Jiang Xibai was naturally met outside. Qin Ge felt himself being moved several times, and finally he smelled the salty smell of the sea breeze.
……on board?
When Jiang Xibai tried to ambush him, Qin Ge held his breath beforehand and didn't inhale much, so he was conscious. As for why he didn't call for help or struggle, it was because he wanted to see who the mole was who was helping Jiang Xibai from behind.
Although today is not a good time.
However, if potential enemies are not eliminated, they will always be a huge hidden danger.
Huo Beiyuan's legs were secretly harmed during the internal strife within the Huo family, and Qin Ge didn't want such a thing to happen again.
Rather than alerting the enemy and capturing a harmless Jiang Xibai, it would be better to wipe out the people behind him in one fell swoop and eliminate any future worries.
Qin Ge harbored a deep-seated courage, so he pretended to cooperate and risked his life alone.
Qin Ge's eyes were covered with a black cloth, and he pretended to be unconscious, so no one could see through his act.
Immediately afterwards, he heard the clattering sound of high heels.
"Did you bring the person I asked for?"
The woman's alluring voice concealed the icy aura of a powerful female boss.
Qin Ge: -- Huo Lin!
He recognized the voice as belonging to Huo Lin, whom he had met once before at the "Heaven on Earth" casino.
Huo Beiyuan's half-sister.
Although he hadn't had much contact with Huo Lin in the past two years, Qin Ge had a very good memory; he wouldn't forget any voices he'd heard or people he'd met.
Then, Jiang Xibai's next words confirmed that Qin Ge was right.
“Miss Huo Lin, I have brought the person to you. I hope you can keep your promise and hand Qin Ge over to me... cough cough, to deal with.”
Jiang Xibai seemed to be in poor health, coughing several times as he spoke.
Qin Ge was not surprised.
Yes.
In the original storyline, Jiang Xibai's body was already failing at this point, and he needed an organ transplant.
Unexpectedly, Huo Lin turned against Jiang Xibai, scoffing, "Who do you think you are, to presume to negotiate with me?"
Jiang Xibai panicked: "Miss Huo Lin, we had an agreement beforehand..."
Huo Lin pulled out a small, exquisite silver pistol, aimed it at Jiang Xibai, and "Bang—"
After that, Qin Ge didn't hear Jiang Xibai's voice anymore.
...The protagonist was killed by Huo Lin just like that?
Just as Qin Ge was slightly surprised, Huo Lin walked up to him, stretched out a slender hand, pulled off the black cloth covering his eyes, and then pinched Qin Ge's chin, "Little guy, have you had enough of the show?"
Qin Ge opened his eyes upon hearing the deep killing intent in Huo Lin's tone.
Huo Lin's beautiful and charming face was inches away from his. "What, you're not surprised or scared at all to see your older sister?"
"Or are you waiting for my good brother to come and save you, so you feel safe and fearless?"
When Huo Lin mentioned Huo Beiyuan, she gritted her teeth, as if she wanted to devour his flesh alive!
This shows the deep-seated hatred.
Qin Ge still had the mood to think helplessly: Who told Huo Beiyuan to be so inhumane? Look, he has enemies everywhere, even his half-sister wants to kill him.
While observing the surroundings, Qin Ge answered Huo Lin, "It's not me waiting for him, it's you waiting for him to come, isn't it, Miss Huo Lin?"
Huo Lin released Qin Ge's chin, her voice deep and seductive like a bewitching demon from the depths of the sea: "Then let's wait for him together and see if he's willing to save you. I've been waiting for so long to finally find his weakness..."
…
The cruise ship sailed out to sea, and the deck was full of Hollin's men, dressed in black and wearing sunglasses, looking like they were quite capable fighters.
Jiang Xibai was killed by Huo Lin with a single shot. Qin Ge saw him lying on the ground with his eyes wide open, his hat falling to the side, revealing a sickly face and a hideous scar on one side, as if burned by something. His once angelic face was gone.
Huo Lin, who had killed Jiang Xibai, sat cross-legged on a beach chair, holding a glass of red wine in her hand. She wore a black dress with a slit up to her thigh and a deep V-neck that revealed her fair breasts. A young and handsome man was squatting beside her, gently massaging her legs. There was no sense of impending doom; it was more like she was on vacation.
As for Qin Ge...
Holline didn't tie him up.
However, they had already searched him beforehand.
He had no weapons on him.
If he wanted to escape, he would first have to face dozens of bodyguards in black, all of whom were armed. He was unarmed, and all around him was the ocean; if he jumped in, he would only become shark food.
Not long after, Huo Lin pushed aside her male lover, stood up, brushed off her long black dress, and said, "You're here."
Qin Ge saw it too.
Huo Lin leaned against the railing, the sea breeze blowing through her long hair, but she ignored it. She asked Qin Ge, or rather, she asked herself, "Little guy, do you think Huo Beiyuan is a kind person?"
She didn't need Qin Ge's answer.
In the distance, gunshots rang out one after another.
The elite members of the Huo family's secret service launched a forced attack on the cruise ship. Huo Lin's men were no match for them and suffered heavy casualties.
The young and handsome male concubine screamed in fright, not understanding how his trip to sea with his beautiful and charming sugar daddy had turned into a gunfight straight out of a TV drama.
Soon, he also died in the chaotic gunfight.
Huo Lin didn't care about her male concubine, or even whether her side had suffered heavy casualties. She raised a delicate silver pistol and pressed it against Qin Ge's temple, then reached back to restrain his neck, leading him step by step to the edge of the deck.
It seemed like she was at her wit's end, but Huo Lin didn't have that kind of madness. Qin Ge could sense that she was very calm, extremely calm, as if she was doing something she had been looking forward to.
"Huo Beiyuan, tell all your men to stop, or you might be widowed today!" Huo Lin commanded coldly.
Huo Beiyuan waved his hand, and both sides stopped their actions and ceased firing indiscriminately.
"Huo Lin, what do you want?" Huo Beiyuan asked coldly.
Huo Lin pressed the gun heavily against Qin Ge's head. Now, she laughed instead, like a thorny rose, beautiful yet decadent. "Huo Beiyuan, do you still remember my brother?"
"My younger brother, Huo Cheng."
He was only 20 years old when he died.
"That's about the same age as this little guy."
"You killed him."
"...Huo Beiyuan, you killed him!"
At this point, Qin Ge, who was closest to Huo Lin, could hear the rattling sound of bones coming from her throat, clearly indicating that she hated her to the extreme.
Everything is now clear.
Huo Lin was seeking revenge for her younger brother, a man named Huo Cheng.
However, Qin Ge couldn't understand why Huo Lin hadn't taken action all these years when she had plenty of opportunities. Instead, she pretended to have a good relationship with Huo Beiyuan.
If Huo Lin truly harbored ulterior motives, Huo Beiyuan would have noticed it and wouldn't have let her live to this day.
…
"No. You were the one who killed him yourself, Holline."
Huo Beiyuan remained indifferent, showing no emotion whatsoever when his deceased half-brother was mentioned.
"You fired that shot yourself."
Holly gritted her teeth, "I'm doing this to survive..."
Back then, during the internal power struggle within the Huo family, apart from married-out women like Huo Rong, anyone with the surname Huo, regardless of gender, could participate in the power grab.
Once you get involved, it's a fight to the death.
Huo Cheng and Huo Lin are siblings. Huo Lin has no ambition, but Huo Cheng is unwilling to stay away from the center of power in the Huo family and live a mediocre life. He targets the youngest, Huo Beiyuan, but he didn't expect Huo Beiyuan to be a tough nut to crack, and Huo Cheng ends up getting the better of him.
Huo Chengluo is in his hands, and there is only one word: death. Even Huo Lin cannot escape the punishment of being implicated, because the two are siblings and must be eliminated completely.
Huo Lin shot and killed her younger brother Huo Cheng with her own hands in order to escape and survive the struggle for family headship.
However, over the years, Huo Lin has always hated Huo Beiyuan, but she has no way to do anything about it.
Until... Qin Ge appeared.
Huo Lin knew that this was Huo Beiyuan's weakness.
The weather at sea is unpredictable, and a light drizzle began to fall. Huo Beiyuan's eyelashes were wet, and each word he spoke was colder than the seawater itself.
"So, it's all about the winner taking all the credit."
"Since Huo Cheng has chosen this path, he must be prepared to kill and be killed."
"He's dead, who can we blame?"
Huo Lin laughed mockingly, "Huo Beiyuan, you're a heartless person... no, you're a devil!"
"Now that your precious darling is in my hands, would you still be able to say such things so easily?!"
Huo Lin's expression turned fierce, her beauty now tinged with malice, and the gun barrel pressed against Qin Ge's temple, causing a sharp pain.
She retreated step by step to the very edge of the cruise ship deck, below which lay the vast ocean with its rolling waves.
"Huo Beiyuan, today, only one of you can live—"
"Faced with the same choice I made back then, what would you have chosen?"
His life was in Huo Lin's hands; she could shoot at any moment, and the gun could easily go off accidentally in this situation. Yet, Qin Ge remained calm and signaled to Huo Beiyuan with his eyes—
[Shoot me]
At the same time, Huo Beiyuan threw his gun, which slid a long way off the deck. Qin Ge heard him say, "—Let him go."
He dared not gamble.
Yes.
For the first time in Huo Beiyuan's life, there was something he dared not do.
This action surprised Huo Lin.
As members of the Huo family, they shared the same inherently cruel, selfish, and profit-driven bloodline. Huo Lin assumed that Huo Beiyuan would be just like her.
No one is more important than yourself.
However, a completely different answer was presented to us.
The cold, ferocious expression on Huo Lin's face gradually transformed into a state that was neither crying nor laughing, as if she had remembered something or was weeping for someone...
Taking advantage of Huo Lin's momentary daze, Qin Ge slapped her in the stomach with his backhand. He said in a cold and sharp tone, "Even if we face the same choice you made back then, Huo Beiyuan is not you, and I am not Huo Cheng. We will both live well."
In the chaos, someone pulled the trigger and fired a shot. Huo Lin knew it was all over, and determined to take Qin Ge down with her, the two of them fell into the icy sea.
"Qin Ge!"
The sea breeze was strong, and when Qin Ge fell into the sea, she heard a man calling her name.
With a "plop".
Huo Beiyuan also jumped into the sea.
…
Finally, Holline died.
Qin Ge and Huo Beiyuan were rescued.
The carefully planned wedding was also canceled.
Qin Ge wasn't seriously injured, but he swallowed a lot of salty seawater because Huo Lin was determined to die and planned to drag Qin Ge down with her.
From beginning to end, Huo Lin never intended to kill Huo Beiyuan, because the Huo family would be thrown into chaos without him, and she was, after all, a member of the Huo family, and couldn't bear to see the family's century-old foundation destroyed in an instant.
But she wanted Huo Beiyuan to live a life of suffering.
Huo Beiyuan was once a heartless man, but now that he has a heart, Huo Lin is going to rip it out, making him taste the same pain she felt back then, and causing him lifelong regret...
Because these kinds of people don't fall in love easily, but once they do, it's for life.
Qin Ge only gradually came to understand the hidden meaning behind Huo Lin's actions later on, but, sorry, he couldn't empathize with or feel any sympathy for someone who was so scheming to kill him.
Rather than pity Holline, he should... pity himself.
The wedding was disrupted and could not be held as scheduled. All the guests were sent home, leaving only the Huo family members on the island.
After the doctor examined Qin Ge and confirmed that he was perfectly healthy and hadn't even been frightened, Qin Ge's days of misery began.
…
On the island, the two of them lived a life free of taboos.
One morning.
When Qin Ge woke up, he heard the sound of waves crashing outside the French windows. The damp sea breeze blew through the white gauze, and through the brilliant golden sunlight, he looked down and saw a delicate ring on the ring finger of his left hand, sparkling and dazzling.
The wedding ring that wasn't given to him at the wedding was finally placed on Qin Ge's hand in this way.
Huo Beiyuan, who had woken up at some unknown time, embraced the boy from behind, kissed the tip of his ear, and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "That's it."
He paused for a moment, then asked, "Honey, will you feel regretful if we don't have a wedding?"
"No." Qin Ge's voice had a lazy tone. "When two people are together, what's important isn't these rituals. It's nice to have them, but they're not necessary, at least not for me."
"...By the way, what about the other ring?"
Qin Ge took out another men's ring from the dark blue velvet ring box by the bedside, pulled the man's hand over, and put it on his ring finger.
Then, the two equally slender and beautiful hands, each wearing the same wedding ring, were placed together.
Qin Ge looked at them and smiled with satisfaction. "Uncle Huo, they seem quite well-matched, don't they?"
"Sweetie, you misspoke."
"Um?"
The man's hand, adorned with a wedding ring, slipped between the boy's fingers, slowly intertwining them. His other hand cupped the boy's chin, and he kissed him tenderly and passionately: "...You should call me husband."
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(End of this dimension)
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