Blood spurted from the artery in Zhao Yueyue’s thigh, and in an instant, her pants felt as if they were torn through by a water jet.
Hao Ren grinned foolishly, without a trace of extra emotion.
“I was talking to you nicely just now. Why didn’t you answer me?”
Hao Ren twisted the knife lightly, scraping it inside her flesh.
“Hmm? You think I’m easy to push around, you bitch? People like you—acting innocent on the surface, but who knows what filthy trash you are inside? Seeing too many of you makes me sick.”
He grabbed Zhao Yueyue’s chest roughly, almost tearing off her bra.
The corners of Zhao Yueyue’s eyes grew moist.
Even though she was a mother of two and a strong head nurse on normal days, at this moment, she wished someone could come and protect her.
She couldn’t afford to be weak.
The pain from her thigh, abdomen, and wrists was the most intense.
That last stab had probably pierced the bone…
Zhao Yueyue was breathing out more than in, staring fiercely at Hao Ren.
If looks could kill, he’d already be dead.
Hao Ren, on the other hand, wore a satisfied expression.
Li Ruoxi’s gaze didn’t give him any sense of achievement, but Zhao Yueyue’s murderous glare brought him immense satisfaction.
He licked the blood off the blade.
He had to keep her alive—he couldn’t kill this toy too quickly.
Humming a tune under his breath, he slowly walked back to Li Ruoxi.
When Li Ruoxi saw that pervert approaching, she had no strength left to struggle.
She could only shift her body slightly, having completely lost control of it.
Her whole body was numb, and some parts were slowly losing sensation.
A large pool of blood dripped from the table onto the floor.
Her body was ice-cold, and her pupils began to hallucinate.
Riiip—
Li Ruoxi felt a chill on her chest.
Dazedly, she saw Hao Ren roughly tearing open her already tattered shirt.
Riiip—
Riiip—
A shirt that resembled a button-down was torn in two.
The cold scalpel pressed against her skin, sliding upward inch by inch…
…
Splash—
A man fell face-first into a puddle.
Vivian casually tossed aside a man and wiped the blood from her mouth.
“This blood tastes terrible.”
Vivian walked along the secluded path.
The muddy village road was flanked by rice paddies and other crops.
The air carried a faint, pungent mix of livestock manure.
Her clean black dress was stained with splatters of mud.
Barefoot, she walked through the muddy road, stepping straight into puddles.
Squelch…
She crushed a protruding rock underfoot.
As for the human she had just tossed aside, he was just a village brute who had coveted her beauty.
The small village houses on either side of Vivian gradually grew denser.
In the dead silence of the night, aside from the drunkard she’d encountered earlier, the entire road was still.
Only a few dogs lying low to the ground, hearing faint noises, wagged their tails and stood up, ready to bark at Vivian.
But Vivian let out the aura of a High Prince, and everything fell silent again.
She looked left and right. In the air… there was a faint trace of blood that felt particularly familiar to her.
“Li Ruoxi…”
That woman.
Vivian, barefoot, headed toward the uphill path of the village.
In a few flickers, her figure vanished from the road.
…
The cold scalpel slid slowly toward her chest.
“I wonder if your heart is really as fragile as your appearance?”
Hao Ren gazed at the beautiful body.
This little girl was wearing a mature lace bra, which stirred a wicked flame in his heart.
But thinking of his own physical condition, he grew even more jealous of a girl like Li Ruoxi.
“People like you—beautiful people—get everything you want so easily. Especially pretty girls like you, you rob ordinary kids of any chance to compete with you.”
The scalpel stopped at the strap between her chest area.
Li Ruoxi’s heart beat faster, betraying her.
This feeling of being completely exposed, skin against air, chilled her to the core.
Just as the blade was about to cut through precisely, a dog barked from outside, followed by a whimper.
Hao Ren’s knife paused, but then he cut without hesitation.
He was about to enjoy the beautiful sight for a moment before ending the lives of these two.
He prepared to slice through the last layer of modesty.
At that instant, a cold voice sounded like a ghost in his ear.
“You… deserve to die.”
Boom!
Hao Ren was sent flying, crashing into the boarded-up window, shattering it completely.
Vivian’s face was icy as she looked at Li Ruoxi, who lay on the bed barely alive, on the verge of losing even her purity.
“You made me chase all the way here, just to end up like this?”
A cold breath escaped Vivian’s lips.
Li Ruoxi suddenly felt a chill, and a tingling numbness spread through her body.
The pain was swiftly driven away by the cold.
In her daze, she seemed to see Vivian’s shadow.
Why would she see that demon… but compared to the current one…
This vampire, Vivian, seemed gentler somehow…
Li Ruoxi’s mouth was dry, coated with a thin layer of bloodstains—blood that Hao Ren had forced into her mouth.
“I…”
As soon as she uttered the first word, her throat felt unbearably dry, and her voice cracked on the next syllable.
“What a foolish woman.”
Vivian’s response to Li Ruoxi’s plight was nothing but boundless rage.
If she hadn’t walked right into death’s door, how could she have encountered something like this?
If she had obediently stayed in the room Vivian arranged for her, how could Brooke have brought her here?
And those old fossils…
Vivian flickered and appeared in front of the unconscious Zhao Yueyue.
“Was it this woman who saved you?”
Vivian dabbed a bit of blood and brought it to her lips.
“Heh… and now you’ve learned to drag others down… and you call yourself the ‘Reincarnation of Redemption’… how ridiculous. Saved too many people in your past life, so now you’re here to repay the world in this life?”
At the chain of events, Vivian suddenly laughed.
Ever since she brought Li Ruoxi back, these things had been happening around her.
The vampire world, which had been calm and undisturbed, was now embroiled in disputes because of Li Ruoxi.
“But she’s just a fuse… these people… are too old… so old that their souls have rotted…”
She then approached Hao Ren, who lay on the ground with the shattered window.
With one kick, she stomped directly on his head…
…
Zhao Yueyue looked at her wounds.
If not for these wounds reminding her, she would have thought last night’s events were all fake.
Meeting a pervert, then being brutally tortured…
At least that pervert had a defect, or both she and that little girl would have met a terrible fate… the little girl…
Right, where was that little girl?
Zhao Yueyue suddenly remembered.
Lying on the hospital bed, she grew agitated and tried to get up.
“Hey!! What are you doing? What are you doing?! Please, honey! Don’t move, okay?!”
Zhao Yueyue’s husband, Long Yiri, quickly stopped her.
With slow but steady hands, he pressed her back onto the bed.
“You don’t understand your own condition? You scared me to death. You should change jobs. Look at you—it’s only your first year, and you almost lost your life…”
Zhao Yueyue remembered she was a patient—badly injured at that—but she cut him off: “What about the girl who was kidnapped with me? Where is she?”
“What girl? Honey, are you losing your mind? You’ve been unconscious for three days! You—you—do you want me to end up alone?! Zhao Yueyue, I’m warning you! Once you’re better, you quit your job immediately, or I’ll—”
“Shut up!”
Zhao Yueyue’s voice was weak, but her presence was strong.
Long Yiri slumped onto the stool, a grown man with red-rimmed eyes sitting there.
“Alright… honey…”
Zhao Yueyue softened her voice.
“If you don’t like it, I’ll quit… Can you tell me what happened? Don’t be mad anymore.”
“I said you—”
“Long! Yi! Ri! Don’t you get cocky! I ask, you answer!”
“…Oh.”
“Did you see another girl? And what about that pervert?”
Zhao Yueyue hoped nothing bad had happened.
She really couldn’t remember what happened at the end.
She had lost too much blood and was already delirious; she passed out after that.
She didn’t see what Hao Ren did.
She weakly asked her husband.
“A little girl?… sob… My wife has really gone crazy… The doctor just told me that after an incident like this, you might develop hallucinations. I didn’t believe him… What little girl? You’re over thirty, still thinking you’re a little girl… sob… She’s really gone stupid.”
“Stupid your head! I remember clearly. That night, the pervert brought that little girl with him. He looked so honest, but I had a bad feeling… Tell me clearly, where did she go?”
Long Yiri shook his head.
“It was the villagers who found you. As for that little girl you mentioned, the morning they found you, someone happened to notice the broken window of that empty house. And a dog died outside the door…”
Suddenly Long Yiri felt nauseous.
“And the one with his head bashed in… the pervert you mentioned… As for another person…”
He shook his head again.
“No, you were the only one there. But there’s news from this morning. The police confirmed that the pervert was the infamous serial killer who committed the 312 Massacre and murdered seven people recently—the Rainy Night Butcher.”
“Hey? Why aren’t you surprised?”
Long Yiri noticed his wife seemed different.
Normally, she’d be screaming and getting excited about something so thrilling.
But now she looked troubled.
“Keep your voice down!”
Zhao Yueyue was even more puzzled.
She asked Long Yiri again, “Really no one else? Just me there?”
“No. But now that you mention it, I do feel like someone must have rescued the person you’re talking about. If not for that person… sob… I might never have seen you again, dear.”
“Shut up! Stop blubbering. I’m fine, aren’t I?”
Zhao Yueyue lowered her voice to scold him.
“Someone saved her…”
Zhao Yueyue felt an inexplicable worry.
That little girl… she hadn’t been taken again, had she?
And by the same people who had hurt her?