CH 5

Chapter 5: After Being Caught, You Can Only Wait To Be Killed.

The customer was physically weak, so the moment his neck was hit by Qi Ci, he didn’t even make a sound, and fell down with his eyes rolled white.

Qi Ci felt a chill as he rubbed his arms, and it took him a long time to calm down. Since he didn’t dare to doubt about it, he quickly climbed up the tree trunk.

Unexpectedly, the top of the willow tree was actually covered with broken porcelain pieces, and it was impossible to climb!

It seemed that the Madame had already expected that someone would try to escape from here, so she tried to stop it.

Qi Ci’s heart felt cold as he gritted his teeth, forcing himself to calm down. Suddenly, he remembered something. At that moment, he squatted down to strip off the fainted customer’s clothes, wrapped his hands with the clothes, and then climbed up the tree.

However, he hadn’t climbed up two steps when he suddenly saw a dark shadow staggering at the distance.

That man stumbled and limped under the tree, then he shouted with a trembling voice: “Wait! Take me, take me! I beg you!”

Qi Ci recognized that it was the male prostitute from the wing room next to his. He turned his head and said: “Come! Climb!”

The male prostitute cried and said: “My leg is injured, I can’t climb. I can’t climb up.”

Qi Ci jumped down from the half-climbed three and covered the male prostitute’s mouth: “Don’t cry, you’ll draw people here. It’s okay, don’t be afraid, I won’t leave you behind. We’ll escape together.”

Feeling the comfort of Qi Ci’s words, the young male prostitute calmed down and nodded with tearful eyes.

Qi Ci asked: ”Your hands aren’t injured, right? Can you climb? I’ll hold you up first, but there are broken porcelain pieces on the top, so you’ll need to wrap your hands. If you accidentally get a porcelain piece stuck on you, try to not shout and bear with it.”

The young male prostitute nodded his head, wrapped his hands with his clothes, and then stepped on Qi Ci’s shoulders, slowly climbing up with his help.

Qi Ci held him as high as he could, and after making sure that the male prostitute was secure on a branch, he began to climb up himself.

Even though his hands were wrapped, there were too many porcelain pieces on the tree. If he wasn’t careful enough, he would end up cutting his body. But in the end, Qi Ci was cut several times, and he could only gnash his teeth, bear the pain, and continue to climb up.

Qi Ci had just climbed halfway up the tree, when suddenly, the light of a candle flickered in the distance. Then, two guards walked over talking to each other.

Qi Ci and the male prostitute were suddenly as stiff as stone, lying on the tree, trying to hide themselves in the dark night. As their hearts began to beat like a drum, they didn’t dare to make a move.

Seeing how the candlelight was getting closer and closer, Qi Ci’s bruises all over his body began to ache due to his stiffness. His shoulders were also trembling slightly.

“Oh, don’t go over there.” One of the guards suddenly said: “There are a lot of corpses buried over there, it’s filled with bad omen. When I walk past at night, I always feel chilly inside.”

The other guard replied: “Yeah, yeah. We won’t go over there. Hey, did you hear that Lord Qian was assassinated inside the brothel last night?”

The previous guard said: “Shh! Don’t talk nonsense. Lord Qian didn’t die. Otherwise, how could it be so calm today? It should have been an uproar a long time ago….”

The two guards turned away as they spoke, and the candlelight gradually dissipated into the night.

Qi Ci let out a long sigh, only to find that because of the tension, his hands wrapped in clothes were cut by the porcelain pieces without him knowing it. He endured the pain, and then climbed up the tree.

The young male prostitute sitting on the branch urged him: “Hurry up, hurry up. If we keep waiting, someone will come.”

Qi Ci reached out and said: “Help me.”

Who would’ve known that the moment the male prostitute pulled Qi Ci up, someone yelled at the bottom of the tree: “Help! Somebody help me! Where the fuck is everyone!?”

It turned out to be the customer, who was knocked unconscious by Qi Ci, that just woke up.

The two guards who had just walked away heard the noise and immediately rushed over.

The young male prostitute panicked: “What do we do?!”

Qi Ci shouted: “Don’t panic! Just pull me up!”

However, the guards had already seen that there was a figure on the tree: “Who?! Who is in the tree?”

Qi Ci said anxiously to the young male prostitute: “Hurry up! Give me a hand and we’ll go over the wall and run out of the city! We can escape! Trust me!”

The male prostitute, who was about to pull Qi Ci hard, suddenly stopped after hearing those words.

The shadows of the willow leaves fell on the young male prostitute’s face, intertwining between bright and dark, making it impossible for other people to see his expression clearly. Then, he muttered: “But, my leg is injured. I, I can’t run. I’ll be caught and killed….”

Before Qi Ci could understand the meaning behind his words, he was suddenly pushed down the willow tree by the male prostitute.