That afternoon, Xiao Jiang and her grandmother were thrown out of Penang Island.
The two men had no identification or passports, and it took them several days to return to southern China.
Xiao Jiang didn't know what had moved Tang Xili to show compassion until a few months later, when she was diagnosed with cancer. Only then did she realize that the woman had never intended to let her go, but had only allowed her to live a few more months.
At the end of his life, Xiao Jiang bid farewell to his only relative, not letting the elderly send off the young, and died without regrets...
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On the night Xiao Jiang was thrown away, the basement of the Moon Palace welcomed another "resident", Max Morgan.
He was handcuffed to the cross that had been used to torture Xiao Jiang before and was unconscious.
After dinner, Tang Xili, wearing a white dress, holding an ebony folding fan and wearing black velvet high heels, walked to the basement.
Seeing someone fainting, she lifted up her gorgeous landscape-patterned skirt and slowly sat down on the high-backed sofa chair, "Splash it on him to wake him up."
"OK, I'm the best at this kind of wicked stuff."
"Wow..." Claire brought a basin of ice water and poured it over Max's head.
The cool ice water woke Max up instantly.
His heart contracted violently, and he shuddered involuntarily, looking up at his surroundings.
This is a basement with dim lighting and no windows. There are various torture instruments on the walls, all of which are covered in black bloodstains.
The air was filled with a damp and moldy smell mixed with blood and sweat, which was very unpleasant.
Max looked around and his eyes fell on the woman behind a black wooden table not far away.
The woman was dressed in spotless white and sat on a high-backed black throne.
Playing with a folding fan in his hand.
His dark eyes were dim, and there was a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.
Like an elf on a snowy mountain, it was totally out of place in this not-so-clean basement.
"Evelyn..." He spoke first, his eyes a little complicated.
Tang Xili raised her chin with a smile and looked at him, "Max Morgan? Or should I call you Max No. 2?"
Hearing this, Max's brown eyes trembled slightly, she knew!
Who said that? Xiao Jiang?
Tang Xili had been staring at him. Every expression on his face, even the slightest change in his eyes, did not escape her eyes.
Judging from his reaction, this should be Max himself.
Tang Xili stood up, walked over slowly, and pulled out a Swiss Army knife from the sheath tied to the outside of Claire's thigh.
The sharp blade, which could cut through iron like mud, touched Max's face, leaving a thin bloody mark on his face.
"Max." She called out with certainty, then raised her lips and smiled, "Max, long time no see."
The next moment, as she smiled, the cold, gleaming blade suddenly moved down and stabbed into his abdomen.
"This is my gift to you, are you satisfied?"
"Hmm..." Max's eyes suddenly widened, his face turned pale, and his expression became ferocious.
He twitched uncontrollably.
Warm blood immediately gushed out of the wound, staining Tang Xili's hand.
Malaysia has a tropical climate, and it is not cold even in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. When the knife stabbed Max, he immediately broke out in a sweat due to the pain.
"Evelyn, do you have to do this to me?" His expression was a little hurt. "As soon as I knew you existed, I immediately went to find you."
Tang Xili raised her eyebrows, her eyes ambiguous, as if waiting to see what else he would say.
Max continued, his expression sincere, "Evelyn, I really wanted to raise you back then. I abandoned Elvis and Elizabeth and only raised you by my side..."
"Oh? Really?" Tang Xili's face showed no emotion. Without any warning, she pulled out the knife and stabbed it in again.
"Then this knife will be my way of thanking you for raising me."
"Ah--" The sudden severe pain made Max's face turn pale again, and his whole face twisted into a ball.
He endured the pain and said anxiously: "Evelyn, actually, I can't be blamed entirely for what happened back then. I was also a victim. I was drunk at the time, and it was the old man who helped me into your mother's room."
“Puff!”
The red knife was pulled out, and the third knife was stabbed into Max's abdomen. The girl smiled coldly.
"Who are you kidding? Men don't have any physiological reactions when they're drunk. Back then, you, the illegitimate child, were still young. You were jealous that An Minghe could inherit An Baoshan's company legitimately, so you cheated on your own brother to get revenge on him."
"It was your momentary anger that pushed her into a deeper hell. None of you is innocent."
Max's lips turned white from the pain. She had stabbed him very deep and the wound was bleeding rapidly. The blood soaked through his pants and flowed down the trouser leg onto the floor.
He still wanted to argue, "Evelyn, I admit that I wasn't completely drunk. Evelyn, I knew I was wrong. Later, I came to you and tried my best to make amends."
"Make amends?" Tang Xili retorted, "By making amends, do you mean poisoning me and making me addicted?"
"You also poisoned Elvis and Elizabeth?"
Max choked. Back then, after discovering her ulterior motives, he had wanted to use that method to control her. "Evelyn, that was just a temporary solution. I did it because I discovered you had a rebellious heart. If you had been obedient, how could I have treated you like that?"
"Be good and listen to me?" Tang Xili laughed as if she had heard a huge joke.
After a moment, she stared coldly into Max's eyes and said, "Let me tell you this, I've never been a good boy since I was little. But they all thought I was a good boy. Guess why?"
Max's lips trembled. "Because you can pretend."
She was a master of disguise and a natural hunter, and he had already experienced that.
Hearing his answer, Tang Xili raised her eyebrows. "Max, maybe you've already guessed it. Actually, when I was 13 years old, I knew who you were the first time I saw you. Do you know what I was thinking at the time?"
She asked and answered herself calmly, "I was thinking, I'm going to kill you! But when I saw the gun on your waist and you took out a roll of money and said you'd take me for something delicious, I changed my mind. I'm going to go with you. I'll take whatever you have!"
"Why do you cause such a tragedy and still live a life of luxury and prosperity in this world without any punishment? Why do I have nothing and am as destitute as a dog?"
"I want your sins to be exposed, your injustice to be known to the world, and you to lose everything and die!"
When she said this, Tang Xili raised her bloody hand and pointed at the LCD screen not far away.
The LCD screen lit up, and photos of the An family flashed one by one, playing in the order of their death: An Qian, An Xianyue, An Youcheng...
"Look, haven't I done it? Haha..." The girl laughed heartily.
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