I had a restless sleep all night.
In the dream, I saw my father's hideous face tortured by illness, my mother's cold and pale hands that she could never grasp, and my stepmother's bloody and shocking body.
She seemed to be dreaming again. She was pushed down in the crowd, surrounded by people with faces that were distorted by the laughter at her.
She seemed to be dreaming that she fell into an icy pond and the cold water gradually drowned her.
Mingxi shuddered and shrank back. She was woken up by the noise outside the villa.
She opened her eyes and looked at the dim room, feeling vaguely uneasy, and filled with panic and fear.
How to face it later
She stood up and found that Xue Qijing was nowhere to be seen. She walked to the window and opened the curtains.
The scent of roses is still wafting outside the window as always, the air is still clean and clear as always, and the cool wind is still blowing as always.
Mingxi thought about what Xue Qijing said last night, took a deep breath, changed her clothes, and strode out of the room.
The time is almost up. She has to face it. For the sake of her father's surgery fee and her stepmother's high medical expenses, she must face it, must be honest, and must trample on her self-esteem in front of the world.
Mingxi just went downstairs and saw Xue Qijing sitting on the sofa, looking relaxed and happy, with a faint smile on his face. Her heart trembled slightly. Often, he was the most dangerous when he was smiling. Who knew what terrible thing he would do in the next second.
"Baby, are you ready?" Xue Qijing still looked at Mingxi with a smile.
"Yes!" Mingxi nodded heavily.
Seeing that she didn't show any fear or terror, Xue Qi's frightened face instantly collapsed. He said in a calm voice: "It seems that you have made sufficient preparations. Let's go out now!"
After saying that, Xue Qijing grabbed Ming Xi and walked quickly towards the door.
Early in the morning, the big iron gate of the Xue family villa was crowded with reporters.
According to sources, the suicide of the daughter of the Li family some time ago was closely related to the newly married wife of the president of the Mutian Group. In addition, the president of the Mutian Group, Xue Qijing, released a message to the public in the early morning, claiming that his wife was not a wife, but a dog.
The president of Mu Tian Group and the daughter of Li family, who are regarded as the "golden boy and jade girl" by the business community, have always been the focus of media attention.
So this time, basically all the media gathered outside the Xue family villa.
Just as she walked to a short distance from the gate, Mingxi was completely stunned. God knows how much she wanted to run away, but thinking of her father and stepmother, she followed Xue Qijing with trembling legs.
She subconsciously hid behind Xue Qijing, but Xue Qijing's eyes turned cold, and he reached out to pull Mingxi out from behind him, then pushed her towards the door.
"Excuse me, young lady, are you President Xue's new wife?"
"Miss, may I ask, are you trying to marry President Xue because you want the Xue family's wealth?"
"Miss, may I ask, have you ever threatened the daughter of the Li family and forced her to death?"
"Miss, can you tell us what your real purpose and intention is for marrying into the Xue family?"
As soon as Mingxi bumped into the big iron gate, she was grabbed fiercely by Jijie. She looked at the reporters who were talking in a hurry. She wanted to retreat, she wanted to escape, but she was held tightly by them and could not move at all!
Xue Qijing deliberately moved to where Mingxi could see him, looked at her with a warning, and then took a gold card in his hand and played with it nonchalantly.
Thinking of her father and stepmother, Mingxi took a breath, clenched her hand, which had turned white from being pulled by herself, into a fist, and shouted loudly: "Yes! I killed Miss Li! I married into the Xue family for money."
After hearing Mingxi's words, the reporters were stunned for a moment, and then began to ask more frantically.
She couldn't hear clearly what question the reporter asked. She nodded confusedly and answered according to the reporter's question.
"Miss, so you married into the Xue family for money?"
"yes!"
"May I ask how much money did you take from the Xue family?"
"One million!"
"Do you think it's worth it to sell yourself to the Xue family for one million and kill a person?"
"yes!"
"Do you think you are doing the right thing by forcing others to death in order to satisfy your desire for money?"
"Yes! I love money and I crave it very much!"
"Excuse me, what means did you use to force the daughter of the Li family to commit suicide by jumping off the building?"
There was a buzzing in her ears, and Mingxi felt a splitting headache. She pounded her head with her weak hands.
She was going crazy, she was going crazy. She was going crazy because of the money, she was going crazy because of Xue Qijing, she was going crazy because of these reporters, she was going crazy because of her inner self-blame...
In fact, she knew nothing at all. At first, she didn't know who she was going to marry. It was only on the wedding day that she found out that the person she was going to marry was Xue Qijing. She didn't know that Li Xue had "committed suicide". She didn't know. She knew nothing...
"Can you tell us in detail the whole process of how you forced Miss Li to death?"
Mingxi was being held and shaken by the reporters outside the gate. She looked at the faces in front of her who were eager to know the answer, and a sense of fear came over her.
She raised her hands, grabbed her hair, broke free from the reporter's clutches, and ran away.
She wanted to escape! She couldn't bear their sarcastic and contemptuous looks.
But the door suddenly opened.
Those reporters who were in urgent need of answers swarmed around Mingxi. Some of them held microphones, and some held cameras...
In an instant, it seemed as if something thick isolated her from the outside world. She felt like she was trapped in a sealed space, and all that was left was suffocation and fear!
Every face was ferocious because of urgency. Looking at their faces, Mingxi's whole body trembled.
What kind of journalist is this? What kind of journalist is this? Telling the truth to the public.
Fake, all fake. They were trampling on her, forcing her to lie, forcing her to say black is white and white is black.
She was so innocent. She just wanted to save her family, her only family. Was that wrong? Was she wrong
Mingxi's head hurt more and more. Looking at their faces, she felt helpless and desperate. Her body was in pain as if it had been torn off by the reporters.
Xue Qi was watching coldly, with the corners of his lips curled up cruelly with an evil look.
"Can you tell us the truth? What methods did you use to force Miss Li to commit suicide?"
"… "
When the reporters saw that Mingxi stopped talking, the reporters behind her tried hard to squeeze to the front in order to get answers.
Mingxi felt that she was being pushed around by them. In the shove, her foot seemed to be tripped by something and she fell heavily to the ground.
"Ah!" Mingxi screamed in pain as someone stepped hard on her hand.
Those reporters only cared about the so-called truth, and continued to push desperately, as if they didn't see Mingxi fall.
"Ah!" Her back, her feet, her legs... were all stepped on.
Mingxi huddled into a ball and buried her head deeply in her arms, ignoring their voices, their hideous and terrifying faces, their indifference and the cruel sneer that was faintly visible.
She only remembered:
That year, her father took her to the park and they sat on the Ferris wheel overlooking the city. He told her that one day there would be someone who would love, cherish and care for her instead of him, and who would be willing to give everything for her.
She's been waiting!
That year, in a remote alley, she was bullied and curled up in a corner, and she saw the knight. The boy who saved her told her that he would protect her for the rest of her life and never let anyone bully her again.
For the first time, she believed that there was someone other than her father who loved her, and believed what her father had said to her that there was someone willing to give everything for her.
Xiangyu, where are you? Xiangyu... Xiangyu, save me!
Her head was splitting, and she had no feeling at all from being stepped on everywhere on her body. She didn't cry, and she saw the cruel smile of revenge on Xue Qijing's face through the gap in the crowd. She suddenly smiled brightly, and then slowly closed her eyes.
She atoned for her sins, she atoned for her sins with her life!