Half an hour later, the mushy porridge was ready, with a layer of black foam floating on top, making it look rather nauseating.
Xia Yingying casually cracked two eggs into the pot, and once they were cooked, she placed the pot in the sink and filled it with water to cool it down faster.
Once the porridge had cooled down, Xia Yingying carried the bowl upstairs.
She walked to the end of the corridor, took out her key, and opened a door. Inside were only some dusty tools.
Xia Yingying took a ladder and climbed up to a hidden attic.
The attic was quite spacious, but once inside, the stench was so overwhelming it made you want to vomit.
Reaching out, I turned on the light and pushed aside the clutter at the attic doorway. Inside, I saw an iron bed covered with bedding.
And there was a person on the iron bed!
The man was so thin he was unrecognizable. If there were any acquaintances around, they would definitely recognize him as Gao Xiaowen, who had been dead for three years!
Xia Yingying carried the porridge over. When the person heard the sound, their eyes darted around, and they strained to look in the direction from which the sound came, their eyes filled with fear.
Xia Yingying walked up to Gao Xiaowen, holding the porridge in her hand and staring at him coldly with extreme hatred.
Gao Xiaowen can't even make a sound now, and it seems he can't even move. But even so, his limbs are tightly handcuffed to the bed.
I've been having a good time these past few days, so I almost forgot about you.
"See? I've been so good to you, and you've tormented me for three years and ruined my life."
“But I am still willing to take care of you for three years after you become completely paralyzed.”
"Compared to you, I am truly a kind person."
Xia Yingying placed the porridge on the table and sat down in the only clean chair.
There were some tools on the ground: a funnel, a rubber tube, some whips, rulers, and knives. Of course, all of these items were covered in bloodstains.
Except for the funnel and rubber tubing, which were bought by Xia Yingying, everything else belonged to Gao Xiaowen.
Upon hearing this, Gao Xiaowen's eyes were filled with deep regret and pleading.
He wasn't begging Xia Yingying to let him go; he was begging her to kill him.
Because of her total paralysis, Gao Xiaowen spends all her time in bed, immersing herself in this place every day.
His entire body was covered in bedsores, and in the most severe cases, the ground was even ulcerated and had holes.
Xia Yingying saw his gaze and couldn't help but reveal a sarcastic smile.
"Look, your eyes now are just like mine back then, exactly the same."
"I used to beg you like this, begging you to let me go, but what did you do?"
"How did you do that!"
Xia Yingying became more and more agitated as she spoke, but she quickly calmed down.
"We'll settle our accounts later. Let me feed you first."
Xia Yingying's voice sounded like a demon to Gao Xiaowen. He instinctively wanted to back away, his eyes filled with terror, but he couldn't move.
Now, apart from his eyeballs, he has no other part that can move.
Xia Yingying took some medicine from the drawer of the table, scooped out a few pills and threw them into the porridge.
He picked up a rubber tube from the ground, dipped it in the porridge, then pried open Gao Xiaowen's mouth and inserted it.
Gao Xiaowen stared wide-eyed, tears streaming uncontrollably down her face, her eyes filled with despair.
Ten minutes later, the porridge was almost finished. Xia Yingying casually pulled out the tube and threw it on the ground, took a deep breath, and sat back down.
Gao Xiaowen stared blankly at the ceiling, her tears already soaking her pillow.
"Cry, why don't you cry louder? Don't you love seeing me cry? Now it's your turn." Xia Yingying couldn't help but laugh when she saw Gao Xiaowen's expression.
Gao Xiaowen turned her eyes to look at Xia Yingying, her gaze trembling.
It seemed like he was apologizing to Xia Yingying, but Xia Yingying acted as if she hadn't seen it and continued to reminisce on her own.
"I remember that year, I had just started my sophomore year of college."
"The school organized us high-achieving students to paint a portrait for a well-known entrepreneur."
"As the top student in the entire school at the time, I was naturally among them."
“At the time, I was very happy, thinking that I could finally show my value, but I didn’t expect that was just the beginning of my nightmare.”
"Gao Xiaowen, how could you be such a beast, actually falling for me back then?"
"At first, you pretended to be a decent person, using all sorts of sweet talk and even promising me villas and luxury cars to win me over."
“I always refused without hesitation, and in the end I even avoided you.”
"But you beast, in the end you got so angry that you had people spread rumors that I was your mistress and that you were keeping me as a mistress."
“They even photoshopped nude photos of me and posted them on campus.”
"Do you know how many people talked behind my back back then, how many people called me a slut, and how many abusive phone calls and text messages I received every day?"
"Faced with these things, I was completely speechless and at one point I was so depressed that I wanted to jump off a building."
"In the end, I was too ashamed to stay at school, so I chose to drop out."
"In fact, the school was also eager for me to leave, lest I tarnish the school's reputation."
"Do you know how many jobs I had to work to save up for that tuition fee!"
"Do you know how much I want to go to that university!"
"I thought everything would be alright once I left here, but I never expected you to follow me all the way to my house."
"You just drove around the village like that, saying I was your lover. You're really shameless!"
As Xia Yingying spoke, she picked up the knife from the ground, gripped it tightly in her hand, her face full of hatred, but in the end she put it down again.
“My parents call me a whore all the time, saying how could they have given birth to such a scoundrel as me.”
“The villagers pointed and gossiped about me every day. I hid at home and dared not go out, spending my days in tears.”
"And yet you still dare to come and propose marriage."
“I thought my family would be my last resort, but I never imagined that a million dollars would be enough to bribe them and force me to marry you.”
"The reason is simple: my younger brother is of marriageable age, and he should buy a house and a car."
"If you don't think about yourself, you should at least think about him."
"It's ridiculous! Everyone's thinking about him, but who's thinking about me?"
Xia Yingying's eyes were red and her voice was hoarse.
Xia Yingying refused to comply even at the cost of her life, but her parents threatened to kill themselves and even sever ties with her, demanding that she return the money they had spent raising her over the past eighteen years.
At that moment, Xia Yingying's heart turned completely cold, and all the light in her eyes disappeared.
Of all the weapons in the world, none is more deadly than the betrayal of one's own family.
Looking at her mother crying every day, her indifferent father, and her brother who was uncaring and only cared about the million-dollar dowry.
Xia Yingying finally nodded, as if she were a walking corpse.
You want that million-dollar dowry, is that right?
You want to cut ties with me, is that it?
Okay, then so be it.
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