Boom—
A bolt of lightning struck down from the sky, seemingly splitting the earth in two. Thunder roared alongside the wind, making the tall tree branches sway precariously. Moments later, the downpour arrived as expected, the gale-force winds adding to the chill of the eerie weather.
In the torrential rain, lightning flashed wildly, one after another, the flickering light making a private villa look like a haunted building standing deep in the mountains.
A naked man lay motionless on the bed, as if dead. His pale face was devoid of any color, like a withering tree gradually losing its vitality. His hands were cuffed to the bed rails, his body was covered in wounds, and the bed was a mess.
The man sitting in the darkness slowly lit a cigarette for himself, his face shrouded in smoke, making it impossible to see his expression.
He stood there, cigarette between his fingers, motionless, like a still object, staring intently at the person on the bed. He watched the seed of his own pent-up anger slowly seep out, dripping gently onto the sheets.
His bloodless face appeared even paler in the moonlight; were it not for the slight rise and fall of his chest, one would have thought the person on the bed was dead.
For a moment, he wondered if this person would stop hating him if he died.
He stubbed out his cigarette, moved slightly closer to the bed, and looked at the face that was slightly distorted by fear, and at the transparent teardrops hanging on the long eyelashes.
His slender fingers gently and softly traced the face of the person on the bed. At that moment, he longed to hold him...
A dull ache throbbed in his chest, accompanied by a deep sorrow. He recalled what Bai Jinxiu had said two years ago: "If one day you take a fancy to a girl and go to her door to propose marriage, if she refuses, I will kill her; if she agrees, I will slaughter her entire family."
Those seemingly joking words echoed in Xiao Jingran's mind. Looking at the pale face of the person on the bed, hatred surged up in his heart again, spreading to every cell in his body.
So this was Bai Jinxiu's revenge.
He could not forget the day of their wedding, when Bai Jinxiu appeared at the wedding banquet entrance like a demon from hell, her smile cruel to the extreme.
Xiao Jingran thought Bai Jinxiu's words back then were just a joke, but he never imagined that they would all come true on his wedding day.
Xiao Jingran never imagined that the self-defense weapon he gave to Bai Jinxiu would become the murder weapon he used to kill his fiancée's entire family.
He hated Bai Jinxiu for ruining his beautiful dream of getting married and having children. He thought this must be Bai Jinxiu's way of retaliating against him for breaking his promise, so he wouldn't let him die so easily. He wanted to torture him and hear Bai Jinxiu beg for mercy and say that he was wrong.
The torrential rain outside the window grew even more furious, pounding against the glass with a loud 'pitter-patter' sound like firecrackers exploding.
After an unknown amount of time, he finally unblocked the person on the bed and turned to leave this enchanting place.
A pair of clear, peach-blossom eyes suddenly opened in the darkness. She sat up, only to find that her whole body ached and she couldn't use her strength, especially in a certain place, where there was an indescribable pain.
After lying still for a while, Shen Ye finally felt a little more comfortable.
Taking a deep breath, I struggled to sit up in bed and looked around blankly, only to find that apart from the cabinet and the bed, there was no other furniture.
Looking down at the mess on the bed, along with the bruises on his body and the pain in a certain area, he immediately guessed what had just happened.
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