You're my woman

Upon catching her breath, she glared at the man who smirked at her with an evil glint in his eyes. She kept her eyes on him as he walked toward her; all the while thinking about how to escape from this place.

Her eyes that were on the man's earlier looked toward the right at the little uneven piece of wood on the wall and the man's eyes followed her gaze. When she moved toward it, the man immediately thought that she was trying to get to a weapon and he moved to the right.

"Trick!" thought Xiao Lei before she immediately ran into her room.

The bald man cursed and chased after her only to come face to face with the end of a gun.

Xiao Lei grinned as she watched fear flitted through the bald man's eyes. "That was f*cking painful, you know?"

BANG!

Without any warning, she shot him right on the left foot.

"F*CK!" the man cursed loudly as he jumped around holding his injured left foot.

"Now you know how I felt earlier..." said Xiao Lei before she cocked the gun and pointed it at him. "What did he say?"

The bald man gulped as he stared at the gun. He was angry at how the situation turned so fast and cursed himself for lowering his guard. His boss did not say anything about the woman being quick on her foot or even anything about her being capable of using weapons!

"B-Boss said to tell you this, 'You're my woman. Do you think you can escape?' and 'Is it fun to f*ck around with me, Xiao Xiao Lei'?"

Keeping the gun steady and leveled against the man's head, Xiao Lei narrowed her eyes as she thought, "He found out about my name… How…"

She doubted that he would be lying about it since that was what the man would probably say.

With a suspicious tone, she then asked, "He told you to hurt me?"

Still keeping his eyes on at the gun, he nodded vigorously. "Hurt, but don't maim. That's his instruction."

Xiao Lei nodded. Then without any warning, she pistol-whipped him, knocking him unconscious with just one swift movement.

She then went to the other guy who was trying to limp away. When the scarred man saw her, he tried to charge at her but she stopped him by asking, "None of you have guns? What kind of hooligans are you?"

"Boss said no gun. H-He wants you alive a-and that you're an infuriating woman who might cause us to use our guns…" the scarred man stuttered while he held onto his split ear with one hand, afraid that she would attack it again. As he stared at the gun that was being pointed at him, he thought, "Boss, why did you tell us not to use guns?! She's obviously a pro at this!"

Hearing him, Xiao Lei sighed. After thinking about it for a while, she said, "I won't kill you, but I need you to tell him this: 'Murong Yu, just pretend that Fei Yanqing is dead. Whatever happened in the past, let it remain in the past.'."

When the scarred face man heard the name "Fei Yanqing", he gasped. "Y-you're Fei Yanqing? Sleight of Hand, Fei Yanqing?"

Without saying anything, Xiao Lei replied to him by pulling out a gold necklace from within her pocket.

The man recognized the gold necklace and he immediately touched around his neck for his necklace. "That's mine!"

Then, the expression on his face changed. He frowned and said meekly, "If you're Fei Yanqing, then that means... Mrs. Boss?"

He winced when Xiao Lei glared at him. However, she decided to be kind to him and did not hurt him for his remark. Instead, she threw the necklace over to him before saying, "That Lexus parked opposite my house belongs to him, right? Give me the car key."

The man nodded and he limped over to his friend. After searching through his friend's pockets, he tossed the car key at Xiao Lei who caught it swiftly.

Xiao Lei went toward him and smiled. "Don't forget to tell him."

Before the man could reply, she pistol-whipped him. Like before, it took one good hit for her to knock him unconscious. Once he was down, she pulled out another duffel bag from her cabinet and along with a few sets of clothes, she tossed all the things that were important to her into the bag.

She then went to her son's room and looked around. There was barely anything valuable in her son's room. After all, when her son moved to the school, he had brought everything that was of any importance with him which was not that many, to begin with.

Once she was sure that she had taken everything, she quickly rushed out of the house and took the car. The moment she arrived outside the car, she did a thorough check at the exterior of the car to make sure that there was no tracking device. She also went through the car trunk as well as the hood. She found five tracking devices and discreetly placed them into the cars that were parked near her.

When she got in, she did a quick check as well, and when she opened the glove compartment, the first thing she saw was a photo of a younger version of her and a young man who was grinning from ear to ear.

"Murong Yu… Please let me go…" Xiao Lei muttered sadly as she looked at the man in the photo. After a while, she folded the photo in half and placed them into her bag.

Once she confirmed that there were no more tracking devices that were planted on the car, she drove off. Even though she was rusty at this, it did not take her long before she relearned the ropes.

On the way, she thought about her past with Murong Yu. Before she married Xiao Yunjie, and unknown to her son, she had a short not-really-boyfriend-girlfriend-kind-of-relationship with a gang leader when she was a young girl.

It was all a farce to her, but he had taken it seriously. She played with fire and now it was coming back to bite her in the a*s.

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