novelraw Chapter 0104 Unless I Die
Chapter 0104 Unless I Die
The silence in the bedroom was eerily quiet.
Jiang Ci sat on the edge of the bed.
She was holding an exquisite bone china bowl.
The bowl contained a thick, soft millet porridge, topped with a sprinkle of finely chopped pork floss.
The aroma is tangy.
He scooped up a spoonful.
I brought it to my lips and blew on it gently.
I tested the temperature.
Only after confirming it was no longer too hot did they put it to Wen Ning's lips.
"Eat."
His voice was very soft, even carrying a hint of gentleness.
Just like he took care of her when she was sick three years ago.
If you didn't look at the metal ring on her ankle that was flashing a faint breathing light.
If you didn't look at the gloom that seemed impossible to dispel in his eyes.
This is simply a picture of a loving couple.
Wen Ning turned his head away.
I avoided the spoon.
She gripped the blanket tightly, her fingers turning white from the force.
"I won't eat it."
Her voice was still trembling, but it carried a stubbornness.
"Jiang Ci, let me go."
"I need to get out... I need to call the police..."
"Call the police?"
Jiang Ci seemed to have heard a joke.
He wasn't angry; he simply put the spoon back in the bowl.
It makes a crisp "ding" sound.
"OK."
He took the phone out of his pocket and handed it to her.
"Report it."
"However, before the police arrived."
He spoke slowly and deliberately, his tone as calm as if he were discussing the weather.
"I will first have the finance department stop the first capital injection into the Zhou Group."
"We will also have the Ministry of Justice submit the indictment against Zhou Xu."
Wen Ning suddenly turned around.
She stared at him in disbelief.
"you……"
"Are you threatening me with this?"
"As long as it works."
Jiang Ci picked up the bowl again.
He scooped up another spoonful of porridge and brought it to her lips.
"Wen Ning, you are very smart."
"You know how to choose."
"Should we eat obediently and recover our health, or watch the Zhou family be completely destroyed?"
He looked at her tightly closed lips, his eyes darkening.
"or……"
He narrowed his eyes, his gaze falling on her lips with a dangerous aggression.
"You want me to feed you in a different way?"
"The mouth-to-mouth kind?"
Wen Ning's face flushed red instantly, then turned deathly pale.
Shame and fear intertwined.
She looked at the man in front of her.
he's changed.
They became unscrupulous and had no bottom line.
She opened her mouth.
He held the spoonful of porridge in his mouth.
Mechanically chewing and swallowing.
It has no taste.
All I felt was bitterness in my mouth.
One spoonful.
Two spoonfuls.
Jiang Ci was very patient and fed him very slowly.
I blew on each spoonful to cool it down before feeding it.
Watching her finish most of the bowl of porridge, his tense jawline softened slightly.
"Look."
He picked up a tissue and gently wiped her mouth.
His fingertip lingered on her pale lips for a moment.
"It would be so much better if you just listened to me."
Wen Ning could no longer hold back.
The humiliation of being treated like a pet drove her to the brink of collapse.
Why...?
Large tears fell down, landing on the back of Jiang Ci's hand.
Why did you become like this?
"Jiang Ci wasn't like this before..."
"He won't lock me up, he won't threaten me, he won't force me to do things I don't want to do..."
"Jiang Ci, please let me go."
She begged him, crying.
"I'll let you go too."
"Let's call it even, okay? I'll pay you back, let's stop torturing each other..."
"Let them go?"
These two words.
It was as if some forbidden switch had been flipped.
"Bang!"
Jiang Ci slammed the bowl in his hand heavily on the bedside table.
Some of the porridge spilled out and burned the back of his hand, but he didn't feel it at all.
He suddenly lunged forward.
He braced himself on either side of her, trapping her against the headboard.
The feigned calm in those eyes shattered instantly.
It revealed the bloody madness beneath.
"Even if we settle accounts?"
He stared intently at her.
The sound seemed to be squeezed out of the chest cavity.
"How do I clean it?"
"Tell me, how are you going to settle these accounts from the past three years?"
"These three years."
"Every night when I close my eyes, all I see is your back as you turn and leave."
"Everywhere I go, I instinctively look for you."
"I work myself to the bone, I make money like crazy, I turn myself into a machine, just so I won't think about you."
He stretched out his hand.
Pinch her chin.
He applied a bit too much pressure, but the moment he saw her frown, he subconsciously relaxed his grip.
"But what about you?"
"You're living a carefree and comfortable life abroad."
You've completely forgotten about me.
"Now you're back, begging me for another man, and then you want to settle things with me?"
"Wen Ning".
"You're dreaming."
His eyes were sinister and obsessive.
It was as if it wanted to devour her whole.
"I was foolish before."
"I think as long as I give you freedom and treat you well, you will stay."
"And the result?"
"You turned out to be faster than anyone else."
He moved closer to her.
Her breath sprayed onto her face.
Every word is both a vow and a curse.
"So this time."
"I will not make the same mistake again."
Whether you like it or not.
Whether you hate me or not.
"You're not going anywhere."
"You can't get out of this apartment building through the main door."
"You won't leave my side."
His voice lowered.
It became extremely light and extremely cold.
Yet it carried a despairing certainty.
"Unless I die."
"As long as I'm alive."
"You can only be mine."
"Did you understand?"
Wen Ning looked at him.
Looking at the morbid obsession in his eyes.
I feel cold all over.
He is sick.
He is really sick.
It was her cruelty back then that drove him to this state.
The wound in his heart never healed; instead, it festered and festered, turning him into the paranoid person he is today.
"madman……"
She murmured to herself.
"Yes."
Jiang Ci readily admitted it.
Looking into her terrified eyes, his heart ached as if it were being cut by a knife, but he couldn't show it.
Only by frightening her will she not dare to run away.
"I'm crazy."
"That's because you drove him crazy."
He let go.
His eyes flickered as he looked at the red mark on her chin where he had pinched her.
I stretched out my fingertip and gently stroked the red mark.
It felt like regret, but also like infatuation.
"good."
He said in a low voice.
She regained that gentleness.
"have a good rest."
"I'm going to work in the study."
"Don't even think about running away. The ankle bracelet is connected to the alarm. I'll know as soon as you step out the door."
Just then.
"Ding-dong—"
Suddenly, the doorbell rang in the living room.
crisp.
unexpected.
Jiang Ci paused in his movements.
That gentle facade vanished instantly, and his eyes turned cold and wary once more.
This is his private property.
Besides Zhang Annian, only... knew about this place.
He stood up.
He looked down at Wen Ning.
He reached out and pulled the blanket up to cover her exposed ankles.
"Stay put and don't move."
If you don't make a sound, no one will know you're inside.
Done.
He turned and strode out.
"Click".
The bedroom door was locked from the inside.
Wen Ning curled up on the bed.
Listening to the sounds outside.
She didn't know who had come.
Is it Su Qing? Or Zhou Xu?
Or perhaps... the people who came to rescue her?