With this single sentence, the woman successfully shut up and stopped right there as if planted on the ground. After a few seconds, she suddenly got back her composure and fiercely roared at Chu Zheng: “There is no one named Ye Shen here! You’re looking in the wrong place, get out of the way!”
Chu Zheng silently pressed her way inside towards the woman’s as the latter’s eyes widened in panic, “What are you trying to do?”
The little girl in front of her was expressionless and had a solemn and cold stare. She looked extremely fierce and overbearing just by waking towards her with a straight face.
The woman was overwhelmed by fear and hysterically started shouting towards one of the rooms: “Old Ye! Old Ye!!!”
Chu Zheng led the woman back inside with a rough push and the fat and round body quickly fell back into the house. Her husband came in just in time to support her fall.
“What’s going on here?!”
Chu Zheng silently entered the house and closed the door behind her.
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In a small and dark room, Ye Shen was lying on the cold and damp floor. His face was pale and bloodless. However, his eyes were bright and heavy with murderous intent, holding a penetrating and chilling light.
Squeak-.
The door was abruptly pushed open and a burly and rough man walked in. He first took a look at Ye Shen’s state then arrogantly said: “Kid, stop being stubborn. Your uncle owes us so much money, if not for our boss taking a fancy to you, do you think your family would still be okay?”
Ye Shen’s lips were completely dry and cracked from dehydration. He opened his lips with great difficulty and said in hoarse voice laded with hatred: “I have nothing to do with them.”
“Oh.” The man laughed, “That may be right, but your uncle still used you to pay off his debt.”
Ye Shen’s hands clenched tightly.
They didn’t deserve to be his relative, they were only a bunch of beasts.
“Our boss is giving you one last night. If you still don’t figure it out, then what’s waiting for you won’t be the same treatment you’re getting right now.”
Clang-.
The man firmly slammed the door on his way out. Ye Shen felt his aching forehead pressed against the cold and damp ground, it seemed like his blood had begun to coagulate.
He thought that he would be able to get rid of them soon.
There were still two months …… only two months left before the college entrance examination, and he would have been able to leave them.
However, he didn’t expect his uncle to gamble such a large amount of money and finally use him to pay off his debt.
He also didn’t expect that in today’s society, there would still be people that dared to treat human beings as exchangeable goods.
Ye Shen’s fists clenched so tightly that his nails deeply plunged into his flesh, and blood soon started driping along his palms, staining the ground.
He can’t just collapse here.
He can’t ……
After an unknown amount of time, Ye Shen suddenly heard the sound of a fight breaking out outside. Someone abruptly hit the door, making a dull sound.
And then, the door was fiercely kicked open, allowing the light to pour in from outside, instantly brightening up the dark and gloomy room he was confined in.
At first, Ye Shen’s eyes had some difficulty adjusting to the sudden brightness, and it took him a while to distinguish the person standing in the doorway. The man wore a black suit and big black sunglasses, wielding a weapon similar to a wolf’s tooth club in his hand.
Some people rushed over from outside trying to beat him, but the man directly smashed them with the club, instantly knocking them away.
After clearing the opponents, someone seemed to be coming over, so the man in black cleared the way and stepped aside.
In the blinding light, a young girl slowly appeared in front of him in a straight and confident gait, her hands casually resting in the pockets of her school jacket, and her expression as cold and distant as ever.
Ye Shen’s breathing couldn’t help but stagnate for a moment, as if he could see her wrapped in a halo of light, and instantly dispelling the darkness shackling him.
She quietly walked into the room, and every step she took felt like she was stepping on the tip of his heart.
Ye Shen suddenly shrank back and hid himself in the darkness, as if he could hide his embarrassing and shameful appearance that way.
The more Chu Zheng stepped forward, the more Ye Shen retreated backwards until he finally couldn’t retreat and leaned against the corner.
Chu Zheng slowly pulled up his wrist.
Warm jade like fingers gently pressed against the skin of his wrist, feeling like a blazing fire that burned through his limb, heating up his body all the way to his heart.
“We’re leaving.”
Ye Shen was dragged up and staggered a few times before leaning against the wall next to him for support. He was so badly injured and tired he could barely stand.
However, he didn’t dare to look at Chu Zheng in his shameful state and endured the physical pain as she led him outside of the room.