Ye Qing didn't answer Xu Ying's question. He looked at Xu Ying with a half-smile, struck a match, shook it off, and then slowly asked Xu Ying, "What do you think I want to do?"
Seeing Xu Ying swallow hard in fright, Ye Qing said, "If it were you, you would definitely seek revenge, right? Me too. This scar doesn't look so scary now, but I still remember the pain it caused. I've been thinking that one day I'll make you taste how much it hurts to be burned. Now is the chance."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Qing poured half a match out of the matchbox. With a whoosh, although only two matches in the half-box were lit, the rest that hadn't been lit soon burst into flames.
Ye Qing slowly held up the burning match to Xu Ying.
Xu Ying stammered, trying to say something, but was too frightened by Ye Qing's appearance to utter a complete sentence: "You...you...Ye Qing...you'll catch fire..."
Ye Qing seemed not to hear Xu Ying's words, slowly moving towards Xu Ying with the match in hand. Suddenly, she seemed to smell something, and Ye Qing subconsciously wrinkled her nose. When she realized what the smell was, she looked at Xu Ying in disbelief, watching as Xu Ying's pants, dressed in a hospital gown, were slowly soaked with urine...
They were so scared they peed their pants!
Ye Qing was dumbfounded. She hadn't even done anything yet. With a sigh, Ye Qing placed the still-burning match on the cabinet next to the hospital bed and in the water glass.
Then Ye Qing clapped his hands: "I've been bullied by you since I was a child. Besides the scar on my arm, there are other places. Of course, the other places weren't burned. They were probably poked with the tip of a pencil, or maybe cut with a knife..."
If you've forgotten, try to recall them carefully. After you've recalled them, think about how you would retaliate if these scars were on you and I was the one who caused them.
After you've thought things through, consider the possibility that I might retaliate tenfold in the same way you might, and whether you can handle that.
After saying that, Ye Qing didn't look at the terrified Xu Ying again and went straight out.
After going outside, Ye Qing remembered the nurse's instructions to lock the door from the outside, so she locked the padlock that was hanging on the outside.
After she finished doing all this, she looked up and was startled to see Xi Quan leaning against her.
Seeing Ye Qing's frightened expression, Xi Quan chuckled, "Weren't you quite impressive just now?"
Ye Qing was surprised that Xi Quan had seen it. She instinctively glanced at the ward next to her and looked at the small window in the middle of each ward. Ye Qing then understood how Xi Quan knew.
After a moment of silence, Ye Qing looked at Xi Quan, who had already walked forward, and said, "What? You're reluctant to part with him?"
Ye Qing's words made Xi Quan stop in his tracks. He turned around, blinked, and looked at Ye Qing with a half-smile: "Do you think Xu Ying is here because I have deep feelings for her? Or because I'm disappointed in her?"
Ye Qing smiled awkwardly, and after Xi Quan turned around, Ye Qing closed her eyes in regret.
The screams, coming from an unknown ward, instantly made the quiet corridor feel eerily unsettling. Ye Qing instinctively started running, and when she caught up with Xi Quan, she instinctively reached out to grab his arm. However, noticing Xi Quan's ambiguous smile, Ye Qing awkwardly lowered her raised hand.
In the early to mid-1990s, only a few regular hospitals had elevators, let alone such an obscure mental hospital as Anding Hospital.
There was no elevator, so Ye Qing had to take the stairs, but the lights on the stairs seemed to be broken, and there were occasional noises coming from them, which scared Ye Qing so much that she kept walking close to the wall.
Ye Qing only breathed a slight sigh of relief after reaching the first floor, going outside, and entering the courtyard.
When Ye Qing, who was initially walking in front, tried to stop him but was too embarrassed to do so, Xi Quan quietly retreated behind her and followed her silently in a protective manner.
Having witnessed Ye Qing's prowess in the face of Xu Ying, and his earlier fear, Xi Quan now felt an urge to laugh as he watched Ye Qing's steps lighten.
Although he wasn't quite sure why he wanted to do it, Xi Quan just followed his heart. However, Ye Qing suddenly turned around, so he quickly composed himself and became expressionless.
Ye Qing felt embarrassed, but seeing that Xi Quan didn't seem to care, Ye Qing stopped thinking about it. Thinking too much would make her seem like she was just being presumptuous.
They walked out of the Anding Hospital one after the other. Ye Qing thought she and Xi Quan should go their separate ways, but Xi Quan stopped her.
Looking back at Xi Quan, Ye Qing asked, puzzled, "What are you doing?"
“My car is parked over there.” Xi Quan gestured with his chin, indicating that Ye Qing should look over.
Ye Qing did see it, but she said, "So?"
"I'll take you home. It's so late, how will you get home? You can't walk back, can you?"
"That's my business. I remember saying I wouldn't..."
Xi Quan interrupted Ye Qing as he tried to distance himself from him: "When you used Liang Lu to scheme against Xu Ying, why didn't you think about getting involved with me?"
Ye Qing felt a little embarrassed by the question, and she glanced at Xi Quan without saying a word.
Xi Quan said, "It's not a bad thing that you can use your connections. Since you plan to live in Nancheng in the future, you might as well use the people you know. It's important to have real skills and knowledge, of course, but you can't be too stubborn. Being too stubborn is just being obstinate..."
"Stop nagging!" Ye Qing interrupted Xi Quan irritably, then walked straight towards Xi Quan's car.
Ye Qing tried to open the car door, but it wouldn't budge. She then turned to look at Xi Quan.
Xi Quan twirled the car keys in his hand, then took two quick steps and opened the car door.
Seeing Ye Qing sit directly in the back seat, Xi Quan wanted to say something, but then swallowed his words.
It's not that Ye Qing doesn't know the importance of connections; she knows Xi Quan's words make sense. However, her relationship with Xi Quan is really awkward. If it weren't for getting rid of Xu Ying, Ye Qing would never have wanted to get involved with Xi Quan.
So, although Ye Qing didn't refuse Xi Quan's offer to take her back, it was because the area was indeed too remote and there were no cars available, so she didn't think about talking to Xi Quan after getting in the car.
However, Xi Quan gave Ye Qing an envelope.
Ye Qing didn't catch it, so Xi Quan threw it directly to the back seat. Because he was driving, Xi Quan just casually tossed it back, and it didn't land on the back seat; it fell off.
Startled for a moment, Ye Qing bent down and picked it up, asking, "What is this?"
"Why don't you open it and see?" Xi Quan said as he drove.
Ye Qing didn't rush to open it. First, he looked through the envelope and tried to guess what might be inside. But he couldn't quite figure it out, so he hesitated for a moment before opening the envelope.
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