novelraw Chapter 514: Yan Sijue, On What Grounds?
Chapter 514: Yan Sijue, On What Grounds?
For a moment, Yan Sijue’s mind went blank, and Qiao Yebai’s voice seemed to suddenly become distant and unreal.
In a daze, he heard himself asking, "...More than a month? Why?"
More than a month? What kind of injury could keep her bedridden for more than a month?!
"Because she was shot." Qiao Yebai said indifferently, but with a thick sense of mockery, "She took a bullet for someone else, do you think she’s foolish?"
It was as if Yan Sijue had been punched hard; his face was pale, devoid of any color!
A roar resounded in his mind, with only one sentence constantly circling.
She took a bullet for someone else...
She took a bullet for someone else!
In that situation, who else could make her risk her life like that, who else...
Yan Sijue slowly lifted his head to look at the man opposite him, his pitch-black pupils almost desolate!
Qiao Yebai said he wouldn’t want to know.
It turned out that the truth was so heavy, so heavy that he could barely bear it!
"...I also only found out later. It turns out when you were unconscious, she took a bullet for you; otherwise, could you be sitting here well now?" Qiao Yebai’s voice was cold, each word piercing into Yan Sijue’s ears, not allowing him a bit of escape, "The woman you kept by your side pushed the unconscious Yiliang, who was shot, into a roadside ditch to grab the credit. If I hadn’t arrived in time with a doctor, she would have died from excessive blood loss!"
Yan Sijue felt even more dizzy, his hands clenched tightly, and his vision blurred!
"When she later came looking for me..."
"At that time, her wound had just barely healed, but she saw the news that you were going to get engaged to another woman, so she wanted to stop you...What happened later, you should know better than me. Her barely healed wound reopened, and she lay in bed for more than half a month to recover." Qiao Yebai gave a bitter smile, "So later, why couldn’t she keep that child, why the doctors warned her not to have children again...wasn’t it all because of you?"
"Stop it..." Yan Sijue’s voice was hoarse and difficult, almost pleading.
"Back then, she insisted on rescuing me, and you resented her for valuing others more than herself, but what right do you have to accuse her!" Qiao Yebai said coldly, "It’s precisely because she’s foolish enough that you are alive today!"
Yan Sijue closed his eyes tightly!
He suddenly remembered their first meeting after that incident; she had lost a lot of weight, standing like a ghost in front of him, asking why he was getting engaged to another woman.
How did he respond then? He couldn’t remember; he only remembered her sad and hesitant gaze.
At that moment, what was she feeling when she came to find him?
That wound...yes, he had noticed it early on but was easily deceived by her! The gunshot wound was so close to her heart! Just a tiny bit closer, just a little, and he might have lost her forever!
Yan Sijue’s teeth chattered, and he suddenly stood up!
"What, you think you can’t bear it now?" Qiao Yebai refused to let him go, "Do you think you’ve always been the one giving? But in fact, that foolish woman has done far more for you; she just never talked about it. She not only saved your life, but she keeps accommodating you...Haven’t you noticed, to keep you from worrying, she’s almost broken her own wings? Is this how you love her? By keeping her locked by your side, leaving her world only with you...Yan Sijue, what gives you the right!"