Hearing this, Bo Jingzhou's face finally changed slightly. He looked at Ji Siyuan's back: "Where are you taking me?"

"You're my brother, of course I'm taking you with me wherever I go! But for now, just enjoy yourself and don't disappoint me with the big gift I prepared for you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bo Jingzhou was punched in the abdomen. He was already weak due to the medicine, and this punch left him completely helpless: "Ugh…"

Bo Jingzhou bent down, feeling a cold sweat constantly seeping. A sharp, intense pain came from his abdomen. He endured the pain: "Ji Siyuan, are you going to abandon those who follow you and flee like a drowning dog? Or is it that you've fallen so low that these are the only people you have left?"

Ji Siyuan's face brightened: "Brother, are you worried about me?"

Bo Jingzhou: "..."

That's really self-serving.

"I'm sure the police have already filed a case on the illegal fundraising. They are probably already looking for me all over the city right now. I'm afraid that your connections aren't strong enough to get me out, and instead of helping me, you might even end up getting me charged with fleeing the scene of a crime, which would make my sentence even worse."

"No, I've already made arrangements. You don't need to worry about the police side either; someone will take care of it. We'll just leave when the car arrives."

"I'm afraid I can't go."

Jisiyuan's first thought was that Bo Jingzhou was worried. She blurted out, "I've already made arrangements, you don't have to..."

Light seeped in from the narrow gap between the tightly closed curtains, it was...

Blue and white... police lights.

His face changed, and he suddenly turned to look at Bo Jingzhou: "What do you mean?"

"Bang."

The sound of the door being pushed open replaced Bo Jingzhou's answer to his question. Two bodyguards kicked the door in and rushed in, and at the back was Gu Chenye, who shouldn't have been here.

At the very end was Ji Siyuan, who remained outside.

A large crowd surged in, instantly filling the small room to capacity.

Gu Chenye glanced at Bo Jingzhou, who was clutching his abdomen and bending over. He let out a disdainful "tsk": "Are you named 'Ai'? You're either getting beaten or on your way to being beaten every day. Now you can still hop around, it's really thanks to your good looks that attract peach blossoms."

Bo Jingzhou rubbed his abdomen and got up from the bed: "I made such a big sacrifice, not just to give you more clues and buy some time."

As soon as he spoke, the pain in his abdomen from the injury flared up. Bo Jingzhou frowned and let out a grunt, "Damn it hurts so much, have you found anything?"

Gu Chenye gave him a thumbs-up: "I have to say, this network of connections is buried pretty deep. If he didn't take the initiative to use it, it would be completely untraceable. You really deserved that beating."

Ji Siyuan had been listening to their conversation without interjecting until he received a message. Upon reading its contents, he let out a low chuckle that grew in intensity, his chest vibrating with suppressed laughter. "So all of this was a setup against me?"

He twitched the corner of his lips, revealing a smile uglier than crying: "Brother, you lied to me again."

When Bao Jingzhou heard Ji Siyuan call him "brother," he felt a physiological queasiness, "Sorry, I can't accept a pervert calling me brother. Please stop putting on this fake act."

“I went to great lengths to get you out of this illegal fundraising scheme, and you turned around and used that to investigate my network of contacts, even having my overseas home raided,” Ji Siyuan laughed uncontrollably. “I’m very curious, how did Young Master Gu find this place? This place is so hidden, and I took everything off your person.”

He brought people who were professionally trained. If they were being followed, on such a long journey, it would be impossible not to notice it.

Ji Siyuan walked to the window and 'whoosh' pulled open the curtains.

This is a suburban house, long since outside the boundaries of Kyoto, abandoned for many years. It stands surrounded by weeds waist-high, in utter solitude and silence.

In such a remote location, and for the sake of caution, he even had people patrolling the perimeter, so that not even a fly could get in. It's really baffling how Gu Chenye managed to sneak in here with his people so silently, and directly barge in like this.

"Young Master Gu, I've been a curious person since I was young. If there's something I don't understand, I get really stubborn," Ji Siyuan smiled brightly, still with a hint of youthful innocence. "I'm truly curious how you avoided my people and sneaked in so quietly? Perhaps you could kindly enlighten me?"

Gu Chenye was truly being kind: "Is it possible that we didn't break in, but that we were originally in the building?"

"So you've been to this place a long time ago, just waiting here like an old hunter setting traps?"

This is a four-story, one-basement self-built house. Each floor has five rooms and a hall. In the past, there were factories nearby, and the houses were rented to workers as dormitories, so the area was quite spacious. This place is now abandoned, remote, dilapidated, even dangerous—not even stray dogs come around. So he didn't bother searching each room individually. He just took Bao Jingzhou directly to the room he used to live in.

When he questioned, his gaze remained fixed on Bo Jingzhou, "Brother, you had it all planned out beforehand, didn't you? Just waiting for me to make a move so you could turn the tables. How is it? Is it fun to play with me?"

"...Bo Jingzhou ignored him and frowned, asking Gu Chenye, "Why haven't the police come up yet?"

“They won’t come up,” Ji Siyuan appeared to have a remote control-like device in his hand at some point: “Since I can't go, let them all stay. All of your people are in this apartment building, right? I put bombs in every corner of this building before. Although they are homemade and not very powerful, there are many of them. It is still feasible to collapse a dilapidated building. Since we can’t escape completely, then I'll bring a few more people down with me. There will be company on the way to the underworld.”

Bao Jingzhou's face changed drastically. He didn't doubt Ji Siyuan's words at all: "Ji Siyuan, the person you hate is me. Those who owe debts should pay them back. Don't drag innocent people into this."

"Haha," Ji Siyuan couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Brother, you said it yourself, I'm a pervert! Have you ever seen a pervert who cares about right and wrong? Perverts just like to see others suffer and struggle. The more they suffer, the happier I am."

Bo Jingzhou: …

Gu Chenye: "..."

Both of their minds were running wild with a million thoughts.

Ji Siyuan casually played with his phone in the other hand, "But considering I'm calling you 'Brother', I'll give you a chance. You call Sister Wanwan and ask her to come over. As long as she comes, I'll let Gu Gongzi and others unrelated to this leave."

He excitedly stared at Bo Jingzhou: "Brother or lover, choose one. Isn't that exciting?"

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