Cheng's mother screamed from inside the car.

At this moment, Cheng's father was still lying prone in the snow, but his heart sank. The plan to use a feint to let Cheng's mother escape with the invisibility talisman had ultimately failed...

Xi Yunchen clutched his injured arm and glared fiercely at Cheng's father: "You son of a bitch, you don't actually think you're anything special, do you? Let me tell you, I have someone protecting me now, hahaha!"

After saying that, Xi Yunchen grabbed Cheng's father's hair with a smug look on his face and then slammed it hard against the ice.

Blood-stained ice shards splashed onto Gong Ye's cloak. He disgustedly flicked his bearskin gloves and glared at Xi Yunchen.

The burly man wearing a motorcycle balaclava began scavenging supplies. The birchwood dining table was chopped into firewood, and the floral curtains sewn by Cheng Ma were used as rags. When the diesel tank was punctured, golden fuel gushed into the enemy's oil drums, instantly freezing into amber-colored icicles in the sub-zero air.

"This bed is nice, what a pity." Xi Zhantao lay sprawled on the bed in the back of the RV, his smelly feet stepping on the new quilt that Cheng Ma had just folded.

As Cheng's parents were chained to a streetlamp as prisoners, a blizzard was tearing at the steel cables of the cross-sea bridge.

"Wait a minute, they also have a son? The one who's tall and short?" Xi Zhantao whispered in his son's ear.

Xi Yunchen then belatedly looked around and said, "I'll go ask the search team!"

"Stop!" Xi Zhantao grabbed his impulsive son, giving him a wink. "If you go and ask now, we'll be accused of having faulty intelligence again!"

But where else could this kid be if not in his own car?

Xi Zhantao stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, and suddenly realized: "It seems we misunderstood..."

This situation doesn't seem like Chu Zhiqin hooked up with a rich man at all, but rather that Xi Xi, this nouveau riche, is having sex with a man!

I never expected that scoundrel Xi Xi would be so cunning. The Cheng family boy looks like a high school student, probably not even an adult yet!

After hearing his father's reasoning, Xi Yunchen suddenly understood and whispered a few words in Xi Zhantao's ear. The two looked at each other and then got into the car, each lost in their own thoughts.

Cheng Xu hid in the shadows and witnessed the whole thing. Although his heart ached as if it were bleeding, his reason told him that he was no match for the group of strong men on his own, and that leaving was the best option at this moment.

...

And that's how the scene from before came about.

Cheng Xu accepted the hot tea with trembling hands and began to recount his ordeal in halting strokes.

At this moment, Xi Xi was unaware that her own uncle had accused her of being a "pedophile." She glanced calmly at the time displayed on the central control screen, but a murderous intent ignited in her eyes.