"An Nuan, who gave you permission to touch Xu Ruowei? I have no relationship with Xu Ruowei. Even if I did, what right do you have to hurt her?"
Did he have no relationship with Xu Ruowei? Then were the photos Xu Ruowei showed her fake? Photos could be fake, but could videos also be fake?
"An Nuan, remember this: from now on, Xu Ruowei is under my protection. You have no right to harm her in the slightest."
An Nuan's heart suddenly stopped beating. In an instant, her thoughts flashed back to the past, when he held her in his arms and whispered sweet nothings and vows of love in her ear.
"Nuan Nuan, you are the best gift heaven has bestowed upon me. My future life with you is all beautiful."
The vows were deeply etched in her heart, yet now he spoke such cruel words to her. So, all those promises of eternal love were merely fleeting illusions.
An Nuan bit her lip tightly, her heart feeling as though it were being slowly tortured by a knife.
Shen Xizhou, our love is so fragile, so laughable.
"Do you understand?"
Shen Xizhou roughly pinched her chin, forcing her to look at him, and said with a sinister look, "An Nuan, Xu Ruowei has been speaking well of you all along, yet you wanted to kill her. You truly disgust me."
"Shen Xizhou, I didn't. I didn't do anything."
Her hands clenched tightly, and she said with difficulty, "I've been so busy with my mother's affairs, how could I have had the time to harm her? And where would I have gotten the money?"
"I am penniless now. How could I have harmed her?"
"You say Xu Ruowei spoke well of me? That's a joke. Do you know? The day I begged you, she stepped on my hand and cruelly said to me, 'An Nuan, why don't you just die?' She wanted to harm me..."
"An Nuan, you dare to utter such a lie? Xu Ruowei is currently undergoing emergency treatment for her eyesight, and it's uncertain if she'll even keep it. She wanted to harm you? Then the person lying in there should be you, not her."
Shen Xizhou's eyes were bloodshot as he glared at An Nuan. He had never known An Nuan to be such a wicked person.
"An Nuan, you deserve to die. I truly regret knowing you. You are the one who deserves to die the most."
"Xizhou, I truly didn't do it..." An Nuan explained weakly.
She knew very well that Shen Xizhou wouldn't believe such an explanation. But she had no other choice.
The Xu family rushed over. Upon seeing Shen Xizhou, a middle-aged man directly approached him, speaking with great urgency, "Young Master Shen, what... what is going on? Wei Wei was fine when she went to work this morning, how is she now in a life-threatening condition?"
Shen Xizhou remained silent.
When the Xu family saw An Nuan, a middle-aged woman immediately started beating and kicking her, shouting, "Murderer, murderer!"
Shen Xizhou stood by, watching coldly.
She was already accustomed to standing there and being beaten, not saying a word.
"This is a hospital. If you want to argue, take it outside," the doctor said with a dark expression, walking over.
The commotion ended with the doctor's appearance.
As An Nuan turned to leave, the conversation between the doctor and Shen Xizhou plunged her into an endless abyss.
The doctor said with concern, "Young Master Shen, the emergency room needs surgery. They are currently providing emergency treatment for Miss An's mother. Then I will arrange for someone else for Miss Xu..."
"Send Dr. Ji over," Shen Xizhou said expressionlessly. At this moment, An Nuan's entire body trembled.
Her pupils widened in extreme fear as she looked at the man before her. Her taut nerves completely snapped, and the wall she had built within her heart shattered. She screamed hysterically, "Xizhou, no, you can't do this. If you do, my mother will surely die. I beg you, I beg you..."
"I'll kneel and beg you, don't do this. Whatever you want me to do, I'll do it."
An Nuan's words were unrestrained.
"You'll do anything?" Shen Xizhou looked at An Nuan with a sinister gaze and a bloodthirsty smile curved on his lips. "An Nuan, you are no longer worth me giving you an opportunity. I've heard such words too many times, they are truly useless."
"No. Shen Xizhou, no, I am still useful to you. I can please you." An Nuan was completely distraught, utterly chaotic. "I can give you my life, my life."
"Heh." Shen Xizhou laughed, a chilling laugh. His eyes were filled with bloodshot veins. "An Nuan, your life is worthless. To me, your life is useless."
An Nuan, your life is worthless.
Shen Xizhou's words were mocking and heart-wrenching.
Yet, she did not give up. Her mother was the only family she had in this world.
She tightly guarded the ward, allowing no one any opportunity. As long as the doctor was inside, her mother would be safe.
Shen Xizhou took a stride forward, grabbed her wrist, and flung her aside.
An Nuan desperately tried to rush forward to stop him but was blocked by the Xu family. She could only watch helplessly as Dr. Ji was led away by Shen Xizhou.
"No, Shen Xizhou, you can't do this. If you hate me, then come at me. Please, don't be so cruel to me."
"An Nuan, put away your cheap pleas and tears. I find them dirty," Shen Xizhou said coldly. "Dr. Ji, that's where your important work lies."
"Yes, Young Master Shen." Dr. Ji sighed helplessly, shook his head, and left.
Before leaving, Dr. Ji said with regret, "Miss An, I'm sorry."
An Nuan numbly processed what was happening before her.
"Miss An, if you can find Huo Yunshen, your mother might be saved." As soon as Dr. Ji finished speaking, he was taken away.
An Nuan stood up, wiped the tears from her face, calmed her emotions, picked up her phone, and dialed, saying excitedly, "Huo Yunshen, hurry, hurry to the hospital..."
Before she could finish speaking, Shen Xizhou snatched the phone away.
"You're quite something," Shen Xizhou said with disdain. He spoke ruthlessly and bloodthirstily, "Trying to find a savior, are we?"
"Shen Xizhou, give me back my phone, give it back! I won't beg you anymore. I'll disappear from your world obediently. Give me back my phone..." An Nuan tried to jump up, reaching for the phone Shen Xizhou held high.
In front of An Nuan, Shen Xizhou smashed the phone against the wall. The once intact phone instantly shattered into pieces.
An Nuan wanted to rush over to pick up the phone but was grabbed by the neck by Shen Xizhou. Like a demon from hell, he spoke coldly in her ear, "Back then, I was just as helplessly begging you, but you were flirting with another man."
"I watched my family die before my eyes, yet I could do nothing. And the perpetrator of all this was you, An Nuan," Shen Xizhou said with cold-blooded ferocity.
He tightened his grip slightly and said icily, "An Nuan, now it's your turn to properly taste what it's like to watch your loved ones die before your eyes while you can do nothing."
An Nuan, I want you to relive what I went through.