Border Prisoner: The Mad Boss Seduces Her Every Night

Shi Luyu followed the car, winding its way along back roads, and by the time she reached the neighboring city, it was already the third day.

This area is further south than Taimai, and it is humid, hot, and the air is filled with the salty smell of the sea and diesel fuel all day long.

The streets are narrow, buildings are packed together, and signs are written in three languages. At night, the streets are brightly lit, but during the day they are terribly dilapidated.

She checked into an inconspicuous little hotel; the room was small, the walls were yellowed, and outside the window was a messy alley.

She no longer cared about finding fault with these things.

For her now, the dirty, remote, cheap, and unknown conditions are actually the safest conditions.

She spent two days contacting people, changing her phone number and address, and finally found a scalper willing to take people across the border by waterway at night through a middleman who did shady business.

The price is outrageously high, and the risk is also great.

The other party only replied with one sentence: "If you want to leave Southeast Asia alive, don't complain about the price."

Without hesitation, Shi Luyu wired the last amount of cash from her bag and arranged to meet at 3 a.m. at the abandoned dock behind the old port in the South District.

At that moment, she even felt a sense of unreal relaxation.

Just a few more hours. As long as she can get on the ship, as long as she can leave this place, she can go home.

Returning to his own country would allow him to escape Xu Yuanjia, escape Master Jia, and escape this increasingly dense and suffocating web.

But by evening, things started to go wrong.

She had only gone downstairs to buy water, but as soon as she reached the street corner, she noticed that the atmosphere of the entire city had changed.

There were no sirens. There were no public announcements.

Suddenly, layers of roadblocks began to be erected, and the main roads were full of vehicles conducting inspections.

Large numbers of people were running back and forth in the direction of the pier. The station entrance had been temporarily sealed off. Even the snack stalls and night market stalls that usually stayed open until late at night were hurriedly closing up early.

The vendors were in a hurry to leave. Some didn't even have time to pack up their pots; they just threw them onto their tricycles and pushed them away.

The metal roller shutters of the shops on the street slammed down one after another, creating a continuous series of muffled thuds, as if an unseen storm was rapidly approaching.

Shi Luyu stood by the roadside, her heart sinking lower and lower.

At first, she didn't know what was happening. It wasn't until two locals walked by and whispered in their local language, their expressions clearly tense, that she noticed.

"Who has offended the Xu family?"

"I heard that Master Jia is looking for someone, the entire South District is going to be in chaos tonight."

The moment "Master Jia" entered her ears, a chill ran down Shi Luyu's spine.

She turned her head and looked at the street that was being cleared out quickly.

Roadblocks, patrol cars, locals bowing their heads to make way, shops forced to close early, empty streets, vendors hastily leaving, and crowds who, though unaware of the reasons, still subconsciously comply.

None of this is a coincidence.

It's not a "person search" in the ordinary sense.

This wasn't the first time Shi Luyu had understood this so intuitively—

"Master Jia" is not a nickname.

It is a name that can bring the entire city to a standstill at night.

At Master Jia's command, the entire city halted.

She stood there, her fingertips icy cold, and even her breathing became labored.

Back in Taimai, she mostly heard about the Xu family's power, heard people from the police station say "the Xu family is the law here," and saw fear in people's eyes when they mentioned Master Jia.

But it wasn't until today, until this shutdown actually happened before her eyes, that she realized there wasn't an exaggeration in those words.

Shi Luyu gripped the mineral water bottle tightly in her hand, and when she returned to the hotel, her steps were unsteady.

As soon as she entered the room, she pulled the curtains open a crack and looked outside.

The streets are even emptier than before.

In the distance, rows of patrol teams could already be seen at the main street entrance. Dressed in black, armed with guns and military boots, their orderly steps were chilling. They were not ordinary police officers, but more like well-trained private militia, silent and stern, marching down the street as if they were meticulously screening this southern district for someone.

Downstairs, the proprietress was still busy collecting money and closing accounts, but she kept muttering, "This is really going to be a big problem..."

Shi Luyu stood behind the window, her heart beating faster and faster.

We can't wait any longer; things have clearly changed.

She immediately took out the old cell phone she had bought temporarily and dialed the scalper's number.

Her fingers were still trembling as she dialed the number.

A few mechanical waiting tones came through the receiver, drawn out as if deliberately keeping her hanging. Before the other party could answer, she suddenly heard the elevator doors open in the hallway, followed by the overly enthusiastic greeting from the landlady downstairs:

"Hey, Captain Zhou, what brings you here?"

Shi Luyu froze completely.

Captain Zhou?

What, Captain Zhou?

The first name that popped into her mind was Zhou Ji.

Her heart clenched, and without thinking, she rushed to the door, held her breath, and looked out through the peephole.

The corridor lights were a stark white.

The proprietress was greeting a middle-aged man in a dark uniform who was walking out. He was overweight, had ordinary epaulets, and his face was covered with an oily sheen from the steam.

It's not Zhou Ji.

Shi Luyu relaxed her shoulders slightly and then realized that her back was soaked with cold sweat.

She's really being a bit paranoid.

The call was finally answered, and a low male voice came through, his tone urgent and rapid: "Where are you now?"

"An inn," Shi Luyu replied quickly.

"Still in the same place?"

"Yes." Shi Luyu immediately asked, "Can we still leave tonight?"

There was a pause on the other end, as if someone was cursing, before the voice quickly replied, "The plan has changed. We can't wait until 3 o'clock. The South District has already started clearing the roads, and the port and the main dock are closed. If we wait any longer, the old port will also have to be closed."

"Go downstairs right now and get to the alley entrance within twenty minutes. My car will come to pick you up."

Shi Luyu's heart tightened. "Leave now?"

"Yes, now!" The other person was clearly anxious too, lowering their voice but unable to hide their panic.

"I heard the Xu family is searching the whole city. We can't even walk on the main roads now, we can only squeeze through the cracks. If this drags on any longer, nobody will be able to leave."

After he finished speaking, he added, "Don't bring big luggage, and hurry up."

The call ended. Shi Luyu stood there, making a decision in just three seconds.

Let's go. Let's go now.

She quickly stuffed the things on the table into her bag: passport, cash, charger, water. She didn't take anything else, not even the thinnest spare clothes. Her fingers turned white as she zipped it up.

People were still talking outside in the corridor, and the occasional sound of a roller shutter being pulled down heavily downstairs felt like blows to her eardrums.

Shi Luyu slung her bag over her shoulder, pulled her hat down low, put on a mask, opened the door, and went downstairs.

The proprietress was counting money at the counter when she saw her come downstairs. She looked up, smiled, and asked, "Young lady, are you coming back tonight?"

Shi Luyu's heart skipped a beat, but she only shook her head and didn't say anything.

It was completely dark outside.

The streets were much brighter than usual, with searchlights and patrol car lights swaying on both sides of the roadblocks, casting a chilly glow over the entire southern district. The usually bustling night market entrance was now a scene of utter devastation, with paper cups, bamboo skewers, and crushed plastic bags scattered everywhere by the wind.

She hurried through the two alleys and arrived at the alley entrance within the agreed time.

A black car was parked there.

The driver, wearing a baseball cap, glanced at the bag on her back as she approached and said in a low voice, "Get in."

Shi Luyu didn't ask any questions and simply opened the back door and sat down.

Only when the car started moving did she truly feel that "she was already leaving".

The unlicensed taxi did not take the main road, but instead traveled through the back streets of the South District, small bridges, abandoned warehouses, and the riverside road.

The lights outside the window grew sparser, and the city receded little by little. Skyscrapers, shopping malls, neon signs, and crowded markets were all left behind, leaving only the damp night and the approaching border.

Shi Luyu gazed out the car window, her emotions extremely complex.

As the city receded further and further away and the border drew ever closer, a bittersweet hope still welled up within her.

She's finally about to leave this place.

She left the land that had trapped her, left the Xu family, left Master Jia, and left Xu Yuanjia.

She thought of the winter winds back home, and the spider plants on her balcony. She even started thinking that if she could really go back this time, she wouldn't want anything else; she would immediately call the police and have them send officers to bring her parents back.

All she wanted was to go home, to a place where Xu Yuanjia wasn't there.

Then I lived a peaceful and stable life with my parents.

After driving for nearly an hour and a half, we finally stopped on a deserted road near the border.

The driver turned around and whispered, "Cars can't pass through here."

Shi Luyu immediately sat up straight: "How far are we from the border?"

"It's less than two kilometers; just follow the dirt road ahead."

The driver glanced at the time, his tone tightening. "I can only take you this far. There's a checkpoint ahead, and it'll be too conspicuous for the car to pass through. You'll have to walk yourself; someone will meet you after you get past the checkpoint."

Shi Luyu nodded, gripped her bag tightly, and quickly got off the bus.

It was windy at night.

In the distance, the cold light of searchlights could be faintly seen from the border, shining intermittently and cutting the wasteland and earthen slope in front of us into alternating light and shadow.

She took a deep breath, pulled her hat brim down, and walked along the dirt road worn into the ground by car wheels.

The further I went, the faster my heart beat.

The closer she got to the border, the less she dared to relax.

It was eerily quiet all around. The wind rustled through the wild grass. In the distance, the occasional bark of a dog and the muffled clanging of some kind of metal machinery could be heard. She dared not stop, nor dared she look back, and could only walk faster and faster.

At the end of the dirt road beneath our feet was a low border fence.

The fence wasn't high, and there was a gap in the old, dilapidated wire mesh next to it. This was the location the scalper had sent her.

As long as it's in the past!

As long as you cross this line!

Shi Luyu's heart nearly leaped out of her chest, yet her steps became even lighter. She reached the fence, her fingers just about to touch the rusty iron mesh—

Suddenly.

Dozens of car lights turned on simultaneously!

A blinding white light swept in from all directions, instantly illuminating her pale face. The weeds, the fence, the dirt road, and her hand frozen in mid-air were all pinned down by that intense light.

Shi Luyu froze on the spot, her vision blurred and she felt a sudden ringing in her ears.

Immediately following was the dense sound of tires crushing gravel.

One after another, black SUVs slowly emerged from the shadows, lined up horizontally and vertically along the border, their lights forming a blinding white wall that completely blocked all her escape routes.

The wind lifted the hem of her dress, the bag strap tightened around her shoulder, and she was completely exposed to the sunlight.

She stood in the middle of that sea of ​​lights, forgetting even to breathe.