After parting ways with Bai Miao, Xia Wan did not return to her apartment.
She was tired, so she found a hotel nearby to stay in.
Lying in bed, she began to organize her thoughts.
Bai Miao had clearly been following her since the restaurant, and only after discovering her relationship with Cui Ziqi did he step in and use her to retrieve the so-called You Shuang's ashes from the Cui family.
The relationship between Bai Miao and You Shuang remains to be seen.
I still remember what she said after we broke up.
"Cui Ziqi has been at the Cui family's house for the past few days. If you want to enter the Cui family's house, just ask Cui Ziqi to take you in."
Bai Miao even knows Cui Ziqi's whereabouts so well.
She doesn't seem like someone you can trust.
After lying down for a while, Xia Wan took out her phone and started sending messages.
After several twists and turns, she finally got Cui Ying's phone number and called her.
"I'm Xia Wan. Do you have time tomorrow? Let's meet and talk."
...
Early the next morning.
Cui Ziqi woke up amidst a scene of bloodshed.
He was huddled in a small, ten-square-meter room, his white shirt stained with blood. Underneath the torn shirt on his back and chest, the white wounds were exposed to the air—cruel and bloody.
He slowly sat up, seemingly oblivious to the pain.
He didn't even frown.
Yesterday afternoon, he had a premonition that he would have an attack, so he returned here ahead of time.
After a night of venting, he felt much better, both physically and mentally.
But when Xia Wan's firm words involuntarily popped into his mind, his breathing, which had just calmed down, became chaotic again.
He turned on his phone.
Countless missed calls and messages.
These were all messages sent by his subordinates.
[Tang Xiao: Brother Qi, my assistant said your wife didn't return to her apartment all night last night.]
Cui Ziqi didn't even read the subsequent messages, and stormed out with a gloomy face.
Outside the small house was a pile of wild animal carcasses, their still-fresh blood glistening in the rising sun.
Outside the outer perimeter of the bungalow, a large pack of wolves surrounded the corpses, their green eyes fixed on them, eager to rush over and feast on them.
Cui Ziqi didn't look to the side, stepping over the broken corpses scattered on the ground and leaving straight away.
He rushed to the Cui family's gate without even changing his clothes.
He felt panicked.
He feared that Xia Wan might have other ways to completely leave this world besides successfully winning him over.
The thought of Xia Wan not existing in the future made him feel like he was going crazy.
Turn past the manor villa and walk towards the main gate.
Cui Ziqi was caught off guard when she saw the person she had been longing for walking towards her.
Xia Wan and Cui Ying stood together, talking to each other.
As if sensing something, Xia Wan suddenly turned her head to look in Cui Ziqi's direction.
The moment her gaze fell upon Cui Ziqi's figure, she froze completely.
He, who was always meticulous, was dressed in tattered clothes, covered in blood, his hair disheveled, and dark red bloodstains on his face, giving his handsome face a somewhat bewitching look.
Is he injured?
Xia Wan's heart skipped a beat, and almost instinctively she took a step towards Cui Ziqi.
But as soon as she took a step, Cui Ziqi turned around and strode away.
It was as if he didn't want to see her.
Xia Wan tried to chase after her, but Cui Ying stopped her.
"Where are you going? You promised to help me with my plans, are you trying to back out?"
Xia Wan pointed in the direction Cui Ziqi had left, glaring at Cui Ying with annoyance, "Didn't you see he was injured?"
Cui Ying scoffed coldly, not caring at all whether Cui Ziqi was injured or not.
"You're the kind of crazy person who gets restless if you don't see blood for a day, and you're the only one who's happily going up to him."
"What did you say?"
Cui Ying looked at Xia Wan with a mocking gaze.
"Sometimes I really think you're out of your mind. Do you really understand Cui Ziqi?"
Cui Ying pointed with her slender index finger, adorned with a ruby ring, to the mountain behind the main villa.
"Do you see that mountain?"
Xia Wan looked in the direction Cui Ying was pointing.
The back mountain is as fresh and pleasant as if it had been washed clean in the early morning. Because the Cui family manor is built halfway up the mountain, the altitude of the back mountain is not very high, about five or six hundred meters.
Cui Ying continued, "My dad fenced off that mountain with iron railings. Inside, my grandfather kept wild animals, such as wolves and tigers—all very wild beasts."
Xia Wan frowned.
She thought of the dense scars on Cui Ziqi's body, which were indeed claw marks from wild animals.
"The beasts inside have changed generation after generation, all of them dying at Cui Ziqi's hands. He grew up inside, going there when he was in a bad mood, and killing a few beasts for fun when he was in a good mood."
"Only you can put up with a madman like that!"
Cui Ying gave a disdainful snort.
She had no sympathy for Xia Wan; she just thought the woman was crazy and quite amusing.
She suddenly realized that if Xia Wan also went to the back mountain to play, she could record a video of Xia Wan being torn apart by wild animals and upload it to that website, which would definitely go viral!
Xia Wan was unaware that Cui Ying had her eye on her.
She just felt a tightness in her chest.
She looked coldly at Cui Ying, "Where is he now?"
Cui Ying was surprised that Xia Wan wasn't afraid at all, but instead seemed to care about Cui Ziqi.
She looked at Xia Wan impatiently.
"How would I know where he went? I'm not his mother."
“Cui Ying, if the deal can’t go on, I can leave now, but you’ll never hear what you want to know.”
Cui Ying gritted her teeth and glared at Xia Wan, "You dare threaten me!"
"Tell me, where did Cui Ziqi go?"
Xia Wan's expression was resolute.
Cui Ying remained silent for two seconds before finally speaking through gritted teeth.
"Didn't you see the injuries on his body? He must have gone back to his room to treat them!"
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