After a moment, Liang Shi, who was pretending to be unable to continue, said in a low voice, "It's alright."
I still don't have much confidence.
Xu Qingzhu smiled and took a tie from under her pillow.
Liang Shi saw it when he helped her put away her clothes; it was a business suit that she wore with her blue shirt, both gentle and sharp.
The tie was a dark color, but not exactly black.
It's more like a mix of gray and blue.
The width of the tie was just enough to cover her mouth, creating a visually striking effect.
Liang Shi's throat moved slightly, and he couldn't help but take a screenshot.
It's so good that any screenshot could be used as wallpaper.
"Stop fooling around," Liang Shi said. "Aren't you tired?"
She turned off the bright lights in the room while speaking, leaving only the dim light by the bedside. She lay in the spot where Xu Qingzhu usually lay, covered with Xu Qingzhu's blanket.
"It's alright." Xu Qingzhu took off the tie and casually wrapped it around her wrist, like a vine clinging to a tree trunk.
The striking color contrast made her skin appear even whiter.
Xu Qingzhu asked, "Are you sleepy?"
“I’m fine too,” Liang Shi said.
The two chatted casually for a while, and then Xu Qingzhu finally couldn't hold back any longer. She pressed the hand wrapped in the tie under her head, and slowly relaxed her hand. The camera was upside down on the bed, plunging into darkness.
Liang Shi hung up the video.
Then he threw the cut tie into the drawer.
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thump.
Water splashed several meters high in the air, and the sky-blue water rippled in layers.
It felt like falling into the deep sea, sinking deeper and deeper.
The surrounding noise was overwhelming, but it was impossible to hear what they were saying.
My body is still sinking.
Xu Qingzhu felt like she couldn't breathe; her body felt like it didn't belong to her.
While suffocating, images flashed before my eyes like a movie.
It was Liang Shi who took a knife, pinned her to the bed, and viciously stabbed her.
Then he plunged the sharp knife behind her ear.
In an instant, her body experienced excruciating pain, so intense that she could hardly breathe.
She desperately wanted to escape that environment.
But Liang Shi pressed her body firmly onto the bed, and she couldn't escape no matter what she did.
Unable to struggle or escape, like a fish on a chopping board, it can only await its inevitable death.
Pain shot through the stab wound and the glands behind my ears, spreading throughout my body, a feeling that made me wish I were dead.
Her throat was hoarse and dry; she wanted to cry for help, but couldn't say anything.
She could only reach out her hand, hoping someone would lend her a hand.
But all I could see was blood red, the color of her blood.
Her skirt billowed in the water, staining the blue fabric with crimson.
This state of being conscious yet powerless was too painful; she opened her mouth, but only a bellyful of seawater was swallowed.
Salty and fishy mixed with the smell of blood.
Liang Shi...
That knife ultimately did not spare her.
The sharp blade spun and sliced through every inch behind her ear; the sound of the blade cutting through her skin was louder than the sound of the ocean waves, sending chills down one's spine.
Xu Qingzhu was suffocating, and the pain in her body was tormenting her. She saw clumps of blood dissolving in the water.
The water's color changed from blue to red.
She tried desperately to shout, "Liang Shi, it's me!"
"Sister, it's me."
"Wife, wake up."
But those eyes were unfamiliar and sharp, showing no mercy as they pierced her skin.
It gleamed with a bloodthirsty light.
She was even crazier than Chen Liuying was when she kidnapped her and was holding a knife.
She saw her glands being thrown on the ground.
The pain of having her glands removed was a minor matter; what saddened her most was that Liang Shi raised his knife at her.
The knife fell on her, showing no mercy whatsoever.
It even carries a sense of vengeful pleasure.
Xu Qingzhu struggled for a while, then finally spoke: "Wife, what's wrong?"
Liang Shi scoffed, toying with the sharp knife in his hand. When their eyes met, he plunged the knife into her heart.
Xu Qingzhu looked at her in disbelief, "Sister..."
"Who's your sister, you idiot?" Liang Shi's voice rang in her ears, filling her with despair.
Xu Qingzhu reached out to reach her, but only touched nothingness.
The person was scattered in the water.
But her voice continued, "Xu Qingzhu, stop pretending to be high and mighty."
"Don't you dislike me? Then don't like anyone else."
"If I can't have it, I'll just destroy it."
"I didn't dare touch you, but what about you?"
"Die."
"..."
One sentence after another, it was terrifying to hear.
It sounded like a voice from hell.
Xu Qingzhu reached out her hand for help, but no one came. She closed her eyes in despair.
My heart aches so much I'm almost numb.
As she was dying, someone suddenly grabbed her hand, saying, "Xu Qingzhu, hold on!"
It was a very crisp sound, like jade colliding, which sounded very reassuring.
Xu Qingzhu struggled to open her eyes, but could only see nothingness in the water.
Then she was grabbed and pulled upwards with all her might.
A glimmer of light seemed to appear in the dark sky.
She tried hard to see the person's figure and face, but they were all obscured by a fog.
I can't see it clearly no matter how hard I try.
"Who are you?" Xu Qingzhu asked cryptically.
There was no response.
Xu Qingzhu felt her consciousness fading, but Liang Shi's words still echoed in her ears, until finally only two words remained: "Die."
Die.
Die.
It sounded like he was chanting a vicious curse.
How much hatred must one have for someone to say something like that?
Xu Qingzhu didn't understand.
She really wanted to ask, "Aren't we in love? Why is that?"
But there doesn't seem to be a reason.
She just wanted her dead.
Unable to bear the shock, Xu Qingzhu released the hand of the person who saved her, letting herself recklessly sink into depravity.
Even she herself thought: Die, die.
It was as if they had been bewitched.
Her body continued to sink, and all she could hear was the person who had rescued her calling out, "Xu Qingzhu, Xu Qingzhu..."
But she couldn't hear anything anymore.
The boundless water submerged her aching body.
Where exactly does it hurt?
It's hard to say.
It seems that my heart aches more.
That's Liang Shi.
How could it be Liang Shi?
How could this happen?