201: Chapter 201 Lin Fan, you can't be so selfish.

After Su Qingxue finished speaking, the partition fell silent for a few seconds.

Outside, there was the sound of the wind, as well as Yang Ningcong's muffled groans.

Separated by a tattered cloth curtain, it sounded quite comical.

Lin Fan looked at her.

"Finished talking?"

Su Qingxue bit her lip.

She actually didn't want to push things to this point.

But she had to say it.

She had seen too many men who refused to let go of power after grasping it briefly.

It was like this in the office, in the boardroom, and at the dinner table.

Once power was in hand, no one was willing to return it.

Especially Lin Fan.

He originally had nothing.

An intern.

At Shengtang Group, he didn't even have an independent workstation, and people would call him to fix the printer whenever it jammed.

With a single word from a supervisor, he had to run three floors.

No one left a cup for him in the pantry, and no one remembered his name in the meeting room.

But here, he had knives, guns, a cave, water, and food.

What was even worse was that they all had to live at his mercy.

This disparity was enough to warp a person.

Su Qingxue pressed her back against the stone wall. "Lin Fan, I am not denying what you have done these past two months."

When she spoke, her throat was still a bit hoarse.

"Without you, I would have died long ago. Song Ya, Liu Feifei, Zhou Kai, many people wouldn't have lasted until today."

"But once there is a chance for rescue, it cannot stop because of your concerns."

Lin Fan didn't speak.

Su Qingxue stared at him. "Lin Fan, you cannot be so selfish."

As these words fell, Lin Fan's eyelids twitched slightly.

Su Qingxue saw it, but she didn't stop.

Once certain words were started, they could only be smashed down.

"If you are afraid of being held accountable after returning, I can handle it for you."

"As for Yang Ningcong, I will talk to him. No matter how arrogant the Yang Family is, they still have to consider the Su Family's face. What happened today can be an accident, a post-shipwreck stress conflict, or a Deserted Island accident that no one wants to bring up again."

She paused.

"As long as you don't pester me after returning."

Lin Fan smiled, a somewhat terrifying smile. Su Qingxue's throat moved, but she still continued.

"As long as you don't speak of what happened here and don't use this period's events to threaten me, I can give you money."

"A lot of money."

"You interned at Shengtang for a year, and your salary plus allowances didn't even reach one hundred thousand. After returning, I will give you an account with enough money to buy a house, provide for your parents' retirement, and last you for ten lifetimes."

Saying this, as if afraid she seemed too soft, she added another sentence.

"If you want to start a business, I can invest. If you want to go abroad, I can arrange it. If you want to change your identity to live, I can handle that too."

Lin Fan looked at her without interrupting.

Su Qingxue did not like this reaction of his.

She would rather he cursed her, yelled at her, or even talked back unhesitatingly like before.

But he was too quiet.

So quiet that it made her hair stand on end.

"This is not charity," Su Qingxue said. "This is compensation."

Lin Fan asked: "Compensation for what?"

Su Qingxue choked up for a second.

Compensation for what?

Compensation for saving her?

Compensation for bowing her head to him on this island?

Compensation for those things that outsiders couldn't hear?

These words could not be spoken.

Spoken aloud, it would be uglier than a knife.

She changed her perspective.

"We all still have families."

Lin Fan's gaze finally changed at this moment.

Su Qingxue caught this point and immediately continued.

"Your parents are still waiting for you, right?"

Lin Fan didn't answer.

"Perhaps they already think you are dead, perhaps they check the news every day, waiting for a phone call every day. Have you ever thought about how they spent these past two months?"

Outside the partition, Xu Zhixia was packing medicine bags, her movements pausing for a beat.

Song Ya heard it too; she lowered her head, not daring to look inside.

Su Qingxue's speech became faster and faster.

"My dad is also looking for me."

"Song Ya has people at home, and no matter how bad Liu Feifei is, she has parents. What about Zhou Kai? His leg is almost beyond saving, yet his family doesn't even know whether he is dead or alive."

"You cannot keep everyone here just because you hold the initiative and the right to speak here."

Lin Fan sneered, "Su Qingxue, you were just talking about beasts, snakes, and venomous insects. Did you forget that the first thing on this island that wanted to kill us wasn't snakes."

"I'm telling you clearly, wanting me to let Yang Ningcong go is out of the question..."

Su Qingxue gritted her teeth, "So you are going to keep Yang Ningcong tied up?"

"Correct."

"Tied up until when?"

"Tied up until the rescue you mentioned arrives, tied up until he dies..."

Su Qingxue suddenly smiled.

Not out of happiness.

It was forced out of anger.

"Lin Fan, listen to what you are saying right now."

She looked at him, her eyes filled with exhaustion and an irrepressible disappointment.

"You no longer want to solve problems the way normal people do."

"You have a gun in your hand, so everything must be judged according to your judgment. Whoever you say is dangerous is dangerous. Whoever you say can live can live."

Lin Fan did not refute.

Su Qingxue forced a step forward.

"This is what I fear the most."

"It's not that you don't believe in rescue."

"It's that you don't want to return the power of decision to others."

"You just want to be a mountain king here..."

This sentence was heavier than any of the previous ones.

The smile on Lin Fan's face disappeared.

Su Qingxue saw the lines of his shoulders tense up.

But she still didn't stop, "Lin Fan, you cannot let everyone take risks with you for your own selfish desires..."

"I used to think someone like Yang Ningcong was inhumane enough..."

Su Qingxue sneered, "But I didn't expect that once a person like you gains power, you are even more inhumane than Yang Ningcong..."

She hadn't finished.

Lin Fan's hand raised.

That movement was very fast.

Su Qingxue subconsciously closed her eyes.

The palm stopped beside her cheek, less than half an inch away from her.

The partition was so quiet that one could hear water droplets falling from the cracks in the stone.

Su Qingxue's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she didn't dodge.

She waited for two seconds, but the slap didn't fall.

Lin Fan's hand froze in mid-air.

He looked at her pale face.

The scenes of these past two months flipped past one by one in his mind.

Lin Fan slowly put his hand down.

He didn't touch her, not because he couldn't bear to.

It was because he felt it was meaningless; if he hit her, she would hurt, and he wouldn't win either.

This woman still had that civilized society stuff built into her bones. Money, class, parents, laws, decency.

It wasn't that she wasn't smart.

She just hadn't been worn down enough by this island.

Lin Fan turned around and lifted the curtain. Su Qingxue opened her eyes, "Lin Fan."

Without turning his head, he said, "Keep that money you mentioned just now."

Lin Fan said, "If we really go back, use it to buy a wheelchair for Yang Ningcong."