Chapter 50
As Li Muxue was being wheeled into the emergency room in a deep coma, Xu Chen took her blood-stained phone, checked the call logs and text messages, and confirmed Shen Haoyu and Li Junsheng's numbers. After leaving Li Junsheng's number at the nurses' station, he left the hospital. He returned to Zhao Xiujuan's house; Aunt Zhao was already asleep late at night. On the coffee table in the living room, Xu Chen took out a pen and wrote the following on a piece of manuscript paper:
"Aunt Zhao, Xiao Chen really wants to call you 'Mom' right now! But unfortunately, I may never have the chance in this life! I'm going to send a demon back to his hell! I know I won't survive this journey either! But I have no other choice! I will repay your kindness in the next life!"
unfilial son Xu Chen
This is my last words!
After finishing writing, he pressed the bankbook that Aunt Zhao had given him a year ago onto the manuscript paper. He hadn't touched a single penny of the 37,000 yuan inside. His tuition for that year at the university of science and technology was paid for with the student grant he applied for and the money he earned from part-time jobs...
He went into the kitchen and found the sharpest boning knife. He wrapped it tightly in newspaper and put it in his canvas backpack. Finally, he knelt before Aunt Zhao's bedroom door and kowtowed three times, each time with a weight as heavy as a thousand pounds. At that moment, there were no tears in his eyes, only two flames of revenge burning within them…
Xu Chen didn't know where Shen Haoyu lived. He could only wander aimlessly in the night, eventually reaching the shade of a tree near the west gate of Labor Park. He took out Li Muxue's phone and dialed Shen Haoyu's number: "Hey! Brother Yu. This is Xu Chen. Do you have time now? Can we meet up? Since you like Muxue, I'll talk to you. As long as the conditions are right, everything is negotiable..."
Shen Haoyu hung up the phone, a contemptuous smile playing on his lips: "In this world, money is everything! You can easily get anything. That Xu guy just wants to extort money, right? I have plenty!"
What a twisted worldview this is! And it is precisely because of this twisted worldview that Shen Haoyu's twisted life was created!
Xu Chen was waiting for Shen Haoyu, and also for what he believed to be the fairest verdict for Shen Haoyu. During this time, four faces kept flashing through his mind—Li Muxue's deathly pale face, ravaged by fists and slaps; and the steely faces of Li Junsheng, Qiao Kexin, and Xu Zhenguo. These three faces constantly reminded him that his love for Li Muxue was the biggest taboo in his life; he couldn't expect to find even a second of respite within it! Rather than this endless, agonizing struggle, he'd rather risk his life, using Shen Haoyu's blood to commemorate their youth and love!
The high beams of Shen Haoyu's Passat approached from afar, shining on Xu Chen's bloodless face, blinding him. He tried to shield his eyes with his hand, but could not block the two glaring beams.
The car stopped five meters away from him on the roadside. Shen Haoyu got out of the car, shirtless, wearing only black shorts and slippers, as if nothing had just happened. He was lazy, nonchalant, and had a touch of innate arrogance.
"You little trash, you poor wretch, you've finally seen the light, huh? Tell me, how much do you want from your grandpa Shen? Is 100,000 yuan enough?"
"No, no, Brother Yu, you've misunderstood. I... I don't want your money," Xu Chen said, secretly pulling out the boning knife hidden behind his back. "What I want is... your life!"
Amidst Xu Chen's almost beast-like roar, he frantically slashed at Shen Haoyu...
About a minute later, everything fell into a deathly silence. Xu Chen's thin, emaciated body lay on the ground, his head hitting the curb, and bright red blood began to seep from his nostrils and the corners of his mouth. He had lost consciousness.
Shen Haoyu, however, was unharmed and could even bend down to sneer at Xu Chen: "A piece of trash like you think you can kill me? Maybe in your next life, little brother. Your brother Yu used to practice free fighting in college..."
"I want your life!" became Xu Chen's last words to this world...
(To be continued)
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