Chapter 118 Piercing Lu Jiunian's Heart
"I caused him to injure his leg? No, I didn't."
"Of course you won't admit it."
Shi Nianzhi looked at Lu Jiunian in shock, "I didn't do it, how can you prove it?"
Lu Jiunian sneered, his gaze sharp and cold. "I'm not going to talk about that with you now. If you don't agree to my conditions, I won't let Shi Er go."
Shi Nianzhi fell silent.
After a long pause, he spoke, "If the condition for letting Shi Er go is that you want me to kneel on broken glass, I can do that. But I will apologize to Gu Zijian. I will not apologize for what I did not do."
Lu Jiunian looked coldly at Shi Nianzhi, showing no intention of speaking; his thoughts were hard to fathom.
Shi Nianzhi knew that Lu Jiunian was deliberately making things difficult for him, so he bent down to kneel down.
Shi Er rushed over and grabbed Shi Nianzhi's arm to stop him from kneeling.
His eyes were filled with emotion. "Young Master Shi, don't kneel. You don't need to worry about me, I'm fine."
Seeing this, Lu Jiunian became furious and said angrily, "You're alright? Do you think I don't know what you've done? How many things have you kept from me to protect Shi Nianzhi?"
Shi Er's eyes widened for a moment, then he lowered his gaze as if it were both unexpected and expected. In fact, he had already considered the consequences when he started to protect Shi Nianzhi.
He said, "I'm willing to take responsibility. This has nothing to do with Shi Shao. Please let him go."
Who do you think you are?!
Lu Jiunian picked up the teacup on the table and smashed it at Shi Er, his voice filled with rage.
Shi Er didn't dodge at all. The teacup hit Shi Er's forehead. The man's strength was so fierce that blood instantly appeared.
The teacup shattered on the ground. Shi Er didn't reach out to wipe it away, letting the warm blood flow over his eyelids and drip down, leaving marks on his blue and white school uniform.
Shi Nianzhi bent down to pull out a piece of paper from the table. He pressed on Shi Er's bleeding wound and said, "Shi Er, believe me, I'll be fine."
Lu Jiunian couldn't bear to see them acting like they were deeply in love; his eyes were blazing with anger.
He called the villa's bodyguard, "Come in."
"The bodyguards arrived very quickly."
The man said coldly, "Take this traitor away!"
"yes."
The bodyguard stepped forward and grabbed Shi Er's arm.
Shi Er gripped Shi Nianzhi's arm tightly, his knuckles digging in.
"Young Master Shi, don't kneel. It's not worth it for me, you know?"
He looked at Shi Nianzhi with utmost seriousness, his eyes even pleading, "Please."
Don't hurt yourself for someone like him.
Shi Nianzhi didn't say anything, and Shi Er was dragged away.
As soon as he was out of sight, Shi Nianzhi knelt down in front of the broken glass without hesitation. In that instant, his face turned pale, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
But he didn't make a sound, he just looked up at Lu Jiunian and said, "I'm taking Shi Er away."
Looking at Shi Nianzhi's appearance, Lu Jiunian's expression was filled with a fierce and ruthless aura. His dark eyes stared directly at Shi Nianzhi, so intimidating.
"You're really great."
"I'm already kneeling, can you get up now?"
What's the rush?
Lu Jiunian took out his phone and slowly made a video call.
Shi Nian bit her lip in pain, her fingers gripping her school uniform pants tightly. Glass shards dug into her flesh, and the weight of her body pressed down on her; how could it not hurt?
Even a small cut from a knife hurts so much.
The video call connected to the television, and Gu Zijian appeared on the screen wearing a hospital gown. "Senior, you seem to be in such a good mood today, give me..."
The camera was also connected to the electronic camera on the wall, so Gu Zijian could see the living room clearly.
When he saw Shi Nianzhi's appearance, he fell silent.
Then he spoke up, "A-Nian, what are you doing?"
Lu Jiunian sat on the sofa, legs crossed, his voice cold and aloof, "Make him apologize to you."
Shi Nianzhi braced himself against the table and stood up from the ground. He looked down and pulled out two pieces of glass that were embedded in the flesh below his knees.
With his hands covered in blood, he threw the glass on the ground.
He turned to look at Gu Zijian.
"I knelt down because I wanted to take Shi Er away, not to apologize to you. I didn't do anything, so why should I apologize?"
Shi Nianzhi's legs were so sore he could barely stand, but he clenched his fists and forced himself to stay upright.
Gu Zijian was silent for a moment, then said, "Let the doctor take a look at him. He looks like he's in a lot of pain."
Shi Nianzhi, however, stared directly at Gu Zijian on the screen.
He questioned, word by word, "You injured your leg, how did you get it?"
Gu Zijian seemed to be deliberately silent for a while.
Lu Jiunian spoke, as if stating a fact, "Don't you know very well?"
"What do I know?!"
"How did you get hurt?"
"I don't know. I went to see him, but I only wanted him to help me get away from you. Then I left. I never laid a hand on him. He got hurt, so why should I be blamed for it!"
"The doctor said you broke a vase and pushed the weak Zijian over. Are you too cowardly to admit it?"
"I didn't! The doctor wasn't there when I was talking to him!"
Shi Nianzhi clenched her fist, somewhat angry, "There is no doctor at all. Gu Zijian told you that, didn't he?"
After a moment of silence, Shi Nianzhi lowered her eyes and said, "But he has always been your favorite. If you're going to say it's me, then it's me."
Gu Zijian then tried to smooth things over, "A-Nian, I already said it has nothing to do with Shi Nianzhi, I fell down on my own. You should quickly ask a doctor to take a look at him, the injury is so serious, don't let it cause any trouble."
Lu Jiunian stood up from the sofa and walked towards Shi Nianzhi. After getting close to Shi Nianzhi, he looked down at him.
His voice was deep and resonant. "You're right, I am biased towards Zijian. Whether you admit it or not, you've already paid double for hurting Zijian. If you dare to touch him again, this will be your fate."
Shi Nianzhi trembled slightly with anger, then he pushed Lu Jiunian away forcefully, saying, "I don't want to see you again."
His strength didn't push Lu Jiunian at all; instead, he himself buckled in the knees because he used too much force and fell directly into Lu Jiunian's arms.
"Get out of here."
Lu Jiunian pressed on Shi Nianzhi's shoulder and forcefully pushed her away.
Shi Nianzhi's knees were already weak, and the push sent him back several steps, causing him to fall to his knees and aggravate the injury on his leg.
He groaned in pain, clutching his knee as tears streamed down his face. He suddenly seemed unable to contain his emotions and began to sob.
"Go outside and cry, it's so noisy!"
The man's voice was merciless, so distant and cold, as if they had never met, or as if those scenes of love were just a dream.
Shi Nianzhi bit his lip hard, not even bothering to wipe the tears from his face, and stood up from the ground, staggering towards the outside.
The wound on his knee worsened, and blood dripped onto the ground, a shocking sight.
He originally wanted to say goodbye to Lu Jiunian properly, but in the end, he ended up feeling physically and mentally disheveled.
As he stood in the entryway, he heard the man's gentle voice ask Gu Zijian, "What did you have for dinner? Was it to your liking?"
"It's too bland, I don't even want to eat it."
"Be good and get well soon. I've already divorced Shi Nianzhi. Once you're better, we'll get married."
"No, you have to propose to me first."
"good."
"......"
Lu Jiunian seemed to unconditionally agree to all of Gu Zijian's requests.
Because of his injury, he couldn't stand steadily and leaned against him, only to be pushed away in disgust. He cried softly because it hurt too much, but that became a noisy commotion.
In Lu Jiunian's eyes, there was never any thought of Shi Nianzhi.
Shi Nianzhi felt dizzy as she walked out the door, twisted her ankle, tumbled down the steps, and lost consciousness.
Shi Er broke free of the bodyguards and rushed over, seemingly hysterical yet filled with self-blame and heartache.
"Young Master Shi! You, you idiot."
Hospital.
When Shi Nianzhi opened his eyes, he was met with a blinding white light. He was in pain all over his body, especially his knees, which were burning with pain that was unbearable.
"woke up."
Su Heng put down his phone and looked at Shi Nianzhi.
Shi Nianzhi wanted to sit up in bed, but Su Hengyi pressed his shoulder, indicating that he should lie down properly.
Shi Nianzhi touched a bump on his forehead, which was painful to the touch, but compared to the pain in his knee, it was insignificant.
Scenes from the villa flashed through his mind, and his fingers unconsciously pressed down hard on the bag, as if by conditioned reflex, his eyes filled with tears.
Su Hengyi grabbed his wrist and removed his self-torturing fingers.
Shi Nianzhi's hoarse voice said, "Brother Yi, this bump really hurts."
Su Hengyi looked at Shi Nianzhi, who seemed unsure of what to say. After a while, he finally said, "What kind of drink would you like? I'll go buy it."
"I want to drink sweet orange juice with pulp."
"good."
Su Heng released Shi Nianzhi's wrist and got up to walk outside.
As soon as the ward door closed, Shi Nianzhi’s heart-wrenching cries came from inside, as if she were in an abyss of despair, surrounded by devastation.
Su Heng's fingers, which were still on the doorknob, tightened.
Shi Er paid the fee and came back. As he walked, he looked at the medicine he had just gotten from the pharmacy. Although his face was bruised and swollen, it didn't stop him from looking at it very carefully.
Someone blocked his way. He looked up and saw Su Hengyi's indifferent face.
"He's awake and wants some orange juice with pulp."
"Okay, I'll go buy it."
Shi Er, who had worked tirelessly and without complaint, left again.
When he came back and came in.
Aside from his eyes being a little red, Shi Nianzhi wasn't sad at all. He took the orange juice from Shi's hand and gulped down half of it.
He then said, "If I had known that Brother Yi had a way to get you out of... I wouldn't have knelt down, it hurt so much."
That person's name, it seems, has become a taboo subject in Shi Nianzhi's eyes.
Shi Er squatted down and asked, "Does it hurt a lot? I'll ask the doctor to prescribe you some painkillers."
"It's okay. It hurt quite a bit when I first woke up, but it's all better now."
After a pause, Shi Nianzhi asked Shi Er, "You are free now, so do whatever you want from now on."
"I want to follow you."
Shi Er spoke to Shi Nianzhi with utmost seriousness.
Shi Nianzhi scratched his face. "Shi Er, I only see you as an older brother. If you come with me, it'll be..."
Aside from being slow at studying, Shi Nianzhi is very clear-headed about many things.
Shi Er chuckled lightly, seemingly unconcerned, "Brother is fine too."
Lujiang Bay.
Lu Jiunian drank quite a bit of alcohol. He told himself that he couldn't let Gu Zijian down, which is why he treated Shi Nianzhi so coldly.
But the more he drank, the more his mind was filled with Shi Nianzhi's image: her injured leg, her blood-stained fingers, and her desperate, staggering figure as she fled.
It was becoming more and more like a thorn, piercing Lu Jiunian's heart.
He recalled Shi Er's words, "I was there this morning too. Young Master Shi didn't fight with Young Master Gu at all. I was biased towards Young Master Shi, but I didn't lie about this matter."
Lu Jiunian felt his head throb even more. He picked up his phone and called his assistant, "Go check the surveillance footage."
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