Chapter 35: It’s Not Too Late!

In the scene, because of the conflict with the glasses-wearing man, although they didn’t end up fighting, it concluded with Su Yunqi cursing at him. The matter ended there.

However, the glasses-wearing man clearly wasn’t satisfied. He got off the bus early, and in the middle of the night, when he got off, he secretly poured some water on Su Yunqi’s bed as a form of revenge.

Then, he left.

Since the water was poured at the foot of the bed, Su Yunqi had no idea about it. She slept soundly, and naturally didn’t mention anything about catching a cold or anything like that. However, when they were about to get off the bus, the bed hadn’t dried yet.

The next batch of passengers who boarded the bus expressed their dissatisfaction, insisting that Su Yunqi had wet the bed or something like that. They insisted she dry it before they could get off.

What was she supposed to do?

Was she supposed to dry it with fire?

Su Yunqi was also helpless. She thought about just offering some money to settle the matter, to avoid any more trouble. They needed to get off, after all. But this fat man wouldn’t back down, so Lu Zhao had to step in and show his fists before the man stopped.

Lu Zhao’s brothers were furious. Before they got off, each of them cursed the man once, causing him to jump in anger, yet he didn’t dare say anything more, muttering under his breath.

Afterward, they got off the bus, but it wasn’t until after they had left that they remembered, in their haste to curse the man, that one of the bags, which contained clothes, had been left behind on the bus. The bag also held several hundred yuan.

Although it wasn’t a huge sum, a few hundred yuan was still a few months’ worth of wages for an average person. This trip had been tough, and the brothers had probably only earned that much.

Because of these events, everyone became increasingly irritable and restless. They no longer had the composure they had before. Su Yunqi thought of treating everyone to some food to lighten the mood. As she stepped out, a car that didn’t seem to care about pedestrians sped toward her. It was going so fast that, with a loud crash, Su Yunqi was thrown into the air.

Lu Zhao was right there, but despite his efforts to pull her back, he couldn’t stop the car. He could only watch as she lay there, covered in blood, her heart breaking.

It was clear that even if the child in Su Yunqi’s womb was only a tiny sprout, it couldn’t have survived. Su Yunqi lost her uterus in the accident, and with it, the chance to ever become a mother was gone.

It was impossible to blame her for crying so tragically just now.

Lu Zhao saw that Su Yunqi had written so many words on the page, and the more he read, the deeper his frown became. His heart was filled with fear, and he pulled Su Yunqi into his arms tightly.

How could this happen! His little wife had suffered so much!

This was even worse than when Su Yunqi had said she had acted in self-defense and accidentally killed someone, and now she was going to prison. It was more painful than that.

“It’s not too late, we can change everything!” Lu Zhao patted Su Yunqi’s back, making a serious promise.

In fact, it was all just a chain reaction. As long as they changed one event, the outcome would be completely different.

“We’re not going to the Provincial Capital anymore. Let’s get off at the next stop and go home.”

Lu Zhao didn’t want to go to the Provincial Capital anymore. He was afraid another out-of-control vehicle would come crashing into them, and he couldn’t bear the thought of Su Yunqi lying in a pool of blood.

Su Yunqi shook her head. “No, we’ve come this far. We can’t go back now. We need to make money. You brought so many people out here, and everyone is waiting to earn money.”

She had just emerged from the nightmare. She wasn’t afraid anymore; everything could still be changed!

Looking into Su Yunqi’s determined and sparkling eyes, Lu Zhao sighed and chose to step back once more. “Alright, I’ll listen to you. But you’re not allowed to leave my side for even a step. I want to walk in front of you, and if the car is going to hit someone, it’ll hit me.”

“Don’t say such nonsense. Can’t it just not hit anyone at all?” Su Yunqi scolded him lightly, giving him a small slap.

“Fine, fine, fine. Are you hungry? The boxed meals are being sold now. I’ll buy two. You stay on the bed and wait for me. Don’t get up.” Lu Zhao pinched Su Yunqi’s small face, his voice filled with concern as he gave her a gentle reminder.

“Okay.” Su Yunqi obediently nodded. She had indeed been greatly weakened, as if she had truly experienced the pain of a car accident. She didn’t have the strength to get out of bed and needed more rest.

Lu Zhao tore off the page where they had written, his eyes gleaming with a fierce light, like a vicious wolf targeting its prey, preparing to strike.

After all was said and done, it started with that guy with the glasses who had a filthy mouth.

In the end, Lu Zhao let it go for Su Yunqi’s sake and didn’t hit him, but the glasses guy actually got even more arrogant, held a grudge, and secretly poured water onto Su Yunqi’s bed.

If it hadn’t been for that bowl of water, how could all the following events have happened!

Su Yunqi wouldn’t have gone to the snack street next door to buy food for Xiao Jianli and the others, and Su Yunqi wouldn’t have run into that car!

The glasses guy hadn’t even come back to the train yet, and Lu Zhao went straight over and bought two lunch boxes, brought them back for Su Yunqi to eat first, then followed the trail and found him at the train connection next to the bathroom.

Lu Zhao narrowed his eyes, the fierce glint in them impossible to hide.

“What do you want, you wanna—ah!”

The glasses guy felt both guilty and afraid. He wanted to run, but knew he couldn’t get away, so he could only shout sternly at Lu Zhao, trying to scare him off.

But Lu Zhao’s fury was already uncontrollable—how could he possibly let him go now?

Lu Zhao swung his fist directly, slamming it into the guy’s eye socket. The glasses shattered from the punch, and the metal frame even smashed into his eye area. Immediately, his eye turned purple and blue with bruises.

If Lu Zhao had used a bit more strength, he could’ve beaten the guy’s eye right out of its socket.

“So you like stirring up trouble that much? You even dare to secretly pour water on my wife’s bed. I didn’t hit you before—do you think it’s because I was afraid of you? I didn’t want to cause trouble and upset my wife, but you just had to push it! Today I’ll show you what happens when you can’t control your filthy mouth and filthy hands!”

Lu Zhao’s face darkened as he grabbed the guy by the head and slammed it against the side of the train. There was a loud bang, but that still wasn’t enough.

Just as someone came out of the bathroom, Lu Zhao, face cold as ice, dragged the guy and shoved him inside.

“What are you doing! Help! He’s hitting me!”

“Mmgh.”

Lu Zhao had already slammed the bathroom door shut. He kicked the glasses guy to the ground, then ruthlessly pinned his head down, shoving his face into the squat toilet.

“Help—glurk!”

No one knew how many years it had been since the train’s bathroom was last cleaned.

There was a thick layer of old, caked-on grime—foul and putrid. With so many people using the toilet on the train, even if it was flushed, the stench never really went away.

As the glasses guy struggled and opened his mouth, a layer of yellow, aged filth from the toilet pit went right in. The foul, nauseating taste immediately made him gag and dry heave.

He struggled desperately, trying to get up off the ground, but how could his strength compare to Lu Zhao’s? Lu Zhao was all lean muscle, a strong man standing 189 centimeters tall—there was no way the glasses guy could be a match for him.

Outside the bathroom, the other passengers looked at each other in confusion.

“What’s going on? A fight? Should we call the train attendant over to check?”

“If you want to, go ahead. I don’t want to get involved.”

Most people chose to stay out of it. After all, Lu Zhao looked terrifying—no one wanted to provoke him.

But eventually, a train attendant did come over and knocked on the bathroom door. Whether they heard the commotion or someone quietly informed them, it wasn’t clear.

The pounding on the door was loud and forceful before Lu Zhao finally opened it slowly.

“Comrade, fighting is not allowed on the train. If there’s a problem, talk it out properly!”

“I wasn’t fighting.” Lu Zhao said calmly. “He wanted to eat shit, so I gave him a hand. Now I’m done helping.”