She rushed to the hotel to look for her, only to find that the person who had been with her and the private jet had also disappeared.

Xie Jiaying couldn't understand why Xie Ming would give up on her. Was it just because of past mistakes? It couldn't be that bad!

After carefully examining the distribution of assets, she realized that apart from a small amount of cash, there were no other assets or shares, and she understood how much her brother loathed her.

Staring at the piles of luxury goods in the room, she felt like she was dreaming.

She began to regret that when she asked her brother to help her recover the money that Liu Qingyou had swindled from her, she should have insisted on returning to Jiang City. Unfortunately, it was too late to say anything now.

What she didn't know was that their sibling bond had been exhausted in their past lives, and Xie Ming had no intention of giving her any answers.

On the other side, in the cold, damp bottom of the ship's cabin, several men were bound and unable to move. One of them was Gu Haosen, who had disappeared for many days.

Gu Haosen was in a daze. After leaving the hospital, he prepared to go abroad. When Langrun was up and running, he made a lot of money. Knowing that he couldn't find Xie Jiaying, he immediately transferred a large sum of money to an overseas account. That money was enough for him to squander for the rest of his life.

When he came out, he was glad that he had the foresight to leave himself a backup plan. Otherwise, he wouldn't know how to deal with the Xie family's overwhelming counterattack.

Seeing those news reports made him realize that the Gu family was completely finished.

He simply couldn't clean up the mess, and every extra day he stayed in China meant one more day of trouble.

It was thanks to his "coma" that he was able to leave the hospital; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to leave.

The joy of escaping didn't last long; he was kidnapped as soon as he left the hospital.

The people who arrested him were spoiled rich kids from Jiang City. They had done him a lot of favors in the Langrun project, so they were naturally unwilling to let their efforts go to waste.

So he was arrested and tortured for three days before he finally couldn't take it anymore and vomited out his overseas accounts before being released.

The problem is that just when he thought everything was alright, he was tied up again and has been stuck in this cold place for several days, eating nothing but water.

Every now and then someone would come and beat him up, torturing him to the point of being neither human nor ghost.

Later, more and more people filled the cabin, and it wasn't until he realized that they were all people who had tormented the Xie siblings in his past life.

Even if he guessed who was targeting him, he didn't want to confirm it. Because once he confirmed it, he would know he wouldn't survive.

"Hehe, it seems this place suits you quite well."

A male voice came from above, and without thinking, he knew who it was; the voice was very familiar.

Gu Haosen looked up at the person coming down the stairs and pleaded in a hoarse, unpleasant voice, "Xie Ming! I was wrong, please let me go~"

"Has Young Master Gu forgotten something? Why are you begging me now?"

Xie Ming walked over, squatted down, grabbed his chin, and turned his head towards him.

"You...no...please let me go, I was really wrong, I'm just a dog, no...I'm worse than a pig or a dog."

Sensing the murderous intent, Gu Haosen burst into tears. He had never regretted anything he had done before, not even just now.

It wasn't until he truly faced Xie Ming that he began to regret his actions—regret for overestimating his abilities, regret for his ruthless pursuit in his past life, regret for so many things…

"Too late~" Xie Ming grabbed a rag from the side and stuffed it into his mouth, then slashed him several times.

Seeing the blood seeping out, he stood up and turned to the others. The others, whose mouths were gagged, didn't know how they had offended this devil. They looked at him in terror, and Xie Ming also stabbed them a few times.

The air was instantly filled with the stench of blood. Satisfied, he stood up and left.

Gu Haosen's mind went blank, but he clearly heard the voice on the ship: "Send the ship to see our boss off. He loves the waters around the American islands the most."

What's in the waters around the American islands? Sharks are everywhere! Fear instantly overwhelmed all his senses.

When the hatch opened and seawater and sharks rushed towards him, Gu Haosen felt an unprecedented fear. He could hear nothing but the sound of animals gnawing on bones.

In the next life, in the next life, he would definitely... But unfortunately, he didn't have a next life.

When Xie's released its second-generation product, Liu Qingyou returned to Jiang City.

She didn't escape back; the Dragon King brought her back for a kidney donation surgery.

Liu Qingyou doesn't know how she got through that year. After being "tamed" on the island, she was taken to the "King's" side.

Every time she shows her face, she is attacked by all sorts of people, and she can only rest for a few days after she is injured.

But once she recovered from her injuries, she would be dragged out to suffer again, until a few days ago when that "King" asked her to sign an agreement.

When she looked closely, she realized it was a donation agreement. She didn't want to sign it, but was it possible?

She had witnessed the methods used on that mysterious island firsthand; the choice was between returning to the island or signing the agreement.

The answer was easy to choose, so she had the opportunity to return to Jiang City.

Returning here again, Liu Qingyou felt as if she had been in another world.

When I passed by the Yu Huan Group building, I noticed that the building had been renamed.

"Stop looking, your old flame ran away a long time ago. Oh right, that's what happened after you ran away."

The "Dragon King" glanced at the person next to him with a mocking look.

"How is that possible?"

"Believe it or not, you know what I'm going to say next~ If I talk nonsense, you know what will happen."

Liu Qingyou had just learned why she had encountered so many things; it turned out that she was just a substitute for another woman.

The stand-in who suffers in her place is someone the man beside cares about. He's afraid he'll reveal his past and ruin his image in the goddess's eyes, so he tells her to keep her mouth shut.

Do you know?

Seeing that she didn't answer, the "Dragon King" reached out and pressed his hand against the wound where she had just been shot. The pain made her break out in a cold sweat.

"Yes, I understand." Her voice trembled, but there was no hint of resentment.

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