What does it mean to...kill my father? I kept my promise...
There was a gentle knock on the car window. The sound was not loud, but it was like a heavy hammer hitting Zhen Zhu's heart.
Zhen Zhu's body stiffened slightly, and she instinctively retracted her gaze from Bai Xueyue. She lowered her eyes slightly and looked at her mobile phone, without looking away, as if there was nothing outside the window.
until--
"elder sister……"
Zhen Miner's voice came in through the slightly cracked car window, with the panting after running and a cautious pleading. One could almost imagine those Bambi-like eyes from the voice.
"Sister, can you open the door, please?"
Open the door? What's there to say about opening the door?
But the knock on the window was very light, yet it felt like knocking on her chest.
But.
Even if there is still some affection left, Zhen Zhu will never lose herself because of it.
Absolutely not!
A cold light flashed in the fox's eyes, and the escape just now disappeared. He slowly raised his head, stared at the tearful eyes outside the car window, and was about to speak.
"Zhen Min'er, haven't you deceived the young lady enough? Get out of the way now! Don't block the way!"
Bai Xueyue couldn't help but speak first, and as she spoke, she pretended to step on the accelerator.
"don't want!"
Zhen Min'er stared at Zhen Zhu pitifully, holding on to the car window frame with both hands, her knuckles turning white from the force, and her amber eyes fixed on Zhen Zhu's eyes in the car.
"Sister, I know what you are angry about... I was wrong..."
The tears fell drop by drop.
So pitiful.
Zhen Zhu's heart felt like it was being gripped by an invisible hand, causing a slight pain.
She told herself to harden her heart and not be deceived by this pitiful appearance again.
But the eagerness and desperation in those eyes made it impossible for her to remain completely indifferent.
After all... she still couldn't let go completely immediately.
But no matter what...
In a flash, I noticed the bloody bandage on Zhen Min'er's wrist...
Zhen Zhu's expression became even colder.
Okay, Zhen Miner, I won’t change a single move.
And he was hurting himself to soften her heart.
"drive!"
She won't be fooled again!
Zhen Zhu no longer hesitated.
Bai Xueyue received the order and immediately released the brake, lightly stepped on the accelerator, and the car slowly moved forward.
"elder sister……"
Zhen Min'er's voice softened, and she showed no intention of letting go. Instead, she ran after the car, "Sister, don't go..."
The car was speeding up, and Zhen Min'er, who was wearing thin clothes, stumbled and fell.
Her steps became more and more disordered, her breathing became rapid, and she stumbled!
Unable to restrain her concern, Zhen Zhu seemed to be looking straight ahead, but in fact, out of the corner of her eye she was watching Zhen Min'er's hands, which were clearly bleeding more but refused to put them down, and she kept shouting "Sister... Sister..."
Seeing that Zhen Min'er was about to be dragged down and rolled under the car——
"parking!!!"
Zhen Zhu bit her lip, her fox eyes widened, and she couldn't help but slap Bai Xueyue's back.
Bai Xueyue also saw the thrilling scene from the rearview mirror, her face turned pale, and she slammed on the brakes!
The wheels made a harsh sound when rubbing against the ground.
There was dead silence in the car.
My heart stopped beating because of this terrifying moment.
Because the brakes were applied too quickly, Zhen Zhu's head hit the back of the driver's seat with a bang before she could fasten her seat belt.
But he didn't have time to touch his aching forehead. He turned around and saw Zhen Min'er lost her balance due to the sudden brake and fell heavily to the ground.
You can see blood on the ground from scraped hands and knees.
The blood color was extremely glaring.
Zhen Min'er was lying on the ground, raising her head, with a soft smile on her pale face, still looking in her direction.
Fear and anger rushed to Zhen Zhu's head!
Zhen Zhu couldn't bear it any longer, she pushed open the car door, rushed to Zhen Min'er, looked down at her, her chest heaving violently with anger.
"Zhen Min'er! Are you crazy?! Do you want to die?!"
Zhen Zhu's voice rose due to extreme anger and fear, no longer having that cold tone. "What on earth do you want?! Do you have to kill yourself?! Besides hurting yourself to make me pity you, what else can you do?!"
Zhen Zhu was so angry that she was shaking all over, and all her calmness and composure collapsed at this moment.
Ah, sister, finally...
Such strong emotions were directed at her again.
Zhen Min'er seemed not to hear Zhen Zhu's rebuke. She just looked up at her furious sister, her heart pounding.
Thinking of what the baby-voiced girl said, that her sister liked her and wanted to be with her forever.
Zhen Min'er curled her lips, and in her amber eyes rolled an intense and insoluble attachment and a shocking sense of satisfaction——
Zhen Min'er showed no remorse at all!
Zhen Zhu became even more angry because of Zhen Min'er's silence and gaze. When she was about to speak again——
Zhen Min'er suddenly supported herself on the ground, leaned forward, and kissed her lips——
A gentle but bloody kiss landed accurately on her lips that were slightly opened due to the scolding.
Time seems to stand still at this moment.
The air froze.
Zhen Zhu suddenly opened her eyes wide, her mind went blank, all the sounds and images seemed to fade away, leaving only the brief but extremely clear, slightly cool and moist touch on her lips, mixed with a faint smell of rust.
This is... the smell of blood from the slight scratch under Zhen Miner's lips after she fell down just now.
Bai Xueyue was stunned in the car, her hands gripping the steering wheel frozen in place: "Wow?"
Lin Zhi's peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly.
Passersby looked at him with surprise and inquiry.
Zhen Min'er...
He actually... kissed her?! When she hadn't forgiven him yet?!
Not noticing the gazes of others, Zhen Zhu was furious! She had already said they were breaking up!
Zhen Zhu couldn't help but recall the previous recording of Zhen Min'er's words about her sister being soft-hearted...
What! Do you really think she won't be angry?!
He cheated on her and tried to destroy everything she had! He thought he could just make peace with her by beating himself up again?!
Zhen Zhu used all her strength to push Zhen Min'er away, staggered back two steps, her cheeks instantly flushed red with anger.
"Zhen Min'er! You...you!"
Zhen Zhu tried hard to ignore the wet feeling on her lips and was so angry that she couldn't speak.
"I said, we are no longer related!"
Zhen Min'er was pushed back to the ground, but she laughed softly.
Kissed my sister.
She raised her head, tears naturally falling from her eyes, drop by drop, mixing with the blood on her palms. She looked disheveled and vulnerable, but her amber eyes shone frighteningly bright. "Sister, I'm sorry. I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong... I will never lie to you again, and I will never scheme against you again."
"It was my fault before, sister, please forgive me..."
"Before, I was afraid that you wouldn't want me, afraid that you would only have Jininglan in your eyes like before."
Zhen Min'er stared at her sister, her amber eyes twinkling as she spoke her heart out.
"That's why I was thinking, if I could lock you up so that you can only see me, you will never be able to leave me."
"I was wrong. Sister, I love you. Please forgive me this time, okay? I will never do it again."
“…” Zhen Zhu was stunned.
Her apology was sincere and her words sounded true. If it were before yesterday, Zhen Zhu would have scolded her to wake her up and then forgive her.
But now...
Zhen Zhu looked at her stepsister, who was obviously not normal, with tears streaming down her face but a smile on her face.
However, her cold and calculating words from the surveillance video kept echoing in her mind very clearly - "Control the Zhen family" and "Make sure my sister can't abandon me."
She wasn't sure...
Is what Zhen Min'er said true or false?
Even... Zhen Zhu pursed her lips. The system was gone. She couldn't even ask the system to confirm whether Zhen Miner's words were true or false.
Between them.
There are already trust issues.
No chance...
"Zhen Min'er."
Zhen Zhu's voice suddenly calmed down, with a coldness that came from a feeling of despair.
"Your love is an attempt to destroy me, to deprive me of everything, and to turn me into a puppet that can only depend on you for existence."
"But I'm not a puppet."
"...Zhen Min'er."
"You should go to the butler to find out what I heard."
Thinking of the incident when Zhen Min'er sneaked into her room, Zhen Zhu looked a little tired: "Did you sneak into my room?"
Even if the housekeeper told Zhen Min'er, Zhen Min'er would not know it so clearly. The USB flash drive was in her room.
"I don't..." Zhen Min'er's amber eyes flashed slightly, and she instinctively wanted to lie.
"Really?" Zhen Zhu said coldly.
Seeing her sister's eyes become even colder, Zhen Min'er quickly changed her words: "I'm sorry, sister. I didn't know why she suddenly became so angry, so I couldn't help but open... opened her door."
"Sister, sister, don't be angry!"
Zhen Min'er thought she would see her sister's eyes softening, but she only felt that her eyes became darker.
It seems... worse...
No, she doesn't want it!
Seeing Zhen Min'er struggling and trying to get up and get closer, Zhen Zhu closed her eyes. When she opened them again, there was only a look of alienation and determination in them.
"Don't say anything more, and don't follow me anymore."
Zhen Zhu's voice was very soft, but it carried the meaning of final judgment.
"Zhen Min'er, I don't like you anymore."
"Your habit is to deceive. If I hadn't reminded you, you would have deceived me."
"And I..."
The fox's eyes were indifferent as he looked at Zhen Min'er from top to bottom: "I don't dare to trust you anymore."
Time will wash away everything, Zhen Zhu reminded herself.
Zhen Zhu felt a little sour in her nose and closed her eyes. When she opened them again, the mist that had just tried to disperse had disappeared completely, and she looked at Zhen Min'er with cold eyes.
"I don't like you anymore."
"Sister, no, I really won't lie to you anymore!"
Zhen Min'er's body suddenly stopped, the blood color on her face instantly drained away, and she looked at her in disbelief.
"Sister, sister said she likes me! You can't be so casual..."
"Yes, I once liked you."
Zhen Zhu spoke each word clearly, slowly and coldly, as if she wanted to nail every word into the other person's heart, as well as her own heart.
"But love can change. When I discovered that you had deceived and schemed against me time and time again, that love had already been worn away by you."
She needed to cut off all of this, she needed to make Zhen Miner give up completely, and she also needed to give up completely.
Seeing that Zhen Min'er was still staring at her, and thinking of Zhen Min'er's extremely possessive character, Zhen Zhu's eyes swept over Lin Zhi in the car. She suddenly raised her hand, pointed at Lin Zhi, and spoke in an almost cruel and calm tone.
"The one I like now is Linzhi. At least... she won't deliberately deceive me or think of ways to destroy me."
As soon as the words fell, Lin Zhi in the car instantly widened her peach blossom eyes, looking surprised, but when she saw the young lady's fox eyes slightly fixed, she immediately understood.
He nodded deliberately and looked at Zhen Min'er with raised eyebrows.
Zhen Min'er froze in place, all her movements, all her crying, all her pleading stopped.
She seemed to have turned into a solidified statue, with only her amber eyes fixed and slowly turning towards Lin Zhi in the car.
Deep within those amber eyes, there surged a dark and sticky murderous intent that could not be described in words.
Countless dark thoughts flashed through Zhen Min'er's mind - make her disappear, make her completely annihilate from her sister's world...
As long as she is not there, my sister will...
Zhen Zhu didn't look at Zhen Min'er again. She turned around resolutely, opened the car door, sat back in the car, and said in a tired and cold voice: "Drive, go to Zhen's company."
Bai Xueyue sighed. Even though she wrote the article herself, seeing this scene, the couple who were so affectionate in front of her yesterday...
Bai Xueyue looked at Zhen Min'er outside the car with a complicated look, as if her soul had been sucked out. She then glanced at Zhen Zhu, who seemed calm on the surface, and Lin Zhi, who was blinking her peach blossom eyes, in the rearview mirror, and finally stepped on the accelerator.
This time, Zhen Min'er did not catch up.
She just stood there, motionless, like a broken doll abandoned in the wilderness. As the car drove away, her figure in the rearview mirror became smaller and smaller, eventually becoming a blurry black dot and disappearing.
The atmosphere in the car was terribly depressing.
Bai Xueyue pursed her lips as she drove, glaring at Lin Zhi in the rearview mirror from time to time.
Let's adjust the atmosphere! Come on, tease the young lady!
Lin Zhi also looked back, trying to get Bai Xueyue to speak first.
To no avail.
Lin Zhi looked out the window and pretended to be surprised and shocked: "Miss! What you just said was a temporary measure to deceive her, right? Right, right?"
Linzhi's tone was very cheerful. Zhen Zhu knew that this guy was not taking it seriously. Her long eyelashes trembled, but she did not open her eyes. She just nodded very lightly, almost imperceptibly.
Lin Zhi instantly breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest deliberately: "You scared me to death! I told you, how could you like me? Even though I'm so beautiful that I can make fish sink to the bottom of the water, geese drop to the ground, and the moon hide in shame..."
Her jokes slightly dispelled the low pressure in the car.
"snort."
With a cold snort, Zhen Zhu forced a curl of her lips and looked out the window again, but her thoughts had already drifted away.
The system still didn't respond, and my father's issue still needed to be resolved.
But Zhen Miner's last pair of desperate and almost crazy eyes... were like a thorn, piercing Zhen Zhu's heart.
So... this is what Zhen Zhu looks like.
Is this what she really looks like?
Unlike that pitiful stepsister who begged her for protection...
Zhen Zhu thought she would be afraid and disgusted...but it seemed not.
Strong love.
It's been a long time.
But even if she didn't hate Zhen Min'er's true face.
Zhen Zhu lowered her eyes. She would never believe Zhen Min'er again.
She wouldn't let herself get stuck again.
She would not, nor did she want to end up like her mother...
Yes.
After a night of networking in Linzhi.
My mother died at least a month early, and it was my father who worked with the Ji family to do it.
There is no need to do anything else, just use ordinary medicine instead of targeted medicine when the mother is hospitalized in the later stage.
Thinking of this, a cold light flashed in Zhen Zhu's eyes.
If she had to choose between her mother and her father, she would choose her mother without hesitation.
She will definitely...
The car finally arrived at the Zhen Group headquarters building.
*
The atmosphere in Zhen Hongbo's office was solemn.
When Zhen Zhu gently placed the copy of the court document on Zhen Hongbo's desk, a crack appeared on the face of this usually calm and gentle father for the first time.
"Zhen Zhu! You...you actually sued me?"
Zhen Hongbo stood up suddenly, his face full of shock and anger.
"Do you still see me as your father?! Do you still see the Zhen family?"
"Do you know how much the stock will drop if this news gets out?"
"Father?"
Zhen Zhu looked up at him, her fox eyes devoid of any warmth. "When you knew there was something wrong with the equity donation but still induced me to sign, did you ever consider that you were my father?"
"you……"
Zhen Hongbo was choked and speechless for a moment, his face livid. "You are my daughter! And I said I would return it to you. Now withdraw the lawsuit immediately! Otherwise..."
"How about otherwise?"
Zhen Zhu interrupted him in a low voice, her fox eyes fixed on her seemingly gentle but actually indifferent father, with an unquestionable sense of oppression, "Father, I'm not here today to ask for your consent, but to inform you. I will not withdraw this lawsuit."
Zhen Zhu leaned forward slightly, staring at her father sharply. "Not only that, I already have evidence that you and the Ji family illegally transferred company assets through related-party transactions in the past few years. If you don't want me to report the case to the criminal investigation department at the same time and put you under criminal investigation..."
Zhen Hongbo looked at Zhen Zhu in disbelief: "You...how could you..."
"How should I know?"
Zhen Zhu smiled faintly, but the smile did not reach her eyes. "Father, don't forget, I am also a daughter of the Zhen family. I must know some things. Now, transfer all the shares that belong to me under your name back immediately. This is your last chance."
Zhen Hongbo slumped back into his large executive chair, looking at his now-unfamiliar daughter with a look of uncertainty. He tried to find a trace of bravado on her face, but all he saw was cold determination.
There was silence for five minutes, and the air in the office almost froze.
Finally, Zhen Hongbo seemed to have aged considerably. He sighed and said dejectedly, "...Okay, I promise you. But transferring so much equity will take time to go through the process. At least... at least two days."
Zhen Zhu looked at him quietly, judging the truthfulness of his words.
"Can."
Zhen Zhu finally nodded, her fox eyes cold and indifferent: "In two days, I want to see all the formalities completed. Otherwise, father, you know me, I will definitely do it."
After saying that, Zhen Zhu didn't look at her father again, turned around and left the office without any reluctance.
After the equity is transferred, she will not let her father have an easy time.
Yes, she would not file a criminal case for asset transfer, but would file a case for the father intentionally murdering the mother...
…
Zhen Zhu walked out of the elevator in a daze, her fox eyes a little dazed.
Is this considered... cheating?
Zhen Zhu walked out of the Zhen Building and got back into the car.
The familiar brown-yellow clouds appeared again, just like the color of Zhen Miner's eyes...
Zhen Zhu shifted her gaze and looked elsewhere.
Looking out the car window at the dimming sky elsewhere, after finishing the conversation with my father, it seemed that there was no need to wait for the court session, and things seemed to be going very smoothly.
But... there is still no news from the system.
Zhen Zhu felt a little nervous. It had been so long. Since she awakened, that baby voice had never been away for so long.
Bai Xueyue and Lin Zhi noticed that she was in a bad mood, and tacitly did not ask any more questions. They just drove her home quietly.
The car drove into the driveway of the Zhen family villa. From a distance, Zhen Zhu saw a familiar figure, hugging his knees and curled up in the corner next to the villa gate, like an abandoned little animal.
It’s Zhen Min’er.
She had been waiting here.
Zhen Zhu's heart suddenly tightened, but she immediately forced herself to harden her heart.
She couldn't let all her previous efforts go to waste.
The car stopped, Zhen Zhu got out as if nothing had happened and walked straight towards the gate.
During the whole process, Zhen Zhu didn't even look at Zhen Min'er, as if she was just a piece of air.
Zhen Min'er raised her head, hope and pleading on her pale face. Her lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but when she met Zhen Zhu's icy, emotionless eyes, all the words were choked in her throat.
"Click." The door opened and closed.
Completely isolating the two people into two different worlds.
Zhen Zhu leaned against the cold door and took several deep breaths before she could barely suppress the emotions surging in her heart.
She was so tired, both physically and mentally.
She just wanted to have a good sleep now, and maybe when she woke up... the system would be back.
She walked up the stairs with heavy steps, returned to her bedroom, and locked the door.
The room was eerily quiet.
She lay in bed, closed her eyes, and tried to fall asleep, but she couldn't fall asleep.
Everything that happened today kept replaying in his mind - Zhen Min'er's desperate eyes, his father's pale face, and that unexpected kiss...
And the system's complete and silent disappearance.
Like a dream.
A dream in a fictional world in which she lives, a fantasy of her own in which she plays the role of a vicious female supporting character.
"system."
Zhen Zhu pursed her red lips and couldn't help but shout again: "Are you there?"
There was still dead silence.
The emptiness and fear of losing the only companion who knew her situation and had been with her until now almost swallowed her up.
Zhen Zhu sat up irritably, her eyes unconsciously sweeping across the room. The cherry blossom light slowly spun around her face...
In extreme anxiety and loneliness, Zhen Zhu opened the secret box in the wardrobe in a trance.
Looking at the round box inside...Zhen Zhu couldn't help but take it out.
She didn't want to forgive Zhen Min'er, it was just...
I didn't read the letter.
Just consider it as a closure to the past.
That's all!
Zhen Zhu bit her lip and opened the small round box in the bedside table.
Unfold the letter in the white envelope——
There was a childish handwriting on the top of the letter that said "Sister."
What follows is the content she didn’t finish reading last night.
The handwriting was a bit messy…Zhen Zhu tried hard to explain the somewhat childish and messy handwriting.
——
I was wrong, sister. Please don't ignore me... It's my fault! I shouldn't have wanted to be your biological sister. I drugged Uncle Zhen and Mother. Sister, please forgive me, okay? I'm really scared. Please don't ignore me. You're all I have. It's my fault! Sister said she wanted me to be your sister. I looked it up, and she said that as long as my mother and your father are together, I'll be your sister. I didn't expect you to be unhappy. I was wrong! I was really wrong! Sister (crossed out with a black pen), I shouldn't have dreamed of becoming your sister. I was wrong, sister. No, Sister Zhenzhu, please don't ignore me, okay? I beg you, Sister Zhenzhu... Only Sister Zhenzhu is so good to me. I didn't know she would be so upset. I, I was wrong. I'm telling you a secret. Please don't be angry, okay? I killed my father. My mother said I was a demon and told me not to tell anyone else. I'm only telling you, sister. Please don't be angry. I'm telling you this secret. Please forgive me, okay? I was wrong, Sister Zhen Zhu. You can beat me, scold me, and cut me with a knife like my mother, but please don’t ignore me, please. Sister Zhen Zhu... please don’t ignore me...
The writing on the back is a little unclear, as if it was blurred by some water stains.
The final signature is: I was wrong, sister, please forgive me, sister, please.
Those yellowed words contained words that Zhen Zhu could not understand.
She stared blankly at the messy words that even had some typos.
What does it mean to...kill your father?
What does it mean to...cut her with a knife?
*
Zhen Min'er stayed in the corner for a long time before entering the villa, walking up the stairs, and going to the empty room next to her sister.
There was no one there, and she hid in the shadows, like a silent statue.
Zhen Miner's amber eyes stared at the wall darkly - that was her sister's room.
My sister is inside.
But it completely isolated her from the world.
【I don’t like you anymore.】
I like Nyingchi.
These words were like poisoned ice cones, repeatedly piercing Zhen Min'er's mind, bringing waves of suffocating pain.
Obviously, the system clearly said that my sister liked her and wanted to be with her forever...
But now, my sister said in person that she doesn't like her.
Nyingchi...
Zhen Miner's empty amber pupils gradually focused, and the emptiness was replaced by an extremely deep and extremely cold darkness.
Countless ferocious thoughts surged in the darkness, each one concerned with how to make Lin Zhi disappear completely.
The nails dug deep into the wound on the palm of Zhen Min'er's hand, and the stinging pain made her slightly sober, but also made her even more crazy.
No.
Can't.
My sister is hers and can only be hers!
Whatever the method, whatever the cost.
yes.
She is the heroine, isn't she? Her sister should do the mission, right?
She slowly lowered her head, her gaze falling on the hideous wound on her wrist, which had already begun to solidify but was still ugly.
The bloodstains were proof of her hope.
Zhen Min'er suddenly laughed softly, and the laughter seemed particularly creepy in the silent night, with a kind of broken, desperate madness.
He raised his wrist and whispered softly into the empty air in an unusually clear and soft voice.
"System... I know you're still here, and you can hear what I'm saying."
The night wind blows by, and only the faint chirping of cicadas can be heard outside the window.
Zhen Min'er didn't care, as if she had expected this silence.
She continued speaking, her voice soft and sweet, yet like a venomous snake spitting out its tongue, with a creepy calmness and menace.
"It's okay if you don't come out. Then tell the world consciousness..."
She raised her wrist to her eyes and stared at the solidified blood clot that smelled of rust very slowly.
"Tell it~"
Zhen Min'er's voice was sweet, as if it contained sugar: "If sister can't come back to me..."
Hen Min'er paused, her amber pupils shrank, and a crazy and destructive light flashed in them.
"Then I will destroy the heroine it cares about the most, me~"
"I mean what I say."
As if to confirm her words, Zhen Min'er dug the fingernails of her other hand into the wound with great force!
The scar that had just solidified was torn again, and bright red blood gushed out instantly, winding down her pale arm and dripping onto the cold ground, leaving a small dark red mark.
The intense pain made Zhen Min'er groan, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead.
But...Zhen Min'er curled her lips.
"Or, give my sister back to me."
"Or... let everything, including your world consciousness, end completely."
“You can choose.”
As if enraged by her crazy and outrageous threat, the originally sparse darkness in the night sky was instantly swallowed up by the rolling thick dark clouds!
Deep in the clouds, the dull thunder was like the roar of a giant beast, coming from far away and getting closer. A pale lightning suddenly tore through the night sky, instantly illuminating Zhen Min'er's pale and crazy face in front of the window, and the glaring dark red on her wrist!
“BOOM——!!!”
The thunder exploded, shaking the ground as if it were trembling.
The thunder was so close, so violent, full of anger and...
And, it seemed like a hint of indescribable fear.
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