"Bitch!" A shrill scream suddenly tore through the silence in the room.
Despair instantly ignited the violence that had been suppressed for too long. The flame of fear in Sang Wenyin's eyes suddenly turned into a raging wildfire, burning away all her rationality.
Almost instinctively, she used all her strength to grab the cold inkstone. Her arms trembled violently due to the force, and she swung it forward fiercely, bringing up a fishy wind!
"Bang!"
A dull sound that made your teeth ache.
Cui Yan, who was desperately trying to break free, was caught off guard and her body suddenly stiffened. A stream of warm liquid flowed down the wisps of hair on her forehead.
She tilted her head slightly, her eyes wide open, staring straight at Sang Wenyin's face distorted by rage.
Time seemed to stand still for a moment.
The extreme shock in Cui Yan's eyes was quickly replaced by unbelievable pain. Her body shook twice, as if all her bones had been pulled out, and she fell backwards silently like mud. With a dull "bang", she fell heavily on the cold and hard water-ground brick floor.
Sang Wenyin held the inkstone in her empty hand, and the heavy feeling seemed to still remain in her palm.
"Cui Yan!" The voice choked in Sang Wenyin's throat suddenly rushed out, and the distorted sharpness only left boundless and overwhelming panic.
She almost rushed to Cuiyan's side with her hands and knees, and her hot tears fell on Cuiyan's pale cheeks. She stretched out her trembling hand, wanting to touch the hideous wound on Cuiyan's forehead, but she pulled it back as if it had been burned by fire.
In a panic, she suddenly tore off a corner of her dress, instantly soaking the white silk. Like a mad woman, she used the cloth to haphazardly wipe the sticky blood and ink from Cui Yan's cheeks and hair, tears and snot streaming down her face. "Wake up! Cui Yan, don't scare me! I didn't mean to..."
The handkerchief was stained beyond recognition, and her ten fingers were also stained dirty, but blood was still slowly oozing out.
Finally, Cui Yan's tightly closed eyelashes trembled violently for a few times, and she let out a faint sound of pain: "Ugh..."
Thank God!
Sang Wenyin's movements suddenly stopped, and then the gesture of wiping the blood changed from crazy tearing to careful touching in an instant.
She looked at Cui Yan's slowly opening eyes, which were filled with distraction, confusion, and then clear pain.
"You're awake! You're awake!" Sang Wenyin's voice was trembling and out of tune, with a sob tone of someone who had just survived a disaster. "Cui Yan... can you hear me? Ah?"
Cui Yan gasped, the immense pain making her consciousness blurry. She could only weakly squeeze out a breath from between her teeth: "It hurts... It hurts so much..."
Sang Wenyin tightly grasped Cui Yan's cold hand, crying loudly: "Don't! Cui Yan! Don't ignore me! I'm the bastard! I... I'm really being driven crazy..."
She hurriedly picked up the torn sleeve of her wedding dress from the ground and tried to wipe the blood from Cui Yan's forehead. The fine red satin was stained even redder and more eerie.
"I'm sorry! Hit me back! Hit me ten times! Hit me a hundred times! Please help me! You're the only one left! Can you help me deliver a message? Go find Liao Lang..."
She pleaded incoherently, the fear in her eyes almost overflowing, "He won't let me down! Once he graduates from high school..." She spoke more and more anxiously, as if if she kept repeating those words, they would become a life-saving rope.
"Miss..." Cui Yan spoke weakly, her voice as faint as a candle in the wind.
Her gaze passed over Sang Wenyin's tear-stained face and cast towards a point in the void. Her voice was so low that it was almost inaudible, but every word was like ice chips with blood, hitting Sang Wenyin's heart: "Do you believe this... yourself?" The blood on her forehead dripped from the corners of her eyes, mixing with the ink, like the blood and tears she shed.
"I..." Sang Wenyin froze.
Believe it or not?
The months of waiting, like a stone sinking into the ocean, slowly drained away all her confidence. Only a name, a vague promise, remained, the only straw she could grasp, but it was so vain that even she began to doubt whether she could withstand the crushing despair.
"Miss..." Cui Yan's voice was intermittent, weak but clear, and sounded again, like the heaviest anchor dragging a sinking ship into the abyss, "Think about it... think about the baby in your belly... and your future... your cousin from the Yao family... the Yao family is still a decent home after all..." Every word exhausted her remaining strength. After saying this, Cui Yan closed her heavy eyelids, her brows furrowed in pain, and she fainted completely.
The air was completely frozen.
Sang Wenyin remained in a half-kneeling position, like a dusty clay sculpture.
Tears hung on her chin, then fell silently, hitting the ground with a "thump", spreading a small dark color.
A long time, maybe just a moment, or maybe it is a solidified eternity.
She finally moved. Slowly, she pushed herself up from the cold floor. Her feet felt numb, as if they didn't belong to her. She leaned down, carefully avoiding the hideous wound on Cui Yan's head. With all her might, she maneuvered her onto the bed, pulling her quilt over the unconscious maid, tightly covering her and blocking out the glaring blood.
Then, Sang Wenyin walked back to the table piled with the tattered red wedding dress, step by step, extremely slowly.
She picked up the wedding dress that Cui Yan had torn, her movements mechanical and unfamiliar. She unfolded it and placed it under the lamp, the hideous tears clearly visible.
She lowered her head and searched through the scattered needlework basket for the thickest needle and the same color silk thread. The needle tip gleamed with a cold silver light.
The needle and thread weaved through the cracks. Stitch after stitch. She embroidered with uncanny concentration, her eyes as empty as a frozen lake, without a single ripple.
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