Chapter 296 Mr. Li, my wife was burned to death in there
"Mr. Li, Madam..." Mrs. Liu sobbed intermittently. She wanted to continue but no sound came out. Her open mouth was trembling and even her breathing was filled with sobs.
"What happened to her?" Li Jingshen asked cautiously, as if touching a mirror cracked into a spider web. If he applied a little force, the mirror in front of him would shatter into pieces and fall down.
"Something happened to the lady. The villa caught fire and she was burned to death inside... The bedroom on the first floor collapsed and she was trapped in the rubble."
Li Jingshen's eyes were out of focus. He staggered and stumbled out. The cold wind blew in his face and he almost froze to death at that moment.
He looked up at the sky, snow fell on the corners of his eyes, and finally turned into hot liquid that flowed down his cheeks, making him look as ferocious as a demon, his pupils were bloodshot, and the expression on his face was frozen bit by bit.
Shen Zhichu is dead? How could she be dead?
He bullied her so much in the past, causing her to become a vegetable. She jumped off the building and crashed her car. He signed countless critical illness notices for her, but she didn't die. It seemed that her stomach cancer would be curable in a few months. How could Shen Zhichu die?
She must be angry about his engagement with Xia Mingyue, so she teamed up with Mrs. Liu to deceive him.
The day before yesterday she said she would not leave and would always stay with him, so...how could she leave him alone?
There were many people around and all kinds of noises, but for a moment, Li Jingshen thought he was deaf and could not hear anything.
He was in a void world, surrounded by darkness. He tried hard to find Shen Zhichu but couldn't find him.
He wanted to make a sound, to scream, but his neck felt like it was being strangled by a hand. The biting cold wind blew past his ears, and he staggered forward. At this moment, everything he saw turned gray.
"Did Chen Zhichu lose her temper at home? Give her your phone and I'll comfort her. Doesn't she like the desserts and wontons here? I'll go buy some..." Li Jingshen finished speaking in one breath. Seeing no response on the phone, he choked up and asked cautiously, "Is she unwilling to answer the phone? It's okay... Tell her I'll be back soon and ask her to wait for me..."
Mrs. Liu covered her mouth and looked at the fire that spread across half the sky, choking with sobs, "Boss Li, Madam can no longer wait for you..."
Li Jingshen listened to Mrs. Liu's words. At that moment, a sad emotion slowly seeped out from the bottom of his heart, like a drop of blood dripping into colorless pure water, and then slowly dyeing a glass of water red.
"She can't even move her legs, so why can't she wait for me?"
Mrs. Liu's voice was hoarse: "It was because she couldn't move her legs that she was trapped in the bedroom. The fire burned in and exploded, so she couldn't escape..."
Mrs. Liu's words were like a heavy hammer hitting his heart. He covered his chest, which was beating violently. The strong feeling of suffocation almost drove him crazy.
"Boss Li...you should come back and take a look yourself."
After the call ended, Li Jingshen stood there in a daze. His eyes were empty and lifeless, like an old machine. His reaction became slow...
Suddenly, he rushed out madly, the biting cold wind hit his face, and his face was frozen and numb.
"Boss Li, where are you going?"
"Mr. Li?"
"Why are you in such a hurry? Is there something urgent?"
"A good engagement turned into a farce. My fiancée cheated on me and it got me into trouble. What a bad luck this year."
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Li Jingshen's blood-red eyes scared many people. He rushed to the car without saying a word, not caring about anything else. There was only one thing on his mind - that was to go back and see Shen Zhichu.
He wouldn't believe the video, wouldn't believe Lu Tingchuan, and certainly wouldn't believe Mrs. Liu. Shen Zhichu would definitely stay at home holding the cat and waiting for him to come back.
Li Jingshen was devastated. He drove recklessly, ran through red lights and rear-ended other cars. It took two hours to get back to the villa. Every minute and every second was a struggle. He wished that everything that happened today was just a nightmare, and when he woke up, Shen Zhichu would still be by his side.
Li Jingshen's lips lost their color due to excessive fear. He clenched his teeth, tightened his jaw, and his eyes were a dark and indistinguishable color, just like a terminally ill patient struggling to survive.
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The first floor of the villa has become a ruin. There is chaos there. A cordon is set up around it. Several fire trucks with double flashes on are parked nearby. In the heavy snow, a red umbrella covers the sky and the earth.
Li Jingshen only had eyes for the bedroom on the first floor. That was where Shen Zhichu had been staying since her legs were broken. He decorated it according to her preferences, with warm colors and sunflowers facing the sun hanging on the wall, making it full of vitality everywhere.
But now it has become a ruin, with billows of thick smoke rising into the sky, blending with the foggy sky, as if it is about to collapse at any time.
Li Jingshen staggered out of the car, holding onto the door. His eyes were sore from the wind. He tried to open his eyes wide, and his face was as cold as ice. He reached out and touched it, but it wasn't ice, it was tears flowing from his eyes.
At this time, Li Jingshen was still deceiving himself, thinking that Shen Zhichu must be fine, good people will be rewarded, she will definitely be safe, maybe she had already come out, and there was no one in the ruins.
She was so strong, had self-respect and pride, and she loved beauty and cleanliness. How could she allow herself to be burned to death in the fire? That would be so painful...
Li Jingshen racked his brains to find hope for Shen Zhichu to survive, but there was no hope. Shen Zhichu's hope of survival had already been destroyed by him.
She had no children, no family, and no lover... When he first met her, Li Jingshen felt that she was a rose with thorns. Later, after getting to know her for a long time, he felt that she was more like a cactus, covered with thorns and full of vitality.
But now, the cactus has lost all its thorns. It has been soaked in the hopeless sewage, and its roots have rotted. The cactus that was once covered with thorns has become soft and will rot with the slightest pinch...
...No matter how tenacious a life is, there will come a day when it dies.
After Li Jingshen got off the car, his feet seemed to be rooted to the ground and he couldn't move a step.
Firefighters were cleaning up the scene, trying their best to dig out Shen Zhichu who was buried in the rubble.
When he saw the wheelchair thrown out from the rubble, which was broken by the fire and could not be moved, Li Jingshen felt as if his heart was dug out alive.
A voice in my heart sounded before I opened my mouth: Shen Zhichu!
The atmosphere at the scene was solemn, with people shouting and firefighters in protective clothing carefully lifting, digging and prying at the rubble.
"How did a cat get in here? Get out, this is not the place for you to play."
"This little guy is covered in blood. He might have been injured in the explosion. He's lucky. He must be the homeowner's pet..."
A cat covered in blood tiptoed out from an inconspicuous corner. It was usually so clingy, but now its fur stood on end and it looked at the stranger in front of it with alertness.
It jumped over the people who stretched out their hands to it several times, and then ran towards the rubble that the firefighters had just dug. The cat's front paws were already bloody, but it seemed to feel no pain as it dug at the rubble, making mournful cries as it dug.
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