Chapter 2
Tianhong Club!
In the basement, a little girl, covered in blood, was curled up in a corner. Clear marks on her arm showed where medical equipment had been forcibly ripped away. She was none other than Chu Tianhe’s daughter, Chu Yueyao.
“Pfft…”
At that moment, Li Chengze took a sip of vodka and spat the liquor onto the whip in his hand. Then, he lashed it fiercely at the little girl.
“Crack!”
With a single stroke, her skin split open, and the child trembled all over from the pain.
“Mama, mama, please save me.” The girl’s helpless eyes gazed around the icy, cold room, her heart full of despair.
“Mama? Your mother jumped off a building and killed herself!” Li Chengze roared angrily, whipping her again as he snarled, “She still owed me two hundred thousand, you know!”
“Damn it, just messing around with her, and she couldn’t bear it—killed herself. What a curse!”
Enraged, Li Chengze strode forward, grabbed the little girl by the neck, lifting her frail body off the ground. “Your mother owed me so much money. Did she think dying would get her out of paying?”
“Tonight, I’ll use you to settle her debt!”
Terrified, the little girl struggled, twisting her body to break free from Li Chengze’s grasp. But his grip was iron, and after two lashes, her body was weak and powerless. In desperation, she could only bite his hand.
“You dare bite me?”
Li Chengze cursed and kicked her in the face, slamming her head hard against the floor.
“Crack!”
The next moment, his whip came down mercilessly on her again.
Her face was already covered in blood. Terrified, she crawled toward the corner, screaming as the whip tore her skin. She tried to escape the whip, but there was no way out. Tears and blood blurred her vision.
Seeing her desperate expression, Li Chengze’s face twisted into a sick, deranged grin. He took pleasure in her suffering, even though she was only four or five years old.
Li Chengze waved his hand. “Tie her to the bed!”
“Young Master Li, the anesthetic hasn’t arrived yet.”
“That little brat is seriously ill—I ordered her snatched from the hospital ICU. She won’t last much longer. Forget the anesthetic, just start cutting!”
His eyes were full of malice. He was planning to carve her open and harvest her organs for sale.
“Young Master Li, without anesthesia, if she moves, the organs might be damaged.”
“Just hold her down tighter. She’s only a little girl, hasn’t eaten for three days, she’s got no strength left!”
With Li Chengze’s command, his men pinned the girl to the bed, tying her arms and legs so she couldn’t move.
“Uncle, please, don’t use the knife… please…” Her helpless eyes, tearful, pleaded with the cold-faced doctor standing before her.
“Hurry up, stop wasting time!”
Li Chengze ignored her, urging the heartless doctor to cut.
“Shkk!”
The scalpel plunged beneath the girl’s throat, slicing downward in a straight line. First came the icy sensation spreading through her body, then the tear of flesh, then the agony as nerves screamed.
She convulsed, crying in pain, but it was futile. Several men pinned her limbs and clamped her mouth shut. Tears slipped from the corners of her eyes.
“Papa, where are you? Please, save me…”
“They killed Mama, now they want to kill me. Papa, I miss you…”
Days of hunger and grave illness had left her unable to struggle. She could only stare helplessly at the dim basement ceiling, tears falling silently.
“Papa, if I die, will I become a star in the sky? Will you see me?”
“Papa, I love you. Mama said you’re the best man in the world.”
“But I’m about to die. I’ll never see you again.”
With that thought, the little girl closed her eyes in despair, abandoning all struggle.
Just then, a thunderous crash sounded from outside!
“Boom!”
The iron door to the basement buckled under the force. The guard at the entrance was tossed inside like a sack.
“Bang!”
Before anyone could react, the heartless doctor about to cut into the girl was blasted backward as if struck by a cannonball. His chest caved in, snapped ribs tore through flesh, bone gleaming white in the air—a terrifying sight.
“I’m sorry. Papa’s come too late.”
Chu Tianhe, seeing his daughter battered, her face unrecognizable, her chest split open, blood pooling on the floor, felt a fury erupt inside him like a volcano, unstoppable and all-consuming.
“Yueyao is so happy, she finally sees Papa. Papa, I… I love you.”
Now the girl was barely conscious; with her last breath, she whispered, her voice almost inaudible, but Chu Tianhe heard it clearly.
Afterward, she fell silent. The eyes she had forced open lost their light, her pupils dilating, life slipping swiftly away.
“Yueyao!!”
Her final words—Papa, I love you!—were enough to shatter the heart of Chu Tianhe, a hardened warrior, bringing tears of blood streaming down his cheeks.
Guilt and rage swept over him like a tidal wave.
“Yueyao, don’t sleep. Open your eyes, look at Papa. It’s Papa’s fault, Papa came too late. Don’t sleep, please don’t sleep.”
Even facing a thousand enemies, Chu Tianhe had never been so anxious.
Damn it, damn it! They all deserve to die for treating his daughter this way! Every one of them should burn in hell!
Extreme fury surged through Chu Tianhe’s mind, but he could only focus on one thing now: to save his daughter. No matter what, even if it cost him his own life, he would save her.
He gently pressed his right hand to her forehead, channeling his ancient martial energy to protect her heart and prolong her life.
“Who are you people? Storming into my private club—are you looking for death?”
Li Chengze, stunned at first, quickly recovered and shouted arrogantly.
The Li family was the leading power in Jiangzhou City. Anyone who crossed them courted death.
Li Chengze had lived a life of privilege, used to getting whatever he wanted. Seeing his plans ruined, he raged.
“Bastard! You deserve to die!”
Seeing the little princess so cruelly tormented, Tianjiu could no longer restrain his anger. He lunged, intent on ending Li Chengze’s life.
“Stop!”
Chu Tianhe’s furious shout echoed instantly. Tianjiu’s fist was already nearly upon Li Chengze’s head; hearing the shout, he abruptly changed direction and smashed the wall behind Li Chengze instead.
“Boom!”
The entire wall shattered into fragments, revealing the tremendous power behind Tianjiu’s blow.
“His life—I will take it myself!”