"Wait!" Lu Xingzhou suspected Li Ying was up to something and grabbed her. "Tell the truth, is this a trap?"
Li Ying stopped and turned to look at Lu Xingzhou.
"Lu Xingzhou, you want me to leave with you willingly, yet you're worried I'm plotting against you. That's why you can't do anything right!"
Lu Xingzhou thought for a while, then took out a rope: "I'm going to tie you up, otherwise I won't trust you."
Li Ying returned to the table and sat down.
"Since you don't believe me, then kill me now."
She was so calm!
"Li Ying, it feels like I'm meeting you for the first time!"
“Lu Xingzhou, people change. I was gentle and charming in front of you before because I thought you would give me a future and hope. But you betrayed my sincerity. When I was most helpless, you brought Rong Ning back to force me to submit. You fed my sincerity to the dogs, and you think I can still be as gentle and charming as before, letting you manipulate me?”
Lu Xingzhou felt guilty and wanted to explain, but he felt it would be useless, especially since Li Ying had already agreed to leave with him.
"Let's go, I won't tie you up anymore."
Just as Lu Xingzhou was about to open the door, gunshots rang out in the courtyard. Realizing something was wrong, Lu Xingzhou closed the door again and hid behind it.
Li Ying slowly picked up her teacup, saying, "Lu Xingzhou, you can't leave now."
"Li Ying, you really did cheat!"
It's his fault for being careless.
Li Ying looked at Lu Xingzhou. She knew him too well. He was vain, cowardly, and easily swayed. It was precisely because she had accurately grasped these traits that Li Ying dared to take the risk and come to see him while heavily pregnant.
Lu Xingzhou could never have imagined that Li Ying would dare to take such a risk, nor could he have imagined that she would bring her child along.
Therefore, from the moment Li Ying stepped into the courtyard, Lu Xingzhou had already lost.
Lu Xingzhou laughed bitterly.
"What did I miss that made me know nothing about you?"
“What you missed was three years of my sincere devotion. Lu Xingzhou, if you had just gone back to see me even once, I might have been your ally, helping you achieve the glory of a noble concubine. Unfortunately, you didn’t. You never came back even once. Three years of disappointment accumulated like that, and my desire to support you is gone forever.”
Lu Xingzhou stepped forward, pressed a gun against Li Ying's forehead, his hand trembling. "Li Ying, guess if I'll shoot you dead?"
“You won’t.” Li Ying looked intently at Lu Xingzhou. “You’re a coward, you’d never fire a gun.”
"you……"
"Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely. If you fire a shot, today will be your death day."
Li Ying smiled slightly, her hand already subtly touching the silver needle.
Lu Xingzhou smiled helplessly; Li Ying had truly figured out his weakness.
But he couldn't let himself be arrested like this. He grabbed Li Ying by the neck and pressed a gun against her forehead.
"Li Ying, I'll show you that even if I don't kill you today, you won't die."
"Listen up, you inside! You are surrounded! Lay down your weapons and surrender. We will handle the situation accordingly!"
Tong Danian's voice rang out.
Lu Xingzhou gritted his teeth. Everything he had in China was over. Only by leaving could he have a new beginning.
Lu Xingzhou kicked open the door and dragged Li Ying out.
"Let me go! Or I'll kill her!"
“Lu Xingzhou, you’re not getting away! We’ve surrounded this place. You’d better release Li Ying, or we might give you a chance to be lenient. Otherwise, you can expect to go to a military court!” Tong Danian gripped his pistol tightly.
To be honest, he was a little hesitant, and Tong Danian couldn't guarantee that his marksmanship would be accurate enough to hit Lu Xingzhou's head.
If anything goes wrong, Li Ying might get hurt.
Lu Xingzhou was confident because he understood this point: "Tong Danian, go ahead and shoot if you dare! I want to see if you dare to shoot me! No, the first bullet you fire will definitely come from Li Ying. Do you dare to shoot?"
Li Ying gripped the silver needle tightly in her hand, silently counting one, two, three in her mind.
As she counted to three, Li Ying released her silver needle and pierced Lu Xingzhou's waist.
Lu Xingzhou suddenly felt his whole body stiffen and he couldn't move.
Just as Li Ying broke free from Lu Xingzhou, a gunshot rang out, and a bullet grazed the leaves of the leaves in the yard, hitting Lu Xingzhou precisely in the forehead.
Lu Xingzhou stared wide-eyed, then fell backward in disbelief.
Li Ying looked towards Tong Danian and saw a man wearing a black trench coat and a mask, holding a state-of-the-art pistol from Germany. He was the one who had just fired the shot.
Just like last time in southern Yunnan, the shooting was just as precise, except last time it was Zhou Qi, and this time it was indeed the person right in front of him.
The man quickly walked a few steps to Li Ying, and without saying a word, he picked her up and carried her out of the yard.
Li Ying observed the man's eyes, those eyes that were like a vast starry sky, like the still of a quiet night, serene, distant, and captivating.
"Ye Jingchi, let me see you."
Li Ying placed her hand on his cheek, her fingers hooking onto the strap of his mask.
"Don't move!"
The deep, husky voice reached Li Ying's ears, causing her to stop what she was doing.
It wasn't Ye Jingchi's voice.
Could it be that the toxin damaged his vocal cords, causing his voice to change?
"Ye Jingchi, I can help you cure the poison in your body."
The man remained silent and strode towards the car.
Li Ying withdrew her hand and obediently let the other person hold her as she got into the car.
The man took two steps back, then turned and left.
Li Ying watched the man's departing figure. It was clearly Ye Jingchi, but he felt so unfamiliar and distant to her.
Tong Danian ran over, "Sister-in-law, are you alright?"
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