Chapter 1357: Chapter 1357: Pinnacle of Despair 6

The parents of Zhilan finally came to their senses, hurriedly carrying Old Madam Gu onto the helicopter parked to the side. Then, Zhilan’s mother went to the hospital with the helicopter, leaving Zhilan’s father to take care of the people here.

On the rooftop, there were no more voices, only sobs remained.

In the early summer of the capital, this day gave everyone an unforgettable pain.

Out of nowhere, He Zhilan found the strength to suddenly shove away He Teng, who was holding her, chanting, “I need to see my child.” Then, she turned and rushed downstairs, her frail body moving surprisingly swift, leaving those behind unable to catch up.

“Zhilan! Zhilan!” Everyone kept calling her name from behind, but the person who had already gone downstairs seemed oblivious.

“My child, my child, mommy’s here~”

The figure in front sprinted downstairs, frantically pushing aside everyone in her way until she reached the ground stained red. Seeing the police about to touch the person on the ground, she screamed in fear, “Don’t touch my child!”

She rushed over, pushed the police away, quickly bent down, and moved the two still-bleeding bodies off her child. Then, with trembling hands, she gently picked up the crumpled, bloody child, whose thin, tattered swaddling clothes were so soaked they could almost be wrung out. Half of the child’s body had fallen out of the swaddle, landing face-down, with brain matter spilling out.

Her child, died beyond recognition.

“My child, my child~” He Zhilan gently cradled the child, held him to her chest, and softly rocked him, “Baby, mommy’s here, don’t be afraid, don’t cry, mommy’s here, let’s go home with mommy, mommy will take you home, mommy will take you to find grandpa, to find daddy.”

“Zhilan~” He Teng had been running all the way over, and this was the scene he saw. He Zhilan squatting on the ground, holding the already dead child, her chest soaked in the child’s blood, and she, endlessly crying, yet incessantly talking to the child.

“Zhilan, please don’t do this, the child is gone. You must be strong.” Chen Yun approached and, seeing this, even he, such a man, couldn’t help but have red-rimmed eyes.

“Strong? Can any of you tell me how to be strong? I watched my child, right in front of me, fall and die. How should I be strong? I gave birth to him; he hasn’t even drunk a drop of my milk; I haven’t even seen him face-to-face and he’s died so tragically? You’re asking me to be strong, then tell me, where can I steal a bit of strength for myself?”

He Zhilan’s tears fell like rain on the child’s blood-covered little body, and she laughed, a powerless laugh, “In the end, it’s because I’m Gu Zhilan, so once again I caused this child’s death? Why? Why does heaven want to treat me this way? Why do I have to be Gu Zhilan! Haven’t I already paid enough to the Gu Family? One life, two lives! Why, what I owe the Gu Family, requires me to give three lives in return? My two children, both gone! Why am I not the one lying here? Why not let me die! Why must my child be treated so cruelly! It’s all my fault, I shouldn’t be Gu Zhilan, I shouldn’t exist, but what did my child do wrong? Why kill my child!”

So, in the end, was heaven merely toying with her?