Chapter 178: I want to walk the righteous path, but you force me to return to my old ways!

Li Jiaci's shoulders trembled.

At that moment, a nurse came running over in a hurry.

"The operating room is ready, the patient is waiting for emergency treatment, don't stand in the way!"

Li Jiaci wiped his face and stepped back a few steps.

He followed along the way.

Until he personally saw Wang Yingna being sent into the operating room.

Only then did his legs go weak, and he squatted in the hallway.

The blood on his hand had already dried.

The strong smell of blood made him feel suffocated.

After being reborn, he stayed away from the days of shouting and killing.

He almost forgot what blood tasted like.

But Wang Yingna collapsed in his arms, fresh blood staining his clothes, instantly bringing back those endless regrets of the past.

He feared Wang Yingna would end up like his brothers in his previous life, ultimately becoming just a black-and-white memorial photo.

Thinking of this, Li Jiaci's eyes reddened.

His heart felt as if it had been stabbed, waves of sharp pain almost causing him to collapse.

The arriving Wang Zhen saw Li Jiaci squatting on the ground, let out a deep breath, walked over and said, "Come sit with brother for a while!"

Li Jiaci turned his head, seeing Wang Zhen's face full of sorrow, his heart felt another stab.

He stood up and said, "Sorry, brother!"

"Someone else should be the one to say sorry!"

"This matter has nothing to do with you; you don't need to bear all the responsibility yourself!"

"I'm not someone who doesn't know right from wrong!"

Wang Zhen patted his shoulder.

The two sat together.

Sighs intertwined.

Wang Zhen stared at the closed operating room, his fists clenched and then relaxed.

"What are you planning to do next?"

Upon hearing that, Li Jiaci raised his head and said in a low voice, "Blood debt must be repaid in blood; there's nothing more to say!"

He didn't not want to kill Zheng Degui.

It was just that the incident happened suddenly, and coincidentally the Furniture Factory was opening, with a crowd of guests filling the entrance to celebrate the opening.

If he had acted then, Li Jiaci might have enjoyed a momentary satisfaction, but the rest of his life could have been spent in prison.

Including his brothers as well.

Heaven knows how hard it was for Li Jiaci to endure at that moment.

He wished he could poke Zheng Degui's head into a pulp.

Chop Zheng Degui's killing hands into minced meat.

Wang Zhen seemed to have already guessed he would say that, and asked with a solemn face, "Do you need help?"

"No need, don't forget what I used to do!"

"Isn't handling personal matters easy enough?"

Li Jiaci locked eyes with him.

Both had done the same things, and could see each other's thoughts at a glance.

Wang Zhen twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Making a person who has washed his hands in a golden basin do such a thing is really putting you in a difficult spot!"

"Debts must be repaid, killing must be paid for with life!"

"This is an unchanging truth throughout the ages!"

Li Jiaci said heavily.

……

Several hours passed.

The outside sky had already grown dark.

The two sat side by side, silent and gazing at each other.

Every minute was agony for them.

They had been rescuing for so long.

One can imagine how dire the situation was.

Li Jiaci's heart was all clenched up.

And Wang Zhen's heart had long been shattered beyond repair, unable to be pieced together.

Just then.

The operating room door was suddenly pushed open by a nurse.

The two almost simultaneously sprang to their feet and then stepped forward running up.

Before they could speak.

The nurse just raised her hand and said, "Don't rush, I know what you want to ask!"

"Then hurry up and say it!"

Wang Zhen urged.

The nurse took off her mask, her weary face breaking into a smile.

Don't worry, the patient is already out of mortal danger!

They'll be sent to the ICU shortly; if there's no infection or worsening within a few days, they can be transferred to a regular ward!

Go pay the fees first; the patient will be out right away!

Hearing that.

Li Jiaci hurriedly said, "Brother, let me go; you stay here and watch!"

Okay!

Wang Zhen really couldn't bear to leave.

He needed to see Wang Yingna come out with his own eyes, to make sure she was all right, before he could relax.

After a while.

The ICU.

The two of them, separated by a glass window, looked at the person on the bed.

That pitiful sight forced the 1.9‑meter‑tall tough guy Wang Zhen to tears.

My younger sister has never suffered like this since she was born!

Li Jiaci handed him a tissue.

But Wang Zhen tilted his head back, sniffed a few times, lowered his voice and said, "You'd better keep that tissue for yourself; when you went to pay the fee just now, the little nurse told me you were hugging my sister and crying like the sky had fallen!"

……

Li Jiaci balled up the tissue.

Visiting time in the ICU is limited.

The two were asked to leave by the nurse.

Wang Zhen took out a cigarette, handed it to Li Jiaci, and said, "As long as I'm watching here, you've got plenty of other things to take care of—hurry back and get them done!"

Hmm.

Li Jiaci took the cigarette.

Without saying more, he turned and walked straight into the elevator.

……

Late at night.

A small grove.

Li Jiaci dragged an iron shovel, step by step, to the tree where Zheng Degui was tied up.

By this point, Zheng Degui had been beaten so badly he was hardly distinguishable from an animal.

A stench of feces and urine wafted over, so foul it made people unable to open their eyes.

His face was mottled blue and purple, his eyeballs bloodshot and bulging out.

Even so, he could still act smug.

Heh heh…

You want to kill me?

Is it because that little slut is already dead?

Then I won't lose out—I can still drag a backup with me as I die!

And a real beauty!

Even down in the Yellow Springs I'd be a ladies' man!

Zheng Degui glared with his blood‑red eyes and said in a nasty tone:

Li Jiaci lit the cigarette Wang Zhen had given him.

He exhaled a mouthful of thick smoke.

I'm going to disappoint you!

They're not dead!

Zheng Degui's hopes were dashed.

If I'd known, I'd have just stabbed him once and twisted the blade a few times…

Before he could finish his sentence,

Li Jiaci suddenly raised the iron shovel and drove it hard into his groin.

Ah!!

His anguished scream echoed through the grove.

Zheng Degui's legs trembled nonstop, his already disfigured pig‑like face twisting even more.

Even his underwear was torn apart by the shovel—not to mention what's underneath.

They'd already split the family.

Li Jiaci pulled out the shovel and said coldly, "This is the price for your loose tongue!"

You… you…

Zheng Degui was in so much pain he couldn't speak.

Even splitting the family at the root—doing it while he's still alive.

This is worse than being cut to pieces.

Even as a ghost he couldn't be a ladies' man anymore.

Li Jiaci narrowed his eyes and took a drag of the cigarette.

I finally made up my mind to walk the straight and narrow!

You damn well forced me back into my old line of work!

"Then I'll grant you!"

He finished speaking.

Li Jiaci picked up an iron shovel.

He slammed it hard onto Zheng Degui's forehead.

Bang!

A muffled thud.

Half of Zheng Degui's face was bloody.

"Uh..."

Bang!

Another muffled thud.

The other half of his face also turned into a bloody mess.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Several muffled thuds sounded in succession.

Li Jiaci gazed at his handiwork, took the last drag of his cigarette, and stuffed the butt into Zheng Degui's mouth.

Because Zheng Degui's head now consisted of nothing but a mouth.