Reborn a day later, I emptied my enemy's possessions beforehand.

Li Su'e is always covered in injuries. Old wounds haven't healed before new ones appear. Her arms, back, legs, and stomach are covered in bruises.

Zhou Haibing asked her, "Why didn't you call the police?"

Li Su'e gave a bitter smile, a smile that was more painful than a grimace:

"I reported it. When the police came, they said it was a family matter, and that it's normal for couples to argue."

The police gave him a few words of advice and left. He got even angrier, and when I came back, he beat me even harder.

Zhou Haibing asked, "Then why don't you get a divorce?"

Li Su'e lowered her head, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible:

"My parents are gone, and my older brother... my older brother refuses to take me in. He says that a married daughter is like water spilled from a cup, and it's shameful for her to go back to her parents' home after a divorce."

I have nowhere to go.

Zhou Haibing said, "You can come to me. I have a house, I have money, and I can support you for the rest of your life."

Li Su'e looked up at him, her eyes filled with tears, but she shook her head:

"I can't drag you into this. An Baojun... he's not human. If he finds out I came to see you, he'll cause you trouble. I don't want to hurt you."

Zhou Haibing said, "I'm not afraid of him."

Li Su'e shook her head again, her shakes were very firm.

When they parted that day, Li Su'e held his hand and spoke solemnly:

"Haibing, having someone like you who remembers me in this life is enough for me. You must take good care of yourself and live a better life than me."

Zhou Haibing said, "You take good care of yourself too. You must take good care of yourself."

That was the last time he saw Li Su'e.

He later learned that their meeting that day had been filmed.

An Baojun hired a so-called "bodyguard," who was actually a local thug, specifically responsible for following Li Su'e and monitoring her every move.

This person had to report to An Baojun in detail where Li Su'e went, who she met, and how long she talked.

That day, this person took a picture of Li Su'e throwing herself into Zhou Haibing's arms.

When An Baojun saw the photos, he threw them one by one at Li Su'e's face, cursing her for being shameless, a slut, having an affair with her old lover, and cheating on the An family.

Li Su'e knelt on the ground and explained that they had only met by chance and had not done anything.

An Baojun wouldn't listen.

He pinned Li Su'e to the ground and whipped her with a belt for an entire afternoon.

Li Su'e was beaten so badly that she couldn't even get up.

She couldn't take it anymore.

She secretly ran to her older brother Li Zhigang's house and begged him to take her in, saying that she didn't want to go back to An Baojun's place and that she wanted to divorce An Baojun.

After listening to her tearful account, Li Zhigang patted her on the shoulder and said:

"You stay here for now, I'll figure something out."

Li Su'e thought that her elder brother had finally stood by her side.

Unbeknownst to her, her older brother immediately called An Baojun.

An Baojun arrived quickly, kicked open Li Zhigang's door, dragged Li Su'e off the bed, and pulled her out by her hair.

Li Su'e desperately cried out for her older brother to save her, but Li Zhigang stood aside, turning his face away, not daring to look at her.

An Baojun dragged Li Su'e home and beat her again.

After beating her, they locked her in a bedroom, boarded up the windows, locked the door from the outside, and shut off everything that could connect her to the outside world.

Cell phones, landlines, even the radio at home—take them all.

Li Su'e was imprisoned inside and received very little food each day.

A bowl of plain porridge, half a steamed bun, a small dish of pickled vegetables, and sometimes there aren't even any pickled vegetables.

She stayed inside for countless days, feeling dizzy from hunger and becoming skin and bones, but she did not give up.

She used a knife to pry open the wooden planks on the window bit by bit. It took her countless nights until she finally managed to pry open a crack, and her emaciated body squeezed out through it.

She escaped.

She wanted to go find Zhou Haibing.

She didn't know the exact address of Zhou Haibing's company, but she knew the approximate location of Zhou Haibing's pharmaceutical factory. She figured she could find it by asking around when she got there.

But she had only run less than 200 meters out of the residential area when the "bodyguard" appeared.

This person was like a dog kept by An Baojun, watching Li Su'e 24 hours a day. When Li Su'e escaped, he immediately discovered it and notified An Baojun.

An Baojun drove over and stopped Li Su'e on the roadside.

In front of so many people on the street, he grabbed Li Su'e by the hair and shoved her into the car. No one dared to stop him, and no one dared to say a word.

Back home, An Baojun beat Li Su'e so badly she almost died.

After this incident, An Baojun became even more brazen.

He not only locked her up, but also gave her very little food each day.

Li Su'e was already frail and sickly due to long-term torment, and this only made things worse.

She began to fall ill constantly, with fever, cough, vomiting, and diarrhea. One illness after another, her health deteriorated day by day, like an oil lamp that was about to burn out, the flame growing weaker and dimmer.

An Baojun refused to take her to see a doctor.

She felt that she was faking illness, acting, and trying to gain sympathy.

Li Su'e begged him many times, but he ignored her.

Once, Li Su'e was delirious with fever and was talking nonsense in bed. An Baojun's elderly mother couldn't bear to watch and secretly called a doctor.

After the doctor arrived and examined her, he shook his head and said to An Baojun, "With her health, she should have come to the hospital a long time ago. I can't do anything about it now that we've delayed until now."

Li Su'e's illness deteriorated rapidly.

From the onset of illness to death, it took less than three months.

Zhou Haibing only learned of Li Su'e's death three days later.

He was in a meeting at the company when someone from his hometown called him and said, "Do you remember that educated youth, Li Su'e? She's dead."

Zhou Haibing dropped the pen in his hand to the ground.

He asked the man what illness Li Su'e had.

That person said they didn't know, only that the person died of illness, but no one could say for sure what the illness was.

Later, another person in the know—supposedly a former neighbor of An Baojun's family—was identified.

She secretly told Zhou Haibing the truth: Li Su'e did not die of a normal illness, but was tortured to death by An Baojun.

Prolonged hunger, beatings, and mental torture completely broke down her body.

When she died, she weighed less than 70 pounds, and her body was covered in old and new wounds.

Zhou Haibing called the police.

The police investigated for a few days, asked An Baojun a few questions, visited An Baojun's home, and then there was no further news.

When Zhou Haibing inquired about the progress, he was told that "the evidence is insufficient and it is difficult to make a determination."

Li Su'e's death certificate stated "multiple organ failure," but no one investigated the cause of the multiple organ failure, nor was anyone willing to investigate.

An Baojun continued living his life as usual. He kept his gold shop open and made money as usual. In fact, no one in his circle knew that a woman had died in his family.

Zhou Haibing knew that this wasn't a legal issue, but rather that he lacked evidence.

Li Su'e is dead, and there is no way to verify her story.

Those wounds, those beatings, those imprisonments—all of them became a bunch of unverifiable accounts after Li Su'e left.

But he no longer needs evidence.

He doesn't need the court to give him justice; he himself is justice.