Chapter 69 Do whatever you want

Xie Li was naturally unaware that Shen Jin had already escaped to the mountains, so he was smugly thinking about seeing Shen Jin make a fool of himself, especially when he thought about that person being defiled, Xie Li became even more excited.

"I want to see how Yan Yu will look at you when you're filthy! What will you have to compete with me for then!" Xie Li thought through gritted teeth, the image of Shen Jin's beautiful face flashing through his mind. He felt like he had seen him somewhere before, but he couldn't quite place it.

However, that face probably won't last much longer...

Let's just destroy them all!

When Yan Yu returns, Shen Jin will have become a despicable person. He doesn't believe that Yan Yu will still criticize and question him for the sake of that lowly Shen Jin!

The car entered the eastern part of the city and stopped in front of a dilapidated house. Xie Li, wearing sunglasses, opened the car door and glanced at it with disdain: "This is his house. Go knock on the door, and if he doesn't open it, try to break in!"

Shen Jin had already left, and the house was empty, so when they knocked on the door, there was naturally no response. So the other big men followed Xie Li's advice, pried open the door and rushed in, only to find that there was no one inside.

Xie Li's previously beaming smile froze instantly, his face turning extremely ugly. He gritted his teeth and forced out a sentence: "This is impossible! Search the room thoroughly! I don't believe this stupid bitch can hide anywhere!"

Xie Li's face flushed red and then turned pale; he was furious and no longer cared about his image, swearing as he spoke, knowing that his brother's men couldn't do anything to him anyway.

Seeing his anger, the men didn't dare to provoke him and could only follow his instructions to search the room. Finally, they said with distress, "Young Master Xie, there really is no one here! Look at this room, it's so small. Even if we all come in, there's not much space left. You can see everything with your eyes... Is it possible that the information is wrong?"

"Impossible!" Xie Li denied it outright, the veins on his temples throbbing, his clenched fists cracking as if he wanted to tear everything apart. "Damn it!"

Xie Li was almost out of breath. He kicked the stool next to him hard and cursed, "That idiot has nowhere else to go but here. And where else could he go? Besides hiding in this shabby little house, where else could that little bitch hide!"

Because of his kick, everyone realized that someone had eaten in the house not long ago, and immediately exclaimed, "Young Master Xie, the other party clearly ate something in the house not long ago! They may have temporarily left, and if they were escaping, they shouldn't have gone far, and we should be able to catch them!"

Xie Li's eyes brightened instantly, as if he had seen hope again. He then pointed at two of the burly men and said, "You two, search the area! He's unlikely to have escaped. He's an idiot. We should be able to find him nearby. Then drag him out!"

"As for the rest of you, smash everything in this room!" Xie Li roared, pointing at the others. "Smash it! Smash it all! Make sure they never have a place to stand again!"

Although the others didn't hate Shen Jin, they wanted to curry favor with Xie Li and didn't want to offend him, so they naturally listened to him and, without regard for anything else, picked up things and smashed them in the room, making all sorts of chaotic noises.

Most of the tableware in Shen Jin's house was made of plastic. At this moment, someone took a stool and smashed it to pieces, turning it into a pile of fragments. The iron pots used for cooking were also smashed beyond recognition, and the tables and chairs were all broken into pieces and lying on the ground.

Shen Jin's bicycle was also smashed by several burly men, leaving behind a pile of scrap metal with a piercing sound. The bed was also smashed and trampled down, and various quilts and clothes were scattered all over the room as garbage, covered in dirty dust, some torn and others rotten, all in a terrible state.

This place, where Shen Jin had lived for so many years and which held countless memories for him, was ultimately destroyed by Xie Li.

The destroyer, however, wore an excited expression, laughing until tears streamed down his face, and praised without reservation: "Well done! That's how it should be! I'll make sure you have nowhere to live, and you'll be homeless from now on!"

When everyone had smashed the bed to pieces, they suddenly found a small box under the bed, which made Xie Li's laughter stop abruptly. He hurriedly urged, "What's that? Quickly bring it over so I can see it!"

A burly man handed him a small, particularly valuable box from under the bed. It must have been something very precious to its owner, otherwise it wouldn't have been hidden so carefully.

Xie Li naturally wouldn't expect any gold or silver jewelry from Shen Jin's poor, desolate place, but he still curiously opened it to take a look.

The small box couldn't be opened with a key, so Xie Li had it smashed. Inside, there was a very eye-catching pendant. The pendant was made of some unknown material, and its light purple color was exceptionally beautiful. It didn't resemble any gaudy jewelry; rather, it looked like a beautiful gem from the deep sea…

"How is this possible?" Xie Li had seen many fine things and quickly noticed that the pendant was unusual. But when he thought that it belonged to Chen Jin, he realized that he was overthinking it.

The pendant has the character "烬" in the center, so it must be related to him. It can't possibly be made of some precious stone from the deep sea. It's probably some cheap item. But thinking that he might use it to threaten Shen Jin in the future, he put it away for now.

Besides the light purple pendant, there was another necklace in the box. The two were different, but compared to the first one, this one was much dimmer. It was a necklace with stars and looked quite valuable.

"Ha!" Xie Li gritted his teeth and laughed coldly. His hand trembled as he picked up the necklace, and his words were almost squeezed out from between his teeth, "The necklace that Yan Yu gave him...?"

His eyes gradually turned bloodshot, filled with resentment... because he also had a necklace like this, given to him by Yan Yu, exactly the same as Shen Jin's...

"Hahahaha..." Xie Li, for some reason, burst into laughter while holding the necklace, laughing until tears streamed down his face, making his expression even more ferocious. He muttered to himself as if possessed, "I thought it was one of a kind..."

He thought that what Yan Yu gave him was unique, so he always treated it like a treasure and kept it very carefully... just like Shen Jin also treated it like a treasure and kept it very carefully.

Only now does Xie Li realize the irony and how foolish he was.

He remembered that Yan Yu had asked him to close his eyes in a mysterious way, then smiled and gently put the necklace on him from behind, saying, "This is for you. I'm only giving it to you. Aren't you happy?"

Looking back now, it all seems ironic; he feels as if he's suddenly become a fool.

But it doesn't matter, he probably said the same thing to Shen Jin back then.

Thinking this, Xie Li laughed again. Everyone in the room sensed something was wrong with his laughter and didn't dare to provoke him. They could only silently retreat to the side. When Xie Li had finished laughing, he threw the necklace hard on the ground and stomped on it: "Disgusting!"

He originally intended to tear the necklace off and destroy it, but for some reason, he smiled strangely, suppressing the knife-like pain in his heart, and carefully put the necklace away.

Looking again at the house, now a complete mess, his gaze turned icy cold. He glanced at the people behind him and gritted his teeth, saying, "Still haven't found Shen Jin?"

A man came up to report, "No, we've searched the area, but we really can't find him. There's one place we haven't searched yet, but he probably wouldn't go there—that big mountain behind us. It's quite dangerous; he might..."

"Shut up! Do you think you can eat this?!" Xie Li roared, kicking a pile of junk next to him. Still venting his anger, he pointed at the burly men and launched into a tirade, "Useless! What are you all good for! You're useless in times of crisis, and you can't even handle this simple task! My brother would be better off keeping a dog than a bunch of trash like you!"

His insults instantly made everyone present look disgusted. After all, they were all people who had wielded knives and tasted blood, and now being insulted so humiliatingly, a surge of anger rose within them.

However, due to Xie Cheng's influence, they could only endure it for the time being.

But Xie Li, blinded by rage, didn't sense their anger. He remained arrogant, his eyes bloodshot, and ordered the others, "Get up the mountain now! Find him! You can do whatever you want with him!"

Xie Li and the group left Shen Jin's smashed house and rushed up the mountain behind it to search for Shen Jin by following the footprints.

While Xie Li frantically ordered his men to smash everything in Shen Jin's house to pieces and came looking for him, Shen Jin seemed to have forgotten that he was in danger and on the run. He quickly became friends with "A Zheng," who lived in the mountains with him.

The so-called "getting along well" simply means that he thought this person was good-looking, didn't seem like a bad person, and wouldn't hurt him, so he was especially happy, and went up to him with a grin to chat, sharing the fruit he had picked with him.

"I won't eat these," Luo Zheng replied calmly. Although he had been tricked and injured and was fleeing for his life, temporarily entering this deep mountain, given his status, he naturally didn't want to eat these things picked casually from the mountain.

I don't know if it's poisonous or clean, so I don't really understand why Shen Jin could eat it so easily. I can't help but add, "It's bad for your health."

"No, I bought some before, and they're edible. I've already washed them clean, so you don't have to worry at all!" Shen Jin said with a grin, waving a still-wet fruit in front of him before quickly stuffing it into his mouth.

Luo Zheng was taken aback and frowned slightly in displeasure. She had never been treated like this before. She could only assume that he was a fool who was pregnant, and then she moved to the side to distance herself from him.

As soon as he moved, Shen Jin noticed and immediately moved closer, saying indignantly, "Why did you move over? I'm a good person, a really good person! I won't do anything to you! Why are you afraid of me? Am I that fierce?"

Luo Zheng: "..."

I don't want to talk to him at all; he's so annoying.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Shen Jin couldn't help but mutter again, "Am I really that scary?"

Upon hearing him use the word "terrible," Luo Zheng reluctantly spared him a glance, scanning the "terrible" person before her. Looking at his clear, blinking eyes, which still carried a childlike innocence, he was truly a far cry from being "terrible."

Luo Zheng didn't answer his pointless question. She pursed her lips and asked, "Don't you think I'm a bad person?"

He thought that Shen Jin might be the son of a family living at the foot of the mountain. He might have been born with some kind of problem, but because they were too poor, they probably didn't have the money to take him for treatment, so they just let him continue to live a life of mental retardation, and no one cared about him.

Thinking about it this way, Luo Zheng's attitude towards Shen Jin softened a bit. She felt some sympathy for him and thought that he had also had a tough time.

When Shen Jin heard his question, he was a little puzzled, then blinked, laughed, shook his head, and told him with certainty, "No way!"

Luo Zheng narrowed her eyes. In order to avoid the other party's gun and in the ensuing fight, she had multiple wounds on her body, some of which were bleeding. She looked exactly like a bad guy. She didn't know how this little fool could make that judgment.

"Why?" Luo Zheng asked.

Shen Jin chuckled smugly, patted his chest, and told him with great pride, "Because you're good-looking!"

Luo Zheng: "..."

He was speechless.

Luo Zheng chose to shut up and moved a few meters away to keep her distance from the little fool, lest she catch his silliness and become like him, which would be terrible.

After all, it's rather pitiful that two people suddenly became mentally impaired in this remote mountain forest.

As Luo Zheng inwardly scoffed, the oblivious Shen Jin rubbed against him, clutching his puppy, blinking at him, and reaching out to touch his forehead: "Are you sick?"

Luo Zheng's pupils suddenly contracted, and she said coldly, "Who told you to touch me!"

Shen Jin blinked. Strangely enough, when Yan Yu suddenly turned cold and angry at him, he would be afraid. But when facing this stranger, he didn't feel that way. He even muttered with a bit of complaint, "If you don't want to touch me, then don't. Why be poor? We're all neighbors..."

Luo Zheng preferred quiet and never liked interacting with people. She couldn't stand this person whispering in her ear and glared at him fiercely: "You little fool, who said we're neighbors?"

Shen Jin, completely unaware of the situation, tilted his head and chuckled, "You! Look, it's just the two of us living in these mountains, so we're neighbors, isn't that great! We should get along well!"