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"Bro! Bro!" Lin Xingmo dragged his weakened body to his brother's door and pounded on it, but no one answered even after a long while. "He's not here?"

He remembered Xu Chen telling him that afternoon that Lin Xingye had been doing all right after being rescued, but Doctor An had been unconscious.

An Shi's room seemed to be nearby. Lin Xingmo called Lin Xingye while knocking on doors at random. There weren't many people on the Fourth Floor now; surely one of these had to be his.

"Hello? What's wrong, Momo?" When Lin Xingye answered the phone, he had already finished eating and was lying in bed with An Shi, resting.

He hadn't felt comfortable leaving An Shi alone in the room, afraid his fever might return, so he had stayed.

"Something happened to Xu Chen! Bro, where are you?" Lin Xingmo was so anxious he was on the verge of tears. Ever since that incident, Father Lin and Mother Lin had kept the two of them well protected over the years.

After he took over the company, Xu Chen had joined that same year. He had always looked after them, cared about their safety, and prepared multiple backup plans.

They had never encountered anything like that again, and had kept learning all kinds of emergency procedures.

The first thing their parents had taught them was that safety came first. Whenever they could stay together, they had to stay together. A person alone was more likely to encounter danger and act impulsively.

Whatever happened, the brother and sister had to discuss it together.

Lin Xingye scrambled out of bed and rushed to open the door without even putting on his shoes. "Momo!"

Hearing the shout from behind him, Lin Xingmo hurried over. "Bro, look! Look at what's on my phone!"

On it were Xu Chen's final emergency message and an audio recording.

Lin Xingye pulled Lin Xingmo into the room and shut the door. Walls had ears; who knew where the bad guys might be hiding?

An Shi had already put on his shoes and walked over. "Don't panic. We'll work something out together."

Lin Xingye tapped the recording in the chat.

The phone played it aloud, and the men's voices rang clearly through the room.

An Shi frowned. Xu Chen had happened to stumble upon these men's plot. They still didn't know who those people were, but rescuing him had to come first.

[It was because of me again.]

The other two froze and turned to look at Lin Xingye.

He was trembling all over, his face deathly pale, his hands clenched into fists with uncontrollable rage.

[It's all because of me. Someone else is going to get hurt because of me again.]

"Aren't I their target? I'll go find them. I'll go right now!" His thoughts were a tangled mess, completely engulfed by hatred.

All he wanted now was to take those people down with him, if he could.

"Calm down!" An Shi reached out and grabbed him, but he acted as though he hadn't heard and kept walking straight ahead. Even pulling him couldn't stop him.

They hadn't expected this to affect him so badly.

What exactly had he remembered?

Lin Xingmo stood helplessly to one side. He vaguely remembered his brother recalling that something had happened to Xu Chen because of him, but he didn't know the details.

"Bro, calm down. Xu Chen will be fine!" Lin Xingmo tried his best to soothe him.

But he couldn't take any of it in. His eyes were bloodshot as he kept repeating stubbornly, "Momo, you don't know. None of you know!"

"I can't-I can't let Xu Chen get hurt because of me again. I can't let anyone get hurt! I brought this on us, so let me deal with it!"

Neither of them could stop him. The door opened, and a shadow blocked the light outside.

"Star? Calm down."

Bo Xi stood in the doorway. When Qi Sijing had told him Lin Xingmo had gone to find Star, he had known something would happen.

An Shi had only told him about Star's condition.

The other two couldn't keep their cool.

One was about to explode, and the other was about to lose his mind.

Lin Xingye pushed at him, tears spilling down his face in an instant. "Bo Xi, move. Don't stand in my way."

Bo Xi held him firmly. "Qi Sijing is in the security room. They know where Xu Chen is, and William has already taken people over there. If you're worried, I'll take you there. Okay?"

Rather than telling him to calm down over and over, it was better to tell him the truth and give him some reassurance.

Lin Xingye was still shaking violently. He looked up at him with reddened eyes. "Bo Xi, you can't lie to me..."

Bo Xi bent down and kissed the top of his head. "I never lie to you. Trust me."

"Put your shoes on first." Bo Xi scooped him up and carried him back into the room. "We'll go rescue him together in a moment."

Lin Xingmo nodded. He hadn't expected Bo Xi and the others to have made progress so quickly either. "Right, we'll go together in a moment!"

Bo Xi wanted to help him put on his shoes, but Lin Xingye was too anxious and slipped them on in a couple of quick motions. "Let's go!"

"Boss, are we just leaving this kid tied up? He heard so much. Shouldn't we..." A shifty-looking man eyed Xu Chen maliciously, an ugly grin on his face.

The man he called Boss snorted. "You think I don't want to? With this many people around, how would you do it? And how would you get him out afterward?"

The man snickered. "We could do it quietly in the middle of the night."

Another man, wearing glasses, shook his head. "No. There are patrols at night too. If we kill him now, he'll probably stink by then. Besides, let's wait for word from the security room first."

As soon as he finished speaking, a text popped up.

"We've got a message! He says Lin Xingye came out alone. He's about to head from the Fourth Floor to the Third Floor to find his sister!"

The shifty-looking man immediately began flattering him. "Boss, this is a golden opportunity. You've got to lead us in taking him down!"

The boss ignored his flattery and hurried to his feet. "You're coming with me. You stay here and watch him!"

The boss and the shifty-looking man went out, leaving only the man with glasses behind.

Xu Chen, who had actually already woken up: ...

Heeelp! Somebody heeelp!

The two men who hurried to the Third Floor only to find nothing: ?

William stood outside the door with his men. "You lot, go block off the stairs and elevators. Completely."

Who knew what the man with glasses was doing inside? Every so often, he let out a few curses.

Suddenly, the door shuddered violently.

The man with glasses: ?

The next second, the door beeped and opened. William had just smacked one of his men on the head. "You had a key card and didn't say so? I wasted all that effort!"

The man with glasses: terrified.jpg

"Shit, who are you people?" The man with glasses pulled a small knife from his pocket and waved it at them.

William walked in with a grin. "I was wondering where you were hiding. Turns out you were holed up in Huang Dao's room~"

A few of his men muttered, "Isn't it pronounced Huang Dao?"

"The boss's pronunciation is bad. He can only say surnames, not given names. He's fine saying them separately, but put them together and it sounds weird."

"Keep it down. Don't let the boss hear!"

William: I'll draw a circle and curse you all!

The man with glasses jabbed wildly with his knife in a panic. William chuckled, sidestepped, and seized his wrist, squeezing hard.

The man with glasses instantly let out a piglike squeal.

Lin Xingye and the others had only just come out when they heard the commotion. Naturally, the two men on the third floor noticed too and hurried back up.

By the time Lin Xingye and the others arrived, William's men had dragged those two over as well. "Boss, we caught two guys skulking around!"

Lin Xingmo recognized their faces and rushed into the room. "Xu Chen! Xu Chen, are you okay?"

Xu Chen struggled to get up on his own and reassured him, "I'm fine. My head just hurts a little. Don't worry about me."

Only when he saw that Xu Chen was all right did Lin Xingye feel the weight lift from his heart. He turned to the captured men. "Who are you?"

Terrified by William's men, the shifty-looking man immediately surrendered. "Mr. Lin, he's our boss! He's the one who took a job from Qin and told us to come hurt you!"

"He said that out at sea, no one would trace it back to us!"

The boss kicked him furiously. "You ungrateful bastard, shut up! So what? I'll take responsibility for what I did. I wanted to kill you. What are you going to do about it?"

Where the hell had these people come from? And how were they so good at fighting?

Seeing Xu Chen pretend to be fine, Lin Xingye clenched his fists. "Fine. Didn't you say you'd take responsibility for what you did? Then why did you hurt someone else? If you've got a problem, come at me!"

At the thought of the past, the world before his eyes was instantly stained red.

When he came back to his senses, several people were pulling at him hard, trying to drag him off the man beneath him, whose face was already bruised and swollen from the beating.

"Let go of me!!!"

He screamed with all his strength, "Get the hell away!"

Bo Xi held him tightly and wouldn't let go. "Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Nothing happened. Nothing happened."

"Get off me! Didn't he say he'd take responsibility? Let me beat him to death! Let me beat him to death! Let go..." His vision was still red; he couldn't see anything clearly.

He roared until his voice gave out, until he broke down sobbing.

An Shi gripped his hand tightly. Lin Xingye's condition was far worse than he had imagined.

He had thought Lin Xingye hated Li Hanwen most. After all, he was the one who had done the most evil. He hadn't expected that the person Lin Xingye hated most was himself.

He hated himself for hurting everyone around him.