On the third day of being kidnapped, Zhou Chaosheng still hadn’t received any news about Jiang Yuanye. This inevitably made him a little anxious, but nothing showed on his face.
Just after he finished breakfast that morning, Liu Huaichuan pushed the door open and entered. He seemed to have encountered some trouble, his brow slightly furrowed, but once he reached the bedside, he resumed his usual half-smiling expression.
“Chaosheng.”
Zhou Chaosheng ignored him.
Liu Huaichuan didn’t mind, pulling a key from his pocket and bending down to unlock the iron chain shackling Zhou Chaosheng’s ankle.
Watching his actions, Zhou Chaosheng was somewhat surprised. He glanced at the mercenaries guarding the doorway and, knowing full well that he likely couldn’t overcome them with his own strength, decided to conserve his energy and observe.
“Chaosheng, I’m taking you somewhere.”
Once the chain was unlocked and he regained freedom, the first thing Zhou Chaosheng did was clench his fist and punch Liu Huaichuan hard in the face.
“Ugh!” Liu Huaichuan’s head snapped to the side from the blow, stumbling back a few steps.
Hearing the commotion, the mercenaries outside rushed in, guns pointed at Zhou Chaosheng. Only when Liu Huaichuan, one hand covering his mouth, waved the other to signal it was fine, did they lower their weapons and step back.
Zhou Chaosheng shook his hand, the look of disdain on his face obvious.
“Feel better now?” Even after being hit, Liu Huaichuan still wore a gentle smile, not angry at all. instead, he seemed rather satisfied, as if being touched by him was something to be happy about.
Zhou Chaosheng felt a chill, “What exactly are you trying to do?”
Liu Huaichuan: “I want to show you something.” After a pause, he added, “I promise it’ll just be for a short while, I won’t do anything to you.”
Zhou Chaosheng had no way to deal with him for the moment, so he suppressed his frustration and agreed.
Ten minutes later, Liu Huaichuan led him through the villa, which was designed like a maze, circling around several times. All the while, armed mercenaries followed closely behind them. And to prevent Zhou Chaosheng from grabbing a weapon, Liu Huaichuan had also put iron chain handcuffs on him.
After walking for a while, they finally arrived at the entrance of a hidden room on the basement level of the villa. When Liu Huaichuan input the password, he didn’t avoid Zhou Chaosheng behind him, allowing Zhou Chaosheng to clearly see the password he entered.
【0825】—his birthday.
Zhou Chaosheng suddenly remembered what day it was.
Once the secret passage doors opened to both sides, Liu Huaichuan took him inside. As they entered, the candle holders lining the walls automatically lit up, dispelling the darkness and revealing the staircase to a deeper level.
“A year ago, was the car accident in Jinzhou your doing?” Zhou Chaosheng suddenly asked.
Liu Huaichuan denied it: “No.”
“Then who was it?”
Liu Huaichuan seemed to find this amusing. “Chaosheng, even if I knew, do you think I’d tell you?”
Zhou Chaosheng neither affirmed nor denied, nor did he press further, instead asking, “You kidnapped me, just because you like me?”
At this point, there was no need to hide anything. So in response to Zhou Chaosheng’s question, Liu Huaichuan no longer spoke in riddles like before.
“That’s just one reason,” Liu Huaichuan said.
“What’s the main reason?” Zhou Chaosheng asked.
Liu Huaichuan: “It has nothing to do with you.”
“It’s related to the Zhou family?”
Liu Huaichuan nodded, then said, “An old grudge from over thirty years ago. I just took the opportunity to push things along.”
Zhou Chaosheng frowned. The Zhou family had countless rivals, but if it involved something from his parents’ generation more than thirty years ago, Zhou Chaosheng wouldn’t be very clear on it.
As silence settled, Liu Huaichuan had already led him down the final step. At the end of the stairs was a wall. Liu Huaichuan walked over and lightly pressed his hand on it—he’d likely pressed a hidden switch—soon the door slowly turned, revealing a gap just wide enough for one person to pass through.
“Come in.”
Liu Huaichuan went in first. Zhou Chaosheng stood still for a moment. Only when the mercenaries behind him urged him impatiently did he lift his leg and step forward.
Inside, the place was lavishly decorated. Every piece of furnishing had been crafted with care—any one of them worth millions. Rather than a cramped underground chamber, it felt more like a treasure vault.
But compared to what was on the wall, these things were insignificant.
Zhou Chaosheng lifted his eyes. When he saw the entire wall covered in photos of him from childhood to present, he was unexpectedly calm.
Liu Huaichuan stood beside him, staring unblinkingly at Zhou Chaosheng’s face, afraid to miss even the slightest expression. But to his disappointment, when Zhou Chaosheng looked at the photos, his face remained completely expressionless.
The lighting in the room illuminated Zhou Chaosheng’s sharp, cold jawline. Even in a simple black T-shirt, his superior temperament could not be concealed. This graceful and indifferent appearance deeply captivated Liu Huaichuan’s gaze, and reminded him of that moment over ten years ago—when Zhou Chaosheng caught him doing something in the restroom—
Indifferent, contemptuous, aloof.
It was as if no one could enter his world.
Such a person made it hard not to develop malicious thoughts, hard not to want to drag him down from his pedestal and soil him with the filth of the world.
Liu Huaichuan knew very well that his feelings were worth nothing in the other’s eyes, but he hadn’t given up. He kept finding excuses for him—it's fine, Chaosheng's sexual orientation is normal, it’s perfectly natural not to like men...
But he never expected that, more than ten years later, the person he couldn’t have ended up liking another man.
Lost in thought, Liu Huaichuan suddenly heard a laugh beside him. He recognized it immediately. it was mocking him, mocking his feelings, mocking what he had done.
"Since when has spying on someone’s privacy been considered liking them?"
Liu Huaichuan’s expression didn’t change. He reached out and pulled down a photo, smiling as he changed the topic: “Chaosheng, do you remember this photo? It was from our second year of middle school, the one where you came first and went up to receive the award.”
Zhou Chaosheng frowned, his temper seemingly having been suppressed to its limit: “Li Nan, do you think this is fun?”
Liu Huaichuan or Li Nan.
The pervert who had taken photos of him in the bathroom during their middle school days.
“Chaosheng, do you remember me?!” Li Nan was ecstatic, his mouth grinning wide, his entire demeanor almost unhinged. He laughed so hard that tears began to fall from his eyes. “You finally... remembered me…”
Zhou Chaosheng couldn’t understand the other’s feelings. The emotions that had accumulated over the days seemed to be pushed to the breaking point by the other’s abnormal mental state. It felt as if, with just a bit more provocation, the mask he’d been wearing would completely shatter.
“You’ve gone crazy…” Zhou Chaosheng said.
“Yes, I’m crazy! I’m crazy because I like you so much that I’ve lost my mind! I’ve liked you for so many years. Why in the end do you end up liking someone else? Chaosheng, tell me why? Why can’t you like me? Why, why, why…” Li Nan’s emotions broke down completely, and with a wild swing, he knocked a priceless porcelain item onto the ground.
Crash. The fragments scattered everywhere, some even cutting Zhou Chaosheng’s skin, leaving small cuts on his fair skin that started bleeding.
Zhou Chaosheng’s patience had reached its limit. He spoke bluntly: “You think that by doing this, I’ll like you? That’s impossible, Li Nan. I’ll only hate you more, disgusted by you. Is this what you want?”
“It’s okay.” Li Nan repeated, neurotically, “It’s okay,” and as he spoke, he walked forward, trying to cup Zhou Chaosheng’s face in his hands, only to be avoided with obvious distaste. It wasn’t clear whether it was the disdain in Zhou Chaosheng’s eyes or the pain of being rejected that struck Li Nan’s heart. He froze, slowly lowering his head and hands.
After a long pause, Li Nan spoke: “It’s okay, Chaosheng, you can hate me.”
This time, Zhou Chaosheng froze for a moment. “What?”
Li Nan lifted his face, showing a smile that was more painful than crying. He looked at Zhou Chaosheng and said, “Chaosheng, do you really like Jiang Yuanye that much?”
Zhou Chaosheng’s gaze shifted from Li Nan’s face to a corner of the wall. Among the dense collection of photos, the first one he noticed was Jiang Yuanye.
That photo was taken during their senior year of high school. He had been following Jiang Yuanye to the southeast corner of the old city, a place everyone referred to as the slums. In the photo, Zhou Chaosheng was hiding in the corner of a wall, while on the other side was Jiang Yuanye, also crouched, his head buried in the crook of his arm. His whole figure was lost in the shadows, with only part of his arm and head visible in the light.
Even without seeing his expression, Zhou Chaosheng knew that Jiang Yuanye was crying then—silently, helplessly crying.
In the past, when Zhou Chaosheng had seen this scene, he’d only felt a sense of melancholy, surprised that his usual arrogant nemesis could have such a vulnerable side. But now, looking at the photo again, his heart ached unbearably. It felt as though thousands of pieces of shattered glass had sliced open his heart, the pain overwhelming.
He pressed his hand to his chest, unable to stop himself from stepping forward to touch the photo, as if doing so could ease the pain in his heart.
Li Nan stared at his actions in confusion. "Chaosheng, what are you doing?"
"Li Nan." Zhou Chaosheng didn't answer the question, but instead said, "The Shengda Group hasn't been doing well these past few days, has it?"
Li Nan’s expression stiffened.
"As an illegitimate child, instead of focusing on how to fight for your share of the family wealth from Liu Shaowei, you’re secretly collaborating with outsiders to harm your own company. I want to ask, what are you after?"
Li Nan’s expression darkened, but he still maintained a basic smile, trying to appear composed in front of Zhou Chaosheng.
"I’m after you, of course." Li Nan said.
"Impossible." Zhou Chaosheng calmly rebutted, "That’s just your excuse."
Li Nan: "..."
"Let me guess..." Zhou Chaosheng paused, turning his head to look at Li Nan under the light, speaking slowly, "The real Liu Huaichuan is actually someone else, isn’t he?"
This hit the mark.
Li Nan could no longer maintain his smile. His expression darkened, and the corners of his mouth pressed into a straight line.
"You had plastic surgery to look like Liu Huaichuan and stole his identity. This was all planned by the person behind you, wasn’t it?"
Li Nan neither admitted nor denied it: "Do you have evidence?"
"A paternity test is the best evidence, isn’t it?" Zhou Chaosheng said leisurely.
Li Nan’s expression changed completely: "When did you start suspecting?"
Zhou Chaosheng had never actually done a paternity test; it was merely a bluff to trick Li Nan. However, Li Nan didn’t seem to be on guard and took the bait.
"A long time ago."
"From the very beginning?"
"You tell me."
"So your amnesia was also faked?"
Zhou Chaosheng smiled slightly and said, "How could I have hooked you without pretending? Li Nan, it’s still not too late to turn back. Don’t wait until things are irreversible to regret it."
Li Nan panicked, thinking that everything had already been exposed. He even started to suspect that the easy way Zhou Chaosheng had been captured was part of a trap that had been laid out long ago.
"You..." Li Nan’s voice turned cold. "I underestimated you, Chaosheng."
Before Zhou Chaosheng could respond, a sharp pain suddenly struck the back of his neck. Then, a numbness spread throughout his body, and his vision began to blur.
Before he fell unconscious, he heard Li Nan telling the mercenaries, "Take him away."
---
On the other side, Jiang Yuanye also received investigation updates from Gu Qingqiu and Zhao Xiaohui—the kidnapping case might be connected to foreign forces.
For this investigation, Zhou Yuanbo mobilized almost all of his connections. Before long, he also uncovered a few leads.
According to the investigation, there were several suspicious points about Liu Huaichuan’s background:
First, the paternity test Liu Huaichuan had done back then;
Second, the hospital that conducted the test is now completely abandoned;
Third, the classmates and friends who had known Liu Huaichuan previously all felt that his personality drastically changed after being acknowledged and taken back.
These points inevitably led people to speculate about the hidden truth behind it all.
Following these leads, the Zhou family launched an investigation and also initiated a fierce offensive against Shengda Group. After several attacks, even the powerful Liu family began to find it hard to withstand.
When Shengda Group's stock continued to plunge, Liu Shaowei specially sent someone to negotiate with Zhou Yuanbo.
During the negotiation, Liu Shaowei categorically denied that his son had anything to do with Zhou Chaosheng’s disappearance. In response, Zhou Yuanbo presented a paternity test showing that Liu Shaowei and Liu Huaichuan were not biologically related. Upon seeing it, Liu Shaowei’s expression changed drastically.
Afterward, Liu Shaowei and Zhou Yuanbo reached a preliminary agreement to shift the target toward Liu Huaichuan.
It was only at this point that the hidden forces behind the scenes began to surface. All parties stirred beneath the surface, waiting for the best opportunity to rescue Zhou Chaosheng.
Jiang Yuanye took one last look at the photo and address saved on his phone, then turned off the screen and said to the bodyguard standing by, "Go to the nurse’s station and get me a pen and some paper."
The bodyguard hesitated briefly but still turned and left.
When he returned, he found the hospital bed completely empty. He quickly called for help and ran to the window, only to see Jiang Yuanye already climbing down the pipes outside.
"Mr. Jiang! Mr. Jiang, come back! Where are you going?" the bodyguard shouted loudly.
Jiang Yuanye heard the voice, turned to glance at the bodyguard, waved, said nothing, and ran out of the hospital, getting into a car driven by one of his own men and leaving without looking back.
Jiang Yuanye switched cars several times along the way, successfully shaking off the bodyguards, and finally drove alone to the address given by the other side—a deserted factory.
Of course, he wasn’t that foolish.
All his elaborate actions were merely for show, to deceive the person watching in the shadows. In reality, he had long since used an unmonitored means of contact to inform Zhao Xiaohui and Gu Qingqiu and arranged for them to cooperate with him in rescuing Zhou Chaosheng.
---
When Zhou Chaosheng opened his eyes again, he found both his hands and feet bound to a chair, completely unable to move.
The place he was in appeared to be an abandoned factory, surrounded by mercenaries and various sizes of kerosene barrels. All the windows of the building had been nailed shut, sealing the place as tightly as a prison.
Even so, Zhou Chaosheng could still hear the occasional low whimpering of wild dogs outside the factory. Not long after, he seemed to hear the sound of a car engine.
“Chaosheng, you woke up at just the right time.”
A hand landed on Zhou Chaosheng’s shoulder from behind. He forced down the discomfort in his chest and said coldly, “Did you bring me here to silence me?”
“Of course not.” Li Nan chuckled. “You misunderstood me. I just wanted to bring you here to watch a good show.”
For some reason, Zhou Chaosheng could sense malicious intent behind those words. But no matter what, nothing could be worse than the fact that he had been kidnapped and the Zhou family still hadn’t found him.
Actually, there was something worse.
Because he saw the iron doors of the abandoned factory slowly open, and a familiar figure walked in.
—Jiang Yuanye.
Zhou Chaosheng’s pupils contracted. He hadn’t expected the other party to appear here. At the sight of him, the unease and fear in his heart surged to their peak.
He wanted to scold him, to curse him for being stupid enough to come to such a dangerous place alone—but when he saw the shimmer of tears in Jiang Yuanye’s eyes, he suddenly fell silent.
“Chaosheng!” Jiang Yuanye tried to run over, but was stopped midway by mercenaries pointing guns at him. Helpless, he could only stand three meters away and look at Zhou Chaosheng tied to the chair.
“Are you okay? Did they do anything to you?” Jiang Yuanye asked anxiously.
Zhou Chaosheng’s thoughts were a mess. He didn’t know what Li Nan’s purpose was in luring Jiang Yuanye here, nor did he know if Jiang Yuanye had any backup plans for himself. At this point, all he could do was avoid provoking Li Nan as much as possible to prevent him from harming Jiang Yuanye.
“I’m fine.” Zhou Chaosheng forced a cold tone. “Why did you come?”
“I…” Jiang Yuanye paused, then looked at Li Nan. “I’m here. Can you let him go now?”
Li Nan’s expression was dark, his gaze shifting back and forth between Jiang Yuanye and Zhou Chaosheng. After a few seconds, he suddenly burst into laughter. “When did I ever say I’d let him go just because you came?”
Jiang Yuanye wasn’t angry, and instead stepped back slightly and tried to compromise: “Then what do you want me to do so you’ll let him go?”
“You’ll do anything?”
“Anything.”
Clap, clap, clap.
Li Nan clapped three times and sneered, “How touching—sharing hardship together, huh?”
Jiang Yuanye didn’t respond.
Zhou Chaosheng turned to look at Li Nan, no longer hiding the hatred in his eyes. “What exactly do you want?”
Li Nan met Zhou Chaosheng’s gaze, lowered his eyes, and said softly, “Nothing. I just think… since he wants to sacrifice something for you, if I don’t give him the chance to perform, wouldn’t that be a waste of this play?”
Zhou Chaosheng really wanted to punch this lunatic in the face, but unfortunately, he couldn’t do anything. He couldn’t even lash out verbally—if he angered Li Nan, the one who would suffer was still Jiang Yuanye.
“In that case—”
Li Nan suddenly pulled out a gun, opened the magazine in front of Jiang Yuanye, then pointed the muzzle at Zhou Chaosheng’s forehead and said, “Then kneel.”
“…As long as I kneel, you’ll let him go?”
“If you give me a few kowtows too, I might consider it.”
Hearing this, Zhou Chaosheng’s mind seemed to snap—he could no longer control his emotions and shouted, “No! Don’t! Don’t kneel, Jiang Yuanye, don’t kneel to him—”
Before he could finish, the mercenary behind him followed Li Nan’s order and gagged Zhou Chaosheng with a rag to stop him from speaking.
Jiang Yuanye looked at Zhou Chaosheng being manhandled, and the rage and violence in his heart surged madly. Gritting his teeth, he asked, “If I do as you say, and you still don’t let him go?”
Li Nan laughed. “Are you bargaining with me?”
Jiang Yuanye suppressed his anger and said gently, “No, I just think if you have any other demands, say them all at once. I’ll do whatever I can, as long as you let Zhou Chaosheng go.”
“I will let him go,” Li Nan said casually. “If I don’t, I’ll die.”
With this statement, Jiang Yuanye felt a slight sense of relief. “Besides that, is there anything else you want?”
Li Nan glanced at the man he once remembered as unyielding and tough, curious: “What about your pride?”
Jiang Yuanye: “So there’s nothing else?”
“Nothing.” Li Nan was growing impatient. “Are you going to kneel or not?”
Zhou Chaosheng watched helplessly as the other slowly bent down, one knee touching the ground. He shook his head frantically, wanting to say it wasn’t necessary, that Li Nan was only humiliating him, and whether he knelt or not, Li Nan wouldn’t keep his word.
Time seemed to stretch. He saw Jiang Yuanye raise his eyes to look at him and gently shake his head, then silently mouth something. Zhou Chaosheng struggled to read his lips and realized he was saying: “Don’t cry. I’ll get you out.”
Zhou Chaosheng froze.
Only then did he realize his tears had fallen at some point, running down his face and soaking into his collar.
His heart clenched suddenly, and his throat felt stuffed with cotton, making it hard to breathe.
Since knowing Jiang Yuanye, he had known how much pride meant to him. Even in the hardest times, the man would never beg him for anything.
Did Jiang Yuanye not know Li Nan was humiliating him? No, he knew. And still knelt. Stupid—so stupid. Zhou Chaosheng’s vision blurred. He saw Jiang Yuanye press his knee against the hard cement floor and slowly lower his head. In front of dozens of mercenaries, he knocked his fair forehead against the ground—three times in a row.
When he raised his head again, his forehead was covered in dust, and there were a few mocking chuckles from around them.
Liu Huaichuan clapped again. “Good! What a great show.” He laughed for a while before saying, “That was only three times. Not enough.”
No!
Zhou Chaosheng seemed to go mad, struggling wildly. As the chair he was tied to nearly toppled, someone stepped forward and steadied it.
“Chaosheng, wouldn’t it be better to let the show play out?” Li Nan leaned close to his ear and laughed softly, “If he didn’t kneel, neither of you would leave here alive.”
The words were just loud enough for Jiang Yuanye to hear them clearly. His body stiffened, then he gave in and said, “Let him go, I’ll kowtow.”
“That’s more like it.” Li Nan smiled, released Zhou Chaosheng, then sat leisurely on a stool the mercenaries had brought over, crossing his legs and watching with interest as the once proud and untouchable man now humbled himself before him.
Zhou Chaosheng shook his head again and again, the tears falling uncontrollably.
“Why are you crying?”
Li Nan raised a hand and ran a finger along the corner of his eye, then rubbed the tear between his fingers. The jealousy and madness in his eyes could no longer be concealed.
“You care about him that much? Then why didn’t you care about me when I was abroad, beaten so badly I couldn’t look in the mirror, set up by others and left with a mountain of debt?” As he spoke, Li Nan became nearly hysterical.
Zhou Chaosheng didn’t respond, only looked at Jiang Yuanye, whose forehead was bleeding. His own face went pale, and all strength seemed to leave him. It felt as if someone had hollowed out his chest, with cold wind whistling through.
Seeing this formerly proud and lofty man now fragile and broken triggered an overwhelming desire in Li Nan to destroy.
He strode over to Jiang Yuanye and, under Zhou Chaosheng’s hateful and pained gaze, grabbed a handful of his hair and slammed his head into the ground.
Jiang Yuanye let out a muffled grunt but didn’t resist, allowing Li Nan to kick him again and again—over a dozen times—venting his anger.
Before Li Nan could finish, a mercenary ran over and whispered in his ear, “Boss, someone’s approaching our location.”
“Heh.” Li Nan glanced disdainfully at the unconscious Jiang Yuanye on the ground, then turned the tables: “You broke our agreement first, so what happens to Zhou Chaosheng now is out of your hands.”
With that, he ordered the mercenaries to take Zhou Chaosheng away. Before leaving, he stepped on Jiang Yuanye’s head and spat on him. “Want to save him? Know your place.”
A minute later, Jiang Yuanye struggled to open his eyes, looked in the direction Zhou Chaosheng had been taken, and pulled out his phone to open the tracking system—a red dot was still moving on the screen.
It was a tracker he had secretly attached to Li Nan’s pants during the beating.
---
“Boss, it’s bad. They seem to have blocked all the exits.”
“Boss, Da Liu’s side is in trouble too. The helicopter’s been spotted.”
“Boss—”
Li Nan rubbed his temples. When the throbbing headache subsided, he suddenly roared, “Enough! What are you yelling for? All of you, get off the vehicle!”
The mercenaries were stunned for a moment, then one of them said with a dark expression, “Boss, what do you mean by that?”
Li Nan didn’t look any better. “I’ll still transfer the money to your accounts. Right now, all of us are in this vehicle. If we get caught, none of us will escape. I’m just telling you to scatter and escape separately. Understand?”
The mercenaries looked at each other and, in the end, could only agree. “Then what about this guy?”
Li Nan moved to the driver’s seat and glanced at Zhou Chaosheng, who was tightly bound and unconscious from the beating. He said coldly, “I’ll take him to the mountaintop.”
“But the big boss said—”
Li Nan cut him off: “I know what I’m doing. As for you all, aren’t you leaving yet? Want to get caught?”
Hearing this, the mercenaries had no choice but to quickly scatter and flee.
Once their figures disappeared into the forest, Li Nan started the vehicle and drove in the direction of the mountaintop.
---
Zhou Chaosheng was awakened by Li Nan yanking on him.
When he woke up, his legs had been untied, but his hands were still bound. He didn’t know what drug the other had injected into him, but his whole body was weak and limp. he had no strength at all to resist.
At the mountaintop, the wind hit his face with a constant whoosh. They were standing at the edge of a cliff, and below them surged the rolling sea.
“You can’t escape,” Zhou Chaosheng said.
Li Nan didn’t reply, only silently dragged him forward.
Zhou Chaosheng, pulled by the wrist, staggered along until they reached the cliff’s edge. “Li Nan, what exactly are you doing this for?”
Li Nan stopped walking.
“Chaosheng, I really can’t escape.”
“Then why…”
Li Nan turned his head and smiled faintly at him. “But I never intended to escape from the beginning.”
Zhou Chaosheng’s eyes widened slightly, and a renewed unease spread through his chest. “Li Nan, you…”
“Chaosheng.” Li Nan interrupted him. “Do you still remember back in the first year of middle school when you saved me? Back then, I was being bullied in the bathroom by some boys, and it was you who stepped in to stop them.”
Zhou Chaosheng’s throat tightened. “…So you’re doing this to me now because of that?”
“I’m sorry,” Li Nan said softly, “I just liked you too much.”
Zhou Chaosheng: “……”
“Maybe it’s more than just liking. After all these years, my feelings for you have already turned into love. You probably don’t know I held on all these years because of you. You were my mental support, the only person I ever loved.”
“Chaosheng, I know you don’t like me, maybe even hate me.”
“But that’s okay… because hate lasts longer than love.”
After he spoke, Li Nan no longer cared what expression Zhou Chaosheng showed. He turned to look at the approaching crowd. Among them, he spotted Jiang Yuanye’s pupils contract sharply as he started running toward them.
“I’ve always wondered… Didn’t you two used to hate each other? How did it turn into love?” Li Nan’s tone sounded genuinely baffled.
In Zhou Chaosheng’s ears, there was only Jiang Yuanye’s voice loudly calling his name—nothing else.
Li Nan impatiently looked at Jiang Yuanye closing in, then pulled the locator from his pocket and threw it at him, saying coldly, “Don’t come any closer. If you do, I won’t guarantee what I’ll do.”
The bodyguards followed closely, guns aimed not far from Jiang Yuanye.
Jiang Yuanye looked at the two standing at the cliff’s edge. His face went instantly pale as he tried to calm things down. “Okay, I won’t come closer. Liu Huaichuan, can we talk?”
Li Nan curled his lips. “Talk my ass.”
“Liu—”
Li Nan cut him off: “Jiang Yuanye, to be honest, I really envy you.”
He paused, then sneered. “But that ends today.”
As soon as he said it, Li Nan suddenly grabbed Zhou Chaosheng.
The next second, the sudden sense of weightlessness and the overturned vision left Zhou Chaosheng and also Jiang Yuanye and everyone behind utterly stunned.
“No!”
“Chaosheng!!!”