177 Lovers Dead body (1/2)
”It was a trap. In the forest, there were footsteps that weren't older than a day or two. After the incident, the fire must be lit to remove traces or simply used to direct attention. The fire has nothing to do with the vehicles.”
Ji Zhou point was to confirm that this was the very vehicle on which Lei Xinyi was riding. He didn't want to leave a loophole that would leave the possibilities or space for hope or doubt for Li Yuan.
There was no benefit of hanging to a broken thread...
It was her blood that was painting the ground, too much blood. Li Yuan felt his own blood boiled looking at her spilt life-fluid being contaminated on the dirty floor.
His urge to spill blood intensified and everyone felt the murderous aura and froze with their fixated on the man of power.
Without taking his eyes off the dried crimson blood of his beloved. He demanded, his voice dry, cold and horse without a trace of emotion in his lifeless eyes, ”Where?”
Yu Wang stiffened and Ji Zhou ears perked at once and he could feel the fear seeping in his veins. His Master was asking where Lei Xinyi's...body was.
But the girl was in a condition, he had felt his heart had jumped in his throat when he had seen her first, the gruesome condition she was in now. He gulped and lead the way.
Li Yuan followed him like he was on autopilot but Yu Wang stood there rooted to the ground.
They crossed the blasted SUV and reached the bike where the blood was spilt in abundance. There was a trail that leads to the forest like the body was dragged there.
Li Yuan followed it and it felt like everything was happening in slow motion. The blood trail went on to a distance of about three meters. His heart was constricted with every extended step and so was his hands fisted.
They reached a place that was surrounded by his inspectors and detectives team. The loud sobbing voice dropped his heart to his stomach.
He took reluctant steps forward and forced to look at ugly reality left of his beautiful Raven.
His fight left him. He could feel his heart turning cold and his breath short. A lump hardened in his throat.
It was better said there was nothing left to call a body. The limbs were torn apart, the head was capitated, bloody to the point that it couldn't be recognised. The stomach was raw open. Scratches and bites mark were evident on the body, like wild animals feasted on it.
Jiang Cheng, the proud man, was kneeling on the dirty ground with his hands covering his face, sobbing. The pain in his cry was contagious. but there was nobody to console him, everybody was mourning the same loss. Even those who didn't know her.
Li Yuan felt like his soul was leaving him just like his breath. Thinking of her going through the pain inflicted on her, broke his heart and the wall of his sanity.
He wanted to shout, cry to God of how the life he gave was unfair.
Nobody eased his heart as she did. He never desired a thing but her. She broke him yet she was his only remedy and now she was...
He wanted her more than his next heartbeat. He needed her more than the air he breathed. He...loved her more than the world he lived in.
Couldn't he fall in love with her in better circumstances? In fair circumstances? Normal circumstances?
He stood there rooted to the ground, looking at his dawn and demise ashen to the ground. His throat was constricted with emotion and his heart was beating its protest in his chest.