Chapter 1 - Unexpected Calamity (1/2)
“Soot hit by the electric arc! Someone, help!”
The construction site was full of shouting and people running about while some used their phones and anxiously called for an aned on the construction site
In the site’s welding area, Xia Lei curled on the floor, his left eye a blackened hole The s in the air Ato a spectacle too horrible to endure
“Tsk, a healthy young … practically a babe, and his eye’s been destroyed What a waste,” sighed so to university soon How is she going to attend university if he goes blind?”
“Xia Lei’s a good person who alorks hard and gets along ith others How can this sort of thing happen to him? The heavens are really unfair”
Several people sighed over Xia Lei’s sad fate
Xia Lei’s mother had succumbed to her illness when he was a child and his father had disappeared five years ago That year, Xia Lei had been accepted into Jing-du University but when he thought of his sister Xia Xue, as still in junior high, he tore his acceptance letter to pieces with tears in his eyes When his sister asked him about it, he told her that he had failed by just a few marks After that, Xia Lei started to work in factories, willing to do whatever work he was offered to earn -du University as well, but this accident had happened…
The shock wore off and waves of intense pain crashed into Xia Lei His body twitched and his vision faded to black as he lost consciousness
There was so his na on a river of darkness, drifting, drifting to hell
The passing of time went unnoticed for one unconscious
Xia Lei opened his eyes after soed to his childhood friend, Ma Xiao-An Xia Lei could only open his right eye, and he was seeing blurry doubles
“Lei, you’re awake!” Ma Xiao-An’s voice tre his emotions
“I… What is this place?” As he spoke, Xia Lei see and he reached to touch his left eye His eye was covered in bandages and burning pain blooht Xia Lei’s hand “Don’t worry The doctor said you may not be blind in your left eye Rest, and it will definitely recover”
“May? What does he rew anxious and panic started to set in
Ma Xiao-An was quiet It looked like he knew so but was hesitant to say it
“Say it!” Xia Lei grew even ed ner suit, had expensive accessories and was starting to put on weight It was the construction company boss, Chen Chuan-Hu
Ma Xiao-An made space when he saw Chen Chuan-Hu enter
Xia Lei struggled to sit up in bed and greeted, “President Chen, why…”
He was cut offwith you, Xia Lei? Was it not enough for you to ruin an electric welding machine? You had to ruin a transforto be responsible for delaying the project coht Chen Chuan-Hu had co, but this bastard came to seek compensation!
Ma Xiao-An couldn’t take it either and he retorted, “What do you oing blind and you’re saying things like this Don’t you have any empathy?”
Xiao-An’s words hit Xia Lei like a freight train and he gaped
Ma Xiao-An suddenly realised that he had let slip the bad news, but he couldn’t take his words back He stood still, not sure how he should cohed coldly and said, “So what does his eye going blind have to do with me? Did we have an employment contract? No? Try and sue me then, I’ry his face had changed colour and you could hear hi his teeth
Chen Chuan-Hu added oil to the fire “I had you sent to the hospital since you were so pitiful I’ve paid the hospital fees of 10,000 so get discharged when you want to I’ll say one thing more - this 10,000 is compensation So, the case is closed and don’t botherafter rily, “his eye has been blinded and you want to call it even with 10,000 yuan?”
Chen Chuan-Hu pointed at Ma Xiao-An’s nose as he replied nastily, “This doesn’t involve you, sive you trouble, you little shi+t! Don’t you knohat sort of person, I, Chen Chuan-Hu am? If you dare cross me I’ll tear you apart!”
At that lass on his bedside table and flung it at Chen Chuan-Hu
A thunk sounded as it struck Chen Chuan-Hu, who had no ti blood and instantly wetting his large, fierce face
“fuck! You dared to hith the doorway They had tattoos, pierced ears and aggressive gazes - you could tell from just one look that they were hoodlums from bad society
“Beat him up!” screa on the hospital bed
The two youths charged
Ma Xiao-An used his own body to shi+eld Xia Lei and clenched his teeth, bearing his pain as the two young men’s blows rained on his head and shoulders He was protecting Xia Lei and also pressing hi rash