Chapter 89 Chapter 89 Competition

Tao Ning could never have imagined that those two bullets were meant to end both himself and Zhao Jingqun. No wonder sometimes when they slept in each other's arms, Tao Ning would feel something in Zhao Jingqun's trouser pockets, which made him feel uncomfortable in the waist and abdomen. However, he was usually very tired at that time and fell asleep before he had time to ask.

Now I know that...it was a gun.

So what was Zhao Jingqun thinking when he embraced her with a gun in his pocket? Did she really hate him so much that she wanted him dead?

But Tao Ning had no time to know what Zhao Jingqun was thinking at the time, because the next second, to Tao Ning's surprise, Xu Jun, who had seemed calm from beginning to end, rushed over.

Just as he rushed to Tao Ning, Xu Jun stopped in time, put his injured right hand behind his back, and stretched out his clean, pale left hand toward Tao Ning, "...Follow me."

Tao Ning remembered Xu Jun rarely speaking to him in a positive tone. In the past, he would always ask if he liked it before carefully proposing a request. But now, he was forcefully telling her he wanted her to go with him. If anyone else heard, they'd think Xu Jun was unreasonable and rude.

But just like that day in the club, Tao Ning was very close to Xu Jun. This time, Tao Ning once again saw his precarious pleading behind the lenses.

Xu Jun was begging him.

Tao Ning wanted to say, I'm sorry, I can't leave Zhao Jingqun behind. Just like what he said, I fell in love with him, so I can't abandon him, even though he once wanted to kill me.

The words were on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't speak no matter what. The gaze of the person in front of him was like a knife that had dissected a heart, and then held the handle towards him, as if questioning: "Do you want to cut open my heart with blood?"

She didn't want to, so Tao Ning was speechless.

"...You seduced him in front of me." At this time, Zhao Jingqun had already stood up, brushed off the non-existent dust on his clothes, tilted his head, and looked at Xu Jun calmly: "You are courting death."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a bang! Tao Ning didn't even see Zhao Jingqun's movements clearly. Xu Jun, a 1.85 meter tall man, flew out like a kite with a broken string and fell heavily to the ground. Just this one kick from Zhao Jingqun made Xu Jun curl up on the ground, holding his stomach and coughing up blood.

The glaring blood dyed Tao Ning's eyes red. She wanted to rush over to help Xu Jun up, but Zhao Jingqun pulled him into his arms. "What are you doing?! Let me go!"

Tao Ning struggled desperately, but the hand that was holding his arm was like a hot iron clamp and he couldn't get away at all. Instead, the hand that was holding his arm became stronger and stronger.

Zhao Jingqun watched Tao Ning struggling desperately in his arms with cold eyes. She was thinking about the wild man on the ground in her heart and mouth. She even looked at him with affection. But when she looked at him, there was only fear in her eyes, as if he was an evil person who was against the will of heaven and wanted to forcibly separate the wild mandarin ducks.

This person clearly said that the two stray dogs were just friends and roommates. He clearly said that he loved him and wanted to spend his life with him. Now it seems... he's full of lies again. Tao Ning is a liar! He's lying to himself again...

He lied to me again, he lied to me again...

In an instant, he could not hear any sound. Zhao Jingqun's eyes quickly became bloodshot, and his expression was sickly and distorted. His cold gaze fell on Xu Jun lying on the ground and Song Yucong standing. However, at this moment, these two people had become smelly and disgusting livestock in his mind.

——Do these two beasts also want to snatch Tao Ning from him?

——It's all because of these two bastards who stole Tao Ning! Why don't these two bastards just die? If they die, Tao Ning will be his alone, and no one will ever snatch Tao Ning from him again!

—Die! Die! Die! Die!

Zhao Jingqun grinned and locked Tao Ning to a wooden table weighing hundreds of pounds. A figure rushed over from behind him, and he turned around and kicked him. The painful groan aroused the cruelty and jealousy in his heart. He rushed over and punched the livestock on the ground.

One punch, two punches, three punches...

The arrogant animals on the ground no longer had the strength to resist. Zhao Jingqun's grin widened, his hands covered in sticky, smelly blood. He smiled and murmured, "Go to hell! Why did you fight with me for him? You deserve to die! I'll send you to death..."

Tao Ning was almost scared crazy by Zhao Jingqun. Zhao Jingqun was in a very bad condition just now. He shouted at him and begged him to stop, but Zhao Jingqun acted as if he didn't hear him. Not only did he not stop, but he also locked him next to the table. He couldn't move at all, and then watched Zhao Jingqun kick Song Yucong to the ground.

He roared, "Stop! Zhao Jingqun! Stop now!"

But it was no use even though Tao Ning was almost shouting herself hoarse, the terrifying sound of fists still resounded throughout the room. Zhao Jingqun had grown up in a chaotic place where fists were used to speak. He had grown from a street thug to a leading thug. When he fought, he would hurt himself eight hundred times and hurt the enemy a thousand times. This kind of desperate fighting style was not on the same level as Xu Jun and Song Yucong, and the two of them could not withstand it at all.

Even so, Xu Jun and Song Yucong fiercely hurled all their resentment and jealousy at Zhao Jingqun. With crackling sounds, the place where the three people were fighting was a mess, except for the place where Tao Ning was, which was spotless. It was as if three beasts fighting for the right to mate deliberately left Tao Ning's place alone, and only the final winner could step on the blood to get close to Tao Ning.

But slowly, the intensity of the fights between Xu Jun and Song Yucong became smaller and smaller.

"No..." Tao Ning was already desperate, "No..."

Finally, there were three loud thuds, and all three men fell to the ground. A moment later, Zhao Jingqun, panting heavily, staggered to his feet, wiped the blood from his nose, and panted heavily. He looked down at the two motionless men lying on the ground, chuckling contemptuously, a hint of rationality finally returning to his senses in his eyes.

Great! Both of these animals have fallen. No one will compete with him for Ningning anymore. Ningning is his. Ningning is finally his... Ningning, Ningning, Ningning...

...Where's Ningning? Zhao Jingqun turned his head abruptly, his eyes filled with double vision and bloody scenes. The world spun around him, and a slender figure fell to the ground beside the table.

“Ning Ning!!!”

Tao Ning felt a strong sense of dizziness and wanted to shout to Zhao Jingqun to stop, but he couldn't make a sound. There was a bloody smell stuck in his throat. Just before he was shrouded in darkness, he saw Zhao Jingqun running towards him with bloodshot eyes.

Zhao Jingqun...what exactly do you want me to do...to make you believe what I say?

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Tao Ning was dreaming again.

But this time, he did not dream of those bizarre things. Instead, he clearly saw himself being picked up by the Tao family, then his adoptive parents passed away, he was taken away by Tao Yuan, and finally he got married without Tao Yuan's knowledge, and Xiao Meng was born.

It was a winter one year when Tao Ning was in junior high school. Because the road to and from school was difficult in the mountains, Tao Yuan wanted to spend more money to let him live in a boarding school, but Tao Ning refused.

Tao Ning said: "I want to exercise and not feel tired."

In the vivid recollection, Tao Yuan clearly had tears in her eyes, but she laughed heartily while holding her belly. She patted his head and said, "Silly boy, I know you're worried about not having enough money for the baby's milk powder. It's not a big deal. I still have money. Why are you, a little brat, worrying about all this? The roads are hard to walk on in the winter. You're the only child in our Tao family. If you fall or get hurt, how am I going to explain to my parents after I die?"

Tao Ning said sullenly, "Don't talk about this."

"Okay, you little brat, you're so young and you're pretending to be an old man in front of me. Be careful that no girl will follow you in the future... Okay, okay, you're still shy, I won't talk about this anymore. I want your sister to live to be over a hundred years old, so you have to be more ambitious. I don't want to go to a nursing home. I want to live in a big house and a big car, find 17 or 18 men, and the little baby in my belly will rely on Ningning to live a good life..."

"Yes, I will."

Perhaps it was because the stubbornness ran in the Tao family that Tao Yuan was no match for Tao Ning, and Tao Ning was no match for Tao Yuan either. It was because his decisive elder sister threatened him with herself and his future nephew that Tao Ning reluctantly went to boarding school.

Tao Ning only needed a little time to get the due date out of Tao Yuan. A few days before Xiao Meng was born, Tao Ning became what her classmates called a "bad student" for the first time. That was when she climbed over the dirt pile behind the school wall at night to get out.

During those days, he braved the wind and snow every night and walked more than ten miles on the mountain road to go to the county hospital to see Tao Yuan. Because Li Xiangdong had no parents like them and no relatives who wanted to care about their family, Li Xiangdong was the only one taking care of Tao Yuan.

Li Xiangdong was sleeping soundly in a chair wrapped in a blanket in the hospital corridor. Tao Ning knew why. They had no money to stay in a nearby hotel, so they had to sleep outside with their blankets. When Li Xiangdong didn't care enough for Tao Yuan, Tao Ning would quietly wash Tao Yuan's food and clothes, tuck her in, massage her swollen legs, and stare at her sleeping face, worried that something might happen to her in the middle of the night.

He experienced what it felt like to worry.

On the last day, Tao Ning scaled the wall again and rushed to the hospital under cover of darkness. He saw Li Xiangdong smoking outside the delivery room. Without a word, he punched Li Xiangdong, not with much force. Li Xiangdong spat the cigarette and spit on the ground, glaring, and calling him a heartless waste of money. He didn't fight back.

Tao Ning ignored him and stared at the delivery room with a red light on.

Finally, at daybreak, a nurse came out holding the newborn baby and congratulated the mother and child. That was the first time Tao Ning had ever seen a newborn baby. The tiny, wrinkled little ball held in someone's arms looked unattractive.

But Tao Ning felt a strange feeling deep down. The following thoughts flashed through his mind: "Is this what humans originally looked like? What was I like as a child?" But these two thoughts passed so quickly, Tao Ning couldn't think straight. He only knew that another important person had joined his life.

He didn't know how to love someone, he just knew that this wrinkled baby was important and was his nephew.

The scenes in the dream flashed by quickly until Tao Ning met Zhao Jingqun, fell in love with him, kissed him, parted, reunited, and finally he hugged her and cried, saying that she wanted him to love him.

At that time, Tao Ning looked at Zhao Jingqun's red eyes and thought that he had gained another important person.

So this is love?

......

Darkness and light followed one after another. Tao Ning opened his eyes half-dazed and half-awake. Above his head was the familiar white ceiling. Tao Ning knew that he had come to the hospital again.

Without a second thought, Tao Ning quickly got up, removed the needle from the back of her hand, and ran out amid the nurse's surprise. The door to the ward opened, revealing Xu Jun, leaning on crutches and covered in bandages.

The two stared at each other for a long time. Xu Jun looked at him and said, "You are not looking for me."

Tao Ning was silent for a moment, "I'm sorry."

After a long while, Xu Jun shook his head slightly, said nothing, and limped away on his crutches.