The iron chains on her hands and feet were quickly unlocked. The man pulled Yan Xia up and casually put a thick coat on her.
"It's not a problem for Miss Cheng to decide where to go. As long as you're willing, there will always be a place for you."
As soon as Yan Xia stood up, she felt dizzy. It was because she had been running a fever, feeling unwell, and had not eaten for a long time.
The man escorted Yan Xia to the door of the room. "Miss Cheng, hurry up. You don't have much time left."
However, Yan Xia still had concerns in her heart. "If I just leave like this, Wen Liang will definitely tell Lu Qianzhou that I've run away. Then I..."
"So please leave now. The Third Master said that it's best for you to leave the capital as soon as possible and don't come back for a while. Your fate is now in your own hands. Whether you can seize it depends on yourself."
Yan Xia finally understood. She looked back at Wen Liang who was lying unconscious on the ground. She had always been grateful to Wen Liang for protecting her. He was a good man, but he had followed the wrong person.
When she walked out of the abandoned warehouse, the cold wind was howling outside, which sobered her up a lot.
Recalling the direction she had come from, Yan Xia ran along that road. She didn't know how far it was back, nor did she know if she could hold on until then.
It was just a desperate attempt. Whether she lived or died, it was up to fate.
At noon, the light was bright. She walked along the roadside for a long time. Her steps gradually became unsteady, and the road in front of her gradually distorted.
She held on to the guardrail by the roadside and walked forward step by step. The world seemed to be spinning in front of her eyes. Finally, her consciousness became more and more blurred, and she fainted straight on the roadside. Just before losing consciousness, she only felt a car stop beside her.
Yan Xia had a very long dream. In the dream, there was endless darkness, and the scenes of her sister and Cheng Hua being murdered were constantly playing in reverse. So her heart broke again and again. Her tears wet a large part of the pillow, and she sobbed silently.
She cried loudly in the dream, using all her strength. Her whole body was extremely weak.
She desperately grabbed her sister and refused to let her go. She had so many things to say to her. She had been waiting, waiting. Finally, Fang Jiangyi was willing to hand her sister over to her. But before she could say those things to her sister, she caused her to leave her completely.
She thought she had finally rescued her sister from the wolf's den, but it was all her own self - conceit. It was just like leaving the wolf's den only to fall into the tiger's cave.
She had so many things to say. She wanted to say sorry to her, and had a lot of heartfelt words and grievances to pour out to her sister.
Finally, when she saw her sister in the dream, she tightly grabbed the corner of her clothes and refused to let go no matter what.
Fang Jiangyi was sitting by the bed, looking down at the few fingers that were clutching his clothes. They were very slender fingers, looking like they had no strength. But he tried several times and couldn't break free. There was a kind of overbearing strength. No matter how hard he tried, her nails turned white from holding on, but she just refused to let go.
Who did she take him for in the dream now?
He watched as her lips kept moving, and tears kept falling from the corners of her eyes. It seemed like she was saying something. But he couldn't hear clearly. He had to lean down to hear more clearly. Finally, he heard her sobbing and calling for her sister, sobbing and saying sorry.
Her cheeks were wet with sweat and tears, looking very disheveled.
Actually, the Cheng Yan Xia he first met was the most dazzling. She had the most confident smile, the most care - free attitude, was humble and polite, excellent but unaware of it, like a colorful sun.
The biggest connection between him and Cheng Yan Xia should be that he used to be Cheng Yan Xi's boyfriend, and she had called him brother - in - law for so many years.
Fang Jiangyi had always been thinking that if he had chosen Cheng Yan Xia instead of Cheng Yan Xi at the beginning. Maybe he would have softened his heart for Yan Xia in the middle. If there hadn't been so many bad experiences between them, maybe everything would have been different.
Anyway, he couldn't break free from her hand, so he simply lay down beside her. He held her hand with one hand and carefully felt her body temperature.
Actually, he and Yan Xia were quite similar in some aspects. He had warned her so many times to be careful of Lu Qianzhou and leave him as soon as possible, otherwise she would definitely regret it. But she always refused to listen to his advice. She had to find the truth by herself and only turn back after hitting the wall.
Her fever gradually subsided. She slept for a long time. When the family doctor came to remove the needle for her, she finally opened her eyes. Seeing Fang Jiangyi's familiar side face still standing by the bed, she couldn't help being stunned.
Almost instinctively, Yan Xia shrank back and finally sat up from the bed. Her tongue was numb after the high fever. She lowered her head, feeling empty and uncomfortable in her heart.
"How did I get here..."
Fang Jiangyi took a deep breath. Finally, he couldn't help reaching out and poking her forehead. It was very intimate, just like he had scolded her countless times in the tone of an elder before.
"I've already warned you so many times. You just had to investigate by yourself. Only after tasting the consequences did you know."
"I won't be reconciled if I don't find out the reason. Now I know." Yan Xia raised her eyes, with red eye sockets. "I don't know what is right and what is wrong. None of you is wrong. It's me who is wrong. I've always been self - conceited."
If it weren't for her stubbornness, her sister wouldn't have died.
She didn't do anything wrong from beginning to end, but she became the victim of their game.
Fang Jiangyi was standing by the bed looking at her. There was a cold meaning on his side face. He said casually as if he didn't care, "Lu Qianzhou has been looking for you. He even came to me."
Yan Xia lowered her head and didn't say a word. She didn't want to hear this name at all, nor did she want to hear anything related to this person.
"What do you think now? What are your plans?"
Yan Xia said, "If possible, please send me to see my sister. I want to be with her."
She couldn't find any reason to live. She had lost her relatives and had been deceived in love. She didn't know how miserable life could be, or maybe it was just because she was too sad at the moment and made an impulsive decision on a whim.
But at that moment, she really wanted to die immediately.
Fang Jiangyi immediately understood the meaning of her words. His eyebrows twitched slightly.
"Is it necessary to seek death for a Lu Qianzhou? Yan Xia, when did you start to look down on yourself like this? Death is not scary. Living is the most painful. Every minute and every second in the past has been worse than death for me, but I've still been waiting."
Waiting for her to change her mind.
Fang Jiangyi suddenly said, "I can send you away from here, away from Lu Qianzhou. You can go anywhere you want, as long as you're willing."
"Where do you want me to go?"
"I'm asking you. Where do you want to go?" Seeming to see that the grief in her heart still hadn't subsided and being afraid that she might really do something rash, Fang Jiangyi added, "Yan Xia, think carefully about whose life you exchanged for this one. Think about what Cheng Yan Xi said to you."
For her, the most important thing at the moment was to live, leave this place, escape from Lu Qianzhou, and gather strength again.