Thick clouds covered the entire sky, and large flakes of snow fell from the sky.
The sun was covered by clouds and lost its movement rules. After an unknown amount of time, the whole world was wrapped in snow. Only the ruins under the building were pitch black, as if a hole had been torn in the world.
It was already afternoon when the entire accident scene was dealt with. The water accumulated on the ground froze into ice and hung on the eaves of the door that had been burned beyond recognition.
The marks left by the wheels rolled over the accumulated snow and were then covered by new snow. A bright yellow cordon blocked the area, preventing anyone from entering.
And those who stayed here were reluctant to leave.
Just now, Xu Shiyue rushed over like crazy and stopped Lu Shizhen's body from being transported away.
Frost and snow were everywhere. She just sat there motionless in the snow, hugging Lu Shizhen tightly, as if she wanted to embed her into her body.
No one knew how long Xu Shiyue had maintained this posture, but a small layer of snow had already accumulated between her shoulders and hair.
It was clearly just a small layer of snow, but it seemed to have a very heavy weight, pressing down Xu Shiyue's upright shoulders as if they were split apart.
Not far away, Li Zheng was standing there holding an umbrella, his lips tightly pursed, not daring to go forward and say anything.
More than one person had tried to persuade Xu Shiyue just now, but without exception she glared back at them.
The explosion did not treat everyone equally, and Lu Shizhen was the one who was most seriously injured.
Her entire body was licked by the flames, leaving almost no intact skin on her body. Her hair was stuck to her charred head, and her blood was like magma flowing at the foot of a volcano.
Li Zeng felt that nothing was more terrifying than this unrecognizable corpse.
But the look in Xu Shiyue's eyes just now was a million times more terrifying than Lu Shizhen's corpse. It was sinister and dark, with rage rolling under the sharp cold light, and the deep red eye sockets were as terrifying as a demon.
Like the roar of a lion, Xu Shiyue said in a deep voice to everyone who tried to persuade him: "Get lost."
The more he persuaded, the tighter Xu Shiyue hugged Lu Shizhen.
But no matter how close she got to Lu Shizhen, she could not smell the rose scent on him.
The burnt smell made people numb, and Xu Shiyue's eyes were empty.
She just touched the stiff joints of the person in her arms, and the heavy snow was about to cover the pair of legs resting on her side.
"Xu Shiyue, are my legs beautiful? Do you like them?"
The drunken voice of the girl suddenly rang in Xu Shiyue's ears, and her long legs raised in the moonlight were wantonly in her sight.
Xu Shiyue hugged Lu Shizhen's hands and clasped them tightly. She still remembered that Lu Shizhen told her that she liked these legs very much.
But now the legs looked completely different, with melted fabric sticking to them, changing their shape and symmetry.
Is it cold
It's freezing and snowy here. Why are you so disobedient? You just go out without wearing thicker clothes. What if you catch a cold
Xu Shiyue was thinking in confusion, muttering as he pushed Lu Shizhen's body into his arms again.
It was as if if she could just warm this person back up to temperature, she would be able to open her eyes and jump up with a smile.
As the daylight retreated, more and more snow fell from the sky.
The temperature went against Xu Shiyue's wishes and continued to drop.
The person in his arms gradually became stiff, and Xu Shiyue became at a loss, panicked and confused, not knowing what to do.
At this moment, Xu Shiyue suddenly felt a deep warmth falling on his back, mixed with human body temperature.
The fluffy snow was pressed down by the footsteps of people, and the gentle body fragrance of the woman fell heavily on Xu Shiyue's head: "I'm sorry, Auntie is late."
The voice was trembling with suppression, and Xu Shiyue raised his head in confusion.
The snow fluttered into her eyes, and Cheng Meiyan, who was supposed to be in a meeting out of town, appeared in front of her.
In a trance, Xu Shiyue's soul seemed to be pulled by this familiar person, and his empty eyes had some focus.
She saw that Cheng Meiyan's face was as bright and gentle as ever, but for some reason there was a lot more sadness on it.
The snow, which had been predicted long ago, grew heavier and heavier without limit, and the wind also blew without direction as night fell.
Cheng Meiyan felt particularly uncomfortable when she saw Xu Shiyue sitting in the snow and Lu Shizhen, who was in a disheveled state in her arms.
She heard about what happened on the way here, propped up her legs and squatted down beside Xu Shiyue, advising: "Good boy, it's okay, come and give Zhenzhen to me."
Having said that, Cheng Meiyan stretched out her hand and asked Xu Shiyue to give her Lu Shizhen.
But Xu Shiyue didn't move.
The remaining rationality told her that this was Lu Shizhen's mother and she couldn't do anything excessive to her.
So she just lowered her head and hugged Lu Shizhen tightly, not moving or saying a word.
Cheng Meiyan felt as if her heart was twisted, and tears welled up in her eyes.
She knew how Xu Shiyue felt about Lu Shizhen, and she wanted to bring them together, but now she didn't know whether her matchmaking was right or wrong.
After a while, Cheng Meiyan reached out her hand to Xu Shiyue and said, "Shiyue, you must be tired after holding Zhenzhen for so long. Listen to your aunt and give Zhenzhen to me."
But Xu Shiyue still did not move or respond.
A pair of hands tightly clamped Lu Shizhen's body, and even Cheng Meiyan was unable to pry them apart with practice.
She seemed to know that as long as Lu Shizhen was taken away by these people, she would never see this person again.
But she seemed unaware that even if Lu Shizhen hadn't been taken away, she would never see her again.
Cheng Meiyan's heart was already filled with pain, and her breaths were trembling.
She just looked at Xu Shiyue who seemed to be trapped in her own world, hardened her heart and said: "My child, Auntie knows you are very sad, but the dead cannot be resurrected, the dead are the greatest, you should let Zhenzhen go."
Cheng Meiyan was trying to persuade her like this when her voice suddenly stopped.
The crisscrossed and messy footsteps destroyed the smooth snow. Lu Shize rushed back from abroad, exhausted. The first move he made when he walked towards this side was to slap Xu Shiyue.
Cheng Meiyan reacted in time, and stood up to block Lu Shize who had raised his hand: "Aze! Aze, what do you want to do?!"
"What do I want to do? I want to ask what Miss Xu wants to do!" Lu Shize's eyes were wide open, and his eyes were red. "The hospital's ambulance wouldn't let me get on, and the funeral home wouldn't let me take her away. They just let Zhenzhen lie in the snow. What on earth does she want to do?"
Lu Shize's voice was louder than ever before, and his fury startled a group of sparrows perched on the tree branches.
But Xu Shiyue was still sitting in the snow and didn't respond to him.
Lu Shize was extremely angry. Even though Cheng Meiyan tried to stop him, he still rushed to her: "Xu Shiyue! Did you hear what I said?"
After two sentences in a row, the person in my sight did not even respond.
Only snowflakes fluttered in his sight, trying to cover his sister's body.
"Zhenzhen is already like this, what else do you want? Do you want her to be haunted in this wilderness?"
Lu Shize was already furious, and he ignored Cheng Meiyan's attempts to stop him and tried to take Lu Shizhen's body away.
Feeling his hands being forcibly pried apart by a force, Xu Shiyue turned around abruptly and twisted the man's hands away.
The girl's thin body bent down low, and her deep voice seemed to come from underground: "Let go."
However, Lu Shize ignored Xu Shiyue's warning and continued to pry her hands open and take his sister away.
Just as Xu Shiyue couldn't accept it, so did he.
Neither of them was willing to let go, and the whole scene seemed like a farce.
Lu Shizhen was still held tightly in Xu Shiyue's arms until Lu Shize accidentally broke the arm with the bracelet on it.
As if he had noticed something, Xu Shiyue suddenly stopped.
Bewildered and helpless, she fixed Lu Shizhen's arm back into her arms and yelled at Lu Shize like crazy: "Lu Shize! You will hurt her like this! Can't you see!"
Lu Shize smiled: "So you still care about Zhenzhen?"
His anger was still blazing as he questioned the man in front of him: "Does her pain have anything to do with you? Xu Shiyue, if you still care about Zhenzhen and want to leave her a little dignity, then give her to me and don't let her lie in the snow like this!"
"What if I don't want to?" Xu Shiyue looked at Lu Shize, her eyes full of paranoia, "Why should I give her to you!"
This sentence completely set the two people against each other, and the atmosphere in the snow suddenly became tense.
Upon hearing this, Lu Shize's men immediately got out of the car and surrounded Xu Shiyue. At this time, Li also raised his hand and called out the bodyguards who were waiting in the dark.
These days, Li never thought that they would confront Lu Shize's people and completely fall out with them.
He also didn't expect that the only order Xu Shiyue gave him after he was awake for a while was so precise.
These two people are both smart and crazy.
Lu Shize looked at the people around Xu Shiyue, and asked with a sneer in his eyes full of disdain: "Xu Shiyue, if you have such means, why don't you use them to protect Zhenzhen?!"
"Is this the protection you promised me at the beginning? Is this the guarantee you made to me later?"
Lu Shize's question was like a sharp and huge thorn, piercing into Xu Shiyue's body.
Cheng Meiyan saw Xu Shiyue's shoulders trembling slightly, shaking as if her entire skeleton was about to fall off. Without waiting for Lu Shize to speak again, she hurriedly stopped him and said, "Aze, stop talking. Shiyue is not feeling well either. Don't make things difficult for her!"
Lu Shize paused when he heard Cheng Meiyan's words, looked at Xu Shiyue coldly and nodded: "Okay, I won't embarrass her. I just want her to answer a question for me. If she can answer it, I will let her take Zhenzhen away today."
Cheng Meiyan looked at the anger in her son's eyes that had not yet dissipated, and had a bad feeling in her heart.
Then she heard Lu Shize attacking Xu Shiyue: "Let me ask you, why did Zhenzhen come here today? If you didn't ask her out, would she have come?"
The bone-chilling wind carried Lu Shize's words extremely clearly into Xu Shiyue's ears, and they exploded in Xu Shiyue's brain with a bang.
Before she could react, she saw Lu Shize raised his hand, with his bony fingers pointing directly at her: "Xu Shiyue, it's you who exposed Zhenzhen's importance! It's you who gave those people an opportunity! You are the one who should have died here!"
"You are a murderer, what qualifications do you have to take Zhenzhen away!"
Lu Shize completely lost his composure, and his angry voice was filled with hatred.
What Xu Shiyue was most reluctant to face was ruthlessly exposed by Lu Shize at this moment.
The heavy breathing was frozen in the winter wind, and it seemed that something was burning inside the charred corpse.
The voice slowly sounded in Xu Shiyue's ears, and the scarlet voice dragged her in and swallowed her.
This is not the first person to die in a fire because of her.
Her parents, her lover...
She was clearly in the old house this morning planning her future with Lu Shizhen, but Lu Shizhen died in the fire because of her.
She got everything back, yet she had nothing left.
The temperature on a winter night froze everyone's body to numbness, but Xu Shiyue felt a sharp pain in her heart, as if her entire heart was being plucked out.
She looked at Lu Shize fiercely, who had revealed all this to her. Just as she was about to speak, a sudden warm current of pain cut through her throat and surged up.
The scarlet blood splattered on the pale snow, like the roses that Lu Shizhen carefully nurtured in the flowerbed.
Xu Shiyue heard a chaos in her ears, and the sky and the earth turned upside down, burying her in the snow.
(End of this chapter)