Pay Attention To Me

Chapter 69

He stared at it for a long time, until his pupils slowly shrank and the scene before his eyes went fuzzy. In a daze, he seemed to see Zhao ZhengSheng's face twist and deform behind the flame, suddenly overlapping with a certain masked face from a long ago memory.

So familiar......all of this is so familiar.

He looked all around blankly.

A dimly-lit abandoned factory, a brightly burning cigarette butt, continuous, unceasing electric shocks, alphas holding down his hands and feet, rebar scattered around nearby......

The pain and despair of death's approach.

The bursts of electric current lashed his nerves, sparks flying with each blow. Everywhere the sparks fell wracked with even more pain, seeming to set something in his body aflame. A thought popped up in his muddled mind for a split second, something he'd thought countless times:

Why didn't I die at that time?

If he'd died at that time, he wouldn't have had to live for the past ten years in such an ignorant and muddle-headed manner, wouldn't have met Jiang Yao, wouldn't have had the desire to get cured ignited within him, wouldn't have had to experience all this again......

His desire to survive had been completely exhausted by the torture that night and had finally been aroused again with great difficulty by Jiang Yao, but it still hadn't been enough and the illness hadn't been cured.

And he'd also failed to keep Jiang Yao.

Maybe from the start, he'd been the only one taking it seriously. Maybe Jiang Yao hadn't made a mistake while acting on his impulses, but instead it was like Yin Ze said, he'd just looked for a novel experience and had been playing around with him.

It wasn't that he'd never speculated about that possibility, but just that he hadn't wanted to think about it.

He'd never wanted to think Jiang Yao could be that bad.

In fact, he wasn't that magnanimous, wasn't that aloof. He'd also wanted to have a big fight with Jiang Yao, to severely reprimand him, and even beat him up, and never, ever forgive Jiang Yao again. But he'd felt it was all unnecessary.

Probably because he was a person about to die, his heart had been filled with kindness.

Jiang Yao had said he wasn't thoughtful, so at least at the end, he'd wanted to leave Jiang Yao with a sensible impression and just leave quietly and calmly. He didn't want to ever be brought up to his new lover in the future, just remembered as the "very disappointing beta".

A faint sweet iron taste welled up in his throat. His eyes swelled. Yin Che sniffled softly.

"......" Zhao ZhengSheng froze, "The hell are you crying for? You finally realize that it hurts?"

The person on the ground didn't answer, lying stiffly, his pupils slightly dilated.

Neither crying out in pain or calling for help, only tears flowed from those hollow, soulless eyes.

He was just so quiet. As quiet as if he were dead.

Zhao ZhengSheng turned off the stun baton and tossed it aside. "Speak up! Didn't you hear me? Don't play dead!"

The person on the ground still didn't respond.

Zhao ZhengSheng took out his phone and made another call. His hand shook and he almost dropped it. He immediately shouted, "Surname Jiang! Your boyfriend——"

*Bang!* The gate of the factory was kicked open.

The person who'd just arrived rushed in.

"You finally came." Zhao ZhengSheng pointed at the person on the ground. "Take a look and see how your boyfriend is crying."