Chapter 143 He is dead
Ruan Yi was stunned after hearing the whole thing; her previous anger deflated instantly, like a punctured balloon.
She once thought Shen Xun was a madman whose brain was driven by desire, but the past he told her, the sincerity hidden beneath his harshness, were all true facts.
A strange feeling welled up inside me.
Shen Xun didn't seem to have done anything wrong, except for his sharp tongue. But even that bit of sarcasm only intensified after the two of them had a falling out.
If it weren't for what happened back then, he would probably still be the same innocent and harmless boy he was back then, someone who says one thing but does another, and he wouldn't have turned into the stubborn and awkward person he is now.
Ruan Yi opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.
This scene was so familiar; it was just like her and Fu Wang.
No one was wrong. Perhaps Shen Xun was not wrong, and she was not wrong either. The culprit behind everything was—her "good younger brother".
If it weren't for Gu Zhi... perhaps she and Shen Xun would have formed a harmonious family? Even if she couldn't stay with Shen Xun, she would still meet Fu Jingchen in college, just like in her previous life.
But what's the point of such an assumption?
Ruan Yi knew better than anyone that she could never get rid of Gu Zhi. It was like this was the second life, and even if she knew the truth, the plot would still repeat itself.
No matter who you confide in, someone will be implicated.
Guilt overwhelmed her like a tidal wave; she hadn't done anything wrong, yet it felt like she had done everything wrong.
In her third life, fourth life... even if she could start a hundred times over, it seemed she could never escape Gu Zhi, nor could she escape the fate of dragging others down with her.
Things have already come to this point, what can we do?
Ruan Yi suppressed the surging guilt in her heart. The only way now was to prevent Shen Xun from getting involved and to avoid dragging anyone else into the mess.
She took a deep breath, avoiding his burning gaze, and spoke each word coldly and harshly.
"I've fallen in love with Fu Jingchen, the adulterer you mentioned. I've fallen in love with him."
"Impossible!" The man suddenly raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, hot tears instantly welling up in his eyes, his voice trembling.
"You love him? If you loved him, you wouldn't have listened to me for so long, and you wouldn't have argued with me for so long! You're lying to me!"
As Chen Xun spoke, he couldn't hold back any longer and buried his face in the girl's chest, his hot tears spreading across her skin.
Ruan Yi was about to say something to prove their relationship when she was interrupted by Shen Xun's sudden roar.
"Your lover is a murderer! He killed the person who went to the hotel with you that day!"
Shen Xun looked up, his eyes bloodshot as he stared intently at her, as if trying to etch her reaction into his gaze.
Ruan Yi froze, then grabbed the man's collar.
"What are you saying? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
"It's true!" The man grabbed her hand, his tone urgent and certain.
"The police were there that day because the masked man who had entered the hotel room early was shot."
Ruan Yi froze, because Fu Wang had been out of contact since then, and that was true.
Before she could react, Shen Xun had already grabbed the phone next to him and opened a news article.
The screen clearly displayed the message: "Sherren Anderson survives second terrorist attack, shooting!"
Ruan Yi stared at the screen, muttering incredulously, "Fu Jingchen... he killed Fu Wang?"
"Because of me? But they're brothers... even if they're not blood relatives..."
The girl's eyes gradually lost focus. Even the person she trusted most and thought was the most "normal" had done this, and might even go to jail.
Looking at her distraught appearance, the man recalled what Ruan Yi had said during their argument: that she thought he was fierce and lacked empathy.
Shen Xun deliberately softened his tone, with a hint of awkwardness, and gently patted her back: "I know you've been bewitched by him, but he's a murderer who can hurt people."
"If you had gone in with that masked man that day, you would have been in danger too."
The man cupped Ruan Yi's face in his hands, making her look at him. His eyes were full of genuine worry, and his voice was deliberately gentle, though he sounded unskilled.
“Ruan Yi, he’s the real madman, the real psychopath! Being with him will really hurt you…”
Before Ruan Yi could recover from the overwhelming amount of information, she suddenly shuddered and gripped the man's forearm tightly with both hands, her fingers turning white from the force, her voice trembling uncontrollably.
"Shot... Wait, what about Fu Wang?! Is Fu Wang alright?!"
Shen Xun felt a surge of displeasure. She had just finished spouting nonsense about loving her lover, and now she was worried about another man. Just how many flies were around her?
But when he remembered Ruan Yi's earlier complaint about his aggressive nature, he forced back his sour feeling.
The man deliberately feigned regret, his acting so fake it was almost comical, and slowly uttered only three words: "He has already..."
He stopped abruptly, staring at Ruan Yi, deliberately leaving her to fill in the blanks in her mind.
Since he didn't say he was dead, it's reasonable to add "out of danger" after those three words.
"It's not exactly lying, it's just that I didn't tell the whole story."
As he expected, Ruan Yi's face turned completely white in an instant, and large tears streamed down her face.
"He...he's dead?"
Shen Xun didn't answer, but just watched her cry quietly.
"That's what you thought... I didn't agree or admit it, so you can't say I lied to you later."
Ruan Yi felt as if her heart was being squeezed tightly by a hand, and guilt overwhelmed her like a tidal wave. It was her fault, it was all her fault.
She had already pushed Fu Wang away, but she insisted on asking him to act in that scene to prove her innocence, which ended up killing him.
Fu Jingchen wasn't the root cause...she was the real culprit!
Fu Wangbi was more sincere and honest than this group of people who were either madmen, perverts, murderers or whatever.
But now, she has lost her life.
Ruan Yi trembled all over and was completely lost in thought.
The man's thin lips slowly approached her ear, still mimicking that awkward and clumsy yet deliberately gentle tone: "Let's go back, come back to China with me, okay?"
“Going back will allow you to get away from all this, see Aunt Ruan, see your good friends, and you will have a real husband.”
The man's warm lips gently touched her cheek, tentatively and cautiously, again and again, as if soothing a frightened cub.
Seeing that she didn't dodge, Chen Xun's movements became more exaggerated. His lips slowly moved down, finally landing on her soft lips, gently rubbing against them with an awkward attempt to please.
"Let's get married when we get back, okay? Honey..."
The man thought he could persuade the girl while she was unconscious, but in reality, Ruan Yi couldn't hear any love or affection; her mind was filled with the thought that she had killed Fu Wang.
From the initial unexpected disaster, to almost causing his girlfriend to die before they could even talk, and now... he's actually been killed.
Fu Jingchen committed murder, which means that her bet with Pei Lian has completely failed, and Gu Zhi has an even stronger excuse to cling to her.
Perhaps the best option right now is really...
Ruan Yi seemed to have lost her soul, showing no intention of resisting the man's light kiss, only slowly uttering a single word.
"good."
Shen Xun froze, thinking he had misheard. His eyes suddenly lit up, and his breathing became rapid.
Without further hesitation, he moved his lips away from the corner of her lips and pressed them directly against hers. His warm lips and tongue, filled with an urgent possessiveness, gently pried open her lips and teeth and intertwined with her tongue.
The man's kiss was deep and lingering, filled with the ecstatic joy of regaining what he had lost. He meticulously traced the shape of her tongue, and their breaths were excessively hot as they lingered and caressed each other.
Ruan Yi didn't struggle, letting him kiss her like a marshmallow until all the air in her chest was taken away, then she patted his chest and let out a soft breath.
The man lingered for a long time before reluctantly pulling away, his lips still glistening with her luster, his eyes shining brightly.
“But…” Ruan Yi lowered her eyes, her eyelashes trembling slightly, seemingly hesitant, “we have to wait until the case is finalized.”
"You can't stop me! I need to find out the truth, and once the results are in, I'll go back, go back to you..."
The slight annoyance that Chen Xun felt because Ruan Yi was going to investigate the case and might have to come into contact with other men vanished instantly.
Without hesitation, he accepted Ruan Yi's words: "Go back and marry me."
He leaned down and kissed the girl's soft lips again.
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