Chapter 18 My Dog
But Bai Zhenzhu's happiness lasted only two days. When she returned home on Saturday, her nightmare began.
As soon as she entered the door, her father dragged her into that small, dark room...
The smile on Bai Zhenzhu's face was still frozen, and she asked anxiously, her body trembling, "Dad? What are you going to do?"
Bai's father didn't speak, but with a cold face, he pushed Bai Zhenzhu hard into the small dark room, and then ruthlessly locked the door of the small dark room from the outside.
Bai Zhenzhu gradually realized what had happened. She staggered to the door and kept banging on it, crying her heart out.
"No, Dad, let me out! Please, don't do this!"
Standing outside the door, Mr. Bai shouted fiercely into the room, "Pearl, I warned you long ago not to upset Li Qianni. The consequence of you upsetting her is that your father is being investigated by the disciplinary committee again, and this time I'm suspended from my duties! I, Mr. Bai, have never done anything wrong in my life. I'm about to retire and settle down peacefully, and you've caused this mess. Do you not want your father to have a peaceful old age?!"
Listening to her own father's constant complaints and scolding outside the door, Bai Zhenzhu finally understood why.
It was that wicked Li Qianni who complained to her father again.
Then Li Qianni's father found a protector in the province to make things difficult for her father.
The last time something like this happened was five years ago, when she ran away from home in anger.
She clearly remembered that Li Qianni's father had framed her father for abuse of power, and he almost got expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office...
That time, she was beaten half to death and spent more than a month in the hospital...
She didn't understand. Wasn't she the apple of her parents' eye?
Why should we endure all this?
Whenever her father encounters trouble at work, she is always the one who suffers.
She was afraid of the dark, so she could only cry and beg for mercy, "Dad, I was wrong, please don't lock me up, okay? I'll never do it again..."
"White Pearl, ask yourself honestly, how many times have you promised me? But have you ever truly remembered them? This time, I'm going to make sure you learn your lesson and see if you'll still listen to me!"
"Dad! I was wrong! Dad!"
No matter how much Bai Zhenzhu shouted and cried, there was no response from outside.
She knew that her father had left.
And she doesn't know how many more days she'll be locked up before they can vent their anger.
Perhaps, she'll be released once the investigation is over...
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Three days later.
The white pearl was released.
She looked like a zombie, her face was deathly pale, her limbs were weak, her cheeks were sunken, and she had lost all her energy and vitality.
My eyes stung for a moment when I saw the light.
The heartbroken mother stood beside the stern father, but dared not take a step forward.
Bai Zhenzhu stood weakly against the wall, a chilling smile playing on her lips.
Looking at the two nominal "parents" in front of him who were related to him by blood, he still politely but distantly said, "Dad's matter should be resolved by now, may I leave now?"
The mother cried and wanted to hug her daughter, but the father stopped her.
"You've spoiled her rotten! Will you dare to pamper her again in the future?!"
The mother shook her head weakly, mumbling incoherently without uttering a single word.
Bai Zhenzhu found it ironic.
Although she didn't know what a spoiled family was like, she knew it couldn't be like theirs.
Her father only knew how to please his superiors and how to choose the right side in dangerous situations.
Her mother was just a pathetic woman who depended on men for survival.
If there really was overindulgence, perhaps her brother was actually better to her...
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"Pearl, what's wrong? Why are you so weak? Where have you been these past few days? Has someone been mistreating you?"
After finally getting back to the dormitory, Yin Jiaxi went up to ask her with concern.
Bai Zhenzhu forced a smile that looked more like a grimace.
Before she could even speak, she had already fainted in Yin Jiaxi's arms.
"Pearl! Pearl!"
Yin Jiaxi immediately called 120 and sent the person to the hospital.
Bai Zhenzhu was carried out of the dormitory and was seen by Li Qianni, who was about to return to the dormitory. She scoffed and said with venom in her eyes, "She got what she deserved!"
When Bai Zhenzhu woke up, it was already noon the next day.
She was receiving intravenous nutrition, and Yin Jiaxi took leave to take care of her.
When Bai Zhenzhu opened her eyes and saw that the room wasn't empty, she wasn't too upset.
"Jiaxi, what's wrong with me?"
Yin Jiaxi put down her phone and walked over. "Pearl, you're finally awake. You fainted when you came back yesterday, so I brought you to the hospital. The doctor said you were too weak, so he gave you an IV drip..."
White Pearl gave a blank "Oh," seemingly without much emotion.
"Pearl, what has happened to you these past few days? What's wrong with your health?"
Bai Zhenzhu shook her head with a wry smile, clearly not wanting to talk about it.
"Oh right, your phone kept ringing, but I didn't dare answer it. It sounded like your brother..."
"You didn't call my brother, did you?"
Bai Zhenzhu didn't want her brother to know about the harm she suffered at home.
Some pain is better left for her to bear alone.
"No, I know you don't want your brother to worry about you, so I didn't dare tell him."
"Thank you, Jiaxi. I'm so glad you're here. Otherwise, even if I died, no one might have found out."
"Pearl, what are you saying? How can you say no one cares about you?"
Bai Zhenzhu gave a wry smile.
Yin Jiaxi went to the cafeteria and bought her some congee. Bai Zhenzhu didn't have much of an appetite, but she still drank a little bit of it.
"Jiaxi, I'm fine now. You can go back to school."
"If I leave, who will take care of you? I'm worried about leaving you alone."
Bai Zhenzhu waved her phone, a smug little expression on her face.
"I sent Shi Jin a WeChat message. He will come over to take care of me in a little while."
"Pearl, how did you lure Shi Jin to come and take care of you?"
Yin Jiaxi was genuinely curious: how could a man as aloof as Shi Jin be so obedient?
"He's my dog now, of course he has to listen to me..."
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