"Boss, how are you going to have a word with him?" Chang Sasha asked Zhai Dean, rubbing her swollen, aching face. "Naturally, to make him release my people!" Zhai Dean stood at the room’s window, looking toward the den Su Xuan had just destroyed. "Then have him apologize to me! And finally, give me a hefty compensation!" "He’s got a lot of tattooed thugs with him; he might not be afraid of you!" Chang Sasha warned. "I’m not going to fight him," Zhai Dean said, his lips curling into a sinister smile. "You haven’t released his girlfriend yet, have you?" Chang Sasha immediately understood his intentions and nodded. "No, I haven’t." "Number Three!" Zhai Dean waved his hand, summoning the driver who looked remarkably like him. "Go to Sasha’s place and grab that girl, Lin Tiancheng!" "No problem!" The driver pushed the door open and strode out. "Number Three, be careful!" Zhai Dean called after his departing figure. "Not only do you need to bring her back, but you also need to return safely yourself!" "Got it!" the driver replied with a wave, not turning around as he left. Ten minutes later, the driver hadn’t returned. Twenty minutes later, he still hadn’t returned. A sense of foreboding rose in Zhai Dean’s heart. He called the driver. "Number Three, where are you?" A calm voice answered from the other end. "Your double was caught the moment he stepped outside." "Su Xuan?" Zhai Dean gasped. "Surprised, aren’t you? Speechless?" Su Xuan said. "What exactly do you want?" "Zhai Dean, don’t ask what I want. Just think of this as a game. And the game has already started. In one more minute, my men will be breaking down your door. If I were you, I’d run." Zhai Dean immediately hung up and rushed to the window. He saw several scruffy-looking youths squatting on the curb across from the hotel, staring right in his direction! Worse, a police car was parked just a short distance away from them! "Damn it! What the hell is going on?" he cursed. "Those punks are practically squatting on my face! That police car is about to park on top of my head!" He quickly changed out of his clothes, donning a simple outfit meant for an older man. He added a fake beard, pulled on a flat cap, and, abandoning Chang Sasha and Secretary Song, slipped out of the room alone. The entire process took him just over ten seconds, as if he had practiced it countless times. He didn’t dare use the hotel’s main entrance, instead leaving through a side door by the kitchen. Back in the room, Chang Sasha asked Secretary Song, "What should we do?" Secretary Song shot her a glance. "Don’t say ’we.’ I’m not like you." "How are we different?" "My role is simple. I’m just Zhai Dean’s mistress. I wear pretty clothes, eat nice food, and never get involved in his business. Su Xuan and the police have no reason to trouble me. But you... you’re not only his mistress, you also do his dirty work. You’re the one who went after Su Xuan’s girlfriend. You’d better pray for yourself!" Chang Sasha was stunned into silence. Secretary Song casually flicked her long hair back and walked out the door. Standing by the window, Chang Sasha watched as Secretary Song calmly walked into the middle of the street and raised her hands. An officer emerged from the squad car and placed her in handcuffs. As she was being led away, Secretary Song looked up toward Chang Sasha’s window, her gaze filled with contempt. I can’t be caught! If they catch me, my life is over! Chang Sasha scrambled out of the room, desperate to escape. But the moment she stepped into the hall, she saw two scruffy-looking youths, cigarettes dangling from their lips, exiting the elevator and looking right at her. She spun around and bolted into the fire escape. But as she neared the first floor, she saw two police officers blocking the exit. She immediately turned and fled back up the stairs, all the way to the hotel rooftop. The building was six stories high. Chang Sasha crept to the edge and glanced down, immediately recoiling. A jump would be certain death. "Waaaaah..." she wailed. "This is too much!" Cornered, she squatted on the rooftop and burst into tears. A few seconds later, footsteps echoed from the stairwell door. They were coming for her. Chang Sasha shot to her feet and looked over the edge again. She spotted a massive dumpster below, filled with garbage bags of all colors. It looks so soft. If I jump into the dumpster, I probably won’t die, right? Driven by a desperate will to survive, Chang Sasha took aim and leaped. To her delight, her aim was perfect; she landed right inside the bin. But her delight turned to horror. Someone had dumped a load of broken bricks into the dumpster, hidden just beneath the bags of trash. The impact with the bricks bounced her right out of the dumpster. She slammed hard onto the concrete, and a pool of blood began to spread beneath her. Zhai Dean was still on the run. After leaving the hotel in his disguise, he cut through an alley and hailed a taxi. Just when he thought he had gotten far enough away to be safe, he stepped out of the cab, only to see several scruffy youths squatting a short distance away, grinning and watching him. A police car was parked right beside them. He immediately turned and fled. This time he didn’t dare take a taxi. He scanned a QR code for a shared bicycle and began pedaling frantically through a maze of streets toward a residential complex where he had a secret hideout that not even Secretary Song knew about. Thɪs chapter is updated by 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵⁂𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮⁂𝓷𝓮𝓽 But as he reached the entrance to the complex, he froze in disbelief. Several scruffy youths were squatting by the gate, and beside them, another police car was parked. He wrenched his bike around and took off again, tossing his cap away as he fled. He hadn’t gotten far before two more youths on shared bikes caught up, flanking him on his left and right. They even had the audacity to ask if he was tired or if he wanted a cigarette. At the same time, a police car began tailing him from behind. As if that wasn’t enough, three drones descended from the sky, hovering just above his head. BUZZ... BUZZ... BUZZ... The downdraft whipped his hair into a frenzy. Damn it! So that’s how they did it! Drones! Zhai Dean glanced up at the sky, his mouth twitching violently. What’s the point of running anymore? I’m not running. I surrender! He stopped the bicycle and gave himself up. He finally understood what Su Xuan had meant by "playing a game." He was being played with this whole time! If this continued, it would be like Zhuge Liang capturing Meng Huo for the seventh time. He couldn’t afford that kind of humiliation! While all of this was unfolding, Su Xuan had already arrived at Chang Sasha’s hideout. He opened the door to the small, dark room where Lin Tiancheng was being held captive. He squatted down and looked at the small shadow huddled in the corner. "Tian Cheng, my little disciple," he said softly. "Look who’s come to save you. Do you want to go home with Master?" Seeing the familiar figure before her and hearing his familiar voice, Lin Tiancheng summoned every last bit of her strength and, with a loud wail, burst into tears.