35: Chapter 35: After risking his life, his parents didn't recognize him!

Li Hao recounted what had happened over the past two days, sentence by sentence.

Wang Huifen's pupils gradually contracted, and she felt as if she couldn't catch her breath.

As he spoke, the two of them looked at the face of the person before them and found it increasingly familiar, as if they could finally match it to someone they knew.

Wang Huifen asked with a trembling voice, barely able to believe it.

"Are... are you really my son?"

Li Hao nodded while crying, "Mom! It's really me!"

Boom!

Once these words were spoken, the couple was completely stunned.

Their faces turned deathly pale, and their heads were buzzing.

This person before them, who looked only a few years younger than them... was really their son?!

How could this be?

What on earth happened?

Why did Li Hao turn into this ghastly state?!

He had only left home this morning as a strapping young man in his twenties.

How could he have aged like this after such a short time?

"You! You..."

Wang Huifen's vision went black, and she nearly fainted on the spot.

Li Dahai was quick-witted and caught Wang Huifen just in time.

"Are you okay?"

Wang Huifen's face was pale, and her chest heaved violently.

She stared fixedly at Li Hao's face.

Her gaze was like that of someone looking at a person who was both familiar and strange.

The voice was familiar, but the appearance was foreign.

Yet, no matter how she looked at it... it was hard to connect this middle-aged man in his forties before her with her son who was in his early twenties.

And yet, those things that only their family knew could not be faked.

Li Dahai was feeling just as terrible at that moment.

Although he didn't say anything, his heart was in turmoil.

Seeing his mother struggling to stand, Li Hao instinctively reached out to support her.

"Mom!"

"Are you okay?"

However, Li Dahai suddenly let out a low shout, "Don't come over!"

Li Hao's footsteps stopped instantly, and he froze in place.

Li Dahai looked at him with complex eyes.

There was shock, there was anger.

But more than anything, it was an indescribable awkwardness.

When his rebellious son left that morning, he was still a spirited young man in his twenties.

Yet now... standing beside him, he looked almost like he was from the same generation as him!

This kind of impact was impossible to understand unless one experienced it firsthand.

The room fell silent, the atmosphere stiflingly heavy.

Finally, it was Zhao Shoucheng who spoke up.

"He... is indeed Li Hao, your son."

"We have verified it repeatedly; there is no mistake."

Hearing even the police say this, the couple had no choice but to accept the fact.

Yet, they still couldn't imagine it, couldn't accept it.

Because of this, the shock in their hearts was even more intense.

Wang Huifen's voice trembled, "Officer..."

"What exactly is going on here?"

"How could my son suddenly turn into this?"

"Did he get some kind of strange disease?"

"Or is it that... he's on drugs?"

Li Dahai also stared fixedly at Zhao Shoucheng, waiting for an answer.

Zhao Shoucheng was silent for a moment.

To be honest, even now, he himself found it absurd.

But the facts were right before his eyes, and he had no choice but to believe them.

"Li Hao."

"Are you going to say it yourself, or should I?"

Hearing this, Li Hao's expression immediately soured.

He opened his mouth for a long time, but in the end, he simply couldn't get the words out.

Selling his life to make money—at the time, he thought it was awesome.

Now, facing his parents, he couldn't bring himself to say it at all.

"I..."

"I, uh..."

He stammered for a long time, unable to squeeze out a complete sentence.

Zhao Shoucheng sighed and decided to just say it for him.

"I'll do it."

"Simply put, Li Hao used an app called lifespan treasure to sell twenty-one years of his lifespan in exchange for 630,000 in cash."

"That is why he has turned into what he is now."

Boom!

As the words fell, the entire meeting room fell into dead silence once again.

Li Dahai was stunned.

Wang Huifen was also stunned.

The couple looked at each other, seeing only bewilderment in each other's eyes.

Selling... lifespan?

Can lifespan even be sold?

I couldn't have heard that right, could I?

The two tried to understand, but found it completely incomprehensible.

Li Dahai opened his mouth.

"Officer, are you saying... life?"

"The life a person lives?"

Zhao Shoucheng nodded, "Yes."

Li Dahai swallowed hard and asked again, "You can actually sell that?"

Zhao Shoucheng continued to nod, "Facts prove that you can."

Li Dahai was completely lost.

His brain felt like it had short-circuited, and he couldn't wrap his head around it for a long time.

Wang Huifen was even more dazed, feeling as if she were listening to a fairy tale.

She knew about selling houses and cars.

She had even heard of selling blood or kidneys.

But selling one's life... this was the first time she had ever heard of such a thing in her entire life!

But soon, Wang Huifen remembered something!

Something that happened last night!

She couldn't help but look at Li Hao.

"Wait!"

"You said yesterday that you struck it rich..."

"Is this what you meant?"

Hearing his mother's question, Li Hao hung his head, his face full of bitterness.

In the end, he slowly nodded.

"Yeah..."

"That's it."

Wang Huifen's vision went black, and she nearly fainted again.

"You!!"

"Are you crazy!"

"Why did you sell your life!"

Li Hao's eyes immediately turned red, "Mom!"

"How was I supposed to know it would actually shorten my lifespan!"

"I thought it was a loan platform!"

"Who knew that after selling it... I'd actually grow old..."