As they neared the end of the corridor, Su Su suddenly spotted a familiar face at the door of a room. She couldn't believe her eyes.
"Sophie!" Su Su abruptly let go of Yang Sijie's hand and walked towards Sophie, who was dressed provocatively.
Sophie, standing at the doorway, reacted to Su Su's voice. Her numb face showed a flicker of hope, and she called out, "Su Su..."
But as soon as she uttered Su Su's name, she saw Yang Sijie standing behind Su Su and lowered her head in fear.
"Sophie, it's really you! What are you doing here?" Su Su looked at her current state, barely recognizing her.
Sophie said with a choked sob, "Su Su, what are you doing here? I'm scared... I want to go home..."
"Don't be afraid, I'll take you away now." Su Su said, taking her hand, intending to lead her away.
"Let go of Su Su's hand." Yang Sijie commanded coldly from behind Su Su.
Sophie trembled as if she had seen a ghost, immediately pulled her hand back forcefully, and said without daring to look at Su Su, "I am vile, I deserve this! I am vile, I deserve this..."
Su Su tried to take her hand again, but Sophie glanced at Yang Sijie in panic and simply put her hands behind her back.
Sensing something was wrong, Su Su turned to face Yang Sijie and asked, "It was you, what did you do to her?"
Yang Sijie pulled Su Su into his arms and looked coldly at Sophie, saying, "A woman like her only deserves to be in a place like this. Let's go."
Since Su Su had found Sophie, whom she had lost contact with, she couldn't leave her alone. She questioned Yang Sijie, "You sent her to a place like this?"
"Sent? I never do business at a loss. I sold her. I want to turn her into a woman for everyone to covet, then see if she dares to ruin other people's happiness again!" Yang Sijie still gritted his teeth with hatred for Sophie.
Su Su, unable to bear it any longer, slapped him, but he quickly blocked it and grabbed her wrist, pulling her away. "This woman deserves this fate. If she hadn't sowed discord between you and me, we would still be happily together."
"But she's my friend..."
"Such a friend is not worth having!" Yang Sijie, regardless of her willingness, picked her up and walked outside.
At that moment, a burly foreign man took a fancy to Sophie, put his arm around her, and went into the room, closing the door.
Su Su struggled, wanting to save Sophie, but Yang Sijie had already taken her out of that terrible place and put her into his car. "Don't say you, even I can't casually take her out of here. This is not my territory, and I don't want to provoke the people here for that hateful woman!"
Su Su couldn't imagine how Yang Sijie dealt with Sophie after she had successfully escaped. He had turned a once strong, proud, and self-respecting girl into something neither human nor ghost.
She kicked open the car door and reached out to grab Yang Sijie, her nails drawing bloody marks on his face.
Yang Sijie, not expecting her to go mad for Sophie, struck her directly on the back of the neck, causing her to faint.
...
When Su Su woke up, she found herself lying in bed in Yang Sijie's penthouse, as if everything that had happened was just a nightmare.
She sat up. The room was empty, and Yang Sijie was nowhere to be seen.
She tried hard to recall what happened before Yang Sijie knocked her out. Those were not nightmares; they had really happened.
Sophie, Sophie was still in that place that was like hell on earth. No, she couldn't endure it any longer; she had to rescue Sophie as soon as possible!
She found her phone on the bedside table and was about to call Su Kangxi, but immediately put the phone down.
She had to be calm, she had to be calm!
Her phone had been taken away when she was kidnapped by Hu Kun's men. Now that it was back, seemingly untouched, it was likely Yang Sijie who had retrieved it.
It was possible Yang Sijie had tampered with her phone. If she rashly called Su Kangxi, she might put Su Kangxi in danger.
To save Sophie, she couldn't panic. She only glanced at her phone a few times, not calling or messaging anyone, and put it down.
After thinking calmly for a long time, she decided to send the evidence on the USB drive given to her by Su Kangxi to every reporting agency's email address in New York.
Even if Yang Sijie had connections everywhere here, could he bribe everyone?
The only way to save Sophie was to bring Yang Sijie to justice as soon as possible.
She made up her mind and acted without hesitation, locking the bedroom door and turning on the computer in the room.
By the time she had sent all the emails, no one had tried to enter her room. She then quietly walked to the door and unlocked it. Strange, was Yang Sijie not home now?
She pushed the door open and looked around. She didn't see any servants. She heard movement from the study.
Walking to the study door, she found it ajar. She pressed her ear to the door and heard the conversation between Yang Sijie and Mark.
Yang Sijie asked calmly, "Have all the things that need to be destroyed been destroyed?"
Mark replied, "Everything has been destroyed."
"Notify our people to go into hiding if they can run."
"Okay."
Yang Sijie then instructed him, "Burn all the relevant items here. I'll delete the important files on the computer. Later, I'll take Su Su and leave. You go and bring that bastard Su Kangxi to me. I want to finish him myself..."
Hearing that he intended to harm Su Kangxi, Su Su's heart leaped like a taut string. Oh heavens, was he going to harm Su Kangxi again?
She stopped paying attention to their subsequent conversation, thinking she needed to contact Su Kangxi quickly.
But at that moment, choking smoke billowed from the study. Mark had already begun efficiently burning their criminal evidence.
Su Su couldn't help but cough from the smoke. Yang Sijie immediately put his hand on his waist and asked alertly, "Who?"
Mark quickly rushed over and opened the door. Su Su had no time to hide and had to walk into the study openly, saying faintly, "It's me."
"Miss Gu." Mark greeted her respectfully.
Yang Sijie glanced at the computer screen in front of him, then looked up at Su Su and asked, "When did you wake up?"
"Just now." Su Su stared at him coldly.
Yang Sijie asked again, "You sent quite a few emails just now, didn't you?"
"What emails? I don't understand what you're talking about." Su Su said with a poker face.
Yang Sijie laughed angrily and said, "Very good." He then ordered Mark, "You go out first and close the door."
Mark didn't understand what was happening and said, "But some things haven't been completely burned."
"Burn them later." Yang Sijie's face had become extremely grim.
Mark obeyed and walked out, closing the study door.
Su Su just wanted to notify Su Kangxi and didn't want to get entangled with him in the study. She turned to leave, saying, "You have important matters, I won't disturb you. You be busy..."
But as she went to open the door, she found it wouldn't open.