Episode 72 It’s too late
Lin Ying didn't expect the two children to run out of the basement hand in hand. The moment she held Ruxing in her arms, she nervously asked -
"Where's that big sister?!"
"Mom, please save my sister! Brother Cen has a knife in his hand! He cut her!"
According to Jiaze's recollection, Xu Yiwei sneaked in to rescue them while Cen Shuo went out for some fresh air, but before he could lead them out, he was discovered by Cen Shuo who had returned.
The two argued endlessly, and Xu Yiwei finally forced her way to the door. Just then, Cen Shuo took out a knife, and she immediately stood in front of the child and was injured.
She covered her wound and pushed Jiaze - "Hurry up and run to the park outside, your father's car is there!"
Jiaze is a boy of few words, but he reacts quickly. When Ruxing was still filled with righteous indignation and kept saying "Let go of big sister", he dragged Ruxing into the open space outside without saying a word... The park was within sight, and his father's car was conspicuous and easy to identify even in the dark.
When the police and Lin Ying and others took the child to school, he was already out of breath, but Ruxing did not forget to shout for help.
Lin Ying's palms were never dry tonight. She had just heard from Jiang Shu about the relationship between Xu Yiwei and Cen Shuo, and now she heard the news that Xu Yiwei was injured while saving the child. She couldn't help but gasp.
But Cen Shuo's act of assaulting someone naturally gave the police an opportunity to act. With the child safely returned to her mother and Xu Yiwei injured, the police immediately prepared to storm the building and rescue the hostages...
However, just as everyone was about to rush into the building, Cen Shuo unexpectedly appeared on his own initiative. He was supporting the unconscious Xu Yiwei. Her ribs were covered in blood, which had seeped through her clothes and flowed all the way to her knees...
"Send her to the hospital!"
After Xu Yiwei was sent to the hospital, the doctor diagnosed that she was injured between her ribs and waist. Fortunately, the ribs served as a buffer. Although the knife wound penetrated her body, it did not damage her organs. She just lost too much blood. Fortunately, she was sent to the hospital in time and her life was saved.
After that, Lin Ying had a comprehensive physical examination of the two children in the hospital to prevent any potential problems. Fortunately, they were just a little dehydrated in the end, which was not serious and only required a simple IV drip - after all, neither of them had eaten or drunk anything from noon to midnight.
Upon hearing the news that his son had been rescued, Wang Duo rushed to the suburban hospital at two o'clock in the morning.
Seeing his son sleeping soundly while receiving an IV drip, his face showed a rare worry and loss of control. However, this loss of control turned into a complete disorder after seeing Lin Ying tucking in Jiaze's blanket...
“…Thank you for taking care of him for me.”
Lin Ying was already exhausted and had no time to care about him. Instead, Jiang Shu stood beside him with his arms folded, sneering at him:
"Good shoots come from bad bamboo."
…
However, before Wang Duo could come up with any more plausible words, two people in police uniforms behind him gently knocked on the door and showed him their IDs.
"Mr. Wang Duo, right? The suspect involved in the case reported you for instigating them to kidnap a child and disrupt public opinion. We need your cooperation in investigating the details. Will you come with us?"
That was the first time Lin Ying saw Wang Duo in such an awkward and forced state. His gold-rimmed glasses usually made him look particularly distinguished, but that time, they seemed to be missing a corner, sticking crookedly on his nose, making his usually delicate and gentle features lose their grace.
After Wang Duo was taken away, the two children fell asleep peacefully. She finally had time to click on the countless red bubbles on her phone again...
The “hot-selling” headlines that were a mess a few hours ago have now stopped trending, as if there were no waves at all.
Although some people are still discussing it, the enthusiasm has obviously cooled down a lot.
She knew that Song Qi must have made a request to Song Qihui, and Song Qihui had compromised - otherwise, with her ability, she would definitely make the hot search list sleepless tonight.
Although he was physically tired, Lin Ying was still in high spirits at the moment.
It has been a long time since I experienced such a critical and dramatic moment. It was like watching a classic adventure movie from the last century. It was a false alarm, so it’s a cause for celebration.
When she came out of Xu Yiwei's ward, Jiang Shu waved the instant noodles in his hand at her...
"It's so late, the hotel cafeteria is closed, how about taking this to fill your stomach first?"
At this moment, Lin Ying suddenly felt that her spirit had become real. The long-term energy consumption made her heart completely break in front of the person after seeing the two buckets of instant noodles.
She buried her whole body in Jiang Shu's chest without hesitation.
Jiang Shu was stunned by her actions, even the hand holding the instant noodles was at a loss. But after a moment, he casually put it on the chair beside him and responded to her collision seriously and forcefully - pulling her into his arms more thoroughly, leaning over to kiss the top of her head and the center of her forehead, and freeing one hand to caress the back of her neck...
"Okay, okay, it's all over. Tomorrow..." He paused for a moment and changed his tone.
"Tomorrow is another day, Scarlet."
Unexpectedly, as soon as these words fell, Lin Ying couldn't help but sneer in his arms, then pushed him away, smiled up, and asked, "You are quite good at quoting classics to comfort people now."
He scratched her nose and continued to hold her in his arms. "Thanks to you, otherwise I wouldn't have the patience to finish reading so many literary classics."
Thinking of the traces of her childhood interests she had seen at his house last time, Lin Ying couldn't help but laugh out loud and teased him—
"How dare you say that, brother with a special collector fetish?"
"How about you hide me now? I'll be yours alone."
Fortunately, Lin Ying knew her limits and understood that this was a public place, so she didn't let him give her an inappropriate kiss.
***
The next morning, the police notification came quickly.
The morning news channel broadcasts subtitles in a rolling manner——
"Notice: The kidnapping case of minors involving a related company has been solved. The main culprit, Cen, surrendered himself, and the two children were rescued safely. A female victim, Xu, was found at the scene. She received minor injuries while assisting in the rescue and is now out of danger."
The heated discussions, accusations, insults, and conspiracy speculations that had been boiling over all night were all sealed at this moment in this notification document with white text on a blue background.
Lin Ying stood outside the corridor of the detention center, waiting to be summoned. As a family member of the kidnapped person, she had just cooperated with the police to take a statement, and now she requested if she could meet the suspect Cen Shuo.
When Cen Shuo was brought out, he was already wearing prison clothes. His expression was originally as still as a pool of water, but after seeing her face, his expression rippled reflexively, but his eyes still avoided her...
"…Is she okay?"
Lin Ying paused:
"If you're asking about her lifespan, she's fine, but if you're asking about her physical condition, she's not. She lost a lot of blood. The surgery took over three hours, and she still hadn't woken up when I got here."
The other party hesitated for a moment, nodded, lowered his eyes, and seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
"That's good."
"Xiao Cen."
Being addressed like this again, Cen Shuo's eyes paused.
"I know you didn't kidnap the child solely for extortion. You didn't trust Wang Duo, so you kidnapped his son as well, just like you once distrusted me. A big part of the reason you agreed to kidnap Ruxing and discredit Jiang Lin was to get revenge on me, right?"
Cen Shuo's eyes flickered several times, as if he had finally mustered up the courage to focus his gaze on Lin Ying's face...
Yes, revenge on Lin Ying.
This is an extremely satisfying thing. You can get money, change jobs, and make the woman who once abandoned you fall to the bottom... absurd but satisfying.
Once upon a time, finding a woman of comparable condition who could help you and marry her was the repeated admonition of parents. Besides that, for a top student like him with outstanding appearance and admission to a prestigious university, it was much easier to change his fate than for "ordinary people" - this was a shortcut given by God, and he would take it if he could.
Ever since breaking up with Xu Yiwei, he has been both in love and angry with her. He loves her tenacity and courage, and loves her for speaking her mind. But when he thinks of her expression when they broke up, and the things she did afterwards, the worldly criticisms and shackles remind him all the time - she is a bad girl, and a man like you shouldn't be worthy of a bad girl, you deserve someone better.
Therefore, he once took his parents' words as his guiding principle, and believed that his conditions were worthy of a better woman, so he found Lin Ying again - although she was married for the second time and had children, she was an honest and kind person.
She was his best choice, but he soon discovered that he was not her only choice.
Her boss Wang Duo uses both kindness and force on her, her stepbrother takes good care of her, and she can't forget the old love. Even she herself can't tell who her daughter's biological father is - it turns out that she is also a bad woman.
But he still wanted to give it a try for the so-called "shortcut", but she actually took the initiative to propose a breakup, and he couldn't even be her sex partner. It was at this time that Wang Duo tried to dissuade him, but secretly negotiated with him. In order to make him willingly accept his control, he even arranged a better job for him.
It was also recently that Wang Duo put forward his final condition to him - cooperate with him in a play, and he would give him a large sum of money after the play was completed. This would not only help Xu Yiwei pay off his debts, but also help them get a work visa in Hong Kong, so they could have the best of both worlds.
He felt that everything was falling into place.
It rained heavily that night. He waited until three in the morning, but still did not see Xu Yiwei. When the rain gradually subsided, he went out with an umbrella and actually found Xu Yiwei in a convenience store near his home.
He suddenly recalled the midnight three years ago. It was also a night like that when he saw the girl through the glass door picking at rice grains in a plastic box like a little hamster. But how could this hamster now be so miserable, like a weasel that everyone wanted to kill?
The moment he said, "I'll pay off your debt, let's get back together," he had already thought about the price he would pay today.
He didn't understand what he had done wrong. He couldn't let his father see his success, couldn't make his first love fall in love with him, and couldn't make shortcuts look at him with new eyes... But he kept fighting and making sacrifices.
But why did it end up like this?
Is it just because he was not born into a wealthy and powerful family? He is unwilling to accept this.
As he thought this, he blurted out the last sentence.
"Lin Ying, do people like Xu Yiwei and I, who don't come from noble backgrounds, have to be manipulated and treated like toys by you capitalists and second-generation rich people without any bottom line?!"
His voice was a little loud, causing the police officers around him to pull him back frequently, wanting to take him back immediately, which he did.
But during his struggle, Lin Ying sighed—
"You and Xu Yiwei are completely different people. You even have to use the excuse of being used for revenge, but taking the risk to save others was completely her own choice."
Before being taken back by the police, Cen Shuo suddenly remembered what Xu Yiwei had yelled at him in the basement last night -
"Cen Shuo, I'm with you not to commit a crime with you. I'm saving them, but I'm also saving you. Do you understand?!"
Unfortunately, he was already overwhelmed by sorrow and blame at that time. He pulled out the spare knife handle and stabbed them...
By the time he reacted, it was too late.
Whether it is his relationship with Xu Yiwei or his own life.
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