Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu



Zhan Yahui stared at the twins, trembling with cold and fury at the same time. 

Nian tilted his head. "He kidnapped Jun and then expected to be left unharmed. That's some serious illusion he was living in. And you are causing havoc in Jun's life over his death. Over something that he began in the first place."

"Shut your mouth!!!" She exclaimed, her loud and infuriated voice sharply echoing in the dark Underworld basement. "You have some nerve talking about my father as if you are all painted in white!"

She gnashed her jaw, her body twitching with a surge of violence flowing in. "I don't want to see your faces in the first place! I don't have any business with you! Do you think you won just because you have trapped me here?" She sneered. "Far from it. I am not going down like this. Do you think everything ends here? Never!"

Jian said without much emotion, "It's nice to have confidence, not overconfidence. I don't know what makes you think that you will ever be able to see the sun again. The ones trapped here, die here."

The twins heard the sound of footsteps rushing towards their room, and they narrowed their eyes.

Nian threw a glare at the guard. "I thought we were clear that nobody was supposed to enter without our permission."

The guard jolted back with fear but before he could explain, a voice was heard.

"It's me, Bro."

Zhan Yahui trembled, recognizing her arch enemy's voice. They had met at the Summit and at Shanghai's fest but today was different. Today, there was no hide and seek game between them. She faced Jun, not as a wolf in sheep's clothing but as the wolf itself.

"Liu Jun…"

The bitter and ugly memories that had always haunted her ever since that fateful day rushed within her as if poison flowed in her very veins. The hatred leaked from her eyes, threatening to overthrow his entire life into a disarray.

Jun's gaze fell upon Zhan Yahui at the same time. His heart was overwhelmed with mixed emotions. Just like Zhan Yahui revisited her memories, so did Jun and Ai that spanned across a whole lifetime. 

The past life that came to a halt with the worst end possible for everyone was brought forth by this single woman kneeling in front of him. The audacity of this woman before him had crushed everybody's life into despair. It was finally time today that they faced the puppeteer they had been itching to punish all this time.

But that had to wait because right now, a more urgent matter needed attention.

The twins knew that Jun would come to meet them sooner or later, but they had expected a little delay.

"Why are you here, Jun?" Jian asked in a slight gruff tone, apparently slightly displeased and uneasy.

"So you came here Liu Jun…did you come here to laugh at me? Did you think that you would win? Oh and you brought your girlfriend here too to witness the spectacle."

Ai shot her a cold look.

"But alas Liu Jun, all you are going to face is disappointment and only disappointment alone. There is no way I am going down at this pathetic place."

Jun controlled his seething anger with extreme difficulty and faced Nian instead, "I have to tell you something."

"You can see we are busy, Jun," the intensity in his voice was similar to Nian's.

"This needs your utmost attention right now, Bro Nian."

Nian cocked his brow.

Jian threw him a sideways glance and said, "You go, Nian."

Nian clearly noticed their gazes that demanded haste and urgent attention from him. He wanted to deal with Zhan Yahui once and for all, but he couldn't ignore Jun and Ai either.

Is that why they arrived earlier than expected?

They stepped out into another room, away from where Jian and Zhan Yahui were, but her disdainful screams echoed even after the doors were closed.

"Are you running away, Liu Jun? You just arrived and you are already running away!?" 

Nian banged the door shut of the adjacent room and squinted his eyes at them. "I thought it was clear that Jian and I were to take care of Zhan Yahui's matters. Then why are you interfering?"

"It shouldn't be just you two handling the matters. Ai and I are more involved than anything else here and you know it."

"I know exactly what you are talking about. The past life, this second life - there are many scores to settle with Zhan Yahui. And I will still order you to stay out of this."

Jun closed his eyes for a moment and opened them again. "We can talk about this later. Right now, we need your focus somewhere else."

"Where?"

"Xing Bi…" Ai said, tears threatening to fall from her brown orbs, "Hou Lin took Xing Bi away…!"

"Sorry, what?"

"Hou Lin kidnapped Xing Bi…" 

Nian stared at the duo as if he just heard some joke. "Jun, I know you aren't the type to joke around, but if you are really trying to do something funny here then let me tell you that I am not laughing."

Jun said, "Hou Lin knows that you took Zhan Yahui with you."

A deep silence etched into the atmosphere.

"Chyou is doing her best to track them down."

Nian blinked. "Xing Bi is really not with you two?"

"No."

"Then why is she with Hou Lin?"

Jun felt a strange sensation of somebody's hands creeping up to strangle his neck. "Xing Bi wasn't feeling well today, so I told Hou Lin to drop her home-"

"Jun!" Ai shrieked in horror as Nian grabbed Jun's shirt and forcefully pushed him backward, banging his back on the wall. 

"I will fucking kill you, Jun!" Nian's black eyes dripped with pure danger and his fingers squeezed his neck with such cruelty that only spoke of death and nothing else.

Ai held Nian's wrist and tried to push him away. "Let go of Jun, Nian! We didn't know that Hou Lin was the traitor we were looking for all this time!"

"WHERE IS XING BI!?" 

Nian wasn't in a state to listen to anything else.

"Chyou is trying to find her…" Ai tried to diffuse the situation, but learning that the love of his life was in danger snapped the last thread of patience within him.

Jun struggled against his grip and said, "You can kill me all you want later, Bro. But right now, we need to find Xing Bi."