After she died, Mr. Bo knelt in front of the tombstone and cried like a dog.

After Xiao Yan took Ye Xiaowu away, the mercenaries outside stopped.

Chen Anran knelt there, his face pale.

Old Eagle came over and frowned, saying, "Doctor Chen, you have been working with the boss for seven years. You know the rules of the base better than anyone else. Why do you still violate them?"

Letting Ye Xiaowu go is a small matter. The more important thing is that Chen Anran acted on his own against Xiao Yan, which is the most serious betrayal.

If this was done by someone else in the base, they would have been killed as an example to warn the others long ago. Why would they still be kneeling here?

Chen Anran drooped her eyelashes and smiled slowly: "I did it on purpose. I just wanted to see what the difference is between me breaking the rules and Ye Xiaowu breaking the rules."

Old Eagle frowned and reminded, "You and I are both subordinates of the boss. We must abide by the rules of the base and the boss. Disobedience and betrayal will result in death."

Chen Anran taunted and pulled his lips: "What about Ye Xiaowu?"

Old Eagle said: "Ye Xiaowu is not from the base, and she is not in a superior-subordinate relationship with the boss. She is the boss's woman, so naturally she is different."

Ah.

Naturally different.

These four words were hundreds or thousands of times more painful than the steel pipe that had just hit her knee.

Old Eagle shouldn't have said much, but Chen Anran was an old subordinate of the base after all, and he had gone through gunfire and hail of bullets with them, so he had some feelings for them.

"You're courting death by running away for her. Don't do such stupid things again."

But he saw it.

The boss didn’t want to do anything to Chen Anran, otherwise how could she still kneel now?

……

Ye Xiaowu was pushed down on the bed, and in a state of confusion and fear he reached for the pistol at Xiao Yan's waist.

The man reacted even more quickly and grabbed her wrist, pulling it off with force.

Staring at her in the dim light, he sneered grimly: "Ye Xiaowu, how many times has this happened?"

The third or fourth time, he pointed the gun at him.

Was she feeling sorry for the injustice done to Chen Anran, or did she hate him for bringing her back?

Below him, her lips were pale and trembling, and her wet eyes were staring at him in fear and shock.

Xiao Yan pinched her chin and sneered, "You just said that you would stay by my side in the future, but it seems like you lied again."

"Ye Xiaowu, can't you tell the truth?"

"You want to hear the truth, don't you?"

She didn't know where she got the courage from, she looked at him with red eyes and said word by word: "The truth is——"

"Even if I really learned my lesson and stayed by your side, it's because I don't dare to run away again!"

"If it weren't for fear of you, who would want to stay with you?"

Xiao Yan stared at her, his pupils trembling slightly, almost imperceptibly.

Every word she said was irritating him, trying to force him to let go by extreme means.

A ball of fire burned fiercely, causing burning pain in the chest.

The man grabbed her neck with his big hands and held it tightly, sneering: "Ye Xiaowu, do you really think I can't bear to kill you?"

But are you really willing to do that?

The force of the knuckles gripping the side of her neck only made her breathing slightly difficult, without even a moment of suffocation.

She was even more certain that Xiao Yan would not kill her.

Chen Anran told her that she was a substitute for the owner of the red hairband.

The real Bai Yueguang in his heart was dead. Looking at the shadow of Bai Yueguang, no matter how angry he was, he couldn't bear to kill her.

And she took advantage of this. As long as Xiao Yan didn't kill her, as long as she was still alive, she would run away as soon as she had the chance, no matter what the cost.

As long as you don't die, it's not a big deal.

Sharp pain in lips.

A bloody smell spread in the mouth.

Xiao Yan bit her hard.

She bit her lip, trying hard not to let the shameful sounds escape from her lips and teeth.

But Xiao Yan was crazy.

She put a gun to his head several times, and he retaliated several times.

Not once less.

……

Chen Anran was locked up in the base's detention room.

Her leg wasn't actually broken, and it hurt a little when the pole fell, but the pain quickly disappeared.

More lasting than the leg injury is the pain in my heart, which ferments and accumulates bit by bit.

The wound on her right knee had been treated and bandaged, and she sat there with her knees bent, dazed.

It wasn't until the door of the confinement room opened and she saw that familiar figure that she relaxed.

The first thing Xiao Yan said was, "Now it seems that you were the one who gave Ye Xiaowu the contraceptive pills last time?"

It was a question, but the tone was firm.

Chen Anran smiled and said, "You already know it, why are you asking? I have nothing to defend myself. I admit what I did."

She hadn't thought she could keep it a secret from him forever.

After all, people like Xiao Yan understand human nature too well and are very scheming.

There are some little tricks that you think you have hidden, but it turns out he is just turning a blind eye to them.

But if something really went wrong or he was betrayed, he would never show mercy.

"Chen Anran, you are so brave that you dare to carry me on your back twice."

His face was hidden in the semi-darkness and his voice was cold and without warmth.

She looked up—

He was wearing a black silk shirt with the buttons buttoned casually as usual, looking lazy and loose, and the remaining lustful aura around him made him look even more energetic.

The red marks on the collarbone and Adam's apple are very eye-catching. They must have been caused by Ye Xiaowu.

It goes without saying what he did by dragging Ye Xiaowu into the room for so long.

Chen Anran lowered his eyes to hide his gloom and loneliness, and said lightly, "I know the rules of the base, and I know your rules even better. Killing is free. But I want to know, are you angry today because you are unhappy that Ye Xiaowu ran away, or because... I was the one who let Ye Xiaowu go?"

Xiao Yan looked at her, "Chen Anran, I used to treat you as my own, but starting today, you are no longer my own."

He always used the calmest tone and said the most irrefutable words.

She pursed her lips tightly, and endured for a long time. Finally, she couldn't hold it back any longer. The moment her tears rolled down, she laughed mockingly: "You really do treat me as your own. Now I finally understand that Old Eagle and I actually have the same position in your place."

"But Ayan, I don't want such a position at all."

Ever since Ye Xiaowu appeared, she found that she was far more greedy than she thought.

Perhaps when she was eighteen, from the moment he brought her out of the underground auction house in the Golden Triangle, she just wanted to occupy the only place in his heart.

Instead of treating everyone as an equal, he treated his confidants without any gender distinction.

What she wanted was never such "one of her own".

Once such thoughts arise, it will be impossible to willingly stay in the original relationship.

The rule of the base is that whoever betrays will die.

She admitted: "Just kill me."

Like Eagle, she had gone through many battles for him. Faced with life and death, neither she nor Eagle had ever thought of betraying him.

He turned his back and walked out, saying without any emotion: "Yingzi has three chances with me, and the same goes for you. Three chances is the limit."