Chapter 48: If I Had Raised My Head

Book:Love Like Arsenic Published:2024-5-1

As if he had suddenly made up his mind, he brought me to an underground chamber with a sneer.
I felt like my heart skipped a beat when I caught sight of various kinds of shimmering instruments in the dim light.
As long as I lifted my foot and was about to flee, he stopped me easily again.
Despite my struggling, he tied me to an instrument and then cut open all my clothes with a pair of scissors little by little.
I was exposed to him in an instant, naked.
When I turned my head, I saw his thoughtful, pitch-dark eyes, as indifferent as usual.
With an unprecedented sense of humiliation rising inside, I couldn’t hold back my tears anymore.
I knew there was little hope of escape, so I turned my head to avoid his gaze, trying to defend the last shred of my pitiful dignity.
“Lin Feng, hold on for the sake of your baby!” I managed to comfort myself.
At this point, I suddenly felt a prick in my wrist as if I had been injected with something and then I passed out.
When I regained my consciousness, I found myself covered with a thin blanket. Glancing at the surroundings which were both familiar and strange to me, I knew I was still in the underground lab.
But to my delight, the rope had been untied from me and I could move freely.
As my clothes had turned to rags, I wrapped myself in the blanket in haste and was ready to run away.
Unfortunately, before I could step out of the room, Quan Shaoze came back with a pile of medicine bottles of different sizes in his hands.
Backing up in horror, I trembled all over and started sweating in the palms.
The feeling of despair overwhelmed me again.
“How long is this man going to torture me?”
Failing to escape, I swallowed a handful of bitter pills one more time under Quan Shaoze’s compulsion.
After that, he left me alone in the lab.
Lying on the only bed in the room, I felt that every minute, every second was extremely miserable. I was soaked in sweat with a few strands of hair clung to my face.
While I was desperately wondering when Quan Shaoze would stop tormenting me, I also felt grateful that he didn’t do anything to my baby.
At the thought of this, I turned my head in decadence with a self-deprecating smile on my lips.
Yes, at least he didn’t kill my baby.
For the sake of my child, I had to put up with it.
However, I broke down in the end after he forced me to take all kinds of medicine and examined me for days.
Once when he was about to force the pills into my throat again, I suddenly grabbed his hand. Sitting on the bed, I begged, “Let me go! Please!”
With that, tears streamed down my face.
Meanwhile, the hatred rose from the bottom of my heart, but I didn’t show it on my face.
I managed to hold my anger to avoid enraging him.
The moment I sat up and grabbed his hand, the blanket on me slipped to the floor, which made me face him naked again.
I could imagine he was staring at me coldly, so I didn’t dare meet his eyes, but only picked the blanket up and covered myself with it in a hurry.
For the moment, I was desperate to the extreme. Though I already tried my best to control my emotions, I still couldn’t help shivering slightly with shame.
Gritting my teeth, I lowered my head while waiting for his answer, my mind blank.
I was more afraid to see the expression on Quan Shaoze’s face.
However, if I had raised my head, I would have seen a rare trace of hesitation and pain in his usually indifferent eyes.