Chapter 51: Bozai

The environment was quite noisy, but Cao Yang slept soundly.

As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place. Now that the Henan Gang was searching the entire world for him, they certainly wouldn't expect him to be sleeping in their own establishment.

Had Xiao Ling not woken him up, he could have slept for a while longer.

"Brother, wake up."

Cao Yang opened his eyes and saw that Xiao Ling had already changed out of her work uniform and was wearing a white t-shirt and grey jeans.

Looking around, there was basically no one left, save for a few staff members dragging away people who were dead drunk.

"Is the shift over?" Cao Yang rubbed his eyes and yawned.

"It's over, let's go."

Outside the club, Xiao Ling very proactively linked her arm through Cao Yang's.

"Brother, let's go to a hotel."

Xiao Ling was a sensible girl; since he had given her such a huge tip, she felt she ought to return the favor. Cao Yang was tall, handsome, and generous with his money, so she was more than willing.

"Not a hotel, let's go to your place." Cao Yang didn't dare go to a hotel.

"Brother, my place isn't very convenient." Xiao Ling looked somewhat troubled.

Cao Yang pulled out another thousand yuan bill and handed it to her.

"Brother, stop giving me money. I'm not that kind of girl, I just feel a connection with you. Doing this feels a bit insulting." Xiao Ling put on a slightly offended expression.

Cao Yang smiled and said, "I'm not insulting you, I just feel bad for you. It's not easy for a young woman to make a living out here, and I can't bear to see a girl I like suffer."

"Just take it, I won't ask anything of you." Cao Yang stuffed the money into her bag.

Hearing him say this, Xiao Ling felt very happy inside. "Let's go, brother, come sit at my place."

As they walked, Xiao Ling kept checking the time, planning things out in her head.

She had a boyfriend and lived with him, but over the past few days, her boyfriend had been out helping his boss hunt for someone, only coming home at dawn every day, and sometimes not returning until the afternoon.

She figured that bringing Cao Yang back and letting him have his fun would take at most ten or twenty minutes, after which she could just send him on his way early.

Her home was very close to the club, and they arrived in less than ten minutes.

Cao Yang looked around; the room was quite ordinary and somewhat cluttered.

Noticing several men's garments on the coat rack, Cao Yang asked, "Do you have a boyfriend?"

"That's right," Xiao Ling readily admitted.

"Aren't you afraid?"

"What is there to be afraid of?"

"My boyfriend! He's a gangster!"

"Oh? Whose crew is he with?"

Hearing that her boyfriend was involved in the underworld piqued Cao Yang's interest, and he figured he probably belonged to the Henan Gang.

"Have you ever heard of the Henan Gang?"

Cao Yang nodded, "I've heard of them. Their boss is named Liu something, isn't he?"

Cao Yang put on a thoughtful look, trying to fish for information.

However, he was disappointed. Xiao Ling didn't know much; apart from giving him the name Liu Zhenhu, she knew nothing else, let alone Liu Zhenhu's address.

Still, he wasn't discouraged. Since she didn't know, her boyfriend certainly knew more than she did. He would just wait for him right here.

"Brother, I'm going to take a shower. Do you want to join me?" Xiao Ling invited him with a smile, looking a bit shy.

"You go ahead, I'll wait for you." Cao Yang shook his head. He still had gauze wrapped around his arm and back, so he needed to avoid getting them wet as much as possible.

The sound of water soon came from the bathroom, and through the frosted glass door, the outline of Xiao Ling's figure could be seen.

She merely took a quick rinse, not even getting her hair wet, and emerged shortly after wrapped in a bath towel.

"Brother, let's get started. Make it quick, otherwise my boyfriend will come back and hack you to pieces."

"We have no grudges, why would he hack me to pieces?"

Xiao Ling scoffed, "You're messing with his girlfriend and you say you have no grudges."

With that, she untied her towel and stood completely naked before Cao Yang.

Cao Yang was a lustful man with a strong sex drive, especially after experiencing Lei Yu and Li Yan, leaving him craving intimacy every single day.

Yet, these past few days he hadn't really been in the mood, and even looking at the naked Xiao Ling failed to stir much interest in him.

He originally wanted to decline, but wouldn't he have to leave right after declining? If he didn't leave, Xiao Ling would grow suspicious and curious. Rather than sitting around waiting to arouse her suspicion, he might as well just go through with it—he had nothing better to do anyway.

He pulled Xiao Ling's waist toward him, and the two began to get intimate.

Xiao Ling had planned it all out nicely—ten minutes to let Cao Yang finish, and then send him on his way. But once they became intimate, she realized how terribly wrong she had been, and by a massive margin.

Suddenly, he heard the sound of a key turning in the lock, accompanied by a man's angry cursing.

"Stinking bitch! What are you doing in there?"

Xiao Ling's boyfriend, Baozai, was back. His face contorted with rage, having heard his girlfriend's wanton cries all the way down the hallway.

Pushing the door open and walking in, he indeed saw a pair of shameless adulterers completely naked.

"I'll screw your mother!" Baozai flew into a rage, whipped out the machete he carried with him, and slashed directly toward Cao Yang's forehead.

Cao Yang cursed inwardly at this idiot. Why couldn't he have come back either earlier or later? Returning right at this moment left him hanging halfway, feeling utterly miserable.

Faced with the incoming machete, Cao Yang had no choice but to separate from Xiao Ling. With a tilt of his head, he easily dodged the blow and simultaneously delivered a kick that sent Baozai crashing flying into the wall.

"Bang!"

Baozai felt as though all his internal organs were about to shatter, collapsing to the floor and unable to get back up for a long while.

Cao Yang stepped forward and gave him another kick. Wracked with intense pain all over his body, Baozai still brandished his knife and threatened Cao Yang.

However, this time as he looked closely at Cao Yang's face, absolute terror washed over him.

Not only had he seen Cao Yang's photograph, but he had also seen the man in person. Just yesterday, their team had tracked Cao Yang down, but because the boss leading them had a gun, Cao Yang had avoided the brunt of their force and fled.

To see Cao Yang right inside his own home now was no different from encountering a ghost in broad daylight. He could wrack his brain until it broke and still never figure out why Cao Yang was in his house sleeping with his girlfriend—two completely unrelated people suddenly entangled like this.

Cao Yang also recognized him; this fellow was indeed among that mob from yesterday. What a delivery straight to his doorstep.

He snatched the knife from Baozai's hand, grabbed him by the hair, and hauled him up.

"Don't kill me! Big Brother Cao Yang, spare my life! I'm just a small-time punk, I was forced into all this!"

Baozai cried out loudly for mercy. If it were anyone else, he might have spat out some tough talk like "if you've got the guts, kill me," but facing Cao Yang, he didn't dare utter such words. For this guy truly dared to kill people—Tie Xiong and Liu Yilong had both been done in by him, let alone a petty gangster like himself.

Cao Yang was burning with a fierce temper right now, left hanging in such an uncomfortable state, coupled with the fact that this guy was his enemy.

Finding a finger-thick rope in the room, he tied Baozai up and shoved Xiao Ling's clothes into his mouth.

"Brother, please don't hurt him, okay?" Xiao Ling also began to plead. She never imagined this man would be so ruthless—he had slept with someone else's girlfriend, yet still wanted to beat the man up. And as if beating him wasn't enough, he intended to carry on right in front of him.