Chapter 27 Exchange—Bring Your Dad Over

Chapter 27 Exchange—Bring Your Dad Over

"Ouch! Be gentle."

There was no alcohol or disinfectant at home, so Zhang Lu boiled some water, wet a cloth, and wiped the dried blood off Li Shanyang's wound.

When Li Xiaoya returned, neither Li Shanyang nor Zhang Lu noticed that her foot was injured. Feeling ignored, Li Xiaoya angrily went back to her room.

Liu Jie had recovered significantly, but he only ate a few bites per meal, so he still looked weak.

"YaYa, what's wrong?"

Lying on the bed, Liu Jie saw Li Xiaoya limping in and quickly asked with concern.

Li Xiaoya was already feeling wronged, and when she was shown concern, tears started streaming down her face.

"Wah wah wah, Brother Jie, my foot is sprained." Li Xiaoya sobbed as she threw herself into Liu Jie's arms.

Liu Jie immediately patted her back to comfort her.

"How did it happen?"

"Stop crying, YaYa. Put your foot up here; I'll massage it for you."

Li Xiaoya nodded, wiped away her tears, took off her high heels, and placed her sprained left foot in Liu Jie's lap, letting him massage it.

"No, no, no, Brother Jie, be gentle!"

"It hurts."

Before Liu Jie even applied much pressure, Li Xiaoya started crying out in pain.

"YaYa, I have to rub it hard, or it will swell up later," Liu Jie said gently.

Liu Jie hadn't eaten properly for days and couldn't hold Li Xiaoya's foot steady.

"YaYa, stop moving, or you'll feel worse tomorrow."

"Ouch!"

Li Xiaoya was in so much pain that she preferred her foot swelling than having Liu Jie massage it.

Unable to do anything else, Liu Jie got up to boil some hot water for a warm compress.

As soon as he stepped out, Zhang Lu, sitting on the sofa, rolled his eyes at him.

"What are you doing out here? If you can walk, get lost and stop mooching off us."

A grown man who was useless and just in the way.

Liu Jie ignored Zhang Lu; he had heard enough of his sarcastic remarks over the past two days and could now completely ignore them.

He filled a kettle with water and waited for it to boil while checking his phone, but then he overheard a loud conversation from inside.

"Brother Yang, do you think the fat guy still wants Liu Jie?"

"Why don't we find a way to send him to the fat guy and exchange him for some food?"

Seeing that Liu Jie had recovered, Zhang Lu's idea of sacrificing him resurfaced.

They had brought Liu Jie back initially to share the food.

But this time, they didn't receive any food and instead gained another mouth to feed.

The little food they received was useless compared to trading him for a box of instant noodles.

Li Shanyang didn't dare move his head, afraid of reopening his wound.

"This is a good idea. We should also ask if he has any alcohol and gauze to bandage my wound."

Hearing this, Liu Jie wanted to pour the hot water on them.

However, they were three against one, and he was too hungry to act rashly.

But he wouldn't let the previous humiliation go unnoticed.

Carrying the basin of water, Liu Jie walked straight back to his room without looking at Zhang Lu.

This action once again drew Zhang Lu's disgruntled muttering.

Li Xiaoya was gently massaging her own foot and had heard Liu Jie being mocked by Zhang Lu. She quickly comforted him.

Liu Jie shook his head, indicating it was nothing, and then tried to tear a piece of his clothing to use as a cloth for Li Xiaoya's warm compress.

After learning the reason, Li Xiaoya offered one of her dresses.

"Brother Jie, you're so good to me!" Li Xiaoya felt touched seeing Liu Jie's hands turn red from the hot water.

"YaYa, this is what I should do!" Liu Jie focused on giving Li Xiaoya the warm compress, willing to do anything for her.

In his mind, he was planning how to turn Li Xiaoya and get her help.

After finishing dinner and sending Shen Que away, Meng Ci turned on the surveillance camera and saw the two of them being affectionate.

Meng Ci was moved by their love and then began contemplating his revenge.

It was only 14:00, and there was still plenty of time until nightfall.

After exercising for half an hour, Meng Ci remembered the seeds stored in his space and decided to plant some vegetables to see if they would grow.

The space was one kilometer by one kilometer. Although there were many things inside, Meng Ci had bought many shelves and arranged everything neatly, leaving plenty of empty space.

Meng Ci picked a pack of Shanghai green vegetable seeds and a pack of cabbage seeds. He left the space, used his phone to watch videos on planting these vegetables, and after studying them thoroughly, he went back into the space.

He first loosened the soil in a patch of empty ground, sprinkled some fertilizer, then scattered the seeds over it. Using a hoe, he covered the seeds with soil and watered them with tap water.

Since time was frozen inside the space,

Meng Ci took two flower pots from the space, filled them with soil, and then brought them out.

He moved the flower pots to the balcony, scattered the remaining seeds in the pots, and thoroughly watered them.

The video said that these vegetables usually sprout in three to seven days, but with almost no sunlight, it was uncertain if they would grow.

Sweaty and sticky, Meng Ci took a hot shower, then refreshed himself by cooking a meal. After eating and drinking his fill, he sat down on the sofa.

On the surveillance, Li Xiaoya was already asleep, while Zhang Lu and Li Shanyang were sitting on the sofa outside, browsing food channels on their phones.

Liu Jie, clutching his stomach, clearly couldn't sleep due to hunger, tossing and turning in bed.

Although it was only a little past six, the sky had already darkened due to the continuous heavy rain.

Meng Ci began to implement his plan.

He took out a drone from the space and loaded three packets of instant noodles onto it.

Then he pulled out a piece of paper, wrote a message on it, and placed it in a bag.

Opening the balcony window, he removed a pin from the protective net and released the drone.

When renting the apartment for Li Xiaoya and the others, Meng Ci had chosen a specific location, so he only needed to maneuver the drone directly to the corresponding floor.

Their curtains were not drawn, so through the drone's camera, he could clearly see Liu Jie and Li Xiaoya.

The windows were closed, but that didn't matter.

Meng Ci maneuvered the drone to hit the window glass. After three hits, Liu Jie finally confirmed he wasn't hearing things.

Approaching the window, he saw the drone and quickly brought it inside.

Grabbing the drone, Liu Jie took off the plastic bag, saw the three packets of instant noodles inside, and started devouring one packet.

After finishing one packet, when he reached for the second, he noticed a note inside.

"Bring your father here, and you can exchange for more food."

This note was written by Meng Ci, but using the perspective of the fat man who had previously abused Liu Jie.

The book had hinted that the fat man preferred middle-aged men over young guys.

Apparently, because he lacked paternal love as a child, he was particularly infatuated with middle-aged men.

Seeing the note, Liu Jie suddenly recalled the photos of middle-aged men plastered on the walls of the fat man's house.

"Ugh!"

Thinking about those days, Liu Jie felt a wave of nausea.

Since you showed no mercy, don't blame me for being ruthless.

Liu Jie's eyes gradually filled with murderous intent.