Chapter 9

Walking home in a daze, I suddenly realized that at some point, the sky had already lightened.

Had I not seen Lu Jingcheng lying in the bathroom, bloodied and mangled, I would have truly thought I was dreaming.

Lu Jingcheng had scrubbed the festering areas on his body until they were a bloody mess, some places even deep enough to expose bone!

When he saw me return, he suddenly started to cry.

"Help, please help me, I don't want to die!"

He lay on the ground like a puddle of mud, completely unable to move.

I silently watched him.

If it weren't for him, perhaps Brother never would have seen a chance to save me, and thus wouldn't have risked rescuing me in this life.

Ultimately, the karmic ties between him, Brother, and me are an unsolvable dilemma.

Seeing that I ignored him, Lu Jingcheng finally cried out to me, "Don't, don't leave me here alone to die, can you stay with me? Just for a little while, just a little while..."

He choked up, crying so heartbreakingly.