Hunt her

Her voice was soft, but helplessness and grievance weighed on her throat.

Hearing the voice, Shen Yi turned around in surprise, looking flustered like a child who had done something wrong: "...Yan Xu, I didn't mean to bother you—"

"Let's go... let's go back." She spoke weakly.

He knew she was suppressing her emotions.

Just as Yan Xu reached the door, she heard Yu Zheng say "she doesn't deserve it." Although she didn't know the cause and effect, it was probably just slander against her.

After hearing it many times, you can guess about 70-80% of it.

Shen Yi listened to her and walked towards the door.

Zhou Guoliang jogged over and grabbed Shen Yi's hand: "Please, Mr. Shen, forgive us for our petty mistake and don't hold it against us."

He knew the Shen family's capabilities, and he dared not imagine what the consequences would be if he offended such a powerful family.

Shen Yi looked down at him with disdain: "The decision is not mine, it is Yan Xu's."

After saying that, she shook off his hand.

Seeing Shen Yi walk out the door, Yan Xu took the initiative to reach out and hold his hand. But when he looked up, he suddenly stopped and his expression turned serious.

Yan Xu gripped his hand tightly and asked very seriously, "What happened to your face?"

Shen Yi touched the spot where he had been hit; it still ached slightly. "It's nothing, just put an ice pack on it."

"Wait for me outside the complex." Yan Xu released his hand. "Go ahead."

Shen Yi was nervous: "I'm really fine."

"I know." Yan Xu pushed him outside. "Be good and wait for me outside."

Shen Yi wanted to go with her, but his body obeyed her orders.

Yan Xu watched his retreating figure until he was far away before stepping across the threshold she hadn't crossed in many years.

The familiar space awakened painful images hidden deep in her memory.

Suppressing her emotions, she walked up to Yu Zheng and demanded, "Why did you hit him?"

Yu Zheng put down the fruit in her hand, her eyes still red from crying: "You have the nerve to ask me why! He just hit your brother, do you know that?"

Yan Xu closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "So Zhou Yu was beaten to death?"

"What did you say?" Yu Zheng asked in surprise. "Does an older sister curse her own younger brother like that?"

"He's not my brother," Yan Xu said calmly, so calmly that it seemed devoid of emotion. "Just like you're not my mother, because you don't deserve to be."

Yu Zheng's throat bobbed, and tears began to well up again.

Unable to contain her temper, Yu Zheng hysterically accused, "It's all your fault! If it weren't for you, would Xiaoyu have gotten hurt? If it weren't for you, would I be in this state?"

It feels like time has turned back to childhood...

Back then, she was only eight or nine years old, and Yu Zheng would poke her shoulder and keep cursing her, calling her a jinx and saying that she had ruined Yu Zheng's life.

Yu Zheng slapped her face and body repeatedly until she saw Yan Xu's nose bleed before she stopped.

The cycle repeated itself, and Yan Xu himself couldn't even remember how many times he had been beaten.

One winter, Yu Zheng locked Yan Xu, who was wearing only a thin nightgown, outside the door. A fierce wind raged, and her body temperature gradually dropped.

A frail body cannot withstand the cold, snowy winters of Kunming.

Just when Yan Xu thought he was about to freeze to death, the door opened.

Yu Zheng kicked her, who was curled up on the ground: "Get in here! Dying at the door is bad luck."

During those three hours in the heavy snow, Yan Xu knew perfectly well that her biological mother wanted her dead.

Memories crept into her eyes like ghosts; she wanted to cry, but couldn't.

Because in this family, Yan Xu would be beaten if he shed tears.

Yan Xu held back her tears and took out her phone: "Send Shen Yi a voice message to apologize, otherwise I will do everything I can to prevent Zhou Yu from taking the college entrance examination and also to prevent him from studying abroad."

Zhou Yu is the child Yu Zheng cherishes most.

As long as Zhou Yu is used to threaten her, Yu Zheng will definitely agree.

As expected, Yu Zheng hesitated for only a few seconds before gritting her teeth and doing as instructed. She pressed the voice prompt button and said, "I'm sorry."

Then press send.

"Yan Xu, you are just like your father, a hypocrite with no feelings but only self-interest."

Yan Xu bit her lower lip and nodded helplessly: "Yes, I have no feelings. What about you? Do you have any?"

Yan Xu didn't want to talk to her anymore, so he grabbed his phone and left Yu Zheng's house immediately.

This place, which she once thought was her safe haven, a place where her mother was, was now the hell she least wanted to step into.

Half of her childhood unhappiness came from here, and the other half from the Yan residence.

The moment I stepped out the door, tears finally streamed down my face.

Behind them, Yu Zheng's voice roared, "Get as far away as you can, and don't ever come to my house again!"

Yan Xu dragged his tired body away from the residential area.

She took deep breaths to calm herself down; she didn't want to lose control of her emotions in front of Shen Yi.

Just as she was composing herself, she heard the sound of a fight breaking out across the street.

Feeling vaguely uneasy, Yan Xu quickly ran over as the light turned green.

Just as Yan Xu rushed across the road, the streetlights began to flash.

At the street corner, Shen Yi was beating Zhou Yu.

"Stop!" Yan Xu's voice rang out from the street.

Zhou Yu's face was covered in more bruises, and blood was seeping from the corner of his mouth. He pleaded like a drowning man grasping at a straw, "Sister, save me..."

Before he could finish speaking, Shen Yi suddenly sprang up and punched Zhou Yu in the nose.

Shen Yi said fiercely, "If your parents won't discipline you, I'll help them."

Zhou Yu had just finished checking his wound at the clinic when he ran into Shen Yi. He spoke rudely to Shen Yi, saying: "Yan Xu is neither loved by his father nor his mother. All he has is a pretty face, and he goes around seducing people."

It was because of this sentence that Shen Yi lost his temper and kept hitting him.