Border Prisoner: The Mad Boss Seduces Her Every Night

Shi Luyu sat in front of the computer, as if frozen in place.

On the screen was a photo she had taken in the old port of the village. Zoomed in to a distorted corner of the guild hall's wooden pillar, a black background with a gold snake and eagle pattern was hidden in the dark texture, coldly coiled.

In her palm was a metal badge she had just found in the school's equipment room.

One is carved on a wooden pillar.

One lay in her palm.

The patterns, proportions, the curve of the snake's body, and the angle of the eagle's head drooping all match perfectly.

Shi Luyu almost stopped breathing.

Her eyelashes trembled as she stared at the screen for a long time, then looked down at the badge in her hand. When she looked up again, her heart pounded, each beat heavier than the last, making her ears ring.

She couldn't believe it, but the facts and evidence were right in front of her, cold and unyielding, leaving her no room to escape.

absurd.

It's ridiculous.

The first thing that came to her mind was a sense of absurdity.

That building belonged to Xu Yuanjia's company; she had seen it with her own eyes, and she had even seen the mayor stand and serve him tea and cigarettes. But if that design really existed there, did it mean... did it mean...?

Shi Luyu suddenly closed her eyes.

No, she can't draw conclusions based on just one pattern.

Think about it again. Everything needs to be sorted out again.

She put down the badge and reached for the blank notebook on the table. Her movement was so hasty that the pen rolled to the floor. When she bent down to pick it up, her fingers trembled so badly she almost dropped the pen.

The room was quiet. The only sounds were the slight hum of the computer and the air conditioner.

She sat up straight again, took a deep breath, and wrote down names and places on the paper that she dared not look back at.

Chen Yutang.

Xu Chenglin.

Animal cages, Blackwater Temple, abandoned theaters...

Her fingers paused for a moment when she wrote the last word.

The ink spread into a small, round blot on the paper. Shi Luyu lowered her eyes, staring at the words, watching herself string them together little by little.

Chen Yutang's fear of Xu Yuanjia.

Xu Chenglin's pointed remarks before his death.

Trapped in the cage, she was filled with utter despair, yet Xu Yuanjia always managed to appear and take her away.

In the abandoned theater at the Blackwater Temple, Jia Ye arrived first, followed by Xu Yuanjia.

Shi Luyu's breathing became increasingly erratic. She gripped the pen tightly and wrote a few more words after the date and location.

[Master Jia appears]

Xu Yuanjia then appeared.

【alternately】

She stared at those lines of text, and the more she read, the more horrified she became.

How did she understand these things before?

She felt it was a coincidence, a destiny. It was Xu Yuanjia's love for her; he always managed to arrive, always appearing when she was at her most vulnerable.

But what if we look at it from another angle?

If it weren't for the fact that "he always makes it in time."

if

—He already knew.

Shi Luyu's fingers tightened unconsciously, the pen tip almost tearing through the paper.

Why?

If Master Jia is truly such a terrifying, aloof, and all-powerful figure, why is Xu Yuanjia always able to appear so easily? Why is he always able to appear with unerring accuracy after Master Jia leaves, or when everything is about to spiral out of control?

Shi Luyu felt a chill run down her spine.

But at the same time, another voice in her head was desperately refuting it.

At the abandoned theater in Blackwater Temple, she had clearly become suspicious on the spot and even directly questioned Xu Yuanjia. But at that time, with Xu Yuanjia also present, another "Master Jia" appeared.

Zhou Ji, Chai Ye, and that masked man sitting in the armchair.

But now, as she recalls that night, a detail suddenly flashes through her mind.

In Myanmar, when Zhou Ji, Chai Ye, and U Thein Sein were talking, she always felt that the scene was very familiar.

Everyone was talking, but everyone's eyes, seemingly unintentionally, were all drifting in the same direction.

—Xu Yuanjia's direction.

This sense of familiarity was not something she had experienced for the first time.

An abandoned theater. Yes, an abandoned theater.

There was also Zhou Ji at that time, who was also Chai Ye, whom Xu Yuanjia had summoned.

Everyone was focused on the same thing, but at some point, they would unconsciously look at Xu Yuanjia's expression.

Shi Luyu's fingertips trembled, and the pen fell to the table with a "thud".

She stared blankly at the words on the notebook, her mind in such a chaotic state that it felt like it was about to split open.

What exactly happened?

Fake Master Jia.

It really is Jia Ye.

Xu Yuanjia.

Zhou Ji.

Chai Ye.

What exactly is their relationship? She sat at the table, her mind racing with images, so fast it almost gave her a headache.

Just then, a soft sound came from the doorway.

Click.

It was very light. It felt like some metal bumped against the door handle.

Shi Luyu tensed up instantly.

Before she could even react, a chill ran through her body. She looked up sharply at the doorway, her heart leaping into her throat.

The room was dark, with only the cold light from the computer screen illuminating her face. The walls, bookshelves, and curtains stood silently, but the slight noise at the doorway felt like someone had suddenly pushed her back into the dead of night at Blackwater Temple.

She stared intently at the door.

Who could be outside the door?

Xu Yuanjia? Or... Master Jia?

When this thought popped into Shi Luyu's head, a cold sweat broke out on her back.

They all knew the location of her apartment.

They've all been here.

Suddenly, in the blink of an eye—

A detail she had overlooked for a long time flashed through her mind in an instant.

That time, Jia Ye came to her house. He cornered her in the bathroom, and she bit his arm with almost all her might.

Later, she escaped and, still shaken, called Xu Yuanjia, asking him to come pick her up.

That night, she also saw bite marks on Xu Yuanjia's arm.

The same location.

Shi Luyu trembled all over. Just then, she heard a very soft noise at the door. She jumped up from her chair and her first instinct was to lock the door.

But her steps were unsteady, and she almost stumbled as she ran over. The moment her fingers touched the door lock, the cold metal made her shiver.

For some inexplicable reason, Shi Luyu leaned closer to the cat's eye and took a look.

The motion-sensor lights in the hallway outside were on. The dim light shone down, clearly illuminating the figure.

At the very second she leaned in—

The man outside the door looked up and peered in through the peephole.

Through a thin door panel.

Shi Luyu suddenly met the slightly mocking gaze of the person outside the door.