Chapter 408 - You Don’t Have Much Value (2/2)
Xiao Luo sighed as he bent down to pick up Yao Baishan’s pistol. Such an opponent was too weak for him, and he lost interest in abusing him any further.
“Luo, is… is that you?”
It was just when he was about to open the door to let Qiu Yuanjie’s subordinate in that he heard the woman’s voice.
It was a familiar voice!
Xiao Luo turned around instantly. And, now that he was looking at her from the front, he could recognize her—the woman in this room turned out to be an old acquaintance, Zhao Mengqi.
Under Xiao Luo’s gaze, Zhao Mengqi suddenly felt self-conscious and very embarrassed. She curled her legs and folded her arms around her chest, covering her exposed parts.
Xiao Luo was in a slight daze, and when he found his voice, he said, “So, It’s you. Why are you in this field now?”
His tone was distant and detached as if he was greeting a stranger.
Zhao Mengqi lowered her head in shame, not daring to look directly into Xiao Luo’s eyes.
“I know that society can be ruthless, but it doesn’t prevent hardworking people from succeeding. I don’t know where your moral code is, but from the looks of it now, perhaps you have lost it.”
Xiao Luo couldn’t help saying how he felt about it, especially when this woman was his first love and former classmate. Seeing her fall to such a degrading level, it was impossible for him not to feel the way he did. Had he been a family member, she would definitely have been slapped in the face without hesitation.
Unsure what to think and having mixed emotions about her, Xiao Luo went on to say, “Zhao Mengqi, tell me, why did I like you in the past?”
His bitter words were like daggers, and they pierced deep into Zhao Mengqi’s hearts. She was no longer able to hold back her tears, and looking away, she broke down sobbing. In her mind, Xiao Luo was like a deity perched on a pedestal, while she was nothing but filthy sewage in a stinking ditch.
Zhao Mengqi desperately wanted to leave Jiangcheng, which was for her, a city of sorrow. It was the reason she had returned to Xiahai. By coincidence, she met her class monitor, Guo Qinghe, who threw her a lifeline. She thought she could accomplish something in Xiahai, but little did she expect to find herself in an MLM organization. She landed up being made into a sacrifice, a tribute offered by inferiors to their superiors.
Had her virtues been intact, she would have resisted to the end, but the truth was that it wasn’t. She was just a dirty woman who had been ruthlessly abandoned by a second-generation rich kid. Therefore, she sold herself short and succumbed to such a life. In her spare time, her only joy was to walk in the streets and alleys of Xiahai, reminiscing the little things that she used to do with Xiao Luo in the past. In reality, Zhao Mengqi knew that she could never return to Xiao Luo again, and all she wanted was to recall those beautiful memories that she still cherished.
For Zhao Mengqi, nothing could prepare her for this moment, seen for what she was, before the man she had cherished with all her heart.
The shame and degradation of the moment were too much to bear, and she suddenly felt that she had no right to even recollect the memories of the times they shared together.
“I… I…” Zhao Mengqi mumbled, not knowing what to say.
“Police officers are everywhere, and they’ll be coming in soon. Put on your clothes, then go with them.”
Xiao Luo found it hard to look at her for even another second. He turned around, walked towards Yao Baishan, glared at him contemptuously, and asked, “Yao Baishan, can you tell me anything about ‘Fog?’”
Yao Baishan shook his head, “I… I don’t know…”
“Okay, then you don’t have much value to me.”
Xiao Luo replied without a hint of emotion before he stomped on Yao Baishan’s crotch.
Yao Baishan howled miserably. His face was twisted into an ugly grimace as the surging pain shot through his entire body. The whole lower part of his body below the waist was crushed beyond recognition, and a moment later, he passed out from the shock to his body.