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I was woken by a splitting pain in my head as a migraine settled in. The room was flooded in sunlight as I lay face down on the bed, my hands and feet now completely free of restraints.
I remained still for two seconds, then in a flash I flipped my body over as I leapt up from the bed, grabbing a lamp from the bedside as I removed the lampshade.
I surveilled the area and found no one, so I lifted my feet to venture out in careful steps as I combed through different parts of the room. I hadn’t even walked a few paces, when I suddenly felt something drip down from an unspeakable part, flowing from my thighs all the way until my ankle. I lowered my head to look at it, and once the colour and texture of what I saw registered in my head it incited an even greater desire to kill someone.
In this room, no matter the decoration or the layout, it was similar to the one that Luo Zheng Yun was in so I deduced that I should still be in the private club from yesterday and hadn’t left it’s premises yet.
Ha, out of the frying pan and straight into the fire. The guests here really weren’t picky at all, they were willing to bed a random person they bumped into in the corridors. It turns out birds of a feather really flock together, everyone here was a fucking bastard.
The more I thought about it, the more my jaw clenched. I gripped tighter onto the lamp in my hand and slammed a foot into the bathroom door that was half open.
The room was spotless, there was no one in the bathtub, and no one behind the door.
I walked in to inspect the room further and found that the bath towels and complimentary shower gels all had visible signs of usage. The person was casual and relaxed enough to find time to take a shower afterwards…
There was no one else in the whole room apart from me, so I knew that the person had already long since left the place. I quashed the anger bubbling within me and threw the ‘weapon’ in my hand into the bathtub. As I turned around to leave the bathroom, I caught a glimpse of my reflection in the mirror.
I was startled for a second, then moved forward to take a closer look.
My reflection in the mirror was especially pale, my eyes red rimmed and standing out starkly in comparison. The most terrifying thing was a bite mark on the neck, it was a deep purple and swollen, and even the slightest touch would trigger pain. If I took a closer look at it still, I could see a needle mark left from the injection in the middle of the bite marks.
He even bit down on the exact place Luo Zheng Yun had injected me.
My fingers traced that area as I turned around and found even more markings on my back.
The fury that I had just managed to suppress started to rise up again, so I closed my eyes, slid the bathroom door open and rushed in to take an expeditious bath.
It was only after I had cleaned up all the mess that remained on my body that I remembered an especially important belonging that I had forgotten – the phone.
To get that footage, I used my own body as bait and things had gone wrong in the process. If at the end, all of this was for nothing then I could blow up this whole place without hesitation.
I returned to the bedroom and turned the place upside down, then at last I found the phone under a pillow, and it still had enough battery.
I let out a breath, then quickly searched through it for the footage from the previous night.
The part where Luo Zheng Yun had taken his shower to when he had tricked me to enter the bathroom was not filmed on camera, but the sounds were clearly recorded. However, what came after, like the events of him dragging me to the bed and his exertion of violence on me was clearly caught on tape, all of it on there. Especially the line, “But I can’t guarantee that as once I get excited, I might toy with you until you die”, those words was exceedingly cruel, and hearing it again made my blood boil in response.
After I knocked Luo Zheng Yun out, I stumbled and tripped as I clutched the phone in my hand and made my way to leave. Even up until here the recording function was still on and working.
My breath stilled, as I continued watching.
“Is… Is anyone here?”
I leaned in closer to the screen and I could already make out a corner of a man’s clothing as he rounded the corner. Unfortunately, before the camera could capture the man’s appearance, I had bumped into him in the video, and the phone had also slipped from my grasp.
The screen displayed a momentary darkness.
“Take… take me away….”
The phone was picked up by someone, and through the shaking camera lens there was a flash of a foot, wearing a black derby shoe paired with navy suit pants. I still wanted to look into it further but the video abruptly stopped at this point.
The other person had picked up the phone and simultaneously turned off the recording function.
I stared at the timestamp for when the recording finished and the stationary foot that remained in the corner, and resisted the urge to jump inside the phone screen so I could rip apart the person there to shreds.
With nowhere to express the looming frustration in my heart, I had a moment where fuelled by impulse, I wanted to just smash the phone into pieces, but at the last second I managed to stop myself.
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“Hey.”
Yi Da Zhuang’s frantic and overjoyed voice suddenly pierced through my eardrums, “Fuck me, Feng Ge, Feng Ge you’re still alive! Feng Ge, where are you? I searched the whole night for you, Feng Ge, you’re okay right?”
I wasn’t sure if last night I had cursed out loud too fervently, because my throat was still slightly sore, and my voice sounded as if it was mixed with gravel.
“I’m fine, where are you right now?”
“Yesterday I followed your car to the entrance of the ‘Sacred Garden of Eden Private Club’ but I couldn’t enter without a membership, so I spent the whole night waiting for you outside. When it was almost daytime, I couldn’t bring myself to sit there any longer, you weren’t picking up my calls and I wasn’t seeing you exiting the premises either, I was worried for you so I decided to call the police.” Yi Da Zhuang sounded upset as he described the following sequence of events with indignation, “In the end when they heard that I was reporting my friend who had followed Luo Zheng Yun into a private club and wasn’t able to come out again, they had the audacity to question whether I was drunk or not? They even warned me that prank calls like these could be an offense that lands me in jail!”
I sneered lightly in response, anyone who heard someone calling for help with these lines would probably think it was just a prank, after all Luo Zheng Yun did create a wonderful persona for himself.
“Alright, wait outside at the entrance, I’m leaving here immediately and I’ll be there in ten.”
After I hung up, I picked up every item of clothing left strewn on the floor and redressed myself. The injury on my neck was too obvious, so to avoid Yi Da Zhuang noticing, I could only pull the zipper on my jacket to the very top and flip up the collars of my shirt to cover it.
I followed the club signage and descended to the ground floor, where I finally was able to witness the grand entrance of this private club.
Under a hugely extravagant chandelier, all sorts of different types of flowers and plants were placed on a marble desk, that was in an upside down cone shape. The floor below the desk was made from light grey marble slabs, and from the surface of the desk a light mist that was softly fragranced cascaded off its surface like a billowing waterfall made out of smoke. It would pour into the grey marble slabs and the whole scene was simply ethereal.
If yesterday I hadn’t been bound up by someone and taken advantage of, then today I should have been in the mood to greatly enjoy and appreciate the beautiful display in front of me.
It’s just a pity that there are no ‘what if’s’ in this world.
At the very end of the colossal hall was a reception desk that did not visually stand out at all, with only a female wearing the staff uniform being stationed there. She remained in her position as she stood still and if someone had only taken a rough glance it would be easy to mistake her as a mannequin just there for decoration.
“Hello, I’d like to inquire about yesterday nights room, number 1334, and see who booked it.” Once I knew that bastard’s name, even if I had to go back into jail for another ten years I would still gladly accept the sentence just to castrate him myself.
“Apologies, we are unable to provide the names of our customers here.” The female staff’s makeup was done in a very delicate manner, her smile was pleasing to see, and her tone of voice was gentle to hear.
I clenched my teeth, unwilling to give up, “Then can I request to see the surveillance footage from last night on the 11th floor? I… I lost something in that corridor.”
“Then you can first apply for a search warrant.” She seemed to have already seen through everything, as she answered my question easily, her stance firm and unforgiving.
She was a tough one to crack.
Instantly, I was filled with anger, but since I was unable to get any answers out of her, I could only take my leave first.
Once I left that European styled building, immediately someone had driven a golf car and escorted me out. In the daytime, the surroundings became much more visible, and it was only now that I realised that there were actually ample security guards patrolling the whole area, and the security level could even be classified as tight.
On the gates as we exited the premises, a neat and lowkey row of gold letters were forged in metal – the Garden of Eden.
The name sounded nice, however no matter how well it was packaged outside, the insides were all rotten.
Once I reached the gates, I called Yi Da Zhuang’s cell phone again, and told him to drive the car over.
After we had successfully met up, Yi Da Zhuang meticulously looked me up and down, his expression twisted and at a loss, as he opened his mouth several times, only to close it immediately after.
“Feng Ge, you…”
I knew what he wanted to ask, I had disappeared for a whole night with no contact at all, in his mind he had probably hypothesised several scenarios.
“Shut up.” I leaned back against the chair as I lowered it, turning my body slightly so I was facing away from him as I closed my eyes, “Don’t ask me any questions.”
The car ride was quiet after that, and I couldn’t actually fall asleep but I felt the headache coming back so I wanted some silence to myself.
Now I truly understood how Mo Qiu felt, it really was not a good feeling. However, I didn’t want to kill myself, I just wanted to kill the person at fault.
After driving for approximately an hour, Yi Da Zhuang stopped his car as he quietly called me, “Feng Ge, we’ve arrived at your house.”
I opened my eyes and sat up, then took out a phone from my pocket and passed it to him.
“Nothing happened to me at all, don’t come up with any ridiculous thoughts. It was just that yesterday I was sneak attacked by Luo Zheng Yun as he injected something into me, and I still feel a headache from that.”
Yi Da Zhuang was greatly alarmed at this, “A, a shot? What did he give you, shit, let’s go to the hospital now, what if he gave you something that harmed you!”
As he spoke he wanted to bring up my sleeves to see for himself, and I laughed in response as I swatted his hand away, realising that I couldn’t bring myself to tell him that Luo Zheng Yun actually injected an aphrodisiac in me.
“It’s fine, it’s probably a sedative, he only injected a bit before I slapped the syringe away.” I told Yi Da Zhuang of all the events which unfolded last night up until bumping into the other person in the corridor. From that point onwards, I simply twisted my words slightly, and the story completely headed into a different direction, from becoming a criminal case to a story that showcased a lot of wholesomeness.
“So a kind hearted passerby saved you, and had you stay in their room for a night?” Yi Da Zhuang repeated, shocked, “You didn’t even get to thank the other person when he left with a wave and disappeared without another trace?”
“Yes. I wanted to ask the receptionist for his contact details this morning, but unfortunately their level of professionalism was simply too high…” At this point, I almost couldn’t keep up the facade and the smile plastered on my face, as the corners of my lips twitched, “They weren’t willing to give it to me.”
Yi Da Zhuang looked as if he was still skeptical of the events, but he didn’t dare press the matter and interrogate further. He coughed softly and then lowered his head to view the phone in my hands.
“This is Xiao Shi’s phone, right?”
Yesterday night there was only a brief window of time where he had left to go to the bathroom, but after he returned he found both his phone and myself vanished without a trace. Shen Xiao Shi was confused for a second as he ran out of the nightclub in search of Yi Da Zhuang, only to find that Yi Da Zhuang’s vehicle had also disappeared.
He could only return to the club as he asked a passerby on the street to borrow their phone so he could sign into his QQ account and call Yi Da Zhuang.
However, at that point Yi Da Zhuang had already hit the roads, and there was no way he was going to turn back to pick him up, so he told Shen Xiao Shi to go back home and rest for the night.
Shen Xiao Shi initially was handed the most crucial task of all, but he ended up being involved in a rather baffling way, and leaving equally baffled as to what had just happened.
Although in hindsight, it was good that it wasn’t him… from the fury which had boiled over from last night until now, I suddenly felt a trace of gladness. Then, because I felt glad over the way everything had panned out despite what had happened, I found this situation was absurd above all else.
What even was this series of events.
I rubbed the bridge of my nose, “I lost my own phone in Luo Zheng Yun’s room, and I probably won’t be able to retrieve it, I’ll need to buy a new one as well as… destroying the data left on my phone using remote methods.”
Yi Da Zhuang looked at the recording I took last night and cursed as he watched it, “Jesus, if this video was shown to the public then it would be completely over for him, what a piece of trash, he isn’t human at all!”
I made no comment as I took back the phone from his hand and placed it back in my pocket, then suggested, “Let’s go buy my new phone.”
Yi Da Zhuang agreed as he turned the car around and headed towards the nearby department store.
This whole incident started with Mo Qiu, so it was also natural that Mo Qiu should be the one who brought it to an end.
I used the new phone to contact Mo Qiu and told him that things could pretty much be resolved now. He hurriedly asked me how things could be resolved but I kept my sentences brief over the phone and instead set a time so I could go over to his house to explain everything in detail.
Before I entered his house, I specifically tugged at my collar so I could hide the bite mark that still looked ghastly against my skin.
Judging by his complexion, Mo Qiu still didn’t look too well, but at least the injury on his wrists hadn’t reopened again from him tearing at it.
He poured a cup of water for me, ill at ease as he sat there before he asked, “Lu Feng, what were you talking about when you mentioned all those things over the phone? When you brought up resolving the incident, how did you plan to resolve it?”
I took out the phone and sent the video recording to him.
I had already returned Shen Xiao Shi’s phone, so now the original recording of the video was in my hands and with Yi Da Zhuang. The one that I sent to Mo Qiu was an edited recording that obscured my face.
Mo Qiu watched as his phone on the table vibrated a few times.
Hesitatingly, he picked up the phone to take a look at the contents. A short while later, the speaker played a conversation that I was so familiar with by now that I could memorise it word for word, as Luo Zheng Yun’s malevolent side was portrayed flawlessly.
“This is…” Mo Qiu’s eyes widened, as his complexion didn’t seem to get better, rather it seemed to pale by a few shades.
He looked at me as he questioned me unbelievingly, “Lu Feng, you… what did you do?”
Even though the edited footage covered my face, my voice was not altered, so it wasn’t strange for him to recognise me from the tape.
I feigned confidence and ease as I gave him a smile, “Just performing criminal entrapment, it’s no big deal. Don’t worry, he didn’t do anything to me, rather I gave him a cruel beating, you don’t have to worry at all.”
The person who did do something to me was someone else altogether, and I would definitely find out who he was one day and make him regret the reckless decision he made on that day.
Mo Qiu stared at me in shock, “You….”
I saw that he was staring at an odd place, and immediately moved to cover the side of my neck.
Seeing my reaction, he seemed to have confirmed something, as his expression distorted bit by bit until it became completely crumpled. I felt that something was amiss, so just when I wanted to say something to liven the atmosphere, he erupted into loud wails.
Different to the past times he cried when he had always wept in silence, this time he sobbed loudly, tears and snot streaming down his whole face, as he looked like a devastated child, one who was so upset they couldn’t maintain the image of an adult anymore.
“Sorry…” He almost yelled this one word at me as he continued while wailing, “…Sorry… If I was more decisive… You… Then you wouldn’t have to do this…. It’s my fault… I’m always letting you down…. I’m sorry…”
Droplet after droplet of big pearly tears hit the phone screen as he used his hands continuously to wipe off the tears on his face, though no matter how hard he tried he wasn’t able to dry his eyes.
I sighed softly internally as I comforted him, “No, nothing happened, don’t overthink it. This was just a sacrifice to lure him into the trap and it was just a bite, it’s really nothing…”
Mo Qiu continued crying bitterly over me as he incessantly repeated his apologies and claiming how it was all his fault.
I saw that I couldn’t convince him, so I opted to wait until he had let it all out.
After he had wailed for about fifteen minutes, his voice was hoarse, his tears had dried, and his nose was completely stuffy. It was only until then that he was able to calm down despite the occasional hiccups.
“Send this to Luo Zheng Yun and tell him to never get close to you and threaten you again, otherwise you’ll send this to all the media companies and post it online too.” I pointed at the phone in his hands as I instructed him, “You got it?”
Mo Qiu pressed his lips together as he nodded his head.
“I’m really fine, you don’t have to feel guilty over it.” I got up to leave but didn’t feel at ease with setting off just yet, so I felt the need to re emphasise the point.
Mo Qiu shivered slightly all over as he raised his head to look at me, and gave me a smile that looked absolutely horrible.
“En.”
I didn’t know if he believed me or not, maybe he didn’t believe me, but it was fine, because from now on all of this would have nothing to do with him anymore, and the rest would be a matter of my own.
I believed it would be like so.
I believed it would be like so.
However, things were always unpredictable, and the next day just when I was performing an appraisal for a diamond ring a customer brought in, Liu Yue gasped in shock as she read out the headline of some breaking news on her laptop.
“Movie star Luo Zheng Yun has been taken away by police for investigation after alledged sexual assault and abuse against a man with the surname Mo. Oh my god, how could this have happened? Luo Zheng Yun is gay, and he rapes men? What is going on?”
The diamond ring fell from my hands onto the desk as I looked up in confusion and shock.
The Mo Qiu who was always cowardly and afraid, the Mo Qiu that always said he couldn’t do anything himself…. He actually chose to involve the police.
Something even more unexpected was the fact that after 24 hours, Luo Zheng Yun had been bailed out of the police office by his lawyer. The whole time, Luo Zheng Yun had worn a mask and sunglasses, not revealing an inch of his face. In contrast, the lawyer by his side seemed infinitely more calm, as if even if countless guns or cannons were aimed at him, and the barrel was pointed so close it was almost touching his face, he would still be able to walk forward with ease, his handsome face completely devoid of any traces of anger or agitation.
His elegant demeanour was unmatched, and he stood straight and tall, walking alongside Luo Zheng Yun, he looked as if he was another celebrity from the way he presented himself.
This lawyer, was the step brother that I had not seen for a long time, Sheng Min Ou, esteemed Lawyer Sheng.
As I watched the live coverage on the laptop screen, I wanted to start clapping then and there as I applauded the heavens, whilst bursting into simultaneous praise, “Truly, what a wonderful surprise!”
I don’t like SMO, dontlikedontlikedontlike waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
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Wahhhhhhh SMO has to work hard to redeem himself later that’s for sure…. hopefully we get to understand more of his thought process soon otherwise I foresee a lot of pitchforks being raised at him 🤧 Thanks for the support! <3
i can’t even begin to describe how FUCKING disappointed i am in sheng min ou
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Mood. Thank you for the support! <3
Oml, Mo Qiu, honey its not your fault. I’m so glad something will be done about Luo Zheng Yun but at this point I’m pretty sure Mr. Rapist is SMO and I have decided that I won’t type in his full name until he somehoe, idk how, convinces me even a tiny bit that he is worthy of Lu Feng ( eventhough Lu Feng may not be perfectly ok upstairs.) I know thats petty but what else can I do as a reader.
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Omg, not somehoe, somehow 😓
why did I automatically think of SMO when you said some hoe….. ugh he just needs to take the stick out of his ass please 😭 I guess we’ll just have to wait until the author decides to confirm who the rapist was but it does seem like she’s hinting it’s SMO at the moment. Thanks for the support! 💕
God, this story! My stomach is left twisted in knots 🪢 every chapter!
Thanks again for your hard work!
Aaaahhhh I want to burst into applause too SMO you bastard, LF beat him up, first for being that sicko’s lawyer and then when you find out he’s the mystery man!!!!
Honestly, I wasn’t even this mad last chapter. What a bi+ch.
passes u a speaker so LF can hear it louder and so it gets thru to his one track minded brain 📢📢📢
How can someone be this despicable? 🤬🔪 I hate him even more than LZY!
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SMO has a lot to explain… Thanks for the support! <3
I love this story, but I always have to keep spare chapters to read from other ones because I know it will make me suffer, and then I’ll need healing fluff.
Thanks for the chapter anyway <3
😭😭 glad to hear that you have fluffier chapters because the suffering will still be here for a while… Thanks for the support! <3
Omg
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😖😫 Thank you for the support! <3
Maybe Sheng Ming Ou accepted or even offered himself to be his attorney Just to pit the trash for good. He must had seen that video.
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An interesting theory 👀👀 Thanks for the support! <3
Aaah 😡 this is just so f*cked up! Win this case Mo Qiu, please win this case Q^Q
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thanks for the chapter!
damn.
Rooting for Mo Qiu’s side to win this case.
Ihatehimihatehimihatehimihatehim AAAAHHHHHHHH WTF SMO UGHHHHHH AT THIS RATE YOU WON’T HAVE A WIFE
I just started reading the novel today. I waited years for it to be completed lol and right now, I have this absurd thought. What if it was all planned by SMO? What if he asked MQ to pose and the rapist? Just what if. Or maybe I had too much of Taylor Swift’s Mastermind 😩 pardon me.
But no matter how sob SMO’s background story, I can never ever accept his ways. LF is also at fault for his extreme behaviors. But, NO to SMO. Pardon me, again 🙇♀️
Holy shit this has been a wild ride already…