Outside the military base, Gu Yunchi was holding an umbrella and watching Lu Heyang get into the driver’s seat. Lu Heyang was alone in the car; none of Jiang Wen’s men were with him.
After leaving the military zone, Lu Chengyu’s bodyguards would follow Lu Heyang, just as they had for the past eighteen years.
The dense raindrops kept shaking the umbrella. Through the car window, Gu Yunchi saw Lu Heyang raise his hand and wave to him as if it were an ordinary goodbye. Then Lu Heyang drove off to the main road.
Gu Yunchi realized that he had guessed wrong. Xu Ze might be a suitable choice that could achieve the desired result at a minimal cost. However, it was all empty talk because Lu Heyang had never considered using Xu Ze throughout the entire process.
The windshield wipers swayed rhythmically, clearing the water on the windshield. Although it was noon, Lu Heyang needed headlights to see the road. He drove so calmly that he felt a little sleepy, perhaps not sleepy but fatigued.
There were so many issues in front of him—the safety of Xu Ze, Ye Yunhua, and even Lin Yumian, Lu Qingmo’s predicament, and Lu Chengyu’s control over everything. What should have been resolved gradually now seemed to have little time left. Lu Heyang rarely did things without certainty, but when he made a move, he did so without regrets. No one could guarantee that everything would be successful. The choice made after avoiding all the wrong options might not be the right one. In certain matters, there might not be a correct choice, he just needed to confirm his ability to bear all the consequences.
The journey from the military base to the city took over an hour. As he passed a low mountain, the surrounding dense forest completely blocked out the sunlight, leaving only the car’s headlights. Lu Heyang glanced at the rearview mirror; the bodyguard’s car had yet to catch up.
Twenty seconds later, a muffled noise came from the car’s right front tire. Immediately after, the vehicle tilted toward the right railing amid a rapid warning sound. Lu Heyang slammed the brakes and stabilized the out-of-control steering wheel while the tires screeched against the road.
Bang—the front of the car skewed and crashed into the steel guardrail on the side of the road. Under the impact, Lu Heyang’s body was slammed on the steering wheel, causing severe pain in his propped-up hands.
He lifted his head to see someone climbing over the railing and approaching the car.
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Xu Ze rushed to the cardiology operating room of the capital’s Second Hospital. Chi Jiahan was already there. It had taken Xu Ze almost an hour to get there from the school which was enough to exhaust his endurance and composure. When Zhou Zhen handed him the consent form to sign, he couldn’t even hold the pen steady and wrote his name crooked and illegible.
Zhou Zhen rushed back to the operating room, leaving Xu Ze standing in place. Xu Ze wasn’t sure if he had seen it correctly, but the signature of the main surgeon on the consent form seemed to be Li Zhan’s.
The top cardiologist had previously conducted a comprehensive examination for Ye Yunhua. At first, Xu Ze thought it was a coincidence that Professor Li was invited to the nursing home by someone else, and he happened to benefit from it—but it turned out it wasn’t a coincidence. Only he was stupid enough to believe it.
Xu Ze turned around. The corridor was bright and empty, Lu Heyang hadn’t arrived yet.
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Someone pushed him into a chair, and his hands were restrained by icy metal rings he felt around his wrists. Two cold patches were placed on his temples. Then the blindfold was lifted, and Lu Heyang opened his eyes to see a dim light.
An abandoned underground warehouse with dusty sacks and torn cardboard boxes stacked in the corners. To his right was an old desk with a power strip and black electric wires extending behind the chair. Lu Heyang looked down at the armrest—it was a makeshift electric chair.
Footsteps echoed, and an alpha leisurely emerged from the shadows, holding a thin syringe between his fingers as if holding a cigarette.
Tang Feiyi still appeared to be doing well and showed no signs of defeat or regret. He pulled out a chair and sat before Lu Heyang, staring at him under the lamp with a pleased expression, “Finally caught you.”
Lu Heyang didn’t react, he remained silent and stared at him. Tang Feiyi clicked his tongue, “There should be a tracker on your phone? It’s a pity that there’s a signal jammer here. Jiang Wen and his men have been tricked to another place to look for you. They won’t be coming anytime soon.”
“Speaking of which, you still owe me a hand.” Tang Feiyi raised his right hand and looked at it, “I heard you’re going to a military school. They probably don’t want a cripple, right?”
Following his movements, Lu Heyang looked at the hand. There was a hideous scar on it, but his thoughts drifted to the cigarette burns on Xu Ze’s wrist.
“I am a person who holds grudges. Even if I’m about to run for my life, I must settle the score before I leave.” Tang Feiyi stood up, walked over to Lu Heyang’s left side, and held the back of his head to expose the alpha’s glands, “I just got a great idea.”
He pressed the syringe and let a few drops of clear liquid fall from the needle tip. Then he placed the needle on Lu Heyang’s skin, piercing it and slowly injecting the liquid into the glands.
Tang Feiyi discarded the syringe and returned in front of Lu Heyang. He sounded neurotic and excited, as though he was sharing some brilliant idea, “It will be too cheap for your Lu family to die like this. Lu Chengyu would regret it for a few years at most. So I came up with a good solution.”
“If you turn into an idiot with a low pheromone level, the Chairman’s proud son will become an utter failure. Compared to the pain of losing a son, this kind of shame and humiliation will surely disgust him for the rest of his life.”
The glands began to heat up with pain, and Lu Heyang frowned. His eyes were still clear. He opened his mouth to ask an unrelated question, “Was I there when Xu Ming was killed?”
It took Tang Feiyi several seconds to remember who Xu Ming was before bursting into laughter, “Not only were you there, but he was holding you at the time. I could even see his blood splattering on your face through the sniper scope.”
So that was what happened. Lu Heyang got the answer. This was consistent with the psychiatric diagnosis report he found not long ago, which detailed the symptoms of multiple stress disorders and three months of aphasia. It turned out it was because he witnessed such a scene. After that, he underwent two years of psychiatric treatment, and most of his memories were erased under the psychological intervention.
Tang Feiyi seemed to be reminded after mentioning Xu Ming, “Ah… right, I should inform Xu Ze. He cares about you the most, right?”
He nodded to the person next to him and motioned for the signal jammer to be deactivated for the right amount of time. When Jiang Wen and the others rushed over after relocating the position, they would only find the gift left in the warehouse—Lu Heyang, who had turned into a good-for-nothing.
Tang Feiyi picked up the phone and dialed Xu Ze’s number.
Xu Ze felt split in two, with one side facing the operating room waiting for the doctor’s news, and the other looking at the elevator behind him waiting for Lu Heyang to arrive. He hoped that Lu Heyang would appear in the next second so that he could confirm that he was safe.
“Sit down for now.” Chi Jiahan pulled Xu Ze’s stiff arm, “The operation won’t be that quick.”
Xu Ze replied “Okay”, but stood there without moving after saying it.
The phone rang. Xu Ze’s fingers twitched. He immediately reached into his pocket. Without even checking the number on the screen, he answered urgently, “Hello?”
“Let me guess, you’re waiting for someone, dear Seventeen.”
A sudden clap of thunder rang out outside, almost causing the entire building to quake. Xu Ze felt his heart being bundled up and hoisted up. He squeezed out a breath from his chest, wanting to say something, but then he heard Tang Feiyi say regretfully, “Time is a bit tight, let’s hear what he has to say to you.”
Xu Ze’s fingers trembled as he turned up the volume and pressed his ear close to the phone. One second, two seconds, no one spoke. All he could hear was breathing, calm and steady.
He had hoped it wasn’t true. But strangely, Xu Ze immediately recognized it as Lu Heyang just by listening to the breathing.
“Oh, looks like he doesn’t want to tell you anything.”
Tang Feiyi ended the call with a beep. Xu Ze still held the phone in his hand. After being stunned for a while, he unlocked the phone and tapped the screen repeatedly before clicking on the right spot. He opened the call log, found the number Lu Heyang had last called him, and called him back.
He held his breath as if his throat was being squeezed. He listened to the phone’s continuous beeps as if it would never stop, until it turned into a busy tone, indicating that no one was picking up.
Xu Ze’s face showed no expression as if he had lost all emotion. He kept redialing the number and carefully holding the phone to his ear. He would dial again if it didn’t connect and repeat the process.
Chi Jiahan finally sensed that something was wrong, he squeezed Xu Ze’s shoulder to turn him around and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Xu Ze’s face was pale, devoid of color, and cold as if it would break with a single tap. Chi Jiahan called him louder in panic, “Xu Ze?!”
Clatter—the rosewood Buddhist bead bracelet on his wrist unexpectedly snapped, and the twelve beads scattered on the ground like raindrops and rolled in all directions. Xu Ze finally pulled back a trace of sanity. It took a while before he kneeled down. He persistently listened to the phone while reaching out with his left hand to pick up the fallen beads one by one. His ears were filled with the beeping of the phone and the clatter of the beads hitting the floor, drowning out everything else.
The door to the operating room opened, and Zhou Zhen rushed out holding a critical condition notice, “Xu Ze, sign here.”
Each word sounded indistinct. There were some Buddhist beads against the wall. Xu Ze stubbornly picked them up, but strangely enough, his vision became less and less clear. He tried to pick up the last bead several times but failed. Chi Jiahan grabbed Xu Ze’s clothes and said with a trembling voice, “Xu Ze, stop picking them up!”
Without saying a word, Xu Ze kneeled on the ground, cupped one hand, and gathered the Buddhist beads in front of him. His eyes were blank for two seconds and then he raised his head. When Chi Jiahan saw his eyes, he was startled.
All twelve of his grandmother’s Buddhist beads had been picked up, but Lu Heyang’s call had not gone through.
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“I wanted to play with you a little longer, but unfortunately, I don’t have the time.” Tang Feiyi lit a cigarette and took the buzzing phone out of Lu Heyang’s pocket, “Poor Xu Ze. You’ll never be able to answer his calls.”
He let go and the still-ringing phone fell to the ground. Lu Heyang lowered his eyes to the name on the screen.
With a satisfied expression, Tang Feiyi turned on the power switch and adjusted the electric chair’s knob to the maximum setting. He lowered his voice ominously, “Goodbye.”
Buzz—the moment he pressed the start button, a high-intensity electric current quickly crept into Lu Heyang’s skin through the patches. The brain’s protective mechanism activated, so he didn’t feel too much pain, but his muscles reacted violently, causing Lu Heyang to fall to the ground with the chair. The last second he closed his eyes, he could see the phone screen glowing 20 centimeters away, but he could no longer make out the caller’s name.
Gunshots echoed from far away, yet seemingly close, accompanied by loud footsteps and someone shouting his name. Fragments of images flashed through Lu Heyang’s mind before his consciousness plunged into total darkness. Most were familiar, but some were unfamiliar—
The house where he lived as a child, the sunny afternoon, the swing in the garden, and the mute little alpha who stood outside the fence, who had long since disappeared from his memories when he was ten years old.
Translator’s note: sorry for the cliffhanger 🥲 (I’ll try to post the next ch soon)
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Teacher: Good Morning Class! Our topic for today is from Module 71 entitled ” How to kill Tang Feiyi 101″ ☺️
I’m in , let’s make him suffer 😡😾
Fu**…..🙂
I knew lh wil nt use xz as bait but dint expect to use himslef as bait .I wanted Lh to remember his childhood memories but nt this way 😢 can’t wait for next chapter I hope nothing happens to him
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i hate it here
Oh no!! 🥺☹️ I didn’t see it coming 😥
What is this thriller 😭
I hope Feiyi’s fate is a horrible one. Have no mercy 😡