Chapter 544 Are you going to treat me like before?

"Chen Zhichu is gone, why should I bother?"

Everything Bai Qiujing did was just for Shen Zhichu. He tried hard to take over the Bai family in order to put Shen Zhichu at ease. He created the illusion that everything was fine so as not to let Shen Zhichu have wild thoughts and feel guilty.

In order not to "drag" others down, Chen Zhichu is always used to sacrificing herself. It was like this before and it is like this now. This comes from the environment she grew up in. She lacked love and a sense of security. She will remember for the rest of her life if others are a little nice to her, and a piece of candy given to her casually will become the most beautiful taste in her memory.

There are undoubtedly two types of people who lack love. One type becomes indifferent, and the other type is extremely sensitive. The more they lack love, the more they desire it. They don't have much sense of security, and they will reciprocate if others give them a sense of security.

Bai's mother was silent.

Bai Qiujing didn't say anything more. He completely dropped his work and continued looking for Shen Zhichu.

But no matter how hard they looked, they couldn't find any trace of Shen Zhichu. It was as if she had disappeared out of thin air.

Bai's mother also searched for a whole day and asked for information everywhere. She couldn't find him in Chengdu. Maybe he was no longer there. He had been missing for such a long time, so he might have gone abroad.

Bai Qiujing didn't sleep all night, and ran around in the rain during the day. He didn't eat, and at most drank a few sips of hot water. In addition, he had an acute gastroenteritis attack, and he endured the pain for a long time, and his face turned a little blue.

He pulled out the indwelling needle and continued to insert it into the back of his hand. After a short rest, he gave the medicine an IV. When the pain was no longer so severe, he pulled it out and started looking again. He didn't take his body seriously at all.

Bai's mother knew that she couldn't persuade him, so she let him go. Li Jingshen's phone was also offline, so she sent a text message when she couldn't get through.

There was no point in sending more messages, so Bai's mother only sent one text message, which was concise and to the point with four words.

——Talk in person.

During the time she was away from Bai Qiujing, Shen Zhichu did not leave Rongcheng. She was still in District C of Bancheng.

Every day she would stare blankly at her phone, or stand by the floor-to-ceiling window with a book and look outside. She would not answer anything Li Jingshen said, like a puppet, not a living person at all.

Li Jingshen felt that he was quite mean sometimes. He would rather Shen Zhichu scolded him like before, calling him heartless, mentally ill, or a scum, rather than having a lost soul like he did now.

Could it be...that he really did something wrong?

"You haven't eaten anything today, aren't you hungry?"

Tired of standing, Chen Zhichu curled up in the rocking chair. The heater was on in the room, so she only wore a short-sleeved shirt. The clothes were the ones she left here six or seven years ago. The clothes were of good quality and had a musty smell after being stored for a long time. They could be worn after being washed and dried.

Shen Zhichu didn't bring any clothes with her, and she didn't want to wear the clothes Li Jingshen bought for her, so she decided to wear the old clothes that were left here.

Li Jingshen looked at her wearing her old dress, with a look of nostalgia in his eyes.

"You're still the same as you were at the beginning, nothing has changed."

When Li Jingshen looked at Shen Zhichu like this, his mind flashed with her appearance when she was twenty years old. At that time, Shen Zhichu had a flamboyant smile on her face. Everyone said that the eldest daughter of the Shen family was as proud as a white swan and looked down on her suitors, but every time she looked at Li Jingshen, she was filled with tenderness and admiration.

No one would have thought that one day, the proud Shen Zhichu would sacrifice her dignity to chase after a man, and everyone would know about it.

Afterwards, Li Jingshen turned the smiling Chen Zhichu into a cold and indifferent person, and even her dimples that were filled with sweetness disappeared in the end.

The Shen Zhichu in his memory was getting farther and farther away from him. Even though she was still standing in front of him now, he couldn't imagine how she smiled at him in the past.

"You're the only one who hasn't changed. If I were still the same as before, I'd be a bitch and a fool."

Li Jingshen's heart tightened: "That's not what I meant."

Shen Zhichu snorted coldly, with a fake smile: "What do you mean?"

The harm Li Jingshen inflicted on her was a double blow of revenge, not only physical but also physiological torture. In the years since her death, Li Jingshen had kept this place very well, even the wedding photos that she had smashed and thrown away were placed in their original location intact.

Shen Zhichu couldn't stop feeling sad and heartbroken, so sad that he couldn't even get angry.

"Li Jingshen, you are the only one deceiving yourself and thinking that nothing has changed."

Li Jingshen's fingertips twitched, he clenched his hands, and changed the subject without leaving a trace: "Eat something, your stomach is not in good condition, don't be hungry and feel pain."

"Eating in front of your face makes me feel so sick that I can't eat."

"Then I'll serve it to you."

Li Jingshen turned around and saw that the plum blossoms outside the yard were in bloom. There were so many stamens that one could smell the fragrance even with the window closed.

Chen Zhichu likes to drink porridge, so Li Jingshen cooked some delicious shrimp porridge. There was a lot of shrimp meat, and the porridge had been cooked for a long time and was already soft and sticky. He could smell the aroma before he even reached the kitchen.

This is what Shen Zhichu likes to eat. Will she eat it?

In addition to porridge, Li Jingshen also packed a lot of wontons and put them in the freezer so that Shen Zhichu could eat them whenever he felt hungry.

Li Jingshen served a bowl of porridge and brought it upstairs. Chen Zhichu was still curled up in the rocking chair with her knees hugged as before. She looked at the plum blossoms outside, as if she was fascinated.

After a long time, Li Jingshen went in and put the porridge on the coffee table: "Have some porridge."

"No, I have no appetite."

"I'm not looking at you. I'm going downstairs."

Shen Zhichu said calmly, “I find everything you’ve touched disgusting.”

"So what do you want?"

In the room, Chen Zhichu turned his back to Li Jingshen, removed the indifference on his face, and said in a tired voice: "Go out, I'm hungry, I can find food by myself, there's no need for you to hang around in front of me every day to remind me that I will get stomach problems if I'm hungry too much. I know I can get stomach problems, and I know that if it's serious, I can get stomach cancer."

Li Jingshen's stern face radiated a strong sense of hostility, his eyes turning bloodshot. "Since you know you're going to get sick, you should just eat well instead of getting angry with me here. You're just starving for a day without eating!"

He didn't want to use tough measures to force Shen Zhichu, but often the method he least wanted to use was the best method. The porridge was no longer hot when it was placed aside.

He tested the temperature and after making sure it wouldn't burn his mouth, he walked over and grabbed Shen Zhichu's hand.

She was very light and could pull people up directly. Shen Zhichu was pulled up suddenly and the tendons in her arm were pulled. She gasped in pain and bared her teeth: "Li Jingshen, let me go!"

Li Jingshen threw her onto the bed, then pinched her jaw to force her to open her mouth, then used his other hand to pick up the bowl of porridge and pressed it against her mouth to pour it in.

The porridge cooked by Li Jingshen tasted good, but the freshness in it caused stomach discomfort to Shen Zhichu, who had not eaten for a whole day. After being forced to drink half a bowl of porridge, her body had a stress reaction. She opened her mouth and spit it out. The corner of her mouth was scratched by the spoon. The skin was not broken, but it was red.

When Li Jingshen saw her vomiting, he immediately let her go, fearing that she would choke on her trachea. He also gently patted her back to soothe her, as if he was not the one who had pinched her mouth to force porridge into her.

Shen Zhichu vomited so much that tears came out, and the carpet under the bed was also dirty. Her eyes were red: "Li Jingshen, are you going to treat me like before?"

Li Jingshen paused and said, "I don't want to, but who told you to just fall for it? I have a bad temper, Shen Zhichu. Since you chose to come to me, you should stay here obediently. If I tell you to eat, you eat. Didn't you say you know all my methods? Then you don't want to see the Bai family fall into crisis again because of your 'self-abuse', right?"

The room was very quiet. Li Jingshen looked at Shen Zhichu with calm dark eyes and said softly, "You also know that I don't have much time. Just follow my lead. It will benefit all three parties."

Threats are the best tactic.

Shen Zhichu hadn't felt the stomach ache for a long time. She met Li Jingshen's serious gaze and knew that he was really capable of doing anything.

Chen Zhichu glanced at the half-full bowl of porridge placed aside, reached out to pick it up with trembling hands, picked up the spoon, and swallowed it spoonful by spoonful.

Li Jingshen felt extremely heartbroken when he saw how "obedient" she was. After Shen Zhichu ate it all, he became as cold and indifferent as before again.

"Want to eat more?"

Shen Zhichu shook his head.

Li Jingshen knew that she had a small stomach and didn't force her. Eating too much would make her stomach feel uncomfortable.

He held up the empty bowl and said, "Wouldn't it be better if you were so obedient earlier? You have to make me angry and force you. I have already stopped my actions with the Bai family. They will soon be on the right track. But you have to understand that I can suppress them once, and I can suppress them a second time. The result depends entirely on your attitude towards me."