Lunatic!
Beast!
Ignoring her pain, he kissed the corners of her lips and her deathly pale face once more.
He pulled a bullet necklace from his pants pocket and fastened it around her neck.
This very bullet had once pierced his heart and had been surgically extracted from it.
For all these years, he had kept it on his person.
Now, he was giving the thing he cherished most to her.
"Keep it safe, and give it to our child in the future."
Jiang Shuyin's lips curled into a mocking arc. She stared at him, her eyes brimming with intense hatred. "Are you joking? Even if I die, I will never give birth to this vile spawn. Someone like you doesn't deserve to have a child!"
He was a man who had always been cold and ruthless. Even if someone pressed a gun against his forehead, he could remain entirely unbothered without so much as blinking an eye.
But this woman always managed to successfully ignite the fury in his heart.
His long fingers gripped her jawbone with such force it felt as though he might crush her bones. "If you dare to abort this child, I will absolutely never let you off!"
Seeing the chilling murderous intent in his eyes, Jiang Shuyin felt the blood in her veins freeze into ice.
She gritted her teeth. "The worst that can happen is death!"
A faintly burning flame erupted in the man's eyes. "Must you provoke me?"
Jiang Shuyin lowered her long eyelashes, pressed her lips tightly together, and said no more.
Looking at her pale and frail appearance, the man ultimately stopped tormenting her.
He placed her on the bed and tucked the blanket around her. "What do you want to eat? I'll have someone make it for you."
Jiang Shuyin didn't want to eat anything.
She was worried about Si Moyan and Wen Yan. She had no idea how this man had even found out about Si Moyan's existence.
As if seeing through her thoughts, he lifted his long fingers and tucked a stray strand of hair by her cheek behind her ear. "Tomorrow night, Si Moyan will come over and take you away."
Jiang Shuyin's eyes widened in shock.
What... what did he mean?
Just as she was about to ask, he stood up and left.
His departing figure was cold and wildly arrogant.
...
The next day.
As the sky gradually darkened, Jiang Shuyin's heart grew increasingly uneasy.
Since that man told her last night that Ah Yan would come to take her away, he had not returned.
She didn't know if what he said was true or false.
He was the fourth boss of the crime syndicate; why would he let Ah Yan take her away?
Unless—
In a flash of realization, a bold guess crossed Jiang Shuyin's mind.
Before she had time to think it over, a knock sounded at the back door.
Jiang Shuyin walked over quickly. Wen Yan was standing outside.
"Ah Yin, we're leaving."
Jiang Shuyin nodded. Following behind Wen Yan, she walked toward a jeep.
The person driving the jeep was a young man. He had plain features and a tall, muscular build.
Jiang Shuyin recognized the man; it was the head boss's subordinate, Simon.
But she knew that the person was definitely not the real Simon.
"Ah Yan?" she called out tentatively.
The man nodded at her.
Wen Yan immediately pulled Jiang Shuyin into the car.
In the back seat, several other young women were hiding.
They were all captives abducted by the crime syndicate to be used as playthings.
"Ah Yan, we all have chips implanted in our brains."
Si Moyan nodded. "I've been undercover here for a month. During this time, I destroyed the chip equipment and the remotes. Your lives are no longer in danger."
A smile appeared on Jiang Shuyin's face. "You're still as amazing as ever."
"This is also thanks to Lu Yan's help." Si Moyan drove toward the castle's main gates. "We're about to head out, so all of you stay hidden."
The castle gates were heavily guarded. When Si Moyan drove up, an armed guard immediately approached.
"I'm heading out on business under the head boss's orders," Si Moyan said coldly.
"Simon, according to the rules, we have to inspect your vehicle!"
The hearts of the women in the car instantly leaped into their throats.
Si Moyan took out a Cuban cigar and handed it to the guard. "I am the head boss's most trusted man. Could I possibly betray him? I'm going on a long trip this time, and I'll bring back some good stuff for you all when I return."
The guard took the cigar. Hearing the benefits Si Moyan promised, he casually glanced into the car. Finding nothing unusual, he waved his hand. "Alright then, we'll wait for you to get back."
Just as the car was about to start moving, a sudden hiccup rang out.
"Simon, who else is in the car besides you?" The guard had sharp ears and caught the anomaly.
In the back seat, Wen Yan immediately covered the mouth of the woman who had hiccuped out of nervousness.
"Who else could there be besides me?"
"But we just heard a hiccup!" The guard walked over to the back door and reached out to pull it open.
Si Moyan's hand moved to his waist. If the door was opened, he would draw his gun and shoot them dead on the spot.
At this critical moment, a deep, icy voice suddenly rang out. "What's going on?"
An off-road vehicle drove over. The man sitting in the driver's seat glared at the guard with sharp, eagle-like eyes. "What are you dawdling for? Let him through!"
Seeing the fourth boss, the guard didn't dare waste any more time and immediately opened the gates.
After Si Moyan and the man exchanged a glance, he quickly drove away.
It wasn't until they had driven a dozen meters away from the castle that the people lying in the back dared to lift their heads one by one.
Jiang Shuyin glanced out through the car window. Seeing the off-road vehicle driving behind them, her pupils shrank. "Ah Yan, he's following us!"
Si Moyan gave a low hum of acknowledgment. "He found the crime syndicate's armory and planted explosives inside. Once we drive far enough away, he'll press the remote, and that entire castle will be reduced to ruins."
Just as Si Moyan finished speaking, a shrill alarm suddenly echoed from the castle.
They hadn't driven far enough yet. If the armory blew up now, the force of the explosion would threaten their lives.
"I can't leave. Hurry up and take them to where I parked the helicopter. I'll stay behind and hold them off!" The man leaned his head out and shouted to Si Moyan.
Si Moyan nodded with a solemn expression.
The man sped up, bringing his off-road vehicle alongside Si Moyan's. He looked at Jiang Shuyin in the back seat. "I know you don't love me, but please keep my child. If you don't want to raise it, give it to my parents after it's born. I'm begging you!"
Jiang Shuyin looked at the man and realized he had actually shaved off the beard he hadn't touched in four years.
A face as striking as if it had been chiseled by a master sculptor was revealed, with deep, defined features. A black tactical outfit outlined his strong and sturdy physique.
Jiang Shuyin never expected that the man who had constantly forced himself upon her was actually so young and handsome.
At this moment, stripped of his usual cold-blooded cruelty, his eagle eyes stared at her deeply and darkly. "My real name is Lu Yan."
Jiang Shuyin lowered her long eyelashes, refusing to look at him or say a single word to him.
The moment she lowered her lashes, a flicker of disappointment flashed through the man's profound eyes.
"Jiangjiang, goodbye."
It was the first time he had ever called her Jiangjiang. On his usually cold face, a faint, almost imperceptible smile of doting affection appeared.
From beginning to end, Jiang Shuyin gave him no response.
So cold.
So heartless.
Lu Yan turned the off-road vehicle around, blocking the path of the vehicles chasing after them.
Jiang Shuyin lifted her head again and looked back. She didn't know what Lu Yan had said to them, but suddenly, the head boss pointed a gun right at his chest.
Just as his silhouette was growing increasingly blurry in the distance, she saw the boss pull the trigger.
The man was hit, his tall frame swaying unsteadily.
Soon, a fierce firefight broke out between him and the rest of the men.
He was entirely alone, fighting against an entire army.
It seemed his only way out was death!
Jiang Shuyin looked up at Si Moyan, whose expression was unusually heavy and solemn. With a trembling voice, she asked, Is Lu Yan an undercover cop?
Si Moyan gave a slight nod. He is a great man.
The memory of the first time Jiang Shuyin met him involuntarily surfaced in her mind.
Back then, he had taken a near-fatal knife wound to save the head boss. As soon as he had recovered, the boss selected several women to gift him as a reward.
She was one of the women chosen.
She had just arrived at the Black Desert then. Her face was red, swollen, and peeling from the harsh sun, so the first, second, and third bosses hadn't shown any interest in her.
If the fourth boss didn't want her either, she would be thrown to their burly, brutish subordinates.
The other women with her were all much prettier than she was at the time.
Desperate not to become a plaything for the masses, they all vied for the fourth boss's favor.
She had no confidence that he would pick her, but after circling the group, he finally stopped behind her.
He casually wrapped an arm around her slender waist. I'll take this chick.
Old Four, you have a really unique taste. She's the ugliest one here.
I just happen to like ugly women.
That night, ignoring her struggles and resistance, he had forcefully claimed her.
She hated the people in that crime syndicate, and she hated that demonic man even more.
She dreamed constantly of escaping that prison-like place.
Now she had finally escaped, yet her heart felt inexplicably hollow.
Could she have developed Stockholm Syndrome?!
Si Moyan drove the car to the spot where Lu Yan had parked the helicopter.
As the helicopter gradually ascended high into the sky, a deafening explosion suddenly erupted from the direction of the castle.
The blast was so incredibly powerful that even the ground seemed to quake.
Si Moyan stared at the towering flames in the distance, his narrow, deep eyes turning red.
For his duty, his mission, and the people, Lu Yan had sacrificed himself.
