.

During Yu Xiucheng’s interactions with Yan Lang, he could see his desire for praise in his eyes. So during that auction, Yu Xiucheng catered to Yan Lang’s desire, and the results achieved far exceeded expectations.

As Yan Lang reached his current age, he seemed to feel a sense of isolation at the top. He received many flatteries, but there were few who truly understood the cases he worked on. It was as if, apart from the widely known Qingcheng’s massive explosion eight years ago, he hadn’t accomplished anything else.

Ironically, that infamous explosion was Yan Lang’s own doing, which made it hard for him to let go of the grudge.

So when he encountered Yu Xiucheng at the auction, Yan Lang felt as if he had met a kindred spirit. He was praised highly after a long time, and even though he knew the young man’s intentions might not be that simple, he couldn’t help but feel ecstatic.

At that time, Yu Xiucheng already had Yan Lang’s wife and daughter in his hands, but not taking that route wouldn’t have mattered much to him. He just wanted to see how someone like Yan Lang would react when his family was used as a bargaining chip.

However, the fact was that before Yu Xiucheng played the family card, Yan Lang’s facade had already shattered.

Realizing that he had been deceived, and that all those compliments that struck a chord in his heart were part of a scam, Yan Lang’s anger flared up rapidly. But how could he have known that that moment of collapse was the beginning of a complete defeat.

After the simple memorial ceremony, Yu Xiucheng walked down the stairs with Lin Xi, strolling side by side on the streets of Iceland, with the salty sea breeze tousling her hair.

“All right, Mr. Yu, now that we’ve seen your parents, where are we heading next?”

“In a while, let’s go back to Qingcheng.” Yu Xiucheng watched as she repeatedly brushed her disheveled hair behind her ears with a hint of gentleness in his eyes. “To visit your parents.”

He regretted not going to see Lin Xi’s parents before he took action. It was all a rush at the time.

“Mr. Yu, you had me meet your parents first, and now you want to meet mine. What are you up to?” Lin Xi’s lips curved into a smile. “I didn’t expect you to be so respectful and love the elderly.”

Yu Xiucheng knew she was teasing, aware that she was playing innocent. He didn’t want to go through the twists and turns again.

“After we see them, we’ll get married.”

“Why do you unilaterally decide to get married? I haven’t agreed yet!” Lin Xi protested, jumping up, only to meet Yu Xiucheng’s calm gaze. “The wedding dress and ring are being made. You have a month to consider,” he said.

“…” Did you just imply that it requires some consideration?

That night, after giving a sleeping Yu Xiucheng a kiss on the cheek, Lin Xi left a note beside him and went directly to the airport with her luggage.

The next morning, when Yu Xiucheng woke up and couldn’t find her, he searched around before finding a handwritten note from Lin Xi on the bedside table.

Mr. Yu,

I noticed that you seem to want to tie me down for a lifetime without even formally pursuing me. I think you’ve never been through life’s rough patches, so I’ve decided to go on a trip on my own. When I’m done playing, we can discuss the matter of marriage!

Wishing you a good night’s sleep every day.

Lin Xi

Yu Xiucheng clenched the note in his hand, almost crushing it. He never expected his pursuit of her to only be starting now.

But what could he do now? Wait for her to finish her fun and come back?

By then, who knows how many suitors she would have? Yu Xiucheng was filled with the desire to kill at the thought of it. He changed his clothes and headed straight to the airport.

He would chase her to the ends of the earth if he had to, just to win her back!

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Translator’s note: This novel is officially over. I enjoyed the ups and downs of these two broken souls who found one another. Thank you, author!

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