Chapter 39: The Pain A-Wan Endured, I Will Return to You a Hundredfold
Gu Xinglan spoke slowly: “Si Ge, giving you half the day was originally meant to let you reflect on your mistakes.”
“But looking at you, it seems your reflections haven’t yielded any results.”
“I spit on you!” Gu Xinglin spat fiercely at the ground. “Gu Seventh, stop pretending to be a saint here!”
“The winner takes all, the loser falls—I accept that! But what the f*ck is this private detention?”
“If you have the guts, let me go! We’ll fight again!”
Gu Xinglan let out a dark chuckle. “Let you go? That wouldn’t be having guts, that would be having a mental illness.”
“Si Ge, this afternoon, I held a Board of Directors meeting. Your shares and your positions within the corporation—I’ve revoked them all. Just letting you know.”
“Gu Xinglan! What f*cking right do you have?! You…”
Unrushed, Gu Xinglan unlocked his phone and played the audio recording of Gu Xinglin privately torturing Qin Wan to extort a confession.
Gu Xinglin’s eyes went wide.
He absolutely never expected that on his own turf, on his home ground, Gu Xinglan had secretly recorded him.
A hint of a smile tugged at the corner of Gu Xinglan’s mouth.
Yet, the look in his eyes plummeted steadily toward the freezing point.
“Si Ge, before today, your biggest mistake was going against me.”
“But from the moment you laid your hands on Qin Wan, you committed an even graver mistake.”
He leaned forward slightly, closing the distance between them.
“Torturing my person—felt really good, didn’t it?”
Gu Xinglin’s mind was completely scrambled right now. He knew he was utterly defenseless.
His body began to tremble slightly.
Gu Xinglan reached out a hand toward Xiao Han, who was standing behind him.
Xiao Han handed over a whip.
“Si Ge, look familiar?” Gu Xinglan gripped the handle of the whip, tapping the tip of it lightly against the palm of his other hand.
Gu Xinglin naturally recognized it. It was the exact custom-made whip he had used to strike Qin Wan.
Gu Xinglan: “This whip has metallic threads woven into it. The edges are razor-thin, like a flexible blade. Si Ge, I truly didn’t expect that when it comes to ruthless methods, you’re not much inferior to me.”
“How many times did you whip Qin Wan?” he asked, his tone deceptively mild.
The terror in Gu Xinglin’s heart swelled. His mouth twitched. “Little Seventh, you—you need to calm down! Don’t be impulsive!”
“We are brothers after all, we can talk this over…”
“We have nothing left to talk about.”
Gu Xinglan’s voice turned instantly glacial.
“You ordered this custom whip yourself. Now, try it out for yourself.”
As his words fell, he raised his arm and brought the whip down viciously onto Gu Xinglin’s body.
“Ah—!” Gu Xinglin howled.
Gu Xinglan’s movements were swift and merciless, the whip falling like a torrential downpour.
“Ah—stop hitting me! Gu Xinglan! I’m begging you, stop!”
“For some worthless poor kid, there’s no need for you to go this far…”
Hearing those words, Gu Xinglan’s eyes turned even gloomier.
“No need?” he gritted out through his teeth.
His seemingly placid eyes had actually gathered a storm of raging, violent fury.
“Even I can’t bear to touch him, yet you whipped him until he was covered in cuts and bruises!”
The aura of tyrannical cruelty radiating from Gu Xinglan intensified.
He held absolutely no strength back; every single strike carried the fury of a hurricane.
Very quickly, Gu Xinglin’s skin was split open and his flesh torn, blood staining his white shirt a dark crimson.
A wealthy, pampered young master with delicate skin, when had he ever suffered such torture?
Amidst the surrounding silence, his agonized screams sounded particularly harrowing and terrifying.
Only when the leather whip had shredded the clothes on his body and his flesh was torn open across large areas did Gu Xinglan finally stop.
The blood-soaked whip was tossed aside.
“Si Ge, Qin Wan just became an adult; he’s actually still a child. So the pain he endured was definitely far greater than yours.”
“Therefore, I’ve decided to rub a little salt into your wounds.”
Gu Xinglin had long since rolled into a ball on the deck, his body collapsed and twitching uncontrollably.
“No… don’t…”
“Xiao Han, did you bring salt?” Gu Xinglan asked, his tone somewhat lazy.
Behind him, Xiao Han shook his head earnestly. “No, Gu Zong.”
Gu Xinglan pursed his lips.
He nudged Gu Xinglin’s face with the tip of his shoe. “Then how about I throw you into the sea and let you soak in the saltwater? How does that sound?”
Gu Xinglin shook his head desperately. As soon as he opened his mouth, bloody froth trickled out.
“No… Gu Xinglan! I’m begging you, spare me… spare me…”
Gu Xinglan narrowed his eyes slightly. “Qin Wan begged you for mercy too. What did you do?”
As he spoke, the muscles in his jaw ticked. “The pain A-Wan endured, I will return to you a hundredfold.”
Saying that, he waved a hand at Xiao Han. “Undo his hands and feet, and lower him down.”
Xiao Han swiftly unlocked Gu Xinglin’s handcuffs and leg irons. Then, taking a prepared thick hemp rope, he slipped the noose over Gu Xinglin’s neck.
The rope loop clamped tightly around his throat.
Another end was tied to the mooring bollard on the bow of the ship.
He hoisted the limp man up by the collar and dragged him toward the gunwale.
“No! No! Gu Xinglan, I beg you…”
With a cold expression, Xiao Han nodded to his subordinates. Without breaking a sweat, the burly men tossed Gu Xinglin into the ocean.
“Ah—!”
The moment he hit the water, Gu Xinglin felt his soul try to leave his body.
In the May weather, the seawater was bone-chillingly cold.
With his body covered in open wounds, the biting sting of the salty sea plunged him into agonizing pain that nearly caused him to black out.
If it weren’t for his intense will to survive propping him up, he would have lost consciousness instantly.
Gu Xinglan walked to the bow, staring down with disdain at the man flailing and struggling in the water.
“Start the boat,” he ordered coldly.
The speedboat lurched into motion.
Even though the speed was very slow, for an ordinary person to keep up by swimming still required an immense amount of effort.
Not to mention, Gu Xinglin had already lost half his life.
As the noose around his neck slowly tightened, he couldn’t care about anything else and was forced to expend every last drop of his strength to swim forward.
At this point, he seemed to have forgotten what pain was; his entire being had slipped into a numb, near-death state.
“Si Ge, you have to catch up quickly. These waters… have sharks.”
Gu Xinglan picked up his glass of wine again, standing by the ship’s rail, and took a slow, leisurely sip.
After thrashing in the seawater for over half an hour, Gu Xinglin could no longer hold on. His eyes rolled back into his head, and he sank beneath the waves.
Gu Xinglan let out a snort of laughter and nodded to Xiao Han.
Xiao Han directed his men to fish the man out.
“Drag him back into the cabin. We’re heading back.”
—
The next morning, when Qin Wan woke up, he realized Gu Xinglan wasn’t in the hospital room.
The Dean arrived with a team of doctors and nurses to run checks, and shortly after, breakfast was delivered. Qin Wan began another comfortable day of recovery.
While he was eating breakfast, the Dean walked back in.
“Mr. Qin, Gu Zong just contacted me and asked me to tell you to turn on the TV and tune in to the Imperial Capital’s local city news channel.”
Unsure of what was going on, Qin Wan watched as the Dean turned on the LCD screen on the wall.
Then he switched it to the Imperial Capital’s local channel.
Sure enough, the latest city news was broadcasting.
Upon seeing the contents of the news interview, Qin Wan’s eyes widened slightly.
“Gu Xinglin, Vice President of Huiyao Group, a leading enterprise in the Imperial Capital, has been arrested on suspicion of molesting multiple minors and has been handed over to the judicial authorities.”
The next shot cut to Gu Xinglan’s handsome face, wearing an expression of calm detachment.
No matter what kind of camera lens or what angle, that face remained flawlessly handsome.
Facing the dozens of microphones in front of him, he spoke eloquently.
“As a representative of outstanding private enterprises, our Huiyao Group will absolutely not tolerate evil within our ranks.”
“On behalf of the Group, I declare our resolute support for the relevant authorities to investigate this matter to the very end.”
Qin Wan understood. Gu Xinglan had made his move and destroyed Gu Xinglin.
He had said yesterday that he wouldn’t let him off easily, and the results were truly instantaneous.
That bastard Gu Xinglin deserved every bit of it.
Feeling an immense sense of satisfaction, Qin Wan happily ate two extra fried eggs.
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