Stealing Your Heart

She inserted the USB drive into the port and clicked the file open.

On the screen, the video player popped up and a video started playing. It showed a woman with her mouth taped and bounded in ropes on the ground.

She was trying to articulate something but her words came off as unintelligible and muffled.

Zong Yanxi’s pupils dilated as she saw the poor woman.

What on earth is this?

Why am I seeing this?

What is the sender trying to get at?

Her shaking fingers reached for the mouse and zoomed in on the woman’s face.

It was the woman in the rumored nightclub scandal relating to Jiang Mohan.

Why are they doing this to her?

Unanswered questions flooded her thoughts as Zong Yanxi struggled to make head or tail of what she was seeing.

Just as she was trying to comprehend this whole incident, her phone rang in her pocket.

A message notification from an unknown number lighted on her screen: This is what happens to people who get near Mohan. Try me and you’ll end up worse than this woman.

Zong Yanxi’s knees felt weak and she collapsed on the chair next to her.

But she told herself to calm down and sat up straight, trying to connect the dots between everything that happened.

She finally understood what Ling Wei meant when she asked her to join her for a “good show.”

Zong Yanxi to watch that woman being tortured so she would beat a retreat, but Zong Yanxi

the hook this easily. The fact that Ling Wei had the audacity to send Zong Yanxi the clip meant she

meant Ling Wei was going all

down her spine as Zong Yanxi thought about what Ling Wei would

of her mind to be inflicting such

as the screams of the women

beating furiously as she thought about how

it crossed her mind that her close friend was

sweat off her forehead and heaved a sigh of relief.

as she sensed the looming

and it would definitely not take long before she dealt her another blow. I have to

I need a plan.

Wei, I’m gonna play you at your own game this time. I’ll show you I’m not a sitting duck

in Zong Yanxi’s eyes and she grabbed her phone

a cab, and

way, the

dragged themselves home after a long day of work. After they arrived, Zong

not let her in unless Gu Xian came to pick her up, so she

through the quiet neighborhood and she turned to see

her hand at

it’s a surprise to see you here,” he greeted

investigation going?” She

mean the man you asked me to find out

as they walked towards his

I’m just about to go check it out,” he

go with you,” Zong Yanxi

car door handle and he looked at her

this urgently. Someone is coming for