What's wrong with this world?
Xu Qingzhu has countless questions, but she can't get a single answer.
Water flooded her body...
"Ah." Xu Qingzhu suddenly opened her eyes and sat up.
Her hair was a mess, and she had a splitting headache. She subconsciously reached behind her ear and touched it. The glands were still there, but it felt like they had been gouged out.
He was completely unharmed.
So it was all just her dream?
But why are the dreams so real? So real, it feels like I've been stabbed multiple times.
The secretary standing to the side said tremblingly, "President Xu."
Xu Qingzhu looked up, her eyes cold. Her secretary shivered and immediately said, "You have an appointment with Mr. Robert at nine o'clock, so you should get up now."
"I understand," Xu Qingzhu said.
After saying that, she asked again, "Has anyone entered my room last night?"
"No," the secretary replied, "I just came in. Because I knocked and no one answered, I thought you had fainted..."
He suddenly stopped speaking, realizing that these were unlucky words.
Xu Qingzhu pressed her temples and looked down, saying, "No, I was sleeping a little too soundly."
"Did you have a nightmare?" the secretary asked. "When I came in, I saw you frowning and seemed very uncomfortable."
Xu Qingzhu paused for a moment, then said, "I guess so."
It was actually a very scary dream.
In her dream, Liang Shi removed her glands and left many wounds on her body.
This was nothing like the Liang Shi she knew.
It does resemble the previous one somewhat.
But the most terrifying thing was that no one answered her cries for help.
Even if it happened in a dream, when Xu Qingzhu touched the spot where she was injured in the dream, she could feel a faint burning sensation.
It makes you feel like this isn't a dream, but something that actually happened.
Seeing her low spirits, the secretary didn't dare to disturb her further, and simply stood quietly by the bedside, waiting for her to recover.
As a result, Xu Qingzhu irritably touched her hair and picked up her phone from the bedside table.
After unlocking, the interface was still stuck on the chat window with Liang Shi, showing that the two had a 30-minute video chat last night.
Xu Qingzhu lowered her eyes and typed in the chat box: 【I just had a nightmare.】
My finger was already hovering over the send button, but then I changed my mind and quickly deleted all the words.
She really felt that it wasn't a dream, but something that would actually happen.
And it was this Liang Shi.
Her heart felt as if it were being struck by something, aching and sore.
A thought suddenly popped into my head: Leave her, you won't be happy together.
Xu Qingzhu was in an extremely bad mood.
She tried to shake off these negative feelings, but to no avail.
My heart has been aching like this ever since.
Despite the pain, she went to see Mr. Robert to discuss expanding into overseas markets.
She forced a smile when she met Mr. Robert, but he saw right through her. "Ms. Xu, is something on your mind?"
Xu Qingzhu paused for a moment, then asked in fluent English, "Sir, what would you do if your spouse wanted to kill you?"
The question startled Robert, who was over fifty years old. After a moment, he said, "Miss Xu, you must be joking."
“This is no joke,” Xu Qingzhu said. “I feel like my wife wants to kill me.”
This feeling has been unusually strong since this morning.
“Then…” Robert replied seriously, “Kill her before she kills me.”
Xu Qingzhu lowered her eyes, feeling as if a heavy stone was pressing on her heart. "Never mind."
She slept very little last night because of the time difference with Liang Shi.
After meeting Mr. Robert, she went back to her hotel to catch up on her sleep.
But I didn't sleep long before the dream came again.
It was shorter than last night's, but the pain was more intense.
Xu Qingzhu was jolted awake by excruciating pain, and was covered in a cold sweat when she woke up.
Without saying a word, she called Liang Shi.
It was morning for Liang Shi, and he was still asleep.
He smiled slightly when he saw the caller ID, swiped to answer, and called out in a slightly hoarse voice, "Wife~"
"Liang Shi, are you crazy?" Xu Qingzhu's voice completely drowned out Liang Shi's words about his wife, and it was filled with a cold and sharp question.
"Why did you kill me?" Xu Qingzhu asked again.
Liang Shi's sleepiness vanished instantly. She opened her eyes, her voice still clear from just waking up, "Baby, what's wrong?"
Xu Qingzhu was taken aback upon hearing this.
Liang Shi asked anxiously, "Wife, are you in danger over there?"
Xu Qingzhu sat on the bed, sunlight streaming into the room and falling directly on her.
She ruffled her hair, looking bewildered, and asked, "What's wrong with me?"
Chapter 151
No one can answer this question for her.
Xu Qingzhu herself couldn't figure it out; she only knew that she was extremely irritable and in pain all over her body.
But there was clearly no wound.
The sun in this foreign land is warm, unlike the cold winter sun in Haizhou City.
Xu Qingzhu, however, remained ice-cold all over.
She sat on the bed with her arms crossed, her face pale and her forehead covered in cold sweat.
She opened her mouth blankly, but didn't know what to say, and finally closed it again.
A deathly silence fell over the room and the receiver.
After a moment, Xu Qingzhu said coldly, "You can continue sleeping. I'd like to have some peace and quiet."
He hung up the phone without waiting for Liang Shi's reaction.
Xu Qingzhu turned her head to look outside. The hotel windows were spotless, and the sunlight shone through, bright and dazzling.
Her phone didn't ring, but a little while later, she received a message from Liang Shi.
Honey, don't be sad. Tell me what happened when you're ready. I've been here all day.
Xu Qingzhu stared at the screen for a long time, then closed her phone and tossed it aside.
He lay on the bed, somewhat dejected.
She fell asleep again, only to be awakened by another nightmare.
The same dream, the same feeling of suffocation.
Xu Qingzhu refused to believe in superstitions and tried to fall asleep again after recovering slightly.
At first, I fell asleep quickly, but later, lying there, my mind was like a PowerPoint presentation, and it was very difficult to fall asleep.
She spent almost the entire afternoon battling with her dreams.
It's less about playing a game with dreams and more about playing a game with yourself.
Everything in her dream kept telling her: Liang Shi is going to kill you.
When Liang Shi kills her, someone will lend her a helping hand.
Xu Qingzhu kept having nightmares, and was repeatedly startled awake.
Dreams became her greatest fear.
One time, after waking up, he felt impulsive and wanted to call Liang Shi again to ask her why she killed him.
But before she could even make the call, she snapped back to reality.
This is so painful.
She was in so much pain that she didn't want to sleep, and her mood was so low that it affected her mental state. That night, she inexplicably lost her temper with her secretary.
During this time, Liang Shi sent her several messages, asking how she was doing.
She always replied with text: "I'm feeling much better."
There's another one: [Busy.]
Cold and distant.
Xu Qingzhu didn't know how to suppress her emotions, so she drank a lot of alcohol before going to bed.
After drinking too much, I received a message from Liang Shi: "Are you done with your work? Is it convenient to video chat?"
Xu Qingzhu replied: 【Mm.】
At that moment, she was sitting on a chair in the room, or more accurately, curled up on the chair with her legs crossed and her arms wrapped around them, a very insecure posture.
It was still evening where Liang Shi was, and the sky was filled with rosy clouds. The orange-pink clouds were like the blush on a young girl's face, dreamlike and ethereal.