Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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Qiu Li drank a large glass of water, calmed down the nausea in his belly a little bit, and then slowly said: “From the beginning of my memory, I knew that I was not the same as other children. The children in the community, they shouted what they wanted to eat and their parents watched when they came out to play, but I did not have such opportunity.”
“I don’t know when I learned how to make instant noodles by myself, and I figured out how to eat them. For that man, his home was just a place to sleep. When he comes back, he would shut himself in his room and read a book.”
“I asked him if he is my father and why other people have a mother, but I don’t.” Qiu Li pulled his fingernails and said calmly: “This question always irritated him.”
“Later I got a little older. One time he called me in the study. It seemed that some of the volunteers who he conducted mental experiments on had some problems. The association thus urgently stopped his experiment without granting any approval or funding.”
When he was a child, Qiu Li thought that man was a madman, but later he realized that he was a madman and also a demon.
He was lying by the door listening to him talking on the phone with excitement, watching his cell phone slam down in desperation. At that time, he didn’t know that his nightmare had just begun.
“That was the only time he spoke to me in a very gentle tone, let me sit on a chair in a dark room, and then gave me a lollipop.”
“I was flattered. I tore open the lollipop paper and couldn’t bear to eat it. Then he started playing slides in the dark room and forced me to watch. The first slide was a picture of a man and a woman talking…”
“Okay, don’t say it.”
Xie Yuan interrupted him, clenching his fists.
Qiu Li shut up very obediently.
After a long time, Xie Yuan’s fist slowly loosened, and he came to the window and lit a cigarette to calm the emotions in his heart.
“I won’t mention the past, but within half a year, heal your leg injury.”
“Half a year?”
“I don’t want you to be limping when you come to take Xiao Yu’s hand from my hand during the wedding ceremony.”
It was often said that the more afraid of something one was, the more something would come. She didn’t know if it was coincidence or deliberate. During that time, Jiang Yu always met Huo Cheng.
On the way home, along the tree-lined path of Beicheng University, and even at the romantic wedding of Jiang Manyi and Cheng Ye, Jiang Yu could always see Huo Cheng.
He was like a scary shadow, following Jiang Yu everywhere, staring at her from a secluded corner.
Jiang Yu was about to be driven mad by Huo Cheng.
She was not afraid of Huo Cheng, but she was afraid of the contact between Qiu Li and Huo Cheng, because the [Knowing] app had not reminded her that the mission was successful, so Qiu Li still had the possibility of going to jail.
Jiang Yu never mentioned anything about Huo Cheng to Qiu Li. She absolutely couldn’t let Qiu Li know that Huo Cheng would often show up near her and stare at her.
Qiu Li in the last life killed Huo Cheng and was sentenced to life imprisonment, so Jiang Yu couldn’t let him repeat the same mistakes again.
During that time, Jiang Yu couldn’t sleep well every night, always dreaming about things from the previous life.
Qiu Li in the dream, holding the sharp blade, the blade dripping with blood, he stood in a pool of blood and smiled at her remotely.
Jiang Yu woke up from the nightmare, covered in cold sweat.
Qiu Li naturally noticed that during that time, Jiang Yu’s mental state was very bad, not only was she often wandering while dancing, even when he knelt down on one knee to propose to her, her eyes passed through him. It fell somewhere behind him, eyes full of horror.
Qiu Li turned his head and saw nothing, so he frowned slightly.
This was his meticulously designed marriage proposal ceremony, inviting many friends and relatives to witness it. On the big lawn of Esmera, there were romantic bouquets of small daisies and pink balloons.
The idea was given by Cheng Ye, but the arrangement of every flower on the scene was done by Qiu Li personally, and he rehearsed the proposal very seriously all afternoon.
However, instead of giving the expected surprised reaction, Jiang Yu was so scared that she couldn’t speak.
At night, Jiang Yu slowly recovered.
When he proposed her to marry him, she saw Huo Cheng. Huo Cheng stood at the end of the lawn in Esmera campus, rushed to the distance and smiled.
This scared Jiang Yu enough, she was so afraid that Qiu Li looked back at Huo Cheng, so that the two people would conflict again.
Fortunately, Huo Cheng just looked at her from a distance and did not approach her. He disappeared from the crowd when the proposal was over.
Jiang Yu sat on the lazy chair with her knees folded, watching the rain trickling down the floor-to-ceiling windows. The diamond ring on her hand was the size of a dove egg. It was bought with all the savings Qiu Li had earned after graduation and it was a customized diamond ring.
Jiang Yu rubbed the delicately cut surface of the diamond ring, her eyes looking tender.
Facts had proved that Xie Yuan did have a business vision. The studio he invested in for Qiu Li had recovered all the costs in one year, and it had become profitable in the first half of this year, and he could get a lump sum every month.
Of course, he accepted all the money as per the bill, then opened a special account to store it, and gave the bank card to Jiang Yu for safekeeping.
Although Jiang Yu was not short of this money, anything could happen in the future marriage life for decades, and it was impossible for her parents to accompany her for a lifetime. Therefore, he must make good plans for Jiang Yu.
Parents’ had far-reaching plans for their beloved children.
Jiang Yu accepted Xie Yuan’s arrangement and took good care of this bank card. In fact, even if Xie Yuan did not use the contract to divide Qiu Li’s income source, the amount of money he earned was basically all handed over to Jiang Yu.
In the future, life would always be so happy forever.
Jiang Yu raised her head and suddenly saw Huo Cheng standing under the street lamp on the street outside the French windows, looking at her from a distance!
There was light rain outside. He was wearing a black suit and his clothes were soaked by the rain.
He looked at Jiang Yu from a distance, with an evil smile blooming at the corner of his mouth.
Jiang Yu was so frightened that she quickly pulled the curtains up, then turned off the light in the room, sat in the corner of the sofa, holding a pillow, panic in her heart.
This was her and Qiu Li’s new house. Not long after they moved in, how could Huo Cheng know her location.
What’s more, how could such a high-end community let in outsiders casually?
But on second thoughts, others may not be possible, but that person was Huo Cheng, she was afraid there was nothing he couldn’t do, just like the last time in Esmera, didn’t he come in swaggeringly?
Just when Jiang Yu was thinking about it, the sound of unlocking the code lock came from the door. Jiang Yu was so scared that she quickly grabbed the fruit knife on the coffee table and faced the door.
A man turned on the light switch on the wall. Jiang Yu saw that the person coming in was Qiu Li, and she was immediately relieved.
Qiu Li was slightly surprised when Jiang Yu was holding a knife in her hand, “What do you want to do?”
“Ah, I thought…I’ll cut the fruit for you.” Jiang Yu concealed the panic in her heart and said deliberately: “I heard your footsteps as soon as you got out of the elevator.”
Qiu Li glanced at the fruit bowl on the coffee table: “Oh, then cut it.”
Jiang Yu’s hand touched the fruit plate, which contained only a plate of washed strawberries.
She bit her scalp and picked up the strawberry. She peeled off the green leaves on the top of the strawberry with a knife. She smiled reluctantly and said, “This…It’s so hard to peel. You have to use a knife to peel it off.”
Qiu Li walked to her, took the “cut” strawberry, threw it into her mouth, and asked, “What’s the matter?”
Jiang Yu chewed on the strawberries and looked sideways, avoiding his scorching gaze: “It’s okay.”
“Say it again, okay?”
She knew that she couldn’t hide anything from Qiu Li, and she said bluntly: “I’m scared.”
“What are you afraid of?”
Jiang Yu chewed on the sweet and sour strawberries in her mouth: “I am afraid that I will not be a good wife; I am afraid that many things will change slowly in the next few decades; I am also afraid of so much happiness, like the bubbles in the little mermaid on the sea are all illusions, and they will all disappear as soon as the sun comes out tomorrow…”
Jiang Yu didn’t lie, she was really scared, afraid that Huo Cheng would take away all the happiness she had now.
Qiu Li leaned over and stared at her, judging the truth in her words: “You have a lot of thoughts, and it’s quite complicated.”
“Girls will think about this before they get married, it’s normal, I just haven’t gotten ready yet.”
“You have agreed to a marriage proposal…” He gently rubbed her ears and said in a **** and magnetic voice: “Is it too late to say you’re not ready now?”
“Don’t regret it later?”
“If my sister says this again, I will bully you.” He untied his tie and hooked it to Jiang Yu’s neck.
Jiang Yu’s mind was full of Huo Cheng’s odious face, and she blurted out: “Bully me… Then will you beat me?”
“…”
When asked this sentence, the two of them were startled at the same time.
Qiu Li looked at Jiang Yu with a complicated expression: “You…what are you asking me if I’ll hit you?”
“I was wrong.”
“When did I bully you!”
It was indeed a teasing, but now Qiu Li seemed to be really angry. He loosened his tie and threw it aside, no longer touching her, sitting on the sofa, holding the fruit plate in his arms, and began to eat strawberries.
Seeing him eating strawberries one by one, Jiang Yu held his waist and said: “You save me some.”
“When did I bully you?”
He still asked this sentence repeatedly.
“No, I didn’t mean you.”
“Are you afraid that after marrying me, I will beat you?” Qiu Li seemed disappointed: “Am I such a person in your eyes, even after so many years?”
During this period of time, Jiang Yu was really going to be driven crazy by Huo Cheng. The man swayed in front of her all day, as if he was deliberately torturing her, and her mind was confused.
There was still the last strawberry on the plate. Qiu Li wanted to eat it. He turned his head to see the little girl wearing a thin nightdress and a pitiful appearance. He still couldn’t bear it and fed the strawberry to her mouth.
Jiang Yu took a bite. Before she had time to eat, the man leaned over, keeping her lips in his mouth, and swept away the strawberry that she had not had time to bite in.
The sweet and sour taste of strawberry filled her lips and teeth, and Qiu Li seemed to be punishing her deliberately. He was not gentle, which made her a little hard to resist. She leaned her elbow in front of him and gently blocked it.
“A Li…” Her voice was subtle and sultry.
Qiu Li unbuttoned the collar with one hand.
“I will never bully you, whoever bullies you, I will kill him.”
Jiang Yu didn’t remember whether Qiu Li had said this, every night she fell asleep before this tireless man, so that in her dream, she could feel the ups and downs, and she did it every morning. It was not natural to wake up anymore, but to be…
The only place Jiang Yu hesitated about this marriage was here.
She was the only source of Qiu Li’s feelings. He was with her and had too many desires. Jiang Yu satisfied him as much as possible, but sometimes it was really…too tiring!
She was afraid that after getting married, she would die at the hands of this man.
In the dream, she seemed to have heard him say this sentence, but she knew that when he said this sentence, he must not have overwhelmed.
Jiang Yu desperately wanted to shake her head, wanted to scream, wanted to tell him that it was not possible, but she was sealed with his kiss again without shouting out.
He was gentle and not gentle at the same time, which made her completely unable to stand up. He repeatedly asked her if she would marry him, and if she wanted to be his wife and never part with him.
Jiang Yu cried and agreed.
Cried for a long time.
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