Zhang Yi lightly retorted, "What do you think?"
Beside her, Wang Min and the others nudged her, urging her to get to the point.
Sniffling, Fang Yuqing cried, "Zhang Yi, Zhou Peng and the others were shot by you, and they are seriously injured. We have no medicine at home, and they will die from infections."
"You bought a lot of medicine before, right? Please, lend us some of it."
"I... I promise we won't bother you again!"
Zhang Yi paused in the middle of cooking, thrown off by Fang Yuqing's twisted logic.
"Fang Yuqing, do you know why I used rusty arrows to shoot them?"
"To make them suffer and die from infection, that's my goal!"
"And now you come here to ask me for medicine? Are you out of your mind?"
Zhang Yi scolded with a smile.
Fang Yuqing and the others understood this point very well, but now, if they didn't swallow their pride and ask Zhang Yi for help, they would have to watch their companions die. And those three men, including Zhou Peng, were the hope for their future survival.
Fang Yuqing cried, "Zhang Yi, we were wrong. Please spare them this time, we promise we won't bother you again."
"And in such difficult times, we should help each other, shouldn't we?"
"Can't you be a bit more compassionate? Will their deaths really bring you joy?"
Before Fang Yuqing could finish, Zhang Yi decisively said, "Yes, I'm quite pleased now."
Fang Yuqing was speechless, not knowing what to say.
Wang Min hurriedly walked over, saying, "Zhang Yi, I'm Wang Min. Do you remember? I invited you for a meal before!"
Zhang Yi rolled his eyes.
Before, Wang Min had asked him to help her get a batch of goods from the warehouse at a low price. Zhang Yi had a meal with her, but later, he helped her earn a lot.
"Do you think that's interesting?" Zhang Yi coldly retorted.
Wang Min swallowed her saliva nervously, and from the living room, they could hear Zhou Peng's miserable screams.
Zhang Yi's face showed a hint of contentment, wishing he could see their miserable state.
Wang Min said, "Zhang Yi, we are all in a precarious situation now, and there's also that bully, Chen Zhenghao, taking lives. Leave yourself a way out, maybe we'll need each other in the future."
"If you give us the medicine this time, I, Wang Min, will remember your favor and repay you in the future!"
Zhang Yi disdainfully said, "Favor? Do you think I'm a fool?"
"All those mourners were injured by me, and there's a corpse lying outside my door."
"No matter what I do, this grudge won't end until death. Help you and wait for you to seek revenge on me in the future? Ridiculous!"
Wang Min wanted to explain, "We are not those kinds of people!"
"Stop talking! It's really boring."
Zhang Yi clicked his tongue twice. "Whether you are those kinds of people or not, it doesn't matter to me. What matters is that I don't believe you are those kinds of people, so I won't save you."
Save people who want to harm oneself?
That's not a saintly act. No matter how persuasive the other party may be, Zhang Yi wouldn't waver.
Seeing that Zhang Yi was unyielding, the others grew anxious.
Wang Min, in particular, was furrowing her brows. "Zhang Yi, don't push us too far! If you force us into a corner, who knows what we'll do!"
Facing Wang Min's threat, Zhang Yi sneered, "Haven't you done everything you can already?"
"If you had the ability, you would have broken into my house, killed me, and taken everything from me."
"I'm not easily scared, and your tricks won't work on me."
Fang Yuqing snatched the phone and tearfully said, "Zhang Yi, must we come to this point? We used to get along so well."
"Why can't we give up our prejudice and start over? In fact, my heart has always had a place for you."
Meanwhile, next door, Zhou Peng was biting on a towel during surgery.
Hearing Fang Yuqing's words, his eyes nearly popped out, and he moaned even louder.
Faced with this gold-digger, Zhang Yi had to admit that she had an extraordinary talent for pursuing wealthy men.
But it wasn't surprising; in the current environment, Zhang Yi was akin to a wealthy man.
The gold-digger's ability to shamelessly cling to a wealthy man was top-notch.
Suddenly, an evil idea popped into Zhang Yi's mind.
He knew the others were close by, and Zhou Peng could hear their conversation. So Zhang Yi intentionally said, "Ah, Yuqing, actually, I still have feelings for you. It's just that you hurt me deeply in the past, and I can't let go."
This sentence was like a matchstick, igniting a glimmer of hope in Fang Yuqing's heart.
Ignoring the angry eyes around her, she trembled with excitement and said, "Zhang Yi, I knew you wouldn't stop loving Yuqing!"
"You're silly; you are the one Yuqing likes the most. Those things before were just testing you. Oh, you dense boy, how could you not understand her feelings?"
Everyone around them felt nauseated, and Zhou Peng was so angry that he almost fainted.
Seeing that Fang Yuqing was about to abandon them and go to Zhang Yi, Lin Caining reached out and grabbed her.
Fang Yuqing turned back, her face contorted in a furious roar, "Get out of my way! Don't stop me from going to Zhang Yi's place. I've had enough of this hellish life!"
As soon as the words fell, Wang Min's heavy palm slapped her face hard.
"You shameless slut! You brought us so much suffering, and now you want to run away without us!"