Chapter 21: The Purgatory of "Starlight"
——She personally sent her best friend to hell, but she didn’t know that the end of hell was the throne.
When Lin Miaomiao was dragged into the underground torture chamber, her high heels had long been thrown away, her stockings were torn, and her knees were bleeding.
Her makeup was smudged from crying, and her carefully curled hair was stuck to her face. She kept begging for mercy: "Please... I can pay you back! I can do anything!"
No one paid any attention to her.
Lin Miaomiao was roughly handcuffed to the interrogation chair, the glaring incandescent light shining directly into her eyes. She struggled desperately, her wrists rubbed with blood marks from the iron chains, but she still cried out in despair: "You have arrested the wrong person! I am Qin Lang's girlfriend! I know nothing..."
The heavy iron door creaked open, and the footsteps were steady and cold, each step seeming to step on her nerves.
Mo Xiaohan walked in.
Lin Miaomiao never imagined that one day she would meet the most feared emperor in Southeast Asia in this way.
His face was as handsome as a finely carved statue, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, but the chill that emanated from his body was as cold as the polar wind.
He wasn't wearing a suit today, only a black shirt with his sleeves casually rolled up, revealing a fresh scratch on the inside of his arm. A lit cigarette was tucked between his slender fingers, and on his left ring finger, a silver ring stood out in the dim light.
The ring body is engraved with "Starlight", exactly the same as the one on Ruan Xingchen's ring finger!
Lin Miaomiao's pupils suddenly shrank, and she felt as if she had fallen into an icy cave.
"You, you are..." Lin Miaomiao was trembling all over, and a broken voice came out of her throat.
Ruan Xingchen always said that he had forgotten a very important person and who had given him the ring, but Lin Miaomiao never imagined that this "very important person" was actually Mo Xiaohan!
Mo Xiaohan stood in front of her, looking down at her condescendingly, his eyes as cold as if he was looking at a corpse.
"It seems you recognized me." He spoke slowly, his ink-black pupils surging with brutal murderous intent.
Lin Miaomiao stammered in response, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably: "Mr. Mo, I, I didn't know Xingchen was your woman, I really didn't know..."
Mo Xiaohan slowly exhaled a puff of smoke. The smoke blurred the scar on his left eye, but could not hide the violence in his eyes.
"I don't know?" He chuckled, his voice as low as a devil's whisper: "Now, do you know?"
"I was wrong! Please forgive me!" Lin Miaomiao broke down and cried, "I can atone for my sins! I can work like a slave..."
Mo Xiaohan raised his hand and signaled the person behind him.
Two bodyguards dragged in a bloody man and threw him at her feet like garbage.
Qin Lang.
The once elegant "jeweler" now had blood all over his face, all the finger bones on his right hand were broken, and his left eye was so swollen that he couldn't open it.
"Lin Miaomiao..." Qin Lang spat out blood foam, his voice hoarse, "You fucking killed me..."
He knew better than Lin Miaomiao how terrifying Mo Xiaohan was. This man who controlled the entire Southeast Asian underworld would never let his enemies die easily.
Qin Lang raised his head with difficulty and looked at Mo Xiaohan, his eyes full of fear and despair.
"Mr. Mo... We really didn't know she was your woman..." With every word he spoke, a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. "If we knew, we wouldn't dare touch her even if we had a hundred guts..."
Mo Xiaohan didn't say anything, but slowly put out the cigarette and rubbed the right hand with all the broken finger bones with the tip of his shoe. Qin Lang trembled violently in pain, and a distorted howl of pain rolled out of his throat. Cold sweat instantly soaked his forehead. He wanted to retract his hand, but Mo Xiaohan stepped on him even tighter.
Mo Xiaohan put on black leather gloves and said in a terrifyingly calm tone, "On my territory, sell my woman." He bent down, pinched Qin Lang's chin, and forced him to look up. "You are quite thoughtful."
Qin Lang was shaking all over, and his crotch was suddenly wet - he was frightened and incontinent.
"Mr. Mo! This is all this bitch's fault!" He suddenly pointed at Lin Miaomiao and screamed, "She was the one who offered to use her best friend to pay off the debt! She said Ruan Xingchen was a top student in the medical school and could fetch a high price!"
Lin Miaomiao's face turned pale and she shook her head frantically: "You're talking nonsense! It was obviously you who forced me to do this!"
Amid the cries of the two men fighting each other, Mo Xiaohan slowly stood up, took off his gloves and threw them aside.
"Atai." He said calmly, "Old rules."
A Tai nodded, drew a dagger from his waist, and walked towards Qin Lang.
"No! Don't! Ah——"
Amidst screams, Qin Lang's left hand was cut off at the wrist, blood splattered on Lin Miaomiao's face, and she screamed and fainted.
When the cold water woke Lin Miaomiao up, Qin Lang had already turned into a pool of bloody flesh and was dragged out, leaving only a long bloodstain on the ground.
Mo Xiaohan sat on the chair opposite her, playing with a silver dagger with his fingertips.
Seeing her open her eyes, he slowly walked up to Lin Miaomiao and gently lifted her chin with his dagger.
"Do you know how long I have been waiting for Xingxing?" His voice was as soft as a sigh, but his eyes were filled with an intense murderous intent.
Lin Miaomiao trembled and dared not answer.
"Seventeen years." The tip of the knife scratched her cheek, leaving a small trace of blood. "And you almost made me lose her forever."
"Please..." Lin Miaomiao was shaking all over, she was almost suffocating from crying, "I was wrong... I was really wrong"
"Don't worry, I won't kill you. After all, death is too kind." He threw the dagger to A Tai. "Do you know what the most popular auction item at 'Dark Night' is?"
Lin Miaomiao shook her head blankly.
"Gambler's fingers." Mo Xiaohan took down a delicate bone saw from the rack, his voice shrouded in a suffocating chill: "Especially... a cheating gambler."
Lin Miaomiao screamed and struggled wildly, her handcuffs rattling, but she was held down tightly by the bodyguard.
"No! Please! Xingchen will never forgive you! We are best friends—"
Mo Xiaohan paused.
The air froze instantly.
"You're right." Mo Xiaohan suddenly smiled, and that smile made A Tai, who was standing in the shadows, couldn't help but take a step back.
"The stars are soft-hearted."
The bone saw was put back in its place.
Lin Miaomiao had just breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Mo Xiaohan say to A Tai, "Send her to the 'Red House' and tell them that this woman—" He paused, his voice as soft as a lover's whisper, "Just don't die."
"Please..." Lin Miaomiao closed her eyes in despair, "Give me a quick death..."
The "Red House" is the most terrifying den of indulging in money in Mo Xiaohan's hands, specially used to entertain those powerful people with special fetishes.
There, living is more undignified than being dead, without even a trace of dignity left.
Amid Lin Miaomiao's hysterical cries, Mo Xiaohan turned and left the torture room. He stood in the corridor, looking down at the word "Starlight" on the ring.
"Starlight..." He whispered softly, his eyes sinister, "Next is the Qin family."
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