I failed again

When he got inside, he saw Qi Anyan curled up against the wall.

He walked over with light steps.

Qi Anyan felt someone approaching while he was drowsy. He instinctively opened his eyes and became alert.

Looking at the dim basement, Qi Anyan's drowsy head finally realized that he had been captured by Xie Zhixuan and was now locked in the basement.

The person who came over...

There will be no one else except Xie Zhixuan.

Thinking of this, Qi Anyan closed his eyes and pretended not to notice Xie Zhixuan's arrival.

After all, I am injured and feeling unwell now, so it is understandable that my vigilance has been reduced.

Xie Zhixuan came in front of Qi Anyan, squatted down, and looked at him carefully. His face was pale, the hair on his forehead was soaked with cold sweat, his wrists were tied with ropes and were a little congested, and he was wearing blood-stained clothes, looking a little embarrassed.

Xie Zhixuan reached out and touched his face, which was a little cold. He frowned and touched his hand again. As expected, it was as cold as a corpse.

Xie Zhixuan wondered whether to change the rope into handcuffs, then glanced at the curled-up Qi Anyan, then stood up and left.

Only when he felt that Xie Zhixuan had left did Qi Anyan open his eyes, a little confused.

He thought Xie Zhixuan came down to torture him, but unexpectedly, the other party just squatted in front of him, touched his face and hands, and then left?

Qi Anyan was a little confused about what Xie Zhixuan was trying to do.

Just as he was wondering, Xie Zhixuan came back. Qi Anyan continued to close his eyes and pretend to be asleep, wanting to see what Xie Zhixuan was trying to do.

As a result, Qi Anyan felt Xie Zhixuan untied his bound hands, rubbed his wrists a few times, and then handcuffed his hands.

Qi Anyan was a little dazed by Xie Zhixuan's series of actions, so he just left just to get the handcuffs?

Just as he was in a daze, Xie Zhixuan covered him with the quilt again, and Qi Anyan was completely confused.

Is Xie Zhixuan still awake? Does he know what he is doing now?

Hearing Xie Zhixuan's footsteps fading away, Qi Anyan slowly opened his eyes and glanced at the quilt covering him, his eyes full of confusion.

Xie Zhixuan stayed up late at night and came to the basement just to cover him with a blanket?

Are you sure this isn't sleepwalking?

Qi Anyan thought about it blankly for a long time, but couldn't figure out why Xie Zhixuan did this, so he just stopped thinking about it.

who cares!

Whether Xie Zhixuan was having a seizure or sleepwalking, he was now covered with a blanket, feeling much warmer and able to have a good sleep.

As for the rest, judging from Xie Zhixuan's attitude, it doesn't look like he's going to do anything to him tonight. Let's talk about it after he wakes up tomorrow.

Thinking of this, and feeling a little tired, Qi Anyan fell asleep peacefully.

The next morning, Qi Anyan was awakened by the cold. He opened his eyes in a daze and found that the quilt covering him was gone, but the handcuffs on his hands were still there.

Qi Anyan sat up with his elbows and looked around. It was empty. Apart from him, there were only torture instruments. The quilt was nowhere to be found.

It must have been taken away by Xie Zhixuan, Qi Anyan thought.

Just as he was thinking about it, footsteps were heard at the basement door. Qi Anyan looked over and saw that it was Xie Zhixuan.

Xie Zhixuan was wearing a neat suit and holding a plate with two buns on it.

Xie Zhixuan came to Qi Anyan and felt a little better when he saw that his face was not as pale as last night.

"It looks like you had a good rest last night." Xie Zhixuan said, putting the plate on the ground, "Your breakfast, eat it."

Qi Anyan's handcuffed hands were about to take the buns, but were gently stepped on by Xie Zhixuan. Qi Anyan looked up at him and asked, "What is Master Xie doing?"

Xie Zhixuan chuckled and said, "You can eat without using your hands."

Qi Anyan instantly understood what Xie Zhixuan wanted to do. He wanted to humiliate him and make him lie on the ground like a dog to eat.

Seeing that Qi Anyan didn't make any move, Xie Zhixuan gently pressed Qi Anyan's hand and said, "If Young Master Qi doesn't want to eat it, I'll take it away."

Feeling the slight, negligible stinging pain on the back of his hand, Qi Anyan looked at the buns in front of him. He was not sure whether these two buns were his entire day's ration. If so, once Xie Zhixuan took them away, he would have no chance of eating today.

After weighing the pros and cons in his mind, Qi Anyan slowly bent down as Xie Zhixuan wished, took a bite of the bun, and started eating.

Xie Zhixuan moved his feet away and watched Qi Anyan lying on the ground and eating all the buns. He reached out and rubbed Qi Anyan's hair, saying, "You're so good."

Then he bent down, picked up the plate and left.

Qi Anyan sat up straight, watching Xie Zhixuan's figure disappear in the basement, then looked down at his hand that had just been stepped on. Apart from a little redness, there was no other major problem.

He leaned his head against the wall, wondering what Xie Zhixuan would do next.

What he didn't expect was that Xie Zhixuan just left him there and no one knew where he went.

Well, leaving him alone is not bad, it is better than torturing him.

Qi Anyan looked at the torture instruments. He really didn't want them to be used on him.

After all, he is not a masochist.

Qi Anyan lowered his head to study the handcuffs on his hands. He endured the severe pain caused by the muscles in his arms being pulled, and moved his fingers flexibly a few times, and the handcuffs were undone.

Qi Anyan put the handcuffs aside and tried to stand up, but found that his legs were numb from sitting for too long.

He could only continue sitting there until his legs were no longer numb, then he slowly stood up with the help of the wall.

Qi Anyan came to the door of the basement and found that the door was tightly closed and could hardly be opened from the inside.

Even if he opened it, he might not be able to get out. Based on his understanding of Xie Zhixuan, there must be someone guarding outside the basement. Both of his arms were injured, so he might not be able to defeat the enemy.

Even if he was beaten, he might not be able to escape from the Xie family.

After all, he couldn't escape last night even though he was safe and sound, let alone now that he was injured.

It’s in this basement. I don’t know if there is a pinhole camera installed, but there is a high probability that there is.

Thinking about this, Qi Anyan walked around the basement and found a pinhole camera in a corner. He smiled at the camera, said hello, and then sat back.

Leaning against the wall, staring into space.

It was unknown how long it had been before Qi Anyan heard Xie Zhixuan's footsteps. He glanced at the handcuffs on the ground and was too lazy to put them back on himself.

Xie Zhixuan walked up to him and stood still. "Why, you don't even want to pretend?"

Qi Anyan raised his head and looked at him, saying, "You've already discovered everything, so there's nothing to pretend about. But..."

Qi Anyan looked at him and said with a smile, "Looking at Patriarch Xie's appearance, could it be that he hurried over from the group?"

"Don't worry, I'm injured now, and I can't run away even if I want to. Patriarch Xie doesn't need to be so nervous."

Xie Zhixuan squatted down, looking at Qi Anyan's provocative smile, not angry, and just said, "Young Master Qi shouldn't have paid much attention to the Qi family recently, right?"

The smile on Qi Anyan's face suddenly disappeared. At first, he was worried that the Qi family would be retaliated by Xie Zhixuan because of him, but after following up for a few days, he found that Xie Zhixuan did not take any action against the Qi family. He was just concentrating on catching him, so he no longer paid much attention to the Qi family.

But now, what does Xie Zhixuan mean by mentioning the Qi family? Has he realized what is going on? Is he going to attack the Qi family?

Xie Zhixuan carefully studied Qi Anyan's expression and said slowly, "Qi Yuchen came to see me the day you left the hospital and asked me about you. I learned that you confessed everything to him before you left, saying that you were not the real Qi Anyan, but were just using this identity to get close to me."

Qi Anyan's expression did not change at all. He listened to Xie Zhixuan continue, "I was busy catching you at the time and didn't have time to think so much. I thought the Qi family was innocent and was being used by you, so I didn't do anything to them. But now I think about it..."

"No matter how you look at this impromptu message, it seems like you are trying to get the Qi family out of trouble and prevent them from being implicated by you."

Qi Anyan smiled casually and said, "You think too much. I just suddenly felt guilty and wanted to tell them the truth."

"Really?" Xie Zhixuan said, "If that's the case, I don't think you will mind if I attack the Qi family."

Qi Anyan's breathing stagnated, he put away his smile, and asked, "Xie Zhixuan, what do you want to do?"

"I don't want to do anything." Xie Zhixuan stretched out his hand to adjust his sleeves and said, "I'm just unhappy and want to find someone to be unhappy with me."

It's not like he hadn't thought about torturing Qi Anyan.

Before he knew that An Yang was Qi Anyan, he had thought about what kind of torture he would use on An Yang after catching him, but when he really caught him, he found himself reluctant to do so.

Just imagining it is a bit unbearable.

If he had known Qi Anyan's identity earlier, Xie Zhixuan thought, he wouldn't have to worry so much and would have just punished him directly.

But now... just seeing him starving and freezing in the basement made me feel reluctant, let alone torturing him.

"You're sick." Qi Anyan squeezed out these two words from between his teeth.

Xie Zhixuan did not refute. He also felt that he was sick for not being willing to torture someone who had repeatedly tried to take his life.

However, looking at Qi Anyan's somewhat livid face, Xie Zhixuan thought that now it seemed that only the Qi family could threaten him...

Forget it, if I can’t bear to give it up, then I can’t bear to give it up, Xie Zhixuan thought in despair, I will just use the Qi family to threaten him to get some benefits for myself.

"Do you remember the contract we signed before?" Xie Zhixuan's sudden change of subject made Qi Anyan stunned. What contract?

It took Qi Anyan a while to react. Now, there was something wrong with the way he looked at Xie Zhixuan.