"Allen, no one wants to harm him. He broke the law, he did many bad things, and hurt many people. You know this too," Susu finally understood that Allen's friendship with Yang Sijie was no ordinary one.
"Yes, I know, I know everything! But I couldn't stop him, couldn't make him stop, nor could I make him give up his love for you!" Allen tightened his grip on the rope and smiled, "But now I can do many things for him, find ways to keep him alive, and help him sever his attachment to you... Besides you, no one knows he's still alive. As long as you disappear, I can stay with him until we're old!"
Susu felt her neck getting more painful, making it difficult to speak. She reached out to grab the tightening rope, "You're not doing this for him... you're controlling him. Does he want you to help him live? Does he want you to do this..."
Allen's grip loosened. When he pushed Tianyi off the cliff, it only took a little effort. But to strangle someone to death like this, especially someone he knew and was familiar with, he still couldn't bring himself to do it.
Susu felt she could breathe deeply again. She gripped the rope tightly with both hands, "Where's Tianyi? What have you done to him? Allen, don't continue this. Calm down. If Yang Sijie truly considered you a brother, he wouldn't want to see you become like this for him. You're a good doctor, you have compassion."
"You're wrong. I studied medicine, and I wanted to be a doctor for him, to do the kidney transplant for him, to heal all his injuries. But no matter how hard I researched, I'm not God... I don't want to lose him, I really don't," Allen choked up as he spoke.
Susu tried to placate him, "I'm sorry, I only now understand how deep your feelings for Yang Sijie are. You won't lose him, you won't. I promise, as long as he stops doing bad things, we won't bother you, and neither will Tianyi!"
"I will never trust Qin Tianyi again, and you can't guarantee anything!" Allen's anger flared up at the thought, and he tightened the rope forcefully. "Even when I escaped Lancheng with Frank, Qin Tianyi never stopped trying to find us! Don't think I don't know, he's been having the police investigate our whereabouts, and you'll only stand with him against Frank!"
Susu felt her fingers, trapped between her neck and the rope, were about to break. So Tianyi had known Yang Sijie was alive all along, and was in Lancheng.
His visit to the orphanage was to find Yang Sijie's whereabouts, not just to make a donation. Later, he must have tracked Yang Sijie to Allen.
But he had kept these things from her, and she hadn't known anything.
No wonder she had gone to the dessert shop later and found that Allen had already sold it and left without a word.
At the time, she had thought Allen's family abroad had an emergency, and that's why he left so suddenly.
She wanted to say more, but she was already struggling to breathe and couldn't utter a sound. Her consciousness began to blur, and Tianyi's figure seemed to appear before her eyes.
"Let, let her go... She, she's mine... my person..." Yang Sijie, sitting in his wheelchair, crashed through the unlocked door. His wheelchair didn't stop, directly ramming the chair Susu was sitting on.
The impact sent Susu, along with the chair, toppling backward, landing on top of the already fallen Allen.
The rope in Allen's hand completely loosened. He pushed away the chair and Susu with all his might, finally managing to get up from the ground. He looked at the furious Yang Sijie in disbelief and asked, "You, have you remembered? Do you know who she is?"
Susu struggled to the side, gasping for breath, while trying to untie the ropes binding her hands and feet.
"Who she is... who is she?" Yang Sijie hadn't actually remembered, but as soon as he saw her, many images of her flashed in his mind.
It was as if this woman in front of him, separated by a large iron gate, had tearfully shouted at him, "Brother Sijie, don't forget me, I'll wait for you here, always waiting for you..."
"She is..." Yang Sijie pointed to his head with a trembling finger, "She's inside here... Important, very important... You, you can't, you can't hurt her."
Allen asked with a glimmer of hope, "Then what about me? Do you remember me? Who am I?"
Yang Sijie shook his head uncontrollably, his whole body trembling, "I don't know."
Looking at his eyes, as clear and pure as a child's, Allen's heart sank. An indescribable pain welled up within him.
Yang Sijie suddenly hit his chest again, his gaze pleading, and said to him, "If you're not good to her... I hurt here, it hurts so much, so much."
"I understand," Allen said, enduring the pain. He no longer had any intention to kill Susu.
When he looked at Susu again, he noticed she had already freed her hands from the ropes and was untying the ones on her feet.
"You can't leave here," he said in a flat tone.
Susu had already kicked off the ropes binding her feet. Angrily, she grabbed the overturned chair and was about to fight Allen. "If you want to stay on this island forever with Yang Sijie, then stay. I'm going to find Tianyi, and we'll leave here immediately. We won't interfere with you! If you don't let me go, I'll leave here even if it costs me my life..."
"You won't be able to find Qin Tianyi. Only I know where Qin Tianyi is now," Allen said calmly.
"What did you do to him? Did you already..." Susu dared not imagine, nor could she finish the sentence.
He said he couldn't lose Yang Sijie, and she couldn't lose Tianyi either!
Tianyi and the children were her remaining life, her everything. Nothing in this world was more important than them!
"I've locked him up in a hidden place on the island. No one can find him but me." Allen knew he couldn't tell her the truth that Qin Tianyi had been pushed off the cliff.
Only by saying this would she stay obediently with Frank. Perhaps she could help Frank recover some memories.
Susu asked with a hint of disbelief, "Can you keep him locked up?"
With Tianyi's skills, Allen was no match for him.
Tianyi had learned Taekwondo, often fought with Xiao Anjing when he was young, was forced to fight in underground matches by Yang Sijie, and had even worked as a thug for Lu Yuanhong.
Allen, on the other hand, was just a doctor who made desserts. How could he possibly keep Tianyi locked up?
Allen smiled faintly and said, "You also said he would be worried when he found you missing, so you came to ask for my help again. I agreed, mobilized the people on the island, and they searched for him all night. When he was exhausted and let his guard down, I knocked him out using the same method, and of course, he was locked up."
Susu froze, no longer able to hold the chair.
The chair crashed to the ground with a bang. She also stumbled, her heart filled with guilt. She should have stayed in the stone house. Why did she have to search for blooming flowers on the island? She had caused Tianyi's predicament.