The girl knew that Huang Yi was her last remaining blood relative, and ever since he came to her side, he always treated her nicely, meticulously taking care of her. When she was bed ridden, Huang Yi would spend all night at her bedside, sometimes forgoing meals to stay with her. When Xue Li Dani had learned of these things, she'd felt somewhat moved. At that time, she'd thought that since they'd become so close, the least she could do was make up a good explanation for after the surgery, to let her daughter know that Huang Yi was doing well in a better place, so she didn't need worry.
Now it looked like all her concerns were a useless joke. How could the girl be worried? She obviously didn't want Huang Yi to live a moment too long. Since Huang Yi came back from Vienna, she repeatedly urged them to quickly schedule the surgery. Xue Li Dani hadn't thought it odd at that time, but knowing now that her supposedly innocent and kindhearted daughter was just pretending, she found it chilling.
She blocked her daughter's mouth and hurried out of the hospital, pushed her into the front passenger seat, then closed the door and asked, "Do you know everything?"
"I want Huang Yi's heart! Mama, I want his heart!" Xue Jing Yi repeated, mimicking digging out a heart.
Xue Li Dani was frightened, this evil spirit like person was not her cute, kindhearted, spiritually rich daughter. She ruthlessly slapped her and admonished, "You will not mention anything about taking Huang Yi's heart in the future. We can't touch him!" Panting, she hesitated to ask, "He's your brother, can you really bear to do this?"
"What is there to bear? Didn't you bring him back here to save me? He's just my heart container, nothing more." Xue Jing Yi covered her bruised cheek, giving a neurotic sneer.
Xue Li Dani slumped onto the steering wheel, wanting to cry but unable to. She knew that they had destroyed their daughter. Even if she received Huang Yi's heart, her soul would be assimilated with the demons, carrying the sin of murdering her blood brother. She would never play heart touching music, she would never live a normal life, plundering and viciousness would become her first response, and she would only get more and more wicked in the future.
Xue Li Dani had wanted her daughter to live a carefree life, she always wanted to keep her pure and kindhearted, but now, everything had fallen apart.
She looked into her daughter's muddy eyes and stressed, "Your father is going to formally adopt Huang Yi, from now on, he's your family, not a heart container. We will help you find another heart, you have to give up any thoughts about attacking him. If you disobey me, I'll ship you off to Switzerland to recuperate, so you better start thinking clearly." Even when her daughter exposed a miserable expression, she pushed down all her pity. She needed some time to adjust to her daughter's immense change.
Xue Jing Yi's eyes widened, she stated yelling and kicking up a fuss, but Xue Li Dani ignored her the whole way home.
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Xue Yan sent Zhou Yun Sheng back to Xue house after dinner. Xue Rui was very welcoming to him, willing to agree to any of his conditions in order to persuade him to perform at the Congress Hall. Zhou Yun Sheng gave him a vague agreement, then went back to his room and immediately turned on his computer to review the surveillance videos from the past few days.
Nothing unusual had happened, even Xue Zi Xuan had followed his expectations, his furious expression quite impressive. Just like he'd done to him in the last life, he'd almost crushed Xue Jing Yi's fingers. Seeing this scene, Zhou Yun Sheng smiled and collapsed onto his bed, his hatred finally feeling a little vented. Not just anyone could disturb Xue Jing Yi, only Xue Zi Xuan could hurt her the most, so right now, she certainly must be on the brink of madness.
Xue Jing Yi really was on the brink of madness, she'd hid by the stairs to eavesdrop on the conversation between her father and Huang Yi, confirming her mother's statements, they really were going to formally adopt Huang Yi. On the other side, they'd decided to give up on her, letting her life run its course. She walked back to her bedroom in a trance, shocked to find Xue Zi Xuan leaning against Huang Yi's door, his face was expressionless, but two lines of tears were rolling down his face. Hearing footsteps, he turned around and saw her, then a thread of loathing started growing in his dark eyes.
"Brother." Her heart aching, she reached out to touch him, but he walked away, returning to the third floor without looking back at her.
Xue Jing Yi buried herself in her blanket and wept for a long time, then she seemed to think of something, and turned on her computer to contact a recent pen pal.
"How do I get someone's heart?" She typed this question with a dark expression.
Soon, Zhou Yun Sheng's computer beeped, receiving this message, he pursed his lips and smirked, replying, "Kill them."
Kill them? Yes, kill them! As long as he died, everything would go back to normal. Xue Jing Yi's mouse shook neurotically, after half a day, she closed the chat window and opened up Google. Zhou Yun Sheng glanced at the webpages constantly popping up on his screen, already understanding what Xue Jing Yi was planning. She was going to knock him out, then personally dig out his heart, so she was searching for information on anesthesia, and also ordering a freezer, scalpels and other medical equipment, even downloading a surgery how to video.
"I really didn't underestimate you, Xue Jing Yi." Zhou Yun Sheng murmured cheerfully. Xue Jing Yi was his meticulously cultivated, highly toxic flower, when she fully bloomed, she would drag all the people around her down into eternal damnation. Her actions were so dynamic, he was full of expectations for the game's finale.
Half a month later, Xue Rui and Xue Li Dani attended a cocktail party together, and Xue Zi Xuan was teaching at the university, leaving only Xue Jing Yi and Zhou Yun Sheng home. Xue Jing Yi personally boiled a pot of milk tea and brought it to the table, coaxing Zhou Yun Sheng to drink. When he was unconscious, the steward helped carry him to the underground garage. The garage was already full of all the latest medical equipment, the tools she bought online were redundant.
"Miss, I'll cut it." Seeing Xue Jing Yi's trembling hands, the butler volunteered to cut. The Xue couple were always busy with work, it could be said that he personally raised Xue Jing Yi. He loved her more than anyone else, how could he watch her die? As long as they took out Huang Yi's heart, the situation would be irreversible. When the Xue couple came back, what could they do? Would they send their daughter to jail? They couldn't afford such a scandal, so they would definitely try to cover up for her. Then the heart would naturally be transplanted into her body.
Xue Jing Yi waved, "No, I'm not afraid, I was too excited." She took a few deep breaths, then raised the scalpel up to the boy's chest. The blade was very sharp, with only a light touch, it opened up a line of blood. Under the lamp's harsh shine, everything was completely illuminated, it looked very ghastly.
Tons of blood started pouring out from a small wound, startling Xue Jing Yi to jump back. She gritted her teeth and raised the knife again, but was stunned to see the boy suddenly wake up, forcefully pushing her away.
"What are you doing?" He asked, clutching his wound. Because he had been drugged, he staggered as if he would faint at any moment.
Xue Jing Yi noticed his weak movements, so was not afraid of him running away, she pointed to the laptop on the operating table and said, "I'm removing your heart." The computer was playing the heart removal surgery video. Xue Jing Yi's resolve was very astonishing, even though she was missing assistance from a doctor, she was determined to do it herself. She had to kill him before her parents and brother came back, but she also couldn't let his heart stop beating. Fortunately, her home was very well-equipped, they even had liquid to preserve the heart, sparing her a lot of headaches.
"W-Why?" Zhou Yun Sheng struggled to jump off the operating table, accidentally knocking over the surgical instruments placed on the tray, scalpels, surgical clamps and other tools scattering everywhere.
"Because I suffer from congenital heart disease, only your heart can save me. Did you really think we brought you out from the countryside just to adopt you? Don't dream. Fu Bo, hold him down for me."
The steward nodded and walked over to press the boy onto the operating table, but unexpectedly, the boy had hid a scalpel in his sleeve. He ruthlessly stabbed it into his stomach, and even shook it around a few times. The steward screamed in agony and fell to the ground, and Zhou Yun Sheng staggeringly ran towards the door. He had already sent a text message to Xue Zi Xuan using Fu Bo's cellphone, luring him back, he should've come back by now.
Sure enough, before he reached the door, Xue Zi Xuan kicked it open and rushed in, meeting a blood soaked boy wearing only a pair of jeans. His face distorted in horror, and catching sight of his sister brandishing a scalpel to attack the boy, without pausing to think, he immediately pulled him behind him.
He frantically gripped the blade and asked through gritted teeth, "What do you think you're doing?"
"Doing what you guys wanted to do earlier, dig his heart out. Brother, didn't you bring him back to save me? Did you forget?" Xue Jing Yi's eyes were crazy.
Xue Zi Xuan's fingers throbbed with piercing pain, but he knew that he couldn't let go of the blade, he looked back and shouted, "Run Xiao Yi!"
Zhou Yun Sheng looked at him with complex eyes, then clutched his still bleeding wound and ran out. When he reached the living room, he resumed a normal gait, and slowly picked up the phone to call 110.
"Help, someone's trying to kill me!" His panic-stricken voice was a strong contrast to his smirking face.
"Don't panic, tell me your current address, and your name. We'll send someone to help you as soon as possible."
"I'm at Longquan Mountain Golf Course, Villa Residence 88, my name is Xue Jin Yi. Someone is trying to kill me, I'm injured, and bleeding a lot. I also feel very dizzy."
"Please quickly find a safe place to hide, we'll immediately send out police officers." After the operator hung up the phone, he kept feeling that the name Xue Jin Yi sounded very familiar, something seemed to flash across his mind, and he quickly called his superiors, confirming that the famous child piano prodigy really did live in Longquan Mountain.
The police didn't dare delay, they immediately sent out several police cars to rush over to Longquan Mountain. Zhou Yun Sheng monitored the operating room's situation with 008 while rubbing his bloody hands along the walls, then he ran out and stood in the middle of the road. Xue Yan's car was 'coincidentally' passing by, seeing his bloody body, the man's complexion was frightfully dark.
"Didn't you say an accident was unlikely to happen? Tell me how this isn't an accident!" He grabbed the boy's ears and roared, but seeing his face scrunched in pain, he quickly pulled him into his arms and took off his coat to press it onto his chest wound, still breathing heavily. Seeing the long cut, he felt paralyzed with agony, he finally knew how it felt to feel someone else's pain as if it'd happened to himself.
The wound looked scary, but it was not even a minor injury to the battle hardened Zhou Yun Sheng. He put on an act and sobbed, but in fact, he was watching the brother and sister confrontation through 008. Thanks to Xue Rui's careful preparation, the operating room was fully equipped, including a real-time monitoring system. As long as the operation lamp was turned on, the monitoring system would automatically start up, and store all the footage.
He hadn't expected Xue Zi Xuan to unhesitatingly grab the blade to save him. The other man didn't dare let go, once he did, his fingers would be cut off, so he could only force Xue Jing Yi into the corner and trap her. Although Xue Jing Yi's heart was ruthless, she couldn't cruelly attack Xue Zi Xuan, seeing his fingers constantly leaking blood, she finally regained some rationality. She let go of the knife and tearfully hugged him, crying and crying until a heart attack took her and she fainted.
The butler's abdomen was seriously injured, he had already entered a coma from losing too much blood. Xue Zi Xuan despised his sister, but he couldn't heartlessly watch her die, so he staggered through the pain and ran upstairs to find her medicine. Catching sight of the bloody footprints leading through the living room and out the door, he sighed in relief, knowing that Xiao Yi was safe.
He pushed the pill into Xue Jing Yi's mouth and performed simple first aid on her, seeing her improved condition, he stumbled to the wall and slumped to the ground. Ten minutes later, he heard police sirens and chuckled faintly, "Our family's retribution has finally come, Jing Yi, are you ready?"