Who You Are Book 2

Chapter 10 - Empathy (Part Ten)

<*Read with Caution, description of suicide within this chapter*>
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Xiao XingChen shouted in a low voice, "A-Qing, run!"

Moving as fast as she could, A-Qing barged through the door of the coffin home. Immediately afterward, she went on another path and crept back again. She climbed to her usual hiding spot, the one she used most often and was most familiar with, and even popped her head out to watch what was going on inside.

Xiao XingChen asked coldly, "Was it fun?"

Xue Yang took another bite into the apple that was still in his hand. He only replied after calmly chewing for a while and swallowing the fruit, "Yes. Of course it was fun."

He used his original voice again.

Xiao XingChen, "Just what do you want to do, having stayed with me for all these years?"

Xue Yang, "Who knows? Maybe I'm bored."

Xiao XingChen pulled out Shuanghua and got ready to attack again. Xue Yang added, "Daozhang Xiao XingChen, do you still want to hear the second half of the story that I didn't finish?"

Xiao XingChen, "No."

Although he refused, his head tilted slightly forward and his sword paused as well. Xue Yang replied, "Well, I'm gonna tell it anyways. After you hear it, if you still think it's my fault, you can do whatever you want."

He casually wiped the wound on his stomach, suppressing it so that it didn't bleed excessively, "The child saw the man who fooled him to take the letter. He felt both frustrated and happy. He threw himself to the man as he cried, and said to him, 'I brought the letter there, but the pastries are gone and I was beaten up. Can you give me another plate?

"The man seemed like he had been caught by the brawnier one and had been beaten as well. His face was injured. Seeing the dirty little child clinging onto his leg, he couldn't help but felt annoyed and kicked him away at once.

"He climbed up the ox cart and told the cart driver to leave at once. The child climbed up from the ground and kept on chasing the cart. He really wanted to eat the plate of sugary pastries. Having finally chased up to it, he waved his arms in front of the cart for them to stop. The man was too irritated by his crying. Snatching the driver's whip, he lashed at his head and threw him onto the ground."

He spoke one word at a time, "And then, the wheels of the cart ground over the child's hand, one finger at a time."

Xiao XingChen couldn't see, but Xue Yang raised his left hand at him anyway, "He was seven! The bones of his left hand were crushed, while one finger was ground into battered flesh on the spot! This man was Chang Ping's father.

"Daozhang Xiao XingChen, you were so just, so stern when you brought me to Koi Tower! You condemned me and asked me why I wiped out an entire sect simply because of some suspicion. Is it that, since the fingers weren't yours, you guys were incapable of feeling the pain?! You guys didn't know how horrifying screams sounded like out of your own mouths? Why didn't you ask him why he decided to amuse himself with me without a single reason?! The current Xue Yang was bestowed upon you by the past Chang CiAn! The YueyangChang CLAN was only reaping what it had sown!"

Xiao XingChen spoke as though he couldn't believe Xue Yang's words, "Chang CiAn broke one of your fingers in the past. If you sought revenge, you could've simply broken one of his fingers as well. If you really took the matter to heart, you could've broken two, or even all ten! Even if you had cut off an entire arm of his, things wouldn't have been like this. Why did you have to kill his entire clan? Don't tell me that a single finger of yours was equal to more than fifty human lives!"