inspire-indiana Chapter 195: That Monster Still Hasn’t Caused Enough Trouble
Chapter 195: That Monster Still Hasn’t Caused Enough Trouble
"Husband, wake up! I really need you. Without you... what will the child and I do... Please, wake up..."
"Don’t worry... I’ll call for an ambulance for you right now!"
You Lechun was stunned. Although the streamer had told him that You Leyuan would betray him, and he had long been mentally prepared for it...
...when it actually happened, he still felt a piercing pain in his heart...
He quickly snatched the phone from his sister’s hand. His eyes were red-rimmed, tears welling up but not falling. "Are you really going to make that call? Are you crazy? Didn’t you hear what he just said? He was going to kill you, so why are you still protecting him?! Don’t call... Let’s just bury him together... okay?"
His eyes held a glimmer of pleading.
But his sister shoved him aside and, without hesitation, dialed 120.
The child beside them was also crying loudly, "Mommy... don’t call... Don’t let them take Uncle... Daddy’s bad... Mommy, Uncle is a good person, Daddy’s bad!"
But You Leyuan ignored her child’s cries and stubbornly finished dialing 120.
At that moment, You Lechun found it hard to breathe. His limbs grew numb, and he soon collapsed to the ground.
"Sister... I don’t have long to live. Even if I have to pay the price, I just want you to be happy..."
Slowly, his consciousness began to fade.
In the last moment before he fell, he heard the wail of an ambulance siren.
’I couldn’t convince her... My sister still called for help...’
When he woke up again, he was in a hospital, with police guarding the door and the floor below.
’His sister... She didn’t just call an ambulance... She called the police, too...’
He had known all of this would happen, but only by truly experiencing it did he understand how much it hurt...
In the end, You Lechun confessed to all charges and was sentenced to death.
But during the two months he spent on death row, You Leyuan never once came to see him...
As he was led to the execution ground, he finally understood... Not everyone was worthy of his help...
Two gunshots rang out. Blood splattered on the ground, and You Lechun’s body slammed heavily onto the dirt...
Before he died, he remembered something his sister often said to him:
"Lechun, no matter what happens in the future, I’ll always be by your side. Promise me you’ll always stay with me, okay?"
"Okay..."
But his sister had broken her promise...
She was the one who abandoned him first...
Meanwhile, You Leyuan stood in the crowd below, watching the entire thing without a ripple of emotion in her heart.
’A criminal who murdered her husband didn’t deserve her sympathy!’
「Three years later」
You Leyuan remarried. Her new husband, just like the last one, loved to gamble. When he lost, he would go drinking, and when he got drunk, he would come home and beat her viciously...
"Damn it, you fucking bitch! See if I don’t beat you to death!"
"It’s all because of you, you jinx! That’s why I lost!"
"Fuck you! Marrying you was completely useless!"
At that moment, her husband was standing outside the kitchen, repeatedly hacking at the door with a knife.
She clutched her child, trembling behind the door, and subconsciously tried to call You Lechun for help...
But only after the call went through did she remember... You Lechun was long dead...
She called the police for help, but they said it was just a domestic dispute and refused to intervene.
In the end, on a rainy night, she was beaten to death by her husband...
And her daughter was hacked into eight pieces by her husband...
...
Sun Yingbin, tormented, hadn’t slept all night. The next day, he finally received a notice from the production team: "The boat has been arranged. Anyone who wants to leave can go now."
He didn’t have time to say goodbye to the other guests and left in a hurry with his luggage.
With his child missing, he no longer had the heart to continue filming the show. He flew abroad immediately to search for his child.
The production team announced publicly that Sun Yingbin was ill and had temporarily suspended filming, saying nothing more.
At nine in the morning, the production team gathered the remaining guests to discuss the day’s filming schedule.
The director said, "The current situation has gone completely off-script. The old script is useless now."
"Next, our mission is still to search for Meng Xiaoxiao. First, it generates traffic. Second, it lets us continue our Qianqiu for her, so she isn’t just forgotten here. Today, our guests will join the search and rescue team. Although I hope nothing bad has happened, Meng Xiaoxiao has been missing for over 35 hours, and her chances of survival are dropping. You don’t have to actually find her, just make it look good."
Zhao Jing quickly chimed in, "I agree with the director’s plan. I’ll join the search and rescue team to look for Meng Xiaoxiao today."
Zhou Ye echoed, "I’ll go look for Sister Xiao Xiao, too."
Finally, the director’s gaze fell on Shen Zhiyao and Chen Yan.
Before they could speak, Zhao Jing sneered, "Didn’t you two keep saying Meng Xiaoxiao is fine? Then there’s no need for you to join the search! Besides, one of our cameras is broken, there’s too much open space out on the sea, and with too many guests, the cameras won’t be able to cover everyone."
Now that Sun Yingbin was gone and Meng Xiaoxiao’s fate was unknown, Zhao Jing had the most popularity.
Yet her spotlight was always stolen by this internet celebrity.
Today’s search and rescue was the main event. If Shen Zhiyao didn’t participate, all the attention would be on her.
Zhou Ye, not wanting Shen Zhiyao to steal his thunder either, chimed in, "Sister Zhao is right. You should stay behind, and have Chen Yan stay to keep you company."
He wanted to push both Shen Zhiyao and Chen Yan out of the picture.
Shen Zhiyao said, "Fine, I’ll stay."
Chen Yan glanced at Shen Zhiyao and said, "I’ll stay with her."
The director thought for a moment, then asked Shen Zhiyao again, "Are you really sure Meng Xiaoxiao is okay?"
Shen Zhiyao nodded.
Before, the director definitely wouldn’t have believed her.
But after the incident with the weather forecast, the director had become a firm believer in Shen Zhiyao’s predictions.
’After all, she could predict things the weather forecast couldn’t detect. What was there that she couldn’t predict accurately?’
"Alright then, you stay. You can still livestream from your phone, right? Start a livestream, and I’ll have Mango TV sync it."
The director’s thinking was that if nothing happened on their end, the TV station could just cut to them less. But if a miracle did happen, they wouldn’t miss it.
Shen Zhiyao nodded in agreement.
Once everything was settled, the director took Zhou Ye, Zhao Jing, and the rest of the crew to board the boat for the search.
As soon as filming began, Zhao Jing and Zhou Ye started crying hysterically. "Xiao Xiao, are you okay?! You have to hold on! We’re coming to save you!"
Hearing their cries, the director broke out in a cold sweat for them and silently wrote on a whiteboard: [Don’t be so dramatic. Act more naturally.]
’Acting this dramatically... are they trying to curse Meng Xiaoxiao to death?’
’Hold on? Meng Xiaoxiao isn’t a fish in the river. What is there to ’hold on’ to?!’
But audiences today really ate this stuff up. Seeing her red-rimmed eyes and her hair and clothes looking less pristine than usual, they would automatically imagine she hadn’t slept for three days while searching for Meng Xiaoxiao.
The viewers in the livestream chat were overwhelmingly praising her for being so loyal and devoted, while also taking the opportunity to curse Shen Zhiyao for being cold-blooded and heartless.
Seeing the livestream viewers flaming Shen Zhiyao, Chen Yan couldn’t help but ask, "Hey, has that little monster not had enough fun yet? If she doesn’t come back soon, you’re going to get roasted to a crisp!"
Shen Zhiyao leaned back leisurely in her lounge chair, sipped a cup of tea, and looked utterly relaxed.
Only after she finished her tea did she say, unhurriedly, "She’ll show up when it’s time for her to show up. Alright, it’s about time to start the livestream."