Sissy (Niang Niang Qiang) - Chap 72
Chapter 72
Very soon they arrived at the villa which Li Chengxiu had already visited a couple of times before. During the ride, he managed to calm down a bit. When he got out, he was a little embarrassed to see Ji Yuanqi quickly running towards him.
As soon as Ji Yuanqi approached, he hugged Li Chengxiu and touched his red puffy eyes with his fingers: “What happened? Did you lose your job? Did Teacup die?”
Li Chengxiu frowned and patted his pocket: “It’s doing very well. Don’t talk nonsense…”
Ji Yuanqi glanced at the puppy in the pocket, put his arm over Li Chengxiu’s shoulders and then led him inside the house: “Tell me, what’s the matter with you.”
Li Chengxiu took a deep breath and gave Ji Yuanqi a heavy look.
He didn’t know where to start. The entanglement between him and Shao Qun was so chaotic, that it was impossible to untangle it. And even if he could do it, it wasn’t something he was willing to divulge to Ji Yuanqi.
Ji Yuanqi saw that Li Chengxiu didn’t speak, so he poked his face to make him hurry up.
“You’re looking at me with such a desperate face, and you still haven’t told me what’s going on. Are you deliberately trying to stir something up here with me?”
Li Chengxiu shook his head: “I should just go back…”
Ji Yuanqi pressed him back down onto the sofa, “Don’t go. You can’t go until your thing is resolved.”
Li Chengxiu took Teacup out of his pocket, fiddled around with it, lowered his head and kept quiet.
Ji Yuanqi took out a paper tissue and pushed it towards Li Chengxiu, so he could wipe his face.
Li Chengxiu awkwardly took it and whispered, “Thank you.”
Ji Yuanqi sighed: “Talk. How can I help you if you don’t talk to me?”
Li Chengxiu rubbed his eyes and took a deep breath: “What do you want to eat? I’ll cook it for you.”
Ji Yuanqi shouted in a husky voice, “I don’t want to eat anything right now!”
Just as the two of them were looking awkwardly at each other, there was a sound of commotion coming from the outside.
Ji Yuanqi was about to get up to take a look, when a bodyguard knocked on the door and came in.
“What’s going on?” Ji Yuanqi looked outside the window and saw several people making noise around the gate.
The bodyguard answered: “Master, someone outside was insisting on coming in. He said that he’s looking for Mr.Li…Then a lady arrived right after him. One of the subordinates recognized her as the eldest Young Miss from the Beijing Shao family.”
Li Chengxiu’s face suddenly changed, and he nervously looked at Ji Yuanqi.
Ji Yuanqi showed a fierce expression: “Were you crying like this because of that Shao Qun guy?”
Li Chengxiu stood up anxiously: “I still…”
Ji Yuanqi stared out the window: “Just sit down… Fuck, I’ve been itching to teach this Shao jerk a lesson for quite some time. Let him in and ask his sister to wait outside.”
The bodyguard said cautiously, “Master, that person doesn’t seem too friendly. Are you sure you want to let him in? Why don’t you rather invite Miss Shao here? It’s not appropriate to make her stand outside…”
Ji Yuanqi said indifferently: “I’m already being very respectful by letting her brother come in. What are you afraid of? This is my territory.”
The bodyguard helplessly retreated.
After a while, the people who were crowding at the door dispersed, and Shao Qun was brought in with a gloomy expression on his face
Ji Yuanqi firmly squeezed Li Chengxiu’s hand and grinned: “Watch me channel your anger at him!”
As soon as Shao Qun entered, he first located Li Chengxiu and was slightly relieved. Then his eyes moved towards Ji Yuanqi, and his gaze turned cold in an instant.
Ji Yuanqi glared right back at him, serving the same energy.
Shao Qun reached out towards Li Chengxiu: “Chengxiu, let’s go home.”
Li Chengxiu didn’t lift his head. He only covered Teacup with his hands, while his shoulders slightly trembled.
Ji Yuanqi put his arms around Li Chengxiu and said coldly to Shao Qun: “He’s not even paying any attention to you, and you’re still pestering him. Are you not done yet?”
Shao Qun responded: “What do our affairs have to do with you? You’re an outsider. Just be smart, stay out of it and don’t get in between us.”
Ji Yuan said sarcastically: “You are standing on the floor of my house right now. Li Chengxiu came to my house on his own volition. Me and him are at least friends. And who are you? Can’t you see that he won’t even bother with you?”
Shao Qun resisted the urge to wave his fist and said to Li Chengxiu with a pleading tone: “Chengxiu, what’s the matter? Let’s just go home and talk about it, okay?”
His sister was waiting outside the door. And he didn’t want her to know that his relationship with Li Chengxiu had reached a very bad point. It would make it more difficult for him to convince his family on this matter.
Li Chengxiu remained unresponsive, while Ji Yuanqi proudly glanced at Shao Qun.
The three of them were in a deadlock for a long time. Shao Qun finally couldn’t hold it any longer, so he came up to Li Chengxiu and tried to pull him up.
As soon as he made his move, Ji Yuanqi also stood up and blocked Shao Qun, looking at him provocatively.
Li Chengxiu got up from the sofa and took several steps back, trying to avoid him.
This apparent dodging stabbed Shao Qun right in the heart. His eyes immediately turned red, and he shouted at Li Chengxiu: “I just want to be with you! Why are you always running away? Why are you always avoiding me?”
Li Chengxiu trembled: “I don’t want to be with you.”
When Shao Qun heard these words, his eyes filled with deep pain, and his expression partly showed utter despair and partly cold cruelty.
He pushed Ji Yuanqi away and wanted to come closer to Li Chengxiu.
Ji Yuanqi had been waiting for this opportunity to show off in front of Li Chengxiu for a long time. And here came the awaited trigger. Ji Yuanqi grabbed Shao Qun’s arm, twisted it to the side, and his fist went right into Shao Qun’s face.
Shao Qun quickly took a hold of Ji Yuanqi’s hand that was twisting his arm. He then ducked away from one of the punches and slammed his shoulder into Ji Yuanqi’s chest.
Ji Yuanqi was knocked over backwards, but he didn’t let go of Shao Qun’s arm, so both of them instantly fell to the ground.
The bodyguards who were on guard next to the door rushed in to witness this scene. Ji Yuanqi’s face was red from anger. He shouted at his men, “Don’t come in between! Not a single one of you.”
The bodyguards were discouraged by his words, so they had no other choice but to stand around with some embarrassment and watch the two guys go at it.
Looking at the fight, Li Chengxiu was so frightened that he was nervously retreating back until he reached the wall.
He actually wanted to go up to them and stop this madness, but he didn’t dare to get close to the battle area, so he was beside himself with anxiety.
Li Chengxiu then ran towards the bodyguards: “Hurry up and stop them!”
The leader shook his head and smiled bitterly: “Young Master didn’t allow us to interfere.”
So there was nothing Li Chengxiu could do besides nervously pacing back and forth,
The bodyguard tried to comfort him: “Mr. Li, don’t worry too much. He can’t beat the Young Master without a weapon…”
Before he even finished speaking, someone next to him shouted: “Wei-Ge, they have a knife!”
The person who was called Wei-Ge turned his head, and sure enough, Ji Yuanqi and Shao Qun had snatched the fruit knife from the coffee table. It was unclear who exactly was holding the knife at that moment.
Wei-Ge shouted: “Not good, we have to stop them now!” He then rushed up towards the men first.
Several other people ran to protect their Young Master.
After that, the situation turned chaotic, Li Chengxiu was pushed onto the sidelines, while Ji Yuanqi and Shao Qun were tightly surrounded by a group of people in black. Li Chengxiu couldn’t see anything at all, when he suddenly heard a grunt. All the people in the room immediately quieted down.
Li Chengxiu felt that the grunt had hit him right in the heart. A terrible thought suddenly invaded his mind. He staggered over and pushed the person in front of him away.
Then he saw Shao Qun lying on the ground with a frown and sweat on his forehead. Blood was seeping out from the side of his waist. Most of the shiny blade was still outside his body.
At that moment, Li Chengxiu had the illusion of going into cardiac arrest. For a while, it seemed like a heavy weight was put on top of him. He couldn’t stand anymore, so he slid down to the ground.
Ji Yuanqi was stunned, as he looked at the bloody knife in his hand.
Wei-Ge went up to him and grabbed the knife out of his hand. Sweating profusely, he shouted “Quick, take him to the hospital. Hurry!”
Li Chengxiu felt dizzy. He placed his weak hand onto Shao Qun and called out to him as quietly as a mosquito:”Shao… Shao Qun… Shao…”
Shao Qun barely opened his eyes, covered his waist with one hand, and wanted to hold Li Chengxiu’s arm with his other hand.
Li Chengxiu’s body was being torn apart by the unbearable pain he felt. Unspeakable fear and despair squeezed out the remains of his rationality. His body started to tremble in an abnormal way, and tears ran down his cheeks. Li Chengxiu barely managed to take a hold of Shao Qun’s hand and open his mouth to say something, when Shao Qun was already lifted up.
Li Chengxiu was still kneeling on the ground and couldn’t stand up. The two of them were holding tightly onto each other and wouldn’t let go, no matter how much they were persuaded.
In desperation, one of the bodyguards held Li Chengxiu’s other arm and lifted him up from the floor. Li Chengxiu felt as if his legs were stepping on cotton. He couldn’t exert any strength, so he just reluctantly walked forward while being supported by the man.
In his eyes, the whole world had suddenly become dim, and there were no more colors left. The surrounding noise, screams, people in front of him… Li Chengxiu couldn’t see or hear any of that anymore.
There was currently only Shao Qun’s dazzling red blood in front of his eyes… And there was a real possibility that Shao Qun was going to disappear from his life forever.
Li Chengxiu wasn’t sure how the bodyguards managed to stuff him into the car. Shao Qun was now lying in his arms, and both of them had blood on their hands, but they kept holding on tightly to one another.
Shao Qun’s voice slowly reached his ears: “Chengxiu…”
Li Chengxiu looked at Shao Qun’s pale face as if he was in a trance.
Shao Qun forced a rogue smile: “Give me… a kiss…”
“Give me… a kiss…” Shao Qun weakly raised his hand and put it on Li Chengxiu’s neck, “Come on, in case… I can’t kiss anymore… ok?… come…”
Li Chengxiu’s eyes filled with tears, and he could only see a blur instead of Shao Qun’s face.
Shao Qun’s voice seemed to be losing its strength, so he was barely audible when he repeated: “Come on…”
Li Chengxiu slowly moved closer to his face.
This was really not a good kiss. Li Chengxiu was crying so hard that he could barely locate Shao Qun’s mouth.But as soon as hot and humid lips were finally pressed together, Shao Qun felt that getting stabbed was worth it.
At that moment, the power that was choking Li Chengxiu’s throat slowly eased, so he suddenly cried out:”Shao Qun, you… don’t die… Shao Qun…”
Shao Qun had already passed out in his arms.
When they got to the hospital, Ji Yuanqi’s bodyguards finally managed to separate Shao Qun’s and Li Chengxiu’s people’s hands.
Shao Qun was taken into the operating room. Li Chengxiu felt that he had become just an empty hull of a person – everything in front of him was just an illusion that would shatter when touched. Even the fact that he was alive became unreal.
In a trance, he vaguely noticed that Shao Qun’s sister was crying in front of him and saying that she would never let him go, if something happened to her brother.
Shao Qun…
Li Chengxiu gradually couldn’t even feel his own body temperature. He was standing against the wall as if penalized for something and stared at the lights inside the operating room. He feared that if he took his eyes away even just for a moment, he might miss something important.
In those few short hours, Li Chengxiu experienced unforgettable pain and suffering.
He couldn’t restrain himself from thinking about the worst case scenario, and he felt like he was on the verge of collapse.
All their love-hate entanglements became worthless in the face of death. Those fierce words they exchanged, those chaotic emotions he experienced – all of that was slowly being erased. Only Shao Qun remained – still utterly and completely occupying all of Li Chengxiu’s thoughts and attentions.
He might die… There was so much blood, his complexion was so pale, his voice so weak… Shao Qun, who always seemed invincible before, was now so fragile that he could disappear at any moment.
Li Chengxiu didn’t know how to accept that. He couldn’t imagine that there might not be a Shao Qun in this world.
Even if he and Shao Qun were separated and lived on opposite ends of the world, at least Shao Qun would always live in Li Chengxiu’s memories as high spirited as always. In that case he wouldn’t need to worry at all – just that was enough for Li Chengxiu to peacefully live his own life. But he couldn’t bear the cruel possibility that Shao Qun would just be gone forever.
Li Chengxiu couldn’t take it anymore… He couldn’t figure it out… How did it get to this point? What happened to him and Shao Qun?
An unknown amount of time passed before the lights in the operating room finally went out.
Li Chengxiu was standing still as a sculpture. When he finally moved, his legs were sore. He walked towards the operating room, feeling hoarse in his throat.
Just a few steps away, he was stopped by Shao Wen’s driver.
As soon as the door of the operating room opened, Shao Wen rushed over, anxiously questioning the doctor.
Li Chengxiu could only see Shao Qun lying there on the bed with his eyes closed. But he couldn’t push the chubby and strong driver out of his way no matter how hard he tried.
While he was attempting to approach Shao Qun, he heard the doctor say, “Everything’s alright for now. The patient is still under anesthesia, so he needs some rest.”
Li Chengxiu’s eyes filled with tears, his legs softened, and he could barely prevent himself from kneeling down by holding onto the wall.
He helplessly watched as Shao Qun was taken away, while Shao Wen followed. He then slumped to the ground. Everything in front of his eyes gradually turned black, and he lost consciousness.
When Li Chengxiu woke up again, he saw one of Ji Yuanqi’s bodyguards sitting beside him and playing with his cell phone.
When he noticed that Li Chengxiu was awake, he immediately leaned over: “Mr. Li, are you conscious? Do you need anything?”
Li Chengxiu propped himself up planning to leave the bed, but the man stopped him.
Li Chengxiu grabbed his arm and asked urgently, “Shao Qun! Where is Shao Qun?”
The bodyguard reassured him: “Mr. Shao is fine. He is resting upstairs.”
Li Chengxiu’s eyes felt sore, and his body was trembling. He closed his eyes and fell back on the bed, repeating to himself, “It’s okay…it’s okay…”
The bodyguard picked up his phone: “Mr. Li, my Young Master wanted you to call him as soon as you woke up.”
Li Chengxiu glanced at the phone and gently shook his head.
He didn’t want to talk to Ji Yuanqi right now. He didn’t want to talk to anyone. Because he didn’t know what to say.
The man put the phone away with some embarrassment: “It’s fine. You can do it when you’re emotionally stable… Also, Mr. Li, your dog is currently at my Young master’s villa. It’s already been fed, and we’ll send it to you with a car at a later time.”
In all the chaos, Li Chengxiu had long forgotten about Teacup. At a time like that, how could he think about anything else other than Shao Qun? With tears in his eyes, he nodded to the bodyguard.
The bodyguard was about to say something else, when there was a knock on the door, and Shao Wen’s driver came in. Seeing that Li Chengxiu was awake, he said, “Mr. Li, my Young Master wants to see you.”
Li Chengxiu was shocked, but he immediately sat up: “He… how is he?”
The driver looked a little embarrassed: “Mr. Li, let’s just go.”
When Li Chengxiu got out of bed, he realized that his legs were still soft, and he was shaking when he walked.
