Locked In

Except for the helipad, the Ren Household's villa had been fitted with excellent soundproofing.

With no one coming to disturb them, the smashing and crashing inside the Ren Household drew no attention.

Only when Wang Jiangtao crashed into the wiring and started a fierce fire, sending clouds of black smoke into the sky, did anyone notice that something was wrong with the villa.

"What should we do?"

The second floor was engulfed in flames, but what truly filled them with despair was the figure standing in the fire.

Flames burned around him, but they did not touch him. A layer of gray scales kept them at bay.

What made Ren Wuyang's heart tremble even more was the pair of eyes fixed on them.

The red glow of the flames shone in Wang Jiangtao's eyes, along with the reflections of all three of their faces.

"How do you stop the pain?"

After an electric current surged through his body and the flames subjected him to a baptism of searing heat, Wang Jiangtao finally emerged from the secret medicine's hallucination-inducing effects.

He knew full well that Old Master Ren, who was the same age as he was, had been unable to bear the pain and had ultimately died because of the secret medicine.

Wang Jiangtao had originally hoped his luck would be a little better than Old Master Ren's, but he discovered that Ren Anran, who had received the same injection, had already endured the pain. Her face had even returned to normal, no longer twisted in agony.

"How did she get rid of the pain in her head?"

Wang Jiangtao stood in the flames, not daring to take so much as a single step out of them.

Without the physical pain of being scorched by the flames, he could hardly endure