Chapter 478 - A Confession (II) (1/2)

”I believe.”

Xiong Zhi stiffened.

”I believe you.” Linfeng's eyes were serious.

He spoke every word solemnly. ”Zhi'er, I believe that you are telling the truth.”

He knew her personality well.

The whole world might tell him that Xiong Zhi was lying, but he would definitely believe in her.

Xiong Zhi's lips parted, but she could not say anything. She knew that Linfeng believed her.

However, it was precisely because of this that she was afraid.

Her vision blurred with unshed tears. She closed her eyes and hugged Linfeng tightly, hoping to draw more strength from him.

”But Linfeng…” she whispered hoarsely. ”That was not all. The hellish nightmare just started.”

Linfeng's hand trembled again.

He hugged her tightly, forgetting that she had a sore body. Right now, he just wanted to give her as much security as he could.

Obviously, this was the hardest part for her to retell.

He heard her take a long, trembling breath, before finally speaking.

The frail words of confession from a young woman lingered in the air, like echoes from a distant past.

”I… was taken by that beast.”

”I was beaten and humiliated. For three years, I was locked away in a room. I spent every single day in fear.”

”He's a beast. No, he's worse than a beast. His mind is sick. He did many terrible things to me.”

”He…” Xiong Zhi's voice trembled.

Her fear of Gao Huan in this life had lessened a lot due to Linfeng's presence at her side.

She could encounter the beast with a straight face without trembling anymore. But it doesn't mean that the trauma of the past was gone. She just buried it deeply in her heart and soul. Whenever she thought of the past, the past Xiong Zhi would whisper to her the terrifying and painful experience.

”He instilled fear and pain in every corner of my being.” Her tears fell.

She buried her head on his chest, afraid to look up.

She had told him her deepest secret. Her deep wound was exposed.

She laid there in his arms curled up while trembling pitifully.

Although Linfeng had an ominous premonition, but hearing her say such words still brought him waves of shock and fury.

His jaw clenched while he held her tightly.

He believed that the prophetic dream was indeed true.

What was unacceptable was that… he actually let the Young Miss suffer in that dream.

Xiong Zhi had said earlier that the dream was very realistic, no different from living in it.

Then it meant that she experienced those things vividly, the pain, the trauma, the fear, everything. It was almost like a parallel world.

He suddenly froze.

His sharp mind seemed to grasp on something.

…Xiong Zhi was afraid of telling him about the s.e.x.u.a.l abuse she suffered, almost like she truly experienced it firsthand.

If it was a just a nightmare, even if it was a prophetic dream, her reaction still was very… very much like an actual victim.

Such a prophetic dream happened to be true, what of other supernatural things?

Like a parallel world? If, what if the prophetic dream was not actually a dream, but memories from a parallel world that another Xiong Zhi had experienced?

Coldness and fear washed over him.

He shook his head violently, cursing himself for having such thoughts.

His Zhi'er already suffered so much from a dream, but he was thinking of another worse experience?

Linfeng felt Xiong Zhi trembled after his movement.

He immediately patted her back and kissed her head.

”I'm here, I'm here, don't be afraid.”

As he whispered these words to her, he felt that the woman in his arms breathed out a sigh of relief.

His hand stiffened.

Was his Zhi'er thought that he would see her differently?

Was she thinking about this all this time?

Linfeng's eyes shook.

His heart was crushed into pieces.

He felt distressed for his Zhi'er.

He hugged and kissed her forehead multiple times while continuously saying those words. He wanted to comfort her as much as he could.

While he was gentle with her, his heart and thoughts weren't.

His eyes were stormy and cold.

Prophetic dream or parallel world, there was one thing for certain.

Those people deserved to be tortured and die for daring to make Xiong Zhi suffer.

His Xiong Zhi suffered in all kinds of torment?

She was beaten and humiliated?

His sweet, lovely, and sincere Xiong Zhi... suffered all of that?

The young man was silent, but there was murderous fury in his dark eyes.

Saying that it was a prophetic dream, then it meant that those people intended to do all those things to Zhi'er.

Also, Zhi'er had already experienced them vividly and became traumatized due to their malicious intentions.

His heart filled with murder while looking for an outlet finally found one.

That Guan Gao Huan...

He would not spare him.

Linfeng controlled the rage and desire to kill in his heart and continued patting Xiong Zhi's back gently.

Xiong Zhi continued to whisper.

”For three years, I lived in fear. I almost ended my life. I tried to escape, many times. But every time, I failed. I… I…”