Lin Qing was different from ordinary people. He had no resistance to anesthetics.

After being locked up for ten years, he’d become very familiar with the smell of anesthetics.

He didn’t know why the Black-Faced Man had done it, using anesthetics on him every so often, but Lin Qing had never felt the need to find out.

Back then, all he wanted was to stay alive.

He never expected it to come in handy now!

Although the anesthetic had knocked Lin Qing unconscious at first, he came around again soon enough.

It was lucky Su Yao had bought them some time. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to stop Li Mei from committing murder.

Of course, Su Yao hadn’t done it on purpose. It was just a lucky accident!

That was why Lin Qing agreed with Li Mei. Su Yao was a lunatic.

She treated human life like a game.

“Oh, you’re awake~”

When Su Yao saw Lin Qing step in front of Li Mei, she raised a hand to her mouth in surprise. She quickly sat up from her reclined position.

She was a little curious about how Lin Qing had managed to stay conscious, but something else soon distracted her.

She looked at Lin Qing’s arm and saw the needle of the syringe jabbing into it again and again. Blood ran from the punctures.

But Lin Qing didn’t react at all, as if it were someone else’s arm that had been injured.

He’s tough.

No wonder he’s the man she had her eye on~

“You lost. The bet’s over.”

But the first thing Lin Qing said to Su Yao managed to upset her.

If that was the case, then she’d just add fuel to the fire!

With that in mind, Su Yao planted both feet on the ground and strode toward Lin Qing.

A sly smile played on her lips. She looked just like a little girl about to pull a prank.

Seeing Su Yao keep provoking Li Mei, Lin Qing furrowed his brow. He knew he couldn’t just sit back and do nothing.

He snatched the syringe from Li Mei and threw it toward the window.

Su Yao wouldn’t let him die, but she didn’t seem to care whether he got hurt.

Li Mei had entered the hospital room at this point, and the old man in bed number one had been transferred to another hospital. That was enough to tell Lin Qing the liquid in the syringe wouldn’t kill someone right away.

There’d be a window of time before it took effect.

Even so, it would still do enormous damage to the body.

“You’re not really going to kill her, are you?”

Lin Qing watched Su Yao approach. She was so excited she looked like a cat worked into a frenzy.

Every hair on her body seemed to stand on end, and she made a threatening hiss.

As if she might unsheathe her sharp claws at any moment.

“What do you think?”

Su Yao didn’t give Lin Qing a straight answer.

While the two of them were talking, Li Mei wrenched herself free of Lin Qing’s grip. She quickly stumbled backward and crashed into the trolley being wheeled into the room.

As if she’d thought of something, Li Mei reached out without looking back and grabbed a scalpel from the trolley.

She gripped the scalpel tightly, and it gave her a powerful sense of strength.

She’d gone from despair to hope, then from hope back to despair. Li Mei now knew there was no changing her situation.

Just from Su Yao’s eyes, she could tell the lunatic really did want to kill her!

That wretched woman.

Did she think having money meant she could do whatever she wanted?

Damn it!

Driven into a corner, Li Mei was mentally unstable. Panic twisted her expression, and as she watched Su Yao come closer, she saw only a rich woman who’d stolen her ex-boyfriend.

The fire of anger inside her raged on, impossible to put out.

In Lin Qing’s eyes, the three black skulls above Li Mei’s head were shaking violently. Their faces shifted between laughter and tears, and the red glow in their eye sockets left afterimages.

Li Mei was in a state of confusion, and she had a weapon in her hand. She was dangerous!

He couldn’t just stand by and watch anymore.

He had to call the bodyguards in and deal with Li Mei, that madwoman.

“Lin Qing, don’t ruin this for me.”

But before Lin Qing could say anything, Su Yao spoke coldly.

As she spoke, she kept walking.

“You damn woman! Go to hell!”

The tension of Su Yao drawing closer became too much for Li Mei to bear.

She gripped the knife and charged at Su Yao, aiming straight for her heart, ready to kill her with a single blow.

Unfortunately…

“You sure can yell. =.”

The instant Li Mei rushed toward her, Su Yao grabbed the arm wielding the knife. Then she planted her foot and hurled Li Mei over her shoulder, slamming her onto the floor.

Su Yao showed no mercy. Li Mei’s head hit the floor hard, leaving her dazed and disoriented.

As Li Mei was thrown through the air, Su Yao’s powerful grip on her wrist made her drop the scalpel.

Su Yao caught her in midair, then quickly crouched and plunged the scalpel toward Li Mei’s heart.

The corners of Su Yao’s mouth curled high. Her pupils shifted wildly with excitement. She knew she was about to experience the thrill of killing someone!

She could hardly wait.

Her excitement made her heartbeats ache, but her heart still pounded fiercely and fast.

Exciting~

“Lin Qing!!!”

But just as the scalpel was about to stab into Li Mei’s heart, and bright red blood gushed from the wound, a hand suddenly shot beneath the blade. It plunged straight into the palm.

In her imagination, blood would drip from that palm, drop by drop, onto the floor. But this wasn’t the scene Su Yao had been hoping for.

Her gaze turned icy as she looked at Lin Qing. She was furious that he’d dared to stop her.

Lin Qing wanted to play the hero and save someone. She’d already given him a stage to do it.

Get rid of Li Mei and save Wu Gang.

Become a hero.

Wasn’t that what Lin Qing wanted?

For his sake, she was willing to be the blade that killed, so Lin Qing wouldn’t have to stain himself with any sin.

The darkness was so beautiful. It only needed to stain her.

So why was he stopping her now?!

She’d been only a little bit away from killing her first person.

No. There was still a chance!

Li Mei was still lying on the floor, half-conscious. If Su Yao dealt with Lin Qing, she could go on killing.

With madness in her eyes, Su Yao reached out and yanked the scalpel from Lin Qing’s palm.

Blood spurted out at once, bright red and impossible to stop.

The sight only made Su Yao more excited.

Her smile widened quickly. Her heart thumped as if she were soaring through the clouds.

If Lin Qing wanted to stop her, then he’d have to pay a price.

Lin Qing might be willing to keep struggling with her, but the blood pouring from his wound wouldn’t let him. He’d have to do something to save his own life. And that would be the moment she killed Li Mei.

It wouldn’t take long. Just a few seconds.

Li Mei’s still-beating heart would stop completely.

Maybe she’d been holding it in for too long. Now Su Yao was consumed by a single desire: to kill Li Mei.

Excitement flushed her cheeks, widened her pupils, and stretched her smile into something eerie.

Seeing her, Lin Qing knew he’d done the right thing. He absolutely couldn’t let Su Yao kill anyone!

Once the switch of destruction was flipped, it would be impossible to turn it off again.

Like Pandora’s evil box.

So he couldn’t let Su Yao kill anyone. He had to stop her from flipping that switch.

He wasn’t doing it to save Li Mei, or to talk Su Yao out of it. He was only thinking of himself.

No one wanted a murderer hanging around them.

Especially not one this terrifying.

While Su Yao was at the peak of her excitement, Lin Qing swiftly brought forward the hand he’d kept behind his back. The familiar white cloth, carrying a sharp smell, went straight over Su Yao’s face.