Chapter 3: Breaking Down and Running for It

"Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!"

Terrified, Su Xue jerked backward. At that moment, she had forgotten both the pain in her body and the drug's effect. Her first instinct was to scan the room for any chance of escape.

There was a tiny glass window on the east side. Though a thin curtain covered it and she couldn't see outside, she could squeeze through. If she dislocated her joints, she'd move faster.

She just didn't know which floor this was. It was probably high up; a fall like that would either kill her or leave her crippled. What the outside looked like, and whether there was any ledge or platform she could use to break the fall, were all unknown.

There was nothing in the room she could use as a weapon or for defense. Su Xue stayed on high alert and slowly edged toward the window.

"Xue, don't be afraid. It's not the first time."

With a snap of his fingers, ten men immediately obediently stripped off their clothes, their hard bodies radiating thick masculine heat.

Bad memories surged up. Su Xue's breathing turned ragged. Her face went as white as paper, and she hurriedly covered her mouth.

She was going to puke.

"Young Master. Can we go home?" She blinked, her voice as soft and helpless as a little white rabbit. "You can do whatever you want, just not here..."

"If I say I want to do it here anyway? Xue, I can tell you straight: jump out that window and you'll die a horrible death, mangled and bloody."

Qin Lie had never needed to lie to her about something like this. Su Xue let go of the thought of jumping and kept a careful eye on the door.

Run out? At her speed and reflexes, it wasn't impossible.

When A-Qian came in, he hadn't locked the door, only pulled it shut. She had noticed that clearly.

A-Qian handed Qin Lie a small handheld camcorder, only for it to be waved away.

"A-Qian, you do the filming. Hand them condoms, five each. If they don't use them up, none of them leaves. What they do with their mouths doesn't count."

Just as Qin Lie lazily leaned back on the sofa, Su Xue suddenly bolted straight for the door.

She was so fast the people in the room barely had time to react.

Snap...

The instant her hand reached the door, everyone could only stare in shock.

Su Xue didn't look back. She didn't even know how she was supposed to escape next.

She just wanted to get out of here. Even if it meant being outside, it would be far better than having this happen in front of her mother!

The unreal thrill of victory rang in her ears, but the door didn't open.

How could that be? A-Qian clearly hadn't locked it when he came in!

Su Xue panicked and jumped to the side, but Qin Lie seized her wrist and slammed her hard to the floor. The muffled thud of flesh hitting the ground sounded, and her head spun sickeningly.

"It was locked from the outside, Xue. Be good." Looking down at her from above, Qin Lie laughed softly. "Begin."

"No."

Her already injured body cramped with fresh pain, and her mind was growing more and more scattered.

Her legs could no longer stand. Running too fast had torn the wound below her waist even wider.

Her organs all felt as though they were being twisted by knives.

The monitoring ward wasn't large. When the ten men surrounded Su Xue, it was almost enough to suffocate her.

Stay farther away from Mother. Su Xue closed her eyes in despair, but the next second someone yanked her up and forced her to kneel on the floor beside the hospital bed.

"Pull it out! Mmph!"

The thick cock, fitted with a latex condom, felt horribly strange. It tugged at her wound and sent pain stabbing through her. Su Xue screamed in unbearable agony.

A stranger's touch could drive her mad. The next second, a foul masculine smell pushed straight down into her throat.

"Go ahead and do it. She won't bite."

Qin Lie said coldly, watching that man only push halfway in, clearly displeased. "Xue, don't resist. If you resist, I'll kill your mother right now, then chop you up and feed you to the dogs. Even the old man won't be able to save you. Understand?"

"Mm."

A broken sound slipped from her throat, and Su Xue nodded in fear. Qin Lie meant what he said. She knew that.

"Good." Cradling the tea A-Qian had handed him, Qin Lie settled in to watch.

The tender, delicious body was pinned tight between two men, front and back. Dirty slick mixed with red blood was dragged out by the cocks as they thrust, filling the air with a suffocating, filthy smell.

Her chin felt like it was about to be knocked out of joint.

Her mouth was stuffed full of the man's cock, and he showed no sign of stopping.

No matter how desperately she tried to please him, even though her throat was swollen and aching, he still showed no sign of cumming.

Was he drugged? Su Xue's heart went cold. Qin Lie had planned this in advance. She was almost certain of it.

Thick white cum spurted all over her face, blinding her eyes and making her gag with its stench.

"Swallow it," Qin Lie said.

"Young Master..."

Did they really have to go this far? Su Xue was terrified now, watching A-Qian point the camcorder at her.

Suddenly the man behind her hauled her up completely, fucking her while she stood. Su Xue kept shaking her head, still unable to escape the pincer attack of the men around her.

Cocks shoved into her mouth and into her hands, throbbing hard.

None of them were a size she could bear right now.

"I'm about to cum."

The first man to use her pussy suddenly shoved harder, smashing her apart. Su Xue clutched the man in front of her in fear, only shoving her own pussy even deeper onto him.

Was it over? She shut her eyes against the strain and felt him leave her body.

When other people touched her, they used condoms except for oral. Su Xue didn't know whether she should be grateful. Inside her there was nothing but blood and slick; that already felt like a blessing.

"Ah! N-no... don't touch there... mmph..."

The man she'd had in her mouth suddenly pulled out, slapped her face hard, then sprayed all of his hot semen across her chest.

Two men stood one in front and one behind, their two ferocious cocks hard as they drove straight into the two mouths beneath her.

The one who could no longer stand could only let the man lift her into the air, all her strength being sucked out through the place where they were joined.

Her pussy and back passage were both being fucked full. Su Xue groaned in agony and begged softly, "G-gentler, please, gentler when you fuck me..."

"Louder. I can't hear you." Qin Lie had the sharpest ears, and his smile was utterly vile. "If you don't say it louder, who can hear you?"

Su Xue nervously shut her mouth. What if she woke her mother?

In truth, her soft gasps had long since been drowned out by the obscene sounds of flesh pounding against flesh.

It burned like fire. The thick cock was like a knife stabbing into her. Su Xue forced herself to steady her breathing and offered her lips to the man in front of her.

Their lips tangled, the wet kissing sounds both suggestive and explicit.

"So tight. What a slut." Feeling her pussy clench with bone-deep tightness, the man gave a muffled groan and came.

"Being fucked feels so good... I want... I want you to be rougher..." Su Xue's tone turned downright seductive and alluring as she reached back, groping blindly at the man behind her.

In an instant, the man's thrusts turned brutal, almost enough to force every fold of her intestines open.

Unable to withstand those soul-rattling contractions at all, the man came too.

At last Su Xue had a moment to breathe. Before the others rushed back in, she took the initiative, sat down on the floor, and spread her legs.

With her slender fingers, she pulled open her wet pussy, the pink tender flesh trembling open and shut.

The sight was so intoxicating it made blood rush hotly through the veins. Even Qin Lie felt his mouth go dry. The drugged men were instantly burning with lust, wanting nothing more than to fuck her until she couldn't possibly get any sluttier.

Nothing on her body was spared. Even her breasts were kneaded hard, a cock trapped between them as they were pumped furiously.

Su Xue narrowed her eyes and carefully counted each man's turn. Two men's cocks filled her mouth, the man below worked her back passage, and the man in front was storming her pussy.

"Mmm-ah... so salty, so good." Her bright red tongue licked at the white, burning fluid, her mouth opening and working it over and over, her face full of satisfaction.

The man who was already wearing a condom even tore it off, grabbed her head, and fucked her hard, as if he wanted to fill both her mouth and her stomach.

"Cute little trick, Xue. You think this will make it end faster?"

Licking his lower lip, Qin Lie felt a mess of emotions. Such an obedient little thing, nothing like her usual cool, distant self, like a sex-crazed demon greedily begging for cum.

It made people want to shoot her full.

Just to make it end faster, and she could say something like that? Qin Lie felt somewhat unwilling to accept it. When she was in his bed, she was always cold and refusing.

The thought of her constantly getting hot and needy with someone else nearly made Qin Lie explode. He had always known her bed skills were excellent, but he'd never truly seen that seductive side of her.

Su Xue didn't answer, not because she didn't want to, but because she couldn't.

Her mouth was packed full of cocks, and every part of her body was being viciously worked over. Her consciousness was starting to blur, and the smile was already slipping off her face. She had overestimated her body.

Would she die? Would she be gang-raped to death by ten men in front of her mother?

However she thought about it, she couldn't accept it.

Half an hour later, more than a dozen condoms full of white fluid were lying on the floor. The men's stamina was clearly still far from spent. Su Xue could only spread her legs and endure it helplessly, not even able to cry anymore.

"Young Master... spare me..."

Forced to kneel on the floor, pinned deep from behind, Su Xue couldn't even shed tears anymore.

So tired. So sleepy. Her trained body was still giving off pleasure, slick was still flowing, but in her heart there was only coldness.

"That's not how you beg me." Qin Lie frowned at the dazed, wrecked sight before him, but still didn't speak to stop it.

Then one of the men lifted Su Xue up, leaving half of his cock buried in her swollen pussy. Another man wet his fingers with the fluid she'd leaked, stroked those trembling pussy lips, and tried to push inside.

"No, no, it can't. It'll split open!" Su Xue curled up, which only squeezed the man tighter.

"Damn it, I can't even pull my fingers out!" Rubbing hard at her tender flesh, the man sat off to one side and pressed his huge cock against her.

Someone else came over to help, forcing her legs apart and prying open her labia.

The little hole was forcibly torn open, revealing the tender flesh inside, dripping wet.

"Ah... no... no... spare me..."

The second cock went in too! Su Xue bit down on her lip, and everything before her eyes went black in waves. Tears that should already have dried were pouring down as she frantically shook her head.

The two men only panted for a moment before taking turns fucking her in and out.

"No, no, it'll split open..."

Blood was already running down both men's cocks. Su Xue was so aggrieved that her voice had twisted: "Young Master, please..."

The wet slapping sounds never stopped. Once she adjusted a little, the two men fucked her almost in perfect rhythm, jabbing her stomach out into a horrible shape.

I'm going to die. I'm really going to die!

Su Xue narrowed her eyes and looked at Qin Lie, who was frowning, and whimpered, "Brother Lie... let me go..."

"Let you go." Qin Lie was very pleased with that way of addressing him.

The thrusting stopped at once, and the men pulled out of her blood-soaked lower body. Su Xue lay on the floor gasping nonstop. Like a fish on the verge of drying out, she reached out and grabbed Qin Lie's trouser leg.

"Be good, Xue. Cum for me now and let me see it."

With his left hand, Qin Lie gripped both her wrists and dragged her over to her mother's hospital bed, his smile deepening. With his right, he gently rubbed her swollen, ruined clit, occasionally brushing over the two folds of her pussy.

"No... don't..."

She couldn't do something like that in front of her mother. Her mind was almost driven mad, and Su Xue's gaze grew more and more unfocused.

"Be good. Come on, let me see you cum."

Grinding her hard, Su Xue only felt her waist go numb. The command swept through every part of her like electricity. A great gush of slick burst out, soaking Su Tian's bedsheets.

"Mm-mm." She whimpered softly, still unable to stop the liquid from flowing out below.

"Good girl. That's your reward, Xue. You can rest now." Qin Lie said softly, covering her eyes with a hand slicked wet from her own arousal.

Her soft body just lay there in his arms, even more effective than anesthesia.

A-Qian immediately put away the camcorder and signaled the men to leave with a look. Qin Lie took the black trench coat from the corner and wrapped Su Xue tightly in it, though she was still trembling.

"Are you that scared of me?"

He whispered in her ear, and she almost instinctively let out a tiny whimper. Qin Lie was in a very good mood. He only grunted at the person on the hospital bed, then carried Su Xue away.

At ten o'clock that night, Qin Lie came to the ward with the storage drive and opened the door.

His cold face was full of contempt. "Ms. Su Tian, you seem to be living quite well."

Su Tian, who was being fed a late-night snack by Qin Heng, panicked and screamed like she had seen a ghost: "What exactly do you want! That wasn't my daughter at all. I even agreed to pretend I wasn't awake! Why won't you let me go? Qin Heng has already forgiven me!"

Qin Heng rebuked him sternly: "Lie, you went too far. You even made her soak Su Tian's bedsheets. It's a real pain to clean up."

"Father, I think Xue is a hundred times better than this woman. At least Xue still knows who fucked her. Unlike this woman, who clearly got fucked and got pregnant, then still claimed she didn't know anything!"

Su Tian's face went white and green. Gritting her teeth, she said, "I was sincere with Qin Heng! As for how that little bastard came to be, I don't know either!"

"Enough!" Qin Heng abruptly stood up and said to Su Tian, "You know exactly what happened back then."

"Here, a video of your daughter. Something to amuse yourself with when you're lonely." Qin Lie tossed the drive in his hand to Su Tian and suddenly gave a cold laugh. "She's mine. As far as Xue is concerned, you're just her mother in a coma, understand?"

"Understood!" Su Tian hurriedly nodded.

Qin Lie was Qin Heng's only child and the Qin family's sole heir. Fierce and unruly by nature, his power had at one point even surpassed Qin Heng's. Going against him was no different from courting death.

Su Tian hurriedly added, "Young Master Qin can play with her however you want. I absolutely won't do anything that would trouble you."

"Good. Don't think about trying any tricks on me."

After leaving the ward, Qin Lie hurried toward the operating room. Su Xue had still been badly hurt that afternoon; she absolutely couldn't die.

"Oh, Lie, you finally came. I almost died!"

The operating room was a wreck, and Chu Ran's handsome face was streaked with blood as he collapsed by the door. Fortunately, the injuries were not serious.

The collar on the steel bed stood out especially clearly. Chu Ran cried out in distress, "Your baby is too spicy. She held a knife to me. I can't afford to lose my life."

"Where's Xue?" Qin Lie instantly hauled him up in fury and shouted, "Where did she run off to?"

Without the collar, without any threat to her life, who knew what that reckless woman might do!

"How would I know? I'm just a helpless doctor, and your baby is a professional killer. How could I..."

Before he could finish, Qin Lie set him down and ran out.

He's getting anxious. Chu Ran pushed his glasses up and chuckled, then looked out at the deep night beyond the window and whispered, "Baby, run harder. I can't wait to see what you look like when you're caught again."

Chapter Five: Seducing Doctor Chu (H, cleanup, discharge, violence caution)

A few hours earlier.

When Su Xue woke up, she was lying on the steel bed, her limbs still bound. The only difference was that Qin Lie wasn't there; only Chu Ran was smiling as he studied her.

"Baby, you're awake? Have some water first."

"Thank you, Doctor Chu."

The water cup was held high above her head and then splashed down all at once. She could only open her mouth wide to drink, and before long it was running freely down her mouth and face.

"Qin Lie has treated you pretty well. He used condoms."

Wearing plastic gloves, he gently pried apart her swollen, torn labia and probed inside.

Su Xue frowned in discomfort and murmured, "Doctor Chu, it hurts. Can you give me something for the pain? If possible, I'd like an injection of painkiller."

It really hurt too much.

The dense web of wounds had tormented her nearly to the point of madness. Her whole lower body no longer felt like her own. Although none of this had happened before, now that all the injuries had piled up together, it was almost impossible to bear.

"Painkillers will affect your nerves and do serious damage to your career as an assassin. Baby, I can't."

Scooping up a big dollop of soft ointment, Chu Ran smiled very gently and slowly worked it inside her pussy. Even with his whole arm inside her, he still looked completely serious.

Su Xue curled her toes in discomfort, drawing in breath after breath.

"You're badly hurt, baby. Want to run?"

Shaking her head, Su Xue forced her half-lidded eyes open. "I can't get away."

From childhood to now, Qin Lie had never given her any chance. The phone was given to her by Qin Lie; beyond that, she had nothing. Even the clothes she wore and the water she drank were decided by Qin Lie.

She didn't have a single cent. She didn't even have an identity.

Even if she did escape, she wouldn't be able to move a single step.

What's more, Qin Lie's terrifying possessiveness simply wouldn't allow something like that.

Not to mention that her mother's life was in his hands. The collar around her neck was basically a portable bomb and GPS tracker.

There was no escaping, neither heaven nor earth.

"If you're worried about the collar, baby, I can take it off for you." After smearing the ointment all through her pussy, Chu Ran took off his gloves and reached out to stroke her smooth, white neck.

It was like stroking the finest brocade, rubbing back and forth with tender care.

His hands dropped to her chest, catching her just-full-enough breasts in his palms and kneading them lightly.

"Mm, no~"

"You're really sensitive, baby." He lowered his head and took her left nipple into his mouth, lightly biting the areola while the tip of his tongue teased the nipple.

Chu Ran's right hand pinched hard at the nipple on her right breast, and before long he heard a drip.

"She's leaking."

Lifting his ravaging lips and teeth, Chu Ran dragged over a chair and raised the steel bed higher. Su Xue's swollen pussy was exposed in full under the surgical lamp.

Slick mixed with ointment and blood, the pink, sticky fluid flowing down.

The pleasant smell of iron and blood.

Chu Ran's narrow eyes were full of lust. He took off his glasses, looked at Su Xue's flushed face, and teased, "Baby, how does the aphrodisiac feel? You should be very familiar with it by now. If I remember right, Qin Lie has been giving you a tiny dose every day since you were born. No wonder he raised you to be this sensitive. One touch and you're soaked through."

"I don't know."

Biting her lip in grievance, Su Xue's voice was hoarse and cool. "Doctor Chu, it seems the Young Master hasn't given you permission to touch me."

"You're so obedient to him. I'm jealous."

As he spoke, Chu Ran turned on the monitor beside the steel bed, and the image inside was simply unbearable.

It was the gang-rape scene from earlier in the monitoring ward. She had spread her legs to invite the men in, even saying the most obscene things while begging for cum.

Su Xue's face went paper-white. She turned her face away and refused to look.

"Baby, how about letting me fuck you once?" His fingers circled suggestively around her entrance, brushing over the tiny bud beneath her outer lips now and then. Chu Ran smiled with intoxicating charm. "It’s been a long time since I fucked you. I still miss that sweet taste. Back in the training room, you were crying and begging me to fuck you. Forgotten already?"

"No... I haven’t..."

How could Su Xue possibly have forgotten what happened back then.

All kinds of bizarre tools and punishments, with only the moments when she begged him to thrust deep into her body giving her any chance to breathe.

It was only then that Su Xue realized those words and little gestures really could drive a man insane.

"Think of it as a birthday present, baby. I’ll remove your collar, and you can serve me once willingly."

Su Xue’s psychological defenses were collapsing little by little. Chu Ran, this doctor, was a genius in medicine, but he was even more perverse than Qin Lie. Every kind of method he used made her scalp tingle with dread, and she never wanted to experience it again.

Would he help her? Impossible. Su Xue knew very well that he just wanted to humiliate her.

"All right..." In the span of a single second, Su Xue made her decision.

She should at least try, shouldn’t she.

"Xue will serve Master properly. Please let me get down from the bed first."

"No need. Baby, just serve me with your arms and legs spread like that." Satisfied, Chu Ran licked his lower lip and reached for a shower nozzle, pushing it into her pussy.

"Ah, Master, be gentle~ Xue hurts."

Her eyes looked like they were about to spill tears, her voice pitiful and sweet, exactly the weak, helpless look Chu Ran liked best.

If he hadn’t known she was a professional assassin, Chu Ran would have found it boring instead.

"You have to be clean before you can serve me."

Warm water sprayed out in a thin stream from the nozzle. Su Xue frowned in discomfort and let out soft little whimpers.

Chu Ran kept brushing over that most sensitive patch of flesh, faintly and deliberately, making her let out low moans.

"You can’t let it run out," he said, while pulling down the rope from the ceiling and unfastening the restraint on her feet, then looping coarse hemp rope around her slender ankles.

Both legs were hoisted straight up and spread open. Even her waist was suspended in the air.

Her supple body bent in an absurd arc, and Su Xue could even see the nozzle inserted into her lower body. The steel bed had been lowered, exposing her entire sex to Chu Ran.

"Mm, Master, so full... so swollen." Su Xue whimpered as her lower abdomen slowly bulged outward, only to be answered by a huge plug, stuffing her pussy shut with brutal force.

"The back end, too. The urethra needs washing as well."

Chu Ran held a tiny urinary tube in his hand. With his other hand he parted her outer lips, the edge of his fingernail rubbing lightly at the opening of her urethra.

"It’ll hurt a little. Bear with it."

Even as he said that, before Su Xue could really react, the tube went straight in.

"Ahh—" She cried out softly and stiffened, afraid the plug in her pussy would fall out, sweat breaking out over her entire body as she gasped for breath.

"Baby, be good."

Once the tube was in place, Chu Ran rewarded her by reaching out and dipping his fingers into her arousal, kneading the little bud with his fingertips.

"Mnnh~ Master~ gentle~"

That tiny pearl being pinched like that brought wave after wave of pleasure.

"The back end needs to be washed properly too. How many times did you get fucked today?" There was a brutal gleam in Chu Ran’s eyes.

After filling all three openings until they were bulging, he fastened a butt plug onto her before finally pulling out his phone in satisfaction, his right hand stroking her swollen lower belly.

"Baby looks almost pregnant. It’s mesmerizing."

"Master, it’s going to come out. Xue can’t hold it anymore~ It’s uncomfortable, really uncomfortable~" she said softly, her eyes misting with desire, and Chu Ran nodded.

It was only for a little excitement anyway. Wasting too much time wouldn’t be good. Before Qin Lie came back at any moment, he needed to make sure he ate her clean.

"Then let it all come out, baby. Make yourself filthy."

With a pop, he pulled the plugs from her two little mouths, and the pleasure of release made Su Xue scream. All the flesh between her legs trembled hard, and filth flowed from her lower body, dripping and pattering down over her.

"So dirty."

Suddenly spreading her legs apart, Chu Ran stripped off his pants and drove his thick, long cock hard into her.

"Ah! Master, so sour~"

With her waist still suspended in the air, Su Xue trembled and sobbed uncontrollably. Chu Ran’s shaft might not have been as terrifying as Qin Lie’s, but it was exceptionally long. Every time it thrust in, it made her feel like he was trying to jam it into her womb.

"Baby, just like that, clamp down even tighter. Mm~ so good~ Fucked by you is definitely the best."

Chu Ran didn’t care what she said. He gripped her legs tightly and buried himself in her hard. That freshly washed flesh was especially slick, and the feverish body beneath him was burning hot.

Whenever Su Xue called him Master, her voice was so reverent it made him want to destroy her in a frenzy.

Like a stray puppy whimpering and begging not to be abandoned.

Her narrow passage convulsed wildly from the stimulation, and in this helpless state Su Xue could only keep moving closer to him, clinging to him with her needy flesh just to find even a little leverage.

"Oh, my baby. You look born to be fucked!"

Lowering her waist a little, so that a twist of his wrist could slam him deep into her body, Chu Ran hummed with satisfaction, looking down at the misty, glazed look in the person beneath him.

"Does it feel good?"

"Yes..." Su Xue answered honestly.

Even if it wasn’t Qin Lie, even if it wasn’t Chu Ran, if it were someone else or even just a willow branch, as long as it touched her pussy, she would feel pleasure.

Chu Ran was handsome, and had a somewhat frail look, as if he were just a thin doctor. But in truth his body was not weak at all, especially when it came to this, where he was vicious beyond measure.

His long cock slammed against Su Xue’s womb opening again and again, fucking her until she was half in pain and half numb.

Chu Ran forced her to turn her face and look at the screen showing her being gang-fucked.

"Master, Master." Breathing out in a sultry whisper, Su Xue begged softly, "Please fuck me slower. It’s so deep, my pussy is going to be ruined by you~ Mm~"

"A very useful tactic. Baby, you look delicious like this."

Crimson light flashed in his eyes, and Chu Ran’s smile was devilishly beautiful. "How does it feel, watching your own gang-fuck video while I’m fucking you? Your slutty flesh is clenching even tighter."

Su Xue didn’t answer. She didn’t know how to answer.

His cock was being twisted and wrung over and over by layer after layer of needy flesh, and Chu Ran gave a satisfied low groan. He used both hands to pinch hard at the roots of her thighs, leaving a string of blue-black marks behind.

The already injured spots hurt even more. Su Xue whimpered softly and met his thrusts, nearly losing her breath from the way he worked her over.

Scalding semen sprayed against the opening to her womb, as if he wanted to force his way all the way inside. Chu Ran’s body went rigid. He pulled out his cock, grabbed a wet wipe from the side to clean himself off, and put his pants back on.

He was still the same handsome, frail doctor.

Her swollen pussy was still leaking drops of his semen, and Chu Ran was more satisfied than ever as he kept taking pictures with his phone.

Only when Su Xue asked when he would remove the collar did he nod and say, "Of course. How could I forget something I promised my baby? You were the one who begged me to fuck you, remember?"

"Yes, it was Xue who begged Doctor Chu to take me."

Feeling the relief around her neck, Su Xue sensed her limbs were finally fully released.

"Um, Doctor Chu, could I trouble you for a coat?" Looking at her exposed body, Su Xue was a little nervous.

Chu Ran shrugged innocently. "Would I be helping you escape?"

The next second, Su Xue’s fist slammed into him, and Chu Ran fell with a thud.

"Ow, baby, don’t kill me. Take it if you want it."

"Thank you." For Chu Ran, Su Xue felt both fear and hate.

She hurriedly stripped off his white coat and wrapped herself in it, then when he wasn’t paying attention, she smashed a glass bottle against his head. Only after confirming he was knocked out did Su Xue swallow some painkillers and run outside.

Qin Lie had been called away by the old master, and wouldn’t be back for a while. She didn’t even know where exactly this hospital was.

So she could only run in whatever direction seemed to lead away from people.

The farther she could get, the better. That was the only thought Su Xue had now.

Everything went surprisingly smoothly along the way. Night had fallen deep and the lights were blurry. A white coat stood out too much in the dark, so Su Xue rubbed some dirty mud from a partially thawed patch on it and kept running deeper and deeper.

This was a gamble. She was already injured, and she only had the white coat to cover herself. Her stamina could last only two hours. And her body temperature would gradually keep dropping.

In the darkness her eyesight was better than most people’s. The area around the hospital was covered in dense forest, and she darted through it.

Branches from the undergrowth scratched her calves painfully, but that didn’t slow her down.

After about an hour, she seemed to see light ahead.

Had she reached a highway? Su Xue thought dazedly.

As long as she could get a ride, or force someone out of a car, she could follow the road and keep going.

A light point flickered in the distance, and Su Xue’s heart pounded wildly with excitement. Had she really gotten away? Even if it was only for a day, even one day would do. She wouldn’t have to stay by Qin Lie’s side and endure that kind of torment...

Tears fell just like that. Su Xue dragged her steps forward, gathering the strength to hijack a car.

Swish... swish...

Suddenly, a briny smell drifted over. Along with the sound of music and waves.

Waves? Su Xue’s heart slammed like thunder.

Just as she was startled, the whole place lit up brilliantly. Several high-mounted spotlights suddenly powered on. Su Xue covered her eyes and heard familiar footsteps.

"Xue, the plan failed." Qin Lie said it with a smile, and it made her scalp crawl.

Where she was now was a seaside pier.

That hospital had actually been on an isolated island. No wonder Qin Lie always covered her eyes and plugged her ears.

With such an immense, rolling sea all around, how could anyone possibly escape across it?

"The game is over." Qin Lie walked up in front of her and crouched down, reaching out to peel away her filthy clothes, concern all over his face. "How did you get yourself hurt? Running around in the middle of the night like that, I was worried about you."

Sniffling, Su Xue felt some strange emotion in her chest. She had made him worry, and she really was sorry.

"I’m sorry, Young Master."

Smack...

A hard slap struck her cheek. Su Xue only felt a rush of sweetness in her throat, and before she could straighten up, he backhanded her again.

"Su Xue. You wanted to run? You thought you could get away?" Qin Lie’s cold laugh was like that of a creature from hell, obsessed to the point of madness. He raised his foot and pressed down on the back of her head, forcing it toward the ground, applying more and more pressure.

"Young Master, it could kill someone. And it’ll hurt her face." A-Qian came out to stop him, and Qin Lie, furious, switched to a flying kick instead before ordering, "Put her in the cage, collar her, and take her home!"

Her own blood filled her vision, and Su Xue saw Chu Ran’s face full of lingering regret.

"Baby, you only ran for such a short while. I’m a little disappointed."

The new collar had barbs on it, and the pain as it cut into her neck was intense. Su Xue, drained of strength, replied, "You like watching, don’t you."

Both of them were the same. They both loved watching her unable to struggle free.

Su Xue laughed at how stupid she was, blaming only herself for being unable to resist such tempting conditions.