Chapter 1241: Zhu Qingrui Becomes a Prisoner 2

"Pah!"

Zhu Qingrui spat at him and mocked, "Qi Heng, do you know how disgusting you look right now?"

"Oh?"

Qi Heng was spat on, but instead of being angry, he took another step forward, his face almost pressing against his.

He said viciously, enunciating every word: "I'm disgusting? Even if I am, could I possibly be more disgusting than you?"

"You killed my parents, caused me to become an orphan, and caused me to lose the love of my life. All of this was caused by you; how do you have the face to call me disgusting?"

"The fact that I've become disgusting is all because you forced me to!"

He almost roared the last sentence out.

"Take him away, have Lao Wang personally attend to him, and make sure to give him a 'warm welcome'!"

The "warm welcome" Qi Heng spoke of, of course, would not involve good wine or food.

Zhu Qingrui was taken to the Water Prison, and he experienced everything that Liu Min had endured.

"It hurts so much!"

"Just kill me!"

"I beg you, give me a quick death. I'll give you money, enough money for your whole family to live without worry for generations."

"Stop hitting me, I can't take it anymore..."

With a single lash of the whip, he began to beg for mercy.

Lao Wang acted as if he couldn't hear him, still lashing down fiercely, whip after whip.

It wasn't that he wasn't tempted, but mainly that he didn't dare.

The Water Prison had surveillance, and the President was sitting at the other end of the monitor.

Qi Heng sat upright in front of the screen, watching with great interest; not only watching, but also providing commentary!

"So useless, a grown man is not even as good as a woman."

After making this comment, he suddenly felt that this sentence sounded familiar; had he said it somewhere before?

He thought about it carefully and remembered.

He had indeed said it, back when he was confronting Zhu Qingxiang.

At that time, Shi Ran was still by his side, full of affection for him.

Not much time had passed, yet things had changed and people were different; everything was no longer the same.

His eyes felt a bit moist, and his mood was a bit sentimental.

But he quickly adjusted himself.

He was no longer that international student from before, no longer Shi Ran's fiancé.

He was the President of a country.

He shouldered the expectations of the nation's people and his father.

Romantic attachments... he no longer had the qualifications for that!

His thoughts drifted for a moment, and he looked back at the screen—Zhu Qingrui had fainted.

"Useless thing."

He instructed Lao Wang to send the person out to rest; he couldn't let him die.

Dying just like this would be letting him off too easily; he wanted to torture Zhu Qingrui properly and get back everything the Zhu Family owed the Qi Family, with interest.

Zhu Qingrui woke up from his coma and discovered he was no longer in the Water Prison, but on a snow-white bed, covered by a snow-white sheet.

All around were snow-white, bare walls, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant.

There was no need to ask; it was a typical hospital ward.

He closed his eyes again, but his brain was spinning rapidly.

Qi Heng didn't want him to die; this was his first thought after waking up.

But during the torture, he hadn't asked a single question; it was just beating!

Aside from being beaten, there was nothing else.

This meant Qi Heng didn't want to know anything from his mouth, or to put it another way, he had no value whatsoever.

If that was the case, then his situation was very grim.

What did having no value mean?

He was going to die soon.

But not letting him die immediately meant Qi Heng had only one goal—to torture him.

He didn't want to die, and he wanted to be tortured even less.

He had to think of a way to make himself useful.

Zhu Qingrui was well aware of the changes in Qi Heng over this period.

That person had gone from being righteous and honorable to being profit-driven.

Qi Heng being profit-driven was a good thing for him; he was only afraid that Qi Heng would be desireless and single-mindedly want to torture him to death, in which case there would be no way out at all.

Presidential Office.

Qi Heng received a call from the doctor saying the prisoner was on a hunger strike and refusing to eat.

He sneered, "He thinks if he starves himself to death, he won't have to be tortured by me? He's dreaming. If he doesn't eat, give him an IV drip or force-feed him!"

A nurse walked into the Hospital Ward with a catheter and a feeding machine, and Zhu Qingrui immediately jumped off the bed in terror.

He backed away while asking, "What are you doing? I'm warning you, don't mess around."

The head nurse, expressionless, told him in a businesslike tone, "The President does not allow you to go on a hunger strike. If you don't eat, we will force it into you."

As she spoke, she waved her hand, and the nurses behind her immediately began their work in an orderly fashion.

They added food into the machine according to a ratio, pulverized the food, and inserted one end of the tube into the machine... two burly nurses approached Zhu Qingrui step by step.

"Don't come near me, don't come over..."

Terror appeared on his face, and the expression on his face was almost about to cry.

But it was useless.

Zhu Qingrui retreated to the corner of the wall, with nowhere left to retreat, and was restrained by the two burly nurses.

"Let go of me, you all let go of me..."

He struggled desperately to break free, but his small frame was no match for the two of them at all; plus, having been hungry for two days, he had no strength in his body, making him even less of a match.

Zhu Qingrui was pressed onto the hospital bed and forced to lie down.

His hands and feet were secured to the hospital bed, unable to move.

His head was also pressed onto the pillow by a pair of greasy, fat hands; wanting to refuse the fate of being intubated, his only remaining option was compromise!

"Stop, I'll eat, I'll eat, I won't go on a hunger strike anymore."

This sentence worked.

The head nurse had them release him, but they did not leave, and the machine was not removed either.

She pressed the button on the head of the bed without saying a word, and soon someone delivered a meal that was appealing in color, aroma, and taste, consisting of four dishes and one soup, nutritious and healthy.

Zhu Qingrui wolfed down the food as if in a fit of pique, while the people beside him watched him with expressionless faces.

The way he ate was not important; what was important was that he ate.

Qi Heng watched on the screen as Zhu Qingrui ate while shedding tears, and he laughed, laughing very smugly.

This was the effect he wanted.

The timing was just about ripe.

So he had people bring the well-fed Zhu Qingrui to the Study.

The Hospital Ward and the Water Prison were actually on the same floor.

It took a long walk to get from the Hospital Ward to the Study.

The Study was on the third floor, and each floor up, the decor became more luxurious.

The person leading the way walked very slowly; Zhu Qingrui did not know what they wanted to do at the time, but he did not ask, and just followed behind, walking slowly at the same pace.

Walking slowly gave him time to observe.

He did not know why.

The servant wanted to take him on a loop through the corridor before they could go up the stairs.

And the doors to the rooms on both sides of the corridor were all open, allowing one to see the luxury inside and the scenery outside!

Upon reaching the second floor, Zhu Qingrui understood—this was the Zhu Family Castle!

It was his own family's place.

The Study.

Pushing open the door, the servant made a gesture of invitation; he walked in, and the door was closed from the outside.

"How is it? Do you feel that this place is very familiar?"

Qi Heng turned around from the window and sat behind the large desk.

Zhu Qingrui shook his head and said calmly, "No, I have never been to this place."

Qi Heng: "This is the Zhu Family Castle, the place where you lived during your family's most glorious time; do you really have no impression of it at all?"