1082 Perplexed and Smitten 142 (2/2)

After going through painstaking effort, she finally reached adulthood and gained financial independence. Yet, her grandmother had already passed away.

She had finally found someone who fancied her as much as she fancied them. And yet, Xiao Chenyang showed up out of the blue and disrupted her life.

Neither of her familial and romantic relationships ever worked out.

Her career was finally picking up…

She had just bought an apartment and moved into a place she could call her own, a place she could call her home.

The mere few minutes felt like a century.

Finally, the woman returned again with a look of menace.

She was dressed in the devil's color — red.

She made her intimidating entrance and walked down the stairs, sending shivers down Fang Erlan's spine.

Fang Erlan grabbed onto the metal cage tightly for dear life while the woman approached her step by step. She was glowering at Fang Erlan and appeared as if she was about to devour her the next second.

\”How dare you lie to me. Why would my ancestor have an old flame like you? Take a good look at yourself in the mirror. You're so ordinary-looking that there are plenty of women on the streets who are just like you!\” The woman snorted with laughter and gibed, \”I can't believe I actually trusted your words and called him personally, only to receive a scolding from him. I didn't actually plan to punish you myself, but it seems I must vent my frustration. So what if you're not the person I originally wanted to abduct? Blame it on your misfortune to have bumped into me!\”

She tried to pull the door of the cage open, but to no avail because of how tightly Fang Erlan was gripping onto it. She put on a sinister smile and glared at Fang Erlan coldly before taking her time to whip out a pistol.

Staring at the black pistol that was aimed at her, Fang Erlan felt herself growing weak instantly, and her hands moved away from the cage involuntarily.

The woman had a menacing and sly gaze.

At this moment, Fang Erlan's life was worth nothing to her.

Just as she was about to fire a bullet at Fang Erlan, she heard a deafening sound, followed by that of an explosion. The thick walls immediately collapsed all of a sudden, and a figure zoomed toward the cage in no time. The woman did not even manage to catch a glimpse of his face. He strangled her neck forcefully and lifted her into the air.

Everything happened all too suddenly.

Even Fang Erlan did not manage to see how he had made his entrance. The next thing she knew, the woman was now in his hands.

She sat on the ground, overwhelmed by astonishment. She watched the man, who was dressed in an all-black ensemble and seething with exasperation, snapping the woman's neck without even allowing her to speak.

The woman's shriek ceased as soon as she let it out.

Fang Erlan was terrorized and had turned as pale as a sheet. She immediately buried her face in her knees, not daring to look up at all.

Xiao Chenyang flung the woman aside and took a few glances at the wolves in front of him. He whipped out a weapon and flicked it against the wolves, causing them to howl in pain and roll around on the ground. He finally shifted his gaze onto the man who had peed in his pants out of fear.

The man watched Xiao Chenyang approach him and retreated in utmost fear. He pleaded incessantly, \”Please don't kill me, please… please…\”

Xiao Chenyang ignored him and continued advancing forward, until the man had nowhere to die.

The man could only see his shoes. Seeing that Xiao Chenyang had stopped in his tracks, he mustered up the courage to raise his head.

As soon as he did, he felt an excruciating pain in his neck. In less than twenty seconds, he collapsed onto the ground and spasmed a few times before he stopped breathing.

Blood was trickling down the glistening sword. Clearly, Xiao Chenyang had slit the man's throat with it.

Xiao Chenyang wiped the blood off his sword by brushing it against the man's body before placing it back inside its sheath.