Chapter 60: I Haven't Compromised
Qiao Xu's eyes were red, and she was digging her fingers into the web between her thumb and forefinger.
A large hand covered her hands: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
"I promise I won't let anything happen to Auntie, Qiaoqiao, you have to believe me."
Xu Si'an gently coaxed her, knowing that Qiao Xu was under a lot of psychological pressure and was very anxious under these circumstances.
"Xu Si'an, if I had listened to Shen Zhiwei and left you, would this have prevented this from happening?"
The man's face visibly turned cold.
But I held her hand tightly and didn't let go: "Qiao Xu, how can you still be so naive after four years? You actually believe what someone like Shen Zhiwei says?"
Do you really think she likes it?
"You're wrong. He's after the power behind me that can help the Shen family."
Qiao Xu shook her head and withdrew her hand; "That's not how it is, the way she looked at you was loving."
"Love my ass." Xu Si'an gripped the steering wheel tightly, and the car sped up. "Someone like her who only uses emotions to make deals, she can't possibly love anyone. If it weren't me, I could be Xu Shiran."
"Four years ago, we were both on Chinese medicine. I endured it for your sake, but she slept with Xu Shiran."
"This kind of love is fucking filthy."
Qiao Xu muttered under her breath, "So you're feeling sorry?"
Xu Si'an almost lost his composure: "What the hell are you talking about?"
"No."
Qiao Xu stopped talking, afraid of disturbing his driving.
When they were only a few kilometers away from their destination, Qiao Xu received a photo on her phone. It was a picture of her mother with a clear handprint on her cheek.
Here you go.
Qiao Xu's feet were cold; was she returning it to her?
So Shen Zhiwei has exposed herself?
Qiao Xu called back, expecting no one to answer like before: "Qiao Xu, how are you? Does it hurt?"
"Your father is dead and you still haven't learned your lesson."
Xu Si'an took her phone and put it on speakerphone, signaling her to speak.
"What conditions would it take to release my mother and let me break up with Xu Si'an?"
The man driving glanced at her and sneered inwardly.
That woman, she's fucking asking for it.
Shen Zhiwei on the other end of the phone laughed maniacally: "Do you think I still want him now? Xu Si'an is just a man. I, Shen Zhiwei, have plenty of lapdogs."
Xu Si'an sneered, "What a pity. I'm not going to be your lapdog. You're so filthy, I'm afraid I'll get a disease from you."
"Unlike my wife, who is sweet from head to toe."
Shen Zhiwei didn't seem surprised by Xu Si'an's presence: "Xu Si'an, do you think Qiao Xu would hate you to death if he knew that his parents died because of you?"
"Because of me? Isn't it because of you, because of Shen Zhao?"
Xu Si'an pressed the record button, and Qiao Xu bit her lip tightly to stop herself from crying out loud.
"So what if I am? What have I done?"
“Her father was already dying. He died from a failed surgery. It wasn’t me who killed him.”
Shen Zhiwei sneered, "Xu Si'an, you have ten minutes left. Once the time is up, I'll have someone throw this old woman off the building."
"Qiao Xu, this is the price you pay for hitting me."
Xu Si'an knew that perhaps it was because he had pinched her that day that he had angered her.
He truly regretted not killing her outright.
"Shen Zhiwei, I'll exchange my mother for mine. Do whatever you want to me, just let her go." Qiao Xu's emotions gradually became unstable, and her voice began to shriek.
Xu Si'an took the phone: "Shen Zhiwei, you better pray that I die today, otherwise, you will have to choose between death and going to jail."
He hung up on her phone and threw it onto the back seat. Qiao Xu looked at him with red eyes.
"Xu Si'an, what are you doing?"
"Qiao Xu, don't try to reason with a madwoman. Shen Zhiwei is a complete lunatic."
Qiao Xu said something wrong: Shen Zhiwei liked him? Love turned to hate, ha!
It's just that she's unwilling to accept it.
Shen Zhiwei, a pampered heiress from a wealthy family, had all her pride trampled underfoot by Xu Si'an.
Four years ago at their engagement party, Xu Si'an said in front of hundreds of people, "She, Shen Zhiwei, is not even a fraction as good as Qiao Xu. At least my Qiao Qiao is devoted to me. As long as Shen Zhiwei is a man, that's enough."
"Engaged? I'll only marry Qiao Xu."
Later, the engagement banquet was stopped midway through. Xu Si'an was drugged and twenty bodyguards escorted him into a room.
Shen Zhiwei stripped naked and climbed into bed, while Xu Si'an smashed a glass lamp in the hotel room, cutting his own arm.
He knew that Xu Shiran loved Shen Zhiwei to the point of madness.
So he told Xu Shiran that if she didn't show up in half an hour, he would slit Shen Zhiwei's carotid artery.
Xu Shiran did not disappoint him; he arrived in ten minutes.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw Shen Zhiwei lying on the floor covered with a blanket. He had just helped her up when she pressed herself against him.
How could he not react when the woman he likes is completely naked?
When Xu Si'an left, he contacted a reporter and deliberately left his room key at the door of the room.
By the time the truth came out, he was already on a plane in Los Angeles.
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The man driving spoke coldly: "Qiao Xu, four years ago when I was drugged and forced to have sex with Shen Zhiwei by twenty men, I still did not give in."
"Can't you trust me a little more?"
Qiao Xu lowered her head and said, "I'm sorry."
"Why should I ask you to apologize?"
"Don't cry, even if I die, I will never let you become an orphan."
Xu Si'an's thumb brushed against the corner of her eye: "Why are you crying? You're not dead yet."
"Could you please stop using that word?"
This word seemed to irritate Qiao Xu's nerves; she couldn't bear to hear it.
"Okay, okay, then please stop crying, alright?"
"When you cry, I want to hurt you."
Qiao Xu burst into tears and cursed at him, "Xu Si'an, are you sick?"
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