Jiang Ruiling trembled. "I…I was kidnapped from the Jiang villa!" She sobbed as she expressed her pain.

  Shen Yang was stunned. "Huh? Kidnapped? Who would kidnap you from the villa?"

  "Xian Xue!"

  He widened his eyes.

  "The vice chief of the security forces?"

  The one who proved to be a good bait for throwing the mud on and protecting himself from the accusations.

  Clear tears plopped down her cheeks. "Y-Yes Shen Yang…He kidnapped me the day that bastard Jiang Zhen was going to announce his position as the Mafia King," she gritted her teeth in disgust.

  Shen Yang narrowed his eyes. But he quickly hugged her and brushed his palm along her hair, trying to console her. "It's alright. First, you need to stop crying Ruiling and explain what has happened. I am here for you."

  She bit down on her lower lip hard, and she seemed to be shaking even more.

  "I don't know how to say it, Shen Yang…" she softly gasped. "I don't want to…"

  Shen Yang was getting impatient.

  Tell me already what is going on?

  Jiang Ruiling caused a mystery ever since she had disappeared that day. Neither Wei had planned it nor Jiang Zhen had anything to do with it.

  So who took her away? Where was the merit in taking Jiang Ruiling away? Shen Yang wondered. She wasn't really important from the perspective of the Underworld war that had started between Wei and Jiang Zhen.

  Now he came to know that it was Xian Xue but again the question remained.

  Why? Why specifically Jiang Ruiling?

  Shen Yang looked distressed. "Ruiling, you know that you can share anything with me right? Do you know how crazy I have been these past few days?"

  Jiang Ruiling was frightened. "Xian Xue…he is a monster, Shen Yang."

  He frowned.

  "What do you mean?"

  "D-Do you remember how I insulted him for blaming you for being a traitor that day? It was when everyone was gathered and instead, you proved that he was the traitor all along."

  He squinted his eyes.

  "……Yes. I remember that."

  The day I used him as the perfect bait.

  She clutched onto his shirt in her fist as she shook hard. "He…He hated me for it. Xian Xue hated me for humiliating him. T-that's why, he took me away. He…" she seemed to shake even more, "He wanted revenge from me."

  "What are you saying? Revenge how?"

  She shut her eyes hard as her lips quivered. "Shen Yang. Y-you won't leave me, right? Promise me that you won't hate me…Please…I am already hating myself. If you leave my side too, then I-I will be devastated."

  He was now getting irritated.

  Come to the point already damn woman!

  "Ruiling, I am always here with you," he softly reassured her.

  She finally broke down. "Xian Xue…he…he raped me."

  He froze.

  "What!?"

  Jiang Ruiling was startled but nodded, feeling humiliated.

  Shen Yang couldn't believe his ears. "Huh? He raped you?"

  She collapsed on her knees, wailing hard. She hugged herself as if she was feeling too disgusted. "It's true…he took me away because he wanted to h-humiliate me back. I insulted him in front of everyone so now he wanted to insult me! He kidnapped me from home and took me to some remote place I didn't know of a-and then…"

  She shuddered, and more tears slipped down from her eyes.

  He was stupefied.

  "……He kept me at that place for all these days," her voice choked. She clasped her shivering hands together. "N-Not just once…but he…" she cried, "He forced himself on me everyday u-until I finally escaped from that wretched place somehow…It was his underlings that were following me and wanted to take me back. Those days were horrifying, Shen Yang…" she broke down as someone who was defeated.

  Jiang Ruiling wiped her eyes and quickly held his hand. "I am sorry, Shen Yang…I didn't want to come before you like this all…impure and tainted," she cried. "I have lost my dignity, b-but you won't leave me, right? I was so scared but now I finally found you, and I feel so safe…" she gazed at him with hope.

  Shen Yang was still in a daze.

  "Help me, Shen Yang," she gasped. "You don't know how hard it was for me…whenever he forced himself on me, I felt so disgusted. I kept crying and crying and wishing that you would come for me. I even thought of just killing myself rather than live such-"

  "Then why didn't you?"

  "Ah?"

  Shen Yang harshly shook his hand off from hers and grabbed her shoulders. His fingers that dug into her skin shot a numb pain in her.

  "I asked why didn't you go ahead and just killed yourself!?" He gnashed his jaw.

  She froze. "W-What are you talking-"

  "Oh just shut up already, you bitch!"

  Her eyes slowly widened in horror. She stared at him, feeling as if she wasn't watching Shen Yang at all.

  "Ughhhh!!!" Shen Yang pressed his eyebrows in disdain. Words couldn't describe how furious he felt right at this moment.

  Fuck, fuck, fuck!

  "That bastard Xian Xue! He ruined it! He completely ruined it for me! Fucker ate you first when it was supposed to be me! Damn it, I was saving you for the best part. Ughh…this is…this is…I want to kill someone!"

  He paced back and forth with heavy steps, very frustrated by the turn of events.

  Jiang Ruiling was too frozen to speak anything. Her arms and legs stiffened as if she was trapped in a block of ice.

  Shen Yang glowered at her. "Damn it, it's all your fault! If you didn't go so far with humiliating him, then he wouldn't have turned so crazy! Couldn't you have controlled your tongue a bit!? Now look at what happened! He fucking slept with you! I…I wanted to destroy your virginity for you! But someone else ate the fruit. I am so angry! I was saving you all this time. I wanted to see you cry when you would come to know that I was the traitor all along! And I wanted to eat you AFTER enjoying your miserable begging face! But everything is ruined! You are fucking tainted. What's your use now!?"