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One hour ago.
Yan Liang stepped into the abandoned private prison step by step, followed by Zhou Ning. They hadn’t been here for a long time, and the whole prison in the night was silent with a few eerie notes.
High heels entered the deathly silence. In cell after cell with no daylight there were piles of dry bones, and some once-notorious assassins from the organization were still struggling, on the brink of death.
But now, without exception, their limbs were broken, their arms and legs bound with heavy chains, forced to eke out an existence in this dim dungeon like ants or rats.
“Young Mistress, there’s a spiderweb ahead. These people really are something — they know you’re coming and didn’t even tidy up.”
Zhou Ning hurried forward and swept away the tangled webs for Yan Liang.
Yan Liang glanced at him and lowered her eyes to watch a spider fall onto her arm.
This kind of spider was mildly poisonous.
Their webs were dense and numerous, and the spiders themselves were large and plump.
They had been deliberately thrown into the prison. Yan Liang, knowing them intimately, reached out and caught one, about to instinctively put it in her mouth.
Once, in the darkest of those years.
This would have been a rare delicacy.
Yan Liang didn’t think her action would seem strange to ordinary people, but Zhou Ning couldn’t help his nose pricking and he quickly stopped her.
“Ms. Liang, this spider is poisonous, it can cause hallucinations.”
“If you get poisoned and go home and hurt Mr. Qin, what then!”
Zhou Ning could only use this argument to persuade Yan Liang, and it was the only method he had.
“But… such a delicacy, it would be such a pity not to eat it.”
“Zhou Ning, you eat it.”
A ripple of dark layers spread in Yan Liang’s eyes.
Then her gaze fell on Zhou Ning.
Zhou Ning, a 190 cm tall man, couldn’t help trembling at this moment. Wait, what?
Okay, okay, so that’s how it’s going to be, huh?
“Aah! Fine, I’ll eat it!!”
Zhou Ning gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, then swallowed the spider. Feeling a strange texture crushed on his tongue, he nearly fainted from fright.
But when he thought about how even a grown man like him was so scared of a spider like this.
Yet it had been a “delicacy” that Ms. Liang once considered too luxurious even to fill her stomach.
Zhou Ning couldn’t help feeling tears come to his eyes.
Yan Liang’s father… really deserved to die!!
Leaving him to linger here was actually showing him mercy.
In the innermost prison.
A white-haired man had a nutritional drip on his wrist, all his limbs locked. He lay on a stone slab bed deliberately set at a height, and beneath the stone slab was a black deep pool.
He couldn’t move his body at all because of a stroke.
But his eyes could move and his mouth could still make anguished sounds.
Above his head, every other day the water drop punishment was applied. Cold drops constantly falling on the center of his brow, tightening his nerves to the extreme.
And in the pool beneath the stone slab was a crocodile habitat.
The crocodiles here were top-notch, raised on raw meat to grow ferocious bloodlust!!
Mr. Yan had grown much older. Now it seemed he sensed other visitors and began babbling again.
From the muffled sounds, Yan Liang still made out what he was saying. “Xiao Liang… Xiao Liang… Dad knows he’s wrong, please… please let me out.”
“Dad can give up anything, I only beg you to let me out…”
Yan Liang stood still, suddenly tilted her head and smiled, “Number 523, what are you talking about?”
“You, a prisoner, dare bargain with me?”
A gray desolation filled her father’s eyes. The long mental torture had exhausted him.
If he could die, he would welcome the release.
“I’m here to give you something nice.”
“Does this hand… look familiar?”
“It’s your son’s.”
“When he was little you held his hand and taught him calligraphy, taught him to draw. I suppose you know what his hand looks like best, so I’m kindly showing it to you~~”
Yan Liang, with a playful expression, tossed a red cloth bag in. It landed right by his neck.
He wailed and tried to touch it, but his limbs had already lost all feeling.
Yan Liang understood negotiation very well.
To win, you must first disrupt the other’s reason.
Obviously, she had achieved that first step.
“Yan Liang… Yan Liang, you beast!”
“He is your brother…“
There was no change in Yan Liang’s gaze. “When my sister, Yue, disappeared, Yan Han personally witnessed her being abducted, didn’t he?”
“Why didn’t he think at the time that Yue was his sister?”
“Old man, enough with your double standards!”
“My purpose is simple: tell me the secret to staying alive, and I’ll agree to anything you want.”
This was Yan Liang’s first time coming for that secret.
Before, Yan Liang had no concept of life.
Death, after all, is something everyone will face.
But this time.
The Young Mistress was displeased with that fate!!
She insisted on opposing heaven and contending with the gods.
“Hahahahaha… Yan Liang, so the day you fear death has finally come?”
Yan Liang nodded and spoke solemnly.
“Yes. I’m afraid of death.”
“I’m afraid I won’t be able to grow old with the person I love.”
“This feeling is strange, yet I’m willing to be carried by it. It seems like a sweet poison, and I savor it.”
Yan Liang seemed to no longer regard him as a living person and casually revealed her heart.
Mr. Yan couldn’t help but be surprised that Yan Liang would actively admit these weaknesses to him.
Clearly, she was supposed to be an emotionless killing tool. Her current state showed that all of that… was clearly ruined.
The weapon he had once been most proud of.
It was actually rusted and pitted.
“Fine. There is indeed a way.”
“You must hurry and have a child, then use it to continue your life…”
When Yan Liang stepped out of the prison, her hands and feet were ice cold.
“Jiang will blame me.”
“I could never bear to part with Jiang’s child… I’ll protect it well…”
She didn’t believe her father’s lies for a second!!
…
In the dim alley.
Hot breath breathed against Qin Jiang’s ear, and his earlobe was gently kissed by the woman.
Tangled in a closeness that felt both near and far.
Qin Jiang felt he would sooner or later be played to ruin by his yandere wife!!
Yanyan was too naughty.
A noise suddenly came from the back door. Qin Jiang panicked and clumsily pulled the hand out from inside his shirt.
“Yanyan, not here.”
Qin Jiang couldn’t help feeling embarrassed.
But more than that, being touched so vividly by Yanyan secretly thrilled him.
“Brother-in-law! Brother-in-law!! Where have you been, I’ve been looking for you for ages.”
Yan Zuo, leaning on his cane, popped half a head out of the back door, and as luck would have it saw Qin Jiang with a flushed face pulling Yan Liang’s small hand away.
“Oh my… OH MY GOD!!”
“This is some…back door, huh…”
“Ahem ahem, no, no, that’s not the point… Why is there no one at this back door? It seems Brother-in-law must have gone home already, I should also go back to the hospital and lie down~~”
Yan Zuo’s mouth puckered and his sour face quickly withdrew.
When he turned his head, he saw Song Jie in a wheelchair, propping his face with both arms and staring at him with curiosity.
“Young Master Yan? You’re still alive…”
Yan Zuo nearly screamed curses at him.
Was that how you greet someone?
“Uh huh.”
“You’re disabled too?”
Yan Zuo gave him an equally ridiculous reply.
“Ahem ahem… I’m going to the hospital too, wanna hitch a free ambulance?”
Song Jie no longer dared to poke his head out.
He had to go back to the hospital himself.
Sister Bingbing was still waiting for him at the hospital~~
Smack!
Yan Zuo, in a huff, slapped Song Jie’s head with the back of his hand. “A free slap is faster than a free ride!”
“A gift for you, you’re welcome~”
Song Jie was just ‘conveniently’ in the way of his hand~
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