The afternoon sun was already casting long, golden shadows across the municipal park when Teng’s customized private phone vibrated aggressively against the leather interior of his luxury car.
He didn’t answer immediately, his dark, calculating eyes locked onto the glowing screen, watching the name of his wealthy childhood friend, Jay, flash repeatedly.
Teng lazily slid his long thumb across the glass, bringing the device to his ear with a cold, aristocratic calmness that always commanded pure absolute dominance.
Before he could even utter a single greeting, Jay’s sharp, excited voice cut through the line.
“Teng, you will not believe who I am staring at right now,” Jay whispered rapidly, his breath slightly heavy as he spoke from his parked vehicle near the park gates.
“I am staring right at that beautiful, scholarship student from your academy—Jow.
He is out here this afternoon walking around with an old, frail woman, and Teng, the boy looks incredibly happy.
There isn’t a single trace of fear on his face.
I don’t know who that old lady is, but should I tail them right now?
Should I track where they are going?”Teng’s jaw clenched with a sudden, terrifying friction, a dangerous wave of toxic possessiveness and dark rage flaring deep within his massive ego.
Hearing that Jow was out in the open this afternoon, laughing and sharing his precious hours with an unknown old woman, felt like a brutal, white-hot insult to his supreme authority.
Teng’s predatory eyes narrowed into sharp slits, his fingers gripping the steering wheel until his knuckles turned ghost-white.
He didn’t want Jow to have a hidden paradise or feel any happiness away from his sight.
“Tail him immediately, Jay,” Teng ordered in a low, smooth hiss, his voice dropping into a chilling madness.
“Track every single movement this afternoon.
Find out exactly who that old woman is, who he mixes with, and where he buries his pathetic life.
Do not let Jow notice you under any circumstance.
I am coming down there myself this evening to witness his sanctuary shatter.”Meanwhile, entirely blind to the phone call and the dark storm brewing behind his back, Jow was walking slowly along the dusty pathway of the park, his mind experiencing a profound, unbreakable calm.
The beautiful, precious hours he was spending with his fragile grandmother, watching her smile under the warm afternoon sky, had acted as a powerful healing balm for his fractured soul.
He had quietly resolved that he would no longer allow the cruelty of Teng and his entire gang to dictate his emotions or control his spirit.
He no longer saw them as terrifying executioners of his destiny; he saw them as pathetic beasts who used their family power just to feed their hollow pride.
Jow didn’t lower his head anymore, nor did his pulse quicken with terror.
He walked with an iron serenity, his hidden travel blanket safely put away, his breathtaking, fragile beauty looking more translucent and unyielding than ever before as his dangerous disgust became an impenetrable fortress against further destruction.As Jow gently held his grandmother’s frail hand to guide her toward the park gates, Jay silently started his car, keeping a careful distance as his dark eyes tracked their every step through the rearview mirror.
He was careful not to draw any attention, his vehicle sliding smoothly into the fading evening traffic just behind the transfer student’s slow frame.
Jay kept his phone active on the dashboard, continuously feeding the real-time coordinates directly back to Teng, thoroughly fascinated by how a penniless scholarship boy could maintain such a peaceful, unbroken smile despite being completely surrounded by predators.
Jow felt a strange, cold chill run down his spine as they stepped onto the open municipal pavement, but he stubbornly refused to look back or show any weakness,entirely unaware that the hidden strings of his customized living hell were already spinning completely out of control, and the hunter’s absolute gaze had already locked onto his final refuge.Within an hour, the warm afternoon glow completely dissolved, and a thick, heavy darkness of the evening descended over the narrow, desolate alleyway where Jow lived.
Jay pulled his luxury vehicle over to the side of the quiet road, parking inside the dark shadows of an abandoned building, completely hidden from sight.
He left the engine idling silently, his sharp eyes fixed firmly on the broken wooden gate of Jow’s tiny, penniless house.
Jay checked his expensive wristwatch continuously, tapping his fingers against the steering wheel as he waited impatiently for Teng’s arrival.
Finally, exactly one hour later, the blinding high-beams of a sleek black Mercedes sliced through the pitch-black night, pulling up smoothly right beside Jay’s car.
The heavy glass window rolled down, revealing Teng’s handsome yet terrifyingly calm features beneath the dim streetlamp.
Jay quickly out of his window, pointing his finger toward the dimly lit, fragile structure across the street.
“Bro, that is Jow’s house,” Jay whispered rapidly, a sick thrill of excitement in his voice.
“He lives right there in that broken place.
I watched him enter with that old lady just a while ago.” Teng lazily tilted his head, his dark, predatory eyes drilling into the small house with a freezing, possessive fixation, letting out a low, dangerous chuckle as his ultimate psychological trap was officially deployed.
“So, he buries his pathetic secret here,” Teng growled smoothly, his voice laced with a chilling madness.
“Yes, bro, he is inside right now,” Jay confirmed with a sinister smirk, completely unaware that this very confirmation was about to spark a brutal, merciless storm over the scholarship boy’s hidden sanctuary.Teng slowly opened his heavy car door and stepped out into the chilling night air, his dark, predatory eyes locked onto the small flickering amber light filtering through the window of Jow’s tiny house.
He raised his heavy leather-gloved hand, his fingers resting tightly against the wooden gate as he prepared to forcefully thrust the fragile door open and unleash his customized living hell.
However, before his cold fingers could apply any pressure, Jay quickly stepped forward from behind, gently grabbing Teng’s shoulder to hold him back.
Jay looked at the dark, deserted alleyway and then back at Teng’s intense, furious profile.
“Bro, not now,” Jay whispered rapidly, trying to reason with his billionaire friend under the dim streetlamp.
“We will see him tomorrow, not today.
Let’s go.”Teng slowly opened his heavy car door and stepped out into the chilling night air, his dark, predatory eyes locked onto the small flickering amber light filtering through the window of Jow’s tiny house.
He raised his heavy leather-gloved hand, his fingers resting tightly against the wooden gate as he prepared to forcefully thrust the fragile door open and unleash his customized living hell.
However, before his cold fingers could apply any pressure, Jay quickly stepped forward from behind, gently grabbing Teng’s shoulder to hold him back.
Jay looked at the dark, deserted alleyway and then back at Teng’s intense, furious profile.
“Bro, not now,” Jay whispered rapidly, trying to reason with his billionaire friend under the dim streetlamp.
“We will see him tomorrow, not today.
Let’s go.”Teng drove away into the pitch-black night with a sinister smile, completely blind to the fact that inside the quiet room, Jow’s cold eyes silently promised a living hell that the hunter was entirely unprepared for.