Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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Content Warning; trauma, PTSD, mental illness
The next day, the first thing Shen Qinglan did when she woke up was to go see Yan Xi. Yan Xi was lying on the bed, sleeping quietly. And her sleeping face was peaceful, just like a child.
Eden walked in and saw Shen Qinglan sitting beside Yan Xi’s bed. “Ann, how are your injuries?”
“I’m fine, Eden, Yan Xi…”
“She was mentally traumatized. She woke up once last night and was very emotionally unstable. She didn’t allow anyone to get close to her, so I gave her an injection of tranquilizer.”
“How long will she last like this?” Shen Qinglan’s pupils were dark. She still remembered Yan Xi’s crazy look last night.
“It’s hard to say. Maybe she’ll be fine in a few days, or maybe she’ll never be fine. Ann, she has post-traumatic stress disorder. To put it simply, she’s gone crazy.”
Hearing this, Shen Qinglan’s eyes trembled, and she relaxed her expression. She gently held Yan Xi’s hand. There were many scars on the back of her hand, as if she was scratched, and her nails were all broken. “Is there no other way?”
“Ann, I’m not an expert in this area, so I can’t give you a definite answer. I’ve contacted my friend in the medical field. He’s an excellent psychologist, so maybe he has some solution.”
“Eden, Yan Xi… please.”
“Ann, don’t be so polite to me. I will definitely find a way to heal Yan Xi. Let me change the medicine for the wound on your arm first.”
Shen Qinglan shook her head. At that moment, Fu Hengyi walked in. Hearing this, he frowned and said, “Qinglan, your wound must be treated.”
After Fu Hengyi spoke, Shen Qinglan naturally would not continue to insist, but she did not leave here, but let Eden treat her wounds here itself, and Eden went out to get the medical box.
After removing the gauze, Eden carefully checked Shen Qinglan’s wound and found that there was no infection. He was relieved, “Ann, don’t let your wound touch water these days.”
The disinfectant alcohol sprinkled on the wound brought a stinging pain. Shen Qinglan frowned slightly. Fu Hengyi walked to her side and glared at Eden, “Be gentle.”
Eden glanced at Fu Hengyi without saying anything, and used less force. However, Shen Qinglan’s eyes never left Yan Xi.
“I’ll also change the bandages on your other wounds.” Eden said after treating the wound on her arm.
“No need, I can take care of the other wounds on her body, give me the medicine.” Fu Hengyi heard this and said coldly, don’t think he can’t see that this man had thoughts about Shen Qinglan.
“Okay, come with me to get the medicine.” Eden readily agreed. This man was Shen Qinglan’s husband, and from his performance in the past few days, Eden knew that this man cared about Shen Qinglan no less than himself, and that was enough.
….
One day ago, MD.
King’s talks with Ryan were not pleasant.
“Ryan, I really want to follow you, but your price is not sincere at all.” King narrowed his eyes and said slowly.
Ryan smiled and said, “King, the price I offer you is absolutely reasonable. If you think my price is too high, you can buy it from someone else.”
King looked at the smiling fox in front of him with a sullen face. If Ryan was not the only person who could get this batch of goods, he would really want to kill the man in front of him.
Ryan didn’t take King’s look seriously. Even though BK didn’t have a good reputation in the underworld, he still had to abide by the rules. What’s more, he had the biggest bargaining chip in his hand, that was, he was the only one who had this batch of things.
He sat there leisurely, holding a cup of coffee in his hand, drinking it slowly, glancing at King’s changing expression from the corner of his eye from time to time, and was in a very good mood.
The longer King hesitated, the happier he was. Originally, he didn’t come out to do business with King. His purpose was to delay time as much as possible.
It was normal to have distrust when discussing cooperation for the first time, but King actually brought out most of his trusted men in the garrison, which was a bit beyond Ryan’s expectations, but it was exactly what he wanted.
“Ryan, I really can’t accept your offer. I can give you a price 10% higher than the market price. This is the limit I can accept.”
Ryan shook his head. “I had already promised to give some to others. The remaining part was not much anyway. If you only wanted the remaining part, we could have discussed it. But you asked for all the stock I had. If I gave it all to you, I would have no way to explain to others. This is going back on your word. It’s ruining my reputation. Who would dare to do business with me, Ryan, in the future? You should let me make up for some of this loss, right?”
King’s expression was uncertain, the quality of this thing was really good, he had gotten a top-notch one from someone else before, and its performance was incomparable to other similar ones on the market.
If he could swallow all the goods Ryan had, then the strength of BK would definitely be improved. But Ryan’s offer was 30% higher than the market price, which was simply robbing money.
“Ryan, I’ll add another half a percent.” King thought for a long time and said, “This is the highest price I can afford. If you accept it, we will cooperate. If you don’t accept it, then I’m afraid we won’t have any chance to cooperate in the future.”
Was this a threat? Ryan raised his eyebrows. He dared not say anything else. As for weapons and equipment, he was not bragging. 60% of the weapons on the road were circulated through his hands. King threatened him with this, which really had no deterrent effect at all.
Ryan stood up and said, “It seems that there is no way to cooperate with BK this time.” Then he turned around and was about to leave.
King was about to say something when he saw his subordinate came in, walk to King’s ear and whisper a few words. King’s face changed instantly.
“Ryan, I’m sorry, I have something urgent to do right now, so I’ll leave first.” After saying that, he left in a hurry.
Ryan watched his back as he left, then sat down again and took a sip of his coffee in a good mood. Although this place was only half an hour away from the South District, by the time King got back, everything would have been over.
After a while, he called Eden and told him they were on their way to the airport. Ryan felt relieved, drank the coffee in the cup in one gulp, and went home happily.
When King came back, he saw a ruin. There were corpses everywhere on the ground. There was no one alive. King grabbed the clothes of the people around him and shouted, “What the hell is going on? I left only an hour ago. Why is it like this?”
The man shivered at the yelling and said tremblingly, “Not long after we left, a few people broke in and took away the two women we captured. After they left, a second wave of people came and killed anyone they saw. Then, it became like this.”
King had a ferocious expression on his face and pushed the man away. “Check it for me. I want to know who did it.”
“Yes.” A man behind him answered and turned to leave. King looked at the place again and turned to leave. What happened tonight was definitely not a coincidence. He had just left when they came and they knew his whereabouts very well. Either there was something fishy going on among them, or they had been living under someone else’s nose. The second possibility was too low, so…
King never thought from the beginning to the end that Ryan’s discussion with him about cooperation was just a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain. After all, he didn’t know the relationship between Eden and Ryan, let alone the relationship between Eden and Shen Qinglan.
And because of this difference in thought, BK underwent a major cleanup. King dealt with several new senior executives, causing BK to be in a state of turmoil for a long time.
When Allen heard the news, he smiled disdainfully. King was still so selfish and conceited.
….
“Ahhhhh…” Fu Hengyi was applying medicine to Shen Qinglan when he suddenly heard a scream coming from outside the door. It was Yan Xi’s voice. Shen Qinglan’s face changed and she pushed Fu Hengyi away and hurried out.
Fu Hengyi hurriedly followed her out.
In the room, Yan Xi had already woken up and was hiding under the table, covering her ears and screaming, “Go away, go away, don’t touch me, ah, go away.”
Jin Enxi was standing nearby. When she saw Shen Qinglan coming in, she looked at a loss. “Ann, I just wanted to cover her with a blanket, but she woke up.”
Shen Qinglan didn’t care about her. She squatted in front of the table and spoke gently to Yan Xi inside, “Don’t be afraid, Yan Xi, there are no bad people here, no one will bully you, the bad guys are dead, you are safe.”
Yan Xi’s body was trembling slightly. She couldn’t hear Shen Qinglan’s words at all. And her face was full of fear. She just kept saying, “Don’t touch me, don’t touch me, big sister, where are you? Yan Xi is so scared, please come and save me.”
Shen Qinglan’s eyes were red, and her lips trembled slightly. Looking at Yan Xi like this, she felt unbearable pain in her heart, “Yan Xi, big sister is here, I am the big sister, look up and look at me.”
Yan Xi seemed to have heard her words and slowly raised her head, “Ah, you are a devil, you are not the big sister, you are a devil!”
Yan Xi screamed and shrank back into a ball.
Shen Qinglan was startled. Yan Xi used to stick to her the most, but now she was afraid of her. “Yan Xi, I’m your big sister. Don’t you remember me?”
Yan Xi shook her head desperately, “No, you are not the big sister. Blood, there is so much blood on your body. You are a demon. You are not the big sister. You are not.”
“Yan Xi.” Shen Qinglan’s voice was choked with sobs.
“Ann, let me do it.” Jin Enxi said.
Fu Hengyi walked to Shen Qinglan’s side and pulled her up. Shen Qinglan’s eyes were full of pain.
Jin Enxi squatted down, “Yan Xi, look at me, who am I?”
Yan Xi held her head, her eyes looking at the ground, not even looking at Jin Enxi.
Jin Enxi patiently said gently, “Yan Xi, look up. This is a new place, a safe place. We will protect you, and no one can bully you anymore.”
Yan Xi didn’t look up, she kept muttering to herself, still asking Shen Qinglan to save her, she was afraid.
Jin Enxi reached out and was about to pull Yan Xi out. Before her hand touched Yan Xi, Yan Xi began to scream, “Ah, don’t touch me, don’t touch me, go away.”
“Enxi, stop it.” Shen Qinglan said, glancing at Yan Xi, “Forget it, let her stay in there for now.”
Jin Enxi withdrew her hand and stood up, “I’ll go find Eden.”
Shen Qinglan leaned weakly in Fu Hengyi’s arms, “Fu Hengyi, how should I explain to her family that I didn’t protect her well. Fu Hengyi, seeing her like this, I would rather be the one who suffers all this.”
“Qinglan, this isn’t your fault. These beasts are so inhumane that they didn’t even let a child go.”
“No, it’s my fault. If it weren’t for me, Sister Mu Mu wouldn’t have died. Now it’s because of me that Yan Xi has suffered this. If Sister Mu Mu knew that I didn’t protect her sister well, she would definitely blame me.”
Last night Fu Hengyi already knew that Qin Mu was the one who died to protect Shen Qinglan, and Yan Xi was Qin Mu’s half-sister.
“Qinglan, don’t take all the blame on yourself.” Fu Hengyi felt that his words were too little at this moment.
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