Chapter 102 The Fallen White Moonlight Returns Home (16)

He continued:

"Then I saw that the little dog that should have been wagging its tail and begging for mercy had somehow transformed into a genius above everyone else. Before, it was just a dog that was nothing! No one but me would feed it or groom it! Now even it is stepping on my head! How can it not be with me? How can it pity me? It doesn't even deserve to pity me!"

Xie Rong gradually lost his mind, as if he had been stressed, his eyelids were red as if he had wept blood, and he laughed to himself.

Even though he was only talking about a dog, Lu Baichi felt a sudden, inexplicable pain in his heart, as if his soul was being torn apart. He was in so much pain that he couldn't breathe, his eyes were unfocused, and he could only lower his head, clench his fists, and silently endure the pain.

"No...it's not like that..." the man murmured unconsciously, but Xie Rong couldn't hear him at all.

"They say a dog doesn't mind a poor home, but he really went too far. He had no sense of being a dog at all. He thought that because he was different from before, he had the right to pity his owner. So I taught him a lesson and ruined him so that he would never have the chance to humiliate me again."

“Oh, right,” Xie Rong raised her head and smiled at Lu Baichi, “you really look just like my old puppy.”

"The Xie family has fallen, and your Lu Group is riding high. You used to be nothing more than a groveling dog by my side. Now you're playing along with me, watching me live in your house and spend your money. Doesn't that feel great?"

"Xie Rong, I..." Lu Baichi's eyes were glazed over, and before he could finish speaking, Xie Rong grabbed the wedding ring box from the shelf and smashed it hard on his forehead.

"You want me to live here forever? Do you want to humiliate me for the rest of my life?! Why don't you just die? Why wasn't it you who died five years ago! You're the one who caused the Xie family to go bankrupt. Without you, the Xie family would never have gone bankrupt!"

Seeing Xie Rong turn the locked door again, Lu Baichi's tall figure squatted down beside him, hugging his leg tightly, muttering to himself, "Don't go... don't go..."

Xie Rong was furious and punched and kicked him, but the man was strong and muscular, so the blows were muffled and didn't seem to hurt at all.

Xie Rong was panting heavily, his hands and legs ached, and Lu Baichi was still holding his legs and muttering to him not to leave, which made him even more furious.

He looked around, his gaze sweeping across the dimly lit room, finally settling on the fruit knife in the fruit basket.

Xie Rong stared intently at the cold tip of the fruit knife, a surge of resentment rising within him.

Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!

Since he was going to die anyway after completing the mission, he might as well drag Lu Baichi down to hell with him.

Xie Rong spoke softly, "I want to eat an apple, could you peel it for me?"

"Okay." Lu Baichi responded in a hoarse voice, stood up and strode over, his hands trembling as he peeled the skin, fearing that the man might change his mind.

Three minutes later, the apple was peeled clean, and Lu Baichi cut it into small pieces and fed it to Xie Rong.

Xie Rong didn't open his mouth, but just stared at him intently.

"Did you cut it too big?" Lu Baichi lowered his head to make two more cuts, but Xie Rong pressed his hand down and slowly pulled the fruit knife out of his hand.

He stuck out a little bit of his tongue and carefully licked the apple juice off the tip of the knife, like a kitten.

"There are oranges in the fruit basket, why don't you peel them for me?" Xie Rong asked.

Lu Baichi: "You said..."

"What?!" Xie Rong stared at him coldly. "You could have fed me apples and oranges, why didn't you? Just because I said I wanted apples, you forgot that I like oranges? You and that dog are both deserving of death."

Xie Rong gripped the knife and plunged it into Lu Baichi's abdomen.

Lu Baichi groaned, bent over, and his face turned deathly pale.

[Warning! Warning! The protagonist's health is rapidly decreasing!]

Warm blood splattered on Xie Rong's face. He tilted his head to examine Lu Baichi's pained face, and curled up the corner of his mouth slightly. "After you die, we'll have a wedding ceremony. Everything you have will still belong to me."

Lu Baichi lay dead by the bed, his condition unknown, but the system kept alarming, indicating that he was still alive.

Xie Rong found that he still couldn't open the door.

Until the door was kicked open from the outside.

A group of police officers and paramedics rushed in.

The lead police officer had a very fierce look on his face, and his tone was even more menacing, "We received a report from residents on the opposite building, could you please..."

Her gaze swept over the boy in the corner and paused for a moment.

His hands were stained with blood, his two snow-white feet were bare, his left foot stepping on his right, and his eyes were wet as he looked at the people around him who were performing the rescue, as if he had no idea what had happened.

"Sir, please come with us to the police station first." The police officer's tone softened slightly, but it was still serious and full of doubt.

...

"Xie Rong." The door to the guard room opened, and Shen Kaiji walked in, still wearing his white coat, his eyes full of worry.

The person whose name he called was just lazily lying on the table, seemingly completely unaware of how serious a crime of violence and injury is in this society.

A strange feeling welled up in Shen Kaiji's heart, just like five years ago. He always felt that Xie Rong was detached from this world. Apart from the decline of the Xie family, which made him stubbornly resent Lu Baichi, he didn't care much about anything else.

"You've come to laugh at me?" Xie Rong said coldly.

“Lu Baichi has been saved,” Shen Kaiji took a deep breath and said gently, “It’s not good to stay here too long. You can only leave after you’ve cleared your name. Do you understand?”

Xie Rong didn't seem to care much and went along with his words, "Oh, then how do we clear it up?"

Shen Kaiji remained calm, gave him an orange, and then left.

Xie Rong broke open the orange and found a small piece of paper inside. He read it discreetly and then swallowed it.

When the police came in, he smiled and said, "Dr. Shen said my boyfriend is about to wake up. May I go see him?"

"You are now a key suspect and it is not appropriate for you to approach the victim."

“How could I?” Xie Rong chuckled. “We were each other’s first love. Although we’ve been apart for five years, we’ve always been very much in love. How could I possibly hurt him?”

An hour later, at the hospital.

Xie Rong sat by the hospital bed and waited for a while before Lu Baichi woke up.

“Honey, I’ll never let you peel apples again,” Xie Rong said, her hands tightly gripping his, her eyes red and pitiful. “They think I’m going to kill you. Please explain for me, I just wanted to eat an apple and accidentally bumped into you.”

Lu Baichi looked at him.

How pitiful, it's like saying—Honey, I was wrong, I just loved you too much and depended on you too much, that's why I accidentally hurt you.

Lu Baichi thought that he was also at fault.

He originally intended to lock his wife, who had repeatedly betrayed him, in that room.

He simply loved his wife too much. Even though five years later everything had changed, and his wife had become vicious, selfish, mean, vain, and even promiscuous with other men, he still loved her.

Lu Baichi nodded to the police.

The police were skeptical, but after confirming that Lu Baichi could speak, they asked him a few brief questions.

"Yes, we love each other very much, he is my first love."

"I searched for him for five years, and we just got married yesterday."

“Yesterday he said he wanted to eat an apple, it was an accident.”

"He's just spoiled, but he loves me, and we'll be together forever."

Xie Rong smiled and nodded, lit a cigarette in the intensive care unit, squinted her eyes as she exhaled smoke, and said contentedly, "Yes, I love my husband very much, and we will be together forever."

Death would have been too quick. Staying with his so-called first love, who was constantly trying to kill him, would have been far more painful for Lu Baichi.

Let's just keep torturing each other then.

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