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I know that the relationship between people cannot escape the six-person law, and I also understand that Hong City is actually very small, with only a few people in the upper class circle going back and forth, but I still admire Lu Sui’s perseverance in trying his best to hook up.

( Six-person law = According to this theory, one can get to know any stranger at most through six people with a chain of ‘friend of a friend’)

Seeing that Zheng Jieyuan was about to take action, Shi Hao looked at him and asked the bodyguards to block Zheng Jieyuan’s way. I also came back to my senses and caught up from behind to grab his wrist.

“Have you forgotten where this is?” Shi Hao took the silk bathrobe handed over by the waiter to put it on and whispered something.

The waiter turned around and went to the swimming pool. After a while, the people playing water volleyball stopped and came ashore, dripping water. Whispering to each other, they occasionally looked curiously this way and left one after another.

“You did it on purpose, right? You pretended to invite me to the party, but you just wanted to find this bastard to disgust me.” Zheng Jieyuan broke away from my hand, pushed away the bodyguard in front of him, and walked straight towards Shi Hao, “I even carefully chose a gift for you, but you don’t really want to help me, right?”

“So what if I did it on purpose? Do you have any other choice besides me?” Shi Hao was taller than Zheng Jieyuan. When he looked down at people, the smile on his lips and the scar on his forehead gave him a particularly evil vibe.

He raised his eyes and looked at me behind Zheng Jieyuan: “If Sang Nian could protect you, you wouldn’t come to me.”

Feeling speechless, Zheng Jieyuan was so angry that he grabbed his shirt: “Fuck you, bastard!”

Shi Hao’s eyes turned cold, and he grabbed Zheng Jieyuan’s hand, pulling it away bit by bit.

“Fuck it.”

Zheng Jieyuan shook him off in pain, rubbed his wrists, and tightened his fingers, looking like he was ready to rush up and fight with the opponent anytime and anywhere. He has completely forgotten about enduring humiliation and compromising.

“Zheng Jieyuan…” I was about to step forward to break up the fight, but the bodyguard blocked me again.

“If you dare to move, the Zheng family will never stand up again.” Shi Hao’s tone was as usual, without any hint of warning, but that was enough to scare Zheng Jieyuan.

Zheng Jieyuan pursed his lips tightly and stared at Shi Hao fiercely. After a fierce psychological struggle, he loosened his fist.

Shi Hao curled his lips with satisfaction and turned his gaze towards the gift box that Zheng Jieyuan had just thrown on the ground.

“What gift did you bring me?”

It’s over.

I tried to stop the bodyguard from getting the box, but unfortunately, I was too late.

Shi Hao took the box from the bodyguard and shook it, opening the wrapping paper with great interest.

When he took out the black rivet collar from the box, I couldn’t bear to look at it and closed my eyes.

“Is this the gift you carefully prepared for me?” Shi Hao threw away the paper box and turned it over to admire the necklace in his hand.

“Yes, don’t you have a dog? I specially customized a dog tag for it, and it was even encrusted with diamonds.” Zheng Jieyuan didn’t find anything strange at all.

Shi Hao looked at him and handed over the collar. Zheng Jieyuan was stunned for a moment and took it without knowing why.

“Put it on.” Shi Hao said.

Zheng Jieyuan looked at him and then at the dog collar in his hand, his expression suddenly changed: “I’ll go to hell with you…”

“Huh?” Just when he couldn’t help but throw the collar at Shi Hao and curse again, Shi Hao just raised his eyebrows slightly and stood motionless.

Zheng Jieyuan’s whole body froze as if his acupuncture points were tapped, and many emotions flashed through his eyes, finally stopping at “humiliation”.

I couldn’t stand it: “Shi Hao, don’t go too far.”

Shi Hao’s face showed displeasure at being disturbed. He raised his hand slightly, and the bodyguards on both sides came over. One of them held one of my arms to control me and stuffed a tablecloth into my mouth.

Zheng Jieyuan was a little anxious: “Hey! I’ll just put it on, don’t touch Sang Nian!” After saying that, he no longer hesitated and put the collar on his neck.

Shi Hao’s complexion didn’t improve, but instead looked a bit colder.

“You guys have such a good relationship.”

“We are brothers, of course we have a good relationship.” Zheng Jieyuan said, “This matter is mainly to blame on me. If it weren’t for me, you two wouldn’t have become enemies back then. If you have any grudges, come at me. Let Sang Nian go and don’t trouble him anymore.”

“Aim it all at you?”

“Yes, you can do whatever you want with me, and I will never resist.”

Zheng Jieyuan, this idiot, who wants him to talk on behalf of me?

“Mmm!” I struggled, but was mercilessly suppressed by the bodyguard. My arm felt as painful as if it was about to break, and a thin layer of sweat immediately broke out on my back.

“My face has become like this, my eyes were barely spared, and my life was almost lost. Are you still asking me not to pursue the case?” Shi Hao looked at me for a moment and said, “Even if I can’t retaliate with a tooth for a tooth or an eye for an eye, if others see him walking out from here so boldly, wouldn’t I be embarrassed?”

He asked Lu Sui, who had been shrinking his neck and trying to minimize his presence behind him, “What do you want to do?”

Lu Sui was suddenly called by name and was startled. He smiled dryly and said, “This… I, I don’t know. Of course, you have the final say.”

Shi Hao lowered his face and said, “Say.”

“Take off your clothes and dive into the water!” Lu Sui blurted out as soon as he closed his eyes.

I stared at Lu Sui, feeling a sense of absurd fate in my heart. This may be because evil people have their own retribution.

He offended me before and wanted to get my forgiveness, so I asked him to strip naked and dive into the water in the middle of winter. Now I offended Shi Hao and wanted to ask for peace, but Lu Sui also made me strip naked and dive into the water. This cycle of cause and effect is very reasonable.

Shi Hao waved his hand, and the bodyguard who was holding me released his hand.

I threw the tablecloth in my mouth to the ground and took a breath, “Take off the clothes and jump into the water, right?”

I unbuttoned my shirt and walked towards the swimming pool.

It’s summer now, and the water temperature is over 20 degrees Celsius. Besides, I’m not a public figure. Even if Shi Hao takes a picture of me swimming naked, the humiliation to me will be limited.

Just when I threw off my shirt and was about to take off my pants, Shi Hao suddenly stopped.

“No need to take off the pants.” He walked to the barbecue, took off a ring from his hand and threw it into the charcoal fire. After waiting for a long time, he took it out with tongs and walked to Lu Sui’s side.

My eyebrows twitched, feeling something bad in my heart.

“What do you want to do?” Zheng Jieyuan clearly felt the same way as me. Just as he was about to move, he was held down by the two bodyguards who had previously held me down, one on each side.

“You left me a scar, so I’ll leave you a scar as well. This way, we’ll be even.” Shi Hao handed the tong to Lu Sui and gestured for him to come forward. “Anyway, with so many cigarette scars on your body, you should be used to getting burned, right?”

Lu Sui’s hands trembled, and he looked very embarrassed.

“I, I can’t do it, Mr. Shi, you…don’t let me do this…”

Yes, that’s right. I was naive just now. How could Shi Hao just let me go so easily? I left an indelible scar on his face in front of everyone, and he must also treat him in the same way.

“Lu Sui, how dare you! If you dare to burn him, I will kill you!” Zheng Jieyuan’s upper body was restrained, and his lower body was trying hard to reach Lu Sui, kicking his feet in the air in vain.

“Hurry up.” Shi Hao urged.

Among the people present, Lu Sui knew very well who he should not offend the most.

“Young Master Sang, don’t blame me.” He walked towards me tremblingly.

I subconsciously took a step back.

Although the purpose of coming here is to settle the grudge between me and Shi Hao, I can’t get over the hurdle in my heart if I just give up my resistance and surrender.

Even if I, Sang Nian, fell into the mud and couldn’t get up, it wouldn’t be my turn to be humiliated by a clown like Lu Sui.

“If you don’t want to, how about asking the pet doctor to do it for you?”

Shi Hao had finally figured out my weakness. With a simple sentence, I stood frozen on the spot, unable to retreat any longer.

Do I want Ji Chenfeng to replace me?

“For Zheng Jieyuan’s sake, I’ll give you a chance to choose. You or your boyfriend. You can choose for yourself.”

The red top of the tongs slowly faded away, the sound of breathing became louder, and Zheng Jieyuan’s shouts became farther and farther away.

Although childhood memories are mottled and unclear, fear seems to have been deeply ingrained in the heart. Just imagining the skin being scorched by high heat makes my body unable to resist trembling.

Don’t do it…. My ears were filled with the sobbing and screaming of a child. 

Don’t……

“I……”

When the tong approached me, I could already faintly feel the high temperature above. Every cell, every pore was in a state of rejection.

“I said…don’t touch me.”

I gritted my teeth and reached out to grab the upper part of the tong. Amidst Lu Sui’s exclamation, I pressed the hot circular ring onto my shoulder.

Sharp pain instantly hit the brain, and the nose seemed to be able to smell the burning smell of the skin and flesh being cooked.

It really hurts. But compared to the physical pain, it is even more unbearable for me to let such ugly scars appear on Ji Chenfeng. Let Ji Chenfeng replace me? How could it be?

With a “click”, the tong and the ring fell on the ground one after another. Due to excessive force, there was not only a circular six pointed star mark on the shoulder, but also two vertical bright red burn marks.

“No, I didn’t do it.” Lu Sui waved his hands in panic.

“Is it okay?” Cold sweat broke out on my temples, and I asked Shi Hao, who was watching the show not far away.

He glanced at the swimming pool: “Aren’t you going to jump?”

This piece of shit… If it weren’t for Ji Chenfeng, if it weren’t for Ji Chenfeng, he would have tasted the feeling of having a fire tong shoved into his throat today.

I turned around, took a deep breath, and dove into the pool. The slightly cold water quickly cooled the burning pain of the wound, but as soon as I surfaced from the water, the pain was doubled. It even took me two attempts to successfully reach the shore.

“Is it okay?” I lay on all fours, coughing, and raised my head to confirm with Shi Hao again.

Seeing how embarrassed I was, he seemed to be finally satisfied. He pointed at the elevator and said, “The matter between us is over. You can leave now.”

I staggered up and shook the shirt I picked up from the ground. Because it touched the wound, I felt another heart-wrenching pain in my shoulder.

Even my breathing became cautious. I put on the shirt, and the fabric absorbed water, sticking to my body. Fastening the buttons, I glanced at Zheng Jieyuan, who was almost going crazy not far away, “What about Zheng Jieyuan?”

Shi Hao had a smile in his eyes one moment, but the next moment his smile gradually turned into a sinister tone: “Are you conjoined twins? What does it have to do with you whether he can leave or not?”

“We came together, of course we must leave together.”

Shi Hao looked at me expressionlessly for a moment, then waved his hand, and the two bodyguards let go of Zheng Jieyuan.

Not only me, but Zheng Jieyuan was also stunned.

Is Shi Hao so kind?

Shi Hao said to Zheng Jieyuan: “If you leave now, don’t come to me again in the future.”

That’s right, Shi Hao is not that kind.

Zheng Jieyuan, who had just taken a step, took his foot back obediently.

After some hesitation, he returned to Shi Hao’s side and said to me dejectedly, “Sang Nian, you go first.”

He is already an adult and has the freedom to choose. He doesn’t want to leave, so I can’t just tie him up.

“Have you thought about it?” I asked.

Zheng Jieyuan pursed his lips and nodded vigorously.

Without persuading him any more, I fixed my clothes, pushed back the wet hair from my forehead, straightened my back, and strode toward the elevator as if nothing had happened.

With trembling fingers, I pressed the elevator button.

“Wait!” Just as the elevator door was about to close, Lu Sui squeezed in.

I leaned against the wall of the compartment, too lazy to pay attention to him.

“Young Master Sang, you really didn’t blame me just now…” He rambled on, explaining his helplessness to me, and showed no sign of stopping until the elevator door opened again.

I walked out in silence, and he followed me all the time, looking like he would fight to the end if he didn’t get my forgiveness.

While walking through the dancing floor, I was accidentally bumped into the shoulder by someone. The pain suddenly made my eyes turn black, and my body shook uncontrollably.

“Young Master Sang!” Lu Sui supported me and let me lean on him, “How are you? Do you want me to send you to the hospital? There are so many bacteria in the swimming pool. It will be troublesome if you get an infection.”

As I calmed down the pain, my eyes accidentally swept across the edge of the dance floor, and I seemed to see Ji Chenfeng’s figure in a trance. Thinking that I had an illusion, I shook my head and found that not only did the figure not disappear, but it became even more clear.

Ji Chenfeng was scanning the dance floor and happened to see me at this time. He showed a relieved expression and wanted to come over, but was suddenly stunned.

“Alright… you don’t have to worry about me.” I pushed Lu Sui away and said harshly, “Get lost.”

Through the crowded dance floor, I walked towards Ji Chenfeng. When I finally came to him, I was obviously happy to see that he was okay, but my words turned into accusations.

“Didn’t I ask you to stay in the car? How did you get in?”

He glanced behind me and said calmly: “Climb over the wall.”

Climb over the wall? Where does he think this is? Fly City? Shi Hao’s bodyguards are all professionally trained and equipped with electric batons. If discovered while sneaking in, you wouldn’t even know how you died.

How could I think he is so well-behaved? He is obviously a pain in the ass to worry about.

I took his hand and walked out, my tone becoming even worse: “I told you to lock the car door and not run around. Why did you come in?”

Ji Chenfeng silently let me pull him all the way. It wasn’t until we left Shi Hao’s villa and walked out of the door that he raised his hand to break free from my grip.

My hand was suddenly empty, and I turned around to look, only to see him taking out his cell phone and making a call to someone.

“It’s okay.” After speaking briefly, he hung up the phone and saw me staring at him. He explained to me, “Before I went in, I asked Jian Xing to call me every ten minutes. If I didn’t answer, he would call the police.”

I was already annoyed in my heart, and hearing Jian Xing’s name made me even more upset.

“So, do you think you’re very smart? You shouldn’t have gone in at all.”

“Why?” Ji Chenfeng didn’t mean to back down at all. He stared at me with his dark eyes and even dared to ask why.

“No reason!”

That’s not right. I’m too excited. I shouldn’t argue with him. He was just worried about us, so he’s not wrong.

Shutting my mouth, I turned around and walked towards Zheng Jieyuan’s black convertible, trying to calm down again.

“Is there no reason for what happened just now?”

Feeling stunned, I stopped for a moment and looked back at Ji Chenfeng. He was still standing there and didn’t follow.

Thinking about it now, it seems that Lu Sui’s matter has not been explained yet. When Ji Chenfeng first saw me, Lu Sui and I indeed looked quite ambiguous.

How many times has he caught me and Lu Sui behaving intimately? Damn it, there’s even a feeling that even if I jump into the Yellow River, I won’t be able to wash it off.

I opened my mouth but didn’t know how to explain. What to say? Should I say that I was so weak that I had to lean into other people’s arms because Shi Hao marked me like livestock?

I won’t be able to say it even if you kill me.

“Lu Sui and I have nothing to do with each other. If you believe it, just believe it. If you don’t believe it, forget it.” I don’t want him to know what happened to me, so I gave an explanation that was more like a quibble.

As he finished speaking, Ji Chenfeng’s face was almost covered with frost.

It was obvious that he didn’t believe me.

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