Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 619 - 482: I Knew You Would Come

More than two hours later, the fire was extinguished, and the entire church turned into a pile of ruins.

The lights on the lawn were all on, mixed with the thick smoke after the fire was extinguished, the smell of blood on the grass was not so obvious.

The rescue team approached the ruins, the devastation before their eyes was unbearable to look at.

Bodies were found one by one, some adults, and a few children...

The rescue team always stopped when they passed by Yin Shixiu, and he would calmly lift the white shroud covering the bodies.

"Not the one."

"Not the one..."

"Not the one."

......

Yin Shixiu knew, he was relieved, every time he lifted that shroud and didn’t find a single feature belonging to Su Xiaomeng, he felt relieved.

Actually, he also knew, with such a fierce fire, how could anyone survive unscathed?

But...

Su Xiaomeng... dead?

He knew these five words, but put together, he just couldn’t understand them...

Reading these five words together, it was like his heart was being pierced by a thousand arrows.

He dared not think, if Su Xiaomeng was the next one they brought over, what would he do...

When his beloved, who just embraced him two days ago and wished him a safe journey, turned into a charred corpse in front of him...

He dared not think, the fear spread to his very extremities, turning his hands and feet cold.

Not the one...

Not the one...

Thankfully not the one...

The bodies that were brought out, some were claimed, others were placed in a central location.

The... dawn arrived. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

The pitch-black night dissipated, and a hint of pale gray appeared in the east.

This weak light did not illuminate people’s hearts, nor did it warm them.

The rescue work had unknowingly been underway for seven or eight hours.

The frequency of bodies being brought out gradually slowed down...

The church, reduced to ruins, had been searched inside and out.

"Nothing more."

"Mr. Yin, the interior of the church has basically been searched, a total of thirty-two bodies."

"Inside... nothing more?"

Yin Shixiu couldn’t even tell if there was more surprise or joy in his question!

"Everything we could find has been found. Are you sure your wife is not among them? Do you want to confirm again?"

Yin Shixiu took large strides!

Directly ran towards the church ruins not far away!

No bodies...

Not only was Su Xiaoming’s body missing, but also Chu Jiao’s!

"Su Xiaomeng! Su Xiaomeng!"

"Sir, you can’t just go in there, there are still many dangerous items inside!"

"Sir!"

Several rescue team members shouted at Yin Shixiu, but he couldn’t care less.

She was still alive!

Yin Shixiu felt it, she must be still alive!

Things others couldn’t do, she could!

Things others couldn’t think of, she could!

This was Su Xiaomeng! The person he had fallen in love with...

The church was nearly nothing but a precarious empty frame, and the rescuers saying it was dangerous wasn’t just to scare Yin Shixiu.

The burnt wood could collapse at any time, a second or third time.

"Su Xiaomeng——! Xiao Meng——!"

In such a fierce fire, hiding in some corner waiting for rescue was impossible, she must have hidden in a place the fire couldn’t reach.

Yin Shixiu’s thinking was indeed clear and sharp.

Many old European churches had so-called storage rooms.

They weren’t large, used to store some food and water, and could be used for hiding during wars too.

Underground...

Underground was the only possibility!

"Su Xiaomeng——! Cough cough..."

Yin Shixiu’s loud shouts finally reached Su Xiaomeng’s ears.

But at this moment, Su Xiaomeng, with wounds infected and festering, and after being in a closed, damp environment for so long, was already half-conscious...

She leaned against the wall, her lower body stained with blood, holding a woman with a bloodless face in her arms...

"I told you, he would come... Cherry, he’s here..."

Su Xiaomeng moved her lips, uttering weakly, tears slid down from the corners of her eyes, dripping onto Chu Jiao’s lifeless face.

Chu Jiao was dead.

She couldn’t wait for rescue, blood endlessly flowed from her body...

Su Xiaomeng had no way to save her, the space of more than twenty square meters was filled with the fishy smell of Chu Jiao’s blood.

Chu Jiao’s life slipped away bit by bit from her hands...

"Su Xiaomeng, do you hate me?"

"... Honestly?"

She smiled slightly, "Yes, go ahead."

"Hate, really hate. Even now, I often think... if Shixiu still had any lingering feelings for you, if that night he had been a bit indecisive, he and I... truly couldn’t have gone on."

"Whenever I thought my seemingly perfect relationship, the marriage I was willing to give everything for, would be ruined in the hands of an old fox spirit like you, I really hated you!"

"Haha... I like it when you speak honestly."

"..."

"Say whatever you’re thinking... do whatever you want..."

She murmured, her words full of envy.

"You hate me so much... why are you crying now?"

"I hate you, but I also don’t want you to die... if you die, no one will persist with me anymore..."

She looked at her, reaching out to touch her face,

"He will come to save you, you don’t need to hold on for much longer, he will come soon... he loves you so, so much... how could he bear to let you die in such a dark, damp place, away from the light..."

"Mmm hmm, he will come, he will come soon, he will save us both together.

"I always thought meeting a good man was the greatest blessing, but really, I think meeting a... friend like you is also a kind of blessing."

"..."

"I’m getting what I deserve, retribution in this lifetime. If it weren’t for this wedding, how could this disaster have happened?"

"Stop saying that... it’s all in the past."

"Yes, it’s all in the past... when you get out, give Eric a message for me."

"Can’t you tell him yourself?"

"Su Xiaomeng, I’m begging you... this message, you must deliver."

"Go ahead."

"I curse him, in this life... may he always seek but never obtain, and grow old alone."

"..."

"Am I scary?"

"..."

"He is scarier, I have his own flesh and blood in my belly... yet he treats me, and this child, like this..."

Su Xiaomeng’s lips pressed into a line.

"This... take it."

Chu Jiao pressed into Su Xiaomeng’s palm the ring symbolizing Eric’s status as a member of the British Royal Family.

"The British Royal Bank... this ring is the key, there is a matching password, I’ll tell you, remember it well..."

"..."

"That’s mine, belongs to this child, help me retrieve it..."

"Okay!"

"After you retrieve it, give a quarter to my parents, and keep the rest... consider it a little compensation from a guilty teacher to a letdown student..."

"..."

"Promise me, let me have peace of mind."

"I promise, I promise all."

"The ring... don’t give it to anyone who comes for it, understand?"

Chu Jiao tightly held Su Xiaomeng’s hand.

"... Alright."

Su Xiaomeng rested against the wall...

When a person is about to die, their words are kind.

She hated Chu Jiao, but never thought about wanting her to die...

A disaster.

The good and ugly, kind and evil of human nature were fully exposed.

She slightly tilted her head, her whole body exhausted, feeling colder and colder... how much longer could she hold on?

Yin... Shixiu...

In the blurry darkness of Su Xiaomeng’s vision, a gleam of light finally appeared, the large wooden beam wedged on the iron door was moved aside, the iron door was pried open with tools—

Yin Shixiu’s dirty face, his solemn face, when he saw Su Xiaomeng, his mouth twitched slightly.

He smiled a little... tears fell along with it.

"Meng Meng..."

"Shixiu, I knew it... you would come, I knew it..."