Chapter 392 Fairness as I Decide
When fire strikes in the mountains, there’s little hope of rescue. Most simply look on.
Occasionally, a kind-hearted person might draw water from a well to put out the fire—but I had poured kerosene, and water would only make it more dangerous.
Not long after, a violent cough reached my ears; it seed the pampered Jindou couldn’t withstand it any longer.
I’m sorry. Truly sorry.
Although I bore no personal hatred toward you, for my own reasons, I could not let you live.
If you survived, my cris would be exposed. Tonight, no witness can remain; your death is the only way.
For the cri of intentional homicide: the sentence is death, life imprisonnt, or fixed-term imprisonnt of no less than ten years. If the circumstances are deed less grave, the punishnt shall be a term between three and ten years.
I stood at the doorway, crying uncontrollably. I didn’t understand why I felt such sorrow.
I had personally cured my own {sickness}, yet I felt unbearably sad.
What kind of life is this…? Why must it be so painful?
The fire quickly engulfed the entire house. From the window, I saw Jindou, engulfed in flas, panicking in the room. Her knowledge was truly limited; she didn’t roll on the ground to extinguish the fire, nor did she duck to avoid the smoke. In that situation, she could only await death. I saw her collapse, unconscious, and then the flas on her body spread and ignited Chengcai.
Before anyone else noticed the flas, I concealed myself and made my way to the village entrance, turned off my car lights, and left the mountain village.
It wasn’t until I carefully descended the mountain that I turned my car lights back on. Driving on, I eventually reached the town a few minutes later and found a roadside car wash. For thirty yuan, I had all the dirt and mud cleaned off the car body and wheels.
I checked the ti on my phone, parked by the roadside, and took out the stickers from the Jay Chou rchandise. I stuck one on my arm, turned on the glow stick, and snapped a photo of my arm against the night sky.
{Tonight left deeply content}.
Yes, tonight was truly joyful.
The enormous boulder pressing down on had finally fallen to the valley floor.
I got back on the road. Again, I avoided the main streets, weaving through the small village paths. It took longer this ti because most of the village lacked streetlights in the darkness. Eventually, I arrived back in Chengdu.
By the ti I drove into the city, the sky was just starting to lighten.
This city reflected my mood. My dark past would vanish along with the night, and from now on, I could live here in peace.
anwhile, my parents and brother had accidentally perished in the fire in the mountains that night.
I hadn’t {slaughtered my entire family}; I was simply an unfortunate person.
I kept comforting myself silently, tears streaming down my face.
All my life, I had been deceiving myself—before, it was like this; and now, it remained the sa.
With the most tragic childhood, yet foolishly hoping to rise above others through sheer effort; having virtually wiped out my own family, yet still fantasizing about embracing a brand-new life.
Why should I deserve it? There are so many criminals in this world. If I could escape the law, it would be unfair to everyone else.
But right now… I desperately want to experience {unfairness}.
I want to turn all this over, to live the rest of my life peacefully with Jiaqi.
I want to wear a wedding dress once, to be a normal woman.
Today, a thick fog enveloped Chengdu, blurring everything before my eyes.
“Jiaqi… wait for …” I kept wiping the tears from my face, trying to console myself, yet my heart ached as though a knife had been driven into it. “I’m back… from now on, every day we’ll wake up together…”
“Welco to the morning rush hour music broadcast.” The car radio crackled in a low tone. “Yesterday, Jay Chou brought back the mories of all those born in the ’80s and ’90s in Chengdu. If you missed the live show, follow along with the next track, ‘In the Na of the Father’, and return to the supre era of Mandopop.”
{The faintly chilling morning dew dampens my black suit.}
{There is fog on the flagstone. The Father is lowly sighing.}
{A helpless realization can only be more cruel; everything is for the road that leads up to heaven.}
{The fog that can’t be blown away conceals our intentions until they're gone.}
{Whose soft pacing steps stop?}
{Without ti to cry, the bullet that penetrated; already took away the warmth.}
{Each of us is guilty; committed different cris}…
“No… wrong…” I muttered to the empty air. “I didn’t kill my family… so—soone defrauded of two million… The sum involved was significant, and the nature of the case was egregious… I was only gathering evidence for court… Jiaqi… you believe , right?”
He not only extorted … he even borrowed high-interest loans… Jiaqi… you must understand , right…?
I don’t want to be a demon… I just want to be an ordinary person.
I truly carry no burdens now… we can be together now, right?
As long as the police do not find … we can be together now, right?
Once the dense fog in Chengdu lifts today… we can be together now, right?
I drove along Qingyang Avenue, past Du Fu Thatched Cottage and toward Wuhou morial Temple.
I reached for my phone to call Jiaqi, but a sudden dizziness swept over . An earthquake had co, fiercer than any I had endured, as though it began beneath Chengdu.
I saw the ground ahead cracking open and slamd the brakes, coming to a steady stop just before the crevice. But I hadn’t expected the car behind to fail to brake in ti, causing a series of rear-end collisions.
I kept wiping my tears, trying to calm myself.
Why is there still another obstacle?
Why is it so difficult for to step into a new life…?
The cars kept colliding, pushing closer to the crevice.
“Don’t… do this…” I sobbed inside the car. “God, please… don’t test anymore! I just want to survive…can you be unfair, for , just once?!”
But this miserable life was no different from the thirty-three years I had endured before.
Not until my car plunged into the abyss did I realize there was never any hope.
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