"Qianshu, I was wrong." Yuan Hui's face, usually handsome and intelligent, was laced with fear. "I was greedy for pleasure at that moment and lost my mind. I'm sorry Qianshu. Please forgive me, I love you and you are the one I love the most."
"Yuan Hui, this wasn't what you said when we were in bed together." Gu Xiaoli was hurt and angry. She whipped her head around and glowered at Shen Qianshu, badly wanting to rip her apart. What was so good about Shen Qianshu? Just because she was the school beauty and excelled in everything she did.
Back in high school, there was a popular saying that always floated around.
Everybody loves Shen Qianshu.
Wherever she went, every women lived under her shadow.
Was it because she was beautiful?
"Young lady, have you thought about this clearly? He is the one you love, you really don't want to help him?" gold-chain man asked. "I really will chop off his fingers!"
Shen Qianshu smiled, like a young and cultured lady from the olden days. Her gaze was innocent and childlike. "While you are at it, chop off his dick too!"
Everyone was speechless…
F*ck!
What a ruthless woman!
Gold-chain man and his subordinates were shocked and flinched, their legs bending inwards unconsciously.
"Hahaha…" Gu Xiaoli suddenly laughed out loud, eyes glinting deviousl, as a wide, manic grin spread across her face. Shen Qianshu wondered wryly, did she go crazy?
Gu Xiaoli stared boldly at Shen Qianshu, then ripped off her mask of friendly pretense voice laced with poison. "Shen Qianshu, I really detest you, and you know what? You'll have to pay the debt because your son is with me. If you don't, you will never see him again!"
Shen Qianshu gaze hardened to a steely flint and she snatched her phone and punched in the numbers to call Lin Xiaojuan. "Xiaojuan, where is Tong Hua?"
"Qianshu, I am trying to find him too." She could hear the worry in manager Lin Xiaojuan's voice.
Shen Qianshu ended the call wordlessly. Picking up a wooden stick from the side, she stalked over to Gu Xiaoli, face expressionless, raised her arm and smashed it across her body from the back. Her strength caused the rough, thick stick to splinter and break into pieces. The wood splinters tore into her tender palm but she did not feel pain at all. She felt numb.
There was only boundless fear eating at her from the insides.
"Where is my son."
Gu Xiaoli cried out in pain and pitifully clung into Yuan Hui's embrace. Yuan Hui looked at Shen Qianshu accusingly. "Qianshu, how could you be so brutal? She is a woman, you—"
"WHERE IS MY SON?!" Shen Qianshu screamed, throwing down the remains of useless stick and dragging the woman from his arms by her dirty locks.
Gold-chain man and his subordinates were happy to stand behind and watch their dispute. It was a bonus to watch such a ridiculous drama for free and see them tear into each other.
A police siren could be heard faintly from afar.
Gold-chain man instantly sat up again, "What the f*ck! Who the hell called the police? I'll beat the sh*t out of them! Are they asking for death?"
Gold-chain man's subordinates came forward, forcefully pressing them down and clamping their mouths. They hauled the three out from the back door and into a bread delivery van, escaping quickly.
Shen Qianshu helplessly watched the police car pass them, filling her with deep regret.
The broken house actually had a back door?
Things didn't go exactly as she had planned.
Her luck had been like sh*t recently.
If only she knew earlier, she would have attacked them sooner.
This bunch of hooligans, she could beat up fifty of them!
"Gu Xiaoli, if Tong Hua has even the slightest scratch, I will rip off all of your hair. Strand by strand." Shen Qianshu's gentle voice was not threatening at all, but her chilling words frightened Gu Xiaoli. She shifted closer towards Yuan Hui.
"If you help us to pay the debt, I will release Tong Hua."
After driving past Mei Lin Valley, gold-chain man changed lanes and slipped into an unknown road to hoodwink the police. Straight after passing by the crossroad, three black SUVs sped past them. Her mind raced with thoughts about Tong Hua, and Shen Qianshu suddenly saw the three SUVs make a turn and intercept them, lining up imposingly in a straight row.
What awe-inspiring power!
It was as if the provincial road was their own private car park.
At that moment, Shen Qianshu finally found something strange.
The usually busy provincial road was completely empty. No cars, no people, nothing.
Gold-chain man's subordinate slammed on the brakes suddenly, causing them all to fly forward in the bread delivery van. Gold-chain man violently strangled the driver in rage at his incompetence.
Eight men all decked in immaculate suits stepped out from the outer SUVs, stiff bodies upright as they stood on the deserted road. The SUV in the middle made no movement at all, and nobody came out. Shen Qianshu's could feel a strange hammering in her heart as it beat wildly with uneasiness. Her eyelids twitched, as if foreshadowing an unknown danger ahead.
Gold-chain man hopped off the car, swaggering aggressively towards the men and shouted, "Who are you guys to dare to block my road, scram!"
The eight uniformed men pulled out their guns in an orderly manner.
Not a sound was heard except deafening silence as the guns shifted their aim towards the offensive man.
Shit!
What was hell was this situation?
A movie film?
Gold-chain man had gotten such a shock from the unexpected turn of events that his legs turned into jelly. He stumbled forward and fell to his knees, "I am only a loan shark, please spare my life big brothers!"
"…"
Shen Qianshu was speechless.
Gold-chain man, you are such a coward.
"Everybody get off the car."
Everybody in the bread delivery van got off one after another, including Shen Qianshu. She felt a frosty gaze piercing through the tinted windscreen onto her face and the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end.
There was complete silence.
The door of the SUV in the middle opened and Shen Qianshu's mind went completely blank.
Master?
Everyone's gaze was focused on the person who stepped out of the car.
The man was strikingly tall, with distinct features and a high brow bone, making his amber eyes deeper, giving off a feeling of desire. He was very good looking, having an aggressive kind of handsomeness that gave off an aura of sinful darkness and evil. He could easily pass off as a warrior from the ancient times, both strong and highly charismatic.
Everyone was too shocked by his entrance to make a sound.
He leaned slightly against the hood of the car and crossed his one long leg over the other in a confidently casual, but reserved manner. His amber eyes hardened and he settled on the face of Shen Qianshu, as if marking his prey. His attitude was like that of a god of war, doing as he pleased, arrogant and unyielding.
He pointed at Shen Qianshu and beckoned for her to come forward, as if calling for a beloved pet. His eyes on the other hand, hardened to steel shards they looked her up and down appraisingly.
"Come here!"
Shen Qianshu's constant, unwavering smile was nowhere to be seen. She swallowed anxiously, and shuffled slowly towards him, badly wishing to grow a pair of wings so that she could escape faraway.
In this life, the one person she did not want to see again was Ye Ling.
It was not hatred!
She recalled that after being three months pregnant, Butler Luther came looking for her and asked her about her pregnancy. She felt like she was pushed to the brink of desperation. She did not know what this terrifying man would do to her and her child, there was still no explanation regarding that fateful night. She told a lie.
She told Butler Luther that she had aborted the child.
In order to deceive them, she forced herself to continue to attend school, working her normal shifts and letting herself get exhausted in the process.
When she was six months pregnant, it was also winter in Paris. She wore layers and layers of clothing, bundling herself up as much as possible. As she was also skinny, she did not look like she was pregnant. Butler Luther had never looked for her again. Soon after, Shen Qianshu immediately went back home to China.
"Little liar, if you don't want to walk… Zhong Ran, break her legs and carry her here." the man's voice was deep and husky, a little dull, yet steady and patient.
A man with long hair was just about to speak when Shen Qianshu took a deep breath and walked over. She always knew when to yield and when to stand firm, she was a person with self-preservation.
"My legs are long and straight, they're beautiful as they are. It would be a pity to break them."
The man's expression immediately turned dark, his amber eyes holding back a fiery storm. As Shen Qianshu was only footsteps away from him, he bent down swiftly, picking her up by her legs. She screamed when she felt her legs leave the ground and immediately flailed about, before he placed her abruptly onto the hood of the car.
Shen Qianshu's long legs were pressed under his palm, her arms were wrapped around his neck. The closeness of their bodies and his familiar masculine scent still carried an overwhelming sense of aggressiveness. Just like in the past. Even after seven long years, she had been unable to forget. It drowned her in the mists of that one unforgettable memory.
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