CHAPTER 454: CHAPTER 454: I DIE, SHE LIVES

After half an hour, Shi Yu finally calmed down.

Standing with Qin Jin by the floor-to-ceiling window, they maintained silence for a long time.

After a while, Qin Jin was the first to speak and broke the silence: "What is your plan?"

"Exchange my life for hers."

Shi Yu looked into the distance, his words firm like they were carved with a knife, deeply engraved in one’s heart.

Unable to sleep all night, Shi Yu stood by the window the entire evening.

On the ground, cigarette butts were scattered everywhere.

The vast room was filled with a strong and pungent smell of smoke.

Suddenly, the phone rang.

Glancing at the unknown caller on the screen, he pinched out the cigarette butt with his fingertips and answered the call.

His voice was somewhat deep and hoarse: "Hello."

"Have you decided? Whether to accept this deal, who lives and who dies."

The voice on the other end was modified, making it impossible to distinguish if it was male or female, the only discernible trait was the unkind tone.

"I die, she lives."

All emotions seemed to pour into these four words, deeply ingrained.

When Shen Cheng woke up, her surroundings were dim.

The place she was in resembled a prison-like dark room.

Apart from a ventilation hole ten centimeters wide and high at the top of the room, there was only an iron shutter door.

Inside the dark room, there was a hard plank bed and a table.

Shen Cheng propped herself up on the bed, the damp and dark environment was somewhat chilly, making her feel cold.

She tightened her clothes around her to maintain as much warmth as possible.

Looking at the hardly noticeable tiny needle marks on the back of her hand, she frowned.

She hadn’t expected to be calculated against in this way.

She got off the bed and looked around, finding the environment of this place very poor.

This dark room must have been built using a basement, not only was the lighting poor, but the air circulation was bad too.

If it weren’t for that small ventilation hole letting in air, someone with weak physical constitution would suffocate in less than ten hours.

Shen Cheng was a very sensitive person, and after walking around the dark room, she noticed a problem.

There was the same symbol on three walls.

The shape of the symbol was strange, horizontally it looked like a clawed hand, but vertically it resembled a number, "nine."

She was not sure what the symbol meant, but could guess that the person who captured her this time was a formidable character!

Otherwise, how could they have easily avoided the eyes of many bodyguards and taken her away.

Just at this moment, suddenly there were footsteps.

Click-clack, click-clack—

It was the sound of high heels striking the ground.

The footsteps advanced from far to near, from vague to clear, getting closer and closer...

Shen Cheng looked in the direction from which the sound came, and a black figure appeared in her view.

With just one glance she recognized the person, her personal doctor, Su Yanran.

This time, she was not wearing a white coat, but was dressed in tight leather clothes and pants, her expressionless face differing greatly from the seemingly gentle woman doctor before.

The latter, more like a cold-blooded and ruthless assassin.

She walked over, standing outside the iron gate, coldly sizing up Shen Cheng in the dark room, then suddenly let out a mocking laugh: "Didn’t expect today, did you?"

Shen Cheng gave her a light glance, the corner of her lips slightly curled up, "What about today?"

"Don’t you yet realize what it feels like to be worse off than dead?"

Su Yanran spoke and paused for a moment, pondering briefly before continuing, "Oh right, you can’t yet understand what it feels like to be worse off than dead, because the game hasn’t started yet."