Peach-Orange! – Chapter 530 – Facing Despair

Why…

Why must everyone take my Xiaocheng away.

In reality, they want to take her away, why must it be like this in the dream too!

Su Tao lay prone on the ground, blood from her shoulder and thigh gradually staining the pitch-black floor red. One of her hands, which had been flung aside, stretched forward weakly.

Wanting to grasp the girl who was being taken away.

But the image of the girl’s back reflected in her eyes grew smaller and smaller.

The last bit of stubbornness finally vanished.

Tears gushed out.

Her voice also carried a sob, “No… don’t take Xiaocheng away, give her back to me, give her back to me!

“Give her back to me…

“Song Liyin, I beg you… I beg you…

“Take me away instead, torture me if you must, sob… I beg you…”

Tears soaked her face. Her outstretched hand clenched into a fist, weakly pounding the floor.

She kept saying she would protect Xiaocheng, but the harsh reality was so stark.

Facing the gun muzzle, facing such powerful influence, what ability did she have to protect Xiaocheng?

“In the end, I still… can do nothing.

“Can do nothing!”

Her voice was hoarse, filled with despair.

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The light in her pupils gradually faded, leaving only the mocking face of Ye Liang, sitting in a wheelchair, in her vision.

The latter spoke sarcastically, “Su Tao, ah, Su Tao, I never thought you’d have a day like this. I gave you the chance to submit to me, but you refused.

“Si Chen is dead, all the people brought by that brother of yours were killed by the young lady’s people. Now, who is left to help you?

“No one!”

Ye Liang, looking down from a superior position, slowly crooked his finger at Su Tao. “Now, crawl over to me, then serve me properly. If I’m happy, I might even help you beg for Chi Xiaocheng back.”

Su Tao gave a hollow laugh and spat on the ground. “Ye Liang, it’s a pity my shot didn’t kill you. And you want me to crawl to you? As you are now, are you even still a man?”

Ye Liang’s outstretched hand trembled, then he flew into a rage. “Say that again if you dare!”

He turned to look at the bodyguard. “Quick, give me the gun, I want to kill Su Tao!”

The bodyguard said calmly, “The Head Maid said Su Tao must be kept alive. So, young master, don’t insist. Let’s go.”

“What did you say?!

“Who is your master, me or that Song Liyin?

“Fuck your mother, fuck her! Give the gun to me now!”

The bodyguard calmly turned his wheelchair around. “Young master, you no longer have that function. If you continue to insult my mother, I can’t guarantee who will be fucking whom.”

Amid a stream of curses, the other bodyguards in the alley left with Song Liyin, completely vanishing without a trace.

As if no one had ever come to this alley.

As if from beginning to end, there were only two people and one cat here.

Su Tao still lay on the ground, staring blankly.

Fang Ning nearby trembled as she watched the blood continuously flowing from Su Tao’s thigh. Only when the King’s meow reached her ears did she snap out of it.

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She shuddered quickly. “Su… Sister Su Tao, let me help you up first. We need to treat your injuries, okay?”

Su Tao paid no attention to Fang Ning, just staring at the end of the alley as if Chi Xiaocheng were still there.

Her expression was dazed, wooden.

“Sister Su Tao!”

Fang Ning shouted again, finally making Su Tao gradually come to her senses.

She floundered, trying to get up from the ground, but the moment her hand pushed up, pain shot through her shoulder. Her arm trembled, and she fell back to the ground.

“What should I do, what should I do, what should I do… Xiaocheng has been taken, what should I do…”

Fang Ning actively went to support Su Tao, but the young girl still hadn’t recovered from what had just happened.

Her beloved, taken right before her eyes.

And just moments before, she had been vowing to protect her.

When Xiaocheng wakes up and finds herself in a new den of monsters, suffering torment again…

“No, Xiaocheng needs me!”

Gritting her teeth, using the strength of her other leg and Fang Ning’s support, Su Tao forced herself to stand and leaned against the wall.

Fang Ning’s voice sounded in her ears, but Su Tao couldn’t make out what she was saying at all.

She just gasped for breath, her lips murmuring incessantly, “I have to save Xiaocheng, who can still help me, who can still help me, who still…”

Her words stopped abruptly halfway.

Because she realized that the people she had always relied on could no longer help her.

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All of them had died because of her.

You say this is just a dream?

Hei Tao is so powerful, and there’s also Song Liyin and that young lady.

Why couldn’t this be a reflection of the real world?

This might even be a parallel world?

Relying on others is ultimately unreliable, I must protect Xiaocheng myself….

Su Tao’s pupils contracted for a moment, then suddenly dilated. “Right, I still have a chance, this isn’t the true ending!”

Su Tao’s intact left hand fumbled around inside her clothes, then pulled out a fruit knife from her pocket.

Her hair disheveled, she grabbed Fang Ning’s hand. “Fang Ning!”

A shout, almost like a scolding, made Fang Ning, who was supporting her, afraid. “I… I’m here.”

Su Tao kept gasping for breath, her left hand gripping the blade of the fruit knife tightly. Blood flowed from her palm down to the tip of the knife, dripping bit by bit onto the ground.

She offered the small knife handle to Fang Ning.

Su Tao’s chest heaved violently, as if gripping this small knife had used up all her strength.

“Fang Ning… Fang Ning, take the knife, and then… then kill me.”

Su Tao’s crimson-red pupils still trembled. “Kill me, kill me, kill me. If you kill me, I can go back there, and then protect Xiaocheng, not letting her come into contact with anyone, completely preventing something like this from happening.”

Fang Ning looked at the blood-stained small knife, her shoulders trembling.

Tears flowed uncontrollably. “Su… Sister Su Tao, please be reasonable. Right now, we should go get treatment.”

“I am being reasonable!” Su Tao suddenly yelled at Fang Ning. “Hurry up, kill me!”

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As her emotions flared, the strength she had mustered instantly drained away.

Staggering, the fruit knife fell to the ground, and Su Tao collapsed once again.

She had been bleeding all along and now had no strength left at all.

Dizzy, she began to experience severe tinnitus.

Now, she couldn’t even kill herself.

Su Tao sat slumped on the ground, one hand clutching her head. Blood seeped through her hair, sliding down her cheek. Using her remaining rationality, she cried to Fang Ning, “I beg you, Fang Ning… kill me, let me go back…”

Otherwise, what if, while I’m having this dream, Song Liyin attacks Xiaocheng in reality?

I won’t sleep.

I won’t dream.

I don’t want to know this so-called ending.

I want to go back, I want to be by Xiaocheng’s side!

“I’m… I’m sorry…”

In her daze, the sound of Fang Ning’s sobbing reached her ears. “Sob sob sob… I’m sorry, Sister Su Tao, I… I can’t do it…

“Wait here, I will save you, I’ll go find someone to save you right now…”

The small figure before her seemed to be fading away.

She wanted to save her.

But this salvation brought her not hope, but despair.