Chapter 1216: Survival Less Than a Year

A heart-wrenching pain came from deep within her body. Gu Wanqiu stared motionlessly at the cold and mocking face in front of her. Her eyes were red with pain, and she squeezed out a word from her throat: "So, you are taking revenge on Li Jinxing, and also on me, right?"

Gong Qing seemed to be possessed. It had only been a short time since they had met, but he still affectionately called her "Qiuqiu". When he said he wanted to marry her, he wasn't just saying it for fun. He loved her from the bottom of his heart, and he had lost a lot for her.

But how did it become like this?

Gong Qing denied it in his heart. He hated Li Jinxing and wanted to do all kinds of things to take revenge on him, but he never thought of inflicting pain on Gu Wanqiu.

Gu Wanqiu's throat was severely blocked. Gong Qing's hands, which were pressing on her shoulders, kept exerting force. She forced her hands apart, and after shaking her body twice, she stood up and wanted to go outside.

"Where are you going?"

"I want to get out of here."

"Go find Li Jinxing?" Gong Qing narrowed his eyes, and a strong undercurrent kept swirling in his dark pupils.

"Yes." Gu Wanqiu's voice was cold and his attitude was distant.

Gong Qing's expression suddenly turned ferocious, and he reached out to grab her wrist.

"Gu Wanqiu, everything I did was for you, for our future. As long as Li Jinxing doesn't die, we can never go back to the past.

He's done so many evil things, killing him would be too easy for him. I've never thought of hurting you, let alone taking revenge on you. I just can't accept that he took you away from me...

Do you know? We were together over ten years ago, and he snatched you away from me. He made you disappear for five years, leaving you covered in wounds, memory lost, and disfigured. Now I've finally managed to keep you by my side, and here he comes again... We were supposed to be engaged and married, but do you know how heartbroken I was when I found out he'd taken you? I don't want to repeat the same mistake, and he's the one who keeps forcing me!"

For the first time, Gong Qing failed to control his emotions and yelled at Gu Wanqiu, as if he wanted to vent all the anger and unwillingness he had accumulated over the years.

A person's endurance is limitless, just like a camel carrying a heavy load in the desert. Gong Qing had endured for many years. He had originally just wanted to be with Gu Wanqiu in an ordinary way. He could have let go of all his hatred and resentment. It was Li Jinxing who destroyed his peaceful life. Why couldn't Gu Wanqiu understand him? Why did she team up with Li Jinxing to deceive him when he trusted her so much in the beginning? Even if it was a white lie she had to tell, he didn't want to be deceived.

Why didn't Gu Wanqiu understand? He did so much just to return to his original state. He just wanted to live a peaceful life.

As long as Li Jinxing disappears completely, as long as Gu Wanqiu doesn't care about the two unrelated children, as long as Gu Wanqiu is willing to abort the fetus in her belly, they will be no different from before, with only these few steps left... Why should Gu Wanqiu care about anyone other than him?

Why couldn't he be the only one in her eyes?

Gong Qing grabbed Gu Wanqiu's wrist as if grabbing the last straw. He was like a man falling off a cliff. His hands were shaking with fatigue, and the blue veins on his arms were popping out.

Gu Wanqiu endured the severe pain and looked at Gong Qing, who looked like a completely different person. Her heart ached more and more.

Her voice was hoarse as she spoke, "Gong Qing, please stop deceiving yourself, okay? Have you ever heard the saying, 'It's easier to make peace than to be as good as before?' We can't go back to the past. You should understand the principle that spilled water cannot be undone. You always say your starting point is for me, but it's actually more for yourself. Look carefully at your heart. Is your reluctance because you truly love me, or is it because you're obsessed with winning?"

"The will to win? Then tell me, when Li Jinxing forces me to meet people everywhere and the Gong family faces bankruptcy, what should I do? If he is fine, then I will be the one to die. Why can Li Jinxing trample on others like ants?"

"But now you've established yourself in J City. He can't threaten you anymore. You keep saying you love me, but you used me to poison him. What's the difference between you and him?"

"Since there is no difference, why do you love him now and not me!" Gong Qing shouted loudly, interrupting Gu Wanqiu.

There seemed to be a "boom" sound coming from deep in her brain, and Gu Wanqiu's mind went blank. She stared blankly at Gong Qing's face, which was flushed with anger. In her ears, it seemed as if his words came again and again.

She didn't like Li Jinxing, and she had said this countless times in front of Gong Qing.

But now she couldn't really put it into words.

In Gong Qing's eyes, she kept the baby in her belly because she loved Li Jinxing, she was interested in Yan Sixu because she loved Li Jinxing, she didn't want Li Jinxing to die because she loved Li Jinxing, and now she wanted to leave him because she loved Li Jinxing... All her actions seemed to have deviated from the original track.

She said she didn't like Li Jinxing, but Gong Qing didn't believe her. But this time... she couldn't even see her own heart clearly. She really cared about Li Jinxing, at least she didn't hate him anymore. Just like Gong Qing said, if she still hated Li Jinxing as much as before, then she would wish Li Jinxing dead.

It was only at this moment that Gu Wanqiu noticed this subtle change.

There was no point in saying more. Gu Wanqiu grabbed Gong Qing's wrist, and the watch on his left wrist poked her palm: "Let me go."

"You're dreaming!"

The two had a big fight in the living room, which was the first time they had quarreled in so many days. The nanny at home was frightened and she could only hide in the kitchen and dared not go out.

In fact, in the past few days, one could feel the conflict between Gu Wanqiu and Gong Qing. When they faced each other, they both had cold faces and could not say a few words. Both of them seemed to have good tempers and did not seem like the kind of people who would quarrel.

Today they suddenly quarreled, and the conflict broke out without any warning. As expected, the better-tempered a person seems to be, the more frightening he or she becomes when he or she explodes. The pressure is like a spring that is constantly being pushed down.

After Gong Qing finished saying this, he dragged Gu Wanqiu up the stairs. Gu Wanqiu was pregnant and usually moved slowly enough. Now that she was being dragged by Gong Qing, she had no power to resist at all. She struggled while protecting her belly.

Seeing Gong Qing dragging her upstairs, she immediately knew what he was going to do.

Gong Qing did not take Gu Wanqiu to the bedroom, but to the room at the end of the corridor. That room was no different from an ordinary bedroom. The only difference was that the lock on the door was set on the outside, which could lock people inside.

Gu Wanqiu discovered this when she was walking around the room alone, and she also had a premonition that this room was prepared for her by Gong Qing, and that she would be locked up in it one day.

But I didn't expect that this day would come so soon.

Gong Qing "threw her in" and Gu Wanqiu protected her stomach and almost fell to the ground. She stood firm, turned around and ran to the door quickly. In order to prevent Gong Qing from locking the door from the outside, she directly put her hand on the door edge.

Gong Qing didn't notice for a moment that the door was slammed shut by him. He only reacted after hearing a scream and quickly let go of his hand.

Gu Wanqiu was seen curled up on the ground, holding her hands, her face pale with pain. The moment her hands were pressed down, something flashed through her mind, but she didn't have time to catch it.

His sanity gradually returned. The room was dim, so Gong Qing turned on the light and then squatted down to check Gu Wanqiu's hand. There was an obvious row of red marks on the fingers that were pressed by the door, and the skin was slightly broken. In addition to the bruises, there was also a circle of red marks on Gu Wanqiu's wrist, which was caused by him pulling it just now.

Gu Wanqiu's skin was originally fair, and these bruises and red marks on it looked very scary.

Apart from being scary, there's nothing serious. It will just hurt for a while after being hit by the door. There are no fractures, so there's no need to go to the hospital.

After checking, Gong Qing let go of her hand, stood up and prepared to leave and lock the door.

When Gu Wanqiu saw Gong Qing was about to leave, she knelt down and crawled on the ground, panicking. She couldn't help but grab Gong Qing's trouser legs in pain. She looked up with tears in her eyes. She begged him: "Gong Qing, don't lock me up, let me go out, please give me the antidote, let me go to save him... please." Tears kept falling, her voice choked with sobs, and her breathing was unstable.

Gu Wanqiu actually knelt on the ground to beg him for Li Jinxing? Gong Qing lowered his eyes and looked at Gu Wanqiu who was holding his trouser legs tightly. For a moment, he didn't recognize him.

The more Gu Wanqiu begged him for Li Jinxing, the more angry he became.

Gong Qing said cruelly: "Without the antidote, Li Jinxing will definitely die this time!"

"No, you lied to me..." Gu Wanqiu shook his head, his face felt cold and his eyes ached.

Gong Qing's throat choked: "This room has everything. You just have to be obedient and stay in this room for the next few days. You are not allowed to go anywhere." As he said that, he squatted down and pried Gu Wanqiu's hands off his trouser legs one by one. When she tried to grab his hand, he shook it off, moved the door over and locked it.

From behind the door came Gu Wanqiu's choked cries and the sound of violent banging on the door. Looking at the vibrating door, Gong Qing's eyes were cold without any fluctuation.

Gu Wanqiu didn't know how long she had been beating him. She actually knew that Gong Qing had divorced him when he locked the door, but she still didn't give up.

Until he was tired of taking pictures, Gu Wanqiu slid down the door in despair and knelt on the ground.

Now even she herself couldn't tell whether she wanted to save Li Jinxing because of the two children, or because she cared about him and didn't want him to die, or in other words... she didn't want to be responsible for another life.

Maybe both.

These various reasons are like heavy straws pressing on a camel's back. The life-saving straw can also become the last straw that breaks the camel's back, and this last straw is playing a role.

She looked at the wound on her hand and raised her hand to wipe away the tears from her face.

She didn't want Li Jinxing to die... She wanted to save him, she had to save him...

…

Haicheng Hospital.

The ward was filled with the smell of disinfectant, making it difficult to breathe. The snow-white color was so heavy that it was suffocating, and the atmosphere became increasingly depressing.

After five days of coma, Li Jinxing finally woke up. He lay on the hospital bed, an oxygen tube on his face, his eyes closed, a faint sneer on his lips. That woman had deceived him again. Why was it that every time he gave his heart, Gu Wanqiu would crush him and trample on him? Was his love so worthless?

Li Jinxing clenched his hands, completely unaware of the pain of the needle piercing his flesh, and was extremely angry.

He had always been wary of Gu Wanqiu, but he really didn't expect that she would drug him, let alone use the hands of two children.

Is her heart made of stone? What was she thinking? She wanted her two children to "kill" their father. If he didn't wake up this time and Si Yan and Si Xu knew the truth, they would carry the sin of "killing their father" for the rest of their lives. I'm afraid they would live their whole lives in guilt, condemned, and unable to rest in peace.

Why was she so impatient to leave? He had clearly said that as long as she gave birth to the child, he would let her go.

The child was over seven months old, and would be born in a month or two at most. Could she not wait even a month or two? Or did she just want him dead? Did she want the Li family to be in chaos, to destroy the Li family and use it as a stepping stone for Gong Qing?

Blood was oozing from the back of his hand. Li Jinxing couldn't calm down. His heart felt like it was exploding with pain when he was excited. He coughed muffledly and blood oozed from the corner of his lips.

Although he has woken up, his situation is still critical. The poison is too strong and there is no way to eliminate it from his body. He is not out of danger at all. According to the doctor's examination, the poison will slowly erode a person's taste, vision, hearing... The five senses will slowly disappear, and the person will die from severe pain in the body.

If the antidote is not found, Li Jinxing will not live more than a year.

Look, how much Gu Wanqiu hated him that she gave him this poison and tortured him to death slowly.

His body was in pain, but he seemed not to feel it. He was filled with rage and now he just wanted to catch Gu Wanqiu back.

He Tian stayed in the ward while Zhou Yi was busy dealing with the trouble.

The news of Li Jinxing's hospitalization was exposed on the Internet, and now the Li family and the entire Haicheng are in turmoil.

When He Tian saw him vomiting blood, he quickly called a doctor over.

Li Jinxing has become accustomed to vomiting blood. Even if a doctor comes, he cannot solve the problem. The most he can do is give him a painkiller injection.

At this time, the door of the ward opened, and the person who came was not a doctor but Zhou Yi.

Li Jinxing looked over with sharp eyes and asked in a hoarse voice, "Have you found the person?"

Zhou Yi shook his head: "I haven't received any news yet. The person who was secretly following Gong Qing has been discovered and eliminated by him. I haven't heard from him for a long time."

Li Jinxing: "Gong Qing's recent movements."

"They've been in J City the whole time, and now they're secretly taking action in Haicheng."

Li Jinxing's eyes were bloodshot, and he said calmly: "Gu Wanqiu must be in J City. Since the people arranged before have been eliminated, we will have to make new arrangements. Gong Qing will definitely meet Gu Wanqiu and ask people to focus on searching the outskirts of J City. The more remote the place, the greater the possibility." But it is also difficult to find.