From Dusk till Dawn!

"Si Xiu...Wait…." Ye Jie ran towards them before Si Xiu could walk to the helicopter.

She paused and turned around to look at him with a questioning gaze.

It was only then Ye Jie noticed the weird atmosphere around with the countless helicopters in the sky but he kept his gaze on the woman standing in front of him.

"What is it?" Si Xiu softly asked looking at the man, unaware of a certain father who had his ears stuck outside to keep listening to everything that was going on at the scene.

Since Song Tianyi could not see, his other senses were sharper than normal people. The innocent lamb-like niece of his turned out to be a fox and because of his miscalculations, he ended up in this situation.

He underestimated Tang Li and that's where he made his first mistake.

But even after everything, he was still the leader of Kingsman Faction, an underworld Empire that was dreaded most wanted criminals. One mention of him was enough to make the military tremble.

Although he got played by a little girl in the end, still he was not going to sit idle.

There was still time to take things under his control. But before that, he had a few things to do. He decided to bond with his niece later since she would not be coming with them anytime soon given that she had yet to get her hands on that thing. As for his nephew, he wasn't especially fond of the boy child so it was useless to think about him.

Right at this moment, his priority was getting to know his daughter who seemed to be entangled with a guy. Probably future-son-in-law? But before that, he had a few questions that demanded urgent answers. He had slept with many women in his youth but he was very sure about not leaving his seed behind. Then which one of them stole his sperm? Though he could not deny that…that having a daughter certainly sounded very good to him.

"Do you want anything?" Si Xiu asked again when Ye Jie did not reply.

A certain father figure's ears perked up.

"Your phone…" He passed her the phone she left behind.

Ye Jie blankly stared at the woman who was looking at him impatiently. He did not know what happened here but he did not like the vibes he was getting. Si Xiu's expressions, the helicopters, and if he didn't remember wrong, she was leaving when he came. Something in him told him that he might not see her again if she left now.

"Thanks…" She took the phone from his hand and turned around to leave.

"Wait…" Without thinking anything, he grabbed her wrist.

Tang Li glanced at Mo Yuhan, "They have a thing…?" She whispered, thinking about the one-night stand Si Xiu mentioned.

"Possible," Mo Yuhan softly replied.

Nobody noticed how Li Yu's expression changed when Ye Jie grabbed Si Xiu's hand. All this time, he was standing looking at the woman whom he rejected for being an ordinary girl who might not add up to the family's profit. He watched how the woman who was supposed to be an orphan, turned out to be the princess of the underworld, the heiress of a royal family. He had feelings for her, from the day she showed interest in him but he prioritized his family and maybe this was what he deserved.

Regret.

Heartbreak.

Disappointment.

Before he could do or say something, the woman leaning against him moved. He glanced at Ye Lan who was holding her wounded arm with her other arm. Although she had a thick cloth wrapped around the place where the bullet grazed her skin, but there was still some external bleeding on her wound. Being trained in tough conditions to be in the military, the woman did not cry nor wince because of her wound.

But her expressions were blank and her face was pale like a sheet of paper, one would not know if it was because of pain or because of everything she witnessed.

Si Xiu when she felt him holding her wrist. She turned around to look at him, but before she could say anything, another voice called out to him.

"Brother…"

When he heard his sister's weak voice, Ye Jie turned around to look at her. His eyes widened in disbelief when he saw her condition. All this while, his gaze was stuck on Si Xiu which is why he failed to notice anyone else.

His grip on Si Xiu's hand gradually loosened as he ran towards his sister without looking back at her.

He immediately held Ye Lan who was leaning onto Li Yu for support. "Who did this to you?" He coldly asked, hugging her closer.

Ye Lan blinked away the tears in her eyes.

"Xiao Lan, who did this?" The man repeated.

She narrated the whole incident in brief.

Ye Jie tried to calm down but his eyes turned red. He pushed the woman slowly away from him and glanced at Li Yu who came forward to support Ye Lan.

He turned around to glance at Mo Yuhan who was standing beside Tang Li, his face was still as indifferent as before, "How could you be so nonchalant?" He gritted his teeth but his eyes turned redder. His fingers curled into fists, "I told you don't hurt my sister. She likes you. Even if you don't like her back, be patient with her. She almost died because of you yet you are standing with that poker face? You don't even have the decency to stand beside the woman who almost died because of you? To at least show her pity?"

Tang Li narrowed her eyes.

Mo Yuhan's expression did not change a bit as he looked at Ye Jie, "I was not the one who hurt her neither did I give her the hope of loving her if she takes the bullet for me. Why would I show pity to a woman when I know it could be mistaken as something else?" He spoke calmly but one could hear the hint of danger in his deep voice.