Xu Qiao hadn’t expected it to be this easy to succeed.
Xie Yan Si was nothing special after all, fooled by her both in her past life and now.
As long as she had Xie Yan Si, the great demon king, under her control, Lin Yue’s life as a wealthy young lady could come to an end ahead of schedule.
She not only wanted Lin Yue’s future, but also wanted Lin Yue to suffer all the humiliating and unbearable torments from her past life.
Even now, Xu Qiao still remembered how Lin Yue’s clear, bright eyes gradually grew dull and lifeless, how her stubborn temper faded until she remained unmoved even when slapped.
Truly, she loved that version of Lin Yue.
This time, she wanted to see even more.
Xu Qiao curled her lips, her fingers about to rest on the shoulder of the young man beside her.
“Hey, can I ask you about someone?”
Xu Qiao took out her phone and tapped the screen, pointing at the girl in the photo. “Do you know her?”
“She’s my sister. I heard she got into this school. We had a bit of a disagreement, and as her older sister, I want to apologize to her in person. Could you help me find her?”
Xu Qiao blinked at Xie Yan Si, her fingers continuously zooming in on Lin Yue’s bright and beautiful face.
In her past life, she clearly remembered that it was a photo of Lin Yue that drove this demon king into a frenzy.
Xie Yan Si took a clear look at the girl on the screen, lifted his thin eyelids, and stared at Xu Qiao, his tone ambiguous.
“You, looking for her.”
Xu Qiao didn’t sense anything unusual at all. “Yes, will you help me?”
A smile spread across her face as her fingers brushed over Xie Yan Si’s shoulder, hinting meaningfully, “I can give you a reward.”
The next second.
A muffled groan of pain from a girl cut through the night.
Xu Qiao’s hand, which had been resting on Xie Yan Si’s shoulder, was brutally twisted by him, and she was immediately shoved against the wall.
The sound of bones colliding with stone mixed with Xu Qiao’s cries of pain.
Xie Yan Si showed no mercy at all.
Xu Qiao clutched her stomach in pain, her legs trembling as she leaned against the wall, her spine tense as she warily watched the young man towering over her.
“Brother, was it… something I said that offended you?”
Just moments ago, everything had been fine. How could his expression change so suddenly?
Xie Yan Si truly remained as unpredictable as ever.
She reached out, wanting to touch Xie Yan Si. “Don’t be angry. I’ll change, I’ll change everything, okay?”
She put on a pitiful, endearing expression.
Little did she know that in Xie Yan Si’s eyes, this look was utterly repulsive.
Xie Yan Si narrowed his dangerous phoenix eyes, and Xu Qiao’s hand immediately froze mid-air before she quickly withdrew it, frightened and dizzy, her instincts telling her to run.
But before she could take a step.
Xie Yan Si’s hand clamped around her slender neck, his thumb lifting, forcing Xu Qiao to raise her head.
The boy’s dark, deep eyes were filled with ferocity, disgust, and a hint of disdain.
In his eyes, Xu Qiao seemed like worthless trash.
Under the gaze of such a sinister stare, Xu Qiao trembled all over, her face pale with terror.
“I wasn’t looking for you,” Xie Yan Si’s voice was icy and sinister, his aura chilling to the bone, like the King of Hell demanding a life.
“Yet you came knocking on my door first.”
Xie Yan Si pressed his hand against her neck, slamming her against the wall once more.
In that instant, the pain shooting through Xu Qiao’s spine made her vision go dark, and the taste of blood spread in her mouth. She begged for mercy, completely failing to grasp the meaning behind Xie Yan Si’s earlier words.
“Bro! Bro, I was wrong, bro, I beg you to let me go, I’ll never flaunt myself in front of you again!”
Xie Yan Si paid her no mind, nor did he feel any sympathy.
A scene he had once witnessed flashed through his mind, and the fury within him flared even higher. He grabbed Xu Qiao by the hair and yanked it back viciously.
Xu Qiao shrieked in pain, her voice tearing through the air.
Xie Yan Si’s gaze was bone-chillingly cold as he stared fixedly at Xu Qiao, delivering a frigid warning.
“If I see you near Chengbei No. 1 High School again…”
Before he could finish, Xu Qiao hurriedly cut in, “Bro, bro, I was really wrong, I… I promise I won’t show up near Chengbei No. 1 High School to dirty your sight, I swear!”
She never expected Xie Yan Si to be this enraged. In her past life, he hadn’t been like this.
It seemed that trying to get to Lin Yue through Xie Yan Si was impossible now.
Her best bet was to stay far away from this life-threatening demon.
Xie Yan Si exuded a terrifying and sharp aura that made Xu Qiao’s teeth chatter, unable to utter a single sound.
“If I catch sight of you.”
Xie Yan Si looked down at her, enunciating each word slowly.
“I’ll end you.”
His tone wasn’t just a simple warning—it carried the weight of something he might truly carry out.
Xu Qiao’s pupils contracted slightly. She swallowed hard with difficulty, her mouth opening and closing, but no words came out for a long time.
Only when she saw Xie Yan Si’s figure disappear at the mouth of the alley did her tense back finally relax. Trembling, her legs gave way, and she collapsed to the ground.
The fear in her eyes lingered for a long time.
It seemed that in this life, Xie Yan Si was even more… more terrifying than in the last.
Xie Yan Si emerged from the alley and looked toward where Lin Yue had been earlier.
She was nowhere to be seen.
Scanning the area, he spotted that familiar figure at the intersection ahead.
The traffic light had just turned green. She pedaled her bicycle, the high ponytail at the back of her head swaying with the movement of her bike as she passed other cyclists going in the opposite direction.
Xie Yan Si smiled faintly, his lips curling silently.
No matter how much time passed, no matter when, he could still pick out that one bright spot from the crowd at a single glance.
Lin Yue’s figure grew farther away. Xie Yan Si took the bicycle that had just been unlocked from a man beside him.
The man had been about to grab the kid and give him a lesson, but the young man in front of him pulled a few hundred yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into his hand.
“Bro, lend me this.”
At this moment, the ferocity Xie Yan Si had shown in the alley had faded from his eyes, replaced only by that one bright spot.
“I’ll return it later.”
With that, Xie Yan Si swung his long leg over the bicycle and set off in pursuit of that light.
The man felt a gust of wind brush past his face. Holding the money, he stared blankly at the young man’s retreating figure.
He noticed that the young man seemed to be chasing a pink bicycle ridden by a young girl.
Realizing what was happening, the man’s honest face broke into a smile.
“Ah, these young people nowadays,” he muttered, counting the money. “They really go all out for love.”
The two bicycles were about three hundred meters apart.
Xie Yan Si followed behind Lin Yue, his gaze fixed on her determined back.
That small back of her head, that swaying high ponytail.
After eight years, he had finally reached a place where she could see him if she turned around.
But Lin Yue was still sulking, though she didn’t even know why she was angry. All she knew was that she was in a terrible mood.
Fuming all the way, she didn’t notice at all that someone was following her.
Until she reached the entrance of the villa area, Lin Yue belatedly realized that someone’s gaze was lingering on her. But when she turned to look, the empty road showed no one in sight.
Was it just her imagination?
Feeling somewhat down, she didn’t dwell on it and dismissed it as her own paranoia.
She scanned her face and pushed her bicycle inside.
Xie Yan Si had just dodged Lin Yue, stumbling into a nearby alley with his bicycle in tow. To avoid making any noise and being discovered, he fell in a rather clumsy manner, with both his legs and body pinned under the bicycle.
After hearing the sound of the bicycle being pushed inside and waiting a moment longer, Xie Yan Si finally emerged from the alley, pushing his own bicycle.
Standing outside the villa area, he didn’t leave immediately.
Instead, he stared at the Lin family’s standalone villa, only relaxing his brow when the lights on the second floor flickered on.
Watching the occasional silhouette pass by the window on the second floor, Xie Yan Si gazed intently, his usually sharp phoenix eyes now tinged with a hint of tenderness.
After a long while, he watched as the lights on the second floor went out, his voice carrying a faint, raspy hoarseness as he spoke.
“Sorry for making you wait so long.”