Chapter 70 Those who walk different paths cannot make plans together.

“Clatter.”

The call was abruptly ended, the androgynous electronic voice disappeared, and the warehouse fell into a deathly silence.

"damn it!"

With a suppressed roar, Lu Jingyan turned around abruptly, his bloodshot eyes burning with a raging fury that could burn a person alive.

His military aura, sharp and menacing, erupted at that moment, no longer restrained in the slightest.

"Li Hu!"

"Here!" Li Hu snapped to attention and straightened his back abruptly.

"Immediately contact the Shanghai garrison! Block all exits of the Shiliupu Wharf! Send a regiment to surround it!"

"I'm going to see today whether their bones are tougher or my bullets are tougher!"

The order was given decisively, carrying an unquestionable military authority.

Upon hearing this, the plainclothes police officers nearby showed a hint of rage on their faces, wishing they could grab their weapons and go and beat him up right now.

However, a figure, like a white lightning bolt, stepped in front of Lu Jingyan.

Su Wantang stood there quietly, her begonia-red cheongsam appearing as red as blood in the dim light.

Her breathtakingly beautiful face held only a cold, calm expression.

"You want her to die faster?"

Her voice wasn't loud, but it was like an ice pick, piercing the hearts of every hot-blooded man present.

Lu Jingyan abruptly stopped in his tracks.

His chest heaved violently, almost as if he were roaring:

"What are you doing? Get out of the way!"

Lu Jingyan's anger instantly found an outlet.

"Su Wantang! What do you mean?!"

What do I mean?

Su Wantang raised her eyes, and in those beautiful eyes, there was no tenderness between husband and wife, only the coldness and mockery of a capitalist who had seen through the game.

"They specifically asked me to go alone, because they knew you'd act like this, deploying troops like a brainless brute!"

"The moment your men show up at the dock, they'll kill the hostage! Then they'll pin the blame for the kidnapping and murder on us!"

"When Zheng Kai and Zheng Xiaorou are dead, we will become the murderers, and Lu Wenbo will become the victim we framed!"

"You can't understand such a simple situation?"

Her words were like a bucket of ice water poured over my head.

Lu Jingyan froze, the flames in his eyes flickering violently.

He knew perfectly well it was a trap, but he was a soldier! Protecting the people was his duty!

"What can I do?!"

He grabbed Su Wantang's slender shoulders uncontrollably.

"Are you just going to watch me go and die?! That's a living, breathing human life!"

Lu Jingyan's questioning revealed the unwavering bottom line of a soldier, but also concealed a fear of her safety that he himself was unaware of.

Su Wantang was in pain from his pinching, but she didn't even flinch.

She just stared at him coldly, speaking slowly and deliberately.

"Let go."

There was no warmth in her voice.

"I am responsible for my own life. No one else has the right to interfere."

She paused, a cruel smile curving her red lips, and added the most hurtful sentence.

"the same as you."

"You...you...!"

Lu Jingyan's heart clenched at those words, and the string of his reason snapped completely.

"You're insane! You're a lunatic!"

He abruptly shoved her away and roared at the stunned Li Hu and the others.

"What are you all standing there for! 'Invite' Miss Su back to her room! Without my order, she is not to leave this warehouse even a step!"

"yes!"

The two plainclothes police officers who were closest to each other instinctively responded and were about to step forward.

They haven't moved yet.

Su Wantang moved.

No one saw how she did it.

In the instant she was thrown away, her wrist drew a beautiful yet deadly arc in the air, a flash of cold light between her fingers, as fast as lightning!

"you……"

Lu Jingyan had just finished shouting the order when he met her cold gaze. He felt a slight, almost imperceptible sting on his wrist, as if he had been bitten by a mosquito.

Immediately, a sharp, numbing sensation shot through my right arm from my wrist!

His hand, which he tried to raise, fell limply to the ground, completely numb and unable to move.

He... was subdued by his own woman in one move?

Time stood still at that moment.

Inside the warehouse, you could hear a pin drop.

The two plainclothes police officers who had reached out to "invite" the person froze in mid-air.

Li Hu's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. He stared intently at his boss's drooping arm, which seemed not to belong to him, and looked incredulously at the culprit.

That woman, dressed in a cheongsam, with a slender figure and a delicate, boneless appearance.

What...what kind of sorcery is this?!

Amidst the petrified gazes of everyone, Su Wantang strode forward, walking straight between the two stiff-looking police officers.

She walked to the broken table piled with clutter and picked up the set of keys that belonged to the Jeep.

The metal clashed, producing a crisp sound that shattered the eerie silence.

She walked to the warehouse door, stopped, but never looked back.

“Lu Jingyan,”

Her cool voice echoed in the empty warehouse.

"You don't believe me."

"Those who walk different paths cannot make plans together."

As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared into the night outside the door.

A moment later, with a loud "boom," the roar of the Jeep's engine pierced the night, followed by the sound of wheels rolling over gravel, which gradually faded into the distance.

They're gone.

She just left like that.

Lu Jingyan stood frozen in place, like a statue whose soul had been taken away.

The numbness in my arm was still sharp, but it was nothing compared to the excruciating pain in my heart, as if a piece of it had been ripped out.

Regret, helplessness, rage... all sorts of emotions clashed wildly in his chest, finally turning into a suppressed roar, like a trapped beast.

"Hold!"

"Bang!"

With his only remaining left hand, he slammed his fist hard against the concrete wall beside him!

The plaster fell off the wall again, and the knuckles of his hand were instantly mangled, blood dripping from between his fingers onto the dusty ground.

"Boss! Your hand!" Li Hu finally came to his senses and rushed over.

Lu Jingyan seemed oblivious to the pain. He turned around abruptly, and the raging fury in his bloodshot eyes was replaced by a more terrifying, chilling madness.

"Li Hu!"

"exist!"

"Pick the smartest ones! Drive that beat-up truck and follow them from a distance! Remember that!"

He stared intently at Li Hu, his voice frighteningly hoarse.

"Protect her secretly! Don't let her find out! Don't interfere! Unless her life is in danger, anyone who dares to show their face, I'll kill them!"

"If she loses even a single hair, I'll skin you all alive!"

"roll!"

"Yes!" Li Hu was so frightened by his appearance that he trembled and dared not say another word. He scrambled out to call the men.

...

In the darkness, the jeep sped along the deserted highway.

Su Wantang's knuckles turned white from gripping the steering wheel so tightly.

Looking at her breathtakingly beautiful face in the rearview mirror, she saw a resolute expression.

The brief alliance began to crumble from that moment on.

From now on, she will have to walk her own path.

That's fine.

She has always only trusted herself.