Chapter 240: Chapter 223: Beyond Redemption
Leaning on Ren Yixuan for balance, she bid farewell to her senior and her classmates.
Thinking that she would hail a taxi home once she got outside, she certainly hadn’t planned on having Ren Yixuan take her back.
But after taking a few steps, Su Xiaomeng suddenly felt her heart racing, and her vision started blurring; then her mouth became parched...
Her heart... suddenly sank!
She halted her steps and, using the last of her strength, grabbed Ren Yixuan’s clothes. Her eyes were red and misty...
"You... drugged me..."
She knew this suspicion was absurd, but the moment she voiced this speculation...
She saw his indifferent expression, indifferent, indifferent... only indifferent, without the denial she hoped for.
"Ren Yixuan..."
She called out his name, tears falling as she did.
"You’re not feeling well, let’s go."
Ren Yixuan said coldly, then he wrapped his arm around Su Xiaomeng’s shoulders...
"Get away! Let go of me!"
She shouted at him, pushing him away forcefully; her own body nearly collapsing with the force!
Ren Yixuan narrowed his eyes and grabbed her wrist, pulling her tightly into his embrace, "Stop causing trouble!"
"Let go of me... Let go of me!"
Su Xiaomeng’s mind buzzed; the already noisy music seemed amplified countless times in her ears, causing her both pain and a strange excitement.
This feeling led Xiaomeng to imagine a terrifying possibility...
Tears slid down her face, Su Xiaomeng gently tapped her chest, feeling there was a crack there, making it hard for her to breathe due to the pain.
"Let go of me... Ren Yixuan, don’t make me hate you, I beg you... don’t make me hate you..."
Ren Yixuan’s eyes remained cold, silently holding her even tighter.
Su Xiaomeng wanted to forcefully pull his arms away, but dizziness and the panic of her accelerating heart rate led her to gradually lose strength.
The music beside her seemed infused with magic power, tempting her to sway along with it...
"I beg you..."
Ren Yixuan could clearly feel her painful struggle, while also sensing the two pills were starting to take effect within her.
"Don’t hold yourself back, relax... just relax."
"Let, let go... let go!"
Su Xiaomeng continued to struggle desperately, hoping to let others feel her turmoil and pain as much as possible.
But, in this bar, it was already a pretty chaotic setting.
Her refusals, struggles, even the shouting in tune with the music, might just be seen by others as little lovers having fun, with no one caring...
Except for Bai Shunyuan, who stood some distance away and watched with a solemn look.
From his viewpoint, the details of Ren Yixuan and Su Xiaomeng’s interactions were unclear, but he seemed to sense that man was forcing her...
His fists clenched, and he nearly stood up, almost rushing over without regard!
His arm was grabbed, "What? Afraid she might be bullied?"
Jiang Shanshan chuckled lightly, "That man is Ren Yixuan, he has quite a good relationship with your cousin!"
"Of course, if you really aren’t at ease, you could go check on them, since... you are her cousin after all."
Jiang Shanshan’s words were like a cold splash of water over his head, prompting him to curse in frustration!
Bai Shunyuan, stay away from that woman! Whatever happens to her is none of your business!
The man is her childhood friend, what are you worrying about? Even if someone really wants to bully her, it’s not your place to intervene!
Don’t involve yourself in anything related to her, don’t keep staring at her... don’t let yourself reach a point where even you despise yourself!
"If you don’t hurry, she might just leave with someone else..."
Jiang Shanshan leisurely remarked.
"If she leaves, she leaves, what’s it to me?"
Bai Shunyuan glanced at her, "Or do you want me to meddle in her business?"
Jiang Shanshan laughed softly, leaning closer to him, "I’m just speaking casually, I definitely don’t want you to meddle in her business..."
Bai Shunyuan raised the glass before him, downing half of its contents in one go, using the lingering effects of the alcohol to dispel thoughts that were none of his concern.
When Su Xiaomeng was embraced and taken into the car by Ren Yixuan, her consciousness was barely there!
Only her head involuntarily swayed, her body unable to stay still, restlessly moving...
Ren Yixuan remained cold-faced from start to finish, with no trace of pity or feeling towards the small woman controlled by the drugs.
In his mind, repeating over and over were Su Xiaomeng’s resolutely painful words that struck his heart.
Her voice was like a spell, drawing him into a frenzy of nothing but desperation!
Those two pills hadn’t kept Su Xiaomeng excited for long; after the excitement came a sense of emptiness, confusion, blurry vision, dizziness, as though her body was floating in the air...
She clutched her clothes, feeling constantly nauseous, yet still yearning for... some kind of madness.
It wasn’t long before Ren Yixuan stopped the car at a hotel, no more than ten minutes. He stepped out and lifted her from the other side.
He tossed the car key to the valet.
Su Xiaomeng leaned against him, murmuring, "I want to drink water... so thirsty... music... um..."
Her voice was weak, yet soft and cute, which made his heart momentarily soften from the brutality.
Looking at her... face-to-face with a pair of eyes still carrying traces of tears, yet full of allure...
She smiled at him...
"Uncle..."
"I miss you..."
The last defense line in Ren Yixuan’s heart was shattered.
He knew that he was doomed to eternal damnation.
With renewed determination, he strode to the front desk, booked a room, and took the key card into the elevator.
He pushed the door open and kicked it closed!
The woman in his arms was thrown onto the big bed, and he pressed on top of her!
Just as Ren Yixuan was about to go further, his phone rang inappropriately...
He glanced at it; it was Rong Qiao.
He squinted his eyes and then hung up the call. Immediately, he turned off the phone and tossed it aside.
Su Xiaomeng, with her eyes barely open, saw the man kneeling beside her, pressing her down...
His face was handsome, with deep and distinguished features, carrying a touch of British noble grace mixed with his own arrogance and wildness.
This was her man, the one she would dedicate all her love to for the rest of her life.
Only heaven knew how much she loved him.
"You finally came back... Shixiu..."
I feel terrible, dizzy, nauseous, anxious, and uneasy... Uncle, quickly hold me...
She reached out to him, wrapping her arms around his neck...
She had a long dream, in which she was in an adventurous jungle, lured by beautiful sights, walking alone into a quagmire...
When she came to her senses, she had already sunk, with only her eyes above the surface.
She wanted to scream, but as soon as she opened her mouth, muddy water flooded her throat, bitterly indescribable.
She struggled desperately...
Suddenly she sat up!
Immediately following a "bang," the door was violently pushed open!
"Ren Yixuan!"
With a nearly shrill female voice, Su Xiaomeng was suddenly pulled out of her dream.
She hadn’t even had time to recover from the splitting headache when a glass of water brought her fully awake.
"It’s you..."
Only after Rong Qiao ripped off the blanket and splashed the water did she realize that the half-naked woman on the bed was Su Xiaomeng.
Su Xiaomeng felt a sudden chill and instinctively grabbed the blanket, looking at Rong Qiao in panic and bewilderment.
Rong Qiao’s angry and shocked expression made her deeply uneasy as she slowly pieced together last night’s memories...
As she recalled bit by bit, her heart pounded uncontrollably, unable to calm, and then the bathroom door suddenly opened.
The two women almost simultaneously looked toward the emerging Ren Yixuan from the bathroom.
Rong Qiao’s eyes turned red, tears welled up.
Su Xiaomeng clutched the sheet tightly, looking at him expectantly...
"Ren, Ren... you, you... why are you here?"
"Why are you here?"
Ren Yixuan didn’t answer Su Xiaomeng’s broken question, instead, he looked at Rong Qiao with a slight frown.
Rong Qiao’s tears had already fallen, she sniffled, "I called you last night, the whole night, you didn’t answer..."
"So you checked on me?"
"I was worried about you!"
"Was it checking on me, or did you have someone following me?"
"Yixuan... if I had someone following you, would I only find you now?! Would I, would I..."
Rong Qiao pointed at him, then at Su Xiaomeng, her voice trembling with distress, "Yixuan... how could you do this to me? Sob... sob sob..."
She cried aloud painfully.
"Why are you crying! Nothing happened between Ren Yixuan and me—"
"She seduced me."
Su Xiaomeng almost shouted in explanation, the louder she shouted, the more guilty she felt inside...
But before she could finish shouting out her guilty explanation, Ren Yixuan’s words lightly drifted from his lips like arrows directly piercing her heart.
She was shocked...
So shocked that she truly couldn’t make a sound, she even forgot to breathe.
Rong Qiao’s tears still hung on her face, her teary eyes turned to Su Xiaomeng, her gaze skimmed over her skin, each mark declaring last night’s madness.
Su Xiaomeng dazedly met Rong Qiao’s eyes, slowly lowering her head to look at the marks on herself...
Her entire body trembled uncontrollably, gripping the sheet so tightly that her hand nearly cramped, her nails wrapped in the sheet were forcibly broken...
"No, it’s not like that... it’s not like that..."
She murmured, then glared at Ren Yixuan, "You’re, you’re lying! You’re lying! We didn’t!"
Ren Yixuan just glanced at her indifferently, picked up the shirt beside him, and slowly put it on, still maintaining his gentlemanly demeanor.
"Ren Yixuan! Tell the truth! Tell the truth, we didn’t, did we?!"
She threw the blanket aside to get out of bed, however, the soreness in her legs... was so real.
Rong Qiao looked at Ren Yixuan, "You’re saying... she seduced you?"
Ren Yixuan calmly looked back at Rong Qiao, his expression so indifferent it seemed he was in another world, within reach yet seemingly untouchable.