Xie Mi was seeing red, but out of the corner of her eye, she saw several men forcibly dragging Shen Yeqing away.
You Hongxuan, who was desperately trying to stop them, was being dragged along too.
Her heart clenched. She immediately sent the thug beside her flying with a kick and turned to chase them. "Shen Yeqing! Little You!"
In the distance, however, Shen Yeqing's face suddenly went deathly pale. His pupils trembled, and his voice turned frantic.
"Sister Liu-"
Reflected in his eyes was Xie Mi running toward him, with a man behind her raising a club high overhead.
Xie Mi paused for a fraction of a second, vaguely realizing something was wrong, but all she could hear was the sharp rush of wind.
Whoosh!
Everything before Shen Yeqing's eyes went black. A sack suddenly pulled over his head cut off his sight entirely.
He never saw what happened next. All he heard was the dull thud of something heavy striking.
In that instant, terror tore through him, as though even his heart had stopped beating.
Suddenly, he could hear nothing around him. All that remained was the image of Sister Liu being struck down, flashing over and over before his eyes.
The world spun, and he plunged into endless despair.
Inside an abandoned, unfinished building.
Several furtive figures hurried in, flung the two sacks slung over their shoulders hard onto the floor, then turned and left.
Only after the footsteps faded did You Hongxuan begin calling softly from inside his sack.
"Shen Yeqing? Shen Yeqing?"
Hearing no response, You Hongxuan grew nervous. "Shen Yeqing, are you okay? Did they knock you out? Shen Yeqing?!"
There was still no answer, only the sound of a sack scraping across the floor, the faint tugging of ropes, and then the