The scarred man quickly recognized him as the man Rong Yu had later called to ask to redeem him.

Thinking that Rong Yu had already been taken away, and that this person had come here demanding her back, he couldn't help but feel resentful: "Are you playing me for a fool? She's already been taken away, what right do you have to ask me for her back?"

"Huh?" The man raised his eyebrows, his tiger eyes widened, and with a swift movement, he lifted the scarred man up like a chick!

The scarred man with thick muscles all over his body: "..."

That day, he suddenly realized that his muscles, which he was so proud of, seemed to have become a lump of cotton, constantly being hit and pulled around.

"Are you trying to teach me how to do things?" The man picked up the scarred man, shook him hard, and then threw him on the ground like trash.

The scarred man had suffered more grievances today than he had in the previous five or six years. He had been holding back his anger for a long time. When he was thrown away like trash again, he cursed loudly. He happened to see the cleaver that Yin Chengjue had broken in two next to him. He picked up one half and charged at the man with a fierce determination!

The man didn't even look at him directly, but instead took out a handbag from his pocket, unzipped it, and started rummaging through it.

The scarred man had already rushed up to him.

The man raised his foot and delivered a flying kick, his long leg outstretched, his toe striking the scarred man's chin precisely. The scarred man's knife, though swinging, missed because his arm wasn't long enough.

The scarred man, kicked in the chin, bit his tongue hard. A bloody taste instantly filled his mouth. His muscular body crashed to the ground, kicking up a small cloud of dust.

"Wah..." The scarred man spat out a mouthful of blood.

The man was still diligently rummaging through his handbag. After a while, he pulled out a document from a large stack of documents, skillfully flipped a page, and held it out to the scarred man, saying, "Police investigation. You are suspected of kidnapping and extortion. Please come with us."

The scarred man, whose tongue hurt so much he couldn't speak: "..."

Seeing their leader's miserable state, the other kidnappers who wanted to help were speechless.

Only now did they realize that even Rong Yu's words, "Don't worry, I won't call the police, I don't want to make a fuss," were a lie!

Meanwhile, Rong Yu, who was undergoing a check-up at a private hospital, suddenly slapped her forehead: "Ah! I remember now! I think I contacted my second brother! He should be on his way to find me now!"

Yin Chengjue was taken aback: "They also extorted your second brother?"

Rong Yu, remembering that she was the one who had taken the initiative to make the call, said, "I guess so."

Rong Yu quickly took out his phone, only to find that it was already turned off. He then remembered that he had noticed the battery was low when he made the call.

Thinking about the consequences of turning it on after charging, Rong Yu hesitated.

Yin Chengjue, however, didn't think as much as Rong Yu. Seeing that Rong Yu's phone was off, he handed her his own phone: "You can use mine to call your family, so they won't worry."

Rong Yu took Yin Chengjue's phone with a conflicted expression.

Rong Yu was still hesitating whether to call her second brother when her finger touched the fingerprint key, unlocking the password lock and facing the dial button on the screen.

After hesitating for a long time while looking at the dial button, he finally decided to call Murong He first.

However, when he pressed the first few numbers, he found that the three characters "Murong He" had automatically appeared on the candidate numbers.

Rong Yu was startled, then remembered that this was Yin Chengjue's phone. Murong He mainly managed the businesses under the steward's control, so it was quite normal for the Yin family and the Murong family to have business dealings. It was also normal for Yin Chengjue to have Murong He's number.

However, if he directly calls Murong He, wouldn't the dialing history displayed here be exposed?

Rong Yu wanted to call Murong He's other number, but worried that Yin Chengjue might recognize her voice, so she had no choice but to dial Murong Shu's number instead.

Yin Chengjue had just gone to pour water for Rong Yu and didn't see what Rong Yu had just done.

"Hello." Murong Shu's attitude remained relatively calm when facing a stranger.

Rong Yu cleared his throat and said, "Second Brother, I was rescued by someone else first."

Murong Shu: "Oh, I'm busy right now. I'll settle the score with you, you brat, next time!"

"Hmm, hmm?" Having expected a scolding, Rong Yu was immediately intrigued by the nonchalant response: "What happened?"

Murong Shu: "We have to thank you for this. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have been able to find this clue, which led to a whole series of events."

Rong Yu glanced at Yin Chengjue and noticed that Yin Chengjue had thoughtfully walked away, probably not wanting to disturb his call with his family.

Even so, Rong Yu still whispered, "Is it that matter that you've been following up on day and night for the past few months?"

Murong Shu's tone rarely carried a smile: "Yes, there's finally some progress."

But he quickly realized that the person on the other end of the line was his third brother, who had run away from home a long time ago and hadn't returned. His tone became serious again: "You'd better come home right now, stop making trouble!"

Rong Yu: "I didn't make a scene."

Murong Shu: "If I hadn't made a scene, why wouldn't you come home? Do you know how worried your father and mother are?"

Rong Yu sneered: "Yes, they're really worried. They're rushing to find me another doctor, aren't they? They think this is a relapse of my old illness, and that it's even caused complications?"

Murong Shu was silent for a moment, then said, "They're worried about you."

Rong Yu: "Yes, they think I'm sick, so they're very worried about me. Does that sound like a problem? But have you ever thought that I'm not sick at all!"

He got a little emotional and his voice became quite loud. Yin Chengjue, who was standing some distance away, could hear some of the noise and turned his head to look in confusion.

But then Rong Yu covered her face with one hand, her shoulders heaving, as if she were crying.

Yin Chengjue instantly disregarded giving Rong Yu any personal space and strode towards her. By the time he got close, Rong Yu had already put down her phone, clearly having ended the call.

"What's wrong?" Yin Chengjue pulled out a few tissues and handed them to Rong Yu.

"It's nothing." Rong Yu's eyes were indeed red, and his lower lip was bitten until it was bright red with blood.

"You call this okay?" Yin Chengjue held Rong Yu's forehead, making him look up at him.

"Is it because of the phone call just now? Did you say something unpleasant on the phone?" The guard had just recounted Rong Yu's heroic deeds in the abandoned toy factory, so Yin Chengjue subconsciously rejected the idea that Rong Yu was upset because of the kidnapping.

If we're talking about real heartbreak, it's those kidnappers who were beaten half to death who are truly devastated.

Therefore, Yin Chengjue's first thought was that Rong Yu had talked about something unpleasant on the phone.

Rong Yu didn't think much of it and nodded, which was taken as tacit agreement.

Yin Chengjue looked into his eyes: "If you don't mind, you can tell me."

Rong Yu paused for a moment, then sighed: "Actually, it's nothing. I remember telling you before that I had a serious illness when I was a child. My parents went to great lengths to treat me, hiring the best doctors at the time and giving me all sorts of treatments. I spent a long time in the hospital."

"I missed out on a lot during that time." Rong Yu lowered her eyes slightly, her long eyelashes concealing some of the glint in her eyes.

"Later, the doctor finally determined that I was cured and could be discharged from the hospital. My parents were very happy, feeling that I could finally become a normal person again." Rong Yu also smiled, but the corners of her mouth that were pulled up looked somewhat forced.

Yin Chengjue keenly sensed Rong Yu's unusual emotions, but he did not interrupt and listened quietly.

“Until one day, I told them that I was gay.” Rong Yu’s smile turned slightly bitter as she said this: “So they thought that it was because my previous illness had not been completely cured that I had such strange and illogical thoughts.”

"So, after they heard me confess that I was gay, they wanted to take me to get treatment, so I ran away from home," Rong Yu said.

Yin Chengjue was stunned for a moment, not expecting Rong Yu to have such a burden on her back.

Before his rebirth, after he confessed his sexuality to Feng Chengda, wasn't he also scolded by Feng Chengda for being sick and for disgracing him?

Although society is more open now and people are more accepting of gay people, such things will still be met with opposition when they happen in one's own family.

"Brother, I don't want to go back. I'm not sick, I don't need treatment." Rong Yu opened her arms and hugged Yin Chengjue's neck, burying her face in the crook of his neck, as if trying to draw strength from his embrace.

Yin Chengjue gently patted Rong Yu's back and said softly, "You're right, we're not sick. The one who says we're sick is the one who's sick."

Yin Chengjue: "We just like someone normally, and that person happens to be male. We haven't hurt anyone or harmed society. We earn money with our own hands to support ourselves, and we live an upright life with honest money. How is that not normal?"

"It's just that in this era, there are more heterosexual relationships than homosexual relationships. Who knows, maybe thousands of years from now, there will be more homosexual relationships than heterosexual relationships. Then, will people say that heterosexual relationships are sick and abnormal?"

Yin Chengjue asked Rong Yu to look up and meet his gaze, and said gently, "However, even though that's the case, we still need to face one thing: we are indeed in a minority group right now. Although we are all trying to gain the recognition of the majority, this process is difficult."

"In the current environment, it is inevitable that the majority group will discriminate against the minority group. This is unavoidable for both humans and animals. So now that we have embarked on this path, we must control our mindset."

"We can't force others to understand us, but we can ignore those who don't. Life is our own, and no one can control it. There's no need to get upset over a few words from others."