Chapter 295: Shen Zhichu was burned to death and trapped in the ruins

Xia Mingyue had no bodyguards around her and was surrounded by reporters. She was forced to retreat in embarrassment, holding up her skirt, and unknowingly approached the pool.

Someone pushed her hard, and she fell back into the pool. The chill of the winter solstice penetrated her skin, making her feel bone-chilled. Big gulps of cold water poured into her mouth and nose. The momentary suffocation was terrifying, and for a second Xia Mingyue thought she was going to drown.

She struggled hard against the water, her face, once delicately made up, now pale, and she opened her mouth to beg for help: "Help... I can't swim... Help me..."

Li Jingshen watched this scene, clenched his fists tightly, and was so angry that blood foamed from the corners of his mouth, but he didn't feel anything.

He hated himself for being so blind that he didn't even realize whether Xia Mingyue could swim.

Li Jingshen thought about everything that had happened in the past nine years. It was just as Shen Zhichu said, they had been a complete joke from the very beginning.

The first time I saw Shen Zhichu was at a banquet nine years ago. She was wearing a red dress and walked towards the stage with a violin in her hand. Her face was bright and flamboyant. The stage lights fell on her, but she was even brighter than the lights, so proud that people couldn't take their eyes off her.

Now, nine years have passed, and all the things that belonged to Shen Zhichu are gone. Her family is broken and she has lost her loved ones. She is like a hedgehog with its quills pulled out, covered in blood and showing a sense of fragility everywhere.

What Li Jingshen despised the most back then was Shen Zhichu's proud demeanor as a rich girl. When they got married, he treated her like a plaything, imprisoned her at home, chained her ankles like a dog, and even forced her to get pregnant and give birth to a child, which he wanted Xia Mingyue to raise.

In order to save Xia Mingyue, he sent Shen Zhichu to the kidnappers. His ten fingers were disabled and dozens of scars on his body are still there.

Over and over again, with constant hurt, he made the proud woman who had eyes full of him lose all her light and warmth.

When Li Jingshen thought of Shen Zhichu sitting in a wheelchair, enduring the pain of stomach cancer every moment, his heart seemed to be squeezed by a big hand.

He couldn't blame anyone. Xia Mingyue was just adding fuel to the fire, but he was the real culprit.

Lu Tingchuan looked at Li Jingshen's regretful expression and his smile grew happier. He grinned and taunted, "Li Jingshen reminds you, don't turn off the big screen."

Li Jingshen was so confused that he didn't answer. He watched Lu Tingchuan turn around and blurted out, "Why do you have these videos? And... do you know who saved me back then?"

He was already vaguely approaching an answer in his heart, but he didn't dare to think about it too much. He was afraid that the truth he would get would completely destroy him and lead him to an irretrievable state.

Lu Tingchuan sneered: "I know, but I won't tell you."

It was two weeks ago that Shen Zhichu asked the nurse to tell him about Li Jingshen falling into the water and being rescued.

He only knew that the person who saved Li Jingshen was not Xia Mingyue. As for the real person who saved him, he knew who it was after just a little thought...

The strange stabbing pain in his heart came again, and the corners of Lu Tingchuan's lips suddenly turned bitter.

Shen Zhichu was so stupid, the stupidest woman he had ever seen. She actually risked her life for a man.

"You actually know some truths better than anyone else."

Looking at Li Jingshen, whose face was as pale as gold paper, Lu Tingchuan's cold face was covered with a hint of sarcasm. "Li Jingshen, I'm very happy to see your desperate expression again. People like you deserve to die alone. You don't even have the qualifications to confess in front of her."

"I have delivered double the gift that Chen Zhichu asked me to bring. By the way, I would like to congratulate you and Xia Mingyue on the birth of your baby soon." The last four words were as ironic as they could be.

That year, Xia Mingyue was in a car accident, which damaged her uterus and made her unable to get pregnant. Shen Zhichu got pregnant twice, but he aborted her babies and even had her uterus removed.

It fulfilled Shen Zhichu's curse: Li Jingshen, you deserve to be childless.

Lu Tingchuan hung up the phone, and the next second he turned around and left with his subordinates.

Li Jing's eyes were bloodshot, and he stared at Lu Tingchuan's back gloomily.

Ever since Shen Zhichu called him with that "inexplicable" phone call, Li Jingshen had been feeling uneasy. Now he was filled with mixed emotions: anxiety, regret, fear...

There was a cold wind mixed with snow outside, and the heater was on inside, but Li Jingshen still felt cold. From his body to his heart, it was as if he was in a world of ice and fire. Sticky cold sweat even broke out on his forehead and back.

He didn't understand what Lu Tingchuan said before he left, and he didn't want to explore it. He had done a lot of wrong things in his life, but that was in the past.

Now that the damage has been done, there is no going back to the past, so it is better to spend the rest of my life compensating Chen Zhichu.

He will make Xia Mingyue pay the price, but before that he will tie her up and take her to the hospital to draw out her blood. There are still three months left... Wait until Shen Zhichu's stomach is healed...

Li Jingshen ordered his subordinates to clean up the scene and was about to leave when the big screen suddenly made a "click" sound. Just when everyone thought the power was out, the screen lit up again and connected to a surveillance video.

In the video, the sky is filled with red, and the fireflies and snow blend together, either red or white.

"Is this video a special effect or real? Why does it look familiar to me?"

"Where is the fire? Why is it so big?"

"It looks like there's another person imprisoned in there. He's going to be burned alive."

"Call the police..."

Some people have already taken out their phones anxiously, but it's too late...

There was a loud "boom" in the video, and the house in the video instantly became a ruin!

The whole world suddenly became quiet. Li Jingshen stared blankly at the big screen, and for a moment the world was spinning.

In the video, the villa was engulfed in flames, and there was Shen Zhichu, whose legs were broken by him.

A huge fear seeped into his soul, and he felt like he was thrown into the dark seabed, his body staggering.

Shen Zhichu, Shen Zhichu...

Li Jingshen felt like he had arrived in another time and space, and everything happening before his eyes seemed unreal.

He blinked blankly and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

What was on the big screen just now? Why did he see Shen Zhichu in the fire? Was it an illusion, or a special effect created by Lu Tingchuan?

The cell phone that he had been holding tightly in his hand suddenly rang. Li Jingshen raised his hand stiffly and looked at the incoming call message on the screen.

——Mrs. Liu.

Yes, as long as he answered the call from Mrs. Liu, the "false image" in front of him would disappear, there would be no fire in the house, and Shen Zhichu would be fine.

She was still the same as before, sitting obediently in the wheelchair waiting for him to come back. Oh, right... she also said she had a gift for him. He didn't even receive the gift, so how could something happen to her?

Li Jingshen answered the phone slowly and stiffly, and put it close to his ear. He could hear Mrs. Liu's choked sobs and intermittent words coming out of the phone.

He could clearly hear each word separately, but when they were put together, Li Jingshen couldn't understand it...

What does it mean that the villa caught fire and Shen Zhichu was burned to death and buried in the ruins?