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"Yun Shu! Wake up!"

Gu Shichen's voice trembled uncontrollably as his fingertips touched the gruesome wound on her wrist.

It felt as if a piece of his heart had been ripped out, and a wave of overwhelming panic instantly engulfed him.

He grabbed a towel from the side and pressed it firmly against her wrist, trying to stop the bleeding.

The warm liquid still seeped from the soaked towel, seeping through his fingers and scalding his palms.

Seeing the unprecedented panic in Gu Shichen's eyes, Xiao Ba suddenly understood the ruthlessness of Liu Yunshu's move.

Gu Shichen carried her out, his steps faltering.

His usually composed figure was now disheveled, and his throat tightened uncontrollably.

"Please, don't die! I was wrong..."

The ambulance siren pierced the morning tranquility as it sped towards the hospital.

Gu Shichen sat in the car, his eyes fixed on her arm with the tourniquet on it, his hand pressing hard on the wound.

The strong smell of blood clung to him, making it almost impossible for him to breathe.

Liu Yunshu lay helplessly on the stretcher, her pale face tinged with a deathly bluish hue, while an IV drip was rapidly being administered to her other hand.

Upon arrival at the hospital, she was immediately rushed into the emergency room.

The red light at the entrance of the emergency room was blindingly bright.

Gu Shichen leaned against the cold wall, his fingers still stained with her sticky blood, the icy feeling lingering.

For the first time in his life, he experienced what it meant to be trembling with fear, and what it meant to be willing to give his own life for the safety of the other person.

"The patient has lost too much blood, and their blood pressure continues to drop. Prepare for a blood transfusion!"

The doctor's urgent voice came from the emergency room, and every word hit Gu Shichen's heart like a heavy hammer.

After an unknown amount of time, the lights in the emergency room finally went out.

Gu Shichen suddenly stood up straight and staggered forward.

Grabbing the doctor who had just come out, her voice trembled almost imperceptibly: "Doctor, how is she?"

The doctor took off his mask, his face showing a hint of fatigue, but he still nodded.

"Fortunately, he was brought in in time and received a blood transfusion. He is temporarily out of danger, but he still needs to be observed."

Gu Shichen's tense body suddenly went limp. He leaned against the wall, let out a long breath, and his eyes uncontrollably reddened.

He watched as the door to the emergency room was slowly pushed open, and Liu Yunshu was wheeled out onto the hospital bed.

Her face was still as pale as paper, her lips were bloodless, and her wrists were wrapped in thick gauze. She looked so fragile that she seemed like she would break at the slightest touch.

He carefully followed them into the observation room and sat down on the bed.

Looking at her peacefully sleeping face, I reached out my hand, my fingertips trembling slightly.

"Yun Shu, please wake up?"

He took her other, uninjured hand in his, which was icy cold, and he couldn't help but wrap it with the warmth of his palm.

"As long as you wake up, you can do whatever you want..."

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Shen Moci huddled in the corner of the room, shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere, surrounded by empty wine bottles and broken cell phones scattered all around him.

The alcohol burned his throat, but it couldn't suppress the anger and humiliation surging in his chest.

The voice from the recorder echoed repeatedly in my ears, overlapping with Liu Yunshu's usual aloof and cold expression.

Like a dull knife, it repeatedly cut into his already broken heart.

"Liu Yunshu, you lied to me so badly!"

He suddenly grabbed the wine bottle at his feet and smashed it against the wall.

Glass shards flew everywhere, cutting the back of his hand, and bright red blood seeped out, but he was completely unaware, his eyes filled only with bone-deep hatred.

All that careful tenderness and devotion has now become a huge joke.

He huddled in the corner, his shoulders trembling violently, a suppressed sob escaping his throat.

Like a wounded beast, licking its bloody wounds in the darkness.

After an unknown amount of time, there was an urgent knocking at the door.

Shen Moci suddenly looked up, his eyes still bloodshot.

"roll!"

He roared, his voice hoarse as if squeezed from the depths of his throat, reeking of alcohol and malice.

But the person outside seemed completely unconcerned about his anger, and the knocking became even more urgent.

"Aci! Open the door, it's me, Lu Hengyan."

Lu Hengyan!

Shen Moci's eyes suddenly surged with crimson. He staggered to his feet and rushed to the door with unsteady steps.

She flung open the door, grabbed Lu Hengyan by the collar, and twisted his neck with such force that she almost snapped it.

"You dare come to see me?!"

The smell of alcohol mixed with hostility hit him, but Lu Hengyan didn't care. He looked at Shen Moci anxiously.

"Aci! Have you seen Yunshu? She's gone!"

Li Wei, who was behind her, also stepped forward, her face full of anxiety.

"Shen Moci, I've been looking for Yun Shu all night, but I can't get through to her on the phone. She was perfectly fine last night, attending the exhibition with me. How could she suddenly disappear?"

"It's gone?"

Shen Moci suddenly laughed, his laughter filled with malicious mockery, and the crimson in his eyes intensified.

"She's probably having a great time with some random guy and has forgotten all about home!"

He shoved Lu Hengyan so hard that he stumbled, and roared as he pointed at the door.

"Get out! All of you get out! I don't want to hear that woman's name again!"

Li Wei glared at him angrily: "Yun Shu is your girlfriend! How could you say such a thing!"

Shen Moci sneered, looking at Li Wei with mockery: "She wasn't even with you that night!"

Seeing Li Wei's guilty expression, Shen Moci's eyes grew even more menacing.

"What? Did I guess right? She used you as a cover, lying to me that she was going to your place to spend the night, but what she actually did? She went to be with him!"

He turned to look at Lu Hengyan, his eyes filled with bloodshot hatred: "You two have been having an affair all along, treating me like a fool!"

Lu Hengyan's heart sank as he was startled by the madness in his eyes.

"Aci, I was drugged that day."

"Drugned?"

Shen Moci laughed as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world, bending over with laughter, tears welling up in his eyes.

He pulled the recording pen out of his pocket and smashed it hard at Lu Hengyan's feet.

"How dare you use such a lame excuse! Then listen to this!"

The recorder rolled a few times on the floor, and after a buzzing sound of electricity, the lifelike, clear, and cool female voice slowly flowed out:

"Shen Moci? He's an idiot. I only approached him because of Lu Hengyan..."

Lu Hengyan froze, his pupils contracted sharply, and he looked abruptly at Shen Moci, his tone urgent:

"That's not Yun Shu's voice! It's fake! Someone forged it!"

"Fake?"

Shen Moci clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles turned white.

"Then it's true that she didn't come home all night, right? And those ambiguous red marks on her neck, they're not fake, are they?"

"Yes! I admit that I had a relationship with Yun Shu, but I forced myself on her! She never loved me."

At this point, a tear slid down Lu Hengyan's cheek.

"Aci, she truly loves you. Do you remember that night you got drunk?"

Before Shen Moci could speak, he suddenly grabbed Shen Moci's arm, his knuckles turning white.

"That night, I deliberately got you drunk and forced her to break up with you, but she absolutely refused."

Lu Hengyan's voice was hoarse, as if it were stained with blood.

"She cried and begged me to let her go, saying she just wanted to live a peaceful life with you..."

Shen Moci froze, his mockery instantly vanishing.

"You lied to me..."

His voice trembled, and the fierceness he had shown earlier was gone.

"If she truly loved me, why would she lie and say she was going to Li Wei's house...?"

"She's afraid you won't want her anymore! She's terrified!"

With red eyes and a sobbing voice, Li Wei said urgently:

"She told me that day, 'You witnessed your mother cheating on you when you were a child...'"

"She knows you have a deep-seated fear, and she's afraid that if you find out about her and Lu Hengyan, you'll hate her the way you hate your mother!"

"Those few nights, she would cry out in her sleep, begging you not to leave her."

"impossible……"

He muttered to himself, his voice trembling, the bloodshot in his eyes slowly fading, replaced by a hint of panic and uncertainty.

"If she loves me, why did she leave with another man last night?!"

Shen Moci's voice suddenly rose, roaring out with his last bit of unwillingness and despair.

He staggered backward, his back slamming against the cold wall, his eyes filled with panic and pain, as if all his strength had been drained away.

Lu Hengyan's heart sank, and he urgently asked, "What did you say? Who did she go with last night?"

"Who else could it be?"

Shen Moci gave a bitter laugh, his eyes filled with broken mockery.

"Gu Shichen! I saw her with my own eyes as she linked arms with Gu Shichen, smiling seductively, and followed him!"

"Impossible! You've mistaken her for someone else! Yun Shu isn't that kind of person!"

Lu Hengyan immediately took out his phone and dialed Gu Shichen's number.

The moment the call connected, Lu Hengyan practically yelled, "Gu Shichen! Is Yun Shu with you?!"

After a few seconds of silence, Gu Shichen's hoarse and tired voice came through the receiver.

"She's in the hospital; she committed suicide this morning."

He hung up the phone as soon as he finished speaking.

"Hospital? Suicide?"

Lu Hengyan's hand holding the phone trembled violently, and the screen slammed to the ground with a "thud," the cracks spreading like a spider web.

His blood seemed to freeze instantly, and all he could hear was a buzzing sound.

Gu Shichen's words were like a heavy hammer, striking his heart with pain.

Shen Moci froze on the spot, the mockery and hostility on his face instantly fading away, leaving only a blank look of astonishment.

"impossible……"

He muttered to himself, his fingertips unconsciously clenching, his nails digging deep into his palms.

"She's such a good actress, how could she possibly commit suicide? It must be Gu Shichen's scheme!"

Even so, a nameless panic lurked in his heart, growing wildly like vines, suffocating him.

Li Wei was already deathly pale with fright, and tears welled up instantly: "Yun Shu... how could she..."

She grabbed Lu Hengyan's arm tightly, her voice trembling uncontrollably, "We have to go to the hospital! We have to see her!"

Lu Hengyan snapped out of his daze, his eyes filled with panic and urgency, and grabbed Shen Moci's wrist.

"Aci, come with me to the hospital! Whether it's true or not, we have to go see!"

Shen Moci was dragged away by Lu Hengyan like a puppet, the word "suicide" echoing repeatedly in his mind.

My heart felt like it was being gripped tightly by an invisible hand, and even breathing was excruciatingly painful.

He couldn't believe that the woman who could always disguise everything with a cold smile would choose to end things in such an extreme way.

But Gu Shichen's hoarse voice, Lu Hengyan's pale face, and Li Wei's uncontrollable sobs were all forcing him to acknowledge this cruel possibility.