Subordinate Doting - Chap 76
What on earth has a person lost to have such an expression?
”What’s wrong? Why do you look like you’ve lost your soul?”
He Zhuo shook his head and reached out to hold him in his arms. Ji Tingyu’s heartbeat was transmitted into his chest, so vivid and powerful.
”Nothing, I just feel that having you alive and well by my side is the happiest thing in my life.”
”Oh, you are so sentimental.” Ji Tingyu raised his face from his arms and laughed at him: “Do you want me to comfort you? Crybaby.”
”Then just coax her.” He Zhuo said.
”Hmm…” Ji Tingyu thought for a moment, lowered his head and offered his kitten ears, “Do you want to touch my ears?”
With just this sentence, He Zhuo closed his eyes in pain.
He shed tears silently, and his arms around Ji Tingyu’s waist trembled violently, as if he was holding a ghost that could dissipate at any time.
”Why… every time you coax me, you have to touch my ears…”
Ji Tingyu didn’t know where “every time” came from, this was clearly the first time he did it.
But He Zhuo cried so sadly that his heart sank into the sea.
He stopped saying what he meant and scratched his face, saying with difficulty: “Because this is the old-fashioned way of courtship for cats. We must touch the ears of… the one we like once in our lives.”
He Zhuo’s breathing stagnated and he suddenly froze.
This is the cat’s way of courtship…
You have to do it once in your life…
What kind of mood did Ji Tingyu have in his previous life when he stretched out his ear to him?
Did he know that he would be in great danger this time, so he asked him to help fulfill his last wish?
But He Zhuo didn’t even do this.
Until the end of that day, he did not touch Ji Tingyu’s ears.
He self-righteously wanted to wait until the day Ji Tingyu came back so that he could give him a hug and comfort as a lover.
But he didn’t wait for Ji Tingyu.
All I saw was the charred body of the kitten.
Chapter 30 One-way Glass
When did He Zhuo truly realize that Ji Tingyu was killed by him?
Half a year after Ji Tingyu’s death, He Zhuo found an empty capsule with its contents poured out in the attic when he was sorting out his belongings. There was some light yellow powder remaining in it, which was very similar to the medicine that Ji Tingyu often took.
He Zhuo became suspicious and took all the medicines for testing, only then did he find out the real cause of his death –
The antidepressants he insisted on taking were spiked with neurotoxic toxins.
The four servants of the He family who were responsible for taking care of him abused him for three years.
The cause of all this can be traced back to the accident that happened to him when he was 27 years old.
No one knew what exactly happened at that time. Ji Tingyu’s temperament had changed drastically when he was sent back to China.
He suffered a severe brain injury and lost his memory, and all clues related to the incident were completely erased from the archives of the Press Department along with his name.
But even so, the mastermind behind the scenes, William, did not let him go.
He sent four people back to China with Ji Tingyu. At that time, the Ji family had gone bankrupt and Ji Tinglan was under control abroad. In order to protect his family business, Ji Zhuoquan sold his son for fame and fortune and married his youngest son, who was already seriously ill and dying, to He Zhuo.
The four of them disguised themselves as two servants, a cook and a gardener, and sneaked in when the He family was preparing for the wedding. Because they were efficient and good at observing people’s expressions, they were naturally kept in the main house and came to Ji Tingyu.
From then on, he began to suffer mental abuse for three years.
All this was not easy.
Although the Ji family went bankrupt, the He family was still prosperous in Yicheng, and He Zhuo was even more difficult to deal with. But what the four people never expected was that He Zhuo became their biggest help.
Because he married the lover with great fanfare, but he did not cherish her.
She was rejected on her wedding night and ran away in anger. Coincidentally, He’s overseas business was found to have problems at that time, so He Zhuo had to rush abroad immediately for emergency assistance, and he was away for more than half a year.
Half a year was enough time for those people to replace all of Ji Tingyu’s medicines and complete the first step of psychological suggestion to him.
——The reason why sir doesn’t go home is because you are a lunatic.
They knew that Ji Tingyu longed for He Zhuo to save him, and they also knew that he was afraid of physical contact, so they revealed to him intentionally or unintentionally: He Zhuo likes omegas with good upbringing and proper manners.
When Ji Tingyu tried to control his stress response, a beta servant was sent to constantly touch his wrists and shoulders, causing him to be in a state of fear and unwillingness to vent for several days.
It was not until half a year later, on the day He Zhuo returned, that Beta grabbed Ji Tingyu’s wrist when no one was paying attention. The fear that had been pent up for many days reached its critical point and finally erupted. Ji Tingyu lost control on the spot and knocked Beta down, overturning the table along with him.
The soup and wine splashed on He Zhuo’s trouser legs. He was holding the diamond brooch that he had made for Ji Tingyu, but in the end he was unable to give it to her.
He Zhuo left without even eating.
Now not only Ji Tingyu, but even the other servants thought that the master was pissed off by him, because they did not see Beta grabbing Ji Tingyu’s hand, they only saw him going crazy for no reason.
Ji Tingyu wanted to explain himself, but before he could say anything, Beta knelt in front of him and apologized loudly and cried bitterly, saying that his family was in financial difficulty and he had a sick child, and begged Ji Tingyu not to drive him away.
At this time, no one stood on Ji Tingyu’s side, because they were all servants and could only empathize with servants.
Ji Tingyu collapsed. He hysterically wanted to prove himself and begged the housekeeper to release the surveillance video.
But the chef among the four stood up and said: “Does it mean that a servant is guilty of a heinous crime if he touches his master? Master Ji has already angered the master and he has to force this young man to death before you are satisfied!”
After he finished speaking, servants stood up one after another to agree with him. They stood in a row, like messengers of justice, looking at Ji Tingyu as if he were a madman, with neither sympathy nor regret, only disgust and contempt.
