Subordinate Doting - Chap 155
Like a piece of rotten meat on a chopping board, being beaten and tortured repeatedly.
He knelt on the ground in despair, trying in vain to explain to Ji Tingyu what happened that night.
It was a charity gala for helping children, and there were many children who would dress up as animals and perform. He thought the kitten would like it, so he forcefully took him out regardless of his wishes.
No matter where he went, He Zhuo was the focus of the crowd. Many people came to him to discuss business and build relationships, so he asked the housekeeper to help look after Ji Tingyu, but by then the housekeeper had been bribed and deliberately coaxed him to go to the flower hall to relax.
When He Zhuo came back, he wanted to look for him, but the housekeeper said that he was eating with a new friend and they seemed to be talking and laughing.
He Zhuo was very jealous, and someone happened to invite him to dance. He agreed without thinking, and took the other person to the dance floor, intending to provoke Ji Tingyu.
Ji Tingyu laughed when he heard this, and forgot to smoke the cigarette in his hand.
”Just to provoke me? Then congratulations, you’ve done twice the result with half the effort.”
”My leg was bruised and hurt for a few days, but it wasn’t a big deal because I was in pain every day. I was hungry and had nothing to eat, but I had so much medicine that I couldn’t finish it. If I didn’t finish it, I would be beaten.”
”I want to ask you, please don’t just turn around and walk away when I made a mistake. I didn’t mean to knock over the table. I was scared. I won’t do it again, but you didn’t see me before I even said it.”
”How ironic! You say you love me, but aren’t you just as good at bullying me as they are?”
Bullying, this is too weak a word.
Ji Tingyu used it on himself for the second time.
When both parties are evenly matched, it is called confrontation; when the strength is unequal, it is called bullying, which means that if you attack me, I will definitely get hurt.
Because it’s you who hurt me, and that hurts me a hundred times more than the act of being hurt.
”I have changed everything. I will make it up to you little by little.”
”I swear I will never leave you again. I will always walk behind you and never let you see my back. OK?”
He Zhuo knelt in front of him, took his hand devoutly, and said words that even he himself found ridiculous.
Besides this, he didn’t know what else he could do.
Ji Tingyu blinked and a tear fell: “But it’s not the first time that I’ve watched you leave…”
He Zhuo’s heart tightened and began beating wildly like a drum.
He knew that what was coming would always come.
”I don’t remember what day it was, the date, the weather, what happened, nothing, because only one thing happened to me that day.”
He put out his cigarette, took a deep breath, and his shoulders slumped.
”When I woke up, the nightmare began.”
”They tied me to the bed, beat me, twisted my hands and feet, choked my throat, and forced me to eat mud from a flowerpot. I couldn’t live anymore, I wanted to die, but I didn’t want to. I heard the sound of your car, a sound I had heard countless times, and I was sure it was you, so I rushed to the window and asked you for help. I only had three seconds, but, but…”
This was a nightmare that he simply couldn’t describe in words. The fear that grew from the bottom of his heart was eating him away bit by bit. His throat was choking and he couldn’t speak. He had to use all his strength to utter those few words:
”Why… don’t you save me… do you despise me so much…”
He Zhuo suddenly closed his eyes.
Put your hands on the ground and bend yourself into a shrimp.
He knew that this was an unsolvable deadlock and an insurmountable hurdle. Just watching the video made him feel so painful that he wanted to kill himself. What about Ji Tingyu who experienced all of this personally?
How desperate he must have been when he ran towards himself in just three seconds and desperately called for help, but was abandoned without a care.
”The glass is one-way, and I can’t see inside.”
Even his voice was trembling.
”And the sound?”
”You have such good hearing that you would wake up if I hummed at night. Why couldn’t you hear me banging the glass so hard?”
Ji Tingyu’s heart was in his throat and he subconsciously held his breath.
He just wanted an explanation, one that would bring him out of this nightmare.
No matter how outrageous He Zhuo’s words were, such as he was wearing headphones, had a cold and his hearing was weakened, or even that he didn’t hear the sound at all and was just casually looking back, he would accept it.
He no longer minded the neglect and cold violence of the past three years, nor did he mind losing his own stone and the countless verbal sarcasm. As long as He Zhuo said it, he would believe it.
But He Zhuo told him: “I heard it…”
Ji Tingyu closed his eyes and his heart sank to the bottom.
”Stop it, shut up! Don’t say that anymore!”
He rushed forward, covered He Zhuo’s mouth, threw him to the ground, and prevented him from uttering another word.
With tears in his eyes, He Zhuo pried open his fingers one by one and confessed the secret that he had buried in his heart for a whole year.
”I heard the sound, but I thought you knew I was back and was angry again, so I didn’t pay attention to it…”
Regret was like a maggot attached to his bones, gnawing at his flesh and blood in his dreams every midnight.
The fact that glass is one-way was just an excuse for him to deceive himself.
No matter how many times he was reborn, he would never forgive himself for not going upstairs even though he heard the sound.
If he went up to check immediately, the four people would not have time to move, and he could expose William’s conspiracy and save Ji Tingyu.
That was his best chance of success, of saving the kitten.
”It turns out the truth is so simple, it’s just because I don’t care…”
Ji Tingyu laughed, holding his shoulders high and shaking with laughter, and each laugh was sinister and suppressed.
In an instant, the laughter turned into a hysterical roar. He took out a gun from his leg bag and pointed it at He Zhuo’s head: “I really want to kill you!”
He Zhuo neither dodged nor avoided, but closed his eyes willingly.
But Ji Tingyu’s hand holding the gun was shaking violently, and his eyes began to become bloodshot again. He roared and smashed the gun against the wall, slapping himself in the face just like he did in his previous life: “Why do you do this? Why do you treat me like this! I have done good things all my life, I have saved so many people, why do I have to run into you, you all!”
