The clouds and mists have dispersed, and everyone knows that I love you.

The lower back felt dull and heavy as if it had just been hit by a hammer and was about to break.

Every slight breath was accompanied by a piercing pain that was unbearable for her.

She frowned and bit her lower lip, trying to ease the pain.

But, to no avail…

It seemed as if this broken body was about to fall apart, and she couldn't even stand steadily.

"Bang!"

With a severe feeling of dizziness coming from his brain, Shi Rong finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell heavily to the ground.

"Hey...Xiao Rong!"

Wu Tanqiu was startled and squatted down to reach out to help, but the man who was eating was one step ahead of her and lost his composure the moment he turned his head.

"Shi Rong, Shi Rong?"

He picked the person up from the ground and held her in his arms, wiping the sweat running down her cheeks. Only then did he realize that the woman's face was frighteningly pale!

It was as if someone had drained all the energy from his body, leaving him completely lifeless.

"Call Xing Jiashan."

Without saying much, Huo Jiuzhou picked up the unconscious Shi Rong and went upstairs.

"Ok."

Wu Tanqiu took out the phone from his apron and quickly dialed a number.

Three years later, when Xing Jiashan and the other two saw Shi Rong again, who was completely different from before, they were so shocked that their jaws almost dropped to the ground.

Is this person Shi Rong?

If Chu Yu hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it.

Three years ago, Shi Rong, who was famous in Beicheng for her beauty, is really this old and ugly woman lying on the bed with her eyes closed in a maid outfit?

How did she become like this?

Song Qianchen, who entered the room last, just came over to take a look out of curiosity, but he behaved out of character and took several steps back in fright, almost screaming!

Is this guy...still a human?

No matter how you look at him, he looks like a half-dead female ghost from a horror movie.

Today, they finally understood why Huo Jiuzhou had been so cruel as never before in his life to those culprits in Jishan, South China.

They even felt that the man was too lenient.

It was possible to torture a girl who was only in her early 20s and as pretty as a flower into such a shocking and horrifying state.

One can imagine how miserable her life has been in the past three years.

At Huo Jiuzhou's suggestion, Xing Jiashan conducted a thorough full-body examination on Shi Rong. The result was predictable: he was so young but was seriously ill.

"Boss, are you not going to give her food? She's become so thin..."

Xing Jiashan has been practicing medicine for so many years, but he has never seen a patient like Shi Rong, who has problems all over his body.

Seeing Huo Jiuzhou looking at him with cold and bloodthirsty eyes, as if he wanted to kill someone, he coughed twice and pretended not to see it...

"She has severe anemia, caused by long-term malnutrition, excessive physical exertion, and a meager daily diet. Furthermore, she must have suffered a fatal injury to her lower back, which has left her unable to stand or walk for long periods of time. Coupled with years of overwork, repeated injuries and illnesses have essentially reached a point where they are incurable."

"These two factors alone could kill her if she cannot receive adequate treatment in the coming days."

In just a moment, when the man associated the word "death" with Shi Rong, his pupils suddenly shrank, and his eyes were filled with shock and pity.

He lowered his eyes and looked at the woman who was still unconscious on the bed, breathing weakly and dying.

Raising his hand, he gently covered her thin arm.

No wonder she always refused to sleep on the bed and insisted on sleeping on the hard floor. It was because only in this way could she reduce the pain in her terminally ill lower back.

"Boss, stop it. If you keep going like this, she'll be dead before the old man can do anything. Her condition is really serious. I'm not kidding. How can I describe it to you? She's like a fragile paper figure, the kind that will break if you pinch it."

Chu and Song looked at each other and sighed. This woman was ugly, but after all, everyone still had some affection for her. Now that they heard that she was so seriously ill, they couldn't bear it.

"I see. Let me think about it. You guys go out."

After a long silence, Huo Jiuzhou finally gave in when faced with the life and death of a woman.

He just wanted her to show more of her strengths so that the old man would accept her naturally, but at the moment, it seemed unrealistic.

The three of them didn't say anything more. They wisely left the room and went to the living room to wait for him.

"Leave some of your homemade calming incense."

I don’t know how long it was, so long that the three of them sat side by side on the sofa in the living room, almost falling asleep waiting, before the man came down from upstairs slowly.

Without waiting for Xing Jiashan to react, he saw him giving instructions to Wu Tanqiu beside him.

"Starting tomorrow, every night before going to bed, go to Shi Heng's room and light a soothing incense. The reason is up to you. When she is about to wake up in the morning, go in and extinguish it."

Wu Tanqiu didn't think much about it, didn't ask any more questions, and nodded respectfully.

"Okay, Master."

It was three days later when Shi Rong, who had been seriously ill, slowly woke up.

She slept for a long time, and her dream contained everything, but every frame was a scene that made her feel heartbroken and miserable.

"Xiao Rong, are you awake?"

When Wu Tanqiu pushed the door open, Shi Rongren was still sitting on the bed in a daze. She smiled gently at the woman.

"Get up if you wake up. The young master is waiting for you downstairs."

what?

Shi Rong was stunned for a moment, and then felt a wave of panic. Did Huo Jiuzhou just arrive or had he never left?

She only remembered that she suddenly fainted, and she couldn't remember anything after that.

No matter what happened after that, she had a bad feeling in her heart, as if the person waiting for her downstairs was not a human, but some terrible beast.

"I...I see."

She licked her dry lips, wiped the cold sweat from her palms, and without saying anything, she just followed Wu Tanqiu downstairs obediently.

When people arrived at the living room, they saw the handsome man, dressed in a dull black suit and shirt, with his long legs crossed, sitting upright in the middle of the sofa.

There was a row of pretty maids standing behind her, and she felt extremely depressed.

"woke up?"

Whenever a man sees her shrinking and timid look, he feels inexplicably annoyed.

"Ah."

She responded lightly and lowered her head, as if she had made a huge mistake and didn't even have the courage to look him in the eye.

"Ha~"

The man sneered, and the words he spoke were particularly sarcastic.

"People who don't know this would think that you, Shi Rong, are a great contributor to my Chen Court. You are so delicate that you can't even do this little bit of work. If you get a little tired, you will be unconscious for three days."

3 days?

Shi Rong bit her lower lip. Her bad premonition had indeed come true. How on earth had she dared to be in a coma for three days?

In Huo Jiuzhou's opinion, doesn't this mean that she is rebelling against the will of Heaven?

"I'm sorry, Mr. Huo. I will pay more attention next time."