Zhou Xiaoming had been kidnapped.
Yan Xiaomei and Chen Zixing chased after him with all their might.
But since this was not their home turf and they were unfamiliar with S City, they lost track of their target after only a short pursuit.
They searched like headless flies for another half the night.
By dawn, the exhausted girls had no choice but to return to the hotel and discuss a new plan.
Elsewhere.
What did the Red-Eyed Girl do after kidnapping Zhou Xiaoming?
Whip him?
Put him in handcuffs?
Drip candle wax over him?
No.
The Red-Eyed Girl merely imprisoned him in a hidden, dark corner where no one could find him, with his hands and feet bound by iron chains, temporarily stripping him of his freedom.
Even so, Zhou Xiaoming struggled a little.
Though it could not really be called struggling. He was mostly begging for mercy.
"Scythe Miss, let me go. Could you please let me go?"
"We only just arrived in S City. We had no idea this was your territory. If we had known, we definitely would not have come here."
"Please be merciful. We didn't know anything. Please spare us."
Smack—
A slender belt lashed across his face, leaving it burning with pain.
A cold voice said, "Weren't you very tough just now?"
"You were even willing to kill yourself to keep the woman you loved from getting hurt."
"So why aren't you acting so tough now? Why are you begging me instead?"
"Why can't you act like a man all the time?"
Hearing the mocking tone,
Zhou Xiaoming finally understood: begging the venomous woman before him was useless.
His tone hardened again as he tried to reason with her.
"Everyone fears death, including me. No one wants to die so easily over some