After many years of hard work, I returned to square one overnight.

Health spas, drugs, two scandals exposed by numerous media outlets at once—overnight, this young heartthrob from South Korea dominated the headlines on every major Huaxia portal site.

At the same time, Li Junxiu's management agency initiated emergency public relations measures, trying by all means to whitewash his image.

They even pulled strings to release the apology video of Li Junxiu from the detention center online.

In the video, Li Junxiu, dressed in a yellow prison outfit, cried like a child, lamenting this undeserved fate.

Begging in such a manner to prevent his popularity from plummeting, or even worse, being banned.

The video went viral online overnight.

Indeed, the video had a significant impact.

Well... the yellow prison outfit that Li Junxiu wore sold out overnight on a certain popular online platform.

The ironclad truth lay before everyone's eyes: no amount of brainstorming to clear his name worked.

Despite numerous fans calling online that Li Junxiu was just a child and other such sentiments, it didn't have the slightest effect.

As for Xu Fan, who had once played the role of a concerned citizen, he hardly paid any attention to all this.

The people's condemnation was enough to give Li Junxiu a taste of his own medicine.

With Li Qinghe's protection, Xu Fan believed that Hua Entertainment wouldn't target Guan Shimeng any longer.

With her talent, he believed that it wouldn't take long for her to stand on the stage of her dreams.

...

Knock, knock, knock!

Having just shut off the computer that was flooded with pages dominated by Li Junxiu, Xu Fan heard a knocking at the door.

"Who is it?"

Muttering to himself, Xu Fan walked toward the door.

"Feng Huang?"

Not many knew where he lived, and he had expected it to be Xiao Die who would come calling, but to his surprise, standing at the door was Feng Huang, who had left without a word a while ago.

For some reason, Feng Huang looked somewhat weak at this moment.

Seeing Xu Fan standing dumbfounded at the door, Feng Huang smiled, tightened the coat around her, and said, "What? Oppa, don't you welcome me inside?"

"Come in..."

For some reason, Xu Fan felt that something was off about the coat Feng Huang was wearing.

Opening the door, he invited Feng Huang into the house.

"Where have you been these days?"

He had planned to give her Professor Sun's contract to handle, so she could close the deal, but she had stood him up.

"Oppa, you seem quite concerned about me, huh."

It wasn't cold inside the house, yet Feng Huang continued to clutch her coat tightly. Now, trying to sound casual, she teased Xu Fan.

"..."

Whenever she encountered something she didn't want to tell him, she would dodge the issue like this.

"Feng Huang, what's wrong with you?"

Looking at Feng Huang's faintly pale face, Xu Fan grew increasingly uneasy. Rising to his feet, he walked toward her.

"Don't... don't come over..."

Seemingly lacking the strength to stand up, Feng Huang extended her hand to stop Xu Fan as he approached, still holding onto her coat.

As if this slight movement caused her immense pain, Xu Fan, seeing the pained expression on Feng Huang's face, couldn't help but feel a tightening in his chest.

"Stop..."

Ignoring Feng Huang's resistance, Xu Fan rushed forward and pulled open the coat she was clutching.

What met his eyes was a vision of blood.

The tank top clinging to her perfect figure was now soaked red with fresh blood.

Knife wounds, bullet holes, and shocking injuries were continuously bleeding…

Clearly, this woman had just ended a vicious battle not long ago.

"I didn't want you to see me in such a mess, but it seems I couldn't keep it from you…"

She had come over not wanting Xu Fan to see her in this state and had deliberately wrapped herself in a heavy coat.

But she still couldn't hide it from him.

Looking at the man in front of her, whose face was growing darker, Feng Huang forced a wan smile.

"Oppa, you don't look good when you're angry. Please don't be like this, okay?"

She had planned to see him one last time before she died and then leave on her own.

But the very thing she didn't want him to know about had happened.

"Who did this."

Xu Fan looked at Feng Huang without expression and asked.

Feng Huang was skilled in combat; her being injured like this likely meant she had been overrun by attackers.

Xu Fan clenched his fists, silently swearing to make those responsible pay dearly.

"Don't worry, they… they're all dead, not a single one was spared."

As her strength drained away like water, her vision was blurring, Feng Huang bit her lip hard and squeezed out a smile, "Oppa, I came to say goodbye."

"After this, when you can't see me anymore, you'll have to remember me."

"Don't talk."

Realizing she must be close to her end to be saying such things, Xu Fan didn't want to hear her give her last wishes to him.

He picked her up and carried her to a bed nearby.

Feng Huang was his comrade-in-arms for life; he would never let her die before his eyes, no matter what!

"Oppa, don't waste your strength. You haven't healed from your own wounds…"

Seeing his anxious expression, Feng Huang felt a warmth in her heart.

He indeed cared deeply for her. To her, giving him her life was worth it.

"Looking at you, you must be almost recovered. When that guy sends people after you, I believe they won't be able to hurt you."

This man had bled numerous times for her, and even if she was heartless and cold, she couldn't help but be moved.

Her mind was growing heavier; the man who was frantically treating her wounds was also becoming blurry.

Feng Huang smiled bitterly, unsure whether giving up her life to protect him, while he was injured, would settle their debts.

"Oppa, Feng Huang has never trusted anyone in this life, except for you."

"Feng Huang!"

Watching as Feng Huang on the bed finished her words and closed her eyes, Xu Fan couldn't help but roar out loud!

Suddenly, he understood why she had left without saying goodbye.

Everything made sense now.

After the battle with Li Xiaochen, when he was seriously injured, Feng Huang had shown up at the hospital.

The dagger she had then might not have been a joke.

She might have truly been forced by others to take his life.

But she didn't make a move.

When they met again, it was on Professor Sun's birthday.

She had gone to the event with the same intention as him.

But because of what he had said, she passed the contract over to him.

Worried she wouldn't complete her task, he had intended to give her the contract.

However, she left without saying anything.

Now that Feng Huang had shown up severely injured before him, Xu Fan suddenly realized that these incidents were interconnected.

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