NOVPUBChapter 391: 391, Song Qinghuan, you have to accept reality.
Chapter 391: 391, Song Qinghuan, you have to accept reality.
Snowflakes wafted down from the sky. Song Qinghuan sat by the bed, watching the snowfall outside. Her heart was as cold as the snow.
She sat quietly, reflecting on many things. Yet there was not a single thought about Shi Yuhuan.
That man, she had already excluded him from her world.
She was hesitant, whether to leave the Times Group, to be eternally rid of this man. But if she left, would it mean giving up on her brother?
Her brother, the one who had changed her life, the closest kin, the kindest person to her in the world.
Without him, she would have long been forced by Song Qiliang to marry at half-rate, sold off like a commodity. She would not have had the chance to attend university.
So she should, regardless of how much she despised Shi Yuhuan, how much she wanted to avoid him, stay. She needed to investigate her brother’s situation.
While she was making up her mind about whether or not she should leave the Times Group, she received a call. It was Chen Tian, reporting that the police had found Yan Pingdan’s body.
Upon hearing the news, Song Qinghuan’s mind went blank.
All her bodily functions seemed to have halted in an instant.
She had previously felt that Shi Yuhuan had said the most cruel things in her life.
But now, she thought the cruelest words were delivered by Chen Tian, telling her that the police had found the body of her brother, Yan Pingdan…
She felt she should have cursed Chen Tian, told him not to spout nonsense, not to blabber foolishly.
But she was speechless. She even visited the police station where she saw Shi Yuhuan.
The police weren’t aware that she was Yan Pingdan’s sister, but they knew that Shi Yuhuan was Yan Pingdan’s employer. They notified Shi Yuhuan, who in turn had Chen Tian relay the news to her.
She found him even more cruel. She would rather that he had told her nothing, leaving her with a thread of hope.
She really loathed him, standing there, with his somber demeanor, aloof as ever, treating her like a stranger when he saw her.
A pang of fresh hurt made Song Qinghuan cover up with cold laughter. She actually had, at some point, hoped that he would console her.
She scolded herself: ‘You foolish Song Qinghuan. Pathetic and pitiful.’
At that moment, a policeman approached and led Song Qinghuan and Shi Yuhuan to a room where a body laid covered in a white cloth.
Song Qinghuan bit her lip till it bled, as she approached step by step.
The policeman lifted the white cloth, revealing a nearly decomposed body. Its face was distorted, the body bloated. The facial features were unrecognizable.
This close, she could clearly smell the stench emanating from the corpse.
After standing her ground for a moment, she couldn’t hold it any longer. Quickly turning around, she started to retch. 𝖓𝔬𝔳𝔭𝔲𝔟.𝖈𝖔𝔪
She didn’t want to stay another second. Staggering as if she might fall, she ran out of the room and vomited in a corner.
Not having eaten anything all day, she retched for a while only to bring up acid.
As she clutched her chest, she repeated to herself that it wasn’t her brother, that corpse wasn’t her brother. She told herself that she was certain; it absolutely wasn’t…
But then she heard Shi Yuhuan tell the police, “Yes, that’s him!”
“No!” Song Qinghuan spun around, glaring fiercely at Shi Yuhuan. “You’re talking nonsense! That’s not my brother, my brother doesn’t look like that, my brother was handsome. How could you say that?”
Shi Yuhuan looked at her, stating coldly: “Song Qinghuan, you must face reality.”
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