They could only watch helplessly as Lu Qingyuan fiercely resisted, being pinned to the ground and repeatedly beaten.
He coughed up blood, and his face was bruised and swollen.
Until he fell into a coma.
When the night was deep and quiet and the dormitory lights were turned off, the boy woke up and stood up, leaning against the door.
He staggered out of the dormitory and headed towards the gray staircase.
Two floors above is the top floor.
It was late autumn, and a light rain was falling outside, soaking the blood-stained clothes and chilling me to the bone.
Yu Tang saw Lu Qingyuan standing on the wall, his soaked clothes clinging tightly to his thin body, blood mixed with rainwater dripping down his cheeks from the fifth floor.
It crashed onto the hard red bricks, shattered, and then subsided.
The boy stood there for a long time.
Then, he slowly turned around, facing Yu Tang, who was anxiously trying to grab him, opened his arms, closed his eyes, and resolutely fell backward...
Chapter 42
Died for the fifth time for the villain (42)
"Lu Qingyuan!"
Yu Tang, his eyes blazing with fury, disregarded whether he could touch anything, leaned over the wall, and grabbed Lu Qingyuan's hand!
Just like when they first met in the dormitory, Yu Tang touched Lu Qingyuan's body again.
Grasping the boy's cold wrist, the autumn rain also soaked Yu Tang's hair and clothes.
The man's eyes were red, his waist was wedged against the wall, and veins bulged on his forehead.
The expression on his face was somewhat ferocious due to the exertion.
Lu Qingyuan stared blankly at Yu Tang, his swollen eyelids trembling slightly, tears sliding down his cheeks, only to be washed away by the rain in the next moment.
His eyes seemed to regain their light, and he moved his scarred fingers, tightly gripping Yu Tang's hand that was holding his.
Yu Tang used his strength to pull Lu Qingyuan up to the rooftop.
He held the boy tightly in his arms, breathing rapidly, unable to speak for a long time.
He dared not think about it; if these memories were real, then what would have happened if he hadn't rescued Lu Qingyuan at this crucial moment...?
What will happen to Lu Qingyuan?
Yu Tang recalled what Lu Qingyuan had said to him in the first game.
In retrospect, those words were not unfounded.
When Lu Qingyuan was a human, he lived a life that was not fit for a human being.
The harm, done without reason, has only intensified over time.
If this continues...
The events described by Lu Qingyuan will truly repeat themselves...
“Tangtang…” Lu Qingyuan’s weak voice came from beside him.
Yu Tang sat up, and Lu Qingyuan's hands clasped around his back as if he were grasping at a lifeline, embracing him tightly.
Yu Tang's heart ached so much it felt like it was about to break; her eyes stung, and she replied in a hoarse voice, "I'm here..."
“Little devil…” he called to Lu Qingyuan, “I’ve always been here.”
He did not ask Lu Qingyuan why he would give up his life.
I couldn't think of anything to comfort the other person.
All I can do is keep repeating those few sentences.
"I am here……"
"I will find you."
"I will take you home."
Until the boy in her arms stopped sobbing.
Until the scene changes again.
He then stopped.
Then, he saw it in Lu Qingyuan's memories.
The boy suffered fractures in his left arm and right leg after the fall. The solution was to let him recover in the hospital and then move him to a different dormitory.
But those few people harbored resentment, so how could they stop just because of this little measure?
It snowed the day Lu Qingyuan was murdered.
The group lured Lu Qingyuan to the back mountain under the guise of a girl who had once helped him.
Because they had never received severe punishment, their evil intentions grew wildly, and they became true criminals.
When Lu Qingyuan was pinned to the ground by the boy and picked up a stone to smash the boy's forehead, the boy transformed into a raging beast.
He gripped Lu Qingyuan's neck tightly, blood staining half his face, and cursed, "You filthy bitch! I'm doing you a favor by messing with you! You're so ungrateful, you damned thing! I'll kill you today!"
Lu Qingyuan struggled to grab the boy's hand, but the people around her grabbed her arms and pressed her firmly into the snow.
Fingernails gripped the ground, sinking into the mud.
Tears of resentment welled up in her eyes.
Lu Qingyuan's wide eyes were bloodshot, reflecting the face of the villain.
He was enveloped by endless hatred.
Why……
Why does he have to suffer all this pain?
What exactly did he do wrong?
He just wanted to follow his mother's dying wish and live a good life...
He just wanted to live as a human being...
If there really are gods in the heavens...
Why can't he hear my prayers... to free me from suffering and let me live like a normal person?
So, it's all a lie, right...?
Those are all lies...
No one will come to save him...
His life was miserable from birth; he barely survived for over a decade, and now it's finally come to an end...
How pathetic.
His life is like a joke.
Lu Qingyuan thought he was going to die.
But the next moment, he found warm blood splashed on his face.
Then he felt the pressure on his neck loosen, and the person who had been pressing down on him fell to the ground, bleeding from his mouth and nose, staining the white snow red.
The surrounding boys rushed forward, yelling, but were all taken down in a few moves by the man in black.
Because Yu Tang's punches were too vicious, by the time he reached Lu Qingyuan's side and squatted down, his face and hands were already splattered with blood.
He casually wiped the blood off his face and then cleaned his hands on his clothes.
Yu Tang reached out to the stunned boy on the ground, and just as the boy placed his hand on his, he pulled him into his arms.
She whispered, "Little devil, don't be afraid, I'm here."
Just this one sentence made Lu Qingyuan choke up a few times before bursting into tears.
It was no longer a suppressed sob, but a hysterical outburst.
Like a child who was terrified at the extreme and was finally rescued.
She cried until her whole body trembled, clutching Yu Tang's clothes tightly, feeling desperate and helpless.
Yu Tang could already roughly guess what was going on.
The reason he was able to touch Lu Qingyuan and the people around him on these occasions was because these scenes were turning points in Lu Qingyuan's life.
In his youth, Lu Qingyuan was actually waiting for someone to save him.
But each hope turned into disappointment, and eventually despair, with the passage of time.
Yu Tang embraced Lu Qingyuan, doing everything in her power to give him warmth and strength.
He thought that for the little devil, this painful past must have been suppressed in his heart for too long.
I don't want to mention it, I keep pretending, just to preserve the dignity that was once completely trampled on.
But now, the other party is showing him all of this.
It's like tearing open a wound that's finally scabbed over, exposing the pink, tender flesh, from which bright red blood keeps flowing.
This side of Lu Qingyuan both touched and moved him.
"If only I had met you sooner..."
The snow was still falling, landing on their heads and shoulders.
It was a little cool, but it was quickly melted away by the warmth of their embrace.
Yu Tang gripped the boy's thin shoulders tightly: "If I had met you sooner, I would never have let you go through all this pain..."
Following his heart, he whispered a promise.
"I will protect you by my side, guard you for life, and never let you get hurt."