In the villa area on the outskirts.

  When Xu Youning woke up, she felt as if she had died once. When she opened her eyes, everything in front of her was blurred, and her brain was like a rusty machine. It was unable to run, so she naturally couldn’t remember anything.

  After she lay on the bed for a long time, her vision gradually became clear, and her memories slowly returned to her mind.

  She moved and was surprised that the pain and soreness in her body seemed to have eased.

  But…… she was so hungry.

  Last night, she was carried back by Mu Sijue, which consumed a lot of her strength. Today, she didn’t have breakfast and lunch. It would be weird if she wasn’t hungry.

  Xu Youning decisively lifted the quilt and sat up. She didn’t see Mu Sijue, but she smelled the medicine on her body. While she was wondering what was going on, there was a knock on the door.

  She looked at the door alertly. “Who is it?”


  “Miss Xu, it’s me! You finally woke up!”


  The voice was a little familiar. Xu Youning thought for a moment and remembered that it was the voice of the servant in the villa. She finally said in a relaxed tone, “Auntie, come in.”


  The servant came in with a bowl of hot noodles. She wore a look of joy and said, “Miss Xu, you finally woke up. Mr. Mu can rest assured!”


  “.……” Xu Youning was confused. Why would Mu Sijue rest assured when she woke up? Was Mu Sijue worried about her?

  “Well, you didn’t see it! No matter how I tried to awaken you at noon, you didn’t wake up. After I told it to Mr. Mu, he almost rushed back. I have never seen him lose his composure like that!” The servant smiled. “I have poor sight, but I still can see that Mr. Mu is very concerned about you!”


  Xu Youning didn’t dare to think about the possibility. She laughed at herself and said, “He is just afraid that if I die like this, he cannot use me……” That was the right way of understanding!

  Mu Sijue was concerned about her? What a fantasy!

  “Nonsense.” The servant put the hot noodles on the bedside table. “Mr. Mu is really worried about you. Otherwise, with his character, why would he apply medicine for you in person?”


  Xu Youning looked at her wrist. The red marks from the handcuffs had disappeared, and the bruises had also become very shallow. When she raised her hand, she could smell a distinct fragrance of medicine.

  “Mu Sijue applied the medicine for me in person?

  “Did he take the wrong medicine?”


  Subconsciously, Xu Youning didn’t want to figure out the reason, so she turned to look at the noodles and asked, “Is this for me?”


  “Yes, Mr. Mu specially told me to make it for you on the phone.” The servant said with a smile, “You didn’t wake up at noon, so I made another bowl. Eat it while it’s hot.”


  Xu Youning’s eyes sparkled, and she deliberately ignored Mu Sijue’s name. She got out of bed and gorged on the noodles on the sofa.

  The servant was experienced, so she could see Xu Youning’s evasion. She shook her head, sighed softly, and left the room.

  After eating up the noodles, Xu Youning felt that she had come back to life. She tried to move and found that the medicine that Mu Sijue had applied to her wounds was really useful.

  Because she felt that she was so swift that she could run away.

  Xu Youning had always been a person of action. Thinking of this, she had already put on a suit of clothes for ease of motion and slipped downstairs.

  The servant was doing the cleaning in the living room. When she saw Xu Youning come down, she whispered to remind her, “There are some people outside.”


  Xu Youning didn’t care whether she was warning her or not. She smiled and said lightly, “I’m just going out for a walk.”


  People outside? It didn’t matter!

  As long as she could defeat Mu Sijue’s men, she would be able to run away successfully, wouldn’t she?

  Xu Youning walked into the garden openly. As soon as she went out, she found that she was too optimistic.

  She wanted to go back and tell the servant that the people outside were not ordinary people!

  As a matter of fact, she knew all these people. They were one of Mu Sijue’s most powerful teams and had followed her and Mu Sijue to Mexico.

  Damn, was she so important that Mu Sijue sent a team to keep an eye on her?

  “Miss Xu.” The captain looked at Xu Youning expressionlessly. “After the walk, please go back. Seventh Brother is coming back soon. You’d better not do anything to annoy him.”


  “Oh.” Xu Youning asked knowingly, “For example?”


  The captain didn’t cooperate at all and said coldly, “You know it yourself. Also, don’t try to escape from us. You won’t succeed.”


  Xu Youning really wanted to talk to these people and see if she could find an opportunity to run away. But they were obviously experienced guards of “prisoners” and could see through what she was thinking at a glance.

  Xu Youning snorted in her heart, went back to her room, and lay down on the bed.

  Kang Ruicheng shouldn’t be able to find this place in a short time, and she couldn’t escape on her own. Was she…… going to be locked up by Mu Sijue like this?

  No, she had to go back to avenge her grandma!

  Although she was thinking about it, in fact, Xu Youning soon fell asleep, and all her determination and passion turned into nothing……

  When it was getting dark, Mu Sijue came back from the outside. As soon as he put down the car key, he asked, “Where’s Xu Youning?”


  The servant said hurriedly, “Miss Xu has woken up.”


  Mu Sijue’s knitted brows quietly relaxed, and he asked, “Did she eat anything?”


  “She ate a bowl of noodles.” The servant said honestly, “Then she went downstairs for a walk and went back to her room.”


  “Fine.”


  Mu Sijue went upstairs and saw Xu Youning lying on the bed while pressing the quilt. Her face had regained color. Even if she closed her eyes, he could still feel her vitality.

  It seemed that she had really woken up.

  Mu Sijue entered the room, and the door was closed with a click.

  It was this sound that inadvertently awakened Xu Youning’s vigilance. She suddenly opened her eyes and saw Mu Sijue standing by the bed. She was shocked and subconsciously pulled the quilt to cover herself.

  Mu Sijue was extremely dissatisfied with Xu Youning’s cautious look. He stared at her gloomily and asked, “What are you afraid of?”


  Xu Youning looked in Mu Sijue’s eyes and said directly, “I’m afraid of you.”


  Mu Sijue raised the corner of his mouth and asked, “About what?”


  Xu Youning was about to go against Mu Sijue. She pursed her lips and said, “I’m afraid that you’ll fail to control your lust like a beast.”


  She was scolding Mu Sijue for being a beast in an roundabout way.

  Of course, Mu Sijue could hear it, but he was not angry. He said leisurely, “It’s still early. It’s too early for you to start being afraid.”


  “.……” What had happened last night came to Xu Youning’s mind. She shivered with fear. Countless curses came to her lips, but she couldn’t say a word.

  To deal with a person like Mu Sijue, she could only fight with him directly. If she just argued with him, she might be choked to death by his words.

  What was sad was that she was no match for Mu Sijue, whether in fighting or arguing with him.

  Mu Sijue then ordered, “Get up.”


  She looked at him warily and asked, “What are you going to do?”


  Mu Sijue narrowed his eyes and said, “If you don’t get up now, I will really do something.”


  He didn’t seem to be joking. Xu Youning had to get out of the quilt obediently and follow him downstairs.

  Unexpectedly, Mu Sijue led her to the restaurant.

  When the servant saw them coming down, she smiled and pulled out chairs for them. “It’s time for dinner. I was about to go up and call you.”


  Seeing Mu Sijue sit down, Xu Youning also sat down, picked up her chopsticks, and began to eat her favorite dish without hesitation.

  Since he brought her down for dinner, she would eat her fill first.

  After all, strength was the source of her escape. If she wanted to have enough strength, she had to eat first.

  Seeing Xu Youning eat happily, Mu Sijue picked up his chopsticks and ate unhurriedly.

  After dinner, Mu Sijue went to the study to deal with things, while Xu Youning went back to her room and took a shower. After drying her hair, she felt bored.

  Mu Sijue was well-prepared. There was no electronic equipment in the room. Not to mention contacting Kang Ruicheng; she couldn’t even find any news and videos to kill time.

  Feeling bored, Xu Youning lay on the bed and tossed and turned. After a long while, she finally felt a little sleepy.

  Just when she was about to fall asleep, the door was opened. Then, she vaguely felt that there seemed to be some noise beside the bed.

  Opening her eyes, she saw Mu Sijue lying down.

  Xu Youning sat up almost subconsciously and questioned, “Why are you in this room?”


  “This is my room.” Mu Sijue looked at Xu Youning leisurely. “If I’m not in this room, which room should I be in?”


  Xu Youning wouldn’t be trapped by this logic. She was about to get up and said, “Then I’ll go to another room!”


  Mu Sijue quickly pressed Xu Youning down and asked, “Did I allow it?”


  Xu Youning asked incredulously, “Do I need you to allow it?”


  Mu Sijue sneered and said, “It seems that you really forgot your identity.” With that, he pressed down on Xu Youning and said, “Can’t you remember it without me reminding you?”


  There was no need, because Xu Youning had already remembered.

  Mu Sijue was still the same as before, but she was no longer Mu Sijue’s follower. She was a person who had deceived and betrayed him, and now she was imprisoned by him.

  Compared with the treatment of ordinary prisoners, she was treated as a superstar. So she forgot that she actually had no freedom and almost angered Mu Sijue.

  “How to solve this?”


  Before Xu Youning could come up with an answer, she had felt that Mu Sijue was getting closer and closer to her. The familiar scent was mixed with her breath, which made her heart beat faster.

  “Useless!”


  In the face of Mu Sijue’s seduction, Xu Youning could only keep warning herself that she couldn’t reveal herself. She couldn’t.

  Mu Sijue saw that Xu Youning was holding the sheets tightly, and he could tell from her tense expression that she was nervous.

  No matter how aggressive she was on the surface, in fact, Xu Youning was still afraid of him.

  Mu Sijue let go of her and said coldly, “Sleep. I won’t do anything to you.”


  Without thinking, Xu Youning blurted out, “You trust me so much? What if I want to do something to you?”


  What she meant was that she might get up and kill Mu Sijue in the middle of the night.

  Mu Sijue raised the corner of his mouth and said, “In terms of fighting, you are no match for me. You are so smart that you won’t assassinate me in the middle of the night. What else can you do to me, huh?”


  “.……”


  Xu Youning finally realized that her question was nonsense. She pulled the quilt over her head and lay down. After a while, she felt that Mu Sijue also lay down on the other side of the bed.

  Mu Sijue forced her to sleep with him probably just to keep an eye on her.

  Except for it, she really couldn’t think of any other reason.