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Watching the livestream's popularity surge, I know I have to speed things up!
Because it won't be long before it's forcibly shut down.
Li Fei and Xu Qing have no idea I've started a livestream; they think I've kidnapped them out of spite, terrified that I might actually kill them.
The once proud heads now bowed as low as they can go, faces full of fear and desperation, voices trembling as they speak:
"Please, we really know we're wrong, hit us, scold us, whatever you want, name your price, just let us go."
Ha, when it's their turn, they finally know fear? My poor Xiao Xiao probably doesn't even know how many times she's begged them over the years!
I stand in front of them, my gaze like knives toward Li Fei, gritting my teeth as I ask:
"Then tell me, what gave you the right to beat Xiao Xiao like that? And why won't the police or the courts accept our report?"
Li Fei is rendered speechless by my questioning, stuttering out a couple of words:
"I... I..."