It's not this gorgeous dress, or expensive leather shoes, or the violin and fairy tale book,
Rather,
met you……
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On the way back, Xia Zhitong carefully held the two gifts, with a light and sweet smile like pear blossoms on her lips. The beautiful scenery outside the car window passed in her eyes for a moment. In the blink of an eye, she was back in front of the Xia family's mansion.
Although the Xia family cannot be compared with the big families in S city, they are still considered to be the rich and well-known people in S city, and their reputation is not low. However, the house standing in front of Xia Zhitong is a gloomy and dead villa, with no lights and no birthday party.
festive atmosphere.
On the contrary, there were cars parked outside the villa, all of them looking serious...
"I want to get out of the car!" Xia Zhitong ordered the driver to stop the car outside the door. She rushed out of the car and stopped in front of the black steel gate.
The high walls and thick doors don't seem to have the slightest warmth of home at this moment, but instead feel depressing and heavy...
Xia Zhitong had an ominous premonition, and her heart was beating wildly.
She entered the password at the door, but... the password was wrong!
"Open the door! Open the door quickly!!" Xia Zhitong was so anxious that tears flowed out. She didn't know if she had remembered it wrong, or... someone had changed the password on purpose.
A well-meaning guest, an old man about six o'clock in age, came forward and asked Xia Zhitong, "Are you... Mr. Xia's daughter? Xiaotong?"
"Yes...yes..." Xia Zhitong turned her head, her crystal eyes reflecting the old man's sad face.
"Don't you... don't you know your father, he..." The old man hesitated to speak, as if there were some painful words stuck in his throat.
"What happened to him! Please tell me, what happened to my father! Why can't I open the door? Why..." Xia Zhitong excitedly grabbed the old man's hand and begged.
The sky was getting dark, but there was no trace of the birthday banquet that was supposed to start on time at six o'clock. There was only a black car driving slowly, and a woman in black walked out of the car. Even her hairstyle was not the same as when they met just now.
His hair was messy, as if it had been messed up with his hands. In the blink of an eye, the woman who walked out of the car, her eyes red, cried loudly in pain.
Xia Zhitong will never forget what the woman is holding - a black and white photo of her father!
At that moment, stepmother Lin Meijing worked hard to act out the pain of losing her husband, and the false sobs of the guests around her seemed to be isolated from her world.
It was as if I had fallen into an abyss. There was deathly silence and blackness all around. Only my father's kind photo was vaguely visible...
"I...I don't believe it, I don't believe it..." Xia Zhitong shook her head expressionlessly. Her face was so pale that it was transparent. It was as if everything had been taken away from her body and her blood had solidified. She could not move or hear everything around her clearly.
.
"You bastard!!"
The woman's sharp voice and the hot slap like a knife were thrown hard on Xia Zhitong's face, but she didn't feel any pain at all. Her body lost its center of gravity and fell to the ground.
Lin Meijing grabbed Xia Zhitong's hair like crazy and beat her hard, "You bastard born of a bitch, why do you come back? Do you know that every time you come back, either your mother will die or your sister will be broken and her brain will change.
You're mentally retarded! You're doing a lot of harm to people! This time, you want to kill my husband, and I'm going to kill you!! Kill you!"
Xia Zhitong did not resist Lin Meijing's beating. Her empty eyes were like a pool of stagnant water. She avoided Lin Meijing's ferocious and angry face and looked at the photo of her body being held in her hands.
Lin Meijing pinched Xia Zhitong's neck with her hands. Xia Zhitong suddenly couldn't breathe. She instinctively stretched out her hand to resist, grabbing Lin Meijing's clothes with her fingers and tearing at the black dress that Lin Meijing had just put on.
"Father must not... die... not... die..." Xia Zhitong's broken words came out of her mouth in pain. However, no one in this girl who was about to be beaten to death was willing to step forward and pull Lin Meijing away.
not far away.
The driver in the car dialed the phone.
"Master, I just received news that Xia Zhitong's father had a car accident on his way back to City S. The car and the person fell down the mountain road, and not even the body could be found. And Xia Zhitong was blocked from the door at the moment, and her stepmother
, is squeezing Xia Zhitong’s neck, I’m afraid someone will die..."
The man on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and his tone was low and calm, "Don't go out to rescue her. She can get out of the predicament on her own. My date tonight is very important, so don't call me again."
After the driver heard the "beep beep" sound, he confirmed that Huo Chengxi had hung up the phone, and he stopped lingering and turned around to leave.
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I have been busy working overtime these days and come home very late every day. I have been squeezed out and have no time to type, so the update is slow, but don't worry, the update will be made up.
The day before New Year's Day, including the three-day New Year's Day holiday, three updates per day. Thank you for your support!