Under the night sky.
Bai Huizi slowly opened the car door.
She lazily pushed her sunglasses up to her forehead, leaning against the sports car, her wine-red skirt hem gently lifted by the wind.
Jin Xueli’s gaze lingered on the graceful figure beneath Bai Huizi’s wine-red skirt, her fingers unconsciously twisting the hem of her own clothes.
This was the image of herself she dreamed of.
Her own appearance was already striking, but her figure paled in comparison to this woman before her.
Her gaze instinctively drifted toward Su Li.
If the cat from before was Su Li’s girlfriend.
Then who was this woman?
And judging by her presence, she was far more formidable than the cat.
If it were the cat, she believed that with her family background, she could still narrow the gap between them.
But facing this graceful woman before her, Jin Xueli suddenly felt a pang of inferiority.
Looking at the sports car she drove, even she would hesitate to spend that kind of money.
This woman’s family background was clearly many times better than hers.
Someone like this—how did she come to know Su Li?
Bai Huizi tapped the car door with her fingertip, signaling Su Li to get in, a faint, elusive smile playing on her lips.
The sports car’s leather seats gleamed coldly in the sunlight, Su Li’s face expressionless.
“Thank you.”
Su Li looked at Jin Xueli, who stood nearby, somewhat bewildered.
She didn’t ask why Jin Xueli was there.
Nor did she ask what Jin Xueli had been doing by approaching her.
She calmly walked to the passenger side, opened the door, and sat down.
It wasn’t until the sound of the door closing echoed in her ears that Jin Xueli suddenly snapped back to reality.
“You’re… you’re welcome.”
She said softly, unsure whether Su Li had even heard her.
Jin Xueli stood frozen in place, watching Bai Huizi lazily wave at her before the wine-red sports car roared and gradually faded into the distance.
Su Li’s silhouette grew blurry against the leather seat, moonlight casting a faint golden glow over the departing car.
It was a long while before Jin Xueli slowly came back to her senses.
She clenched her fists tightly, an inexplicable bitterness swelling in her chest.
She opened her mouth, but the words of farewell never left her lips.
Will we meet again?
Had Su Li figured out that she approached her deliberately, and was keeping her distance?
Tomorrow the sun would rise as usual.
But she didn’t know if she’d be able to see Su Li again tomorrow.
To avoid being locked up in that pitch-black underground room again, Su Li would probably choose to drop out, right?
Su Li’s girlfriend wasn’t from this school either. If Su Li dropped out, she probably wouldn’t get to eat those delicious bentos anymore.
Just one day had passed, yet Jin Xueli felt like each day dragged on like a year.
She felt that this single day was longer than an entire year of her life.
“Goodbye, Su Li.”
…
“Useless! A bunch of useless trash!”
The moment Jin Ke’er learned Su Li had escaped, she smashed every object within reach in a fit of rage.
Expensive porcelain and glassware shattered and sprayed across her wheelchair.
“Go after her! Chase her down! What are you standing around for?”
She hysterically ordered her bodyguards to track Su Li’s whereabouts immediately, her nails digging deep into the leather armrests, her voice twisted by extreme fury:
“I—I want her to crawl back on her knees and beg me!”
Her hysterical screams echoed through the room, her uncontrollable emotions trembling violently.
“A bunch of good-for-nothings!
I pay you to work for me, not to waste your days doing nothing!
Damn it!
A bunch of damn idiots!
Can’t even watch over a single person—I wonder what use you have in this world!”
A young bodyguard hesitated as if to speak, but the estate guard leader slapped him across the head.
“What are you standing around for? Go chase after her!
If it weren’t for your negligence, would this situation have happened?”
The young bodyguard wanted to say something more, but looking at the shattered vessels on the floor, he had no doubt that if he kept talking, those glass shards would be flying at his head.
It wasn’t his fault.
Jin Ke’er sat in her wheelchair, her fingertips viciously digging into the leather armrests, her voice distorted by rage:
“Keep an eye on Bai Huizi!
Use every connection you have—freeze her funding, expose her dirty secrets.
I want her on her knees begging me!”
The room was dead silent. No one dared respond to Jin Ke’er, and no one dared to incur her wrath at a time like this.
They had always been careful working under Jin Ke’er.
Now they had no doubt that with a single thought, Jin Ke’er could strip them of their jobs.
Jin Ke’er sat in her wheelchair, staring at the empty room on the screen, gasping for breath.
She suddenly regretted not spending more time by Su Li’s side.
If she had stayed with Su Li longer, she wouldn’t have run away, right?
At least she wouldn’t have dared to slip away when she wasn’t looking!
But it didn’t matter.
Her game with Su Li had only just begun.
There would be plenty of opportunities to make Su Li pay for her foolish actions.
Jin Ke’er’s chest heaved violently, a twisted smile curling at the corner of her lips.
She was born at the summit.
Born at the very peak of the pyramid.
People like her were naturally destined to decide the fate of those at the bottom.
Survival of the fittest.
That law still applied, even now.
Suddenly, a hotel surveillance feed began playing before Jin Ke’er.
She was curious.
How was the other girl—the protagonist of this story—living her life right now?
The account she had painstakingly built up was now destroyed in an instant.
The expression on Jin Ke’er’s face gradually turned cruel.
…
“Sister Bai, long time no see.”
“Long time no see, little Su Li.”
Bai Huizi glanced at Su Li through the rearview mirror.
Even after just going through a kidnapping, there wasn’t the slightest change in Su Li’s expression.
“Was little Su Li not scared at all?
If big sister hadn’t come, little Su Li would have suffered who knows what kind of inhuman torture.”
Bai Huizi licked her rosy lips, speaking with curiosity.
“I wasn’t scared. I believed Sister Bai would come.
Thank you, Sister Bai.”
Su Li smiled sweetly.
There was a hint of regret in her heart.
If it hadn’t been for Jin Xueli and Bai Huizi’s help, she wouldn’t have minded using her calm demeanor to shatter whatever little sanity Jin Ke’er had left.
She had plenty of experience dealing with deranged clients like Jin Ke’er. In their eyes, someone who remained completely calm was even more unhinged than they were.
She could calmly accept everything Jin Ke’er did to her.
With her powerful recovery ability.
No one was her match.
And the one who would ultimately break down would be Jin Ke’er.
That was her most common method of shaking off clients like Jin Ke’er.
What they wanted was a toy they could manipulate and control.
Not a calm-faced weapon that could slap them right back and even threaten their lives.
What a pity…
Before she could calmly slap Jin Ke’er across the face, she had been rescued by Jin Xueli and Bai Huizi.
Su Li calmly accepted that outcome.
Even Bai Huizi, upon seeing Su Li’s smile after so long, was momentarily taken aback.
“You really haven’t changed one bit, have you?
You’ve got big sister feeling a little restless.”
With that, Bai Huizi pulled the sports car to the side of the road, her fingertip pressing a button on the center console.
The wine-red sports car’s roof slowly rose, its mechanical structure letting out a low hum.
She wrapped her arms around Su Li’s neck and kissed her directly.