Chapter 109, Diary.
Grandma Jing passed away not long after.
Amidst a series of misfortunes befalling the Jing family, Cai Zhi, filled with fear and despair, suddenly had a wild idea: she requested to move into the official residence and live with Jing Ge.
Jing Ge forced a smile despite his anger.
“Your father and grandmother are both gone,” Cai Zhi said, tears streaming down her face. “Beile lives at school, and I’m scared to be home alone.”
Jing Ge: "I'm scared if you live with me."
Cai Zhi scolded her for being heartless: "Think about me, Li Mushi is so much older than you, he'll definitely die before you. If he's gone, won't you be lonely...?"
Jingge turned and left.
Otherwise, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to resist hitting her dead father and kicking her living mother.
Enraged, she tossed and turned in bed that night, kicking him repeatedly: "Be more lively! Don't act so old at such a young age! People will think you're seventy or eighty and won't outlive me!"
"..." Li Mushi's brow twitched. "What counts as lively?"
Jingge looked at his face, and as she looked, she felt a surge of grievance: "If you go before me, I won't be able to live either!"
This amused Li Mushi: "This is nothing!"
He'll only turn 30 next month, and he's already thinking about what will happen after he dies?
This age difference isn't a big deal, is it?
Jingge was devastated: "I don't want to live anymore." She couldn't live without him.
Li Mushi hugged her and coaxed, "Our family has longevity genes, so starting tomorrow, I'll curse my boss at work, curse my clients after get off work, kick dogs that walk by, drink, go to bars, stay out all night, and shout 'Swordsman outside the city, beautiful woman on a white horse' every now and then..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was kicked a few more times.
“Who told you young people are like this?” Jing Ge choked. “You’re all energetic, you know what energy is?”
Li Mushi lowered his eyes and stated, "I'm quite energetic."
She's the one who lacks energy.
He can go to work feeling refreshed and energetic after just one night.
She needs to catch up on her sleep and rest.
Jingge got impatient with him, snuggled into his arms, and insisted on getting an explanation.
Li Mushi couldn't help but laugh, and he held her captive and coaxed her for a long time.
But Jingge's words made him somewhat worried. When he was seventy or eighty years old and really passed away before Jingge, what would happen to his little friend?
Once the idea came to mind, Li Mushi began to have his lawyer compile a list of his assets.
He wanted to transfer it to Jing Ge in advance.
Jingge was unaware of what she was doing. She vented her anger and then moved on. As long as she didn't come into contact with Cai Zhi, her life was good and happy.
She was immersed in Li Mushi's love, which was like a vast ocean, and her eyes and brows were full of satisfaction and peace.
In early December, Womei held an employee health check-up, and Jingge and Meiying went together.
Jingge runs into Liu Min, the policewoman in charge of the beheading case, at the hospital.
Jing Ge was one of the parties involved in that beheading case. Liu Min said, "The prisoner had a terminal illness and was released on medical parole. He was in this hospital."
Jingge asked in surprise, "How much longer?"
Liu Min: "Two or three months."
“Ah,” Jingge had a guess, “did he know he had a terminal illness before he killed someone? And why did he use such cruel methods?”
Liu Min nodded.
The prisoner's name is Wang Changzhong. The deceased fruit shop owner was his stepmother. He had a younger sister who came from his stepmother's family and had just turned 20 this year.
Wang Changzhong is fond of his stepsister.
He knew this relationship was illicit and that his family, relatives, and friends would not accept it. He never thought about exposing it; he just wanted to quietly watch his sister grow up, get married, and be happy.
He himself is not important.
However, the stepmother was not kind to her biological daughter. She complained that she had caused the death of her ex-husband and then Wang Changzhong's biological father, and called her a jinx who only brought misfortune to her own men.
He either beats or scolds me every day.
After my younger sister finished her college entrance exams, her stepmother disagreed with her continuing her studies and arranged a marriage for her without her consent.
They want to marry her off to a 45-year-old divorced nouveau riche with a child.
At this time, Wang Changzhong was diagnosed with a malignant tumor.
He wanted to do something for his sister before he died.
He sorted out his belongings, sold his property and transferred the money to his sister's personal account. He also broke off his sister's engagement, packed her things, took her college admission notice, and sent her to university.
When the stepmother found out, she made a huge scene. If Wang Changzhong hadn't been so forceful, the stepmother wouldn't have been able to go to her sister's university and force her to drop out and come back.
Wang Changzhong was worried.
She was afraid that after he died, no one would stand up for her sister.
Let's just take the stepmother with us.
“Based on the clues you provided, we found him at the beach,” Liu Min sighed. “At that time, he was standing on the cliff, either wanting to escape or not wanting to live anymore, wanting to end his life there. We just brought him back, and he barely managed to hold on for two years.”
Jingge couldn't make a sound.
"Where is...his sister?"
“He forbade her to say anything,” Liu Min said with a sigh. “She knew that her biological mother was killed and she didn’t come back. Other relatives helped with the funeral arrangements. Wang Changzhong probably told her that once she left, she should not look back.”
At this point, Liu Min shook her head: "Once he dies, his sister will probably never know that her future was bought with her stepbrother's life."
He wouldn't tell her about their immoral relationship, and she would never know.
A colleague called her from afar. Liu Min responded and looked at Jing Ge: "He noticed you that day and scared you. He was very sorry and said thank you. If it weren't for your help, we wouldn't have been able to catch him, and his secret would have been taken to the sea... He said that he was quite happy that someone knew his story after two years of struggling to survive."
Liu Min is gone.
The hospital was bustling with people, and Jingge seemed to have entered a state of dissociation.
At one point, Wang Changzhong seemed to overlap with Li Mushi.
If Jingge never sees him and never turns back, then many things are as if they never existed in her eyes.
Like Wang Changzhong's sister, she knew nothing. She was heading towards her bright future when dark clouds came along, only to be swept away by a hand. She lamented how fickle fate was, but then continued forward without hesitation.
Time will bury everything. What the ancients did not know, and what the descendants will not understand, will all turn into dust and become nourishment to sustain the flowers that bloom next year.
Jing Ge wiped his eyes.
She wanted to cry, but realizing the environment wasn't right, she held it back.
She planned to go home and cry in her man's arms, hoping he would comfort her and make her anxious.
Jingge rubbed her eyes again, her vision briefly blurring. She thought someone passed by and then grabbed her hand.
Jingge reflexively pulled outwards.
As a result, the other person pulled even tighter, dragging her outside.
Jing Ge was furious: "Li Zhan!!"
The man ignored her, dragged her out of the hospital through a side door, and shoved her into his car.
"I have something to ask you."
"Ask your grandpa!" Jing Ge grabbed something and threw it at him. "I'm your aunt! You beast, I'll have my husband beat you to death!"
After not seeing him for a while, Li Zhan had become emaciated and his eyes were dull and lifeless.
He grabbed a tattered booklet, taped shut with countless strips of tape: "You wrote in your diary that you like me, right?"
"......"
Jing Ge fell silent abruptly. When she saw the diary that she had torn up and thrown away long ago, something in her mind exploded with a "bang."
"Li Zhan, I'll fucking kill you!!"
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