"Ah! My leg!" Liu Zihua felt his leg go numb for an instant. With a jolt, he looked at his leg again and saw it twisted at a ninety-degree angle.
But why didn't he feel any pain?
"What did you do to me? Why don't I feel any pain at all..." It was precisely because he couldn't feel pain that Liu Zihua became more frightened.
"Thank my little darling! Its thorns have a paralyzing effect on the spirit!"
Fu Wenwen explained to Liu Zihua with a smile.
"You can clearly see everything I'm doing to you, but you won't feel any pain, right? Isn't that wonderful?" Fu Wenwen said, then twisted Liu Zihua's hand again.
Liu Zihua could only watch with a pale face as Fu Wenwen twisted his body into a pretzel, completely unable to fight back.
He lost control of his body, like a lamb led to the slaughter.
"Let me go, please let me go!" Liu Zihua pleaded.
"You know what I want to know!" Fu Wenwen's lips curved into a smile, waiting for Liu Zihua to willingly reveal everything.
"Who is behind you?"
"...It's the Ling family." Liu Zihua gave up struggling and closed his eyes.
He had revealed the Ling family.
"The Ling family? The Ling family of Fengcheng?" Fu Wenwen was stunned. She had guessed they had some status, but the Ling family...
"Yes..." Liu Zihua decided to tell her everything.
"It was the Ling family who found me and Su Xiaoxiao. They agreed to our demands, but their goal was for us to deal with Lu Chengsen, to deal with the Lu family, but absolutely no one was to know that the Ling family was behind it."
"Why you two?" Fu Wenwen didn't believe it.
They could have found anyone. Why would they look for Su Xiaoxiao and Liu Zihua? What made them think Lu Chengsen would care about Su Xiaoxiao and Liu Zihua?
"Lu Chengsen beat me up for you once." Liu Zihua gritted his teeth.
That was the greatest humiliation he had ever suffered, being beaten black and blue after being stuffed into a sack, and Lu Chengsen still wouldn't admit it.
Fu Wenwen froze. Hearing Liu Zihua's words, she guiltily touched her nose.
Should she tell him that she was the one who put him in the sack...
"And the person he cares about most is you, so I wanted to use you to lure him out and give him a taste of his own medicine!"
"I want him to be a hundred times, a thousand times worse off than I was! I want his life!"
Liu Zihua suddenly burst into maniacal laughter.
Clearly, the proud Liu Zihua, having been stuffed into a sack, had lost all face.
This matter weighed heavily on his heart, and mentioning it would drive him mad.
"Then you are enough. What was Su Xiaoxiao's role?" Fu Wenwen reluctantly agreed with him.
A man's pride, she could understand.
But Su Xiaoxiao taking the college entrance exam under someone else's name had nothing to do with her, right?
"She was just meant to attract your attention," Liu Zihua said indifferently.
"She wanted you dead, and I wanted Lu Chengsen dead! The goal was very clear!"
"They really went to great lengths to find the two of you." Fu Wenwen finally understood. Su Xiaoxiao's role was to provoke her!
Knowing that she had suffered at Su Xiaoxiao's hands and had her man stolen by Su Xiaoxiao, they deliberately let Su Xiaoxiao appear before her to draw her attention.
Liu Zihua's target was Lu Chengsen, and Su Xiaoxiao's gaze was on her. Even their enemies were the same pair.
These two were truly 'made for each other.'
"After dealing with me and Lu Chengsen, how were you planning to deal with the Lu family?" Fu Wenwen asked Liu Zihua.
"I don't know about that. That's not something I'm privy to or involved in." Liu Zihua pursed his lips, clearly unwilling to say more.
Fu Wenwen curved her lips. "Keeping secrets isn't what good children do!"
With that, she twisted another of Liu Zihua's legs.
Liu Zihua collapsed on the ground, his posture as contorted as a pinwheel.
"Still so stubborn?" Fu Wenwen saw that Liu Zihua's face had turned even paler, but he still didn't speak.
A slender vine emerged from the ground and slowly stopped in front of Liu Zihua's forehead, extending a tiny sharp thorn.
The thorn gently pricked Liu Zihua's forehead. Liu Zihua felt nothing unusual, but suddenly, a wave of intense pain washed over him.
"Ahhhhhh!!!" Liu Zihua's screams sent shivers down the spine.
The small thorn slowly withdrew a little, and Liu Zihua's sense of pain was suddenly cut off, as if it had disappeared.
When the thorn pricked again, the pain surged back. Liu Zihua realized that the thorn in front of him was the source of his torment.
"Stop it, stop it! I'll talk!" No longer wanting to experience that intense pain, Liu Zihua begged.
"I'm waiting!" Fu Wenwen said calmly.
"They bribed a man to plant a treasonous document in the Lu family..." Liu Zihua said.
Fu Wenwen immediately controlled the thorn to pierce his forehead. The excruciating pain struck again, and no matter how Liu Zihua screamed, Fu Wenwen didn't back away.
Only when Liu Zihua's eyes rolled back and he was on the verge of fainting did Fu Wenwen withdraw the thorn. Liu Zihua gasped for breath.
"I'm telling the truth. I overheard it all myself! But I don't know anything more! I was just a tool they used to deal with you and Lu Chengsen..."
"They only gave me these five people and provided me with money, all with the goal of making your lives miserable..."
"Thank you for your answer." Fu Wenwen nodded, and the thorn slowly retreated into the soil.
Liu Zihua watched Fu Wenwen's retreating back, shouting in fear, "You can't leave me here, Fu Wenwen!!"
"If I don't leave you here, do you expect me to send you to the hospital?" Fu Wenwen said 'delicately.'
"You think too highly of me. How could my small frame lift you..."
"Fu Wenwen... why... ah... it's... starting... again..." Liu Zihua felt the intense pain return, his face filled with terror.
"Oh, because that little thorn was what made you not feel pain! Didn't you ask me to stop stabbing?" Fu Wenwen grinned.
"Stab me quickly, stab me with that thorn again!!!" Liu Zihua gritted his teeth, enduring the agony.
"You're such a bother." Fu Wenwen waved her hand, and thorny vines emerged from the ground again, slowly piercing Liu Zihua's forehead.
However, the intense pain didn't subside; it only grew worse.
Liu Zihua convulsed in pain, staring at Fu Wenwen, as if asking, 'Why is it getting worse?'
"Oops, my bad, maybe I summoned the wrong thing! Look at me, I'm still so clumsy! Ah, I'm really useless, I'll never be smart in this lifetime..." Fu Wenwen blinked innocently and gave a playful smile.
Liu Zihua's pupils dilated.
These were the exact words he used to say to Fu Wenwen in the past.
He had called her stupid, called her a pig's brain, and said she'd never amount to anything in life...
Fu Wenwen was clearly holding a grudge for his past insults.