Chapter 323: Let's Just Wear Each Other Out Like This

Bai Mo felt as if the fire were about to burn her, and that she could die at any moment.

How could this Mother Li be so vicious! To actually dare to set a fire to burn her to death!

"If you burn me to death, you'll have to go to prison yourself! Maybe until you die of old age!"

"A vicious woman like you deserves to have your daughter die!"

Mother Li was not angry; instead, she laughed. "That's right, I'm vicious, which is why even my goddaughter is about to die now."

"I only have one daughter, Li Meng; she is my life. Avenging her before I die is my life's purpose. What does going to jail matter?"

"You probably don't know, but this fire today is a mix of natural disaster and human misfortune; I didn't even step inside your room."

"This French aromatherapy you like, and these curtains, are both flammable materials. If you add an easterly wind, wouldn't you say you can only blame your own bad luck?"

Mother Li was not afraid. The only thing she had tampered with—if you could even call it tampering—was this door lock, which she had chosen herself.

"But no matter how unlucky you are, you aren't as unlucky as my daughter. She escaped Nainai trying to sell her to human traffickers, escaped her drunkard father abusing her, and just for attending university like a normal person, she was wrongly killed!"

"During this time, I have already figured out the whole story between you and that murderer. The person he wanted to kill was you; why was it my daughter who died?"

"So I won't hide it from you today: if you can't give me an honest confession, then experience the pain she once felt for yourself today!"

"No, no," Bai Mo's hands slapped heavily against the door panel, "Don't, I can't die..."

The air in her chest was growing thinner and thinner, and she was struggling desperately, unable to catch her breath at any moment.

A massive survival instinct made her recall Li Meng begging her to open the door back then. Was Li Meng in this much pain at that time?

If this fire were to burn her, it would likely be much more agonizing than being stabbed by a knife.

Even if she told the truth about back then today, Mother Li would absolutely never let her go.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have let the fire spread to this point, and the fire trucks still hadn't arrived.

"Hahaha, do you think I'm stupid?" Bai Mo leaned against the door panel. "Li Meng left a message for you before she passed away. If I die today, you will never, ever know what that message is!"

"And you will never know what really happened back then!"

After saying this, Bai Mo fainted.

"I heard that the duplex Bai Mo lives in is the one that caught fire! She's become a big celebrity at our school now; she's everywhere!"

"I heard she was almost gone when the fire trucks arrived. Later, her godmother said she would save her life no matter the cost, and that's how she was saved."

"Bai Mo's life is truly tenacious! She escaped death once when that murderer was killing people, and now she's escaped death again in a fire!"

"My Nainai says people like this have the hardest lives; they bring misfortune to all their relatives!"

"But she won't have much happiness left to enjoy while she's alive! I heard that since she got out of the hospital, she's been paralyzed and can't move her limbs."

"Can she still go to school then?"

Jiang Siyu felt quite moved hearing these discussions about Bai Mo.

It wasn't exactly sympathy, just a bit more reverence for life.

At such a young age, how happy they were when they were back on Haidao; how did she end up in such a state?

Bai Mo was indeed paralyzed. When she woke up and discovered she couldn't move her hands or feet, she screamed for a full several minutes.

Only when she was too tired to scream anymore did Mother Li walk in.

She asked her with a calm face, "Awake?"

Bai Mo was practically scared to death, but no matter how afraid she was, she couldn't move anything but her head.

"You, you, don't you ever think you'll know what Li Meng left for you before she died!"

She threatened, her eyes wide.

Bai Mo now felt she was simply too clever. If she hadn't had a sudden flash of inspiration when the fire was spreading, she would likely be dead by now.

It didn't matter that her body couldn't move for a while; she believed she would definitely recover in the future.

When that time came, it would be Mother Li who died.

Hearing this, Mother Li suddenly laughed, but the next second her face turned cold. She grabbed Bai Mo's hair, gripped it tightly, and threw her heavily back onto the hospital bed. "Who asked you?"

"Don't worry, I won't ask you this question again in the future. I want you to beg to tell me one day."

Bai Mo stared at her intently, thinking to herself that such a day would never come.

The world is big, and many things happen every day—so many that when a piece of news appears, people only talk about it for three or five days, and once a new hot topic comes out, they move on to the next.

In less than a month, everyone had completely forgotten about this fire and Bai Mo.

Jiang Siyu was very surprised to suddenly see someone she thought she would never see again.

Actually, it wasn't just her; many other students saw her too.

Because Mother Li had pushed Bai Mo, who was sitting in a wheelchair, to the entrance of their university.

"Mo Mo is paralyzed now. Although she has suspended her studies, she still misses the school and her classmates, so I pushed her here to take a look."

It was midsummer, but Bai Mo was wearing a thick coat and was wrapped up tightly, even wearing a cotton hat; she looked very frail.

Kind-hearted classmates came up to chat with her, one after another praising Mother Li for treating her goddaughter, Bai Mo, as if she were her own!

Bai Mo was clean and tidy, and even wearing her favorite designer clothes.

For a moment, everyone wanted a godmother like that!

Bai Mo's eyes were practically rolling into the back of her head. In her heart, she longed for a sudden thunderbolt to appear in the sky and strike this vicious and hypocritical Mother Li dead!

Making her wear winter clothes in the middle of summer was practically suffocating her to death. She only hated that she wasn't paralyzed completely; her body couldn't move, yet she still had feeling, which was why she was currently suffering a fate worse than death.

Furthermore, she used to be so glorious in front of these classmates, but now she had become a cripple who could only look up at them.

This disparity and humiliation were more than she could bear for the moment.

However, she soon got used to it, because every day at noon, Mother Li would push her over.

She understood that Mother Li was torturing her like this just to force her to say that sentence, but she wouldn't say it even if she died!

She only hoped that her aunt could find her soon and rescue her from the hands of this poisonous woman, Mother Li.

"Are you still counting on that aunt of yours?" Mother Li asked her gently.

Bai Mo let out a cold snort and ignored her.

"As for her, she is now like a clay bodhisattva crossing a river—she can barely save herself," Mother Li said.

Bai Mo pricked up her ears, wanting to continue hearing what had happened to her aunt, but this vicious woman, Mother Li, suddenly laughed.

"You want to know what happened to her? I won't tell you,"

"If you don't tell me what I want to know, I won't tell you what you want to know either; let's just keep wasting time like this!"