Xiao Wu kept staring at Lin Yan with despair in her eyes, tears streaming down her face as she cried miserably.
Yet Lin Yan asked in return.
"What if Tang Hao finds us?"
"As the culprit who stole his son's opportunity, do you think I'd get out alive?"
The girl froze at his words, but she soon spoke again, shaking her head as she cried.
"I don't know, but I don't want to die. I can't die."
"Please, you definitely have a way to get me out of here, don't you?"
"I can pay any price..."
As she spoke, Xiao Wu climbed over the coffee table between them and threw herself before Lin Yan.
Without hesitation, she dropped to her knees and clutched tightly at the corner of Lin Yan's clothes.
"As long as you take me away, I'll do anything."
Lin Yan narrowed his eyes. "You trust me that much?"
In response, Xiao Wu lifted her slender neck and looked at Lin Yan with utter sincerity.
"Rongrong said you're a very good person."
"And besides, I have no one left to rely on in this world..."
Lin Yan could tell that Xiao Wu had truly run out of options. She now regarded him as her only lifeline.
Thinking about it, who else could she possibly rely on in this world?
With a soft sigh, Lin Yan looked at the kneeling Xiao Wu and slowly reached out, placing his hand atop her smooth black hair.
"Just don't regret it. I won't go easy on you because of your identity."
Xiao Wu understood. She rose to her feet and obediently pressed her cheek into his scorching palm.
She looked incomparably docile.
Even more obedient than the kind-hearted version of Zhu Zhuqing. Clearly, this was the instinctive submission engraved into a beast's