To Love You Again

Chapter 838: It's All Worthless

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When the people inside the observation room saw the man in the wheelchair they gasped in shock.

They haven't seen him for fourteen days not fourteen years!

The man was so thin that he could be blown easily by the wind. His eyes and cheeks were so sunken as if he had not eaten anything for ages. His hair was shaved, making him look old and devastating.

If he looked injured and weak on the day of the trial, this time he looked so old that only have a few breaths left.

The people inside the observation room had the same thought. It seemed like the fourteen days was not so peaceful for Ming Zhi Yi.

Old Xiong and Mistress Tang had a fierce look. In the background, the two of them had used their influence and added a few words to the warden after Ming Zhi Yi's trial. That was to not give any medical attention or assistance to Ming Zhi Yi.

Let him rot in prison.

Their request naturally aligned with the warden and the officers. They also wanted to punish Ming Zhi Yi in their own way.

People looked at Ming Zhi Yi with different expressions. They observed every twitch of his muscle.

What would the once omniscient and prideful man's expression be like in the face of death?

But Ming Zhi Yi disappointed them.

He only looked down with a lifeless face.

There was something different about him.

Xiong Zhi narrowed her eyes as she distinguished something.

What happened in the prison for Ming Zhi to change drastically?

The man before the trial looked injured and weak, but he still carried the malevolent and maliciousness around him. Although his face at that time was expressionless, his eyes were full of malice.

However, the Ming Zhi Yi today felt like a lifeless doll. As if he received a huge blow and could not come out of reality.

Xiong Zhi doesn't believe that the smart Ming Zhi Yi would fall into insanity and would turn dumb. The man was not sane in the first place, after all. But his mind still works incredibly for great schemes and revenge.

So what could possibly make him more devastated than Lu Jin's betrayal?

In the end, Xiong Zhi dismissed her curiosity. Nothing would come out good in figuring out Ming Zhi Yi's mind.

The crippled man did not struggle as the officers carried him to the electric chair.

The formality process started with the head in charge stating Ming Zhi Yi's crimes and the punishment.

The exception team used a moistened sponge with a saline solution to wipe Ming Zhi Yi's forehead and his right leg. After tying the moistened sponge on his ankle, they put a skull-cap-shaped electrode on Ming Zhi Yi's head and a tight-fitting brace just right before the sponge on his right ankle.

The process was brief yet felt like a long time.

During the procedure, the man subjected to the execution did not struggle nor cried. There was no drama or resistance. The entire process was smooth.

When everything was done, the warden glanced at the silent Ming Zhi Yi.

"Do you have any last words?"

There was a long silence in both rooms.

When the warden thought that Ming Zhi Yi purposely ignored him, the man on the electric chair finally moved.

He raised his head and stared right through the observation room.

He could only see himself and the execution team. But he knew well behind that mirror, were those people watching him and gloating over his arriving death.

If Ming Zhi Yi thought like before, he would surely be angry and erupt in his current pathetic state.

The people he wanted to kill were alive and well. While he would suffer the worst death possible.

Why wouldn't he be in fury?

He spends all his life seeking revenge. Yet he only managed to kill Old Lu. He swore in his life to destroy the Lu family and the other three families. Although he made them receive blows after blows, Ming Zhi Yi felt that what he sacrificed was not worthy of the achievement he reached.

Only then did Ming Zhi Yi understand that he was not angry because they were alive and well, his heart was in fury because he sacrificed the person who don't amount to any of these people.

Reading the diary, Ming Zhi Yi came to accept and understood many things. Although his understanding was insufficient to understand why he loved that woman, nor does he understand why he needs to be guilty of his sins.

But he came to realize, that the things he had done over the past years were worthless and useless.

He sacrificed her, deceived her pure heart, hurt her immensely, and betrayed her countless times. Just for what?

For an ending like this?

Because of what he did, Ming Zhi Yi would not be able to see her, in this life and even after death.

Ming Zhi Yi's heart was pained again.

Everyone in the room waited for his words. However, in the end, Ming Zhi Yi only said in a hoarse voice.

"...I don't have any."

What else could he say? Although he wanted to curse at these people, he doesn't have the energy to do so.

Besides, he only wanted to say his last words to the person who doesn't exist anymore.

At this last moment, Ming Zhi Yi doesn't fear death. But he feared that when he goes to the afterlife, that person won't ever meet him.

Ming Zhi Yi suddenly had a funny thought.

If that person said he need to atone for his sins for the next three lives just to meet her, Ming Zhi Yi would undoubtedly agree.

However, there was no such thing.

He would die alone carrying this guilt and never had a chance to atone for her.

He would die as a devil, a monster, a murderer, not as her beloved husband.

When the execution team was about to put the blindfold on Ming Zhi Yi's face, he spoke once more.

"...Could you not put me in a blindfold?"

Being in the dark gave him so much comfort, Ming Zhi Yi doesn't want to be comfortable in front of death. It was his small effort in paying back a little in his great debt to 'her'.

The person who was holding the blindfold was stunned. He did not expect this notorious criminal to be one of those people who were afraid of the dark. He looked at the warden.

The warden was about to disagree when Lu Yin Ze turned to the second-in-command who stayed in the same room with them.

"Please tell the warden to let it be. It is his final request...so let's give in."

The people in the room discreetly glanced at Lu Yin Ze. But Lu Yin Ze remained expressionless.

Tang Yin glanced at Lu Yin Ze's hand. It was shaking.

Even though the other person was the cause of his nightmare, he was still his father. Watching your own father die, was not something pleasant.

"You can leave the room if you want to." Tang Yin reminded him.

"No. I am alright."

Tang Yin just nodded. But the next second Lu Yin Ze speaks again.

"Are you still offering your hand?"

Tang Yin helplessly smiled and offered her hand. "For today, yes."

Lu Yin Ze took her hand and hold it tightly.

Tang Yin looked ahead. Both of them watched Ming Zhi Yi with bated breath.