"...Don't look at the internet for now... The company is giving you a month off... to adjust."
Su Yinyin nodded and hung up the phone.
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When Lu Jingxu came back, the lights in the living room were off and the kitchen seemed unused. Lu Jingxu guessed that Su Yinyin had secretly ordered takeout while he was away. Just as he was about to go into the room to criticize her, he found only a bag of empty potato chips in the trash can.
The whole room was unexpectedly quiet, without a sound at all.
A sudden inexplicable uneasiness swept through his heart. He quickly walked to the bedroom and turned the doorknob, but it was locked from the inside.
He knocked on the door twice: "Yinyin, Su Yinyin."
There was still no one answering him, so he ran to the study and found that the computer standby light was on. He felt something was wrong, so he turned the mouse and sure enough, the video screen appeared before his eyes.
In an instant, a huge sense of fear invaded his lungs. He ran to the kitchen, picked up a knife, and after knocking on the door many times without success, he broke the door lock with one blow.
The light pouring in from outside instantly sank into a corner of the room. Lu Jingxu didn't turn on the light. He put down the knife, slowed down his pace, and spoke cautiously, his voice trembling:
"Su Yinyin...Su Yinyin?"
The body curled up under the quilt was motionless. Lu Jingxu walked to the bedside, and in an instant his lips turned as white as his cold palms.
With shaking hands, he slowly reached into the quilt. After touching the other person's still warm body temperature, his anxious heart finally relaxed a little.
He slowly lifted the quilt and wrapped his fingers around the man's palm inch by inch.
Su Yinyin's eyes were open, but unfocused. She was looking at nothing, with no expression on her face.
He reached out to touch her forehead and was relieved to find that she didn't have a fever.
"Are you hungry? Do you want to eat?"
Su Yinyin did not reply to him. She lay almost still in bed, and he could almost hear the crackling sound of electricity in his ears. Lu Jingxu felt as if his heart was seized by something. He was speechless and felt almost suffocated.
After a long, long time, Su Yinyin's eyelashes trembled twice. Her voice was so soft that it seemed like an unconscious murmur, not continuous: "Now... Is that video all over the internet?"
Lu Jingxu felt a tingling sensation all over his body, as if blood were flowing through the dense needles. He still reached out and gently stroked her forehead: "How could this be? This kind of thing won't happen."
"Can you please go out first? I want to be alone for a while." Her tone was no different from usual, but Lu Jingxu could inexplicably sense that she was suppressing her emotions.
"I'm not leaving."
"Please, I don't want to see anyone right now... Please, get out."
Lu Jingxu's eyes were filled with intense grief. He tried hard to suppress the turmoil in his chest and took a step back. "Then you must promise me first that you won't do anything to hurt yourself."
A light laugh suddenly rang out in the room. Su Yinyin used all her strength to brush through Lu Jingxu's hair, tidying up the messy hair hanging between his eyebrows.
"I won't die. If I die, they will be happy. I won't die..."
If anyone has to die, they will die first. She is only dying temporarily and it is difficult for her to get rid of this complicated mood.
Even though he had cried out in his heart thousands of times, the dark heart that was pressed down by the heavy meteorite showed no sign of moving.
As he spoke, his hoarse voice began to tremble: "I won't die... No, I really want to die, but I can't die... Lu Jingxu, I still can't bear to leave you. I won't die, don't worry."
Why do people have to be strong to survive? Why didn't she jump off the window of the teaching building seven years ago? She thought there must have been some reason that supported her at the time, but she couldn't remember it.
Maybe it was a small matter, her younger brother was still waiting for her at home for dinner, she hadn't gotten the first place in the grade as promised to the teacher, or maybe she simply didn't want to waste her life on that kind of person.
It was not until now that Su Yinyin suddenly realized that everything she had experienced during her adolescence was exactly the same as the original owner's. She could hardly tell who she was.
Am I sad for the original owner's experience, or for myself who has had the same experience?
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Lu Jingxu walked up the dusty steps. It was an extremely dilapidated residential building with a moving truck loaded with furniture parked at the door.
Following behind him were several burly men in black, each nearly two meters tall, making them very conspicuous at first glance.
One man was carrying a suitcase, while several others wore silver-gleaming tiger knuckles on their fingers.
Several people walked directly into the house of the man who was moving. When the man saw them, his cheerful face immediately fell and turned ashen.
"Who are you? Why are you breaking into my house? Get out of here! I don't know you—"
The leading man in black closed the door. Lu Jingxu lifted his legs and sat on the chair that the man in black had brought over, looking at the man in the room coldly.
The man recognized Lu Jingxu and exclaimed, "Lu Jingxu!" He pointed at the man behind him, his face stiffening. "What are you doing? In broad daylight, in a society ruled by law..."
"You can try if you want."
Several men in black formed a formation behind Lu Jingxu, the objects on their fingers glowing coldly.
Lu Jingxu got straight to the point:
"Who did you negotiate a price with? A price higher than five million? What I said to you before is no longer effective, or you can't hear me? Do I need to cut off your ear and check it carefully to see if it's broken?"
The man was panicked and swallowed nervously.
Lu Jingxu had previously invested five million to buy that video, but he didn't respond, wanting to raise the price. Unexpectedly, someone immediately came to him and asked him to spread it at a high price. As a paparazzi, although he felt that this was not a fair thing to do, he could not resist the temptation of the big bucks, so he compromised and now posted a preview on Weibo. When the time comes, those who want to watch it can come to him to get it.
But after the incident fermented, it was far more difficult to control than he had imagined. His Weibo account collapsed and the incident was on the hot search for a whole day, so he didn't dare to ask Lu Jingxu for money and only took another person's money. He was originally planning to move and escape back to his hometown today, but he didn't expect Lu Jingxu to come to his door on time.
Lu Jingxu didn't waste any more time talking to him. He asked the person behind him to open the suitcase, and piles of red bills were taken out from it.
He walked over, picked up a pile of money, and threw it at the man's face: "Is this enough? Huh? Is it enough?"
His eyes were cold as hell, and he was scattering money while looking at him with a look of extreme hatred.
The man collapsed on the ground and dared not move. Even if he was hit by RMB, he would not feel happy at all.
Lu Jingxu finally couldn't hold back any longer and punched the man in the nose, causing him to beg for mercy repeatedly. "That's enough, Mr. Lu. I know I was wrong. I really do. I haven't posted it yet. Delete it right now... Just wait, I'll make sure it's completely gone. I'll smash that computer to pieces."
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