"Ah!" Zhao Yi screamed in pain. Sheng Min raised his hand to wipe the blood stains on his cheek, and turned to look at Li Xuan: "Are you okay?"
Li Xuan stared at Sheng Min without saying anything. Most people would ask this question with a hint of provocation, but Sheng Min didn't. He was really asking seriously, and if he had to say something, it would probably be helplessness. Li Xuan suspected that if he didn't say enough, Sheng Min would bite the bullet and stab him again, even though the previous stab had already drained half of the blood from his face.
Li Xuan's face was gloomy. He glanced at the shivering little girl beside him, but finally said nothing.
Seeing that he didn't say anything else, Sheng Min grabbed Zhao Yi's hand and pressed a handprint with blood. He took off his coat and covered Zhao Yi's hand with it: "Go to the hospital as soon as possible."
Zhao Yi was frightened by this series of misfortunes. He held his hands and dared not cry, but only cried mournfully.
Sheng Min exhaled softly, and stood up, only to find that his legs were weak and he could hardly stand. Li Xuan subconsciously held his arm, then let go impatiently. He took one last look at the messy living room, slammed the door and left with a sullen face.
"Don't be angry." Sheng Min picked up the document on the ground and rushed out to chase him. She chased him all the way to the parking lot and barely caught him.
Li Xuan turned around and shook off his hand without any hesitation. He actually saw clearly that although Sheng Min's blow seemed to be heavy, it actually avoided the vital part. At most, he would need to recuperate for half a month, and the scar would not be too deep. He couldn't explain why he let it go, but when he saw Sheng Min at this moment, his anger swelled up again uncontrollably: "Why do you make the decision for me?"
"I'm sorry." Sheng Min chased him all the way and took two breaths before saying, "I'm not asking him to pay, I'm just giving him more time. He really can't pay, so we have to give him a way out."
"He has already put me on the path to death, and I should give him a chance to live? Why?"
"Let's talk in the car." People passing by looked over and Sheng Min gently pushed him. Li Xuan frowned, opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.
Li Xuan got into the car and turned his face away without saying anything. Sheng Min took off his mask, turned on the left turn signal and started: "I know you want to teach him a lesson. Let him teach it slowly. He won't feel good if he keeps remembering this incident..."
Li Xuan sneered: "Is this the reason why you asked him to pay slowly?"
Sheng Min pursed his lips, and Li Xuan's Adam's apple moved: "You know? What do you know? Am I his father or his mother? Why do I spend time educating him? Am I sick?"
Sheng Min saw that he looked extremely unhappy, so she gently scratched her hair and lowered her voice unconsciously: "We are in this situation now, and you said it yourself, even if we call the police, the sentence won't be too severe. The seven-year sentence is just to scare him, and he can only be asked to pay compensation. You shouldn't be short of money for the time being."
Sheng Min said, glancing at the watch on his wrist. He didn't know who Li Xuan was, but he recognized the watch, it was a well-known brand. He thought Li Xuan's family should be well-off.
Li Xuan interrupted him without hesitation: "Who said I don't need it?"
"Then I'll give it to you first." Sheng Min said tentatively, "If you need money, I'll give it to you first, and you don't have to pay it back. I'll slowly collect the money he compensates in the future."
Li Xuan frowned, almost mad at him. "Sheng Min, which mountain are you from? I don't buy it. Do you think I don't need anything, so I can let him pay slowly? Yes, I don't need anything now, but it has nothing to do with him. Do you still think he is innocent?"
Sheng Min slowed down the car: "I didn't say he was innocent..."
"But that's what you did." Li Xuan didn't give in. "I was walking on the road and he was drunk and hit me to death, then he ran away. If we hadn't swapped souls by accident, I would have been taken to the funeral home and cremated. What you said about me being alive and what price he should pay, there is no conflict between the two things. You're right, I'm not short of money. But I don't just want to teach him a lesson, I want to force him to death."
After he finished speaking, both of them fell silent. There was a tunnel ahead, and the car was dark, so they couldn't ignore each other's subtle expressions. Only occasionally, the red and yellow lights of the emergency lights flashed by, bright and dim.
Sheng Min wanted to say something else, such as "You are not a bad person, don't say that about yourself. If you really thought so, you wouldn't have left just now." But he looked at Li Xuan's angry face and couldn't say anything. In the end, he could only say sorry in vain.
Li Xuan turned his head to look out the car window, closed his eyes, and ignored him.
Sheng Min could only drive back in silence. Not long after he drove out of the tunnel, the rain began to fall again, one wave after another. When he was about to reach the intersection in front of the community, he ran into a red light.
"Zhao Yi is guilty. It's just that the child is so pitiful..." He stopped the car and thought for a long time. He didn't want to say it, but he still said, "When I was a child, my family borrowed high-interest loans, and people often came to collect debts... I know you are angry, and I apologize to you. But I really can't bear it, and I know you can't bear it either."
Li Xuan was silent. Sheng Min thought he would not answer, but he suddenly turned his head and opened his eyes. Those were Sheng Min's eyes, but the emotions in them were something Sheng Min did not have, so he could not describe them.
"I can't bear it?" Li Xuan said with disdain, "Maybe, but I won't sympathize with her. Her father hit me to death, and I want to spare him a hand so that he won't continue to harm others in the future, and I feel at ease. As for what will happen to her in the future and what impact it will have, it has nothing to do with me. I can only blame her for not being able to reincarnate. Sheng Min, this world is not a place where the weak are right. There are many people who are more miserable than her. If she wants to escape her fate, she should fight for it herself, and she can't wait for someone to give it to her."
He smiled, but not happily: "From childhood to adulthood, everything I have and have obtained has been obtained at a price. I have also been paying for every choice I have made. Why shouldn't others do the same?"
Li Xuan looked at Sheng Min as he spoke, his eyes like a needle that wanted to pierce his heart: "You are the same, but you feel that you can't afford it, so you rely on death to escape. I am different from you. I just want to live, finish everything, and live for myself, but I got into a car accident. I just want him to pay the price he deserves. This is not even fair to me, and you are generous to others."
The sound of rain and wind outside the window seemed to pour in. Sheng Min couldn't fully understand every word Li Xuan said. But for some reason, he felt a little cold and wanted to turn up the air conditioner temperature, but in the end he didn't move.
Li Xuan still looked at him with a gloomy look in his eyes. At that moment, Sheng Min suddenly thought of a suitable analogy. Like autumn rain, his eyes were like the freezing rain in autumn, and no color could blend into them.
Shengmin opened his mouth in vain.
"What do you want to say?" Li Xuan pulled the corner of his mouth slightly, his voice was also very light, "I don't know what you said, and I can't understand it. I have never experienced someone coming to my house to collect debts. But I can tell you a story. Many years ago, a couple was returning home from the night shift. They were hit by a drunk driver like Zhao Yi on the mountain road and died on the spot. Their three-year-old son became an orphan and had no home."
After he finished speaking, he ignored Sheng Min's surprised expression, opened the car door, and walked into the rain without looking back.
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