Chapter 383

Chapter 383 Let My Woman Go!

Yuan Wei Gang’s ambitions were of course no small matter — this was their century-long plan, and for this day, they had been secretly laying the groundwork for many years!

In fact, since the time to make their final move had not yet come, Wan Yan Zhengyong had no intention of showing all his cards. After all, every card he revealed would add one more variable to the so-called century-long plan!

China strictly prohibits private ownership of firearms, and not even underground gangs are exempt. They might be able to illegally stash a few guns, but they would absolutely never openly produce this many!

A full hundred-plus handguns — if all concentrated together, what a terrifying force that would be! What kind of chaos would such a force unleash upon society?

After all, today’s underground gangs are worlds apart from the gangs of the Republic of China era!

And it was precisely for this reason that Su Rui was convinced Yuan Wei Gang had far greater ambitions!

They came to a ten-year tournament and brought that many handguns — what exactly were they trying to do? Their purpose was clearly not so simple!

At this moment, Wan Yan Zhengyong naturally had no intention of answering Su Rui’s question. In fact, the firearms he had at his disposal far outnumbered those on the scene. With a single order, the two people on the floor below would be turned into two hornet’s nests!

No one could survive facing that many gun barrels. At a distance there might be hope, but at such close range it was absolutely impossible!

“I said it before — even if you grew wings today, don’t even think about flying out of here.” Wan Yan Zhengyong fixed his gaze on Su Rui in the arena and said coldly.

If he had harbored even a trace of pity for snuffing out this young genius before, that trace of pity had long since vanished into thin air!

Killing Su Rui would bring Wan Yan Zhengyong not a shred of guilt. On the contrary, he would let out a long breath and feel utterly satisfied!

In truth, Wan Yan Zhengyong could have had Tian Bingyi step in to kill Su Rui, but after watching Su Rui single-handedly battle the ten Eastern warriors, Wan Yan Zhengyong was no longer quite so confident in Old Tian’s skills. If Su Rui staged a desperate counterattack during a fight with Old Tian and left his most powerful right-hand man injured or crippled, wouldn’t the loss be far too devastating?

So as long as the most reliable method was available, Wan Yan Zhengyong would not take unnecessary risks!

With hundreds of handguns aimed at him, could Su Rui really escape from here?

Even if his true intentions were exposed, Wan Yan Zhengyong wasn’t worried. Su Rui was about to be a dead man anyway, and dead men can’t pass messages along!

Lin Aoxue was seeing that many handguns for the first time, and feeling such a razor-sharp tension in the air for the first time. She should have been very nervous and very afraid, yet facing the death that was about to come, she felt not a single trace of panic. Held tightly in Su Rui’s arms, Lin Aoxue perhaps felt a faint flicker of fear, but the moment she thought of this seemingly omnipotent man by her side, that flicker of fear dissolved into nothing!

Su Rui held Lin Aoxue by the waist with both hands, lowered his head, looked into her beautiful eyes, and said softly, “Are you not afraid?”

Well, at the critical moment, these two were flirting again.

Lin Aoxue met Su Rui’s gaze directly and shook her head.

“I’m not afraid.”

As she said it, she quietly added in her heart — with you here, I’m not afraid.

“That’s the spirit — you’re worthy of being my woman.”

Su Rui said those words out of nowhere, a smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

God only knew whether he was joking at a time like this!

Lin Aoxue stared straight at Su Rui without blinking, said nothing at all, and a flush of red crept back onto her cheeks.

Looking at the woman before him, Su Rui was inexplicably moved to lower his head and press a gentle kiss to her forehead!

Though it was no more than a fleeting brush of a kiss, it made Lin Aoxue’s body tremble, her whole being going rigid!

Yet by the time she came back to her senses, Su Rui’s lips had already left her forehead!

“Don’t be afraid, I’m here.” Su Rui’s voice sounded in Lin Aoxue’s ear.

She heard it and gave a soft nod.

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“Before I die, I have one request.” Su Rui raised his head and looked directly at Wan Yan Zhengyong, his gaze still calm and composed.

“What trick are you trying to pull now?”

Tonight’s Su Rui had completely overturned Wan Yan Zhengyong’s impression of him. In the eyes of this Yuan Wei Gang leader before, Su Rui had been a passionate young man full of loyalty and righteousness — when Yuan Wei Gang’s brothers were about to be badly beaten by the Eastern warriors, he had charged onto the stage to help; when facing the ten Eastern warriors alone, he had chosen to take injuries rather than retreat a single step. A man like that was full of fighting spirit and commanded admiration.

Yet now, no matter how hard he tried, Wan Yan Zhengyong could not reconcile that heroic figure with the brash, flippant young man standing before him. Was this really the same person? The transformation was truly too drastic!

But this was undeniably the truth, and the only explanation was — Su Rui must have a split personality!

“I’m already at this point, what do you think I could possibly do?” Su Rui gestured at the surroundings, a mocking look crossing his face. “Over a hundred guns pointed at my head — even with wings I couldn’t fly out of here! Gang Leader Wan Yan, surely you haven’t lost even that much confidence in yourself?”

Wan Yan Zhengyong thought it over and found the logic sound, so he said, “Go ahead then — what’s your dying request?”

“Let my woman leave.”

Lin Aoxue’s body trembled again at those words!

She looked at the man before her in disbelief, and at the same time said firmly, “I’m not leaving.”

Not a single waver in her voice, not a single flicker in her eyes!

In Lin Aoxue’s heart, there was not even a moment of hesitation!

She would not leave!

The beautiful young Miss Lin had no idea that in this moment, a deep and powerful emotion had welled up in her eyes — an emotion called courage, called steadfast devotion!

You once stood by me through everything, and now I will stand by you through life and death!

Before she had arrived here full of joy and anticipation, Lin Aoxue had never once imagined she would find herself in such a situation.

Blood and death — once such distant words — now appeared before her with such stark clarity.

Yet she had not a single moment of hesitation, not a single trace of fear in the face of death.

She had always thought herself bold and brave, but she never imagined she could be this bold, this brave.

Memories flashed before her eyes one by one.

Strictly speaking, the time she and Su Rui had known each other was not actually very long. From the moment they met to the point of looking out for each other, it had taken only a short month or so.

Yet in that span of time, Lin Aoxue had come to understand what it meant to care, what it meant to give, what it meant to have family.

He was her family.

She could no longer keep only receiving without knowing how to give.

She had wanted to make a change, yet this was the situation that had unfolded.

Had this change come a little too late?

Seeing that Lin Aoxue had refused him, Su Rui gave a gentle shake of his head, a look of tender affection appearing in his eyes.

That tenderness was so genuine, so utterly irresistible.

Lin Aoxue caught that trace of tenderness, and once again she was lost in it.

If this is a dream, then let me stay lost in it and never wake.

There was no longer any joking in Su Rui’s eyes — that tenderness came straight from the depths of his heart.

He ran his hand through Lin Aoxue’s silky long hair, then raised his head and called out loudly to Wan Yan Zhengyong, “Wan Yan Zhengyong, let my woman leave!”

Wan Yan Zhengyong said nothing.

“What I’ve done is my responsibility — it has nothing to do with anyone else!” Su Rui lifted his face, his gaze cold and sharp as two blades, clashing head-on with Wan Yan Zhengyong’s eyes!

Su Rui extended a finger and pointed at this northern overlord from across the room, shouting, “Wan Yan Zhengyong, you call yourself the strongman of the northern underground world — surely you haven’t sunk so low as to lack even this much grace! Let my woman leave! This is a matter between men — why drag her into it?”

By the time he reached those words, Su Rui’s voice had turned terrifyingly dark!

Old Tian glanced at Wan Yan Zhengyong, seeming to want to say something.

And Wan Yan Zhengyong, who knew his old partner very well, raised a hand and cut off whatever Old Tian was about to say!

“She cannot leave.”

Wan Yan Zhengyong said in a low voice. His eyes flashed again with the image of his brother being hacked to death — if not for that moment of misplaced mercy, his good brother would not have died so miserably!

Showing kindness by letting a girl go had already led to such dangerous consequences — what about a grown woman?

Wan Yan Zhengyong would not allow himself to make that same mistake again!

Tian Bingyi at his side let out a quiet sigh.

Even he did not believe Su Rui could escape today! At such close range, with that many bullets — even if a god showed up, there would be no getting out!

Boundless fury had risen in Su Rui’s eyes, and his finger pointed at Wan Yan Zhengyong once more!

“I’ll ask you one more time — are you going to let her leave or not?”

The way Su Rui was pointing at Wan Yan Zhengyong and roaring, it was as though their positions had been completely reversed!

Wan Yan Zhengyong shook his head again. He would not let a woman’s life interfere with Yuan Wei Gang’s century-long plan! He had been laying the groundwork for this day for over a decade!

Even if the path was soaked in blood, even if countless people cursed him from behind, he, Wan Yan Zhengyong, would absolutely see his goal through to the end!

Compared to these things that mattered so much, what was Lin Aoxue’s life worth?

Watching Wan Yan Zhengyong shake his head, Su Rui shook his own head in turn, his fists clenched tight.

“Wan Yan Zhengyong, when the Eastern warriors openly provoked on the tournament stage during the ten-year competition, the order you gave to the Yuan Wei Gang brothers stirred even my blood. At that moment I thought you were a real man, and that the two of us should not have been enemies.”

Su Rui’s fist clenched one degree tighter!

“But now I’ve changed my mind. You are no strongman — you don’t even qualify as a man!”

Su Rui’s roar echoed through the vast empty screening hall — deafening and earth-shaking!

“To achieve your own ends, you would even harm the innocent life of a woman — are you even human?” Su Rui’s voice carried boundless cold fury!

“When you finally reach your goal someday, and you look back on all those defenseless people you once killed, will you feel a chill in your heart? Will you feel guilt? Will you dream at night of countless headless corpses coming to seek revenge?” Su Rui’s gaze was ice-cold.

“You’re talking to me about guilt?” A mocking sneer curled at the corner of Wan Yan Zhengyong’s mouth. A man who had risen to his level — how could he possibly feel guilt over the things he had done?

That kind of emotion had vanished from his mind so many years ago he couldn’t even remember!

“No, I’m talking to you about humanity.” Su Rui stared Wan Yan Zhengyong down without blinking!