Zhu Xingye's face was slapped to one side, and the blood from Zhu Jinzhao's hand left a bright mark on his cheek and the corner of his eye.
The burning pain on his cheek intensified, and when he blinked, he realized that his vision had turned red without him noticing.
It wasn't until he raised his hand to wipe his eyes and saw blood on his finger that he realized it was Zhu Jinzhao's blood that had gotten into his eyes.
But he didn't pay much attention to it, focusing instead on checking Zhu Jinzhao's injuries.
"Chao Chao." He opened his eyes wide and grabbed Zhu Jinchao's hand amidst the blood-red light. "Chao Chao, does your hand hurt? I'll call a doctor to come and treat it for you right now, okay?"
"..." Zhu Jinzhao didn't dare to speak.
Because Zhu Xingye's current appearance is really a bit scary.
His face was covered in blood, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked pained and panicked. Zhu Jinzhao looked at him and felt that he really didn't seem like a normal person.
"Zhao Zhao?" Seeing that Zhu Jinzhao didn't speak, Zhu Xingye quickly raised his hands and carefully cupped her cheeks.
"Chao Chao, are you angry with your older brother?" He blinked, trying to squeeze out the blood from his eyes to see Zhu Jinchao's face clearly, but unexpectedly, the more he blinked, the more the blood in his eyes spread.
His vision was completely red.
"Chaochao, can you talk to your older brother?"
"..." Zhu Jinzhao looked at his somewhat deranged expression and was so scared that she didn't dare to move.
"Chao Chao?" He shook his head, suddenly feeling a little dizzy. "Chao Chao, why aren't you saying anything? Is your wound hurting too much?"
"Big brother...it wasn't me, it really wasn't me, I didn't target Mingyue! Please believe me!"
Zhu Jinzhao finally agreed to talk to him. However, her voice sounded strangely distant, as if it were drifting from the horizon. And the content of her speech was also nonsensical, completely irrelevant to his questions.
"Zhao Chao..." He staggered a few steps in a daze, as if all his strength had been suddenly drained away. He was unsteady on his feet, but he still wanted to know how Zhu Jinchao was doing.
"Chaochao, what are you saying? What do you mean by targeting Mingyue, what do you mean by believing you... I'm not, haven't I always believed in you?"
"...Huh?" Zhu Jinzhao didn't understand what he was saying at all.
He closed his eyes in discomfort, intending to give himself a moment to recover, but unexpectedly, he never opened them again.
"..."
Before Zhu Jinzhao could react, Zhu Xingye fainted on the bed.
"..." She opened her eyes wide in confusion, not understanding what was wrong with Zhu Xingye.
She was the one who was injured, so why was he the one who fainted?
But she couldn't care less about that now. Since Zhu Xingye was unconscious, when else would she run?
She kicked Zhu Xingye's shin to make sure he was completely unconscious before tiptoeing and slowly slipping out. Only after she had slipped out of the room and was standing in the living room did she dare to take bigger strides and start running.
"Miss Jinzhao?" Aunt Fang had just finished preparing the porridge and came out of the kitchen when she bumped into Zhu Jinzhao, who was trying to escape.
"Miss Jin, where are you going? Where is President Zhu?"
Zhu Jinzhao said viciously, "Zhu Xingye is dead!"
After saying that, he ran downstairs like a madman.
"Hey—" Aunt Fang chased after him a few steps, but when she couldn't catch up with Zhu Jinzhao, she turned back and ran into the room.
The room was a mess, with sticky porridge and broken porcelain shards scattered all over the floor. Zhu Xingye lay disheveled at the foot of the bed, his eyes closed and his cheeks smeared with blood.
"Mr. Zhu!" Aunt Fang's heart jumped instantly, and she rushed to Zhu Xingye's side to check on his condition.
"Mr. Zhu? Mr. Zhu, what's wrong? Wake up!"
"..." Zhu Xingye had already fainted, and no matter how Aunt Fang called him, he did not respond at all.
Aunt Fang didn't know what was wrong with him and didn't dare to touch him, so she could only stand in the room and shout for help.
"Help! Help! Mr. Zhu has fainted! Call a doctor immediately!"
...
The villa was very large, and it took Zhu Jinzhao a long time to finally run out of it.
By this time, the sky was already bright, but the drizzle had not stopped and thunder rumbled from time to time, so the mountains were still shrouded in a thick layer of dark clouds.
Zhu Jinzhao didn't wear shoes or have time to use an umbrella, so she just rushed into the rain without a care in the world.
The camellias and roses in the yard still stood proudly, their stems unbroken by the heavy rain, and instead danced gracefully in the rain.
Such scenery is truly rare, yet Zhu Jinchao didn't even glance at it.
Her eyes were fixed on the open door not far away; all she wanted was to run out of that door and escape Zhu Xingye's control.
But just as she was a few steps away from the gate, dozens of strong bodyguards suddenly rushed out from the side and blocked her way.
She suddenly stopped and stared in surprise at the wall of people in front of her.
“Miss Jinzhao, you cannot leave the villa. Please return immediately,” the head bodyguard said to Zhu Jinzhao with a blank expression.
Zhu Jinzhao kept going and charged forward headlong. When he reached the bodyguard, he quickly turned to the side, trying to get around behind him.
"Miss Jin!"
The bodyguards weren't pushovers either; with a swift turn, they stopped Zhu Jinzhao again.
Unwilling to give up, Zhu Jinchao immediately changed direction and ran, but another bodyguard rushed forward to block her way. Then, the remaining bodyguards surrounded her, trapping her in the middle.
"Miss Jinzhao." The bodyguard's resolute face was wet with rain, making his already cold expression even more icy. "President Zhu has ordered that Miss Jinzhao is not allowed to leave the villa without his permission!"
"The rain is getting heavier again, Miss Jinzhao, please go back inside quickly."
Zhu Jinzhao gritted her teeth, her pale face showing signs of illness from the cold rain: "What if I don't go back?"
Bodyguard: "If Miss Jinzhao doesn't want to go back, then we'll have to take matters into our own hands and 'invite' her back."
Zhu Jinzhao clenched her fists tightly at her sides. She neither spoke nor tried to escape, and remained silently locked in a standoff with the group of bodyguards in the rain.
...
Zhu Xingye had a dream, no, he had many dreams.
In my dream, Zhu Jinzhao was crying the whole time.
"Big brother, I really didn't put a needle in Mingyue's pillow, please believe me?"
Zhu Jinzhao knelt on the ground, pitifully grabbing his hand, crying as she explained herself.
"Big brother, I really didn't do this. Please believe me, don't lock me in this dark room! I'm scared!"
Zhu Jinzhao cried until her voice was hoarse, and her tearful appearance was heartbreaking. But Zhu Xingye in her dream remained unmoved by Zhu Jinzhao's pitiful state.
"Get out of my way!"
He forcefully shook off Zhu Jinzhao's hand, preventing her from touching him.
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