The voice coming from the front sounded very young, but the tone was cold and emotionless, with a hint of oppression and disgust. It made Guan Baocheng shiver involuntarily and feel a sense of fear when it reached his ears. He moved his eyelids and opened his swollen eyes, looking ahead.
First, he saw a pair of polished leather shoes, then long and powerful legs. And then he saw a face that he... would never forget. There was no expression on the other man's handsome face, which was as beautiful as the moon in the clouds. His slightly lowered eyelids gave him a condescending and disdainful look. A pair of empty but beautiful eyes stared directly "at" him, as if he were a divine official judging sins in hell.
Guan Baocheng hurriedly averted his gaze and didn't dare to look at Yan Yincheng anymore. He pulled the corner of his painful mouth into a forced smile and said, "Sir, your way of inviting people seems a bit unique. I think there seems to be no grudge between us, right?"
This voice, which seemed to contain gravel, overlapped with the one in his dream. Yan Yincheng could no longer control the wild beast caged in his heart. The intense surging anger and killing intent made his fingers tremble slightly. He tightened his grip on his blind stick and endured the nauseating and putrid smell coming from the opposite side. His voice was chilling.
"Look up and see if you still remember this place?"
Guan Baocheng felt a sharp pain on his scalp. He was forced to look around the room he was in. Under the warm yellow light, he could see all the decorations in the room clearly. It was a very exquisitely and elegantly decorated hotel, completely different from the ordinary hotel he had just taken that woman to.
His heart was pounding. He lowered his eyes and said, "I don't recognize this place. You... must have the wrong person. Hehe..."
Yan Yincheng just gently lifted his finger, and Guan Baocheng was dragged away. Immediately, he felt the pain of being beaten all over his body. The violence he had once inflicted on those women was now returned to him doubly.
When he was beaten to the point of only having one breath left, his hair was grabbed again, and he was forced to look up.
Yan Yincheng didn't say a word. It was one of his bodyguards who asked the question. He gently patted Guan Baocheng's face and said, "Look at our Third Master. Think clearly before you answer - do you still remember this place?"
The coldness made Guan Baocheng's body covered with a layer of fine bumps. He endured the pain and gasped, "No, I don't recognize it... I really haven't been here. You must have caught the wrong person. What do you want? I have money, antiques, and jewelry. I'll give them all to you! Spare me, spare me!"
The consequence of his refusal to speak was that he was beaten more violently. After he fainted from the pain, he was woken up by cold water.
After opening his eyes, a photo was placed in front of him. The girl in the photo still had a little baby fat on her cheeks. She slightly hooked the corner of her mouth and smiled very gently. Her delicate and beautiful features were amazing.
Guan Baocheng's pupils suddenly shrank. A sob couldn't help but come out of his throat. Obviously, he recognized the person in the photo.
The photo was taken away. The bodyguard who had just asked the question asked, "You haven't been to this place, but you must remember this person, right?"
These people were actually here for that escaped woman? Panic swept through Guan Baocheng's heart. He subconsciously said, "I don't recognize her. I don't recognize her. I don't know her!"
The next second, feeling that he was about to be dragged back again, Guan Baocheng shouted desperately, "I recognize her! She's Yuan Xi! The adopted daughter of the Yuan family!"
The force behind him suddenly loosened. A powerful kick came, and he fell to the ground with a thud. His head was firmly pressed down. A voice said with a smile in his ear, "That's not right, Mr. Guan. Four years ago, you ruined Miss Yuan Xi's innocence right here. How come you remember Miss Yuan but don't remember such an important place?"
Guan Baocheng still refused to admit it, "All hotels look alike. How could I possibly remember? Besides, it's already been four years..."
Just as he was about to continue speaking, he felt something cold pressing against his vulnerable neck. The words that hadn't come out stopped abruptly. He looked up in horror. A cold metal stick was held in the hand of the man sitting on the sofa in front. The man looked down "at" him wearily and coldly. The stick in his hand seemed to be able to pierce his throat the next second.
"My patience is limited."
The other man only said five words. But Guan Baocheng felt the undisguised killing intent.
Yan Yincheng said coldly, "Tell the truth, and I'll spare your life. Otherwise, I'll make you end up the same as those women you beat to death."
Guan Baocheng was different from ordinary men who were addicted to domestic violence. He had slowly tortured his first two wives to death bit by bit. Thinking of the means he had used, he shivered from head to toe. The fear of death finally made him feel scared. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and said:
"I'll talk!"
The red light of the video camera flashed rhythmically. In the picture, Guan Baocheng, with a bruised face, looked directly at the camera and said, "Four years ago, a man came to me and said he would introduce a obedient and beautiful girl to me. He also said that she was weak - willed and would endure even if beaten, so she was very suitable to be my third wife. I... I took a fancy to her at first sight after seeing the photo. That man gave me the room card of this hotel and told me the time. That day..."
The truth was even more cruel than Yan Yincheng had thought.
Four years ago, someone had approached Guan Baocheng and asked him to ruin the innocence of Yuan Xi, the adopted daughter of the Yuan family who had just been exposed as a fake daughter. After the deed was done, they could help him secure an export cooperation deal with the Xu family for a batch of products, which could bring him a net profit of 50 million. For Guan Baocheng, sleeping with a woman and getting 50 million was a sure - fire deal.
But that night, when he rushed to this room in this hotel with the room card, he didn't find the promised prey in the room. The angrier he got, the more he simply took a nap there, planning to go and settle the score with that man after dawn. But unexpectedly, when he woke up in the morning, the girl was lying beside him, and she had already...
Frightened by this disappearing - and - reappearing trick, he left the hotel in a hurry. Later, when he read the news, he learned that the girl's fiancé had soon brought people to catch them in the act and had even taken pictures of her.
The fact that the prey he had his eye on had been tasted by someone else first made Guan Baocheng very angry and also afraid. He went to settle the score with the man he had cooperated with before. But that man told him that as long as he could act in front of the girl as if he was the one who had ruined her innocence that night and make the girl marry him smoothly, the cooperation they had promised to help him with would still be valid. After they got married, he could do whatever he wanted to the girl, and the Yuan family would never trouble him.
His lust for beauty finally made Guan Baocheng agree, and it was only natural that everyone thought that it was him who had ruined the girl's innocence that night.
He was happily waiting for the girl to fall into his trap, but - the girl ran away.