bayedsolid Chapter 302 His Worst Side
Chapter 302 His Worst Side
As soon as these words came out, Chen Zhuo's heart sank.
What Fan Xiaolin fears most is his silence.
She was anxious and asked, "Every time I tried to get closer, you deliberately pushed me away. Chen Zhuo, you're not going to learn to play hard to get like those men, are you?!"
Chen Zhuo's face turned pale. "No, no, no, how could I be like this?"
"Then why do you keep people at a distance?" Fan Xiaolin asked.
Chen Zhuo hesitated for a long time before saying helplessly, "Not only did I not help you, I also hindered you. I don't want you to beg for help on my behalf."
"Then why didn't you say it just now? And I had to force you to say it..." Fan Xiaolin's face was dark.
Chen Zhuo: "I think... there's no need to talk about such a small thing..."
This person can really hold it in. He's not afraid of getting sick even with all this internal friction... Fan Xiaolin thought speechlessly.
"Sorry, I'm a bit blunt." Seeing him speak his mind, she breathed a sigh of relief. "What do you mean by asking for help or not? Even if we're just ordinary friends, if you help me, I'll help you. Should I just abandon you?"
Chen Zhuo heard her emphasize "even if", which meant that she was no longer just a friend to him.
He understood, but didn't know how to respond.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Fan Xiaolin became anxious, "Are you treating me as a backup?"
"How can it be???"
Chen Zhuo shook his head anxiously.
This person is a bug. Fan Xiaolin discovered it and poked it and it moved.
It's okay, as long as you can still move.
She patiently said, "Chen Zhuo, I don't mind saying the same thing over and over again. I like you."
Chen Zhuo looked up, his clear eyes looking at her slightly furrowed brows, and after a while, he said, "Me, me too."
Fan Xiaolin relaxed her brows.
"I want to date you, do you want to keep doing this?"
"Hyolin, I..." Chen Zhuo looked at him with a bitter tone, "I have killed people and I have been to jail."
"SO?" Fan Xiaolin spread her hands. "Are you going to live in the past forever? Besides, that incident wasn't your fault."
Chen Zhuo looked at her with difficulty, sat down beside the flower bed, and touched the hard marble surface.
"That's where I crushed my stepfather to death next to a marble wall like this one."
After hearing this, Fan Xiaolin was stunned.
She quickly stopped urging him and waited for Chen Zhuo to organize his words.
Chen Zhuo's ability to express himself is average, and he takes a long time to think before saying a sentence, but he speaks very clearly:
When he was seventeen, he grabbed his stepfather's head and pounded it on the ground...
When Chen Zhuo was two years old, his biological father bravely rescued a drowning girl, but he himself did not have the strength to climb ashore and drowned in the river.
After this, mother Xie Baoping suffered from sleep disorders, cried all night long, and her health deteriorated day by day.
Soon, Chen Zhuo went to elementary school. At the same time, Xie Baoping was noticed by a contractor with some money.
The contractor promised her that as long as she was willing to follow him, he would pay for Chen Zhuo to go to the best junior high school and the best high school.
Xie Baoping believed the contractor, but after the contractor married her, his true colors were revealed.
Not only did she ignore Chen Zhuo, she also forced Xie Baoping to give her another son.
Seeing that Xie Baoping couldn't get pregnant, the contractor finally broke down one snowy night.
That was the first time Chen Zhuo saw a man hitting a woman:
"He started beating me with his hands. When his hands hurt, he started beating me with a clothes rail. I tried to pull him away, but he started beating me too."
Chen Zhuo took a puff of his cigarette, his eyes following the sparks:
"I called the police, and they gave me a verbal warning. After that, the beast intensified his beatings on my mother, even when I wasn't home. My mother kept it a secret from me because she was afraid I'd worry."
Fan Xiaolin felt sympathetic but also furious.
She had heard Chen Zhuo talk about domestic violence caused by her stepfather before, but he spoke very briefly. She thought he didn't want to talk about it, so she didn't ask any further questions.
"Then why don't you just file for divorce?"
Chen Zhuo continued, "I mentioned it, and every time I mentioned it, I got beaten. The old bastard said I had to give him a child, and then we'd divorce, but my mother just couldn't get pregnant."
"Maybe it's not her problem?" Fan Xiaolin said contemptuously. "Maybe it's the old beast himself who's failing. Why doesn't he go to the hospital for a checkup?"
"Maybe he knows," Chen Zhuo said with a sardonic laugh. "He refused to go to the hospital for a checkup and took his anger out on my mom, saying if she dared to ask for a divorce again, he would kill me first and then my grandparents."
"My mother has been tolerating him for our sake."
"I later learned that she was deaf in one ear and had a concussion."
Throughout high school, Chen Zhuo studied hard, hoping to get admitted to another city and take Xie Baoping with him.
Although he had average talent, he managed to pass the third-tier college entrance examination by relying on rote memorization and mock exams.
But he still underestimated the contractor's viciousness.
The day before the college entrance examination, the contractor personally prepared a meal for him and said he wanted to wish him success.
Chen Zhuo didn't know that he had put drugs in the food. After he and Xie Baoping finished eating, he fell into a coma for a whole day and night.
When I woke up again, I had missed the college entrance examination.
Chen Zhuo's breathing became increasingly heavy, suggesting that he had lost his patience that day as well. "He knew I wanted to take my mother away. He wanted to poison me that time, but he didn't buy enough medicine, so he didn't kill me."
"My mother was about to take me away that night, but as soon as she got downstairs, she was discovered by him. He grabbed my mother's hair and dragged her home..."
"I had a feeling we were all going to die tonight."
"Then I suddenly had strength, went home, got a kitchen knife, and started chopping him."
"I don't remember how many times I chopped him, but I had one thought in my mind: I had to chop him to death. Otherwise, it would be me, my mom, my grandparents, and me who would die. If I didn't kill him, he would be crippled or paralyzed, and my whole family would have to support him for the rest of his life..."
"So I got three for one, and I made a profit."
Fan Xiaolin patted him comfortingly, "You're still quite clear-headed."
"I was very conscious the whole time," Chen Zhuo continued. "Then he stopped moving, so I dragged him into the yard and smashed his face against the stone slab until he couldn't make any sound anymore..."
When Chen Zhuo said this, his tone was calm.
However, Fan Xiaolin can still imagine the thrilling and terrifying scene at that moment.
The hot-blooded young man completely erupted with the anger that he had suppressed for ten years.
Why did Lao Deng pick on a high school senior when there were so many people he could pick on?
He was smashed into a pulp...
Fan Xiaolin imagined that scene...
"Are you scared?" Chen Zhuo said, looking at Fan Xiaolin cautiously. "I'm not good at speaking, but the situation at that time is even more terrifying than what I can describe. You see, I'm a lunatic..."
"A madman attacks indiscriminately, aren't you?" Fan Xiaolin asked him back, "You were able to think of all those things while hacking at him. Are you crazy?"
Chen Zhuo looked at her deeply and said nothing. "I really don't think I did anything wrong. I've wanted to kill him for a long time. I just carried out my idea."
"Do you regret it?"
"No regrets," Chen Zhuo said. "Later, in the juvenile detention center, the instructor asked me if I regretted it. I said I regretted it very much. I regretted having endured it for so long. The first time he hit my mom, I should have had a few thugs put a sack around him and cut the tendons in his hands and feet, permanently rendering him incapable of committing crimes. I regretted not being smart enough."
Fan Xiaolin agreed, "What did your instructor say?"
"He put me in solitary confinement for seven days..."
"..."
Fan Xiaolin tried to hold back her laughter for a long time.
She knew that Chen Zhuo's courage to recount the incident to her in such detail meant that he dared to show his worst side.
Fan Xiaolin became even more determined that she had not made a mistake.
When she first saw him, she remembered his frank and bright eyes.
I just blush a little when I look at myself.
Such a blush is better than any love words.