41 48 Hours In Hell (2/2)
The men just laughed at her. Someone ripped off her shirt; buttons scattered everywhere. Face scar took out a Stanley knife and cut down the seam of her trousers and cut away the rest of her shirt. She was lying in her underwear shivering on the grimy floor.
Face scar took the tip of the knife and lightly trace it from the left side of her forehead down the side of her ribs, her hip and her leg. The other men started groping and touching her all over.
Face scar cut the rope around her wrists and ankles.
Li Xiuying's wrists and ankles had rope burns, the skin was broken and bleeding.
She tried to punch and kick out, she tried scratching, biting anything to keep them away. But she was too weak. Dragon tattoo pinned her arms above her head. The man with the samurai hairstyle and the other with red contacts each held her legs open.
Face scar leaned over her and breathed right near her face: ”I wander how much energy you'll have when we're done.” He licked the side of her face, saliva dripping down her cheek.
Li Xiuying whimpered: ”Please let me go.”
He sat up between her legs and cut off the remaining flimsy barrier of protection on Li Xiuying's body. Her underwear was thrown aside and her descent into hell began.
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It took 2 days for Li Yu Yan to deliver the money to the group. For 2 whole days, 48 hours, 2880 minutes she was brutally tortured by the group. They had done unimaginable things to her body. They used fire, electricity, objects, knives, ropes and some things she couldn't even tell what they were.
They left Li Xiuying in a dark corner of the warehouse for her family to find. She just laid on the floor naked, bruised, scarred and bleeding, all manner of bodily fluids coated her black and blue skin. Tears fell from her eyes onto the ground.
Eventually, Li Yu Yan, Li Wang and Li Mei Wu had arrived at the warehouse and found her.
They rushed in and put a blanket around her and took her home.
They tried to comfort her with words, but how could their words repair the damage that had been done?
Li Xiuying wanted to call the police to investigate; she wanted the people who had done this to come to justice.
But her family refused; they said it would bring shame upon her and the family. They said that the police probably wouldn't find the perpetrators anyway. They then kept implying that it was her fault she was assaulted.
”Who told you to go to such a place alone?”
”Why didn't you call someone to pick you up?”
Li Xiuying didn't have the energy to battle her family and society as well as the demons within her.
She felt broken and alone.
Li Xiuying locked herself in her room for weeks. She didn't want to be out there, were they could get her again. She wanted to feel safe and secure.
She suffered another heavy blow to her soul several weeks later. The Chen family on hearing about Li Xiuying's ”incident” as they like to refer to it called off the engagement. They made it seem like it was for her, but at the same time seamlessly chastised her for being selfish for trying to hold onto someone who should have been her companion for life.
”After what you've been through its understandable you wouldn't want another man touching you.”
”When you've full recovered I'm sure we can find you someone else.”
”Chen Wei is getting older and you're not exactly pure and intact anymore, it would be selfish of you to hold him back.”
”Who could really accept you after everything that's been done to you? Don't worry though I'm sure with your reputation as a doctor someone is bound to be willing to marry you.”
The Li and Chen family didn't care about the fact that what Li Xiuying needed now more than ever was their support. She needed to feel loved, wanted, cared for. She needed to feel like a worthy human being not just a used piece of trash.
Li Yu Yan got engaged to Chen Wei a week after Li Xiuying's and Chen Wei's engagement was broken. Everyone was busy celebrating the happy couple. Whilst Li Xiuying wallowed away in self pity.
Li Xiuying felt alone and isolated. She only had her now crippled mind for company.