Chapter-1: Sufferings Till Death

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"Who are you, people? Leave me, let me go."

Song Xiao Bo was struggling to free himself from the men who were holding him.

He barely got out of the bordello but then he was surrounded by big men whom he had never seen.

He feared that the men from Bordello might have sent them to catch him.

He was scared. He didn't want to go back there no matter what.

He went through hell in just a day he spent there, his whole body was a mess with all the red whip marks.

They used him and treated him as nothing like a human. They were animals on a rut fulfilling their carnal desires.

If these men dragged him there again he didn't want to imagine what would happen to him.

He no longer has the desire to live after he lost the reason for living.

He escaped the brothel to take his life as he doesn't want to live as a cumdump to those old bastards.

But he was caught as soon as he made a run out of it.

His blood turned cold imagining what would become of him if he went back again.

So with all his remaining strength he kicked the shin of the man on his left side bite the hand of the man on his right side, and started running without looking back.

But he was stopped by someone who held his collar from the back.

Tears flowed down his cheeks as he thought his life was over. He couldn't at least end his life as he wished.

"Where do you think you running off to?"

A man's cold voice was heard.

Hearing it Xiao Bo turned his head back instantly and saw the tall man with whom he had been in love for almost all his life to this point.

His lips curled a little.

"Mu Gege..."

Xiao Bo was about to get relaxed when he saw the familiar face.

Even though Mu Chen hated him with all his guts he would not send him to the brothel back again, right?

That was what Xiao Bo thought but after he called the person's name, in a second his left cheek was slapped hard and he fell to the ground with bleeding lips.

It was the first time Mu Chen hit him and maybe the last too.

He looked at Mu Chen holding his hurting cheek with glossy eyes,

"Mu Ge-"

Before he could pronounce the other's name again, Mu Chen grabbed Xiao Bo's hair harshly,

"Shut up! Don't call me Gege with that filthy mouth of yours!"

Wang Mu Chen roared. His eyes held nothing but disgust and hatred at the smaller man before him.

"Ack-"

Xiao Bo groaned in pain as the taller man lifted him by pulling his hair, more tears made their way to the cheeks and to the ground.

Before Xiao Bo could open his mouth and register what was happening, Mu Chen signaled the men who caught him before.

They grabbed Xiao Bo, taped his mouth, tied his hands and legs, and put him into a gunny bag.

Xiao Bo felt that he was thrown onto a man's shoulder and then tossed to a hard floor that started moving.

He struggled to open the bag and tried to scream but only his muffled sounds escaped out of the closed bag.

He started to feel suffocating as beads of sweat formed on his forehead.

>>>Those men obeyed Mu Gege...does that mean he sent them for me?

>>>But why? Mu Gege never approached me first and after he announced his engagement with Feng Xin Yi on that day we never saw each other again.

>>>It has been three months since we last saw each other.

While so many thoughts passed through his brain he couldn't get any answers, soon his chest felt heavy, and he started becoming breathless.

He tried to keep his eyes open but dark spots appeared on his vision and he lost consciousness.

Then he was forced to wake up by the sudden splash of ice-cold water on him.

He opened his eyes wide and started gasping for air and coughed badly which was muffled due to the tape on his mouth.

His eyes were red and swollen as he looked at the person who did that to him. It was none other than the person he loved.

Wang Mu Chen was looking down at him with fiery red eyes.

"Mmmph... ungh..."

Xiao Bo tried to talk but all that left his mouth was his muffled incoherent sound.

"Sir, what are we gonna do with him?"

A person in a black suit with a well-built body who looked like a foreigner asked Wang Mu Chen for further orders.

Wang Mu Chen's eyes were filled with rage as he looked at Xiao Bo, he balled his fist, and blood surged through his veins as they popped out.

"Can I kill him?"

A person licked his knife looking like a psychopath.

Shivers ran down Xiao Bo's spine as he crawled back and noticed the place he was in.

It looked like an old basement. There was no flooring on the ground, it was all mud.

He could see no windows or doors, the roof was full of cracks.

The room was spacious but dirty with a foul smell. If there were no bulbs, it would be dead dark.

"I want to see him suffer. Killing him would be an act of mercy for him."

Wang Mu Chen's eyes darkened.

"Then what do you want me to do with him?"

The person who looked like a psychopath asked his boss with a sick playful smirk.

"Skin him alive."

Wang Mu Chen's pupils constricted as they darkened even more.

Xiao Bo's eyes widened as his blood curdled hearing the words that came out of the taller.

Two men approached Xiao Bo and grabbed him. The smaller wiggled to free himself but their grip was tight.

They held him down and started stripping him. Wang Mu Chen turned his back not wanting to look at the cruel act.

Even though he was so furious that he wanted to cut him to pieces and feed him to vultures

His heart didn't allow him to be brutal towards the person he had slept with once even though that was a trap set by Xiao Bo according to him.

When the two men stripped him they saw the bloodied whip marks also many wounds which were old and new.

His body was fragile as if made of glass, he was so bony that even the psychopath who was excited to torture him was left shocked.

"Boss, you have to see this-"

The man called Mu Chen to look at the pitiful state of the person.

But Wang Mu Chen didn't want to look back,

"Just do as I ordered. If not you will lose your jobs."

The man couldn't speak further as he didn't want to lose his job.

Even though he felt sad to do this to the person who was already in such a miserable state, he didn't want to lose his job as he had to support his family.

The psychopath then looked at the man signaling him to start skinning him.

The men took out knives from their pockets and started flaying Xiao Bo who screamed his lungs out that even though his mouth was tapped the sounds left out were heart-wrenching.

Xiao Bo tried to push them away but he couldn't, the pain was unbearable. They dug their knives and started pulling out the skin making him bleed.

He wailed in pain but they didn't stop. The psychopathic man smirked,

"I want to hear your screams."

He took off the tape and Xiao Bo's yelps of pain were agonizing.

"MU GEGE! PLEASE AHHH STOP NGHH THIS! MU GEGE!"

Xiao Bo pleaded as his skin was being pulled and the flesh was seen clearly.

All the veins and nerves can be seen clearly on his hands where the skin was peeled off.

Wang Mu Chen didn't budge even after hearing such gut-wrenching screams. He gritted his teeth,

"Cut off his tongue, I don't want to ever hear him calling me Gege with his filthy mouth again."

Song Xiao Bo was shocked as he heard the order from the taller.

He wanted to ask why he was doing this to him, what did he do to deserve such hate from him.

But before he could do so, his tongue was pulled out and cut off in half.

Xiao Bo flittered like a fish out of the water as his heartrending screams echoed throughout the basement.

But they didn't stop, they continued skinning him, until he looked like a pile of flesh.

"How many days will he survive if we leave him here like this?"

Wang Mu Chen asked finally looking at Xiao Bo who didn't look human.

"A week maybe," The psychopathic man answered.

"That will serve him right, leave him here," Mu Chen ordered.

"What if he tries to escape?" The other man asked.

"That won't do, he had to suffer so much that he wishes to die for killing my family."

Wang Mu Chen looked like the devil saying that.

"That's easy."

The psychopathic man took out a long saber from his bag and severed both Xiao Bo's legs.

He was already in immense pain and when his legs were cut off, his shrill was so loud that the people guarding outside closed their ears as their guts churned hearing it.

"You should have just lived quietly, why did you try to kill my parents and Xin Yi? My grandparents are dead and my parents and Xin Yi are on the verge of death and you were partying in the whorehouse celebrating your victory? Did you think I would leave you after that?"

Wang Mu Chen asked which sent chills to Xiao Bo's bones. He shook his head with tears but the taller remained nonchalant.

"Oh, you couldn't answer. I should have done this sooner when you drugged me to sleep with you. I tried to stay patient with you no matter what you did to me but you dared to lay your hideous fingers on my family, and now you will have to pay for it."

Xiao Bo tried to say something but it sounded like an animal's squealing.

He cried hitting his head on the ground and shook his head frantically with desperate eyes.

The men who skinned him till now found that action very dreadful.

Wang Mu Chen was also left speechless after seeing that, his heart stung in pain but he ignored it cause he didn't want to feel sympathy for the one who made his life hell and murdered his family.

"Let's leave."

Wang Mu Chen turned his back and left the basement, the men took a last glance at Xiao Bo with a pitiable look even though they were the ones who gruesomely tortured him seeing him sob like that made even their hearts move.

They felt like they had done something very terrible and that the person who was lying in front of them was not someone who would do such awful things.

Everyone in Shanghai knew about the young master Song Xiao Bo who was a troublemaker.

He was so arrogant because he was rich and looked down on everyone.

Rumors said that he even killed those who crossed him.

That he was a manwhore who wanted to get into every man's pants and those who didn't agree to do him were beaten to death by his bodyguards.

But was it all true? When they first stripped him they saw the clear evidence of long-term abuse on his body. And he looked all bones.

Would a spoiled young master look like that?

They had many questions but dared not open their mouths as they had already done the deed and they wouldn't want to get on their boss's nerves who was fuming in anger as his parents and lover were on death bed fighting for their lives and his grandparents were dead.

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