Another night descended, and the darkness, like a vast curtain, enveloped the entire Demon City in a swirling shadow.
Qin Yu, at this moment, was like a startled bird, scurrying through the intricate, dark alleys of Demon City, fleeing in a desperate and disheveled state from his pursuers.
Escaping from Su Yang did not mean the end of the manhunt.
On the contrary, news of his injury was reported to the police, who dispatched more officers, hoping to apprehend him while he was wounded.
Throughout that day, he dared not take main roads, nor go anywhere with surveillance cameras, but he was still spotted several times. Fortunately, he ran fast enough.
He felt like a rat, abandoned and hunted by the entire world!
Everyone wanted to strike him down; there was nowhere to run!
Lu Cheng's sanctimonious smiling face kept flashing in his mind, making him blame Lu Cheng for everything he was currently experiencing.
"Hiding at home, calling experts to ambush me?"
"Sooner or later, I'll drag you out! And kill you with pleasure!"
However, he knew very well that he was already at a dead end!
Revenge? That was just a pipe dream.
He was alone and helpless in this Demon City, only his Senior Sister... Right! He still had his Senior Sister!
Speaking of which... Qin Yu carefully recalled his experiences since descending the mountain.
His Senior Sister had always been quite good to him!
At first, she took him in and gave him a job.
And!
Last time in the detention center, although she scolded him severely, her eyes clearly showed 'disappointment that iron cannot be forged into steel'!
Senior Sister, in her heart, she still has me, her only Junior Brother!
She was just misled by that bastard Lu Cheng!
It's all Lu Cheng!
The culprit behind all this is that insidious and cunning hypocrite, Lu Cheng!
In this situation, only Senior Sister can help me!
He wanted to return to Returning Spring Hall!
Even if it meant humbling himself and admitting his mistake to Senior Sister.
He had decided that the ways of Demon City were too profound!
He wanted to tell his Senior Sister that he no longer wished to stay in this city full of schemes and calculations!
The people here were too complex; it simply wasn't suitable for a'simple and kind' mountain person like him!
He wanted to return to the mountains!
Back to those deep, old forests, which, though poor, were at least peaceful and harmonious!
He just wanted to see his Senior Sister one last time before he left!
He would beg her, for the sake of their kind master, to help him reattach and treat his injured arm.
Otherwise, let alone escaping back to the mountains, he would be caught within a few days.
He believed!
Senior Sister, being so kind-hearted, would definitely help him!
After all, he, Qin Yu, was Senior Sister's only Junior Brother, and the master's last legacy left in the world!
...After making up his mind.
Under the cover of night, Qin Yu, like a ghost, silently snuck back into Returning Spring Hall, where he had once worked.
Using his familiarity with the internal environment, he easily avoided the security guards who had already worked a full day at the medical hall.
Then, he went straight to Luo Qingyan's office on the second floor.
Seeing the door ajar, he no longer hesitated!
He pushed the door open and entered!
Inside the room, Luo Qingyan had just finished a busy day of consultations.
She was about to change out of her white coat, which smelled of traditional Chinese medicine, pack up to go home, and enjoy a hot bath to relax.
But suddenly, she heard the sound of the door being pushed open from outside!
Her heart startled, she looked in the direction of the sound.
She saw a man wearing a baseball cap and a mask, with a somewhat familiar figure, walk in.
Luo Qingyan's brows instantly furrowed tightly, and she questioned in a cold voice:
"Who are you? How did you get in? Don't you know this place isn't for just anyone to enter!"
Qin Yu looked at the fairy-like Senior Sister before him, who, despite her icy expression, was still breathtakingly beautiful.
The surge of grievance in his heart instantly welled up!
He tore off his disguise with a single motion.
And pleaded with a choked voice:
"Senior Sister! It's me, I'm Qin Yu!"
"Senior Sister! Help me, please, help me!"
"I was ambushed, my arm is almost crippled..."
When Luo Qingyan saw that the person who had come was actually Qin Yu, the 'fugitive' who should have been in jail, her beautiful face instantly filled with disgust.
But... when she saw Qin Yu's broken right arm.
The compassion of a healer in her heart still made her instinctively feel a touch of pity.
She sighed softly, her voice still cold, but with a little less of the previous resolve.
"Sit down first."
"However, you're so seriously injured, I'm afraid it's not safe with just me alone."
"I... I still need to call your Brother-in-law over, let him help take a look too, and discuss how to handle your next steps."
"Brother-in-law?"
As soon as Qin Yu heard that title, he bristled like a cat whose tail had been stepped on!
He almost instinctively waved his hands repeatedly, saying urgently:
"No! No, no, no! Don't call him!"
"Senior Sister, I beg you! Please break all ties with that scumbag Lu Cheng! He's not a good person at all!"
He looked into Luo Qingyan's eyes and began to earnestly expose Lu Cheng's ugly true colors!
"Senior Sister, you don't know! Lu Cheng, out there, who knows how many women he's kept!"
"What college students, what female CEOs!"
"Even mature single mothers, he hasn't spared a single one!"
"He's practically a walking seed-spreader! A beast!"
"And he, he told me several times that he wanted to introduce me to some noble young ladies from Demon City, to let me go play with them!"
Luo Qingyan listened to his words, and the more she listened, the more her brows furrowed.
Especially when she heard the last sentence, a very strange expression flashed in her cold eyes.
She interrupted Qin Yu's incessant accusations and retorted:
"Oh? Is that so?"
"Noble young ladies? Then tell me, who was he planning to introduce you to? The young ladies of Demon City? Maybe I even know them!"
"Uh..."
Qin Yu was directly stumped by her sudden question!
He hadn't expected Senior Sister to dig into it... He had thought Luo Qingyan would get angry directly.
He quickly tried to cover up:
"Well, although he didn't end up finding anyone for me, he definitely has connections in that area! He's a scumbag, very wild!"
"The reason I ended up in this situation this time is entirely because of him! I was schemed against by him! Senior Sister! Believe me!"
"Wherever Lu Cheng is, absolutely! Absolutely nothing good will happen!"
Luo Qingyan watched him constantly shirk responsibility and smear Lu Cheng; that glimmer of a healer's compassion, which had just barely emerged, completely vanished and turned dark.
She no longer bothered to explain to Qin Yu. There was nothing to explain to someone who blamed others for his own prison break.
She just sat there, quietly watching him.
Qin Yu looked at Luo Qingyan's increasingly cold and unfamiliar gaze, knowing that it was impossible for him to make Senior Sister leave Lu Cheng.
The unrealistic fantasy in his heart completely died.
He lowered his head dejectedly, his voice hoarse, as if it were his last wish.
"Senior Sister..."
"I... I don't want to stay in this place anymore..."
"I want to go back to the mountains."
"The mountains are better, at least there aren't so many schemes."
"Senior Sister... for the sake of our old master, please help me one last time, okay?"
"If you help me heal this arm, I promise! I'll leave immediately, go back to the mountains immediately! I'll never come down again in this life, and I won't cause you any more trouble!"
Luo Qingyan looked at his sudden 'repentance' but was not moved. Instead, she slowly took out her phone from her pocket.
Before Qin Yu's stunned and bewildered gaze, she dialed a number.
"Hello? Is this 110?"
"Yes, I want to report a crime."
Luo Qingyan's voice was cold and resolute, devoid of any emotion.
"The fugitive, Qin Yu, who escaped from the detention center earlier."
"He's currently at our Returning Spring Hall."
"Yes, he's injured, very seriously injured."
"He also tried to force us to give him illegal treatment..."
Qin Yu looked at Luo Qingyan's face, so close yet utterly unfamiliar.
Listening to her emotionless report to the police.
His heart completely died!
He no longer had any hesitation or illusions; he abruptly stood up from the chair!
Ignoring the pain in his body, he crashed through the room door and fled back into the cold night.