IJCFIARFS Chapter 8

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The wine glasses were overflowing.

In the gorgeous and extravagant banquet hall, everyone had a bright smile on their face, but after a glance, they all looked a little eerie, as if they were wearing masks.

A handsome and tall boy who looked like an ancient Greek god stood at the outermost edge of the crowd, watching everything with a lack of interest.

His bored eyes swept across the Ruan family members who were in glory, and then –

Slowly raised the red wine glass in his hand.

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The old man of the Ruan family at the center of the banquet was watching the banquet with satisfaction. Next to him was the new generation of people in power of the Ruan family – the eldest son Ruan Yanshun who was already forty-nine years old.

“There are a few outstanding ones. Let’s see if they can become Jiaojiao’s son-in-law?” Old Master Ruan smiled deeply, and his voice was only loud enough for Ruan Yanshun to hear.

“Indeed, there are many geniuses in this generation, especially the eldest grandson of the Bright family, the youngest son of Marceau, the fifth child of the Horst family, and the one of the Xie family. They are all very promising at a young age and have excellent family backgrounds. They are not only intelligent but also capable and not slick. Their future is limitless.”

Ruan Yanshun leaned over and said to Mr. Ruan.

“Instead of being just a  husband, why not become our Ruan family’s son-in-law?” Old Master Ruan stroked his beard slowly, his eyes kind, “But it depends on who Jiaojiao likes.”

“Who doesn’t like Jiaojiao?”

Ruan Yanshun said, his eyes also fell on the smiling Ruan Jiaojiao, “Whoever Jiaojiao likes is blessed. I think no one in the audience doesn’t like Jiaojiao. To be honest, Dad, I don’t want Jiaojiao to get married. I think no one is worthy of Jiaojiao.”

“I don’t want to either, but I think Jiaojiao wants to fall in love. Besides, hasn’t she been hurt before? Instead of letting her get hurt, why don’t we help her check it out first? As long as Jiaojiao is happy, why not?”

“Yes, so a son-in-law is still the best, but I’m afraid these excellent young men would not be willing to be a son-in-law.”

“Boss, you are wrong. After they fall in love with Jiaojiao, they will be willing.” Mr. Ruan’s eyes were very vicious. Just today, he could see that the majority of the people in the room were obsessed with Jiaojiao.

The eldest grandson of the Brett family, the youngest son of Marceau, and the youngest grandson of Hotez mentioned above, no matter whether they were surrounding Jiaojiao or not, their eyes were all glued to Jiaojiao, and they couldn’t tear their eyes away, and they were also filled with jealousy that couldn’t be concealed.

But where is the one from the Xie family?

……

The scenery before him was the same as in his dream.

In the scarlet liquid, the Ruan family members, who were smiling and being flattered by everyone, had distorted bodies and strange smiles on their faces, but the whole scene was surprisingly harmonious.

As the young man watched, his eyes, which were originally filled with boredom, suddenly changed quietly, becoming as dark and bottomless as hell.

It’s as if he has endured the pain of not wanting to die for so many years, leaving only the pain and hatred deep in his bones and engraved in his soul.

His eyes were filled with blood, and he seemed to be a completely different person from just now.

“Hey, Xie Youzhou, why are you here? What’s wrong with you…Ahhhh——!!!”

A hand suddenly moved Xie Youzhou, but before he could finish his words, the owner of the hand screamed in fear, jumped back eight feet in an instant, and fell heavily.

“You you you…”

Xie Youzhou then put down the red wine glass in front of him and looked at the man on the ground. His eyes slowly swept across the man’s face.

“Hua Yutang.”

“Yes, yes, it’s me…” Hua Yutang got up, his face twisted, “What’s wrong with you? The look you gave me just now, my god, scared me to death.”

They had known each other since childhood and had played together for so many years, but he had never seen Xie Youzhou like this.

“Are you practicing acting? You don’t want to be a special forces soldier anymore and want to enter the entertainment industry? Do you want to play the Godfather of Black? Hey hey hey…where are you going?”

Seeing that Xie Youzhou ignored him and turned away, Hua Yutang hurried to follow him, but Xie Youzhou seemed to be carrying a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood behind him. Although he had no expression and no special tone, he still made him feel terrified, so Hua Yutang did not dare to get too close.

Hua Yutang suddenly realized.

This kid… Did this kid start a killing spree in the secret mission he carried out recently? It’s only been two months since I last saw him, how come he has changed this much?

” Youzhou… What’s wrong with you? Is the special secret mission you are carrying out this time different from the previous ones? Is it really… stained with blood?”

“Oh my God, say something, what’s wrong with you? Where are you going? You’re not going to leave so soon, are you? The Ruan family will be angry, you you you…ah!”

Xie Youzhou in front of him suddenly stopped, and his eyes swept over like a cold blade soaked in blood, frightening Hua Yutang so much that he almost bit his tongue.

“Ruan family.” Xie Youzhou’s eyes fell towards the center of the banquet. His voice made Hua Yutang’s back shiver even though it was August. “What are they?”

“But.” Xie Youzhou looked at Hua Yutang, “You stay here.”

“What? I should stay here alone?”

Hua Yutang was stunned. He was completely confused and had no idea what was going on. He watched Xie Youzhou get into the car and leave, scratching his head anxiously.

“F**k, what the hell is wrong with you!”

……

Twenty minutes later, Xie Youzhou boarded a private plane.

His slender, powerful fingers with thick calluses trembled slightly as they fell on the keyboard. When he raised his head, the boy’s deep blue eyes were filled with blood and water.

Gege……

Wait for me.

Just wait for me, just a little more, okay…

“Hurry up, come on, hurry up!”

“Sister, I… I can’t run anymore.”

The young child’s voice was hoarse, and there was fear in his beautiful deep blue eyes. “Sister, I, I can’t run anymore…”

“Run even if you can’t. I’ll hold you!”

The girl with long black hair stopped.

She turned her head, and her eyebrows, which were carefully drawn with the finest wolf hair brush dipped in the finest Jiangnan ink, were full of worry and anxiety. Although her face was sallow and dirty, it looked very good, and there was an androgynous heroic spirit.

“If you don’t run, they’ll catch up!”

The child’s hand was held tightly by the girl, his throat was full of the fishy smell of blood. He took a deep breath and moved his short legs desperately, but he could not hold on and soon fell heavily to the ground.

The voices of the traffickers behind them were getting louder and louder, and getting closer and closer…

The child probably wanted his sister to run away on her own. After all, he had seen girls who ran away but were caught and beaten badly after being abducted. But just as he was about to open his mouth, he saw his sister suddenly squat down.

“Come on up, I’ll carry you!”

……

He couldn’t remember how many branches his sister stepped on while carrying him on her back while running away.

He seemed to only remember the warmth of his sister’s embrace, the warmth on her long, beautiful neck, and the worried but firm and calm look between her pretty eyes and brows.

He was not so scared later, and his eyes and heart were filled with the person holding him.

They hid in the mountains for three whole days.

At first, the traffickers went up the mountain to look for me, shouting, “Nier, baby, there are wolves on this mountain. Wolves eat people. Come down quickly and follow me.”

“Come out now, it’s okay, uncle won’t beat you.”

“If you don’t come down, I will not care about your young age, I will just break your legs and sell you to an old bachelor in his 50s!”

Later, when those people couldn’t find them, and following the strategy of “the sister tore their clothes, cut their arms and bleed them before throwing them on the path”, they gradually became certain that they had been eaten by wolves, so they stopped looking for them.

After all, this mountain is not the mountain of the human traffickers’ village, but just a mountain halfway, and they have to hurry to take other people away and return to deliver the goods.

Later, he fell asleep due to hunger. When he woke up again, he was no longer in his sister’s arms, but in the police station. His sister was sent to the hospital due to severe blood loss.

But when he cried and shouted that he wanted to see his sister, the police officers beside him said: “He is not a sister, he is a brother.”

“She kept her hair long just to donate it to children with leukemia. He said he was a girl to prevent the traffickers from silencing her. If he didn’t, it would make them more alert, making it harder to escape. He is a really smart and calm child.”

“He’s too young, only twelve years old, and his voice changed later than other boys. He hasn’t changed yet, so, normally, he was mistaken for a girl!”

“This child is really smart and calm, but excessive blood loss is dangerous…”

“Then you should also pay attention to safety…” Suddenly a ringtone rang, interrupting Xie Youzhou’s memories.

He opened his eyes, unable to conceal his emotions.

This ringtone was the words that his Zhiyu personally told him before he carried out the mission last year, and he specially recorded it.

“Hello.”

“Master, we went there, but no one was there.”

“What?!”

Xie Youzhou stood up suddenly.

“There was no one at the abandoned factory building on Minyuan Road in Xijiao. We went there very carefully and didn’t alert anyone, but there was no one there.”

“Don’t leave yet. Wait for my instructions.”

Xie Youzhou didn’t ask any more questions. He hung up the phone, and his slender fingers flew up and down the keyboard of his personal computer, almost becoming a mirage.

After he regained his memories, he spent ten minutes getting out of the Ruan family’s area. In the remaining ten minutes, he arranged for people to rescue his brother as soon as possible based on what he found out in his previous life. But why was there no one? Was he a step too late again?!!

Clearly, in his previous life, his brother was trapped in this suburban factory and abused and beaten for three days after being abducted. Three days later, he was transferred to an underground casino in Southeast Asia and was brutally tortured without restraint!

Could it be that something has changed in this life? Could it be that…

Xie Youzhou’s fingers were shaking as he quickly typed out one code after another. Suddenly, the computer screen turned gray, and he didn’t know what dark web he had entered.

As a result, as soon as he typed three words, countless codes and entries filled the page.

Looking at the content on the page, Xie Youzhou was stunned.

……

“Psychological trauma is neither easy nor difficult to recover from, but your wife is very strong. I think two more treatments will be enough.”

“Thank you. I’ll treat you to dinner later.” Jiang Weihua finally breathed a sigh of relief. “It’s not easy for you to take time out of your busy schedule to come here. Besides, you’re so hard to get an appointment with right now, Psychologist Cao.”

“Hey, we’ve been classmates for so many years, why are you still so polite? Please don’t embarrass me.” Cao Chengfei waved his hand.

“Speaking of that Lin Zhiyu…does he need psychological treatment? People who have experienced the explosion, especially those who were very close to it at the time, usually have trauma.”

“He’s very strong, but it would be better if you could have a chat with him if it’s convenient for you.”

“Now that you say that, how can I not be free? Anyway, I am in this hospital.” Cao Chengfei smiled, “I think you have a very good opinion of him. The evidence on the Internet says that he…”

“I was just about to help him overturn the verdict.” Jiang Weihua said seriously, “I believe that, Lin Zhiyu is a very commendable young man.”

“Of course, your vision is not wrong.” Cao Chengfei said, and the phone in his pocket suddenly rang, “Hello, Cindy.”

“What? A big client? Okay, let him schedule it on Sunday. In a hurry? Hmm…” Cao Chengfei pondered for a moment, “How about this, you ask him to come to my place. I’m in the inpatient department of the Third Hospital now. I’ll finish seeing the patient in a while. If he doesn’t mind, I can find a place for him to see.”

Jiang Weihua: “Another patient?”

“A big customer has arrived.” Cao Chengfei smiled, “Let’s go and see this Lin Zhiyu first. To be honest, I’m also very curious about him.”

Lin Zhiyu had just finished planning out his next steps when he heard the door ring again.

“It’s me, are you asleep?”

When Lin Zhiyu heard that it was Jiang Weihua, he was a little surprised, after all, the two had just finished chatting more than an hour ago.

“No, Mr. Jiang, come in.”

Seeing that there was someone following Jiang Weihua, Lin Zhiyu was a little surprised: “Who is this…”

“Cao Chengfei is a famous psychiatrist and an excellent psychologist. After the explosion, you must have been shaken up. It will be much better if he talks to you. Are you willing to talk?”

Lin Zhiyu was silent for a moment. He did have psychological problems and lingering nightmares.

But it has nothing to do with the explosion.

Compared to his nightmares, the explosions were like the fireworks that children played with during the Chinese New Year. Far from leaving any shadow on him, they were truly brilliant in his eyes.

But Lin Zhiyu still showed gratitude on his face: “Thank you, of course I am willing.”

Just treat it as a chat, what’s wrong with that?

Just as Lin Zhiyu and Cao Chengfei were chatting alone in the ward, a group of people were gathering and rushing towards the hospital.

The few people who took the lead accepted money, but the masses who were deceived were a group of free mobs.

“This kind of rubbish wants to get the best treatment. It’s so unfair and unjust. God has no eyes!”

“That’s right, this kind of social scum must be driven out of the hospital!”

“My son doesn’t even have a bed and is still waiting outside. How can such a scumbag get treatment?”

“Drive Lin Zhiyu away! Drive Lin Zhiyu away!”

“The hospital is treating this scum who has harmed so many people, it’s a disregard for morality!!!”

“…..”

Hospital security was dispatched urgently, and hospital leaders also received the news and rushed over, but they were not as fast as the media who came running after smelling the fishy smell.

The gate was soon filled with people.

Outside the hospital gate, Xie Youzhou, who had just gotten off the plane and rushed here quickly, had eyes as dark as the abyss. He scanned the faces in front of him, pulled down his hat, and walked into the hospital.

Because someone was causing trouble, the hospital urgently set up several checkpoints. Only after showing his ID and appointment information, was Xie Youzhou able to enter the inpatient department smoothly.

As soon as he stepped onto the floor where Lin Zhiyu was, Xie Youzhou’s legs felt like they were not his own. Despite his repeated attempts to hide it, he still couldn’t suppress the trembling in his heart and the redness in his eyes.

Gege…….

My Gege is here.

The long bitter hatred in his previous life, the decades of dead silence he endured, the regret that gnashed at his heart every day…all the things that made him feel suffocated every day, seemed to have suddenly been torn open.

It gave him a chance to catch his breath.

The young nurses passing by were stunned when they saw the tall young man suddenly appear in the corridor, and could not help whispering to each other.

“Oh my god, so handsome.”

“Who is this guy? Oh my god, is he mixed-race? His eyes seem to be dark blue!”

“Wow, wow, so handsome. In my mind, he and Lin Zhiyu before the accident are both the most handsome men.”

“Don’t mention that scumbag Lin Zhiyu, even though he does look like a beautiful woman.”

“This person looks extremely sad…”

“……”

Doctor Hao saw several nurses on duty gathered together talking outside, so he walked out and saw a young man with a very conspicuous appearance standing in the corridor.

He was like the best work of a Greek sculptor stored in a museum, with a perfect combination of sunshine and youthfulness. His exceptionally broad and upright shoulders make him look youthful yet not thin. Instead, he looks like the strongest young wolf king on the North American snowfield.

Under the black hair are deep blue eyes, and a pair of strong long legs that make up a height of 1.9 meters, much taller than the models on TV.

Doctor Hao was also stunned.

This boy is indeed very handsome, and at first glance, he doesn’t look very old, but why…

When the young man’s eyes swept over her, she felt like she was standing in front of someone who could see through everything about her.

Moreover, the boy’s temperament was frightening, as if it was soaked in blood and carried years of bitterness and pain.

Doctor Hao tried to remain calm.

“You…you’re looking for someone? A patient or a doctor?”