Chapter 416: Evil (45)
“Click.”
The bathroom door closed, followed by the sound of running water.
Zhan Qi sat on the sofa in the living room, looking down at the hem of his pajamas, lost in thought as he listened to the sound of running water. The strands of hair that fell across his forehead were still damp with moisture.
The brilliance and gloom in his eyes disappeared.
There is only emptiness left.
He stared blankly at the ground with lifeless eyes, lost in thought, until the sound of running water in the bathroom stopped and the slight sound of the door opening was heard.
Zhan Qicai looked up immediately, like a frightened bird.
Qiao Xi was wiping her hair with a towel draped over her shoulders.
The girl came out in slippers and pajamas, and seemed to be going straight back to her room.
Zhan Qi's heart tightened.
He quickly stood up and strode over, stopping Qiao Xi before she was about to return to her room and blocking her at the door.
Suddenly, my sleeve was grabbed.
Qiao Xi looked up at him in confusion. Zhan Qi said nothing, his dark eyes just staring at her quietly. The tension and uneasiness contained in them, as well as the strong tangled emotions, almost overflowed.
"What are you doing? Just say what you want to say, don't touch me."
Qiao Xi frowned slightly.
Zhan Qi subconsciously wanted to stop him by pulling his sleeve back from his hand, but when his eyes met Qiao Xi's cold and disgusted gaze, his half-raised hand stopped abruptly in mid-air.
Lower your eyelids.
The man's Adam's apple rolled with difficulty, and his bitter and hoarse voice was mixed with hidden pain.
“…Xixi, who is he?”
How low should we fall?
How could he be so humble and lowly, eager to hear an answer from Qiao Xi?
"none of your business."
Qiao Xi rolled her eyes and turned back to her room to close the door. Zhan Qi saw this and pulled the door open with his hand. However, the girl didn't stop closing the door with any more force, which directly trapped his hand and made Zhan Qi groan in pain.
"Qiao Xi..."
"Is it over yet? What do you want?"
Before he could finish his words, the girl impatiently interrupted him. She flung the door open and kicked him. Out of instinct and intuition from so many fights, Zhan Qi instinctively tried to block the attack.
But there has just been some movement.
He stopped abruptly.
The result of not stopping him was that he was kicked away by Qiao Xi, staggered back a few steps and bumped into the wall in a mess.
Qiao Xi narrowed her beautiful eyes and came in front of him.
The bright red lips curled up slightly, and the sweet voice softened as if it had a magical power to captivate people, but it said the most hurtful words.
"Zhan Qi, are you a jerk?"
She smiled again with her eyes curved.
It was still a smile as beautiful and elegant as a red rose, but this smile was without any emotional warmth. Hidden beneath the surface was only indifference.
But even so.
Zhan Qi knew her ridicule and mockery of him, and knew she was sincere in wanting to see him laugh. But he still couldn't help himself and fell for it.
He is the despicable one.
“…What if I say yes?”
The man's hoarse voice was filled with the pain of suffocation, and his dark and deep eyes were stubborn and focused. Looking at Qiao Xi, he took off all his disguises and broke his proud bones.
I broke myself into pieces and lost my dignity.
He placed his sincere and passionate heart before her and poured out all his unbearable and deep love into her.
I just want her to take a look.
"Your words really make me sick."
The smile on the girl's face disappeared in an instant, and at this moment, her heart, which he had carefully held, was shattered without even a glance at it.
The moment of disintegration.
His face instantly turned pale, bloodless, and his heart tightened with an intense pain that felt like suffocation. Waves of aching pain surged and surged, spreading through his limbs, leaving him feeling disheveled and cold.
Pull him and lock him into the abyss.
Within sight, the girl turned and left.
Zhan Qi's thoughts were suddenly tightened by her, and the fear and panic in an instant became more intense than ever before. He was afraid that Qiao Xi would abandon him and never look back.
Such a cruel punishment.
"Xixi, Xixi...please don't leave."
He was so panicked that he didn't even care about the injuries he was suffering. Enduring the intense pain, he hurriedly hugged the girl in front of him, and his hands around Qiao Xi's waist trembled as he tightened his grip.
"I was wrong, I was really wrong..."
His hoarse voice was choked with sobs, and he could barely form a complete sentence.
Intermittent.
Just like an abandoned helpless child, he is terrified and afraid, trying to reach out and grab his only light.
He is afraid.
I was afraid even when I was holding Qiao Xi.
He was afraid that the girl would pry his fingers apart one by one like she did last time, ridicule him with extremely indifferent words, and then walk towards another person without looking back.
Zhan Qi hugged her tightly.
The boy, who was much taller than the girl, now seemed to be afraid of something. He hugged her and trembled slightly, giving up his dignity and begging her to come back.
Beg her to look at him again.
I long to be loved again.
The wetness on the shoulder was not obvious at first, but it gradually spread and then became the indistinct low and suppressed voice of the person next to him.
Qiao Xi's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly.
She stood at the door of her room, Zhan Qi hugged her from behind, and the slightly choked sound kept repeating like a machine.
"Qiao Xi, Xixi..."
"Please, don't go. Don't go with him, okay?"
"Whatever you want, I'll give you whatever you want, so..."
The intermittent voice was mixed with completely out-of-control emotions.
Feeling the wetness on her shoulder and the fragile trembling of the person behind her, Qiao Xi closed her eyes slightly, not knowing whether it was sadness or irony, but a faint, sad smile appeared at the corner of her lips.
"Zhan Qi, are you crying?"
Unlike the previous sharp confrontation, the girl's voice was light and soft.
Zhan Qi's body stiffened slightly for a moment, and Qiao Xi lowered her eyes: "When I begged you to let me go like that, did you let me go?"
An almost broken sound.
It also made Zhan Qi's heart suddenly ache. He knew that Qiao Xi couldn't let go, and he knew that the girl couldn't forgive him as if nothing had happened.
In return for this outcome and conclusion.
He brought this upon himself.
"You can't give me what I want. You owe so much debt, you've caused so much trouble. I want openness and brightness, I want a bright future. Zhan Qi, you can't give me any of that."
Qiao Xi's voice was soft but firm.
She spoke in such a soft voice, looking out the window of her narrow bedroom at the endless black night without a single star.
Zhan Qi's body stiffened.
The arms around her waist trembled slightly, even tightening a little. He was unwilling to let go, deceiving himself.
What Qiao Xi wanted.
He can't afford to give anything, nor is he qualified to give anything.
He was the first one to ruin Qiao Xi's life.
Why should he expect the girl he had hurt so deeply to look back at him? Why should he expect a future with her?
And why...
I hope Qiao Xi will love him.
"That's enough, just let it go. You're not a child anymore, you should know what's going on."
The girl lowered her eyes to look at her waist. She slowly raised her hand and placed it on the man's tightened and slightly trembling hand. Just like she had done last time, she pulled his fingers apart one by one.
Noticing her actions.
Zhan Qi's most fragile and sensitive nerve was also broken by her in an instant. When Qiao Xi's soft little hand touched his hand and tried to pry him apart.
Zhan Qi seemed to be greatly stimulated.
The moment he let go of Qiao Xi, he grabbed the girl's wrist, pulled her over and hugged her tightly in his arms.
Qiao Xi was slightly stunned.
"...I don't want it." Zhan Qi's hoarse voice came muffled from his ears, stubborn and insistent.
He didn't let Qiao Xi see his current appearance.
It's really embarrassing.
He didn't want to be caught in this state by her, nor did he want her to see him in such an embarrassing expression. No matter how badly he was injured, he had never been so embarrassed.
They all said.
Zhan Qi is a madman who would risk his life.
But after losing her, he became a cautious and life-loving fool.
Want to atone for your sins.
I want to be with her and have a future with her.
"It's okay if you only lie to me this once. Can you just say... I like you?"
His hoarse voice was difficult and bitter, squeezed out from his slightly rolling Adam's apple. It was full of anxiety and tension, hiding a tiny, negligible expectation.
The girl was held in his arms.
I felt his struggle and pain, as well as the immature and clumsy love that had just sprouted.
It seems that this is the only love.
This is the only pure part of Zhan Qi.
Qiao Xi opened her lips, but a thousand words were stuck in her throat. The past scenes that emerged in her mind became extremely clear. At that time, she hated her own powerlessness and hated his rudeness.
Hate...
This confusing and forbidden relationship.
In the end, she pursed her lips and said nothing. She couldn't deceive herself. Even if she lied, she couldn't really go against her conscience and kill all her innocence and beauty with her own hands.
The man who pushed her into the abyss of depravity.
Even if it's a lie, it can't be done.
"Zhan Qi, why bother...torturing each other with me." There was an unbreakable sadness in Qiao Xi's voice. The relationship between them was itself a kind of sadness.
He is the one who regrets, and he is also the one who is unwilling to let go.
"How do you want me to face you?"
Qiao Xi leaned in his arms and closed her eyes, her voice trembling slightly and weak. This was the only time she had ever shown him any sign of submission.
But that's all.
There's no going back.
All the things that happened, all the injuries she had inflicted, had pushed her into an abyss from which there was no turning back. There was no going back.
Isn’t it, Zhan Qi.
"No, don't... don't do this to me."
The man's choked and trembling voice became increasingly hoarse and weak. He hugged Qiao Xi as if he wanted to hold her tightly. But the girl was like sand slipping through his fingers, decreasing grain by grain, and he couldn't keep her.
His emotional breakdown became increasingly out of control.
Qiao Xi raised her eyes slightly, and stared at the dark ceiling with empty eyes in his arms.
She pursed her lips and said nothing, motionless in his hold like a puppet.
Let the heart-wrenching cries of collapse slowly drown out your thoughts.
Let's stop here, there's no going back.
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