Chapter 477: Li Xuan is Dead

"Uncle Firefighter, there is still one person inside!" Shen Chi shouted, "It's my mother, you must save her!"

He remembered that the two people carried out just now were similar in build, and he guessed the one remaining must be Li Xuan.

At this moment, the crowd became dissatisfied.

"The fire is burning so big, why don't you go save her yourself? Are the lives of firefighters not lives?"

"Exactly, it's been burning for so long, she's probably already burned to death. Isn't it harming the firefighters to let them go in and save people now?"

"That's right, you can't blame others for this; you can only blame themselves for being careless. How could it catch fire otherwise?"

"Why are we so unlucky to be their neighbors?" a middle-aged woman slapped her thigh, furious. "I saw long ago that their family wasn't decent. Just two rooms, yet so many people coming and going every day. Who knows what they were doing inside. Now it's fine, they really caused trouble."

"It's better not to say such gloating words now; they are already miserable enough," someone kindly advised.

"Miserable as me? Our kitchen shares a wall with them and it was half-burned too. Who is going to compensate me?"

Unable to find the adults, the old woman found Shen Chi and grabbed his arm. "Young man, let me tell you, when your adults wake up, you must tell them to compensate us for all the rice and flour burned in our kitchen."

Shen Chi ignored her, his heart fixed on the two firefighters who had rushed into the fire again.

He hoped they could bring Li Xuan out too; as long as she still had a breath of life, it would be enough.

The fire finally began to die down slowly.

The two young firefighters used all their strength to finally carry Li Xuan out on their backs.

One of the firefighters was seriously injured and was sent to the ambulance by his teammates as soon as they came out.

"Save my mother first! Save my mother first!" Shen Chi shouted.

A firefighter took off his mask. "My condolences, she no longer has any vital signs."

Shen Chi felt a pang of agony in his heart. He couldn't believe it; clearly, just over an hour ago, she had been perfectly fine.

He knelt on the ground, his trembling finger reaching out to check Li Xuan's nose.

There was not a trace of breath.

Ming Zi also witnessed this fire; her newly bought house was in a residential area near Zhangshu Street.

She had originally intended to go to the supermarket to buy some things, but seeing the fire, she came to take a look. She never expected to witness Li Xuan's death.

Watching Shen Chi kneeling on the ground crying loudly, she felt a sense of unreality. Li Xuan just died like this?

Isn't it said that a scourge lasts for a thousand years?

"Li Xuan is dead!"

Ming Zi didn't even buy her things; she drove straight to the Jiang Family to quickly tell Si Rong this news.

"Dead?" Si Rong raised an eyebrow.

She rubbed her temples, not expecting that in this lifetime, Li Xuan would leave earlier than in the previous one.

"How did she die?"

She took melon seeds and nuts from the snack cabinet. While peeling sunflower seeds, Ming Zi said, "I heard that the fire department's preliminary judgment is that someone committed arson, because diesel was found at the scene of the fire."

"And she was the only one burned to death?"

"Currently it seems so. Shen Chi's foster mother seems to be fine, and two other people were sent to the hospital; it's not yet known if they are dead or injured."

Regarding Li Xuan's death, Si Rong felt neither joy nor sorrow, because whether she was dead or alive, it had no impact on her.

Looking back at Li Xuan's life, it seemed that from the moment she started scheming against others, she had already stepped onto a tragic path to death.

Truly more miserable with each lifetime.

To think she was burned alive.

Shen Chi kept watch at the hospital, with Wang Dani sitting beside him, rambling incoherently.

"It's all my fault, my fault. If I had known earlier that he was going to set the fire, I should have persuaded him."

"Everything was fine, why would Dad set a fire?" Shen Chi asked in confusion.

This was also Wang Dani's confusion. "Exactly, we were living here perfectly well, eating and living much better than when we were in the Pinminku. Before, he even told me he was planning to live here for his retirement."

"But I don't know why, suddenly one day, he insisted on saying he wanted to make that couple disappear, as if he were possessed."

Shen Chi fell silent upon hearing this.

He dragged Liang Yu to another spot. "Does this matter have anything to do with you?"

"No matter what happened in the past, they are my family. Whether it's my biological parents or foster parents, they have all been very good to me."

He truly couldn't accept that Li Xuan had died just like that; his eyes were bloodshot and he looked somewhat terrifying.

Liang Yu just smiled and said nothing.

This couldn't be blamed on her; the culprit was Shen Dazhuang, she had only accidentally said those words.

"Why did you suddenly want to go to the movies? And carrying your schoolbag?"

"When we reached the cinema entrance, you suddenly had a stomachache; that was faked too, wasn't it?"

Liang Yu shook him off. "Of course you have deep feelings for them, because you are a man, the most noble existence in this world! Even if they accidentally lost you and human traffickers sold you, your foster parents would still treat you sincerely. Who told you to be a man born with a life of luxury!"

"How could you know how much suffering I've endured since I was little, how many vile people I've met? Why shouldn't I hate them?"

Especially when she saw Shen Yuan, whom Li Xuan had adopted; back when she was wandering and starving, Li Xuan had already adopted another daughter and was living in mother-daughter harmony every day. What did she count for?

Why was she cursed as a jinx since she was a child? Since she bore that infamy, then the place where she was should be destroyed and ruined.

Li Xuan deserved to die.

It would be best if they all died.

Shen Lan raised his palm high, wanting to slap her, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.

"Harming people is against the law, do you know that?"

He worried that Liang Yu would walk down a path of no return in the future, and he was powerless to stop it.

It was like someone who couldn't swim, only able to watch in agony as their lover drowned, unless they had the resolve to die together.

"Do you have any evidence?"

Liang Yu was very satisfied with the trap he had set; it could be called flawless.

It would certainly have been more foolproof if Shen Dazhuang had just died outright.

But to her disappointment, Shen Dazhuang had not injured his internal organs and woke up two days later.

It was just that from his face to his upper body, he was covered in burns, looking quite terrifying.

The public security officers questioned him after his condition improved.

He confessed to the crime of arson, but cunningly claimed he hadn't intended to kill anyone, only that he held a grudge because his son had been snatched away by them and he wanted to scare them a little.

In any case, he knew he was definitely going to prison, so he naturally hoped to serve fewer years.

Shen Lan also woke up, and his mother and younger sister both rushed over from the village to take care of him.

Upon learning that Li Xuan had died, he was in a daze for a while.

When the fire started, his survival instinct had made him only care about running forward himself; he hadn't thought of Li Xuan at all, hadn't thought she would just be burned to death like that.

His mother was so old yet still had to take care of him, and Shen Lan couldn't bear it, so he said to his little sister, "Go call Shen Yuan over and have her wait on me."

In any case, he didn't dare to fight Shen Dazhuang for his son Shen Chi again.

At this moment, Liang Yu walked in, "Dad, let me take care of you instead."

How could the death of just Li Xuan be enough? This man was not innocent.