After confirming that he really wanted to do business and was not joking, the man threw away the cigarette in his hand and waved his hand to signal his men to retreat.

He looked at the person opposite him again, put on a conversational posture, raised an eyebrow at him, and asked again, "You offer so much reward, but only want one person's life?"

Seeing him nod, the man couldn't help but sneer: "We are not really friends. When something good happened, you would think of me? I'm afraid people are not that easy to kill."

Huo Tianyan on the other side had dark eyes and said without any emotion: "It's just a girl."

"If you don't do it, I can give it to someone else,"

"She's just a girl. Is it necessary for you to mobilize so many people?" The man pulled his lip, looking obviously unconvinced.

Huo Tianyan didn't waste any more words and turned to leave.

The man behind him narrowed his eyes, slapped the table and stood up, "Okay, but I have conditions."

"Give me back all the people you stole from me before..."

Huo Tianyan suddenly turned around and looked at him with sinister eyes, "You want those people? Then get it done."

The man smiled with a scoundrel look on his face, "You are a grown man, and you are actually arguing with a girl?"

Huo Tianyan laughed sarcastically: "When have you ever cared about men, women, old and young when you took action?"

"That's right," the man grinned and raised his hand, "I'll take this job."

Facing the man's raised hand, Huo Tianyan had no intention of shaking hands with him. He took out a photo from his pocket and handed it over. "After the matter is done, I will fulfill my promise to you one by one."

The man didn't care, and smiled as he took his hand back. "Of course I believe you, but my men have to eat, so should you pay me the promised reward first?"

Huo Tianyan took out a bill from his pocket and handed it over.

The man took it and saw the official seal on it. He completely let down his guard and asked, "When are we going to do it?"

"It's all right. Your people can go and keep an eye on her. It's best to strike when she leaves the house."

"I understand. I am a professional in this field."

After he left, the man looked at the girl in the photo and shook his head, "I don't know how this girl's family offended this evil star. Such a beautiful girl, what a pity."

Huo Tianyan left and returned to the villa.

He called two of his men and ordered them, "Go to the mountain and make some noise to delay Zhai Jiu and his men from returning."

Finally, he added: "Don't hurt anyone."

The men retreated in response.

There was only one person left in the room. The man smiled lightly and touched the saber he always carried with him.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month was indeed a different day for him.

But there's no need for him to wait until that day to take action, right?

The usual calmness and indifference on Huo Tianyan's face completely faded away, and the madness hidden under his cold appearance, the violence under his calm behavior, and the recklessness behind his cautious moves were all aroused.

His obsession was too deep, almost to the point of madness, and the appearance of this little brat would not dispel it at all.

The only consolation for him after meeting Gu Qichen was that someone was fulfilling Huo Tianwen’s dream on his behalf.

The man chuckled, his voice still the same: "Little brat, I left you enough money, live a good life in the future."

Huo Tianyan walked out of the room and went straight to the attic on the third floor. He waved away the two men at the door, took the key, opened the door and walked in.

He turned his head to avoid the weak attack of the woman, "It's been so many years, you know you can't kill me, but you still want to do it, don't you get annoyed?"

The skinny woman looked at him hatefully, "What on earth do you want to do by keeping me here?"

When Huo Tianyan heard her say this, he raised the corner of his mouth slightly, but there was no smile in his eyes. He walked up to her and suddenly grabbed her wrist.

Zhuang Yunshu tensed up instantly, not daring to move.

She thought she was going to be insulted again, but he dragged her out the door and came to the tin house in the backyard. Zhuang Yunshu was so scared that she began to tremble all over. "No... Don't do that."

Every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, she would be brought here to endure inhuman torture. Unlike the humiliation she had suffered in the past, she was truly afraid of this double mental and physical oppression.

It made her feel that life was worse than death.

But today is not even the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Entering the tin hut, he loosened his hold on her and threw her to the ground.

Zhuang Yunshu was so scared that she grabbed Huo Tianyan's trouser legs and begged at the top of her lungs: "Please, don't do this to me,... just kill me, please."

Huo Tianyan held her chin with his fingers, looked down at her, and chuckled: "Zhuang Yunshu, you are asking for this day. I have never interacted with you, but because of your words, my whole family died."

"Love at first sight? What a love at first sight. Zhuang Yunshu, open your eyes and take a good look at me now. Are you still in love with me?"

Zhuang Yunshu's face turned pale, her breath choked, and she dropped her hands that had been clenched around her trouser legs. She smiled bitterly and said, "I know I was wrong. The Zhuang family has already paid the price for my willfulness. You didn't spare my father and eldest brother, but why did you keep me, the chief criminal, alive?"

Huo Tianyan said contemptuously: "It would be too easy to let you die like this. It's all because of you that I have become what I am now. You have to accompany me through the pain before you can go to hell."

"If it weren't for you, I would have had the chance to meet the little brat, get together with him, and even become a family again."

He slowly squatted down, stretched out his hand and stroked her face, his eyes were filled with impending emotions, and his tone seemed normal but also revealed repression: "Now, I don't even dare to ask him to call me brother."

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