Xua Ying Yue closed the laptop that was sitting in front of her before she stood up from the chair on which she was sitting and then raced after the nurses who were looking around for Gong Shuang. From their panicked looks, it was quite certain that the girl was not in the hospital and has instead vanished into thin air which made Xua Ying Yue feel slightly flustered what happened to Gong Shuang made her feel guilty since she was at fault as well.
Maybe she was really a jinx who cursed everyone around her, her parents died after she was born and her sister was working hard to meet the ends of their small family and now just because she helped Gong Shuang, she ended up creating trouble for her as well.
" Excuse me," she spoke to the nurse who was opening the storeroom of the hospital where they kept buckets and mops and asked, " I am with the patient in room one zero three, can you tell me how much time passed since she left her room?"
The nurse was looking slightly harassed but when she heard what Xua Ying Yue said, she immediately turned to look at her and answered, " It might have been less than five minutes, I went to give her painkiller but she was not in the bed and the guard did not see anyone leave."
Meaning that the girl was here but she was hiding somewhere, and no one could find her.
Xua Ying Yue carefully thought about the possibilities and the places where Gong Shuang could have gone. She knew that the latter will not go to her house since she was not the type of girl who would like her parents found out what happened to her which was there was only one place she could have gone ——
With a whip of her head, Xua Ying Yue started climbing the stairs that led to the top floor of the hospital and she was not even surprised when she found out that the door to the roof was left open. They could not afford an expensive hospital which was why they brought Gong Shuang to the hospital where she could get the treatment that she needed without them being kicked out and in such a hospital the staff was always short staffed which was why many things were not taken care of.
As she rushed to the rooftop, she looked around ignoring the snow that was falling on her body that was only clad in a single shirt and pants, instead, she continued to pay attention to the surrounding around her. It was then that she noticed Gong Shuang who was standing at the edge of the railing of the hospital, her back facing her and Xua Ying Yue sucked in a breath as she looked at the young girl who was ready to throw her life away.
She wanted to carefully creep behind Gong Shuang who was standing at the edge of the roof but then the latter turned to look at her as if sensing her presence. Tears were streaming down the face of the young girl as she stared at Xua Ying Yue and said in a sobbing voice, " Don't come any closer or I will jump now."
" I am not going to come closer," Xua Ying Yue raised her hands in the air as she solemnly said, " But I will ask you to think it through again, do you really want to do this?"
"That's easy for you to say, you are not the one who has to suffer like this," Gong Shuang said bitterly. " You did not go through what I had to, I lost everything… I have no face to see my parents in the eyes anymore——what are you doing?" She questioned when she saw Xua Ying Yue whip her shirt off before taking her pants down as well.
She thought that the girl was going to do something weird but then her gaze fell on all the injuries that were covering Xua Ying Yue's body. From cigar marks to blade scars and as the latter untied the bandage of her hands with trembling hands, Gong Shuang gasped when she saw the condition of Xua Ying Yue's hands.
They were badly burned showing off the flesh inside her skin which made Gong Shuang despite her anger felt a pang of sympathy for the girl.
" You are right," clad in only her undergarments, Xua Ying Yue showed her scars which she has not even shown to her sister to Gong Shuang who was at the edge of the railing. " I am not able to understand the pain that you went through tonight but I have tasted a bit of it, which is why I want to ask you…are you going to die without fulfilling your vengeance?"
Gong Shuang looked at Xua Ying Yue, her teary eyes blinking rapidly as she whispered and asked, " What can you even do against them? They are rich and we are not."
" I do not have a plan at the moment but I am not empty-handed either," she raised her hands and then showed Gong Shuang all ten of her fingers as she said, " Give me twenty years, not more than that, and I promise that I will bring you twice the glory that you were ripped off today. I will bring that man's pride down for you to stomp on, just give me a chance and trust me this once by not throwing your life away."
She bowed ninety degrees in front of Gong Shuang who did not reply anything and just as Xua Ying Yue thought that she failed to make her words get through to Gong Shuang and that she should have said some more sweet and caring words to the latter, she felt someone drape her clothes on her back.
Surprised she raised her head to look at the trembling Gong Shuang who was standing in front of her with a determined look in her eyes as she said, " That's a promise then, but if you failed then what?"
" Then I will jump down in hell with you while dragging them all with me." Her words were exceptionally deadly in the cold and silent night.