Chapter 104 Division
"Chairman Shen, Madam Shen really, really can't take any more shocks. If she bleeds again, even a living Hua Tuo couldn't save her."
Looking at the motionless figure kneeling by the bed, the doctor shook his head helplessly, and everyone left the ward.
Tick-tock, tick-tock.
The ward was unusually quiet.
Shen Jingsi knelt there, looking at the sleeping girl, gently tucking her hair behind her ear, and stroking her cool cheek with his fingertips.
The reproaches his wife had hurled before she fainted still echoed in his ears, each time clearer than the last, striking at Shen Jingsi's already shattered heart.
It was a feeling of powerlessness, a profound sense of powerlessness.
It's a deep-seated self-doubt after living for thirty years.
The capital city is so dark at night.
The man walked through the silent corridor to the ward at the end.
"Vice Chairman Shen." The guard outside the ward bent down and opened the door.
He walked in expressionlessly, his leather shoes clicking coldly on the floor.
The sleepless person slowly turned around, and her eyes lit up when she saw that it was the man she had been longing for.
Duan Xi'er: "A Si, you've finally come to see me."
Shen Jingsi stood in front of the hospital bed, looked down at her, her face devoid of color and emotion, looking even more sickly than Duan Xier, who had just come out of the intensive care unit a few days ago.
Sensing that something was wrong, the woman's smile slowly faded.
Why are you looking at me like that? What happened... uh!
A large hand, tucked in his pocket, suddenly gripped her delicate neck.
Duan Xi'er tensed up, her eyes showing fear and surprise.
"Ah, Ah Si, what are you doing!"
The force from the tiger's mouth gradually increased, and the veins on the forearm stretched along the arm with distinct, powerful tendrils.
At this moment, the man in Duan Xi'er's eyes was like a devil who had walked out of hell.
The feeling of suffocation grew stronger, and my hands, with needles inserted, instinctively resisted.
It was no use; the force only increased.
"Tell me, have you ever done anything to hurt Lu Zhenyu?"
Thump.
Duan Xi'er's pupils dilated slightly, and the guilt she subconsciously revealed was concealed by her flushed face.
Shen Jing shouted, "I'll let you speak!"
"Let go, let go. How can I speak when you're choking me?"
As the pressure on her trachea was released, Duan Xi'er collapsed by the bed, gasping for oxygen. Her violent coughing aggravated the wound in her abdomen, causing her to collapse in pain, with beads of sweat glistening on her forehead.
When she met Shen Jingsi's angry glare, she actually smiled, her eyes filled with a desolate bitterness.
Shen Jingsi said, "I'm giving you one last chance. If you don't speak up, I'll cut out Duan Hong and Duan Yu's tongues."
Duan Xi'er's face darkened.
Although she had been unconscious for many days, she was not unaware that something must have happened to her family.
Otherwise, how could she have gone several days without seeing her parents, and why was the entire ward under 24-hour surveillance?
Shen Jingsi is using her to coerce the Duan family.
She took a few deep breaths of oxygen, her face contorted in pain as she leaned back in her seat. "I don't know why you ask that. You, Shen Jingsi, know better than anyone who I, Duan Xi'er, am. On the contrary, it's you..."
As the man lowered his brow to look at her, she reached out and touched the knife wound hidden under her hospital gown.
This was undoubtedly a reminder to Shen Jingsi of the things he had done using her before.
As the man's aura weakened, Duan Xi'er wiped away her tears with a bittersweet smile.
"Shen Jingsi, I also want to ask you, in these past five years, have you ever had even a shred of sincerity towards me?"
Seeing the man standing there expressionless, without a trace of guilt on his face, only silence, Duan Xi'er raised her hand and clenched the collar of her clothes.
"It's all about exploitation, it's been that way from the very beginning, hasn't it?"
Shen Jingsi did not offer any rebuttal, "Yes."
She closed her eyes, took a few deep breaths, and bit her trembling lips tightly.
"So, when did you start planning to use my innocence and Tao Zhitao to bring down Zheng Yaozong and the Zheng family, and help your Zhenzhen get a divorce?"
Shen Jingsi replied, "From the moment I proposed to you."
Duan Xi'er heard a cracking sound, not from the roof beam, but from her broken heart.
She knew that he had never truly loved her from beginning to end, that the gifts labeled "carefully selected by Shen Jingsi" were from Shen's mother, and that without the Duan family, she wouldn't have been able to put on this self-indulgent act for five years.
She knew all of this, but she didn't care. All she wanted was for Shen Jingsi to belong to Duan Xier and for Duan Xier to be the future matriarch of the Shen family.
But she never imagined that this man would be so heartless and cruel as to use her and sacrifice her like this.
Duan Xi'er was already in tears, her voice hoarse, "Do you know, the doctor said I can never have children again? My uterus is gone, along with Zheng Yaozong's child!"
Shen Jingsi: "I know."
"So you wanted to kill me just now?" Duan Xi'er looked at him with bloodshot eyes filled with tears. "Just because of baseless slander, you wanted to kill me for Lu Zhenyu. Shen Jingsi, is my life so worthless in your eyes?"
"Then why didn't you just kill me on the operating table? Why did you have to wait until I woke up after suffering so much, and let me know these truths that are even more terrifying than killing me, before you tried to kill me!"
Duan Xi'er burst into tears, her voice hoarse as she questioned, "Is it simply that you feel my existence is an eyesore, that I was born to be humiliated, deceived, used, and betrayed by you?!"
Shen Jingsi's silence this time is the answer.
He really had nothing to refute.
His love wasn't particularly noble or remarkable, but he couldn't bring himself to settle for second best.
"You're right, I am a rotten person."
Those who want to love cannot protect, and those who don't love will exploit and hurt.
Shen Jingsi's life was absolutely awful.
It wasn't until he heard his wife's resentment with his own ears that he realized that, from beginning to end, he was the one who deserved to die the most.
Shen Jingsi said, "Whether you hate me or want to kill me, it's up to you. But I'll ask you one last time: you, Duan Xi'er, have you ever done anything to hurt Lu Zhenyu?"
She clenched her teeth silently, met his eyes, and said, word by word, "No."
Shen Jingsi nodded. "Alright, remember what you said today. I will investigate everything, past and present. If I find out that you have ever harmed her in the slightest, I will make you wish you were dead."
The moment Duan Xi'er's throat tightened, the man turned and strode away.
After a moment of silence, the sound of clattering and crashing came from the ward behind me, accompanied by a woman's heart-wrenching curses.
Wang Kai followed the departing figure, and while waiting for the elevator, he couldn't help but ask.
"Boss, do you believe what Miss Duan said?"
He overheard the couple's conversation in the hospital room that afternoon. "Madam said that Miss Duan harmed her. Do you think that's possible?"
Do you believe it?
When Shen Jingsi questioned Lu Zhenyu's words, it wasn't a questioning, but rather that he was willing to believe whatever she said, regardless of whether it was true or false.
But it wasn't her who did it.
By now, Shen Jingsi has long since accepted his identity as a villain.
He's a complete cold-blooded bastard; he doesn't care whether he goes to hell, gets his head severed, or is struck by lightning for all the evil he's done.
But his beloved Zhenzhen will go to heaven after she passes away, and she must live a good life.
Shen Jingsi is not a god and cannot control everything, but before the day of retribution arrives, he should first pave the way for the girl's future.
The elevator has arrived.
Seeing that the person was standing there without moving, Wang Kai reminded him.
Shen Jingsi said, "Go in person and process the divorce between me and Zhenzhen. Secretly transfer all the property to her name in batches, and then release the news that our relationship has broken down and we parted on bad terms."
Having followed and accompanied him for nearly five years, how could Wang Kai not guess the purpose of his actions?
He frowned. "Are you... really sure?"
Now that things have come to this, what is there that Shen Jingsi wouldn't risk?
The girl was completely disappointed in him. Even if he was gone, she could still live freely in this world with the resources he had given her.
What does it matter if I have a law-abiding marriage or a respectable husband?
It was worth it to use the last bit of his worthless life to give the mother and daughter a stable future.
"I've decided, let's do it."
As Shen Jingsi stepped into the elevator, before the doors closed, he added, "All of these things will be settled within two weeks."
Wang Kai pursed his lips, reluctantly but with no choice, and nodded, "Yes, I'll take care of it."
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