Hong Kong film: The cop backs down, the ladies beg me to check his license.

"I'm so scared!" Ding Xiaoxie yelled, turned around abruptly, and punched Chen Taotao hard in the stomach without warning.

"Ugh—!" Chen Taotao's body suddenly arched up like a boiled shrimp, his eyes bulged out instantly, his mouth opened wide but only made rapid gasps, his face turned pale instantly, and cold sweat poured down his face.

Ding Xiaoxie withdrew his fist, raising an eyebrow in surprise: "Tsk, I didn't realize he was such a tough nut to crack."

Most people would have screamed or begged for mercy after being hit like that. But Chen Taotao just gritted his teeth and kept his cries of pain stuck in his throat. Apart from the instinctive spasms in his body, he didn't utter a sound.

This made Ding Xiaoxie feel annoyed by being slighted, especially in front of Fang Ting.

"Trying to act tough in front of me? I'll show you!" He grinned maliciously and threw another punch at the same spot.

Chen Taotao's body trembled violently again, his stomach churning. Finally, he couldn't hold back any longer and vomited a mouthful of filth mixed with stomach acid and blood. He collapsed as if he had lost all his strength, but he still didn't beg for mercy. He just stared at the floor with unfocused eyes.

"Stop hitting him! Ding Xiaoxie, stop!" Fang Ting screamed, tears welling in her eyes. "Tao Tao! Tao Tao, are you alright?"

Chen Taotao struggled to lift his eyelids, glanced at Fang Ting, his eyes filled with helplessness and pleading. "My dear lady, please stop shouting… the more you care about me, the harder this guy hits me…"

Sure enough, seeing Fang Ting's anxious expression, Ding Xiaoxie's anger intensified, almost bursting forth. "Trying to be a hero in front of 'your woman,' is that it?" He gritted his teeth, and his third punch whistled through the air!

This time it was even worse. Chen Taotao felt as if his internal organs had shifted. The intense pain made his vision go black, and he curled up on the ground, too weak to even vomit, with only slight twitching in his body.

Ding Xiaoxie was panting heavily, a mixture of the pleasure of violence and the frustration of failing to completely destroy his opponent's dignity in front of Fang Ting, which made his face even more ugly.

Seeing his frenzied state, Fang Ting's last vestiges of affection and illusion shattered completely. She suddenly stopped struggling and crying out, looking at Ding Xiaoxie with an unusually calm, even insightful, gaze.

"Ding Xiaoxie," her voice turned cold, "who told you he's my boyfriend?"

Ding Xiaoxie paused, his scarlet eyes turning to her: "What did you say?"

"I said," Fang Ting said clearly, word by word, "my boyfriend is someone else. It's not Tao Tao."

The air in the office seemed to freeze for a moment. Ding Xiaoxie's fury froze, slowly transforming into a deeper, more betrayed rage. "Fine...fine! Fang Ting, you finally admit it! You really do have another man!" he growled, like a caged beast enraged. "Tell me! Who's that bastard? I'll go get him right now and make you two a pair of star-crossed lovers!"

Fang Ting looked at him, her eyes devoid of fear, only a cold, detached indifference born from utterly seeing through him. "I was so blind back then," she said softly, her voice low but piercing like needles. "I thought you were different from other gangsters, that you at least had some kindness in you, some sense of reason. Now I realize how terribly wrong I was."

She paused, as if organizing her thoughts, or perhaps drawing a conclusion about her past self: "Ruthless, domineering, unreasonable, self-righteous... isn't that the real you, Ding Xiaoxie? All that behavior you showed me before was just an act, wasn't it?"

"You—" Ding Xiaoxie was enraged by her words, and then suddenly panicked, as if something precious was shattering before his eyes.

"The way you are right now disgusts me," Fang Ting said finally, her tone as flat as stating a fact.

These words completely ignited Ding Xiaoxie's rationality. He suddenly stepped forward, grabbed Fang Ting's hair, and roughly pulled her backward! "Tell me! Who exactly is that wild man?!"

A tearing pain shot through her scalp, and Fang Ting's eyes instantly welled up with tears, her face contorted in agony. This was a level of brutality Ding Xiaoxie had never shown her before. In that moment, she truly understood the man's true nature—out of control, violent, and terrifyingly possessive.

She forced out the words through gritted teeth, enduring the pain: "What...do you have to compare with him?"

"Is he as gentle as you? As learned as you? As... rich as you?!" Ding Xiaoxie roared, his spittle almost hitting Fang Ting's face.

Fang Ting laughed instead, a laugh tinged with pain and mockery: "So you do know about these things? Too bad, you can't beat any of them."

"Is he some rich kid? A second-generation rich kid?" Ding Xiaoxie's eyes turned sinister. "Tell me his name, I'll kidnap him and send you all on your way!"

"Then you'll probably have to tie up quite a few people," Fang Ting sneered. "Because his wives, not counting me, there are already seven. Do you think you can handle them all?"

"Seven?" Ding Xiaoxie was taken aback, clearly not expecting this answer.

Fang Ting's voice returned to its usual indifference, as if she were talking about someone else: "I used to have some feelings for him. But he has seven wives, which I found too complicated. I didn't want to share a man with so many people, so I've been avoiding him."

She looked up at Ding Xiaoxie, whose face was contorted with pain and anger, and a strange light suddenly appeared in her eyes. "But just now, when you were pulling my hair, I suddenly realized something."

"I understand one of my best friends now. She's so career-driven, always so busy she's practically invisible. But that person never distances themselves from her just because she's busy, and she certainly doesn't go crazy like you do when she has male colleagues or clients around her, grabbing them and beating them half to death."

Fang Ting's voice gradually gained strength, carrying a resolute clarity: "Domestic violence? Imprisonment? I wouldn't even dare to think about it. He respects his women, gives them space, and supports them in doing what they want to do. Unlike you, who only wants to keep women by your side to satisfy your pitiful desire for control and security."

Seeing Ding Xiaoxie's increasingly grim expression, she added, word by word, the last sentence: "You have no self-confidence whatsoever, thinking every man in the world can steal your woman. Ding Xiaoxie, you're such a failure."

"I'll kill you!!!" Ding Xiaoxie went completely berserk, his grip tightening as if he wanted to rip her hair out by the roots. "Tell me his name! I'll tear him apart right now!!"

Fang Ting trembled all over in pain, but stubbornly held her head high, almost spitting out the name from deep in her throat:

"His name is Ye Tian."

"Go ahead!"

The name was like a bucket of ice water poured over Ding Xiaoxie's raging anger, causing him to freeze abruptly.

"Ye Tian?" He released his grip, his eyes somewhat confused, and murmured repeatedly, "Hung Hing...Ye Tian from Causeway Bay?"

Then, that brief moment of stunned silence was replaced by a deeper rage. "Good! Very good! A leader of Hung Hing, is that it? I'll go and capture him right now! I'll make you all die together! I'll make you—"

boom! ! !

With a loud bang, the heavy solid wood door of the office was kicked open from the outside!

The door slammed against the wall, groaning under its own weight, and splinters of wood fell down.

Three people walked in slowly and deliberately.