257 It Was All My Faul

Streams of tears endlessly ran down from Gen's eyes, as Jin Qingling stared in his eyes. He knew he was wrong and his guilt didn't let him speak anything. 

"I always thought you were my savior, but it turns out that it was actually you, who ruined my life! I went away from Wu Zihao because deep down I always blamed him for not coming to find me. And the remaining pieces of my heart shattered when those men came after me. But it was always you... you..." Her voice choked in her throat and her legs started feeling week, leading her to take the support of the wall nearby. 

"Lingling are you..." Gen looked at her dizzy state and took a step closer to hold her.

"Don't come near me!" Before he could even extend his arms to her, a stopping gesture of her free hand, paused him in his tracks.

"Lingling listen to—"

"I have heard enough. I don't wanna listen anymore! Wu Zihao kept pleading to me that day, he kept begging me to give him another chance, but I didn't listen to him. All because I was stupid! It's not your fault, it's mine. It was me who let you and that bitch come and drive a wedge between us. It was all my fault!" 

All Gen could now do was see her standing in front of him and crying her heart out. He whispered with remorse, "I have even lost the right to console you now."

"I— I need to..." She murmured something under her breath which Gen failed to listen to. And before he could comprehend anything, she dashed out of the room.

"Xiao Li, come with me. We need to go."

She abruptly pulled her daughter who was sitting on the couch, scribbling something in her notebook. The little girl had no clue as to why her mother was behaving like this all of a sudden. Jin Qingling snatched the notebook from her hand and threw it aside to pull her off the couch. 

"Lingling listen to me. What are you doing?" Gen came rushing out after her to only see her taking her daughter away. He immediately reached to her and held her arm "Where are you going?"

"Stay away!" She screamed at him which scared even Xiao Li. "You have lost your right to question me anymore. It has got nothing to do with you even if I along with my daughter go to hell. Come Xiao Li."

"Jin Qingling stop. You don't seem to be in your right mind. Just sit here for a while and..." He didn't even get to finish his words, and Jin Qingling was already out of the house, slamming the door shut after her. 

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The clouds in the sky were not letting the moon come out in the open and the quietness that accompanied the night was not helping Song Jia calm down. Despite the late hours, her head was still deeply buried in her files, trying to keep her mind off of Wu Zhang's whereabouts. Just like Song Chen for Song Jia too, her work was her perfect escape but that also seemed to be failing tonight.

"Don't fret too much about it Jia, I am sure he will be fine." was what Wei Xin had told her the previous day, but none of it was of much help.

Slamming the file shut in front of her, she set it aside with a thud and went into the balcony of her room to let the cool breeze blow on her face. "Where are you Zhang?" she murmured to herself. 

As if Buddha heard her question, she heard a soft knock on her door in response. She turned around to see Wei Xin, whom Song Jia had made to stay back in the mansion to keep her company, hurrying inside the room.

"I am sorry I could not wait. This is a bit urgent."

Song Jia walked back into the room and gestured her to continue.

"They have found Li Jing!" 

"Where?" From the lines on Wei Xin's forehead, she knew something bad has happened.

"In a village near F City. He is badly injured."

"Village? And where is Wu Zhang?"

After a moment of quiet, Wei Xin shook her head and spoke softly, "There is no news of him yet. Even the villagers who found Li Jing said that he was alone." 

Song Jia felt her heart sinking. She took a deep breath to clear her head and think properly. "I need to meet Li Jing. Only he can tell what has happened. How is he?" 

"He lost consciousness right after he was found out. But he is being airlifted to C City tomorrow morning."

"I can't wait for him to recover Wei Xin. Wu Zhang is missing and all I know, he could be in some possible danger right now."

"What are you planning to do then?"

"It is getting out of my powers now. Tomorrow I will ask uncle Wu what they want to do now." Wei Xin nodded and left after telling Song Jia to get some sleep too. But for Song Jia, it was a sleepless night.