Chapter 48 We're all family.
Jing Ge passed the exam near the end of the first semester of her second year of high school.
By the time she moved to the senior year classroom, the first semester of senior year had already ended.
There is only one winter break plus the second half of the semester until the college entrance examination.
Jingge needs to solidify her foundation in the second year of high school and keep up with the third year curriculum.
She was the youngest and quietest in the class.
She would occasionally run into Zhuo Yueyue on campus, and Jing Ge would always close her eyes and endure it. She no longer told anyone; all she could do was study hard and leave this path as soon as possible.
During that period, fearing it would affect her studies, Jingge refused to take her medication, and often broke down while studying.
She is intelligent and highly sensitive.
But she really is very fragile.
Jingge and Xizhen need their parents' permission to meet, because she is a minor and needs her parents to pay for her medicine and sign for her medication.
Jing's father forbade her to tell anyone about it.
Jing's father said: "If the Li family knew you had a mental illness, they wouldn't want you."
She skipped a grade, which made her father very proud; she fell ill, which made him lose face.
Therefore, the Li family knew about the skipped grade.
Only the Jing family knew about the illness.
Throughout the entire ordeal, no one asked her why she was sick.
Perhaps the Jing family's bankruptcy has left them preoccupied with their own problems.
Jingge pulled through.
But why?
She ran away in junior high, she ran away in high school, and she's running away again now... Why is her life always so inextricably linked to Zhuo Yueyue?
Jingge thought she had slept for a long time, and that she had spent her two years of high school in her dreams.
When she woke up, her heart was beating too fast and too hard, she felt like she was dying from palpitations, the pounding like someone was punching her.
Jingge opened his eyes in the darkness.
It took me a while to realize what was happening.
It wasn't someone who punched her; it was someone who knocked on the door.
Bang bang bang.
It's getting heavier and denser.
Jingge dragged his numb body out of bed. On the table in the small living room of the apartment was a gift box, which was full of StellaLou.
The StellaLou gift box is decorated with star-shaped ambient lights, which now shine with a silvery glow like a sky full of stars, as if the Milky Way is flowing and weaving among the plush toys.
It was the only source of light in this small apartment.
The gift box is tied with a bow using a beautiful ribbon and pearls.
Jing Ge tilted her head and thought for a few seconds before remembering that this was a gift Li Mushi had promised to bring back for her when he went on a business trip.
The knocking grew louder and louder.
Jingge turned on the light, and the glaring light made her close her eyes briefly when she opened the door, but she couldn't avoid the slap that her father would deliver.
Jingge staggered backward, his cheeks swelling up rapidly.
Cai Zhi clung tightly to Jing's father, crying out, "Promise me you'll talk to me properly!!"
“What are you saying?” Mr. Jing’s face was terrifying. “She has been lying all along. So for so long, she was not at the Li family at all. No wonder Li Zhan was playing around with other people outside and returned to the country without saying a word, making the Li family know that she was lying!”
Jing Ge had taken medication.
Mentally depressed and absent-minded.
Jing's father's voice seemed to come from across a lake, sometimes near, sometimes far, but Jing Ge couldn't grasp his meaning.
She can't even feel pain.
"Speak!" Jing's father roared angrily, "You left in May and came back in October, were you really on a business trip during that time?!"
Cai Zhi shook her arm, her voice reaching Jing Ge's ears from a great distance: "Gege, hurry up and tell me, don't make your dad angry, hurry up and tell me."
Jing's father: "What did you do on Li Zhan's birthday? Why are Fan Mingjie and the others all stammering and acting like you ruined Li Zhan's birthday and even bullied his classmate so badly that he ended up in the hospital?"
Seeing that she kept her head down, looking like a dead person, Mr. Jing raised his voice: "Do you know how outrageous Li Zhan has been lately? Everyone knows about his relationship. People in the business world gossip and mock me as soon as they see me, as if my daughter has been dumped and our family has lost its support. Even our business has been affected!"
Jing Ge's eyes were fixed.
Following her gaze, Cai Zhi looked over.
It's that box of StellaLou.
Jing's father saw it too. He was furious. He grabbed the ribbon on the gift box, threw the box to the ground, and stomped on it.
The beautiful and exquisite gift box was broken.
It was as if a nerve in Jing Ge's brain had been suddenly pulled out.
The pain made her want to scream.
"Don't say anymore," Cai Zhi said, worried about her condition. "Princess, Princess, are you feeling unwell? Don't tremble, Mommy's scared..."
Jing's father kicked the gift box and the doll away, approached like a devil, and cast a shadow over Jing.
Block out all the light that was shining on her.
He said in a dark and menacing tone, "I'm warning you, even if you grow up, become an adult, and start working, I still have plenty of ways to deal with you. This is a one-time exception. You're moving back to the Li family tomorrow. I don't care what reason you give, apologize to Li Zhan, or try to appease him—"
He spoke each word slowly and deliberately, his paternal authority landing with a force that could crush anyone instantly.
"Even if you have to mate with the Li family's dog, you must stay in the Li family!"
Jing's father pulled Cai Zhi away.
She is not allowed to stay.
The reason is that he knows she is soft-hearted and that if he were to be fooled by this girl again, he would end up doing something reckless with her.
When they got downstairs, they ran into Li Kaiji and Sheng Man, who had just arrived.
Mr. Jing's expression softened: "She's asleep. I let her mother go in to check on her and we chatted for a bit. Let's go back now."
"..." Sheng Man was still worried. "I'll go up and check."
“No need,” Mr. Jing stopped her. “She’s jet-lagged and looks exhausted and doesn’t want to talk. Her mother comforted her for a while, and she realized that lying was wrong. She was told to rest and that she would visit the old man and woman tomorrow.”
Sheng Man hesitated.
Cai Zhi wiped her eyes and forced a smile: "The child has worked too hard, let's talk about it tomorrow."
Li Kaiji nodded: "Then I'll have Li Zhan pick us up tomorrow, and we can get together and have a meal."
"Alright, I'm sorry to have bothered you with such a small matter."
"We're all family, so don't speak like outsiders."
The apartment fell silent after a brief period of noise and chaos.
Jingge's ears were filled with noise, countless shrill squeaking sounds were drawn out and rang out.
She knelt on the ground, her hands trembling uncontrollably, trying to repair the gift box.
However, she is not in a condition where she can perform such delicate movements.
After several attempts, Jingge practically crawled to find her bag, took out the medicine, and spent a long time unscrewing the cap.
The pills were scattered all over the floor.
Jingge trembled as he swallowed the dates whole, not knowing how many he had swallowed.
The medication seemed to give her a sense of security.
Jingge climbed back into the living room and picked up the plush toys one by one, hugging them to his arms.
The world is nothingness, a chaotic absurdity.
Jingge then fell into nothingness.
They didn't even notice when the door was opened.
It seems someone has come in.
The person's footsteps were very light and slow.
The man squatted down beside her.
The man pulled her and the doll into his arms, touching her forehead and her hair with his hands.
He called her softly, "Jingge".
Jing Ge was suddenly stunned.
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