The Outsiders 012

Fang Yuran walked away arm in arm with Fang Zhiyi. Zhang Enyu opened her mouth and called out Fang Zhiyi's name. Fang Zhiyi did not look back, so she called out Fang Yuran's name instead.

Fang Yuran paused. "Is there something you want?"

Her voice trembled slightly.

"I... I am your mother... I really am your mother, I... You weren't switched at birth, really, you are the one I gave birth to." Zhang Enyu's tone was full of pleading.

Fang Yuran turned her head back. "If you weren't, I could still understand why you hated me so much. When my brothers were eating cake, you made me scrub the toilets. The pocket money Dad gave me, you took away to buy a cell phone for my eldest brother. Just because I said I wanted to eat ice cream, you pinched my waist until it was covered in bruises..."

"If you really are my biological mother, I will hate you for the rest of my life, truly."

Zhang Enyu opened her mouth. "You... you can't just refuse to support me..."

"Damn, I can't watch this anymore. This woman is truly shameless!" a girl holding a phone and livestreaming suddenly cursed.

"If hitting people wasn't illegal, I would have slapped you by now!" another burly man roared.

"I am a mother too. When I found out about this earlier, I wondered what kind of person you could be. Seeing you now, it makes total sense. You are simply an animal! Pfft!"

Facing the verbal condemnation of the numerous media present, Zhang Enyu immediately covered her face. It wasn't like this, she wasn't like this!

"Let's go." Fang Zhiyi patted his daughter's back.

He didn't need to worry about the rest of the matters. This relationship was completely over, and Zhang Enyu and those little bastards were completely finished.

The once again famous ungrateful wretches fell into a difficult situation. Facing a scenario where they had no place to live and not enough to eat, Fang Yunhui wanted to find some work, but he was recognized wherever he went. As a result, from corporate offices to roadside construction sites, no one was willing to hire him. A small minority who didn't care said they would give him a trial run, but the other employees would ostracize him. Fang Yunhui got into a few fights with those who bullied him, and after that, absolutely no one was willing to hire him.

Fang Minghui couldn't take it anymore and developed the idea of committing a robbery. He tried to snatch the bag of a girl on the street, but unexpectedly, someone instantly leaped out, pinned him down, and beat him up. He was sent to prison once again.

Zhang Enyu wanted to return to her maiden home, but facing the humiliation from her sister-in-law and the angry scolding from her parents pointing right at her nose, she could only run away again in disgrace. After thinking it over, she went to beg Sun Lei again. Sun Lei was also having a miserable time now; the landlord had come to urge him to move out several times, refusing to rent the house to a person like him. Facing Zhang Enyu's pleas, Sun Lei was incredibly irritated and directly raised his hand against her again. Even Fang Nian, who used to call her mother with every breath, stepped forward to take revenge. Sun Lei looked at Zhang Enyu, gritted his teeth, and cursed, "Do you think you are still the beauty you were back then? If it wasn't for the fact that you had a bit of money and gave me three sons, I wouldn't have even let you in the door back then! Pfft! To think you even brought three wild bastards for me to raise!"

While Zhang Enyu was being beaten, Fang Yunyi stood frozen in place, and Fang Yunyao secretly slipped away. He had long wanted to leave these people; none of them were normal.

Finally, Zhang Enyu pushed away Fang Nian, who was riding on top of her, with all her might. She lunged at the cutting board, grabbed a kitchen knife, and began her counterattack.

Sun Lei never expected this woman to suddenly go crazy. His leg was slashed, and he instantly collapsed to the ground. Fang Nian tried to run but was dragged by her hair by Zhang Enyu, who slashed her across the face with the knife. Her heavily pregnant belly was also kicked by Zhang Enyu, causing her to instantly collapse limply to the ground. The bloody scene stimulated the already somewhat neurotic Fang Yunyi to start screaming.

It was because of his screams that the neighbors were alerted and called the police.

Sun Lei was crippled by the slashes, Fang Nian had a miscarriage, and Zhang Enyu was imprisoned for severe assault, ending up as an inmate alongside her son, though in a different prison.

When this incident became a trending topic on the internet, Fang Zhiyi was tilting his head, looking at the young man in front of him.

This kid is almost half as handsome as I am, Fang Zhiyi thought to himself.

"Jiang Xiao, let me introduce you. This is my dad." Fang Yuran smiled and looked at Fang Zhiyi. "Dad, this is Jiang Xiao. He is... a freelancer."

Jiang Xiao politely greeted Fang Zhiyi, "I have something I need to ask Yuran for help with. Uncle, could you please give us a moment?"

Fang Zhiyi looked at his daughter's eyes, nodded, stood up, and left.

By now, the biggest mystery of the plot was about to be confirmed.

Fang Yuran's personality had become much more cheerful, but she frequently went on business trips. Fang Zhiyi didn't know why someone in the catering business had to travel so often. Fang Yuran said it was to research the market, and Fang Zhiyi didn't ask too many questions.

"This is the place. A den where they traffic children and force them to perform for money," Jiang Xiao said calmly into his earpiece.

"Captain, won't Sister Fang be in danger sneaking in?" a muffled male voice sounded.

"She shouldn't be. She made a lot of preparations." Jiang Xiao stared intently at the screen.

A pleasant female voice rang out, "How are we handling it today? Are we leaving no survivors?"

"That would be letting them off too easy. Chop off their limbs and send them to a freak show abroad."

"Not good! Yuran has been discovered! Everyone, move out!" Seeing Fang Yuran backed into a corner on the screen, Jiang Xiao immediately issued the command.

This was a highly classified special operations squad, and Jiang Xiao was their captain. Hearing Jiang Xiao's words, everyone sprang into action.

"Sister Fang gets a little emotional whenever kids are mentioned. I didn't think we should have let her go."

"Stop talking nonsense. Watch out, a guard is coming, take him out immediately!"

By the time they fought their way into the den, the arms and legs of several targets had been broken by brute force, bent at unnatural angles, and they had already passed out.

"Holy crap, what kind of monster did this?" a massive man asked in surprise.

"Hurry up and find people! Find Yuran and the kids!"

Fortunately, Fang Yuran was fine. When they found her, she was hiding in a small room with several scantily clad children. Seeing that it was her companions who came in, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"What happened outside, Sister Fang?" a short girl asked curiously while picking up one of the children.

Fang Yuran shook her head blankly. "I don't know. I had just knocked down one person when I felt someone rush over, and then I was shoved directly into this room. After that, there were constant screams outside. I don't know what it was." She was worried the children would get hurt, so she could only use her body to press tightly against the door, but no one ever tried to open it.

Seeing that she was alright, Jiang Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and turned his gaze to the children. "Follow the method Ah Gui mentioned earlier. Chop off the limbs of those scumbags and sell them abroad!"

A figure was squatting on the wall outside the building.

"Tsk, I was thinking of taking out the protagonist together, but it seems this guy isn't a bad person... This is so difficult," Fang Zhiyi said with a conflicted expression. After thinking for a moment, he leaped off the wall and disappeared into the night.

It was just as he had thought. Fang Yuran was originally a supporting character in the main storyline. Because she witnessed her father die right in front of her and was abused in her childhood, she developed a dark personality and later joined the protagonist's team... If she followed that personality, she would most likely end up as cannon fodder.

But now...

After being released from prison, Zhang Enyu began searching for her eldest son. Her hair had already turned completely white, and she had no means to make a living—not that she ever really did in the past. Yet, when Fang Yunhui saw her, he cursed at her without holding back, screaming that it was her fault he had ended up like this. As fate would have it, that very night, Fang Yunhui was arrested once again for stealing.

Fang Yunyi wandered the streets in a state of madness. He told everyone he met that he was wealthy and that his parents were rich, but no one was willing to go anywhere near him.

Fang Yunyao, on the other hand, had changed the most. After leaving the family, he had been robbed and was on the brink of starvation until a passing worker gave him a meal. From that day onward, Fang Yunyao started working at the construction site. He had now become a quiet, brooding laborer. When he saw his mother coming to look for him, Fang Yunyao silently handed her a bit of money, packed up his belongings, and left without ever looking back.

Gritting her teeth, Zhang Enyu decided to seek out Fang Yuran. At her advanced age, she no longer cared about losing face. However, while she was asking around on the streets, a woman with disheveled hair violently crashed into her.

It was only when the sharp pain hit that she looked up in sheer horror at the face before her—a face marred by a massive, hideous knife scar.

"It is all your fault, all your fault!" Fang Nian laughed maniacally, shoving the knife in her hand even deeper.

The terrified screams of passersby pierced the air.

Meanwhile, in the ruins of a demolished neighborhood, inside a crude shack pieced together from scavenged tarpaulins, a filth-covered Sun Lei suddenly let out a long, ragged exhale. With his eyes staring blankly into the void, he stopped breathing altogether.