Night Talk
Jiang Yunshu was not surprised by this. He calmly put down his phone, washed his hands, lay back, closed his eyes and went to sleep.
Ten minutes later.
Jiang Yunshu slowly opened his eyes, looking tired.
Sure enough, once I woke up in the middle of the night, I couldn't fall asleep again.
Kicking the quilt away, Jiang Yunshu stood up with resentment, changed his clothes, turned on the light, and sat at the table to check the information.
It was not until he heard the sound of gentle cleaning outside the room that Jiang Yunshu looked up to see the time.
——Four o'clock in the morning.
After putting down his phone, Jiang Yunshu felt inexplicably guilty. He tidied up his things quietly and fell back on the bed.
She was half asleep and half awake for an unknown amount of time, and at dawn, she fell asleep completely.
…………
Half a month later.
A gentle breeze blew, and the thick white smoke that covered the sky dissipated. The bright sunlight shone through the mist, and the sky was clear and blue.
There were mountains of corpses and seas of blood on the ground.
"Cough, cough, cough, cough, gulp, gulp... eh..."
In the lonely world, Jiang Yunshu stood there with his head lowered, his body unconsciously tense and hunched, coughing and spitting blood uncontrollably.
Her white clothes were stained with blood. She was not good at close combat, so most of the blood was her own.
She now knew that the medicine that saved her life could not cover up the pain of suffocation.
Blood blocked her mouth and nose. Jiang Yunshu kept coughing or vomiting the blood out. She could only take a quick breath, and the rising blood instantly blocked her mouth and nose again...
Jiang Yunshu felt dizzy and suffocated, and everything in her was restrained.
“Puff——”
Jiang Yunshu felt a chill in his chest and suddenly fell to the ground.
She opened her eyes belatedly, and in front of her eyes there was a blur of colored blocks of different sizes. The bright colored blocks gradually subdivided at a speed visible to the naked eye, revealing a hideous face stained with blood.
Jiang Yunshu fell to the ground, and he also fell to the ground.
His face was twisted into a mocking smile, and dark red blood gushed out of his mouth, instantly dyeing the lower half of his face red.
He stretched his neck and leaned closer to Jiang Yunshu, laughing so hard that his whole body trembled and blood oozed out, and whispered, "You are...nothing more than that."
I’m glad I let you come, but it turns out you’re just…nothing special.
“Bang!”
The blood-red, silky shadow whipped him away the next moment.
With his hands supporting the ground, Jiang Yunshu half-knelt and half-crouched on the ruins. The mottled white clothes on his body were instantly stained red by the blood gushing out of his heart.
The suffocation was like a poisonous snake strangling her neck. The fingers of her hands on the ground twitched unconsciously, and Jiang Yunshu's face hanging in the shadows was twisted.
Her body was shaking, blood dripping from her open mouth, but she couldn't breathe.
There were rustling sounds, and amidst the sea of blood and corpses, a long line of bloody figures came from afar and slowly walked towards the distance behind them.
The broken flesh and blood grew and intertwined rapidly, and was carefully mended...
Jiang Yunshu spat out a large mouthful of black and red blood, took several deep breaths, and stood up shakily.
She turned around, stepped on the sticky sea of blood, and followed the snake-like figures in front of her, walking into the distance.
Under the bright sunlight, it looked like a parade of absurd and terrifying ghosts...
The Zhao family was destroyed.
…………
The warm yellow light cast a halo in the dim light, and groups of people walked by side by side, talking and laughing.
With people toasting each other and laughing, the banquet was filled with a relaxed, pleasant and sweet atmosphere.
Far away, a place undisturbed by the hustle and bustle.
In the room.
The girl put the computer on the table, then walked around the room hesitantly, looking left and right.
The plain white robe of the same size covered her body, but it became increasingly loose.
As if the time limit of her last burst of vitality was about to end, she became thinner and thinner these days, and her face became pale, but the depression between her eyebrows and eyes unexpectedly disappeared.
She became peaceful, like the surface of a lake on a spring afternoon, warm, calm, soft and docile.
It even reveals a sense of vitality and prosperity that is completely contrary to its physical condition.
Jiang Yunshu stopped at the small table beside the bed in the inner room, reached out to pick up his cell phone, and his lips curled up unconsciously.
She seemed very happy.
There was even a hint of secret joy.
Holding his cell phone and a glass of water, Jiang Yunshu returned to his computer and sat down, continuing to look at the information.
Jiang Yunshu stared at the computer intently, occasionally lowering his eyes and raising his hand to tap the pages and keyboard on his mobile phone, recording or searching for something.
From time to time, she picked up the cup, sipped a few drops of water and swallowed them.
"cough……"
Halfway through swallowing, the girl's dry throat suddenly felt a sharp pain. Her facial features instantly tightened. She turned her head away and coughed to the side, while reaching out to grab a tissue and covering her mouth.
Her body was shaking uncontrollably, and she was coughing muffledly, with blood stains appearing on the tissue covering her mouth.
After getting up to wash up, Jiang Yunshu slowly walked back, picked up the cup and brought it to his mouth, swallowing it slowly and with difficulty, mouthful by mouthful, bit by bit.
Since returning that day, she has been unable to eat or drink.
Anyway, she wouldn't die when she shouldn't if she didn't eat or drink, so she simply stopped eating.
The only thing that bothered her was that whenever she was half asleep and about to fall into a deep sleep, she would suddenly wake up...
Time and time again, she was so painful and anxious that she almost wanted to bang her head against the wall.
But fortunately...
Jiang Yunshu looked at the lines of black text on the computer screen in front of him. His dark eyes suddenly curved and a faint smile appeared on his lips.
So later she simply stopped resting and looked at the information over and over again, her joy almost overflowing from her heart.
It's true.
At first, I was still anxious and felt like I was drinking poison to quench my thirst. From time to time, I would wonder, "Will changing my environment and identity really be better than my current one?"
But as time went by, such thoughts were suppressed deep in my heart as soon as they emerged, and then faded and disappeared.
It was as if she had been deprived of the ability to think. Whenever she thought of this matter, her mind was filled with intense joy and nothing else.
The belief in life, the belief in death, the belief in immortality.
Don't accept anyone's questioning, not even yourself.
It has become a kind of obsession.
Whenever I think about it, I feel really, really happy... Jiang Yunshu's face was filled with a smile, a faint one, but it revealed unprecedented happiness.
As if someone was trapped in some kind of illusion.
In the silence, there was a sudden knock on the door.
The smile on Jiang Yunshu's face suddenly turned into a faint confusion, as if he had just woken up from a dream.
She blinked, came back to her senses, turned her head to look at the door, and opened her mouth to ask.
"Xiao Shu, it's me."
The voice of the Jiang family's head was heard outside the door first.
Jiang Yunshu paused, walked to the door and opened it.
Outside the door, under the orange light, a young man in formal attire appeared, as if he had just hurried in after leaving a banquet.
He smiled and said, "Xiao Shu, can we go next door and talk?"
As soon as doubts arose in Jiang Yunshu's mind, the little thinking ability he had when he was awake slowly gave rise to a guess.
She nodded indifferently, "Okay."
Tomorrow, she will leave...
Perhaps it was because of this that all kinds of inexplicable complex emotions suddenly took over her heart, which was why she hurried over and did not let her go.
In the lounge on the same floor.
Jiang Yunshu stayed in his room most of the time and rarely stayed here.
Following the head of the Jiang family into here, Jiang Yunshu sat down on the single sofa and looked at him calmly.
Immediately afterwards, two people came in from outside, placed tea and snacks on the table, then closed the door and left silently.
The Jiang family patriarch looked at the girl in front of him for a long while before he opened his mouth and whispered, "Eat something."
Jiang Yunshu's face showed no reaction when he heard this. He said calmly and slowly, "No need."
The head of the Jiang family opened his mouth, then suddenly seemed to remember something. He paused, said "hmm", and fell silent again.
If he said something lightly showing concern at this time, it would make him seem even more hypocritical.
There's nothing wrong with wanting everything, but the most frightening thing is the hypocrisy of wanting everything, which makes people feel nauseous.
The matter is done. On this final day, Jiang Yunshu will no longer be controlled by him, and he doesn't want Jiang Yunshu to be unhappy on this day.
The young man lowered his eyes, reached out to pick up the teacup and slowly took a sip.
In fact, any of his current behavior - his appearance in front of Jiang Yunshu is disgusting enough, isn't it?
What on earth was he thinking about just now? Why did he suddenly leave the banquet in a hurry and come here?
What did he want to say first when he came to see Jiang Yunshu?
Putting down the teacup, he raised his eyes and looked at the girl in white in front of him, his face unconsciously dazed for a moment.
Fifteen years ago, or ten years ago, would he have thought that this child would grow up to be so sickly, cold and aloof?
He seemed to suddenly remember why he came here.
——This child is too easily taken advantage of. It’s hard to imagine what she would do if she went to a strange era alone.
She was not like the other children in the Jiang family, laughing and making noises, crying and scolding, trying every possible way to gain advantages for herself and using all the power she could to achieve her goals.
Just like the quarrel she had with some other children before.
Were those kids really sure of the outcome? Did they really think he would decisively give up on Jiang Yunshu? What if he insisted on going against everyone's wishes out of old friendship?
As long as there is a one percent probability, those children will try it. If they succeed, they make money. If they fail, they fail and they will try again next time.
But Jiang Yunshu didn't.
She held a probability of over 50%, and if she asked him for help, there was a chance that the unfavorable situation could be reversed in an instant...
But she didn't.
She just thought that since things had developed to this point, it would be useless for her to ask for help.
If the probability is less than 99%, she won't do it, not even try.
Even if she really has to take a risk, if she fails once, it will be difficult for her to try again.
She would only show weakness when she was sure that it would be effective.
Her display of weakness will only serve to those who are absolutely and firmly on her side.
Too rigid will easily break.
In the past ten years, Jiang Yunshu seemed to be outward-looking, but in fact he became more self-contained.
She was too afraid of getting hurt.
She doesn't trust anyone.
It was an almost instinctive distrust. It wasn't that she didn't want to, but that she couldn't do it even if she wanted to - and she seemed happy with it, as at least she wouldn't be hurt.
The head of the Jiang family looked at the girl, his dark eyes full of complexity.
If he had known this, he should not have sent Jiang Yunshu out of his ancestral land.
If Jiang Yunshu stayed in his ancestral land and stayed by his side, he would at least not be so frightened day and night.
That dose of strong medicine was really cruel...
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