Chapter 399 The Death of Shen Xiyue
I'd give you my life...
Su Ranxi sighed, finally putting on a serious face, "You don't have even the slightest feeling for Shen Xiyue now? Including guilt or anything like that..."
"No!" Although he didn't know why she suddenly asked about Shen Xiyue, alarm bells rang in Li Tingxi's mind, and he denied it without hesitation. "Su Su, why did you suddenly ask about her? I thought you didn't want to mention her anymore."
"Give me a reason why I can't mention her?" Su Youling raised an eyebrow.
"...She doesn't deserve it." Li Tingxi's eyes darkened. Just thinking about the scene when Su Su had her accident back then, he couldn't suppress the murderous aura emanating from him.
“Shen Xiyue wasn’t innocent at all during that kidnapping. She deliberately lured us there, so…”
So at first, he emotionally convinced himself that Su Su was not dead and was still alive and well, and that he would not give up until he saw her body.
However, after the incident, he investigated the matter for a long time and found out the clues very clearly—the kidnapping was definitely related to Shen Xiyue.
So reason told him that Su Su might really have been killed by Shen Xiyue and the person behind the scenes, and her body was never found.
These two thoughts were pulling at each other wildly in his mind, pushing him to the brink of collapse.
"If I have to feel guilty, it's only towards you. If I hadn't been so lenient with Shen Xiyue back then, I wouldn't have made you angry and sad, and I wouldn't have given her the chance to hurt you." Li Tingxi's eyes gradually turned bloodshot, and he became somewhat agitated.
My head started to throb, and my breathing became rapid.
"Li Tingxi, I'm here." Su Youling quickly grabbed his hand and squeezed it reassuringly, but she didn't intend to stop communicating.
Dr. Fang once said that finding the cause of Li Tingxi's illness is the most important step in treating him; a mental illness requires a mental cure.
This applies not only to Li Tingxi, but also to her.
The events of that year, the people from that year—these were the unresolved issues between her and Li Tingxi, and they all needed to reopen those raw, bleeding wounds to confront them.
When two people can calmly recall that day, they have truly let go.
"Shen Xiyue is dead, isn't she?" Su Youling thought of that news report, which was ambiguous, but the person in front of her must know the cause of Shen Xiyue's death.
"Yes, she's dead." Li Tingxi gripped Su Youling's fingertips tightly in his hand, pulled her into his arms, and held her close anxiously. Feeling that familiar warmth, his restless and fearful heart began to beat rhythmically again.
“Right after your… accident, she was ‘killed’ and thrown into the sea. Her body was never recovered, and the official report was that she was dead.” Li Tingxi’s eyes were cold when he mentioned Shen Xiyue again, and he was indifferent. “Perhaps, she lied to everyone from the very beginning.”
He was not unmoved when Shen Xiyue first had her accident.
With two lives on his hands, he wanted nothing more than to kill the kidnappers himself.
Unfortunately, while they managed to catch the "workers" on the ship, the mastermind behind it all remained elusive.
But through the kidnappers who took the blame, he still discovered something was wrong with Shen Xiyue—she wasn't a hostage, but the one in charge of this farce on the ship.
Li Tingxi recounted the entire course of his investigation, looking at Su Youling with some nervousness. "I'm sorry, I was so stupid back then that I fell for her trick and hurt you for so long."
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Su Youling frowned. "So, even if I didn't fake my death back then, Shen Xiyue was determined to kill me? Then why did she plan to commit suicide? Is she still alive?"
“No!” Li Tingxi shook his head firmly. “Chen Xiyue did not commit suicide. She was indeed thrown down by the kidnappers, and it was accompanied by an explosion. Her chances of survival were almost zero.”
"According to the kidnappers, Shen Xiyue's value is to take your life, and after it's done, she will disappear."
"Who exactly orchestrated all of this?" Su Youling hadn't expected there to be so many stories behind the scenes, and a strong sense of unease suddenly rose in her heart.
Was that person targeting her? Or Li Tingxi?
If there really is someone who is targeting Li Tingxi at every turn, who wants her dead, and who kills people as ruthlessly as killing chickens... how could she feel at ease revealing the children's background and letting them recognize Li Tingxi?
That would put the children in danger too!
Absolutely not!
Su Youling's face turned pale for a moment. "We must catch him!"
“I’ve been investigating for the past few years, but…” Li Tingxi took a deep breath and said with some disgust, “That person seems to have vanished without a trace. There hasn’t been any major activity since then. The only way to catch him is if Shen Xiyue is still alive.”
Shen Xiyue was willing to risk her own life to kill her!
Originally, they could have kept to themselves and avoided each other.
Su Youling's expression turned extremely grim as she thought about the ticking time bomb that was still buried somewhere. "I ran into Li Lihua today."
Li Tingxi paused for a moment before asking, "What?"
“I… Shen Xiyue’s mother,” Su Youling said expressionlessly. “She initially mistook me for Shen Xiyue.”
"How did she show up?" Li Tingxi's face darkened. "Don't worry, I'll have someone take care of it. You'll never see her again."
He was about to make a call when Su Youling stopped him, saying, "You know what I did to Li Lihua and Shen Cong back then?"
“They deserved it.” Li Tingxi couldn’t help but feel a surge of murderous intent when he thought about how those two old bastards had tried to harvest Su Su’s kidneys. “You’re still too soft-hearted. You only threw them into the sea to scare them. If it were me…”
His eyes turned sinister, but only for a moment before regaining their clarity and gentleness, unwilling to let Su Youling see his dark side.
“At first, I also suspected that Shen Xiyue might not be dead, so I sent people to the countryside to keep an eye on Shen Cong and Li Lihua. They were used to being pampered and couldn't get used to a hard life back in their hometown. But they had no money and were bullied and ridiculed. Shen Cong couldn't bear the pressure, so he became an alcoholic, gambled, and eventually even resorted to theft and other unscrupulous illegal activities. After being caught, he also became seriously ill.”
“After he got into trouble, Li Lihua ran off with the little money he had left, sold the house in the countryside, and disappeared without a trace. Shen Cong eventually died in the hospital, and no one claimed his body or even looked at it... It wasn't until then that I withdrew the people who were monitoring him.”
If Shen Xiyue were still alive, she wouldn't have been missing for so many years, watching helplessly as her biological parents fell into such a state.
If she's still alive but still so heartless, then it means... she's no longer Shen Xiyue!
"So, Shen Xiyue is most likely really dead." Su Youling felt nothing. She habitually excluded this family from her emotional circle and didn't care about them, so she wouldn't have any emotional fluctuations because of them.
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