“I didn't mean anything else! I just wanted to help you! Look at the place you're living in now! I...”
Su Wan stopped abruptly and turned around. Her movement was so swift that Gu Huaiyu’s hand grasped only thin air.
“Help me?” She looked up, staring directly at Gu Huaiyu.
Under the dim glow of the streetlights, her eyes were as cold as blades, churning with deep-seated hatred and undisguised mockery.
“Gu Huaiyu, drop that hypocritical act! The Su family ending up like this, and me falling to this point... isn't all of this your doing?!”
The more Su Wan spoke, the angrier she became. The hatred suppressed in her chest erupted like a volcano. Before her voice even faded, she suddenly raised her hand and, with all her strength, slapped Gu Huaiyu hard across the face!
“Slap!”
The crisp, loud sound of the slap exploded in the silent night, exceptionally piercing.
Gu Huaiyu’s head was snapped to the side by the force. His face stung with a burning pain, and his ears rang.
He was completely stunned. He clutched his face in disbelief and looked at Su Wan.
He had never imagined that Su Wan would actually hit him!
And in such a fierce, merciless manner!
Furthermore, Su Wan’s gaze made his heart skip a beat—
It wasn't simple anger or sadness; it was a poisonous hatred, a murderous intent that suggested she wanted to tear him limb from limb!
Su Wan’s chest heaved as she watched Gu Huaiyu’s shocked and bewildered face. Murderous intent boiled within her. She truly wanted to use her newly advanced Level 2 strength to tear this hypocritical, cruel man to pieces right here and now!
To seek justice for the Su family, for her brother, and for the blood debt she was owed!
However, at the very moment she almost lost control, her senses—now sharpened to Level 2—suddenly caught a strange aura.
In the shadows of the construction site ruins not far away, someone was quietly approaching!
This aura...
It was familiar!
In a flash, Su Wan remembered!
The owner of this aura was one of the bodyguards who had carried her from the hall to the basement at the Xu family villa!
An ordinary bodyguard had actually managed to escape the police perimeter?
And he was here now, lurking in the shadows...
Alarm bells rang in Su Wan’s mind. She realized this bodyguard was likely far from simple!
To emerge unscathed from that place and follow her here—his target was clearly her!
The reason he hadn't made a move yet was probably because Gu Huaiyu, an “unexpected factor,” was still present.
In a split-second weighing of the situation, Su Wan forcibly suppressed the urge to kill Gu Huaiyu on the spot.
She couldn't alert the enemy. She couldn't let the person in the dark, whose motives were unknown, realize her true strength.
She could settle the score with Gu Huaiyu later.
Her thoughts raced. While the anger on her face didn't fade, her eyes retracted that palpable murderous intent, shifting instead to extreme coldness and disdain.
She pointed at Gu Huaiyu, her voice trembling slightly, sounding as if it were due to intense emotion:
“Get out! Gu Huaiyu, get the hell out of here! I don't want to see you ever again!”
“My business is none of the concern of a hypocrite like you! If you dare show your face in front of me again, it won't just be a slap!”
After saying that, she stopped looking at Gu Huaiyu, whose expression was a complex mess. Carrying an air of lingering fury, she turned and walked quickly into the dark entrance of the unfinished building.
Her perception was like invisible tentacles, firmly locked onto the figure hidden in the shadows of the ruins—Old K.
After she entered the building, the other party adjusted his position slightly. However, he didn't leave immediately, nor did he rashly follow her inside. He continued to observe and wait with patience.
Su Wan returned to Room 102 and leaned her back against the door. Her eyes turned completely cold.
Was this unusual bodyguard something Xu Tianlin had arranged privately?
With too few clues, Su Wan couldn't figure it out, so she simply stopped thinking about it.
Whatever his purpose, she wasn't afraid!
Through her perception, she felt Gu Huaiyu standing dazed at the construction site entrance for a long time before the black Maybach finally started and drove away from the desolate area.
Almost the second the sound of the car engine completely vanished, the aura hidden in the shadows moved.
Su Wan’s mental power was like a high-precision radar. She clearly saw the figure move like a phantom, using the cover of the night and the crumbling walls to silently approach the unfinished building.
His movements were light and agile, his footing precise. His use of the environment was masterful; every move was chosen to stay in blind spots and on paths that wouldn't make a sound.
This was not something an ordinary bodyguard or thug could achieve. He was more like... an experienced infiltrator or assassin.
Soon, he arrived beneath a window without glass on the side of the building. After observing for a moment, he performed a light pull-up and flipped inside like a cat, landing without a sound.
Su Wan remained inside Room 102, appearing as if she knew nothing of the outside world.
She could sense him moving rapidly through the dark corridor, heading straight for her location with a clear goal.
Finally, the aura stopped outside her door.
Immediately after, there was a faint click. The building’s already intermittent power was completely cut, plunging Room 102 into total darkness.
“Ah!” Su Wan let out a short, panicked cry at the perfect moment, flawlessly playing the role of a woman living alone who had suddenly lost her light source in the dark.
She seemed to fumble around in a panic. Soon, the glow of a phone screen lit up, which then switched to flashlight mode. A beam of light wobbled in the darkness.
She seemed to want to check the cause of the power outage, so she cautiously turned the doorknob and slowly pulled the door open a crack...
Now!
Outside the door, Old K, who had been waiting for his chance, suddenly lunged!
His movement was as fast as lightning. One hand violently pulled the door open, while the other, clad in a tactical glove, reached with pinpoint accuracy for Su Wan’s throat!
If this grip landed, it would be enough to crush her windpipe instantly!
Su Wan let out a gasp of terror at just the right time, as if frightened out of her wits by the sudden attack.
Old K’s fingers touched the slender, fragile neck as intended. Feeling the warmth, a flash of cruelty crossed his eyes. His knuckles tensed to deliver the final killing blow!
However, in the thousandth of a second before his power could erupt—
An indescribable, sharp pain, like a steel needle stabbing directly into the depths of his soul, exploded in his mind without warning!
“Ugh!” Old K let out a muffled groan. His vision was instantly swallowed by endless darkness. All consciousness and all sensation were forcibly stripped away in that moment!
He felt as if his thoughts had fallen into a cold, high-speed vortex, instantly losing all control over his body.
Time seemed to pass in an instant, yet also felt like an eternity.
When Old K’s consciousness returned to clarity, the first thing he felt was the painful sensation of his body being tightly bound.
There was also the cold, hard sensation of the ground.
He had been tied up and thrown on the floor.
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