That night.
LiWanwan talked to ShenJi alone.
ShenJi finished smoking a cigarette while thinking outside the door, then walked in.
LiWanwan sat on the edge of the bed, watching him raise the corners of his lips slightly.
"What can you do for that little favor?"
ShenJi's eyes turned cold, and even his voice was chilly.
"If you don't do anything naughty, I'll spare your life. If you have any evil intentions, I'll send you off myself."
LiWanwan raised her hand and unbuttoned her hospital gown.
ShenJi frowned, stopped walking forward, and turned around immediately.
LiWanwan: "Don't you want to know what happened to me?"
Her voice sounded different.
ShenJi paused as she left, and glanced behind her. Her long hair on her back was brushed to one side.
"What happened?" ShenJi's voice was cold and angry, but he turned around.
The back with obvious bones and the skin that should have been smooth were covered with scars, whip marks, knife marks, burns... there were even some sunken areas where the skin and flesh were missing.
It was truly a devastated place, with not a single piece of intact skin or flesh to be found.
LiWanwan's hospital gown hung loosely around her waist.
He lowered his eyes and smiled.
"This is my experience, and I remember every bit of it."
ShenJi pursed his lips and his Adam's apple rolled.
"Who?"
LiWanwan slowly closed her clothes, buttoned them, turned around and looked at him with a bitter smile on her face.
"Who? I want to know, too."
Her eyes were red and her voice was choked with sobs.
"So, I live and live. I know I can't die without knowing why."
ShenJi's eyes were gloomy, and he listened in silence to her quietly venting her emotions.
LiWanwan smiled brightly, tears silently sliding down from the corners of her eyes.
"Until one day, I was finally able to adapt slowly."
"I stood up in the room sealed by the honey, saw the scars behind me, and knew who it was."
ShenJi asked again: "Who?"
LiWanwan drew a large circle in front of her with her fingertips, corresponding to the shape of the damaged skin and flesh on her back, and said with a smile.
"It's LiShuang."
ShenJi frowned: "Bullshit."
LiWanwan was not angry, she just looked at him with a very complicated look. When the emotion was about to be captured, tears filled her eyes and blurred everything.
She continued speaking calmly.
"That person left the name LiShuang on me. All the suffering I have endured is half due to this name."
ShenJi frowned.
LiWanwan had no intention of stopping.
"ShenYuci likes LiShuang so much that he's gone crazy!"
ShenJi narrowed his dark eyes.
"You mean, ShenYuci left these on you?"
LiWanwan wiped her tears upwards and said, "Yes."
"I saved you, but accidentally fell into darkness."
"I continued forward in the direction of the light and found my light."
"In the end, my boyfriend who saved me sent me to Jiangmi, where I met ShenYuci."
ShenJi fell into complete silence.
LiWanwan laughed wantonly, and every laugh was heart-wrenching and made people's hearts tighten.
"But he didn't know that it was me who was tortured by him every night. I didn't even know who the man wearing the mask like the devil was!"
LiWanwan tilted her head and asked him with a smile.
"Do you know how to stop the bleeding?"
ShenJi stood there, watching her cheeks covered with tears and her Adam's apple rolling heavily.
LiWanwan held the air in her hands and slowly demonstrated it to him.
"Use a red-hot iron sheet to singe the skin and flesh, then press hard on the carbon ash, and it's done!"
She smiled and her whole body trembled slightly. She refused to admit that she was crying and kept asking herself.
"Tell me, am I lucky or unlucky?"
"I met a big shot like ShenYuci on the first day, but every time I was so exhausted that I couldn't get out of bed."
"The man in the mask, the woman in the bag that could suffocate me at any time, I don't know how I survived the torture."
"I even begged him, as long as he didn't torture me and I made him feel comfortable, I would cooperate with him."
"But he called me cheap and said I was unworthy."
"He was the one who carved my name on my body, and when the wound was almost healed, he peeled off the skin with his own hands. Do you know how painful it was..."
There was an indescribable dark light in LiWanwan's eyes, her fists were clenched tightly, and the smile on her face slowly faded.
ShenJi's tone was very light.
"He will pay the price for the harm he has done to you, but if you want to live, just be honest."
LiWanwan sneered intermittently.
"Actually, you all guessed it. I don't plan to stay here."
"I just want to tell you that saving you is my kindness. Evil was never born in me."
After she finished speaking, she slowly stood up and, with heavy steps, slowly moved towards the door.
ShenJi raised his hand to press her wrist and then released it.
"You can stay for now."
LiWanwan smiled bitterly, and her tone returned to completely calm, as if the emotions just now had never existed.
"No."
After saying that, he walked out of the room slowly.
LiShuang was leaning against the wall. When she saw her come out, her tone sounded apologetic.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I just didn't want any misunderstandings to occur at this critical moment."
LiWanwan didn't look at her and said lightly.
"You only believe in yourself."
LiShuang's eyes trembled.
She said this to herself once when she was in the honey trap.
This is the second time.
LiShuang kept her waist bent, her hands against the wall, and watched the figure walking away little by little.
The warm palm was placed on her cheek, and ShenJi rubbed her cheek with his fingertips.
LiShuang raised her eyes to look at him.
ShenJi put his palm on the back of her neck and gently pinched it, then pulled her in front of him and gently kissed the hair on her forehead.
LiShuang was in a complicated mood.
Thirteen-year-old LiWanwan definitely has good intentions.
Although we didn't see the scar on her back, every word she said sounded like tears and blood, striking hard at her heart.
She was just a girl who wanted to escape from the quagmire and longed to catch a ray of light.
LiShuang leaned her forehead against ShenJi's chest and took a deep breath.
"I'll go find her and come back."
ShenJi pulled her wrist: "Forget it..."
Although she had not experienced that, LiShuang was also a woman——
I could understand how desperate she felt when she begged ShenYuci not to torture her and was willing to cooperate with him.
"She is still injured. You should rest early. I will go and take a look."
LiShuang patted the back of his hand soothingly.
I went to grab a coat and ran out to find her.
Outside the villa, only street lamps illuminated the long road at intervals. A slender figure staggered forward dejectedly.
LiShuang caught up with her.
The weight of the coat fell on LiWanwan's shoulders, as if it could crush her.
She still asked LiShuang a strange question with a smile.
"Do you know what I learned the first time I was bullied by a little gangster and locked up at home?"
LiShuang always felt that it was heartbreaking that she brought up these things so casually.
He whispered back, "I don't know."
LiWanwan: "It's observation and memory."
"At that time, everything around me passed very slowly. I calmed down and could even remember everything I saw."
LiShuang didn't know what she wanted to say, so she said lightly.
"Go back. I'll arrange a safe place for you to stay tomorrow. Or you can go somewhere where no one knows you and start a new life."
LiWanwan raised her hand and held her hand.
LiShuang was slightly stunned. The touch felt like raw meat that had been soaked in ice water for a long time. She lowered her eyes and looked at the hand whose knuckles were pricking her.
LiWanwan said in an ambiguous tone: "Do you know what the gap is between you and me?"
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Rice: I drank too much, so the update is late. I will revise it slowly after posting it. Please forgive me if there are any typos...