Chapter 435: Promise Me One Thing

The dark moon hung high, and a man and a woman walked along the winding mountain path.

It was so quiet that Li Xuan felt as if her heart were about to jump out of her chest.

Two years; she was finally going to bid farewell to this terrifying life of imprisonment.

"After you get out, besides what you promised me, I need you to promise me one more thing."

At a fork in the road, Wang Jie stopped and said.

This fork led in several directions, and after two years of imprisonment, Li Xuan had no memory of it.

She knew that Wang Jie chose to say this now because he had her cornered.

"Go ahead."

"After you get out, you are not allowed to call the police. I know you might hate those people in your heart, but they aren't bad people, and they are my own relatives."

As a man himself, he could understand them.

"I promise you," Li Xuan said immediately; she knew that if she didn't agree today, she probably wouldn't even make it past this fork in the road.

"Mm, I believe you, and I will keep an eye on you." As he said this, Wang Jie had already decided that he would stay in Huaiyang from now on.

To have had the chance to sleep with such a big female entrepreneur, he could brag about it in Huaiyang for the rest of his life.

Choosing one of the paths, Wang Jie grabbed Li Xuan with a very good mood.

"I heard you have a husband?"

His classmate said that Si Rong's husband was even a high-ranking official in the military.

"Then if he finds out that you've been slept with by all the men in our village, will he still want you?"

"So, I hope that besides the two of us, no third person will ever know about this."

Li Xuan knew Shen Lan loved her, but she also knew that Shen Lan was a man with psychological cleanliness; if he knew she had been with so many men, he would certainly not be able to accept her again, and the result would only be misery for both of them.

"That depends on whether the benefits you give me are enough."

Wang Jie's mind was already filled with images of himself riding in sedans, living in mansions, and spending money like water.

He could also be considered to have reached the sky in a single bound.

The two of them, each harboring their own ulterior motives, began to walk rapidly along the mountain path.

Li Xuan had long known that this Wanli Dashan was vast, but she hadn't expected it to be this vast.

It wasn't until the sky was just beginning to brighten that they still hadn't walked out, and Wang Jie pulled her into a mountain cave, "Let's hide here for the day and wait until nightfall to continue."

"The people in the village must have discovered you're missing by now."

Indeed, at this moment, the two brothers Da Nao and Er Nao were leading people to search the village.

"Whoever hid the person, hand her over immediately, otherwise if we brothers find her ourselves, this hunting rifle of mine won't have eyes!"

The villagers looked at each other; over the past two years, many of them had been jealous that the two brothers were making money off a woman, but they were all from the same village—who would steal that woman?

Besides, she was a living person who needed to eat and drink; wouldn't she be discovered quickly if brought home?

An elderly villager advised, "Da Nao, Er Nao, you'd better stop acting like thugs in the village and hurry to the main road to search! All of us in the village will help you brothers find your wife!"

"That's right, she can't run away. Without someone familiar to lead her out of the village, she's an outsider who doesn't know the place; she should have gotten lost long ago."

"Right! Even if she doesn't get lost, she'd have to walk for three days and three nights to get out, don't worry!"

Speaking of not knowing the place, Er Nao suddenly thought of something.

He suddenly glared at Wang Shuan, "Where is your younger brother?"

Wang Shuan's expression was unnatural, "I, I don't know."

Immediately, everyone began to grow suspicious.

"Could it be that your brother kidnapped Da Nao and Er Nao's wife?"

"That's right, I felt something was off before; your brother came over way too often!"

"He must have taken a fancy to that little wife and wanted to keep her all to himself!"

Wang Shuan was sweating profusely and denied it repeatedly, "Stop talking nonsense! My brother is a college student; what kind of woman can't he find? Why would he want a piece of trash!"

"What's the point of just talking? Let's go to your house and see!"

The crowd stirred up, and Da Nao and Er Nao took the lead to Wang Shuan's house; not only was Wang Jie missing, but even the books and bags in his room were gone.

"If she escapes, maybe our whole village will be finished!" Da Nao said with a sinister expression.

"Let's go catch those two dogs right now!"

The whole village grabbed their tools and began a carpet search.

For the entire day, Li Xuan curled up in the mountain cave, not daring to move.

The only thing to eat were wild fruits Wang Jie had picked from somewhere.

They were dry and hard to chew.

"Eat it, or if you don't have the strength to walk out tonight, you might never get out for the rest of your life."

Wang Jie predicted the villagers' reactions, "Everyone should be searching for us everywhere now, so we have to walk for our lives tonight. If we're lucky, we can reach Feng Zhen, and then we'll successfully escape once we get on a car."

As soon as the sky turned dark, the two of them moved forward again.

Accidentally passing by a person made Li Xuan's heart race.

"It's fine, don't be so nervous," Wang Jie frowned and scolded her, "Are you afraid people won't notice you with such a big reaction?"

"Just keep your head down and keep walking later."

They walked like this for half the night; Li Xuan was tired and thirsty, and she felt she could collapse on the road at any moment.

"When will we arrive?"

"It's still a long way off." Wang Jie kicked a stone on the ground, "If you can't walk, just sit down; I reckon Da Nao and Er Nao will catch up soon."

His original intention was just to scare the woman because he was bored.

Unexpectedly, a bicycle suddenly appeared from behind them and wobbled into Li Xuan.

"Slut, you slut!" Da Nao had borrowed the only bicycle in the village, and after riding for a day and a night, he finally caught up.

He threw the bicycle onto the ground and began chasing after Wang Jie and Li Xuan to beat them.

"You two shameless dogs! How dare you elope! Today, I'm going to kill both of you!"

Wang Jie's heart panicked; it had been too dark earlier and he hadn't seen, but when Er Nao rushed in front of him, he realized Er Nao was holding a knife.

*Clang! * He felt a chill run down the back of his head.

A question surfaced in his mind at that moment: money or his life?

But in the current situation, he didn't have much time to think, because Er Nao had already swung the knife at him.

He dodged instinctively; it seemed Er Nao wouldn't let this end peacefully today, so he had no choice but to fight for his life.

"Fine, you Er Nao, you dare to kill me over a woman! Do you even know that murder is against the law!"

In an instant, the two men began to fight.

Er Nao was a lazy good-for-nothing and was no match for Wang Jie's strong build, so he was quickly pinned beneath Wang Jie, and the knife fell to the ground with a clatter.

Li Xuan, who had been cowering to the side and shivering, suddenly felt a surge of malice.

She trotted forward, picked up the knife, and then pointed it at Er Nao on the ground.