"Yun Zheng!" Tang Shiting hurriedly chased after him, following him at a distance.
Song Yunzheng stood aimlessly at the hospital entrance. The sky was filled with twinkling stars, which wove together into a boundless net. Darkness silently swallowed the world, dragging him into an abyss.
The blinding headlights shone on him, but he didn't even blink, as if he had lost all awareness of his surroundings.
The area was bustling with people, but he couldn't hear anything and just kept walking forward mechanically.
He didn't know where to go, he was afraid to stay in the hospital, he was afraid to see Lin Yue, he just wanted to hide away and escape all of this.
He was in so much pain, it felt like a million steel needles were piercing his heart at the same time, the pain was so intense that he was almost suffocating, and he felt like he would die at any moment.
He walked down the street like a soulless puppet, drawing stares from the crowd.
To Tang Shiting, Song Yunzheng was always the perfect child, someone who was always powerful and seemed to be able to solve any problem.
When Song Yunzheng was crossing the pedestrian crossing, the traffic light suddenly turned red, but he seemed not to notice and continued walking.
Tang Shiting hurriedly reached out and grabbed him, saying sternly, "Where do you think you're going?!"
Song Yunzheng staggered, looked around blankly, and thought for a moment, "To the beach..."
"Okay, I'll take you there."
The waves surged and rolled, creating terrifying surges, like a group of ferocious monsters running wildly on the sea surface, their endless power relentlessly swallowing up the reefs.
Song Yunzheng stood quietly on the shore, looking at the boundless sea with despair, his expression deathly still.
Tang Shiting stood quietly by his side, watching him intently.
After a long silence, Song Yunzheng spoke in a hoarse voice: "My parents told me that there is such a thing as cause and effect, and I said I didn't believe it. Now, I do..."
"All the things I did are now coming back to haunt me."
"This isn't your fault, it was just an accident, don't be like this." Tang Shiting looked at him with concern.
Song Yunzheng ignored his words and continued talking to himself: "Look, I made Yu Zhe fall into the sea by accident, and Lin Yue also fell into the sea by accident..."
"Yu Zhe's death was an accident! It has nothing to do with you. Don't take all the blame on yourself."
"Is it really none of my business?" Song Yunzheng's voice was very soft, as if he were asking himself.
"Old Master Yu has an illegitimate son, Yu Hezhou, who is about the same age as Yu Zhe. He is not very capable, but he is very ambitious. He came to me and wanted to bribe me to help get rid of Yu Zhe. As long as Yu Zhe is still alive, he will never be able to return to the Yu family and will always be an illegitimate son who cannot be brought into the open."
"But I've never liked being told what to do, so I refused him. However, I said something when he left: Yu Hezhou is completely clueless about business, but he's very talented at murder. I just gave him a couple of casual tips, and he was able to make Yu Zhe look like he accidentally fell into the sea. He spared no expense to make sure the matter was handled flawlessly, leaving no room for anyone to find fault. The case was thus directly ruled as an accidental death."
Tang Shiting retorted sharply, "This has nothing to do with you at all. It's the Yu family who can't tolerate their own people. Even if you hadn't said those things, Yu Hezhou would have had other ways to kill him."
"Before today, I thought so too. His death had nothing to do with me. He was stupid, didn't know how to keep his sharp edge in check, misjudged people, and was targeted by a hungry wolf, yet he didn't take any precautions. Wasn't that just waiting to die?"
Song Yunzheng suddenly burst into laughter as he spoke, his chest heaving rapidly, and he laughed for a long time before stopping.
“When my parents asked me if this had anything to do with me, I wasn’t flustered at all. I even shamelessly said that I didn’t believe in karma, I only believed in myself. But today, Lin Yue experienced the same thing as Yu Zhe, accidentally falling into the sea. How ironic those four words are…”
"Oh, right, there's also Shen Mo. He's not a pure man. To deal with him, I only manipulated people's hearts. Those self-righteous smart people started to target him. Soon, Shen's lost all its business partners in Beijing, and its headquarters in southern Jiangsu was also greatly affected. Its stock price kept falling, and in a fit of anger, Old Master Shen dismissed him from his position."
"I'm good at manipulating people's hearts and easily destroying everything for others. I never thought that heaven was watching what I did. Now it's finally my turn... It's all my fault. I'm the one who ruined Lin Yue..."
Song Yunzheng gradually walked into the cold seawater.
"Yun Zheng!" Tang Shiting shouted urgently.
"The seawater here is so cold. Yueyue must have been very cold and scared when she fell in. She's most afraid of the cold and often has stomach aches. If she doesn't wake up, I'll go and stay with her..."
The seawater reached his waist, and he just quietly felt it.
"Lin Yue will be alright, she will definitely be alright! Don't be like this!" Tang Shiting's voice was already trembling slightly.
The deep despair in Song Yunzheng's eyes had already overwhelmed him; he desperately wanted to grab onto a piece of driftwood.
“Before, my dad always advised me not to be so ruthless, but I never listened. Now, I know I was wrong. As long as Lin Yue is safe, I promise I won't do that again. I will change. I will consider other people's feelings. I really will change. Please... don't take her away... please..."
By the end, his voice was so hoarse it was almost unrecognizable.
Tang Shiting couldn't help but tear up. He turned his head away and raised a hand to wipe his eyes. He couldn't bear to think about it; if Lin Yue really… Song Yunzheng would definitely not survive…
He could only pray in his heart, "Lin Yue, you must wake up!"
Song Yunzheng stood there, letting the waves crash against him. He hadn't moved for a long time, and his lower body had gone numb. But the numbness was useless; his heart was still aching, as if he were being slowly tortured to death. He was in excruciating pain.
The image of his first meeting with Lin Yue suddenly flashed into his mind; her quirky and clever appearance immediately captured his full attention.
He never knew he would be so infatuated with a girl, to the point of being reckless. All his emotions were in her hands. When she was happy, he was happier than her. When she was sad, he wished he could make all the people who hurt her disappear!
In fact, he did just that, so the retribution has come, right? Why did the retribution fall on Lin Yue? Why her?
That night, Song Yunzheng sat on the rocks by the sea, his deathly silent eyes gazing at the sea as if looking at his final resting place.
In the hospital ward, a pale-faced girl lay motionless on the bed, her eyelashes above the oxygen mask trembling very slightly.
That alone was enough to save a heart on the verge of death.
...
In the living room of the Song family's No. 15 courtyard in the capital, a cell phone slipped from Zhou Lirong's hand and fell to the ground with a muffled "bang."
Hearing the sound, Song Xinian walked over, bent down to pick it up, and asked, "What's wrong? Whose call was that?"
"Yue... Yueyue fell into the sea..." Zhou Lirong said in a trembling voice, her heart filled with panic.
Song Xinian froze, then turned and walked into the study. A moment later, his furious voice rang out...
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