Li Yu was tidying up the room when the doorbell suddenly rang.
He glanced at his watch—past eight in the evening. It must be Jian Suiying, coming over after dinner. He walked to the living room and opened the door.
Jian Suiying stood frozen at the entrance like a clay statue. His eyes were red-rimmed, his hair disheveled, and his face bore several bruises and scrapes.
He looked utterly wretched, raw aggression seeping from his every breath.
Li Yu looked at him in confusion, his gaze shifting from his face to his body, finally settling on his hands.
Jian Suiying's hands clenched a few sheets of paper, crumpled into a tight ball from the force of his grip.
Jian Suiying smoothed out the papers, his voice cold enough to freeze the air. "Recognize these?" Li Yu's face drained of color.
Jian Suiying flung the crumpled paper into his face, then swung his fist at him.
Li Yu was knocked hard to the ground by the punch, his mouth instantly filling with the thick taste of blood.
, let me explain!"
Li Yu snapped, " " "Have you had enough of this? Can you calm down so we can talk?"
"Talk my ass! You ungrateful traitor think you're worthy of talking to me? Don't think I don't know—you fucking helped me
He wouldn't be the only one suffering.
Li Yu's face turned pale as she trembled, her voice breaking: "Stop talking. If you still think we've come this far together,
calm down. Let's talk this through."
And what was the result? She never took him seriously. While sleeping with him, she was plotting with her own brother to swindle him out of his money.
.
Jian Suiying took several deep breaths to suppress the stinging sensation rising in his nose. His voice rough and hoarse, he cursed, " " "Li Yu
, you disgust me to the core. You made me endure the humiliation of sleeping with you while you helped your beloved steal me away. You
hard enough."
Li Yu's face darkened to the deepest shade of ugliness. He gritted his teeth. "Jian Suiying, do you even realize what you're saying?
. I understand your anger—I messed this up. But hurling these hurtful insults at each other..."
Li Yu dodged again with a quick sidestep. Seizing the moment, Jian Suiying strode over in two long strides,
kicking him hard enough to send him crashing to the ground.
Jian Suiying stopped wasting words and simply swung her fists, beating him mercilessly.
Li Yu held back several times, refusing to strike back. But finally, Jian Suiying's vile insults ignited his fury.
He didn't want to hear another word she said. He screamed for her to shut up, but she hurled every vile insult he could imagine into his ears.
In the end, both men seemed to lose all reason, wrestling awkwardly on the ground as they exchanged blows with a clanging din. By the time the fight ended, both were red-eyed with rage.
They'd fought many times before, but never with such savagery. Despair and rage spread through them like a virus.
Li Yu wanted to shut Jian Suiying's mouth. Jian Suiying wanted Li Yu to feel the same pain he did.
Their minds were burning with fury, and even as their arms grew numb and weak, neither would back down.
Only when their door was forced open and the neighbor burst in with several police officers did they become dazed and disoriented as they were pulled apart and dragged away.
A pitiful sight.
In that moment, he felt an overwhelming urge to cry.