Gu Qixiao naturally couldn’t allow things to continue developing this way.
"I’m here, and I will save you."
He quickly arranged for soone to rescue her.
But at that mont, Jiang Huai began to laugh.
His gaze toward Ji Yu grew more terrifying.
"Yu, since there’s no way to make you love , then keep hating . I think your hatred is fascinating too."
He couldn’t help but start laughing again.
That laugh carried a truly perverse undertone.
Ji Yu rarely encountered people like him, and for a mont, she felt genuinely overwheld.
"What good does any of this do for you? Do you truly enjoy this twisted desire?"
To her, the entire scenario seed utterly surreal.
"Yes, I enjoy this feeling. You belong to , and only ."
He looked at her greedily, as if they could truly be together after this.
Ji Yu frowned. She wasn’t in the best condition herself at this mont, and she suspected Jiang Huai had employed so kind of trick.
"Without , you’d continue floundering this way until the day you die. Wouldn’t Gu Qixiao’s expression be truly priceless if you ended up dying like this?"
His bloodstained hand traced a mark across Ji Yu’s cheek.
The sll of blood filled Ji Yu’s nostrils, and her face paled noticeably, the oppressive scene threatening to break her resolve.
"What do you an by that?" Ji Yu inhaled deeply, already certain he had orchestrated sothing twisted—it was just that he hadn’t revealed his plan yet.
"Surely, my words are crystal clear to you."
He smiled at her.
Ji Yu felt a stabbing pain in her head and began to understand the implications.
Jiang Huai truly was a genius in pharmacology, though regrettably, he had put his brilliance to sinister use.
He was a man steeped in dissonance, no matter the situation.
"Jiang Huai, you’ll only destroy yourself this way. Do you think this madness is amusing?"
The only person he would ultimately destroy was himself.
"I advise you to take a good look at who you’ve beco. You’re not in a state to keep spiraling like this."
Ji Yu offered her advice with sincerity.
But Jiang Huai showed no sign of relenting.
"Yu, I love you deeply, so I stopped caring long ago."
Even if it ant his own demise, all he wanted was a single outco.
Ji Yu often struggled to understand why his thoughts were so extre—not only did he drag himself into ruin, but he also sought to pull everyone else into the abyss.
Though Ji Yu wasn’t certain what Jiang Huai had done to the old matriarch, judging by Lin Zhiyuan’s grim expression earlier, the outco couldn’t be a good one.
"I’ve always been stubborn, so it’s only natural that I’d be like this when it cos to you. I don’t believe there’s anything wrong with what I’ve done. Even if Gu Qixiao shows up, he won’t dare kill ."
Because Gu Qixiao understood all too well who was more indispensable in this mont.
Ji Yu inhaled deeply, finally grasping the true definition of "twisted."
A man like Jiang Huai was indeed difficult to deal with; no matter the circumstances, it was unthinkable to kill the person capable of resolving their drug-induced plight.
"Ji Yu, admit it—at this mont, you need . You have no choice but to rely on to escape this predicant. Why can’t you just love a little?"
Even if the love were fake, he’d accept it without hesitation.
Yet Ji Yu clearly wasn’t even inclined to feign affection. She simply wanted to escape his grasp as quickly as possible.
She couldn’t understand why he held on so obsessively.
"Childhood mories must feel distant to you by now. Why won’t you just let yourself move on from them?"
Perhaps if he forgave himself, he wouldn’t be suffering so deeply.
"If I were capable of letting go, I wouldn’t be trapped in these past mories, unable to move forward. When I realized your heart belonged to soone else, I regretted it. If I’d been by your side from the start, would things have turned out differently?"
The pain in his heart was unbearable.
Pain so consuming, he now had no idea what to do.
At that mont, Gu Qixiao arrived with reinforcents.
Lin Zhiyuan, still reeling from the footage he had seen earlier, was near breaking point.
"What did you do to my mother?" To him, Jiang Huai was nothing less than a madman. How could he treat his mother so heinously? She had done nothing wrong.
"Exactly what you saw. She’s now gone to the underworld to join your father. I imagine she must be quite pleased."
Even as Jiang Huai appeared disheveled, his words were as ruthlessly cold as ever, as if the matter was trivial.
Not just Lin Zhiyuan—even Ji Yu felt a deep sorrow upon hearing those words. For an old matriarch to suffer so was unforgivable, yet Jiang Huai seed utterly indifferent.
"I’ve taken many lives in my ti. To , this is nothing more than the life of a bug."
Jiang Huai had never feared killing since he was young. While he had faced punishnt, he had ultimately survived.
To him, what he was doing now was remarkably simple. Even if they wanted to kill him, what of it? They couldn’t do it, could they?
"Lin Zhiyuan, calm yourself. We can’t kill him right now—we need to save him." Gu Qixiao knew this truth was cruel for Lin Zhiyuan, but there was no alternative.
They needed Jiang Huai’s help and, more importantly, the antidote he could create.
"Don’t you see? Soone like him will never help you. His actions were ant to tear you apart—now that he’s succeeded, why would he give you the antidote?"
If he did provide an antidote, it would only be for Ji Yu.
Jiang Huai was inherently selfish, concerned only with the people he cared about. Under these circumstances, there was no way he would help Gu Qixiao, whose situation was becoming increasingly dire.
"Jiang Huai, you only have two options: die here, or create the antidote that will free both of us completely."
Ji Yu approached the matter with seriousness. The relationship between them was already strained, and if Jiang Huai died here, it would only an he got what he deserved.
The sins he had committed were enough to warrant his death a hundred tis over.
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