You Should Have Told Me You Don't Like Sweet Girls - Chapter 34

Chapter 34

“She’s my savior.”

Duan Qing froze for a moment. After she processed what Su Yu said, she asked, “Yu Yu, what do you mean?”

Su Yu didn’t forget the most crucial thing. “Mom, you haven’t told me what senior’s situation is.”

Duan Qing glared at her, but her tone had already softened. “I heard from A-Yuan that she’s fine. She was picked up by her family and is safe and sound.”

Su Yu pressed on. “Did her family show up?”

Duan Qing shook her head. “A-Yuan said a driver came to pick her up.”

“Just a driver…” Su Yu muttered to herself.

“Stop dwelling on that. What did you mean just now?” Her voice paused for a moment. Suddenly, she remembered something, and her eyelashes fluttered. “Did you… remember everything about the kidnapping?”

Su Yu nodded. “Yes, I remember everything, Mom.”

That memory had been selectively blocked by her brain because of fear.

So far, in Su Yu’s short life of almost 19 years, those five days of being kidnapped were definitely the darkest moments of her life.

She had been on the road for two days with the kidnappers. She didn’t know where she was. After they finally settled down, she tried to escape once, but she was caught and beaten. Then, she was tied to a chair with her hands and feet bound, forced to listen to music with headphones for three days and three nights.

For five whole days, she couldn’t see the light of day, and all she heard was the loud, irritating music.

Just when she felt like she couldn’t take it anymore, a small hand took off her headphones. While the kidnappers were asleep, a small girl carried her out of the half-finished building under the cover of night.

But before they could get home, they heard the kidnappers chasing after them. Fortunately, the child who rescued her was familiar with the roads and led her past the kidnappers several times without incident. But in the end, they were found at her doorstep.

The child immediately shouted, “Grandma, someone’s trying to kidnap me!”

Her voice was crisp and seemed to go straight to the soul.

The lights in the house immediately came on. Meng Huajin shouted and rushed out of the house with a slipper in her hand. She stood in front of the two children, looked at the strange men standing in the yard, and immediately shouted, “Villagers, we have human traffickers in the village!”

The lights in the houses in the village quickly turned on one after another. The villagers, armed with tools, immediately gathered at Meng Huajin’s house and surrounded the three kidnappers—two men and one woman.

They didn’t listen to the kidnappers’ explanations. They just rushed forward and gave them a good beating, knocking them out and tying them up.

Little Shi Xueqian turned around and cared for little Su Yu. “You don’t have to worry. We’re safe now.”

Duan Qing was stunned for a long time. “She was so young then, and she was so brave?”

For a child to go into a place with three strong adult kidnappers to rescue someone, and then to remain calm and turn the situation around when the kidnappers found them, was something many adults couldn’t do.

“She was really brave.” Su Yu’s eyes were filled with admiration, but they also contained a hint of sadness. That’s why she also wanted to know what had happened over the years that made such a child have a desire to die, trying to end her life time and time again.

And judging by Shi Xueqian’s actions, she couldn’t even decide her own life and death.

Otherwise, why wouldn’t such a person who wanted to die just end it herself?

Duan Qing: “Does she not remember you either?”

“Yes,” Su Yu said, coming back to her senses. “She probably doesn’t remember that incident at all.”

She guessed this from Shi Xueqian’s reaction in front of the half-finished building that day.

“The people in her village are very good people,” Duan Qing said with emotion.

Hearing this, Su Yu suddenly realized that she still didn’t know what happened after that.

Now, she vaguely remembered that after she heard Shi Xueqian say that, her nerves relaxed, and she passed out. When she woke up, she was already in the hospital. She had completely forgotten about the kidnapping. Duan Qing had never mentioned it to her, so she naturally never asked.

“Mom, you went to find them, right?”

“Yes,” Duan Qing said, lost in her memories. “Your dad and I went to visit them in person, but only the village chief received us. Your senior’s family and the other villagers didn’t see us.”

“We offered to compensate them, but the village chief just said that if we really wanted to repay them, we should do something for the village.”

The Su family then built a road for the village, installed streetlights, and renovated their school. They also donated two buildings and a lot of books.

But after that, there was no more contact. They were people from different worlds, living their own lives. It was the best possible outcome.

No one knew that the bravest little girl from back then was suffering every day.

Duan Qing still seemed to find it unbelievable. “It’s been almost 12 years. I didn’t expect you two to have the fate to meet in college. It seems that some things are destined.”

Su Yu raised her eyebrows slightly. “Mom, you don’t believe in that, do you?”

“Sometimes, some things make you have to believe,” Duan Qing sighed softly. She thought of something, narrowed her eyes, looked at her daughter, and asked, “So, you remembered this childhood memory, and that’s why you tried so hard to save her? To repay her for saving your life?”

“No,” Su Yu said without hesitation. “It’s because I like her.”

She stared at her mother and said word for word, “Mom, it was love at first sight for me.”

Duan Qing: “…”

Su Tiancheng, who had just returned with lunch and was at the door of the hospital room: “…”

The couple looked at each other, their eyes filled with an indescribable mix of emotions.

Duan Qing came back to her senses. “You’re just saying it out loud like that? You’re not going to give your mom and dad any time to prepare?”

Su Yu shrugged, which hurt her shoulder, so she took a sharp breath. After she had calmed down, she said, “Didn’t you two already have time to prepare? Don’t tell me you don’t know about my sister’s situation. I don’t believe it.”

Duan Qing put away her surprised expression and looked like she was gossiping. “Love at first sight, and then what?”

“And then I actively and enthusiastically pursued her.”

“Did you get her? Does she like you?”

“I haven’t gotten her yet. She says she doesn’t like me.”

Duan Qing shook her head. “Honey, you’re not good enough. You can’t even get the person you like.”

Su Yu: “…”

Duan Qing: “Does she like someone?”

Su Yu: “I think it’s me.”

Duan Qing: “…”

“You didn’t take the hit for her to prove your sincerity, did you? That’s a stupid idea,” Duan Qing said, pausing for a moment. “I’m telling you, being moved isn’t the same as love.”

Su Yu: “Mom, you know what happened, don’t you?”

Duan Qing: “So what happened between you two before A-Yuan came in?”

Su Yu told her everything. “For me, she was also willing to give up her life.”

Duan Qing pinched her chin. “Is it possible that Little Shi really liked the girl who kidnapped her and really just wanted to die with her?”

Su Yu said without hesitation, “Impossible.”

Su Tiancheng couldn’t help but say, “Daughter, are you not able to get her because you’re too narcissistic?”

Su Yu: “…”

“Don’t worry about me. I’ll get her.”

Duan Qing also said in a serious tone, “Why don’t you tell your mom and dad whose daughter she is, and we can just go and propose to her? Don’t come crying to us if you don’t get her. At that time, we won’t be able to help you.”

Su Tiancheng echoed, “Yes, yes, your mom, my wife, is right. We don’t support stealing other people’s lovers, and we won’t allow you to use your family background to pressure people.”

Su Yu: “…” She gritted her teeth and smiled. “My dear mom and dad, what kind of person do you think your daughter is?”

The Su couple: “…”

Duan Qing: “Actually, Mom just wants to meet Little Shi quickly.”

Su Tiancheng: “Me too.”

Su Yu sighed in her heart. She also wanted to know whose daughter her senior was.

Su Yu: “Senior didn’t come, and her family didn’t show any gratitude?”

Duan Qing frowned slightly. “No. They just had a driver send a lot of supplements and said some very official words of thanks.”

There was nothing else.

Su Tiancheng commented, “A very mysterious family.”

Duan Qing: “After all, they are also victims. We have no reason to force them to show up, especially since they’ve already done their part.”

“But if I had known about your history, I would have found a way to meet them no matter what.”

Su Yu: “Can’t we contact them now?”

Duan Qing: “The other party clearly stated that they don’t want to get too involved with us.”

“There must be something they’re hiding…” Su Yu muttered.

She never thought that even after all this, they still wouldn’t show up.

What kind of life was her senior living?

Why hadn’t Jiang Nianyi gotten any news yet?

Sigh.

Su Yu sighed heavily in her heart, looking at the white ceiling.

She really wanted to see her senior.

Senior…

Duan Qing and Su Tiancheng looked at each other and coughed. “Honey, don’t get discouraged. Mom and Dad believe in you. You can get anyone you want!”

Su Yu looked at her parents. “Don’t worry. I will definitely bring her back to see you.”

Because Su Yu had only used her own family’s resources for the rescue, and the rescue personnel were all from her own company, the incident didn’t cause a huge stir in society.

Aside from the people directly involved, no one knew that there had been a kidnapping on a normal day.

The Su family also handled everything afterward, without a single word leaking out.

As for Fu Xingxing, a professional doctor determined that due to long-term mental abuse and gaslighting from her family, she did suffer from a serious mental illness. It was almost impossible to cure. Even when she was occasionally normal, there was always a risk of a relapse or an outburst.

The Su family sent her to a psychiatric hospital.

Su Yu stayed in the hospital for almost half a month. It wasn’t until the day before she was discharged that she finally saw that white figure.

Ever since she woke up, even though she knew it was unlikely, she had been eagerly hoping for Shi Xueqian to appear in the hospital room, hoping to see a safe and sound Shi Xueqian.

She wanted to go back to school early so she could at least see her, but her two friends told her that Shi Xueqian hadn’t been to school and was uncontactable.

Jiang Nianyi: “We couldn’t find anything about her grandmother, either. We just know about some of her grandmother’s relatives and confirmed that Senior Shi is indeed her biological granddaughter. Senior was left with her grandmother by her biological mother. We found out that senior’s mother’s name is Shi Shaotang, but we can’t find any other information about her. It’s as if she doesn’t exist in this world.”

“If senior came to school, I was planning to have someone follow her and then investigate through the property owner’s name. But now that senior isn’t even coming to school, we have no other way. If you agree, I’ll have someone follow her as soon as she returns to school.”

Su Yu agreed.

Since she woke up, Su Yu had been suffering. She would wake up from nightmares every day. The main character in her dreams was undoubtedly Shi Xueqian. One day, Shi Xueqian wanted to die with someone else. The next, Shi Xueqian was encouraging someone else to kill her. The day after, Shi Xueqian was killing herself…

It was always Shi Xueqian, and the result was always death…

The nightmare was like a net, tightly wrapping around her, and she would wake up at the moment she couldn’t breathe.

As a result, when she saw Shi Xueqian’s figure appear in the hospital room, her first reaction was that she was dreaming. But she didn’t hesitate. She rushed out of bed and hugged her.

She was warm, alive, and her heart was beating.

Su Yu hugged her so tightly that it was as if she wanted to embed her in her bones.

Shi Xueqian frowned slightly and struggled a little. “Su Yu, you’re hugging me too tight.”

Su Yu froze for a moment. It wasn’t a dream. It was reality.

When she realized this, she immediately lowered her head and kissed her. The kiss was aggressive, more savage and domineering than any kiss before. She held her neck with one hand and the back of her head with the other, not allowing the person in her arms to move or escape.

Shi Xueqian wrapped her arms around her waist, reciprocating and accepting this overwhelming love.

She didn’t know how long it had been. A sharp pain came from her lips. Shi Xueqian groaned, and a metallic taste filled her mouth. Soon, her cheek was also burned by a falling liquid.

Shi Xueqian slowly opened her eyes. Su Yu didn’t let go. Instead, she pressed their foreheads together. There was anger and hatred on her face, but there were also tears.

“Senior, your heart is so cruel.”

The words were a roar from her throat, carrying a complex and unspeakable emotion.

Twice.

Shi Xueqian had almost died in front of her twice.

According to Jiang Nianyi, if this were in a fantasy novel, it would definitely be a three-life, three-world tragic romance.

Su Yu lowered her head and bit her lips hard again, but this time she didn’t break the skin. “How could you… be so heartless to me…”

Shi Xueqian raised her hands and gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. “I’m sorry.”

These three words made Su Yu’s body stiffen, as if Shi Xueqian’s final resolve to say goodbye to her that day had been re-enacted.

Su Yu used a little force with her hands, her expression fierce. “Shi Xueqian, I’m warning you. I’ve saved you twice. Your life now belongs to me. You can’t die without my permission!”

With that, she lowered her head and licked the bl00d from her lips. Tears welled up again. “I’m sorry, senior. It must hurt, right? I’m sorry, but, senior, please…”

“I won’t,” Shi Xueqian interrupted her. She stood on her tiptoes and kissed her eyes. “Su Yu, I won’t leave again.”

Su Yu’s body went rigid. Countless complex emotions flashed through her eyes. She opened her mouth and lowered her gaze slightly. Shi Xueqian’s face was reflected in her dark eyes. It was as if she had used all her strength. After a while, she slowly said, “I’m not worth mentioning, but what about your grandmother? Don’t you think about your grandmother at all, senior?”

“If you’re gone, how do you expect an old woman like your grandmother to live?”

Shi Xueqian: ???

Before she could react, Su Yu asked, “Who is it?”

Shi Xueqian: “Who is what?”

Su Yu: “The person who is making senior not want to live.”

Shi Xueqian was running a low fever. The opportunity to come to the hospital today was something she had planned meticulously. She wanted to see Su Yu. Since she entered the hospital room, her brain had been working slowly. She couldn’t figure out what Su Yu was talking about.

Seeing her hesitate, Su Yu reacted. “Yeah, how could senior tell me this? Senior must hope that no one in the world would notice your departure.”

“I’ll give senior a choice. Tell me who they are, or else…” Su Yu’s voice paused slightly. Her eyes were filled with an unspeakable emotion. “Senior, you’ll stay with me forever.”

She wasn’t allowed to go anywhere.

Shi Xueqian’s mind finally caught up.

Su Yu thought she was trying to confuse her again.

Yes, Su Yu was so smart. How could she not have noticed? Her主动 (initiative) before going to her grandmother’s house, her agreement to let Su Yu come to her grandmother’s house, her active coaxing at her grandmother’s house… All of these things, while seemingly logical, were in fact strange. They were all her most incriminating evidence of her trying to confuse Su Yu before her death.

“Su Yu, I’m not lying to you. I really won’t leave again,” Shi Xueqian said, cupping her face. She rubbed her forehead against hers. “That’s the truth.”

Su Yu was stunned for a moment. What came out before a sound of confirmation were her gushing tears. “Really? Senior?”

Shi Xueqian rubbed her cheek against her face and pulled out a small smile. “Really. Don’t cry.”

“Waaah… Senior, you can’t lie to me. You’ll really live a good life, right?” Su Yu hugged her tightly, as if she was afraid that if she let go, the person in her arms would turn into water and flow away.

Hot tears fell on her neck, as if they were dripping directly into her heart, making Shi Xueqian’s body tremble involuntarily.

Shi Xueqian raised her hand and hugged her back. She gently stroked her back. “Really. I’m not lying to you.”

Just then, Shi Xueqian’s phone rang.

She knew it was the driver rushing her.

Xu Zhicheng hadn’t given her much time and had strictly forbidden the driver from taking her to this hospital. She had begged the driver repeatedly, and he finally took her there under pressure.

She couldn’t get the driver in trouble.

She helped Su Yu up and kissed her on the lips. “Be a good girl. Take care of your injuries. I have to go now. I’ll see you at school when you get out.”

With that, she turned to leave before Su Yu could react.

Su Yu pulled her back. She had calmed down a bit now and realized that Shi Xueqian was abnormally hot.

“Senior, do you have a fever?”

After the driver took her back that day, Xu Zhicheng punished her with the family rules. He then requested a leave of absence for her, confiscated her phone, and locked her up at home to reflect on why she had caused so much trouble.

Fortunately, the matter wasn’t too complicated, so she wasn’t locked up for too long.

When she was released, Xu Zhicheng warned her, “If you dare to get involved with the second daughter of the Su family again, I can guarantee that if you do, your grandmother won’t have a good life tomorrow. You’d better weigh the pros and cons yourself. Don’t force me to have someone watch you at school, too.”

When she got her phone back, she found that it had been wiped. Except for some specific people, like her teachers and the Xu family, everyone else had been deleted. Even her grandmother’s number was gone.

Fortunately, her memory was pretty good. She remembered everything she needed to.

She called Su Yu immediately, but it didn’t go through. She had to settle for calling Jiang Nianyi.

Jiang Nianyi answered quickly. “Why didn’t you just call Yu Yu?”

Shi Xueqian: “It didn’t go through. How is she now?”

“You couldn’t reach her? She’s been waiting for you to come to the hospital every day. Her neck is almost as long as a giraffe’s,” Jiang Nianyi said exaggeratedly. “She’s fine, besides talking about a person named Shi Xueqian every day.”

Shi Xueqian’s life was a straight line between school and home. She had to report to and get permission from Xu Zhicheng to go anywhere.

Last night, she had soaked herself in cold water for a whole night. At dawn, she stood by the window and let the wind blow on her. This was how she finally got a fever, and she finally came to the hospital to see Su Yu.

Shi Xueqian didn’t tell Su Yu any of this. She just nodded. “I need to see a doctor, get some medicine, and then I have to go back.”

It had been over a month. Although Su Yu hadn’t found out much about Shi Xueqian’s background, she had a general idea of her current situation from her daily life. She said seriously, “Senior, is there anything I can help you with?”

“No…” When she saw the sadness in Su Yu’s eyes, Shi Xueqian swallowed the words “I can handle it myself” and changed her tune. “Can you get me to see a doctor and get the medicine right away? I’m short on time.”

Su Yu stared at her for a moment. She didn’t press her. Her willingness to give in was already a huge step.

She took out her phone and made a call.

“I’ll have someone come and take you. She’ll be here right away.” Su Yu hugged Shi Xueqian, resting her chin on her shoulder. “Senior, will you stay in touch with me?”

Shi Xueqian hugged her back. “Okay.”

Soon, there was a knock on the door.

But Su Yu didn’t want to let go of the person in her arms.

Shi Xueqian coaxed her, “Be a good girl. I’ll see you at school when you get out of the hospital.”

The next day, Su Yu had her parents, who came to pick her up, take the things home. She went straight to school herself.

By all accounts, she was still on medical leave and didn’t have to go to school, but she wanted to see Shi Xueqian too badly.

The little time they had together yesterday was not enough to satisfy the longing of not seeing her for half a month.

It was Tuesday. The first class of the day for Shi Xueqian was over. As expected, she was in the study room at the library.

Shi Xueqian took a book from the shelf and opened it. A leaf bookmark Su Yu had given her fell out. She held it in her hand and turned it. Just then, there was a knock on the door of the study room.

She stood up, walked over, and opened the door. Before she could see who it was, she was hugged by the waist and pushed inside. She was pressed against the wall, and her lips were sealed.