Chapter Ninety: Cold Hearted

ep an extra floor. All the way from the fourth to fifth floor is your responsibility. I'll be checking." said the manager.The first floor of the Dream Hotel has nearly sixteen rooms. The corridor floo..."It's her, she was trying to run over Miss Jiang with her car, and now the person is still in emergency treatment!"

Aren't the two of them good friends How could Yua come down with such a heavy hand!

"Even if she wasn't a friend, she shouldn't be so ruthless. This…this isn't murder"

“It’s nothing to make a fuss about. She's just like her brother, idle all day and bullying classmates at school. She's never been a good person anyway. If it weren't for the Xiang family's business, these two siblings would have been in jail long ago!”

Several people were waiting by the hotel elevator, watching her just as the others had, their lips moving silently.

Towards Evening couldn't hear what they were saying, but she always felt they were criticizing and mocking her. She ran past the elevator with a pale face, clutching her skirt as she entered the nearby stairwell.

The stairwell was pitch black. The sound of her high heels clicking quickly broke the silence, and as she passed, the motion-sensor light flickered on, but returned to darkness the moment she disappeared.

The stairs went on endlessly, just like the nightmare she was experiencing, never reaching an end.

Bang!

A-Wai twisted her ankle and rolled down the stairs. She stopped after rolling down two or three steps, thankfully it wasn't serious.

The sound vanished, and the hallway light instantly flickered out. Darkness enveloped everything, a heavy silence descended.

A single drop of water fell, followed by a growing cascade of droplets hitting the ground.

A-Wan sat curled up with her legs hugged tight, lost in the darkness. Tears had already soaked her cheeks at some point, and she didn't even realize when they started falling. She sniffed back a sob, using her skirt hem to wipe her face, staring blankly ahead into the dark. She didn't want to move, nor did she want to speak.

It's cold.

The elevator was cold, but not as cold as my heart.

Perhaps she died here. The one who found her would probably be a janitor.

向晚 sat with her knees pulled up, her chin resting on them, the bones in her legs aching.

I haven't stopped thinking about exposing Jiang Qingran's true colors after getting out of prison. I haven't stopped thinking about He Hanchuan and his parents knowing the truth, feeling guilty and apologizing to me. I haven't stopped thinking about Jiang Qi Feng repeatedly apologizing to me...

Only after she came out did she realize that they were all just wishful thinking.

She had no evidence to accuse Jiang Qingran, so she could only struggle through day after day in the shadow of He Hanchuan and Jiang Qingran, hoping that one day would be the end.

"Wawawa, Wawawa, where are you" A hurried and anxious male voice rang out. Xiang Wan's tears, which had just stopped, welled up again, but she still stubbornly refused to speak.

"Wanwan, where are you Come out quickly, don't scare your brother!"

"Wanwan, if you've been wronged, tell me and your brother. Don't suffer in silence."

Yu and Lina's voices rose and fell, but Xiang Wan bit her lip tightly, until it bled without letting go.

Click.

Their voices grew closer, and the voice-activated lamp lit up.

Yu looked at Xiang Wan, who was sitting crouched in the stairwell, and froze. His heart felt like it was being stabbed and burned by fire, an unbearable pain.

She curled up into a tiny ball in the corner, her hair a little messy and blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.

From this angle, she was bending over. Her frame was so slender that the dress outlined her spine, and coupled with the scar on her shoulder, there was a morbidly beautiful quality about her.

But these didn't seem beautiful to him, only pitiful. He remembered how she had tried every way to lose weight but couldn't, her face always carrying a bit of baby fat.

"Ge—" Xiang Wan raised her head, staring at him with vacant eyes, her voice hoarse like a broken drum.

Lin Nalu covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face, and tugged at her husband who was still dazed beside her. "Quickly...quickly go over there."

"How did your mouth get bleeding Was someone hitting you" Xiang Yufei ran over quickly. Finding no tissues, he took off his suit jacket and gently, though not expertly, wiped her lips, his eyes filled with concern.

A metallic taste filled her mouth, and YAN was too exhausted to even shake her head.

"How did you end up sitting here Did you sprain your ankle" Xiang Yu anxiously lifted her skirt, checking both of her ankles. They weren't swollen, but there was a small scrape on one.

Those tiny wounds were nothing compared to the crisscrossing scars on her legs.

His eyes were bloodshot, he gritted his teeth and punched the ground fiercely several times, his hands quickly becoming covered in blood.

"Is Wanwan hurt" Lin Na Lu kicked Xiang Yu in a panic, "Why aren't you taking Wanwan to the hospital What are you doing here crazy"

Xiang Wan looked up at her, her voice hoarse, and said: "I'm not hurt. Sister-in-law, you go back with your brother, I want to be alone here for a while."

"These past two years...haven't they been hard" Xiang Yu sat beside her, propping his head up with both hands on his knees, and asked in a bitter tone.

Their voices were both very low, and the voice-controlled lamp dimmed, plunging them back into darkness.

Lin Nalulu glared at him, then realized he couldn't see her. She stomped her feet on the ground a few times and cleared her throat, saying, "Wanwan, your brother said you like roller coasters and dancing. If you don't like this birthday party, how about we go to the amusement park now"

Silence.

The three of them stopped talking, and every time the lights dimmed, Lin Nalu would stomp her feet a few times.

Xiang Yu, who usually has the worst temper and loves to talk back, is unusually quiet, like a completely different person.

"Wanwan," Lin Na Lu finally broke the silence, "You haven't met your nephew and niece yet. I think they look a lot like you. Would you like to go see them"

She looked up at her, her eyes brightening for a moment before dimming again. Her voice was soft, “I’m not going.”

Perhaps when they grow up, they'll think their 'murderer' aunt is embarrassing and would rather not see her.

This time, Lin Nalu really didn't know what to do.

"Remember Aunt Liu" Xiang Yu tilted his head to look at Xiang Wan, "After you were imprisoned, she quit from our house. Now she opened a small noodle shop near the prison. Let's go there and eat some longevity noodles."

向晚 lowered her head and remained silent.

Just when Lin Na Lu thought she would refuse or just stay silent, she hummed and then said, "Brother, I don't want to walk anymore."

"Shou Xing shouldn't walk with such honorable steps." Xiang Yu squatted on the ground, patted his back grandiosely, as if there was no trace of the gloom just now, "Come up."

Lin Na Lu was afraid of bumping into Xiang Wan, so she quickly walked over and supported her, while muttering to Xiang Yu, "Can you walk steady Can you do this If not, let me take your place!"

"How can I tell you Don't say no to your own man, I can't say no, those two kids would come out from the cracks in the stone!" Xiangyu shouted.

Xiangwan hugged Xiangyu's neck tightly, listening to the two bicker as they walked out of the stairwell.

The three of them were too eye-catching in terms of their appearance, clothing, and behavior. The hotel staff attending to business looked over, and a few even recognized them.

Three people ignored each other and drove straight to Liu's Noodle House.

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