Desperate people, accept the seed of my soul!

Su Wanxing picked up the contract, glanced at it, and felt her blood run cold.

The signature on it is indeed hers, but the amount, repayment date, and interest terms are all different from the one she originally signed.

She was in a hurry to pay for her brother's surgery, and the other party only showed her the last page of the signature section, not letting her touch the contents before that.

"You forged the contract!" Su Wanxing's voice trembled. "I'm going to report you to the police station!"

"Sue me?" Zhao Hu laughed even more arrogantly, reaching out to grab Su Wanxing's hair and pulling her in front of him with such force that Su Wanxing cried out in pain.

"Go ahead and sue me! Do you think the police will believe you or me? Why do you think I, Zhao Hu, have been able to do this business in Fu'an Lane for so many years? Without some connections, would I dare to lend this money?"

He leaned close to Su Wanxing's ear, lowered his voice, and the malice in his tone pierced Su Wanxing's ear like an ice pick: "To tell you the truth, I'm the one who had your brother's leg broken."

The way you found to borrow money was one I specifically asked someone to point out to you. You think you can get away with it?

"Blame it on your own beauty; you caught the eye of a big shot. They specifically requested that you spend a month with them. If you pay that 300,000 yuan debt, it'll be wiped clean, and I'll even cover your brother's subsequent medical expenses. Isn't that a great deal?"

Su Wanxing's eyes widened suddenly, and all the blood rushed to her head. She gritted her teeth and bit down hard on Zhao Hu's hand that was pulling her hair.

"Damn it!" Zhao Hu cursed in pain, slapping Su Wanxing hard across the face, causing her face to turn to the side and blood to immediately seep from the corner of her mouth. "You're asking for it, aren't you?"

"Sister!" Su Mingyu cried out in alarm. He tried to rush forward with his crutches, but a thug next to him kicked his injured leg, causing him to fall to his knees, his face turning pale with pain.

"Xiao Ming!" Su Wanxing rushed over to support her younger brother, staring intently at Zhao Hu, her eyes bloodshot. "If you dare touch my brother, I'll fight you to the death!"

"Fight to the death?" Zhao Hu squatted down, reached out and patted Su Wanxing's face, so hard that it left several red marks on her fair skin. "What do you have to fight me with? You're an orphan with no parents and a disabled younger brother. I could crush you both as easily as crushing an ant."

He stood up and gestured with his chin toward the thugs behind him: "Search them. See if they have any money. If not, seal off that dilapidated house and take all the valuables."

Several thugs immediately rushed up and searched Su Wanxing's pockets without saying a word. They snatched the only two hundred yuan she had left and the anti-inflammatory medicine she had just bought, and even shoved her.

She lost her balance and fell to the ground, her palm cut by shards of glass, and blood immediately flowed out.

With red eyes, Su Mingyu tried to help his sister, but was held down by two thugs and couldn't move.

Looking at the slap mark on his sister's face and the blood on her palm, and thinking about his broken leg and the unknown oppression that awaited him from his boss, he finally couldn't hold back his tears.

"Sister, it's all my fault," Su Mingyu's voice choked with sobs. "If it weren't for treating my leg, you wouldn't have borrowed money from him, and you wouldn't have been bullied by him. I'm just a burden to you; I'd rather be dead!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Su Wanxing crawled over and hugged her younger brother, tears finally falling onto Su Mingyu's cast. "You're my brother, if I don't protect you, who will? It's my fault, it's my fault, I can't even protect you."

Zhao Hu stood to the side, watching the siblings hug each other and cry, a playful smile on his face.

He squatted down, grinding the blood Su Wanxing had spilled on the ground with the sole of his shoe, his tone flippant: "If you've cried enough, think it through. In three days, go to the Emperor Entertainment Club and report to Manager Wang. Dress nicely, make the big shot comfortable, and your good days will begin. If you don't go..."

He paused, his gaze falling on Su Mingyu's injured leg, full of malice: "Next time I'll have someone break his other leg too, and throw him on the street to be a beggar. You choose."

After saying that, he spat and swaggered away with his thugs. Before leaving, he didn't forget to throw the anti-inflammatory medicine that Su Wanxing had just bought on the ground and stomp on it.

The alley finally quieted down, with only the siblings' cries and the faint sound of car horns in the distance.

A crowd slowly gathered around, pointing and whispering. The whispers weren't loud, but every word struck Su Wanxing's heart.

"Sigh, I told her a long time ago not to lend Zhao Hu money, but she wouldn't listen. Now look what happened, she got scammed!"

"It's not that she wanted to borrow money. Didn't you hear what Zhao Hu just said? Zhao Hu had her brother's leg broken. Borrowing money was a setup. He just wanted to send her to the Emperor Hotel because he saw her as pretty."

"Emperor's Palace? You can go in and come out of that place? I heard that none of the girls there have a good ending. It's a pity about this girl, she's so beautiful."

"What's the use of it being a pity? Who told her to have no connections? Zhao Hu has powerful backers, who dares to interfere? Last time, Old Wang's son sued Zhao Hu, and in the end, he still got his leg broken and couldn't even get medical expenses."

"Keep your voice down, don't let Zhao Hu's men hear us. Let's just watch the show and not get ourselves into trouble."

Su Wanxing ignored the whispers and simply held her younger brother tightly. The wound on her palm was still bleeding, but she couldn't feel the pain.

The hatred in her heart grew wildly like weeds, almost setting her on fire.

She hated Zhao Hu's viciousness, hated the greed of those powerful figures, hated her own uselessness, and hated the injustice of this world.

She and her younger brother lost their parents when they were young and depended on each other for survival. She worked odd jobs to support her brother's education and never stole or robbed. She lived an honest and upright life, so why did she have to be bullied like this?

Just because they have no power or influence, do they deserve to be trampled on in the mud?

Su Mingyu nestled in his sister's arms, his shoulders trembling as he cried, "Sister, I don't want treatment anymore. Let's go, let's leave Zhaoming City and go somewhere else. I don't need you to accompany any important people. I can support you; I can support you even by collecting garbage."

"Go? Where can we go?" Su Wanxing gently patted her younger brother's back, her voice hoarse. "Zhao Hu said he has connections in the police force. Even if we run to the ends of the earth, he can bring us back. Besides, your leg isn't healed yet, and we have no money. How can we go?"

She looked up at the dark sky at the end of the alley, tears streaming down her cheeks and dripping onto Su Mingyu's hair.

She had never felt so desperate.

Call the police?

Zhao Hu said he had people in the police station, and if she went to the police, she would only suffer a worse fate.

Pay back?

Three hundred thousand. Even if she worked her whole life, she couldn't earn that much money.

Go to Geely?

That place is a den of monsters that devours people. If she goes in, her life will be ruined. Even if her brother's leg heals, he might be gossiped about for the rest of his life, with people saying he has a sister who works as a hostess in a club.

She even thought about dying.