It was a woman.
She was wearing the exact same dark blue tracksuit as Su Wan, her hair tied in the same ponytail, her face identical.
Was that... Su Wan?
Liu Junnan’s mind went completely blank in that instant.
His gaze fell uncontrollably upon the “Su Wan” being held up by his subordinates.
If the woman standing there was Su Wan, then who was the woman he had just captured!?
Liu Junnan’s mental power surged toward the newly appeared Su Wan!
He wanted to see if this sudden arrival was human or ghost!
But when his sensing ability reached toward Su Wan, it was like a fallen leaf drifting into a hurricane, swallowed up without a sound.
Liu Junnan discovered to his horror that his mental power was less than a grain of dust before her!
He had never experienced anything like this in his entire life.
His sensing ability was his greatest pride, the foundation of his existence in this world, and his unique leverage within the organization!
He was used to looking down on others with his sensing ability, used to using those “eyes” to see through everyone’s disguises and secrets.
But now, his sensing ability told him—
You are nothing before her!
Liu Junnan’s body shook uncontrollably.
Extreme excitement and terror mingled together, making him tremble incessantly!
So that was it!
His deduction hadn’t been wrong! That mysterious person was Su Wan!
He had finally found her!
He just hadn’t expected there to be two of them.
Amidst his excitement, Liu Junnan also sensed the killing intent radiating from Su Wan.
The instinct buried deep within his genes transmitted a single thought—
Run!
Liu Junnan knew that the most important thing right now was to survive Su Wan’s hands!
He didn’t care about anything else—his plans, his obsession, all the struggle and resentment of the past month—
In this moment, it was all thrown to the back of his mind!
Su Wan watched Liu Junnan turn to flee and shifted her thoughts.
The residential gate that had been violently broken open suddenly slammed shut with a heavy thud of its own accord.
The iron gate struck the frame with a dull boom, sealing the entire plaza into a cage!
The two men who were stuffing the body double puppet into the car didn't know what was happening. When the iron gate closed, they both looked up in shock.
In that instant, both of them stiffened simultaneously and collapsed forward like two felled logs.
The body double puppet slipped from their hands and slumped limply onto the ground.
Ignoring them, Liu Junnan continued to sprint toward the gate.
His hand instinctively reached into his jacket to grab the Source-Tracing Spiritual Jade—
Just as his fingers touched the warm jade tablet, a sharp, piercing pain like a red-hot steel needle stabbed into his mind!
“Ugh—!”
Liu Junnan groaned. The world before him spun instantly, and all color was drained away, leaving only a blinding white light.
His knees buckled, and he pitched forward, slamming hard onto the concrete.
He gritted his teeth and propped up his upper body. Kneeling on the ground, he stood up shakily—
But to his utter despair, the Su Wan who had just been in Room 102 was now standing right in front of him.
Liu Junnan looked up at Su Wan with a sinister gaze.
“It really is you!”
“So you two... are actually twins?”
As Liu Junnan spoke, his gaze swept over the body double puppet lying on the ground.
No matter how he looked at them, the two were identical.
Su Wan ignored him and slowly raised the micro-particle emitter in her hand.
Seeing the weapon he had never encountered before, an intense sense of unease surged in Liu Junnan’s heart.
“What are you going to do?”
The muzzle of the micro-particle emitter was pressed against Liu Junnan’s forehead. The cold metallic touch made his body instinctively stiffen.
“We have no grievance. Why did you come to capture me?”
Su Wan’s voice wasn’t loud, but it was like a blade tempered in ice, cutting into Liu Junnan’s eardrums word by word.
“No grievance?”
Liu Junnan acted as if he had heard the world’s greatest joke. His lips curled into a twisted arc, and his eyes were filled with a near-insane malice.
“You’re telling me we have no grievance?”
“Do you have any idea what I’ve sacrificed to find you?”
He stumbled to a steady stance, his fingers trembling as he pointed at himself. His chest heaved violently like a machine about to overload.
“From the first time I sensed your energy fluctuations until now...”
“I’ve been like a mad dog, overturning every stone in Jiangcheng to find you! I searched by day and staked out by night, even thinking about how to drag you out in my sleep!”
“And look at you—”
His voice suddenly rose, the bloodshot veins in his eyes looking as if they might burst.
“Every single time, you vanished cleanly right under my nose! You didn’t even leave a shadow! I didn't even know if you were a man or a woman!”
Liu Junnan’s body was shaking—not from fear, but from anger, resentment, and the humiliation of being played for an entire month without even seeing his opponent’s face.
“I used the Source-Tracing Spiritual Jade! For forty minutes! Do you know what that means? In the entire organization, no one but me could have done that!”
“I suffered a backlash until I spat blood. I drank Mental Restoration Potions and dragged my half-dead self to Jade Manor—”
His voice cracked for a moment.
“And the result? You were gone! You didn’t leave a single trace!”
He took a deep breath, his chest heaving like a bellows about to explode.
“To catch you with my own hands, I even knocked out my own liaison and locked him in a basement!”
“This past month, I’ve been living like a ghost!”
His gaze was fixed on Su Wan, too many emotions churning in those bloodshot eyes.
Hatred, resentment, humiliation, and even a trace of grievance he refused to admit.
“And now you’re telling me we have no grievance?”
His voice suddenly dropped, low like venom squeezed through his teeth.
“After everything that happened, you still say we have no grievance?”
Su Wan remained silent.
She looked at the man with the distorted face and trembling body. In her calm eyes, there was no extra emotion.
She spoke slowly, “What does that have to do with me?”
Seven words.
Light as a falling leaf.
Yet they were like a heavy hammer slamming into Liu Junnan’s chest.
His expression froze.
The twisted arc of his lips stiffened, and all the emotions churning in his eyes shattered in that moment, leaving only a dazed, helpless void.
“You—”
He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but found his throat blocked.
What did it have to do with her?
The hardships he endured, the suffering he went through, the price he paid—in her eyes, they were actually nothing?
The obsession that had nearly driven him mad was, in her eyes, nothing more than his own one-man show?
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