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At this moment, Zhou Qiting really hated the liar in front of him.
Did Zhou Min still think she knew nothing? How dare he make up such untenable stories to deceive her?
Using donations to the welfare home as a clue to induce her to investigate? How ridiculous. The donations seized by the investigation agency began long before she saw the video. How could Zhou Min be sure that she would recognize the people in the video and investigate further?
Moreover, during her imprisonment, Zhou Min clearly asked her whether she recognized the person in the video as Zhou Min when she saw it in the gym.
These contradictory words are enough to overturn Zhou Min's claim that "all I did was to destroy you with my own hands". Zhou Min is now trying hard to distance himself from the welfare home because he is afraid that he will take over the donations to the welfare home.
How come this person is still as stupid as he was when he was a kid? It's so frustrating.
But at least now that she has grown up, she doesn't show her thoughts on her face anymore, which is an improvement compared to before. But when she gets excited, people can still hear clues from her words.
Therefore, Zhou Qiting also doubted her "why" statement. If she really resented him so much when she was a child, how could he not see it at all?
I'm afraid there's something else behind what my mother told me when I was a child, that Zhou Min was instructed by the kidnappers to approach me.
However, Zhou Yiting never thought that her mother, her closest relative, would deceive her, so much so that she believed such a statement for fifteen years.
After seeing the investigation materials about the welfare home sent to her by Zheng Siying, she wanted to ask her mother why she did that, but she was afraid that her mother would obstruct her investigation of Zhou Min, so she temporarily held back.
She didn't have time to ask for answers until she was held hostage in the lounge during the party.
Later, when he confronted Zhou Min, although she spoke with conviction, her eyes were evasive, revealing that her words were a mixture of truth and falsehood. Zhou Qiting secretly made up his mind at that time that if he had a chance to escape alive, he would personally investigate all the facts.
So, after she escaped from the predicament, she asked directly about what happened that year, and her mother told her the whole story.
That year, the Investigation Bureau found out that the director of the welfare home had been embezzling donations, causing the welfare home to suffer losses for many years. Later, he even colluded with kidnappers to kidnap the heir of the Zhou Group, attempting to extort a huge ransom. That's why Zhou Xihe stopped all funding in anger.
When she wanted to further confirm the details related to Zhou Min, her mother refused to say anything and only told her to have a good rest. She also advised her not to worry about a cold-blooded criminal like Zhou Min. There was no need to send anyone to search for him. She just needed to wait for the Investigation Bureau to bring Zhou Min to justice.
Her mother's repeated concealment and avoidance made her more confused.
Zhou Yiting remembered what Zhou Min said that day, "You have never trusted me", and realized that she might have really wronged Zhou Min.
So she now gave Zhou Min the opportunity to speak his true thoughts, but not only did he refuse to be honest, he also deliberately provoked her.
This attitude of not being moved by anything is really annoying.
In this case, Zhou Qiting didn't mind following Zhou Min's words and really treating her as a plaything.
Anyway, she can't escape anymore. There is still a long time to go, and she will always have the opportunity to pry out the information she wants from her "plaything" bit by bit.
The servant who had received instructions entered the room at the right time. From the medicine box handed to him, Zhou Qiting reached over the iodine and took out the most irritating medical alcohol.
She unscrewed the bottle cap in front of Zhou Min. As the pungent smell came out, Zhou Min wrinkled his nose, as if he realized what she wanted to do. He tilted his head back slightly, but still refused to give in.
"Why, Miss Zhou, do you still want to disinfect the toys yourself?"
Zhou Qiting ignored Zhou Min's sarcastic words, dipped the cotton swab in alcohol, took it out and pressed it on the wound on Zhou Min's face without hesitation.
The moment the cotton swab soaked in alcohol touched the wound, Zhou Min gasped for air due to the needle-like pain. His arm tightened unconsciously, pulling the chain that bound his wrist, causing a sound of metal collision.
Seeing Zhou Min in pain, Zhou Qiting smiled coldly and retorted, "Why, you dare to press hard on your wound, are you still afraid of this little pain?"
While she was in a meeting that day, she received a call from the doctor who said that Zhou Min was extremely emotionally unstable and had engaged in self-harming behavior.
But her mother had always been dissatisfied with her for locking Zhou Min up secretly to recuperate. If she had put down her work and gone there, it would have inevitably caused further opposition from her mother. She might even ignore her opinion and forcibly send someone to take Zhou Min to the Investigation Bureau.
After the meeting, Zhou Qiting opened the surveillance video and saw Zhou Min's almost crazy self-abuse behavior. She felt a strong... heartache.
It was even worse than the feeling she had when she watched Zhou Min pacing the room woodenly. It was like a hand was tightly gripping her heart, as if trying to crush it.
The pain caused by the uncontrollable pity and the unwillingness to admit feelings tearing each other apart is Zhou Qiting's involuntary self-punishment.
Thinking of this, Zhou Qiting hit her harder, as if he was angry and wanted to return the pain he had suffered double.
Except for the sudden pain at the beginning, after getting used to it, Zhou Min could taste Zhou Qiting's anger from the stinging of the wound. Under the guilt, an inexplicable pleasure emerged.
When she heard Zhou Qiting mention what she had done that day, she did not avoid the increasingly forceful wiping, but looked straight into those emotionless eyes, trying to use words to provoke deeper and heavier revenge from the person in front of her.
"Don't you just want to see me in agony? Or... you can't bear to?"
Zhou Qiting's hand holding the cotton swab paused, and her already indifferent expression froze in an instant. She handed the thing in her hand to the servant waiting beside her and waved her hand to signal the servant to leave.
When they were the only two people left in the room, she said gently, "I just don't want to see you hurt yourself."
The concern in her words made Zhou Min stunned. Before he could react to Zhou Qiting's abnormal behavior, he heard her cold declaration.
"All your suffering can only be caused by me."
His words were filled with an unquestionable sense of seizure. An inexplicable shudder climbed up his spine. Zhou Min felt his heart pounding, and he suppressed his trembling voice and said slowly: "Did you think about that surveillance video again and again? Do you remember the touch of my blood on your hands? Do you remember..."
Snap——
As expected, the slap landed on the cheek without the wound. Zhou Min's sight shifted, and a buzzing sound in his ears and a burning pain on his skin arose at the same time.
When she looked at Zhou Qiting again, her golden eyes were filled with cunning, and with an unstoppable smile on her face, she continued fearlessly in a low voice: "Will you remember... my warmth?"
"Shut up." Zhou Qiting raised his hand and clamped her chin, the warning force making his fingertips turn white. "Do you still want to be treated like that?"
She watched the surveillance video only once and was reluctant to open it again, but the scene of Zhou Min being seriously injured on that day replayed itself in her dreams more than once.
It's more than just touch, it's more than just temperature.
She remembered every second from the moment Zhou Min stepped into the room.
Those images and that embrace haunted her like a nightmare, and the lingering fear in her heart always led the dream to the scene she least wanted to see -
Zhou Min lowered his head and buried his face in her shoulder. His breathing became shallower and slower. Blood flowed out of the wound. His once warm skin became so cold that it made his chest ache. No matter how she tightened her arms, she could not stop the heartbeat that was gradually stopping through her ribs.
All this was heartbreaking enough, but Zhou Min chose to commit suicide to intensify her torture.
If her people had not found Zhou Min first that day, that last phone call would have become a waking nightmare that she would never be able to escape from for the rest of her life.
This person is not as strong as he seems. He is as fragile as a bubble that bursts at the slightest touch. Yet he still thinks about dying and running away, and he gets himself covered in bruises.
How could Zhou Qiting let Zhou Min have his way? Since he didn't care about his body, it would be better to let her do it instead of letting her hurt him without any care.
From now on, everything about Zhou Min will be controlled by her.
Zhou Min lowered his eyes and looked at the hand that was clamping his chin. The curve of the corners of his mouth deepened, and a little bit of the white tip of his teeth was revealed under his light-colored lips, making the smile look a little mocking.
"What are you laughing at?" Zhou Qiting frowned slightly, dissatisfied that Zhou Min did not take her warning seriously.
"It was this same hand that day, but it was even more forceful, almost digging into my body." Zhou Min looked up and met Zhou Qiting's gaze that seemed to want to tear him apart. "It really makes me miss it..."
Seeing Zhou Qiting's clenched other hand, Zhou Min longed for the man's complete revenge even more, so he stimulated him further.
"You miss it too, don't you? You miss the feeling of my warm blood flowing through your fingers, and you miss the excruciating pain I felt as the strength in your hands increased..."
Zhou Min paused, looked at the still silent person, and said tenderly: "Zhou Qiting, the feeling of me slowly withering in your hands, is it unforgettable?"
"Zhou Min." After taking a few deep breaths, Zhou Qiting loosened his tightly clenched hands angrily, but his eyes were dark. "If you can't speak, then shut up."
"Since you miss me so much, I don't mind creating more 'good' memories for you. However, before that..."
Zhou Qiting patted Zhou Min's cheek with the back of his hand, a meaningful smile appeared at the corner of his lips, and he spoke softly.
"Let me teach you how to use this mouth first."
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