Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In the villa by the beach.
Screams were followed by more screams, and they sounded so scary that it made chills run up Nan Zhi’s spine.
After Nan Zhi was carried back to the room by the masked man, she remained curled up on the bed, her thoughts running in all directions.
The masked man’s aura was completely cold and devilish back then, which was why she thought that he would punish her for running away. However, he did not do anything and left after placing her on the bed.
However, Nan Zhi understood not too long later that he was punishing Auntie Sun and the young helper.
Goosebumps all over Nan Zhi stood up at the sound of Auntie Sun’s and the young helper’s horrified screams.
She understood that the masked man was warning her that the consequence of her running away was to let the people guarding her be punished until they were dead.
Nan Zhi could not stand the screaming, feeling like she was the one who had been whipped.
She gritted her teeth and got out from the bed, before walking down.
Auntie Sun and the young helper were kneeling on the floor, as the bodyguard held onto a whip and hit them time after time.
They gritted their teeth, not daring to plead for forgiveness apart from the sounds of pain they gave off.
The masked man was standing in front of the window, his back facing everyone else. He was indifferent to Auntie Sun and the young helper’s horrifying state.
Auntie Sun and the young helper’s back were covered in blood and Nan Zhi shivered in fear at the sight.
When the bodyguard was about to whip the two of them again, Nan Zhi moved forward and grabbed the bodyguard’s wrist. She said with a hoarse voice, “Stop hitting them!”
Desperate hope appeared in the young helper’s teary eyes when she saw Nan Zhi.
Auntie Sun, on the other hand, was lying on the floor with an ashen expression, hatred appearing in her eyes when she saw Nan Zhi.
If she did not run away secretly, they would not have to get hit…
The bodyguard shook Nan Zhi’s hand away. “I have to continue hitting as Master has not said anything.”
Nan Zhi looked at the elegant back of the man and said with a dry throat, “I won’t run away again, stop hitting them!”
The man turned around slowly, his eyes moving onto Nan Zhi with a sharp coldness. “If you run away again, everyone in this villa will die for you.”
An uncontrollable anger surged within Nan Zhi. She really wanted to rush up to that man and unveil his mask to see what he looked like. She wanted to know what kind of person was able to say such a cold-hearted and cruel thing!
However, she knew that rashness would only make things worse.
Mu Sihan would definitely think of a way to find her after knowing that she was missing. She could not become flustered and anger this devil.
“I will listen to you.”
The masked man lifted a hand and signaled for the bodyguard to stop whipping Auntie Sun and the young helper.
Nan Zhi went back upstairs and locked the door from within the room. She stayed in the room until night.
The bodyguard had come up several times to get her to go down and eat, but she had ignored all of them.
In the end, the masked man came up himself to get her.
When she reached the dining table, Nan Zhi furrowed her eyebrows, uninterested as she stared at the food on the dining table. “I don’t like your food, I want to cook myself.”
The masked man stared at her for a few seconds before he nodded in agreement.
Nan Zhi entered the kitchen.
The fridge was filled with all sorts of ingredients, and she could make anything she wanted.
She swiftly made three dishes and a soup, before she glanced out of the kitchen. She hurriedly took out a small plastic bag after noting that no one was looking at her.
The small plastic bag contained the soup that the young helper gave her that day.
After she brought the dishes she cooked to the dining table table, Nan Zhi glanced at the seated masked man. She scooped two bowls of soup and gave him one.
She did not say anything to him, only looking down as she drank the soup with small mouths.
She had placed a little of the soup from the plastic bag into the soup bowl she gave him. She did not know if he would faint from drinking it.
The man shifted his mask a little as he looked down to drink several mouthfuls of the soup.
At this, Nan Zhi’s heart could not help but to speed up.
After about one minute, the masked man fell onto the table.
Nan Zhi bit her lips, she did not think that the drug in the soup would be so strong.
She mustered up her courage to walk in front of the masked man. She stretched a hand out, pushing him slightly, “Hello? Can you wake up?”
There was no reaction.
Nan Zhi sucked in a deep breath, her small hand reaching into his pockets.
She found a mobile phone.
The phone did not have any lock as well, and Nan Zhi immediately felt happy about it.
She hurriedly pressed the call button, her fingers flying across the screen as she dialed a number.
Her heart was about to jump out of her throat when the call went out.
However, Nan Zhi realized that the call could not go out and would end automatically after a few seconds.
She called the number once more in confusion, only to get the same result.
A low chuckle rung by her ears suddenly.
Nan Zhi was so surprised that her hand shook and the phone fell to the floor with a loud thud from her hand.
The masked man that was originally lying on the table had unknowingly woken up.
“Were you faking it?” Nan Zhi asked with a pale expression.
The masked man picked up the phone from the floor. He scoffed when he saw the number that she had dialed two times, “All signals have been blocked here. You won’t be able to call anyone, no matter who you called.”
Nan Zhi’s long eyelashes flutter, “Who are you exactly? What’s your purpose in bringing me here?”
Although she had her guesses, she did not wish for her guesses to be true.
She did not dare believe, and was not willing to believe it.
“I want to keep you with me.”
Nan Zhi shook unstably, her lips curling up in a scoff, “You’re kidnapping me, this is an illegal detainment! If you let me go, I can act like nothing had happened…”
The man smiled as he interrupted her before she could finish her words, “Stop dreaming.”
“I have a son and a boyfriend. My boyfriend will find me very quickly…”
The man leaned against the chair, his slender fingers hitting his knees lightly. “He won’t find you, because someone is disguised in your appearance and approached him.”
Nan Zhi’s eyes widened, and the color in her cheeks faded slowly.
She shouted with red eyes, “It’s impossible. Even if there was a woman who looked exactly like me, he would see through it very quickly. Because while it may be possible to disguise a person to look exactly like me, however, it’s impossible to act exactly like me in terms of my personality.”
The man scoffed once more, “What if it was a person who knew you really well?”
Nan Zhi’s hands clenched into tight fists, her fingernails sinking deep into her palms, “Who’s that person?” Nan Zhi’s mind spun quickly, her lips trembled when she seemed to have thought of someone. “Is it Qin Yubing?”
Qin Yubing was the only woman that knew her. So she was not dead and was perfectly alive and had been planning secretly about how to replace her.
Nan Zhi seemed to have received a large blow, her body swaying as she fell onto the floor. The man hurriedly got up from the chair at this, his arm stretching out to grab her slender, soft waist. Just as he had pulled her into his arms, she quickly pulled the man’s mask away.
It was already too late by the time the man wanted to push her hand away.
She had already taken off the mask.
