On the possibility of Gin's younger brother taking his older brother away

That house is the turning point in the lives of a boy named Zhen and a child named Qiu.

17 years ago, Qiu was kidnapped. Zhen, who came to pick up his brother from school, found out and immediately followed him.

The black car taking Qiu drove all the way to the suburbs, but the taxi that Zhen was riding in refused to follow, so he asked the driver to call the police and then got off the car to search on foot.

Even though he had received training since he was a child, a 12-year-old's physical strength was limited after all. By the time he found the black car, the sun had already set.

Several men were talking around the car, and there was a dilapidated house not far away.

By eavesdropping on the conversation, we learned that Qiu was kept in the house by those men, and they seemed to be waiting for someone to come and deal with him.

Zhen took out the knife he carried with him and went around to the back to approach the house. Fortunately, the house was in tatters and the window glass was broken, so he could see what was going on inside.

There were dim lights on in the house, the furnishings were shabby, and all kinds of debris were piled on the floor. Only a clean area near the door was cleared out, where a man was sitting as a guard.

Perhaps because the kidnapped target was a child, the man sat there yawning and looking sleepy.

Qiu's hands and feet were tied, his mouth was taped, and he was thrown into a pile of miscellaneous items, curled up pitifully.

Zhen was very glad that he had received training since he was a child.

While the man was not paying attention, he climbed in through the window, approached the guard from behind, covered his mouth and slashed his throat, then carefully laid down his body.

Just as Zhen untied the rope and tape and was about to take Qiu out the window to escape, his sensitive ears caught the movement outside.

——It seems that a car has arrived.

The men shouted, "The man you want is in the house."

"Why wasn't it delivered to the original place?"

Another male voice sounded, and from the content, this person was the employer of the kidnapper. The voice sounded familiar.

But Zhen had no time to think carefully, and they didn't have much time to escape.

"It is said that there was a case there and the police are there. We found this place temporarily. Don't worry, we have checked around and there is no one there."

The kidnapper was about to arrive, and he and Qiu couldn't run far in such a short time.

Just when Zhen was ready to fight to the death to buy time for Qiu to escape, the strange feeling on the soles of his feet caught his attention.

There was a slightly raised wooden board on the ground, and the unevenness was covered by the debris on the ground.

He pushed aside the various debris on the floor and knocked on it. There was a hollow "tap tap" sound coming from the floor, which meant that there was a space underground, perhaps a cellar dug by the previous owner.

The kidnappers found this room in a hurry. They didn't have time to clean up the debris on the floor and would not have known there was something wrong with the floor.

They might be able to hide in this cellar.

Zhen moved the raised floor piece away, and a handle appeared in front of him.

But the underground space is very small. It is more like a large cabinet than a cellar. It only contains some tools. It is small enough to only allow one person to hide there without being noticed.

So he asked Qiu to curl up and told him not to make any sound under any circumstances.

Qiu covered her mouth and nodded.

He closed the lid and piled the debris back into place.

There were footsteps outside the door. He walked to the window, calculated the time and flipped out.

Only in this way can the credibility of Qiu's escape be increased.

"Boss! The person ran away!"

"That brat got away! Go chase him!"

In this way, Zhen was caught and the kidnapper hung him by his hands on the ceiling in a rage.

It’s too bad, right below is the space where Qiu is hiding.

I hope Qiu doesn't die from lack of oxygen.

He thought with some worry.

He originally thought the kidnappers were trying to extort money, but when he saw the man he called uncle, he knew he was wrong. This was a murder to replace Qiu's position as heir.

"It's you, Zhen Jun." The man looked at his second nephew with a gloomy face, "Where's Xiao Qiu?"

"...Qiu has run away with the letter I wrote,"

The man looked at the leaky window and signaled his men to look in that direction.

"You let him get away? You bastard!" He grabbed the boy's silver hair and forced him to look up. "Tell me which direction he ran to and I'll spare your life."

Zhen just stared at him without saying anything.

The man looked at the boy's silver hair and dark green eyes, and he was furious. His blue eyes were full of hatred.

"Do you know why the old man didn't make you his successor, but chose that boy Qiu?"

"Just because you inherited the hair color of that woman from Country D, you are a bastard! He looks down on you! Just like he looks down on me!"

"In the final analysis, it's all the old man's fault. If you didn't want a bastard to sneak into the Yanagihara family, why did you give birth to me with a foreign woman and accept a foreign woman as your daughter-in-law?"

"You should be jealous of your brother because he got the old man's approval just because he has black hair. He wasn't disliked even though his eyes were the same damn green as yours. You should hate him!"

"He enjoyed things that you didn't. While you were being beaten and trained to be his shadow, he was a carefree kid at home. You knew all this, so why did you save him?"

The man vented all his anger on the boy, regardless of whether he could bear it or not, or whether he was his blood relative or not.

Zhen's body was covered with wounds from the man's knives and fists. Blood kept dripping down, gathering at his toes and forming blood beads that dripped rhythmically onto the floor.

But this is just the beginning.

"Sir, we didn't find..."

It was this phone call that made the man completely lose his mind.

The kidnapping and murder plan failed, and the old man would not let me go if he found out.

The more the man thought about it, the crazier he became, but Qiu's whereabouts were unknown, so he took out all his anger on the hanging child.

"It's okay if one of them dies."

Just like that, the blood beads that were originally falling regularly turned into an endless stream of blood, contaminating the entire floor, and the blood flowed through the cracks in the floor and into the narrow space underground.

Zhen had no reaction when he suffered all this, no crying or begging for mercy.

He was just wondering if Qiu below would be scared. It would be great if he could faint so that he wouldn't have to listen to these words.

He was wondering whether the driver had called the police and whether he could still survive.

He kept thinking until he lost consciousness, but the police never arrived.

"Sir, that boy seems to have not moved for a long time."

Even though he had been in the underworld for many years, he had never seen a child being treated so cruelly, and he couldn't help but warn others.

"what?"

The man finally woke up from his dream. He looked at the boy, who had not a single piece of good flesh on his body. His silver hair was stained with blood and stuck together into wisps.

"gentlemen......"

Someone sniffed Zhen's breath, indicating that the man was dead.

"Boring."

He dropped the knife and rope in his hand and turned away: "You guys clean this up."