Chapter 108 Chapter 108 The truth in the dream owed her everything...
"What do you want to ask?" Gu Jingchen heard himself say in his dream: "As long as you don't kill me, I can tell you."
Compared to his future and dignity, he obviously cares more about his own life.
But "Gu Jingchen" also knew that Wu Xuan could not tolerate Qi Song and Du Yanting, and probably hated him even more, but he still wanted to negotiate with him to see if he could find an opportunity to escape from the castle.
Wu Xuan's lips curled up, as if he thought he was too naive, but also seemed to agree with what he said.
"Tell everyone first, what did you do to her?" Wu Xuan said, "I want to hear the whole story."
He stared into "Gu Jingchen's" eyes and asked, "How did you take advantage of her? And how did you take advantage of her when she was most helpless?"
"Of course, there are also you," he said, looking in the direction of Qiao Wanshu and He Shengnian. "You can also think about how to calm my anger. If you tell me the truth, maybe I will just let you go."
Qiao Wanshu's fingers curled up tightly, and her uncontrollable panic made her face terribly pale.
She could clearly feel the malice emanating from Wu Xuan, the pure anger and hatred that almost tore her nerves apart.
She pursed her lips and tried to shrink behind He Shengnian to avoid Wu Xuan's gaze.
Unfortunately, I still couldn't suppress the fear in my heart. I was timid and hiding like a mouse.
[As a three-year fan, considering how little I care about Qiao Wan, she's clearly feeling guilty.]
She's the one with the most fans in the dating variety show. The more those crazy fans like her, the more they hate Xu Qinghu. They're all like crazy, and it's hard not to suspect her family is behind this.
[The online violence back then was a massive murder. Besides the production team, the biggest beneficiary was Qiao Wanshu. She is definitely not innocent.]
[Now I know I'm guilty. Why didn't I think of giving Xu Qinghu a way out before? I hate this kind of hypocritical bastard!]
Facing the scrutinizing gazes from all around, "Gu Jingchen" took a breath and said with a wry smile, "I'm the person in the hut who has the closest relationship with Xu Qinghu. When we first met, she took a liking to me and clearly expressed her desire to have more contact with me."
Wu Xuan narrowed his eyes.
Speaking of those past events, "Gu Jingchen"'s eyes not only showed fear of Wu Xuan, but also indescribable melancholy, "When I went out on a date with her for the first time, I had a good impression of her, but I did it for-"
Speaking of this, "Gu Jingchen" paused, his tone becoming a little difficult, "But in order to increase my popularity, I forced myself to suppress my affection for her and firmly chose another female guest who is more popular with the audience."
His gaze fell on Qiao Wanshu, his expression no longer showing the previous enthusiasm, only an unprecedented indifference. "I know that as long as I can connect with her, I can become the most popular man on the show, gain popularity and traffic at the fastest speed, and thus take my career to the next level."
After hearing this, the barrage of comments froze for a moment.
Fans who have watched the dating show couldn't believe that he actually developed a crush on Xu Qinghu on the first date. What about his flattery towards Qiao Wanshu? Was it all an act?
If this is the case, then Xu Qinghu is too pathetic.
He could clearly tell Xu Qinghu his choice, but he jumped back and forth between the two female guests, constantly praising Qiao Wanshu and belittling Xu Qinghu.
Just thinking about the remarks he made on the show, they felt suffocated for Xu Qinghu.
"Go on." Seeing him fall silent, Wu Xuan said coldly: "Go on."
Gu Jingchen pursed his lips and said self-deprecatingly, "I know everyone is curious why I didn't explain it clearly to Xu Qinghu. Of course, it's because I still need her."
"She's so beautiful and passionate about me. Instead of rejecting her, I might as well use her to demonstrate my masculine charm."
When he said these words, his tone was extremely cruel, as if he completely regarded Xu Qinghu as his stepping stone. "Not only that, her existence can also make Qiao Wanshu feel a sense of crisis. No matter what, I will not reject her immediately."
[Fuck! Gu Jingchen, this idiot, is he sick?!]
[He can even take advantage of someone he has feelings for. He's simply an inhuman beast!]
[Stop insulting the beast! He's just an idiot who's sucking blood from Xu Qinghu. If someone like him could achieve success and fame, those netizens were truly helping the evildoer!]
[After seeing this, I completely understand why Wu Xuan sent them abroad. They are all villains. It was them and those keyboard warriors who didn't know the truth that killed Xu Qinghu. If you do evil, you must pay the price!]
[I can't imagine how helpless Xu Qinghu must have been back then, yet these people are still living so well? What gives them the right?]
"Everyone knows what happened later," Gu Jingchen whispered, "I abandoned Xu Qinghu many times for Qiao Wanshu, but I didn't let her completely disappoint me. Instead, I made her believe that as long as she could continue to persevere, I would choose her."
The corners of his eyes were slightly red. "I also thought that as long as I gained enough popularity, I would go back and hold her hand, but I didn't expect there would be so much uncontrollable public opinion."
He looked at Qiao Wanshu who was not far away and tore off her mask: "It was you and the Qiao family who wanted her dead. You killed her!"
"Nonsense!" Qiao Wanshu denied subconsciously, "She died of depression. What does that have to do with us?"
"Need I remind you?" "Gu Jingchen" said, "Before you participated in the dating show, the Qiao family was already on the verge of bankruptcy. You had long planned to step on Xu Qinghu to rise to power and make her a sacrifice for you and the Qiao family."
"I advise you not to slander me!" Qiao Wanshu retorted coldly, "The Qiao family is a listed company, and she's just a speculator looking to break into the entertainment industry. What's there to exploit? This is all your own imagination. It has nothing to do with me or the Qiao family."
She turned her gaze to Wu Xuan and said pointedly, "Even if she's dead, it doesn't change the fact that she was someone who wanted to take shortcuts. If she were truly innocent, why would she hide her intentions to enter the entertainment industry? And why would so many people come out to accuse her? Even her parents are extremely disappointed in her. Is all this fake?"
Even now, she still did not forget to guide public opinion to denounce Xu Qinghu, just to maintain her precarious image.
After hearing these words, some people in the live broadcast room began to say that Xu Qinghu was not a perfect victim, and that she deserved to die of depression.
[Yeah, didn't Xu Qinghu's fate come from his own fault? Why are you pushing the blame onto the other guests?]
[Those who do evil will eventually perish. Xu Qinghu cannot clear his name at all.]
[This Wu Xuan is a lunatic. Just wait, he will definitely not have a good ending!]
[Upstairs, isn't it enough that you killed Xu Qinghu? Are you still planning to cyberbully her? Be careful, you might be the next to die.]
[+1, Qi Song and Du Yanting are both dead, yet you still dare to curse Xu Qinghu. It seems you don't know what will happen to you? Do you need me to remind you? Those who leaked the information back then have already suffered all kinds of disasters. You might even get hit by a car when you leave the house.]
Seeing the tragic scene of blood flowing like a river in the live broadcast room, the keyboard warriors who were cursing madly finally came to their senses and tried to delete the barrage of comments, only to find that their personal information had been exposed online and they were scolded by netizens.
Not only did he lose his job, but his parents and family were also attacked and retaliated against.
Retribution in this life.
After seeing their ending, the audience in the live broadcast room became more cautious, fearing that they would also be exposed.
"Is that your answer?" Wu Xuan looked at Qiao Wanshu's face, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, "So it's all Xu Qinghu's fault, and you're all innocent, right?"
Qiao Wanshu didn't dare to look him in the eye, and said stiffly, "I'm telling the truth."
She tried her best to suppress her fear and said righteously, "I don't know what your relationship with Xu Qinghu is, but this is no excuse for you to kill innocent people. I advise you to stop, otherwise you will be severely punished by law."
Wu Xuan was amused by her words. He looked at Qiao Wanshu quietly, his eyes as if frozen with ten thousand years of ice. "I don't need you to judge my fate, but you know your fate better than I do."
Qiao Wanshu had difficulty breathing and his body began to tremble uncontrollably when he looked at her.
"Why bother?" He Shengnian stood in front of her, his face cold and gloomy. "The dead cannot be resurrected. Instead of venting your anger on others, why not think about the Wu family behind you? Won't they be implicated by your reckless behavior?"
"The Wu family?" Wu Xuan chuckled. "I don't know any Wu family. I'm just a poor guy who wants revenge for his ex-girlfriend. You can't threaten me."
Hearing this, He Shengnian frowned and immediately realized that Wu Xuan had left the Wu family in order to avenge Xu Qinghu, otherwise he would not be so fearless.
I suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of vigilance in my heart.
"What do you want to do?" He stared at Wu Xuan. "Xu Qinghu's death has too many complicated factors. Even if you kill all of us, you can't bring her back to life."
"Why not?" Wu Xuan tilted his head and smiled, with only coldness in his eyes, "As long as I kill you, she can come back, she can come back to me!"
He pointed the gun at He Shengnian's forehead and said in a hoarse voice: "Back then, cleaning up the Qiao family's mess, didn't it give you a sense of accomplishment?"
"If you knew she was my ex-girlfriend, would you still dare to do this?" Wu Xuan looked around at everyone present and sneered, "You say she's worldly and wants to take shortcuts, but does that mean you're noble? Don't you have any selfish motives?"
He stared at Ruan Xiaoyu, "Don't you want to become an internet celebrity through the dating show?"
"What about you guys," he looked at Wen Ruoxi and Zhong Zining, "one wants to open an internet-famous restaurant, and the other wants to open an art studio, and you guys are spotless?"
"And you," Wu Xuan looked at "Gu Jingchen," "Didn't you become famous by eating human blood?"
His gaze finally fell on Qiao Wanshu and He Shengnian. "She claims to be from the upper class, yet she does the most vicious and despicable things. What qualifications do you have to blame her? You are the ones who deserve to die!"
His merciless words directly tore off everyone's fig leaf.
Xu Qinghu has his own purpose, don’t they have one too?
How noble are they? They are a bunch of culprits who stepped on her and sucked her blood, then turned the tables and blamed her after sucking her blood out of her bones. What right do they have?!
The restaurant became quiet, with only the sound of strong winds and heavy rain hitting the window frames.
"It's raining," Wu Xuan said softly, "She likes rainy days very much. Every time it rains, she likes to stay at home and sleep in. It's a rare time when she wants to rest."
When he said this, tears welled up in his eyes. "She worked so hard to get to where she is now from this small mountain village, but you guys ruined her with just a simple gesture."
"I won't give up," Wu Xuan said, "I won't give up!"
He pointed the gun at "Gu Jingchen" and said softly, "Is this all you did to her?"
Gu Jingchen realized that Wu Xuan would never let him get away with it, so he suppressed his palpitations and continued, "Later, I did something even worse. I spoke ill of her when she needed help the most, and said many derogatory things about her."
His expression became extremely painful. "If I had known she was being slandered, I would never have added fuel to the fire. I feel sorry for her, and I can apologize to her..."
He looked at Wu Xuan and said, "I am willing to go to her grave in person to make amends, as long as she can rest in peace."
Thunder roared outside the window, and Wu Xuan's face was unclear in the flickering light and shadow. "Do you want to apologize?"
He laughed, "You know you're going to die."
"Gu Jingchen"'s eyes darkened, and he looked at the window wet by the rain, his heart sinking.
Wu Xuan looked at Qiao Wanshu and said, "I am magnanimous and can give you one last chance to repent."
Qiao Wanshu pursed his lips tightly and refused to speak.
Wu Xuan did not hesitate any longer, but played the video of her parents and brother in the live broadcast room.
They were also tied up on the cruise ship and were tortured to the point of being on the verge of death.
The one who suffered the most was Qiao Xicheng. He was beaten to the point of incontinence, and kept wailing in pain from his throat. There was no trace of his former glory as the heir of the Qiao family.
"You!" Qiao Wanshu's pupils contracted violently, and he said in horror, "How dare you attack them? How dare you! You lunatic!"
Although she has married He Shengnian, her family is equally important to her.
"Let them go," she stared at Wu Xuan, "as long as you let them go, I will tell you."
"If you don't want to say it, then never say it."
Wu Xuan smiled and said, "Just watch your family being hacked to death."
After saying that, the people on the cruise ship took out sharp blades and started to skin and pull out the tendons. The bloody scene made everyone tremble.
Wu Xuan is a complete lunatic!
Hearing the screams of her parents and brother, the panic in Qiao Wanshu's eyes almost overflowed. She grabbed He Shengnian's hand tightly, "Save them! Save them!"
A large amount of blood filled Qiao Wanshu's sight. If this continued, all her family members would be tortured to death.
"Please let them go," she could no longer maintain her dignity and begged Wu Xuan bitterly: "I am willing to say anything, just let them go!"
She collapsed to the ground, speaking in a daze, "Back then, our family was on the verge of bankruptcy. My brother and I wanted to step on Xu Qinghu to get ahead, so we spread rumors about her plastic surgery and her immoral private life. We even found a video of her abandoning her ex-boyfriend and bribed her parents to throw dirty water on her..."
She trembled as she spoke of the evil things she had done, and only begged Wu Xuan to show mercy and let her family go. "Except for her ex-boyfriend, all the other revelations were false, but we didn't want to kill her. We just wanted to use public opinion to turn things around. It's her own poor mental quality, she can't blame us."
Even now, she is still trying to defend herself: "If you want to find someone, go find the person who leaked the information to us. Her classmates and her parents are the real murderers."
After hearing such shameless words, the audience in the live broadcast room called it shameless.
[She and the Qiao family have done so many bad things, yet she still wants to continue to shift the blame. I've never seen such a disgusting person!]
[Qiao Wanshu and the Qiao family have done such evil things. They are so stupid and evil! Such people deserve to be torn into pieces!]
[So, the real culprits who killed Xu Qinghu were Qiao Wanshu, the Qiao family, and He Shengnian, who cleaned up their mess. If they hadn't been in cahoots, Xu Qinghu wouldn't have suffered such severe cyberbullying!]
[It's terrifying just thinking about it. At that time, countless people cursed Xu Qinghu every day. Wouldn't Qiao Wanshu be frightened awake in his dreams at night?]
[And He Shengnian, wasn't he the one who liked Qiao Wanshu's calm and graceful demeanor? And in the end, he even became her accomplice. It's true that birds of a feather flock together.]
[These people didn't die unjustly. If I were Wu Xuan, I would kill them all too. They are all beasts with human faces but beastly hearts!]
If it weren't for Wu Xuan, would they still be living a carefree life? The thought of it makes me feel suffocated.
[The most pitiful one is Xu Qinghu. Those people in the hut don't deserve any sympathy at all.]
[So the ex-boyfriend in the video is Wu Xuan. He was the one who cared about Xu Qinghu the most. Xu Qinghu's death was so unjust.]
There was a lot of discussion online, but there were no hot searches about Wu Xuan on any major platforms. Only in the live broadcast room could discussions take place without restraint.
"Let them go," Qiao Wanshu pleaded in a low voice, "I'm willing to do anything as long as you let them go."
She collapsed to her knees on the ground, tears streaming down her face, saying, "If you want revenge, take revenge on me. They are innocent."
However, Wu Xuan did not stop, but enlarged the live broadcast room, allowing her to watch with her own eyes her parents and brother being cut into pieces.
The scene of torn flesh and blood frightened Qiao Wanshu more than the most horrific nightmare. She seemed to be scared silly.
"Isn't this your common strategy?" Wu Xuan said, "You don't want to accept your own failure, so you treat Xu Qinghu as a blood bag."
"How are they innocent?" He curled his lips and smiled. "Ask the netizens in the live broadcast room, ask everyone present, who would think you are innocent?"
Ruan Xiaoyu and the others looked at Qiao Wanshu in horror. They didn't expect that she was the one who had been plotting against Xu Qinghu behind the scenes. They immediately felt that she was countless times more terrifying than Wu Xuan.
"Why are you doing this?" Ruan Xiaoyu couldn't help but ask, "If your company goes bankrupt, you can raise investment, you can think of many ways to deal with it. Why do you treat Xu Qinghu like this? She has no grudge against you, so why should she pay for your life?"
"Attract investment?" Qiao Wanshu murmured these three words and laughed softly, "If I could get investment, would I still be on a dating show?"
She let out a giggle from her throat. "My family is going bankrupt. Not only can I not maintain my own class, but I also have to bear huge debts. What do you want me to do?"
Perhaps being pushed to the limit, she went completely crazy. "How can I accept this? You are kind and have high moral standards, so why didn't you help Xu Qinghu?"
She glanced at everyone present and sneered, "If I'm wrong, then the traffic you're eating is also a bloody profit, isn't it?"
Ruan Xiaoyu's breathing stagnated, and she said with red eyes: "If I knew the truth, I would rather not participate in the dating show than accept such traffic!"
Recalling her own indifference and rejection of Xu Qinghu, she could no longer suppress the anger in her heart. "I wish I had never participated in this dating show and never met you upper-class rich second-generations and young ladies who are so greedy."
"I would rather live a 9-to-5 life than carry this guilt and trauma."
"You make me feel so stupid and despicable," she said with tears streaming down her face. "How can I face my life?"
Ruan Xiaoyu lowered her eyelashes and said coldly: "If I could go back, I would cancel my account and never appear on the Internet again!"
"Me too," Zhong Zining raised her hand with difficulty. "I can open a restaurant even without such traffic, and I can live well. I don't need to profit from human suffering. I'm not a cold-blooded animal. I'm a human being with a conscience!"
"Same," Wen Ruoxi held their hands, "We are all people who live in the sunshine, not rats in the gutter, and we will never go along with you in your dirty ways."
Qiao Wanshu stood there in a daze, not expecting them to say such words.
"I really put you in a difficult position," Qiao Wanshu sneered, "You can even say such things just to save your own lives."
"It's not about saving my life," Ruan Xiaoyu said, "it's about finding the truth. Even if I die, I'll still give the same answer."
Qiao Wanshu lowered his eyelashes and fell into a long silence.
She knew she was finished.
In just one night, she lost her loved ones and the reputation she was proud of, and even faced Ruan Xiaoyu and the other two, she felt so pale in comparison.
Qiao Wanshu completely collapsed.
If she had known this would be the outcome, would she still have attacked Xu Qinghu?
Of course.
She thought that she was just that kind of person, unwilling to give up her status as a rich lady, but also unable to live the life of an ordinary person.
She would fight for her class countless times over, but she would act more cautiously and patiently. That's all.
"That's enough," He Shengnian said, unable to bear it any longer. He stood in front of Qiao Wanshu and looked at Wu Xuan coldly: "Now that we know the truth, it's time to end this farce."
Wu Xuan raised the corner of his mouth and corrected himself: "This is not a farce, it is the truth and revenge. None of you can escape."
He Shengnian was silent for a few seconds, then began to explain: "When public opinion was so overwhelming, no one thought Xu Qinghu would die. This is all a coincidence."
"Coincidence?" Wu Xuan laughed in anger, "This is just an excuse you use to excuse yourself, but for me, there is no such thing as a coincidence."
"You killed her."
His eyes were as cold as winter frost, piercing and icy. "I want you to pay back for what you did to her!"
After saying that, he pointed the gun at He Shengnian's eyebrows and said, "Only death can be considered an apology!"
He was about to pull the trigger!
In the blink of an eye, there was another loud thunder outside the window. The lights in the restaurant flickered for a few seconds, and the next moment the entire castle was plunged into pitch darkness.
Gunshots rang out in the restaurant, followed by the sound of chairs smashing glass!
"Go!" "Gu Jingchen" shouted: "Get out of the window!"
Before he could finish his words, he escaped straight through the window and ran into the rainstorm at the fastest speed.
He Shengnian and Qiao Wanshu followed closely behind, and the three of them left the castle one after another.
Gunshots rang out one after another from behind them. They couldn't wait to dive into the nearby bushes and continued to move forward shivering.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Qiao Wanshu noticed that He Shengnian's pace was slowing down, and he collapsed to the ground. She raised her hand belatedly, and saw a sticky stain on her palm. She realized it wasn't rain, but gushing blood.
The bullet missed his eyebrows in the thick night, but penetrated his waist and abdomen.
He Shengnian can't leave.
She tightly grasped He Shengnian's arm, the unprecedented fear almost devouring her sanity, "No!"
She screamed in panic and fear, "Don't die, don't leave me, you are all I have, you are all I have..."
She hugged He Shengnian's body and tried to take him away with her, but He Shengnian's face became paler and paler. He looked at Qiao Wanshu's miserable appearance with calm eyes, as if he had accepted his own death calmly.
"Let's go," he whispered, "and leave me alone."
"No," Qiao Wanshu whimpered like a wild beast in her throat. She covered He Shengnian's wound tightly. "I'll take you away. I'll take you to see a doctor. You will definitely get better!"
In the night rain, they were like two quails that could not see the way forward and could no longer move a single step.
Apart from He Shengnian's almost inaudible breathing, the only sound left was Qiao Wan's extremely hoarse crying.
She couldn't accept the outcome of losing everyone.
She hated Xu Qinghu and Wu Xuan, the one who caused all this! If anything happened to He Shengnian, she would make him pay with blood!
At this moment, footsteps were suddenly heard behind him. It was "Gu Jingchen" who came back. He brought good news, "Did you hear the alarm? We are saved! We are saved!"
Qiao Wanshu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hugged He Shengnian tightly with both hands, crying with joy: "You won't die. You swore to the pastor that you would stay with me for many years. I won't let you die."
Her entire family was killed, and she absolutely could not afford to lose her husband who had been with her through thick and thin.
He Shengnian didn't say anything, but slowly closed his eyes.
They were rescued soon. He Shengnian was sent to the hospital with serious injuries. It turned out that one of his kidneys was necrotic and needed to be removed. Even if he recovered from his injury, he would not be able to return to his previous condition.
Qiao Wanshu was extremely grateful that he was still alive. He would definitely be able to recover his health after receiving a kidney transplant in the future.
But when they returned home, she would rather he had died in that heavy rain.
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