Subordinate Doting - Chap 4
This is how my life will be. I accept it.
But if there is another life, I don’t want to go through all this again, and I don’t want to like you anymore… I just want to be alone and live a good life…”
The raging flames swallowed his forearm in one gulp. Ji Tingyu howled in pain and rolled into a ball.
He could no longer maintain his human form and could only turn back into a kitten. He put the thing in his hand into his mouth, raised his head and looked desperately in the direction of his home, which he could never return to, before being swallowed by the scarlet and turned into a charred ball.
At the last moment, He Zhuo saw clearly what he was holding tightly. It was the souvenir stone bracelet that he bought for him for 25 yuan when they first met on the snowy mountain.
After waking up from the dream, he opened the brocade box containing Ji Tingyu’s “corpse” and dug out a small piece of burnt stone from the charred hair.
That whole night, the alpha’s grief-stricken cries could be heard throughout the manor.
Every flower and grass that was awakened knew his heart-wrenching regret.
But Ji Tingyu didn’t know, and he would never have the chance to find out again.
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A few months later.
He Zhuo stood on the edge of a steep cliff, and the howling mountain wind sounded as if someone was crying.
He had no other safety equipment on except a colorful wing suit shaped like a bat. If he was not careful and fell off the cliff, he would be smashed to pieces.
He was so thin that he looked unrecognizable, his lips were blue-gray, and his eye sockets were sunken like a dried-up ghost. His right arm was wrapped in thick gauze, and large amounts of blood were oozing out of the gauze. Following the direction of the blood flow downwards, one of his little fingers on his right hand was broken. It was freshly broken, and the cut was still covered with black and red flesh.
The pale-faced instructor confirmed with him for the 23rd time: “Mr. He, do you really want to fly in a wing suit?”
He Zhuo was stunned for a while, then nodded numbly: “This is my last chance.”
Wingsuit flying – one of the world’s eight extreme sports, the “Ozaki Eight Events”, has a mortality rate of up to 30%, and is truly a gamble with your life.
Some people say that the wishes made while wing suit flying have a high chance of coming true, because the challenger is betting with his life and God: if everything goes well, the wish will be invalid; if he dies, the dream will come true.
He Zhuo naturally knew that this should not be taken seriously, but he was at his wit’s end and had no other choice but to entrust his wish to God.
As for life and death, he no longer cared about it.
When you die, you die. When you die, the pain ends.
The moment he opened his arms at an altitude of ten thousand meters, his internal organs were crushed by the high pressure and his wounds were instantly torn apart. However, He Zhuo just tightly grasped the small burnt stone and silently recited devoutly.
- God, if you hear my wish, let me die and give me back my kitten.
April 14, 2023.
News reports said that a male body was found after falling off a cliff in a canyon. DNA identification confirmed that the body was that of He Zhuo, the heir of the He Group who disappeared in a skydiving accident a month ago.
April 14, 2018.
He Zhuo, who suddenly woke up on the big bed in the bedroom, had been staring at the ceiling with a dull look for ten minutes. Ten minutes later, he grabbed the mobile phone with trembling body, and saw the time displayed on the screen. Before he could open his mouth, tears burst out.
Chapter 2 He is already standing in front of me
He Zhuo took a cold shower first.
A person who has died once carries bad luck with him, and he is afraid that the bad luck will be passed on to Ji Tingyu when they meet again.
Walking out of the bathroom in a bathrobe, he raised his hand to smooth his half-wet hair, then stood in front of the mirror and looked at his body.
The traces of time disappeared silently with death, and were replaced by a circle of scars that appeared out of thin air on the little finger of the right hand, right at the place where the finger was broken in the previous life.
The finger was obviously intact, but the small scar remained on the bend of the finger like a birthmark.
He Zhuo didn’t know if this was a warning from God, just like the small stone he was still holding when he woke up.
But once again, he no longer needed anyone to remind him.
”Xiaoyu, wait for me…”
He lowered his head, brought the stone to his lips and kissed it gently.
There was a knock on the door, and He Zhuo opened it and let the person in.
The beta male assistant wearing gold-rimmed glasses soon began to report to him the major and minor events that had occurred in Yicheng over the past six months.
He Zhuo is in a hurry, and this will help him quickly get familiar with the world after his rebirth.
After the assistant finished speaking, he raised his hand and pushed up his glasses: “Also, last night, the prince of Changmao Technology was photographed working as a gigolo at the White Horse Club after work. After being exposed, he got very angry and said that this was his hobby.”
The reason why I specifically told He Zhuo was not to make it convenient for him to eat melons, but that if you are in the same circle, you should always be aware of the movements of your business partners to prevent misunderstandings or hatred in the future due to lack of knowledge.
He Zhuo had never reacted when his assistant said this before, but today he asked for the first time: “What about the Ji family?”
The assistant was stunned: “What did you say?”
”Has anything happened in the Ji family recently?”
”Is it the Ji family that’s in real estate? Are you asking about the eldest son of the Ji family or Boss Ji?” The assistant pushed his glasses confidently. There was no gossip in the whole Yicheng that he didn’t know.
But He Zhuo said: “I’m asking about Tingyu, Ji Zhuoquan’s youngest son.”
His voice was as cold as ever, but when he pronounced the name intimately, it had an illusion of tenderness, as if he was calling his lover.
The assistant thought he had heard wrongly, because He Zhuo was a cold person and had no close relationship with his father. The assistant had followed him for three years and had never seen him care about any younger person, let alone calling the other person by his first name without the surname.
He chose his words carefully: “Young Master Ji is not in the country for many years, and he has a decent style and basically no scandals. If I have to say one thing, it has something to do with you.”
He Zhuo turned his head immediately.
”It was your father’s 60th birthday two days ago, and Young Master Ji called to congratulate him, but his way of congratulating him was not very polite, which made the old man furious.”
”Really? What did he say on the phone?”
”Nothing was said on the phone, because the old man didn’t answer the call, but Young Master Ji used the beep to ask for a message, wishing the old man a happy birthday and a speedy ascension to heaven. He also said that it’s not easy to live to sixty, so be careful not to die…”
