TLSOTMTKOGAYWHTDI Chapter 83

Chapter 81: Xiao Zhu Caught

The iron gate of the abandoned factory in the west of the city creaked in the wind. Qi Yanwang walked alone into the empty factory building, his footsteps echoing between the reinforced concrete.

Sunlight streamed in through the broken glass windows, illuminating the dust floating in the air.

“Brother Qi~”

Xiao Zhu’s voice came from the second-floor platform, “I knew you’d come.”

Qi Yanwang looked up and saw Xiao Zhu leaning against the rusty railing, playing with a cell phone in his hand.

He was wearing a white hoodie and looked like an innocent college student, but his eyes shone with a crazy light.

“Where are the photos?” Qi Yanwang’s voice was cold.

Xiao Zhu giggled, “So anxious?”

He waved his phone, “They’re all here~”

“Delete the photos.”

Qi Yanwang’s voice was icy, “Name your price.”

Xiao Zhu giggled: “Don’t you know what I want?”

He slowly walked down the stairs, his steps as light as dancing, “I want you~”

Qi Yanwang took a step back, disgust written all over his face.

“Don’t dream.”

“Why?”

Xiao Zhu suddenly changed his face, his voice sharp, “What’s so good about Zhuo Huaimo? I can give you everything he can!”

At the same time, at the fire exit at the back door of the factory, Zhuo Huaimo and Liu Jinchen sneaked in silently with four bodyguards.

Liu Jinchen made a gesture, and two bodyguards immediately dispersed to find high ground.

“Surveillance shows that Xiao Zhu came alone.”

Liu Jinchen lowered his voice, “But I always feel something is wrong.”

Zhuo Huaimo nodded, his eyes sharp, “Qi Yanwang has a bug on him. Let’s listen to the situation first.”

Inside the factory, Xiao Zhu slowly walked down the stairs.

“Brother Qi, do you know? I think about you every day…”

“Enough nonsense.” Qi Yanwang took a step back, “Name your price.”

Xiao Zhu’s expression changed suddenly, “You think I want money?”

He pounced on Qi Yanwang, grabbing his collar,

“I want you! From the day you rescued me from that dirty clubhouse, I—”

“That’s the biggest regret of my life.” Qi Yanwang pushed him away.

Xiao Zhu staggered a few steps and suddenly laughed.

“Regret?”

He raised his phone, “What about this? If I post these online, what will your Zhuo Huaimo think?”

Qi Yanwang smiled faintly, “He already knows! I don’t care!”

“Don’t care?”

Xiao Zhu was stunned for a second, then sneered, “If you didn’t care, you wouldn’t have come back today! No, you care!”

He said slowly, “Because you don’t want your sacred love to be stained! Since you don’t care—how about a headline like ‘Qi’s President’s Lewd Photos with Male Model Exposed’?”

“Last chance.” Qi Yanwang glanced at his watch, “Name your price if you want money, otherwise…”

“Otherwise what?”

Xiao Zhu looked at him, “Would you hurt me?”

He suddenly lunged forward. Qi Yanwang dodged sideways, only to see Xiao Zhu suddenly change direction and slash his arm with a knife!

“What are you doing!” Qi Yanwang was shocked to see blood flowing down his fair arm.

“This is more like it~”

Xiao Zhu smiled strangely, raised his phone, and snapped a picture,

“Qi’s president violently injures his former assistant, how about this headline? If I can’t have you, and I can’t bear to ruin you, then I’ll ruin everything you cherish, including Xingyue Media!”

Just then, three masked men rushed out of a corner of the factory!

Qi Yanwang instantly understood that this was a trap. Zhuo Huaimo’s urgent warning came from his earphones,

“Yanwang, be careful on your right!”

A masked man swung a stick. Qi Yanwang ducked, and with a backhand elbow strike, he knocked the man down.

The other two pounced at the same time. He barely blocked, but was hit in the back with a stick, grunted, and knelt on one knee.

“Stop it!”

Xiao Zhu screamed, “Who told you to hit him!”

Taking advantage of the chaos, Zhuo Huaimo and Liu Jinchen rushed in with their men.

The bodyguards quickly subdued the two masked men, and the third saw that the situation was bad and fled out the window.

“Huaimo! Don’t come over!” Qi Yanwang suddenly shouted.

Xiao Zhu didn’t know when he picked up the knife on the ground and was waving it frantically.

“It’s all your fault! It’s all because of you! Why did you come back!”

He rushed towards Zhuo Huaimo, “You should have died in the U.S., and Brother Qi would always belong to me!”

At the critical moment, Qi Yanwang suddenly pounced on Zhuo Huaimo.

The blade slashed across his shoulder, and blood instantly soaked his shirt.

A bodyguard took the opportunity to fly kick from the side, knocking Xiao Zhu to the ground.

“Yanwang!”

Zhuo Huaimo caught the staggering Qi Yanwang, and his palm was immediately soaked in warm blood.

Xiao Zhu was pinned to the ground by bodyguards, still roaring,

“You don’t understand! From the moment he saved me, I vowed to become his!”

Qi Yanwang covered his wound, his voice weak but firm,

“What I saved back then was a life, not to raise a viper!”

Zhuo Huaimo turned to check Qi Yanwang’s injuries.

The knife wound was not deep but very long, running from the collarbone to the scapula.

“It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt.”

Qi Yanwang tried to comfort him, but was glared at fiercely by Zhuo Huaimo.

“Shut up!”

Zhuo Huaimo’s hands trembled so much that he could barely hold the first aid kit, “Every time, it’s always like this. Do you enjoy being a hero?”

Liu Jinchen came over to report, “One ran away, but I think the figure looks familiar!”

“Speak! Who is your accomplice?”

Qi Yanwang grabbed Xiao Zhu’s collar, his knuckles turning white from the force.

Blood dripped from his shoulder, blooming dark red flowers on the cement floor.

Xiao Zhu looked up and laughed wildly: “Hahaha…you’re doomed! That person will definitely kill Zhuo Huaimo! He’s more terrifying than you think!”

“Pa!”

Qi Yanwang slapped him, Xiao Zhu’s head jerked to the side, and blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.

“Yanwang!”

Zhuo Huaimo held his wrist, “Don’t dirty your hands.”

Xiao Zhu licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes deranged,

“Hit me! Beat me to death! Anyway, without Brother Qi, there’s no point in me living…”

Zhuo Huaimo squatted down, looked directly into his eyes,

“Don’t you understand? Even without me, he won’t be yours.”

Xiao Zhu’s smile froze on his face.

“He saved you just out of kindness.”

Zhuo Huaimo’s voice was calm, “And now, you’ve exhausted even this bit of kindness.”

Xiao Zhu’s pupils contracted violently, and he suddenly struggled hysterically,

“You’re talking nonsense! You—”

The bodyguards immediately subdued him and dragged him towards the door.

As he passed Qi Yanwang, Xiao Zhu suddenly became quiet, staring at him infatuatedly,

“Brother Qi, I really love you…”

Qi Yanwang turned his face away, his voice cold,

“Your love disgusts me!”

After Xiao Zhu was taken away, Liu Jinchen stood at the factory door, staring blankly in the direction where the police car was driving away.

He took out a cigar and exhaled a long smoke ring.

“What are you thinking about?” Qi Yanwang walked over, holding his shoulder.

“The first time I saw that kid was in ‘Night’.”

Liu Jinchen shook his head, “Such a clean kid, how could he…”

He turned to look at the two scarred men and sighed,

“You two are the same, getting injured and hospitalized every other day. What’s the point?”

Zhuo Huaimo was giving Qi Yanwang a simple bandage. Hearing this, he increased the force in his hands, causing Qi Yanwang to “hiss” in pain.

“Easy! Are you murdering your husband?”

“Serves you right!”

Zhuo Huaimo said this, but his movements became much gentler.

Liu Jinchen shook his head, “If you ask me, it’s best to be like me.”

He flicked the ashes of his cigar smartly, “Live in the moment, unburdened.”

Saying that, he took out his phone, opened his contacts,

“Baby~ Are you free tonight?”

He winked at the two, “See, how simple.”

Qi Yanwang and Zhuo Huaimo looked at each other and rolled their eyes at the same time.

“Okay, single dog, stop showing off your superiority here.”

Qi Yanwang put his arm around Zhuo Huaimo’s waist, “Let’s go, to the hospital.”

“Wait.”

Zhuo Huaimo suddenly remembered something, “That person who ran away…”

Liu Jinchen put away his joking expression, “The figure is familiar, but I can’t remember for a while. I’ll have people continue to investigate.”

The sound of an ambulance siren grew closer.

The sun set in the west, and the shadows of the three were stretched long.

Liu Jinchen looked at the two who were supporting each other and suddenly felt that the cigar in his hand was not so fragrant.

“Hey!”

He took a few steps to catch up, “Aren’t you really going to drink together tonight? The matter has been resolved, let’s celebrate!”

“No.”

Qi Yanwang waved his hand without looking back, “The family won’t allow it!”

Liu Jinchen stood there, watching their backs disappear into the ambulance door.

He took out his phone and deleted the number he had just dialed.

“Tsk, boring!”

He muttered to himself, but for the first time, he felt that this vast Jiang City seemed a little too quiet.

As the night deepened, Qi Yanwang stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, the cigarette between his fingers burning to the end.

Zhuo Huaimo wrapped his arms around his waist from behind, resting his chin on his shoulder,

“Not sleeping yet?”

Qi Yanwang extinguished the cigarette butt, turned around and hugged him,

“You go to sleep first, I… have something to deal with.”

Zhuo Huaimo looked up at him, his fingertips stroking his tightly furrowed brows,

“Are you thinking about the person who ran away again?”

“It’s not just him.”

Qi Yanwang’s voice was heavy, “Xiao Zhu’s last sentence… doesn’t sound like a bluff. I always feel like there’s a net around us!”

The phone suddenly vibrated, and the private detective’s number flashed on the screen.

Qi Yanwang answered quickly,

“Speak!”

“President Qi, I’ve found something.”

The voice on the other end of the phone was very low, “There are no clues about the person who ran away, but there are some leads in the case of President Zhuo’s parents!”

Qi Yanwang’s pupils shrank sharply, “What’s the situation!”

“President Zhuo’s parents transferred a large sum of money overseas in the early years, but because it wasn’t done through proper channels, it’s very difficult to trace. We spent a lot of effort.”

The detective paused, “But now the specific location and contact person are still uncertain. We suspect that they died because of this money!”

Qi Yanwang’s knuckles turned white, “I’m going over there now!”

Hanging up the phone, he looked down at Zhuo Huaimo’s worried gaze, kissed his forehead,

“I’ll go take a look first, later…”

“Let’s go together!”

Zhuo Huaimo had already picked up his coat, “I have the right to know!”

Qi Yanwang looked at his stubborn profile and suddenly pressed him against the wall and kissed him hard.

The kiss was bitter with tobacco and unspeakable fear, as if he wanted to knead him into his bones.

“Qi Yanwang…”

Zhuo Huaimo pushed him away, gasping for breath, “Are you fucking scared?”

Qi Yanwang rested his forehead on his shoulder, his voice hoarse,

“Yeah, scared to death!”

Outside the window, dark clouds covered the moonlight.