Chapter 37: Twisting a Hand
Chen Zhichu raised her head, tears overflowing from her beautiful eyes. Her eyes, which should have been clear, were now gray. Li Jingshen seemed to see through her eyes that she was heartbroken.
Her stomach was still aching, and Shen Zhichu was tired of the pain. She opened her sore eyes and said, "Li Jingshen, my family is ruined, and I have paid off what I owe you..."
"What are you paying back?" Li Jingshen interrupted Shen Zhichu before she could finish her words. His eyes narrowed and a cold light flashed in his eyes. "Shen Zhichu, you will never be able to pay me back. Don't even think about throwing your father's death on me. If your father is dead, you still have your brother. If you don't want your brother to become like your father, it's best to put your thoughts away. You know my methods."
Since Shen Zhichu has already determined that he is extremely cruel, then he will show her how cruel he is, otherwise he will really be unworthy of her words.
Li Jingshen stood in front of her. He was very tall, with his back to the light, and the shadows made his face look particularly sinister.
“Are you using Shen Xiuli to threaten me?”
"It's not a threat. I do everything based on my mood. If you make me happy, I'll let him go. If I'm not happy, he'll die a more miserable death than your father."
As he spoke, Li Jingshen raised the corners of his lips, and like a bloodthirsty demon, he slowly approached Shen Zhichu and seduced him, "Shen Zhichu, you can just let it go. What's the difference between your remaining relatives and enemies? Have they ever cared about you in your life? I'm sure if it was you who was in danger, they would definitely not waste their time on you."
To put it bluntly, someone like Shen Zhichu is a saint. She can't even take care of herself, yet she still cares about others. If she doesn't care, who will? Since she can't cut off these things, she deserves to be his tool.
Shen Zhichu clenched her fists, her fingertips digging into her palms. She was trying to suppress the anger in her chest. As a woman, she couldn't beat Li Jingshen, nor could she win the argument.
Li Jingshen did see things more clearly than she did, and what he said was true, but did she really have to ignore it?
As soon as she thought of leaving it alone, the words Shen Changnan said before his death kept repeating in her mind, and her ears were buzzing.
She was dying and would not live for more than two years. Using two years of her life to exchange for Shen Xiuli's decades was worth it, judging from the time alone.
Li Jingshen saw everything on Shen Zhichu's face, and when he saw her silence, he knew she had made up her mind.
What he said just now was sincere advice to her. It was she who couldn't let go of her feelings, so she couldn't blame anyone else.
Shen Zhichu would never be able to escape from him in her life. Even if she flew away, there was an invisible string tied to her feet, like a kite. If he gently pulled the string in his hand, she would return to him.
Li Jingshen passed the cup in his hand to Shen Zhichu's mouth, and watched her open her mouth to drink it. He smiled with satisfaction: "Shen Zhichu, as long as you behave yourself, we will be fine." He had limited patience and could not bear to hear her keep talking about divorce.
Shen Zhichu closed his eyes.
Suddenly, there was a bang and the door was pushed open from the outside. The sound came in before the person came in.
"Zhichu."
Li Jingshen stood by the bedside, covering Shen Zhichu tightly, "She's already asleep."
Qin Mo opened his mouth and stated his purpose directly: "I want to take Zhichu back to my home." Li Jingshen is too dangerous. Sooner or later, Shen Zhichu will be eaten to pieces by him. He can't just leave it alone.
Li Jingshen found it funny and sneered, "Doctor Qin, you may have forgotten that Shen Zhichu is my wife. What qualifications do you have to take her away?"
"Li Jingshen, are you worthy of saying these things? Zhichu will divorce you!"
With such a firm attitude, it seems that Shen Zhichu has often whispered to Qin Mo that she wants to divorce him. When he thought of Shen Zhichu being intimate with another man in a place where he couldn't see, he felt like a fire was burning in his stomach.
"Really?" Li Jingshen smiled, "But she just said she wouldn't divorce me and would listen to me and be my wife."
Li Jingshen is good at disguising his emotions. He may be angry inside, but he appears calm on the surface, preventing people from seeing the dirty thoughts in his mind.
Qin Mo immediately retorted, "Impossible! Li Jingshen, isn't it bad enough that you've harmed Zhichu? How could she still be willing to be with you?"
"Maybe she is just cheap." Li Jingshen's tone was full of mockery.
Qin Mo's body stiffened. He always knew that Li Jingshen was not good to Shen Zhichu, but he didn't expect that he would actually call Shen Zhichu a cheapskate in front of him.
Qin Mo's anger burst out uncontrollably, and he cursed "Beast!" and rushed forward with his fist raised.
Li Jingshen's eyes turned cold, he dodged his fist, grabbed Qin Mo's collar with one hand, and swung him to the ground. Qin Mo groaned as he fell, and tried to fight back, but was subdued by Li Jingshen in two or three moves, and was punched in the face.
Qin Mo's fighting ability is not as good as Li Jingshen's. He is a medical student, while Li Jingshen has won the Sanda championship. Talent is something that can sometimes be very troublesome.
Qin Mo was beaten so hard that he felt dizzy and his mouth tasted of rust. No matter how many beatings he received or how painful his wounds were, he never gave up the idea of taking Shen Zhichu away.
"If you want to fight, can you please go to another place?" Shen Zhichu couldn't help but speak out first.
Li Jingshen still had his hand on Qin Mo's neck, his raised fist suspended in mid-air. When he heard Shen Zhichu's weak voice, he turned around and looked at Shen Zhichu indifferently, with a half-smile on his face: "What? Can't stand feeling sorry for him anymore?"
Li Jingshen's eyes were indifferent, so indifferent that it was impossible to tell whether he was angry or not, but the words that came out of his mouth were as harsh as ever.
Qin Mo, who was suppressed, could not help but roar: "Zhi Chu, come back with me. If you continue like this, you will die sooner or later!"
It seems that the beating was not enough. The hand that was pinching Qin Mo's neck tightened hard. Seeing his red face, he smiled and said, "Even if I play her to death, it's your turn to point fingers here. As long as Shen Zhichu is my wife, you can only watch from the side!"
These words were not only said to Qin Mo but also to Shen Zhichu. He wanted her to know that even if she died, she could not escape his confinement.
"Li Jingshen, you beast...ah!"
There was a sound of snapping and Qin Mo's scream, and Li Jingshen removed one of Qin Mo's hands with one hand.
No one had expected such a thing. Shen Zhichu was completely frozen as she sat on the bed. Her heart suddenly stopped and she felt as if it was being gripped, causing her to be unable to breathe.
Qin Mo was a surgeon. How many people had his hands saved? But now, because of her, Li Jingshen had twisted them off.
Shen Zhichu suddenly felt very cold. Not only his body, but his whole heart seemed to be cracked open and a cold wind was blowing.
Li Jingshen had misunderstood the relationship between her and Qin Mo. The more nervous she was about Qin Mo, the angrier Li Jingshen would be, so she couldn't show any concern at all.
Shen Zhichu tugged at the bed sheet tightly around him, his voice trembling as he tried to maintain his composure. "Li Jingshen, let go of Qin Mo and let me talk to him clearly."
She looked down at Qin Mo, who was lying on the ground in pain, and pretended to be indifferent and said, "Qin Mo, I will not divorce Li Jingshen. I like him, I just like him in a cheap way. Don't try to persuade me, and don't talk about divorce in front of us again. It will affect my relationship with him."
"Zhichu, do you know what you are saying? Is Li Jingshen threatening you?" Qin Mo didn't believe it.
"No one is threatening me. I just want to stay by his side. Go away and don't worry about me anymore." She didn't want to see Qin Mo get hurt again because of her. She only had two years left anyway, so let Li Jingshen waste time if he wanted.
"Wouldn't the problem have been solved if you had said that earlier?" Li Jingshen was satisfied with what Shen Zhichu said. He smiled, but there was a chill on his lips. He moved closer to Qin Mo and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Shen Zhichu is not someone you can count on."
He let go of Qin Mo and stood up, then raised his foot and kicked him hard into the corner with a loud bang.
"Qin Mo..." Shen Zhichu didn't expect that even though she had already said what Li Jingshen wanted, he would still kill Qin Mo.
Her voice gradually faded away in Li Jingshen's murderous expression.
Li Jingshen came to Shen Zhichu's bedside, looking at the potion hanging in the air and almost running out of liquid. He held her cold and trembling hand with one hand, and was about to pull out the needle, but Shen Zhichu suddenly pulled her hand back as if she had been electrocuted. The needle was tilted, and the blood coming out of the vein gradually dyed the needle red.
Li Jingshen's face turned cold. He grabbed her dodging wrist and quickly pulled out the crooked needle. Blood suddenly gushed out of the vein, which was shocking. He casually took out a piece of paper and pressed it on her wound. He didn't let go until the blood dried.
Looking at the swelling on the back of his hand, Li Jingshen said, "Let's go to another hospital."
After saying that, he bent down and picked up Shen Zhichu.
What else could Shen Zhichu say? All her resistance was not good enough in front of Li Jingshen. Pursing her lips, Shen Zhichu calmed her breathing and endured the boiling emotions in her chest.
Qin Mo was in so much pain that he could hardly stand up. He could only watch Li Jingshen take Shen Zhichu away.
After leaving the hospital, Li Jingshen's face instantly darkened, even the fake smile on his face disappeared: "Don't go to see Qin Mo alone in the future. You should stay away from men who have ulterior motives towards you. If I find out that you have a shameful relationship with him, it will not be as simple as twisting his hand off."
"Li Jingshen, can you please not be so dirty!" He suspected that she had an affair with Qin Mo, but why didn't he think about the fact that he and Xia Mingyue were on the hot search?
Li Jingshen laughed out of anger. Shen Zhichu might not know the way Qin Mo looked at her. That kind of focused expression was definitely not the expression between ordinary friends.
"When you recover from your illness, I'll let you experience what true filthiness is!"
Shen Zhichu sensed his deep malice and leaned stiffly against Li Jingshen's arms to change the subject: "Where's my dad?"
"At the crematorium. Do you want to go and see it?"
Now that everyone has seen it, do you still want to go and see that handful of ashes?
"I will choose my father's grave myself."
"Okay." As long as Shen Zhichu obeyed, he would do whatever she said.
Li Jingshen sent Shen Zhichu to another clinic. Seeing Shen Zhichu's condition, the doctor asked, "Do you want a full body checkup?"
Li Jingshen felt it was troublesome: "No need, I've already checked at the city hospital before, it's gastric bleeding, just prescribe the medicine for it."
The Municipal Hospital is the best hospital in Rongcheng. It is obvious that the patient's illness is not serious since he was transferred here. The doctor did not think of going to other places and just booked a ward and admitted him to the hospital as Li Jingshen suggested, and then arranged for stomach medicine.
Shen Zhichu's grave is right next to her mother. Besides the person he loves the most in Shen Changnan's life, her mother is the one left.
The funeral was not held. The body was buried after being cremated into ashes. Shen Zhichu was weak and did not rush to see it. She waited until she was able to stand up and walk before she let Li Jingshen take her to the cemetery.
It has been drizzling in Chengdu recently, with three days of rain and two days of sunshine. Summer has already begun in other places, but Chengdu is still chilly.
I thought the rain would stop and the sky would clear up today, but it started raining again halfway through the journey. The rain was getting heavier and heavier. There was a constant wind outside, and raindrops as big as pebbles hit the front of the car, making a thudding sound as if they were going to break the glass.
The rain only subsided slightly after they arrived at the cemetery. The driver got out of the car first, holding an umbrella, and went to the back seat to open the door to shield Li Jingshen from the rain.
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