Xu Hui stumbled as she got up from the floor and ran towards the door of the basement room.
"Thud—"
Just as she reached the doorway, she was kicked in the chest by two members of Night Rose.
"Ah—"
The kick sent her sprawling back onto the floor, not far from Su Hua.
"Pfft—" A mouthful of bright red blood sprayed from her lips.
"Hold her down," Su Hua instructed expressionlessly.
"Yes."
Two Night Rose members stepped forward, pinning Xu Hui's hands and feet.
Xu Hui couldn't move.
Her eyes were filled with terror.
She regretted it, truly regretted it.
A man like the gang leader, so noble and bright, was not someone she could covet!
If she had known the gang leader's girlfriend was the leader of Night Rose, she would never have even thought of targeting her!
Su Hua glanced at Jiang Qing.
Jiang Qing understood.
She immediately produced a set of tools.
Holding a long wooden tray, she lifted the white cloth covering it, revealing a set of tools gleaming under the light.
Su Hua picked up a knife from the tray.
Under the lamplight, the blade emitted a cold glint.
Holding the knife, Su Hua crouched in front of Xu Hui.
"This face of yours does have some charm. So, how about I ruin it, turn you into an ugly monster?"
"Mmph mmph! Let me go! You demon! If the gang leader knew your true face, he would never like you!"
Xu Hui struggled desperately.
No!
She didn't want to become an ugly monster like Liang Xiaoxia!
With the two Night Rose members holding her down, Xu Hui had no chance of breaking free. She could only watch helplessly as the knife approached her face.
Su Hua applied slight pressure.
The sharp blade cut through the skin of Xu Hui's face, causing beads of blood to well up.
Su Hua continued to press the blade downward.
"Ahhh—"
Xu Hui screamed in agony.
Stroke by stroke, Su Hua carved characters onto Xu Hui's face.
The words "slut" were now vividly etched onto Xu Hui's cheek.
"Does it hurt?" Su Hua asked with a malicious smile. "This is just the beginning."
There was much, much more waiting for her.
Su Hua stood up, her gaze lingering over the array of tools on Jiang Qing's tray.
Finally, her hand reached for the pliers.
Come to think of it, it had been a long, long time since she'd pulled out someone's nails.
Su Hua's lips curved into a slight smile.
She grabbed Xu Hui's hand with one hand and held the pliers in the other.
"W-what are you going to do?" Xu Hui asked, her brow furrowed.
Su Hua's crimson lips curled. "Your nails are quite pretty too. But I don't like them. How about I help you... pull them out?"
Jiang Qing recalled the vivid scenes from before when Su Hua had used pliers to pull out someone's nails.
Hiss—
Jiang Qing lit three imaginary candles in her heart for Xu Hui.
The boss was really about to start the torture. This Xu Hui would absolutely, without a doubt, be tormented by the boss to the point where death would be a mercy.
In the Golden Dragon Gang, nail-pulling was also a form of punishment.
Xu Hui had personally gone to pull out people's nails on several occasions.
She knew all too well just how painful it was.
Fear was plastered all over Xu Hui's face.
"Leader of Night Rose, please spare me! If you let me go, I'll do anything you ask!"
"Or... just give me a quick death, please. Stop torturing me."
Su Hua said with a smirk, "Don't be naive. You tried to seduce my Ah Xuan. How could I possibly let you off so easily?"
"As for a quick death... Hah, dying is the easy way out. Rather than simply killing you, I much prefer to torture you until you wish you were dead."
With that,
Su Hua moved the pliers forward, clamped them tightly onto a fingernail, and then pulled hard, yanking the nail out.
"AAAAAHHH—" Su Hua's strength was immense. The fingernail was torn out by force.
Xu Hui shrieked in excruciating pain.
Even the Night Rose members averted their eyes. Seeing the state of Xu Hui's hand made their own fingers ache in sympathy.
One by one, Su Hua pulled out the nails on Xu Hui's hand, accompanied by her agonized screams.
Just as she finished with one hand,
Su Hua's phone rang.
"Who is it?" Night Rose members whispered among themselves. "Calling our leader at a time like this."
"I bet the leader definitely won't answer. You know she hates getting calls when she's dealing with someone."
"No, no, there's one exception."
"You mean our leader's boyfriend?"
"Exactly. Our leader likes her boyfriend so much. If he calls, she'll definitely answer."
Hearing the ringtone, Su Hua immediately took out her phone.
This was the special ringtone she had set for her Ah Xuan. She didn't want to miss any message from him.
Su Hua looked at her phone and saw the contact name "Ah Xuan."
Her previously gloomy, icy expression instantly softened.
Night Rose members: "!!!"
The boss's mood shift was incredibly fast.
One moment it felt like a violent storm, the next it was all sunshine and calm.
"That call must be from the boss's boyfriend! You have to admit, the boss's boyfriend is truly impressive. Just a phone call can cool the boss's anger."
"Absolutely! Remember when our leader couldn't find time to deal with the Golden Dragon Gang because she was busy accompanying her boyfriend? Our leader used to be like a robot only focused on work. Now she can be like this for a man. Isn't her boyfriend amazing?"
Before pressing the answer button, Su Hua glanced at Xu Hui lying on the floor and frowned. "Gag her."
"Yes."
A Night Rose member stuffed a rag into Xu Hui's mouth.
Now, even if Xu Hui wanted to speak, she couldn't.
Su Hua checked her surroundings once more.
Making sure Xu Hui had no way of revealing what was happening, she finally pressed the answer button with relief.
Lin Xuan's voice came through the phone.
"Hua Bao, where are you now?"
Su Hua replied, "I asked some business partners to come to the Black Triangle. I'm discussing cooperation with them."
"So, Hua Bao, when will you finish the meeting? I've cooked dinner and am waiting for you to come back," Lin Xuan asked.
For some reason, the vein on his temple was throbbing, giving him a very bad feeling.
From his recent observations, although people say a man's sixth sense isn't very accurate,
he had discovered that his own sixth sense was quite sharp.
His heart feeling so uneasy now likely meant Hua Bao had encountered something and was in a bad mood.
No matter what happened, cooking a meal to cheer her up couldn't be wrong.
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