MHMWTTSBATUAS 488: Qin Xiaowu, Covered in Scars, Crawled Out of the Mire
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Jiang Liu shook his head lightly, feeling both shocked by Qin Ruan's situation and gaining some confidence in relying on the Hou family for survival.
Qin Ruan was a person who knew how to repay kindness, and her treatment of Lin Hao showed that she wasn't ungrateful.
As long as she remained obedient in the Western City, he would have nothing to worry about in the future.
...
While Lin Hao was driving away from the western part of the city, Qin Ruan suddenly spoke up when they passed a certain street.
"We're approaching Guilan Lane. I want to eat black ox tongue pancakes."
Lin Hao stopped the car and turned around, teasing her, "You've tasted all kinds of delicacies. How come you still have a craving for this?"
Qin Ruan looked out of the car window and raised the corner of her lips, saying, "It's a persistent craving."
It wasn't that she particularly liked black ox tongue pancakes, but she couldn't go a day without them; otherwise, she would feel uncomfortable.
It was just that when she was hungry as a child, she happened to have a bite of ox tongue pancake, and it tasted like a delicacy.
For Qin Ruan, who had never had any gourmet food before, the taste was something she could remember for a lifetime, unforgettable.
More accurately, it was unforgettable in both of her lives.
"Okay, you stay in the car, and I'll go buy it for you."
Lin Hao opened the car door and got out, walking toward Guilan Lane.
Shortly after he got out of the car, Qin Ruan's phone rang.
She took out her phone and glanced at it. It was an unidentified number.
Qin Ruan answered the call and put the phone to her ear.
"Xiao Wu, where are you?"
Su Wang's calm voice, with a penetrating quality, reached Qin Ruan's ears through the phone's speaker.
Qin Ruan leaned back in her seat, in a lazy posture, and replied, "I'm about to leave the Western City."
On the other end of the phone, Su Wang fell silent.
It seemed noisy on his side, and Qin Ruan seemed to hear Qiao Xi crying and Li Zilan exploding in anger.
The noise in the phone gradually diminished, and Su Wang should have found a quiet place.
"After so long without contact, we didn't expect you to come back."
After a long while, Su Wang's voice sounded again, filled with complex emotions.
Qin Ruan turned her head and calmly surveyed the dilapidated streets of the Western City.
Her tone was indifferent as she said, "This is where I've lived for eighteen years. I naturally have to come back and take a look."
Su Wang's voice sounded slightly heavy, "You're different from us. Being able to leave the Western City is fortunate and liberating. Many people want to escape from the muddy and turbid Western City but never get the chance."
"There's nothing worth your nostalgia here. It's better to focus on living your own life outside."
Qin Ruan chuckled lightly, "I can't erase the traces of living in the Western City for eighteen years. Brother Wang, you and Ranzi and Zilan can also come out and take a look. The outside world is still very interesting."
Su Wang sneered, filled with self-derision, "Xiao Wu, we're different from you. We'll rot here for the rest of our lives."
Qin Ruan withdrew her gaze from outside the car, her expression calm and almost cold.
She said in a deep voice to Su
Wan, "As long as you take the first step, there's a chance for you to get out."
Staying in the Western City for too long would always make one narrow-minded.
"Don't know how wonderful the outside world is until you step out and take a look."
"Different from the outside world, we are seriously off track and have already adapted to the survival rules of the Western City."
Su Wang smiled bitterly, mixed with a hint of helplessness.
Qin Ruan heard the words and stopped persuading further.
Su Wang is right. There is a set of survival rules in the Western City.
Once they leave the Western City, they will be like ignorant children running into walls. The unfamiliarity outside will make them feel panicked.
In her past life, no matter how cautious she was, she still fell into various conspiracies and calculations.
In the end, she lost her life, lost her loved ones, and died without closure.
Qin Ruan remained silent for a long time, and Su Wang let out a deep sigh.
"Xiao Wu, we all hope you're doing well. We hope you won't have any more involvement with the Western City. Crawling out of the mud covered in scars, the pain and hardship you once experienced won't belong to you anymore.
Among the four of us, you are the only one who managed to escape. Please don't go back on that path."
Su Wang, Shen Ran, and Li Zilan have no idea about Qin Ruan's current identity.
They only know that she finally managed to leave the Western City and should sever all ties with it.
Qin Ruan pursed her lips and spoke softly with a hint of reassurance, "I'm doing fine. I eat well, live well, and my life is good. You don't have to worry about me."
"Alright then. Take care of yourself. If anyone mistreats you or bullies you outside, let me know. We may not have much, but we have each other as brothers. We will definitely help you find your place!"
Su Wang said this boldly, and hearing it made Qin Ruan's heart swell, her eyes becoming teary.
"Yes!"
Qin Ruan responded while nodding vigorously.
She knew Su Wang couldn't see her, but she couldn't control herself from nodding.
In her past life, she never contacted Su Wang and the others until her death.
However, that doesn't mean the bond they forged through life and death experiences would be erased.
Just after Qin Ruan hung up the phone, Lin Hao entered the car holding a black cow tongue pastry in his hand.
He had a big smile on his face as he handed the black cow tongue pastry to Qin Ruan. "Try it quickly. The old lady sold me the last one."
Qin Ruan looked at the familiar snack and reached out to take it.
In the presence of a familiar friend and holding the pastry she used to love the most, the complexity in Qin Ruan's heart was known to no one.
She pinched off a piece and put it in her mouth; it still had the familiar taste.
Qin Ruan still remembered the first time she heard about the black cow tongue pancakes, she thought it was made from actual cow tongues.
In fact, it was a special crispy pastry from the capital city, and it also resembled the shape of a cow tongue.
The black cow tongue pastry had a strong salty and savory taste, unlike the usual sweet pastries, making people unable to resist wanting more.
Qin Ruan quickly finished the entire piece of black cow tongue pancake.
Lin Hao, who was sitting in the driver's seat, handed a bottle of water to Qin Ruan.
"Have some water. This kind of pastry is a bit dry."
Qin Ruan acknowledged with a sound and took the water.
She took a few sips and neatly kept the remaining black cow tongue pancake.
Lin Hao started
the car and asked Qin Ruan, "Are we going to Night club?""
Qin Ruan nodded, "Let's go to Night club first, pick up those few people, and then go to the Zhenpin Hall together."
The luxury car slowly drove away, still attracting many onlookers along the way.
After leaving the Western City for a distance, Qin Ruan suddenly spoke, "Brother Hao, what did it feel like when you left the Western City back then?"
This question made Lin Hao's face show an unusual expression.
Qin Ruan kept her gaze on him and noticed that his complexion didn't look good.
She furrowed her brows and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Hao forced a bitter smile and said, "When I left Xicheng, I caused quite a few jokes at the Su family."
Qin Ruan's heart sank slightly, sensing a bad premonition.
Lin Hao drove steadily and calmly said, "After Su Jingshu brought me back to the Su family, she just threw me to the subordinates. Initially, she didn't care about me at all.
At that time, I was also happy not to serve her. I wished she would forget about my existence. But later, when I almost died, I didn't think the same way."
"Someone wanted to kill you?" Qin Ruan asked in a deep voice.
Lin Hao shook his head and said, "My presence in the Su family at that time meant that there were people below who couldn't rise up, obstructing others' paths. I almost got killed. In Xicheng, besides Sixth Master, everyone would call me 'brother' when they saw me. Even if they didn't like me, they would still show respect for me in front of Jiang Liu."
"It wasn't until I entered the Su family that I realized how treacherous people's hearts can be. Not everyone we encounter in Xicheng is a good person."
"The people in the Su family taught me the art of calculating with great cunning. I learned what it meant to kill without leaving a trace. In the early days at the Su family, I suffered a lot, and I even almost lost my life. Speaking of which, I really have to thank Su Jingshu. If it weren't for her protection with just a few words, given my way of doing things in Xicheng, I would have died countless times in the Su family."
As he spoke, Lin Hao's self-deprecating tone almost overwhelmed him.
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