dhibooks Chapter 59 I'm being driven crazy!
Chapter 59 I'm being driven crazy!
Finally, her parents stopped caring about these things and devoted themselves to protecting and taking care of her.
Finally, she was in the hospital, enduring pain for a day and a night before giving birth to twins, thinking she had made it through.
Just when she was about to start over after her postpartum period, a group of fierce-looking thugs suddenly rushed into her yard and unfurled a banner with white background and black lettering.
The sign read, "Jiang Xinlan became a mistress and refuses to pay back her debts!" People stood downstairs shouting and hurling vulgarities.
The area was instantly surrounded by onlookers, who pointed and whispered among themselves, and some even took out their phones to take pictures.
The father was so angry that he was trembling all over. He rushed forward to tear down the banner, but was shoved hard by the leader of the thugs.
He fell backward, his head slamming hard against the edge of the steps. Blood gushed out instantly, and he lay motionless on the ground.
The mother let out a heart-wrenching cry and threw herself onto the father.
She stood there, looking at her father lying in a pool of blood, at her distraught mother, at the crowd of onlookers, and at the thugs' foul language.
That despair of the sky falling, that suffocating feeling of being unable to call for help, instantly engulfed her completely.
"ah--!!!"
Li Qianqian suddenly sat up in bed, letting out a shrill scream. She was drenched in cold sweat, and her hair was wet and stuck to her face.
His eyes were unfocused, he was breathing heavily, and his heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of his throat.
The lights in the cell turned on, and her fellow inmates, awakened by her screams, began to curse in dissatisfaction.
"Li Qianqian, are you sick in the head? What are you yelling about in the middle of the night?!"
"Are you crazy?! Can't a person get any sleep?!"
"If you keep yelling, we'll call the prison guards!"
But Li Qianqian seemed not to hear their curses at all. She sat on the hard bed, trembling uncontrollably, tears streaming down her face.
Everything in the dream felt so real.
Those mocking remarks, those disdainful looks, that despair, that torment of having nowhere to turn—it all felt as if she had experienced them herself. Every detail was crystal clear, etched into her very bones.
She finally realized firsthand how much harm and pain her fabricated rumors and evil deeds had caused Jiang Xinlan.
She wiped away her tears, gasped for breath, and comforted herself: It's just a dream, it's nothing serious, it's just a dream.
They say that what you think about during the day, you dream about at night; she must have been thinking about Jiang Xinlan a lot lately.
I overthink things during the day, which is why I have nightmares at night.
It's nothing serious.
It will definitely be better tomorrow.
But to my surprise, the nightmare returned the very next night, almost the instant I fell asleep.
This time, she didn't return to the university or her hometown county; instead, she appeared directly at the hospital's payment window.
The woman in the nurse's uniform looked at her expressionlessly and spoke coldly:
"Jiang Xinlan, your father's medical bills have already reached 50,000 yuan. If you don't pay it all today, the ward will be vacated, and the subsequent treatment will have to be stopped. You'd better figure it out yourself."
She stared at the astronomical sum on the bill, touched the few hundred yuan she had in her pocket, felt a chill run through her body, and her hands and feet were trembling.
She heard a baby crying in her arms. Looking down, she saw two newborn babies in her arms, crying loudly and wanting milk powder.
She could only grit her teeth, turn around and leave the hospital to work as an extra, to be a background actor, to do the hardest and most tiring jobs.
On set, she was bossed around by the assistant director, publicly humiliated by her fellow actors, had her hard-earned bit part role stolen, and earned a meager salary that couldn't even buy her child a can of formula.
She works three jobs a day, so tired that she can't straighten her back and her hands are blistered. But the money she earns is still a drop in the bucket compared to her father's huge medical expenses.
Countless nights, she stood on the hospital rooftop, holding her two crying children, watching the bustling traffic below, and countless times she thought of jumping off to end it all.
But looking at the child in her arms and thinking of her unconscious father lying on the hospital bed, she could only grit her teeth and bear it.
The agonizing pressure of life, the despair of seeing no hope at all, were all etched vividly into her soul.
"No! Don't!"
Li Qianqian screamed and woke up again, her whole body trembling like a leaf, tears streaming down her face. She looked like she had just been pulled out of the water, her whole body soaked in cold sweat.
Daylight broke again.
Once again, she fully experienced Jiang Xinlan's most desperate period in her dream.
This time, she could no longer deceive herself.
This is neither a coincidence nor a nightmare stemming from what one thinks about during the day.
Someone made her do this on purpose! It was Shen Yu!
She suddenly remembered what Shen Yu had said to her at the club: "The karmic debts that the law cannot address must be settled by someone."
It turns out that what I said wasn't just polite talk, nor was it meant to scare her.
He really did it.
He wanted her to experience, in her dreams, the suffering Jiang Xinlan had endured and the despair Jiang Xinlan had tasted, and to repay the sins she had committed little by little.
Thinking of this, Li Qianqian felt a chill run through her body. A bone-chilling coldness shot from the soles of her feet to the top of her head, making her teeth chatter.
She jumped out of bed like a madwoman, rushed to the cell door, pounded on the iron gate, and shouted at the patrolling guards outside:
"Discipline! Discipline! I want to report this! I want to call the police! Someone is trying to harm me! Someone is using evil magic to harm me!"
Hearing the commotion, the prison guard came over and frowned as he looked at her.
"What are you yelling about? Behave yourself! Who did anything to hurt you?"
"Yes...yes..."
Li Qianqian screamed incoherently, her eyes filled with fear and despair.
I mean Shen Yu! A man named Shen Yu! He cursed me! He makes me have nightmares every night!
In my dream, I became Jiang Xinlan, and every night I experienced all the suffering she had endured!
I'm being driven crazy!
But as soon as she spoke, something suddenly blocked her throat, and she couldn't utter a single word, only making hoarse sounds, her face turning red.