{"id":519,"date":"2026-09-28T15:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-495\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:27:40","slug":"in-my-desperate-time-495","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-495\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 495"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 495<br \/>\nIn My Desperate Time novel Chapter 495<\/p>\n<p>Shoot?<\/p>\n<p>All of a sudden, I don&#8217;t know if she means really &#8220;shoot&#8221; or just an exaggeration.<\/p>\n<p>After hesitating for a while, I&#8217;m so stunned that I get dumbfounded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I won&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No matter what she says, I can&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know Frances takes you to learn how to use guns these days. Do you think that you still have some bargaining room?&#8221; Hilda&#8217;s ice-cold voice freezes my heart.<\/p>\n<p>However, can I shoot at Frances?<\/p>\n<p>I love him too much to shoot at him.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather hurt myself than put him in any danger.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, doesn&#8217;t Hilda like Frances? Why does she want me to do this?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You love Frances so much, why are you doing this? If you can&#8217;t get him, you want to destroy him?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Humph,&#8221; Hilda sneers and replies, &#8220;Don&#8217;t overthink this. I want you to shoot him but not to die. I heard that your shooting is not bad. So, it&#8217;s not difficult to miss a little. Well, if you kill him, I can only say that it just isn&#8217;t meant to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect Hilda to say such words so casually.<\/p>\n<p>This woman is truly terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, she&#8217;s far more terrifying than I have imagined.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t guarantee that I won&#8217;t kill Frances. I don&#8217;t dare to gamble with Frances\u2019 life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, you can also choose to marry Frances. Since you are still young, you can have one or two kids easily.&#8221; Seeing that I say nothing, Hilda begins to irritate me.<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Frances and I can still have other children. However, they won&#8217;t be Earl.<\/p>\n<p>And this will be the pain of my life.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Hilda doesn&#8217;t want to kill Frances.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of Earl, I don&#8217;t seem to have a choice but to agree.<\/p>\n<p>Grow old together&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That is my dream.<\/p>\n<p>But now, all is gone.<\/p>\n<p>My heart aches.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reluctant to part with Frances and don&#8217;t want to leave him. Moreover, I don&#8217;t want anything to happen to him.<\/p>\n<p>But in the end, I still have to compromise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where&#8217;s the gun? I don&#8217;t have a gun,&#8221; I say in a deep voice.<\/p>\n<p>Hilda is so well prepared that she will definitely give me a gun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s in the second drawer on your left. Good luck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After saying that, Hilda hangs up the phone.<\/p>\n<p>I open the drawer tremblingly and see a black gun lying inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-519","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}