That night, Zhou Yushen was dragged by Li Che to a position outside the Chen family estate.
The two sat in the car.
Li Che’s fingers flew rapidly across the keyboard, while Zhou Yushen leaned against the window, one hand resting on the frame, his gaze fixed on the endless darkness beyond the estate’s main gate.
He had a nagging feeling that something had been overlooked.
And his chest felt inexplicably heavy, filling him with irritation.
When Li Che finally hit the Enter key, he handed the laptop to Zhou Yushen.
“I’ve hacked all the surveillance systems inside. The rest is up to you. I’m heading to the back entrance to get things ready.”
Zhou Yushen looked at him in confusion.
“Your computer skills are better than mine. Shouldn’t I be the one going to the back entrance?”
Li Che was about to close the car door when he heard that.
A smile immediately appeared on his lips.
He bent down and looked at Zhou Yushen in the driver’s seat.
“Saving the woman you love is something you’ve got to do personally. I want to descend like a hero and rescue her from the wolves’ den. You can’t steal a chance to look that cool from me.”
With a raised eyebrow, he shut the door and headed toward another vehicle nearby.
Several muscular-looking bodyguards were already seated inside.
The moment Li Che climbed into the back seat, he shouted:
“Drive!”
Li Che departed.
Zhou Yushen turned his attention to the surveillance footage on the laptop.
Shen An’an followed Chen Tianming through a series of twists and turns before entering a room protected by a reinforced security door.
A faint but rapid breathing sound came from the back seat.
Holding the laptop by its base, Zhou Yushen turned the screen toward the person behind him.
“Is that room behind this door your headquarters?”
Bound and lying across the back seat, Chen Mu was drenched in sweat.
His mouth was sealed with tape, and he looked extremely weak.
He lifted his eyes slightly and looked at the familiar door on the screen.
Then he closed his eyes in resignation.
So it had finally been discovered.
Without waiting for a response, Zhou Yushen turned the laptop back toward himself.
His attention remained fixed on the screen.
The Chen family estate was bustling.
People constantly entered and exited that particular door.
Just as he was watching closely, a familiar figure appeared on the screen.
A man who looked very similar to Chen Mu was dragging a woman dressed in sportswear and wearing a black hood toward the door.
Chen Tianming came out to meet them.
His expression was unpleasant as he glared at the woman, apparently saying something Zhou Yushen couldn’t hear.
Then Chen Tianming suddenly kicked the woman in the stomach.
She doubled over in pain.
Zhou Yushen’s dark eyes locked onto the hooded woman.
Could she be…
The hood never came off.
The woman was seized by two bodyguards and dragged through the door.
A sinister darkness settled into Zhou Yushen’s eyes.
The temperature inside the vehicle seemed to plummet instantly, as though a blizzard was about to descend.
He immediately pulled out his phone and called Li Che.
The moment the call connected, his icy voice traveled through the line.
“Shen Nanyue is in there too.”
Li Che was stunned.
“How is that possible?”
“How the hell would I know? Get Xu Ping over here!”
Zhou Yushen hung up and shifted his gaze toward the tightly shut gate of the Chen family estate.
He beckoned to a bodyguard hidden nearby and handed him the laptop.
“Keep an eye on the person in the back. Report anything immediately.”
The bodyguard accepted the order, took the laptop, and sat where Zhou Yushen had been.
Meanwhile, Zhou Yushen put on an earpiece and headed straight through the gate into the Chen family estate.
Shen Nanyue was violently thrown into a spacious hall that resembled a grand reception room.
Chen Tianming’s kick still had her lower abdomen throbbing with pain.
The moment the bodyguards released her, she lost her balance and collapsed onto the floor.
The weapons she had prepared and hidden in her pockets had already been confiscated by Chen An during the journey here.
Now she had neither strength nor weapons.
She was in a far more vulnerable position than before.
“Wasn’t Miss Shen supposed to be very capable?”
“Then why are you kneeling and paying us such a grand courtesy?”
Chen An let out a sharp laugh and walked over to a chair, sitting down directly across from Shen Nanyue.
Suppressing the pain in her lower abdomen by force, Shen Nanyue stubbornly pushed herself to her feet.
“Where’s An’an?”
Chen Tianming snorted, his face full of ridicule.
“Every member of your Shen family—whether born into it or picked up off the street—is cursed against me! None of you are leaving here today!”
Shen Nanyue shot an angry glare at Chen An.
“You promised that if I came, you’d let An’an go!”
“Miss Shen, I’m the villain. Have you ever seen a villain who keeps his word?”
Shen Nanyue’s face hardened.
The way she stared at him made it seem as though she wanted to leap forward and kill him on the spot.
Chen An raised a hand.
Immediately, two bodyguards seized Shen Nanyue and dragged her away from the main hall.
“Chen An! You broke your promise! I won’t let you get away with this!”
Even as she was being taken away, Shen Nanyue didn’t forget to throw out a threat.
Chen Tianming sneered.
“You’re already in our hands and still making threats. You really don’t know the meaning of fear.”
Chen An turned to look at Chen Tianming.
“What if Chen Mu is actually in that girl’s hands? Are you really willing to ignore his safety, brother?”
“A rebellious son who sides with outsiders? Why should I care about him?”
That was what Chen Tianming said.
Yet the concern in his eyes couldn’t be concealed.
Chen An noticed every bit of it.
Pretending not to, he rose to leave.
“Where are you going?” Chen Tianming asked.
“To visit the great contributor who helped us put this plan together.”
As Chen An walked away, a flash of murderous intent crossed Chen Tianming’s eyes.
Shen Nanyue was brought to a spacious room.
A heavy fragrance filled the air.
Her eyes darkened immediately, and she instinctively covered her nose and mouth.
The bodyguard who had brought her there looked her up and down, greed flashing in his eyes.
“This scent enters your system through your skin. Covering your nose won’t help.”
He grinned.
“Don’t worry. When you can’t hold out any longer, I’ll come save you.”
With that, he shut the door behind him and stood guard outside.
Shen Nanyue quickly pulled up her hood, covering most of her head and face.
She tucked her hands inside her tracksuit as well.
Fortunately, she had changed clothes before coming to the meeting.
Otherwise, she might already have collapsed.
As the fragrance continued to spread through the room, Shen Nanyue acted while she still felt normal.
She pulled out a thin wire hidden in her hair.
After looking around the room, she headed into the bathroom.
Turning the faucet to its maximum flow, she hoped the running water would dilute the scent somewhat.
Then she grabbed a vase from the room, walked to the door, and smashed it violently against the floor.
The crash was sharp and loud.
Fragments scattered everywhere.
Outside, the bodyguard couldn’t help but grin.
“This drug is really powerful. It’s only been a few minutes, and she’s already causing this much commotion.”
He chuckled.
“We’d better go in. Don’t let her die.”
Die?
What did he mean by that?
Before Shen Nanyue could think more deeply about it, she saw the doorknob begin to turn.
A shard of broken porcelain was clenched tightly in her hand.
The instant someone entered, she lunged forward and stabbed toward them.
But her wrist was caught immediately.
Only one thought remained in her mind.
I’m finished.
— The end of the Chapter–
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