After Prison, She Shocks the World
Chapter 114 Fu Bing’s Car Accident

Chapter 114: Chapter 114 Fu Bing’s Car Accident

Qin Jinhai returned to the Imperial Garden, but he didn’t go back to his own villa.

He unlocked and entered Fu Bing’s villa.

Without even bothering to take off his shoes, he lifted the dust cover from the bed and collapsed onto Fu Bing’s bed.

She had been gone for too long, and the scent lingering on the bedding was faint. He frantically sought equilibrium in that faint scent. That scent, like a siren’s call, was driving him mad. He didn’t know how much longer he could hold out before resorting to violence to pull her into his embrace. He didn’t know how much longer he could act human in her presence...

"Fu Bing."

"Fu Bing."

"Fu Bing!"

Qin Jinhai buried his face in the pillow, repeating Fu Bing’s name over and over. He used her name to suppress the cruel instincts ingrained in him over years of training. He tried to bring forth the version of himself that Fu Bing had liked.

When Qin Jinhai emerged from the room again, it was already dark. He changed into loose-fitting loungewear and turned on the lights.

Calmly, he issued an order, "Have Ren Ye protected. If necessary, let the Undead Guardians watch over him."

"Yes."

At that moment, the doorbell rang. The abrupt sound was especially chilling in the night.

Qin Jinhai’s expression remained unchanged as he emotionlessly went to open the door.

Su Junling’s face darkened abruptly when he saw who opened it. "You’re still squatting in Fu Bing’s house? Have you no shame?"

"What are you doing here?" Qin Jinhai asked coldly.

"The post-production for the movie is finished. I wanted to invite her to an internal screening."

"If you cared about Fu Bing at all, you’d know she’s in Jiangnan right now," Qin Jinhai said sarcastically.

Su Junling retorted, "If I didn’t care about her, I wouldn’t have rushed over the moment I saw a light on in her villa, especially after it had been dark for over a month."

"She won’t be back in Jiangcheng anytime soon." Qin Jinhai gave Su Junling an appraising look. "If your movie is edited according to the original script, it’s best you don’t look for her, and don’t release it. She’s a benefactor to your Su Family; she shouldn’t be defamed by your movie again."

"Don’t you think you’re overstepping? If you really cared about Fu Bing, you’d get out of her villa!"

"You’re the one who should get out!" Qin Jinhai’s recently suppressed irritation flared up again. He grabbed Su Junling’s lapel. "Forget those petty ulterior motives you had when you were filming. You know perfectly well how humiliating your original script was to her."

"Qin Jinhai, stop putting on an act in front of me. The ones who most wanted to humiliate her were you and your Qin Family. If you had just lent a hand back then, Fu Bing wouldn’t have gone through all this. My movie, marketed as ’Fu Bing’s final film before her retirement,’ will definitely be a blockbuster. And you? You’ll be forever condemned as a scumbag by audiences, present and future! You will never be worthy of Fu Bing!"

Qin Jinhai had ignited Su Junling’s anger, which had already been under immense pressure. The closer he got to Fu Bing, the clearer it became that she wasn’t the person rumors made her out to be. That original script became completely unusable. He had spent months rewatching vast amounts of footage, deleting and rewriting the script multiple times. Fu Bing shouldn’t be defined as an appendage to anyone; she is her own person.

Although Fu Bing hadn’t explicitly announced her retirement from acting, she hadn’t accepted any scripts for a long time, nor had she attended any commercial events. In several months, she only did one live stream, which seemed to serve as a sort of explanation to everyone. The footage he possessed might very well be from Fu Bing’s last film. And the main culprit responsible for Fu Bing quitting acting was still brazenly lounging around her villa.

"Whether I’m worthy of her or not doesn’t matter; her name will forever be linked with mine. Whenever outsiders mention her, they’ll think of me. Whenever they mention me, they’ll talk about her. You can only watch helplessly!" Qin Jinhai saw through him. "So what if you’re willing to offer her a good family background? In Fu Bing’s eyes, you’re just a friend. You don’t even dare disturb her too much, afraid of affecting her work."

Qin Jinhai felt no vindictive pleasure as he spoke these words. If he didn’t act quickly, the man appearing in Fu Bing’s life wouldn’t be Su Junling, but some other excellent man. Sooner or later, she would break free from the pain he had caused her and embrace a new life. Even Wu Shi might become her choice.

The restlessness in Qin Jinhai’s heart grew, piling up. Any man could stand by her side, but he alone was shut out by her.

Qin Jinhai had struck a nerve. Su Junling threw a punch at him.

Qin Jinhai was momentarily stunned; the pain of the blow brought him back to his senses. Instinctively, he punched back at Su Junling.

Su Junling also had combat training. Almost every child from a prominent family, especially the boys, had been specially trained in basic self-defense skills.

The two of them fought without rules, almost purely on instinct, neither yielding to the other.

Indeed, Su Junling didn’t dare disturb Fu Bing excessively. He watched Fu Bing over and over through the camera lens, and over time, feelings he himself hadn’t been aware of began to grow. His parents didn’t object to Fu Bing. This was very good news. He planned to present this film to Fu Bing as a gift; she would surely be moved. Then, he would naturally express his intention to pursue her. His plan was perfect, except for the unwelcome presence of Qin Jinhai.

Punch after punch landed solidly, fist against flesh.

The fight only ended when Su Junling was in too much pain to throw another punch. He lay on the carpet, littered with shattered porcelain, staring up at the chandelier.

"What right do you have to obstruct Fu Bing’s happiness? Marrying into the Su Family is her best option for marriage. She saved my mom—the Su Family won’t mistreat her."

"She won’t be willing," Qin Jinhai responded indifferently.

"You’re not her; how could you know what she thinks?"

"I am her only man."

Su Junling was taken aback. "So what? She can date a few more men, gradually find the one she likes. I still have a chance; you’ve already been eliminated."

A shadow flickered in Qin Jinhai’s eyes. At the hotel on base, the hatred and despair in Fu Bing’s eyes were still vivid in his memory. That scene could drag him into hell at any moment; it had become his deepest nightmare. Had he really been eliminated by Fu Bing? All those intimate moments, that entanglement—would she share them with another man?

A surge of jealousy instantly burned away all of Qin Jinhai’s rationality.

"Get the hell out if you don’t want to die!"

Su Junling cursed him as a lunatic, then limped away slowly. He had to recover from his injuries before personally making a trip to Jiangnan.

Qin Jinhai stared at the blood-stained porcelain shards, the crimson in his eyes deepening. A furious madness began to build within him.

Suddenly, his phone, left in the entryway, rang.

It was the unique ringtone he’d set for Fu Bing.

The madness in his eyes paused briefly, then slowly receded like a tide.

Qin Jinhai answered the phone. "Speak."

"Um... Fu Ying was in a car accident. You’re the first contact in her phone; you need to hurry over." The person on the other end was startled by Qin Jinhai’s harsh tone, their voice tinged with timidity.

"What did you say?"

Qin Jinhai was stunned by their words, unable to process them. He understood each word individually, but when put together, he couldn’t grasp the meaning of the sentence at all.

"Fu Ying has been in a serious car accident and is currently being rushed to the hospital. Please head to the hospital immediately."

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