Ninety-three, I will mete out justice in heaven's stead.

It took Bai Jinyan half a month to realize that Chen Ruowen seemed to be cold toward him again.

He could hardly be blamed for being slow on the uptake. For one thing, they had never been the sort of couple who had to cling together every day, and Chen Ruowen was the type whose enthusiasm burned hot and fast, often warm one moment and icy the next. For another, after the hundred-day pledge ceremony for the college entrance examination, the third-year students were already drowning in study, their nerves stretched to breaking.

Once April arrived, they were drilling problems and explaining them from dawn to dark, and people often sighed that somehow, with eyes closed and opened again, a whole week had passed.

In such a tense atmosphere, Bai Jinyan had no energy at all to count how many days Chen Ruowen had gone without sending him a message.

It was only one day, when he opened her profile picture intending to ask how she was doing, that he noticed the last two messages he had sent had received no reply.

Only then did Bai Jinyan sense that something was wrong.

He called her, but the phone was turned off.

He called again. Still off.

He made more than a dozen calls that afternoon, and every single one was answered with the same message: powered off.

Bai Jinyan could sit still no longer.

During the last self-study period, he asked their homeroom teacher, Teacher Wu, for leave, then ran out of First High without stopping for breath. He hailed a cab from the roadside and rushed straight to the Guangxun building.

At first glance, he did not see Chen Ruowen's favorite, eye-catching red Ferrari in the underground parking garage. Bai Jinyan wandered around the garage for a while before finally spotting another car from the Chen family parked by the elevator.

A car he remembered Chen Ruowen not seeming to like very much.

Bai Jinyan tried knocking on the window. This time, however, Old Cui did not open the door for him as he had before, and only very tactfully told him, "Miss hasn't been in a good mood lately. Would you like to go up and see her?"

Bai Jinyan had a rough idea of what was going on.

Even Old Cui was too afraid to open the door for him. It seemed her mood was not just "not good" in the ordinary sense.

Bai Jinyan said nothing, and after following the usual procedure to register at the front desk on the first floor of Guangxun, he went up to the sixteenth floor.

"Human Resources Department..."

Following the directions given by the front desk, Bai Jinyan got off the elevator, crossed the corridor, and came to a glass door beside which hung a long plaque bearing the department name.

Just as he was about to knock and go in, the glass door suddenly opened, and a cheerful woman carrying a large stack of files came out.

"Oh, handsome, who are you looking for?" she asked warmly.

"Excuse me, is Chen Ruowen here?"

Zhang Liling smiled in understanding.

"Ohhh, here to see our Miss Chen Ruowen again, are you? Yes, yes, she's here."

"Again?"

"Yep. Another handsome guy came by yesterday too." Zhang Liling enthusiastically led Bai Jinyan into the office, while calling inside, "Chen Ruowen, there's a handsome guy here to see you~"

Chen Ruowen was nearly driven mad.

These days, Gao Tang seemed to have dropped out of First High. Every few days he would show up at Guangxun for a stroll, and several times he had even run into Yang Anxin and Chen Liwan, who had come to see her.

It would have been one thing if he only came to find her. The annoying thing was that this man was thoroughly detestable, always delighting in poking at people's wounds. Every time he came, he would ask:

"Has Bai Jinyan come to see you today? ...Ah, not again? How pitiful."

It made Chen Ruowen so furious she could have slapped him to death on the spot.

When she heard Zhang Liling say that another "handsome guy" had come to find her, Chen Ruowen did not think twice and hurled the mouse pad beside her straight at the newcomer.

"Yes, yes, yes! Bai Jinyan didn't come to find me today either! Happy now? Ever get tired of this? Just get lost already, will you?"

Bai Jinyan put the mouse pad back beside her hand and crouched slightly at her side.

"If Bai Jinyan didn't come looking for you, then who am I?"

Chen Ruowen's eyes slowly moved to the newcomer's face. She looked at him once, then quickly turned away.

"How should I know who you are? I don't know you."

"Weren't you just calling my name?"

"Who called you? You heard wrong."

Bai Jinyan sighed, glancing around the office at the coworkers who kept sneaking looks at them from the corners of their eyes. While taking Chen Ruowen's hand, which was furiously clicking at the mouse as if venting her temper, he pushed the keyboard back into the drawer. Then, sliding both hands lower, he slipped one arm beneath her waist and the other beneath her knees, and with practiced ease lifted her from the chair and carried her out.

"Bai Jinyan, put me down!"

"Didn't you say you didn't know me?"

"I... Bai Jinyan, you bastard!! All you know how to do is bully me!"

"Stop shouting. Keep your voice down."

"You... "

"What did you say?"

"Don't go this way! That way! I want the special elevator!"

...

In the underground parking garage, Huang Ge crouched beside a thick concrete pillar, his body curled in on itself. Long hours of hunger and exhaustion had left his mind somewhat dazed.

He had been hidden here for more than a week. He had spent three days figuring out the layout of the garage and the roads around it, then five more days lying in wait, hoping to catch an opening.

But every time the target appeared, she was surrounded so tightly that there was no chance to move. As soon as she stepped out of the elevator and took a few paces, she would get into the car and vanish far beyond his reach.

Thinking of the money the man had promised him if the job succeeded, Huang Ge licked his lips. With that money, his difficulties could be eased for the time being. Even if Guangxun fired him and left a stain on his record, he could always move to another city and start over.

He fixed his gaze on the dedicated elevator. As the indicator light came on, his nerves tautened like a drawn wire.

The target had appeared. Only this time, there was also a man in a white shirt standing beside her?

Today there were actually two people.

No hope now.

If there had only been one, he would have risked it and tried no matter what!

But then Huang Ge's spirits surged once more.

Because this time, that woman wasn't even walking toward her own car! After coming out of the elevator, she actually headed in the exact opposite direction from her usual one!

And as if quarrelling with the man beside her, she shook him off and strode forward without even looking back. Even the driver in the car did not follow after her today!

A secluded spot, with only a student-looking young man at her side. The two were still arguing, and half the time the man could only trail a meter behind her.

Huang Ge suddenly felt his eyes burning.

These people, simply because they were born into good families, never bothered to obey rules or discipline. He had worked diligently for ten years, contributing countless things to the company, and now he was to be fired merely for accepting a little benefit during a purchasing process. Yet these people were late every day, left early, slacked off at work, and were picked up and dropped off in luxury cars after hours.

Why?

At that moment, Huang Ge suddenly forgot the purpose the man had assigned him. Huang Ge himself would mete out justice for heaven today! He would cleanse society of its scum!

"Miss, even if you're angry, there has to be a reason, doesn't there?" Bai Jinyan said helplessly.

She had been fine a few days ago, and he hadn't done anything to provoke her. Yet for no reason at all, she had started throwing a tantrum again. Could it be that she had entered menopause early?

"I'm just fickle. If you don't like me, then leave. Who said you had to manage me?"

"Ruowen..."

Now!

Huang Ge yanked a stainless-steel kitchen knife from inside his coat and swung it straight toward Chen Ruowen's head!

Today, he would make these rich second-generation vermin spill blood within five steps!