Border Prisoner: The Mad Boss Seduces Her Every Night

Shi Luyu glanced at the men in black who were still "busy," then at Xu Yuanjia, who wasn't very friendly to them, and said, "Brother, don't do this. Everyone is working hard. Let me treat everyone to a late-night snack."

Xu Yuanjia raised an eyebrow, but before he could speak, Shi Luyu had already turned and walked towards the noodle stall, rattling off a long list of orders to the proprietress: "Proprietress, ten more bowls of beef brisket noodles, five bowls of fish ball noodles, three servings of fried spring rolls, and iced drinks."

The proprietress hurriedly took notes, while the water in the pot bubbled and boiled. Shi Luyu turned around and waved to the group of men in black: "Everyone, don't stand there, come and sit down."

No one moved.

All eyes turned to Xu Yuanjia.

Xu Yuanjia stood under the streetlight, his expression hard to describe.

He wasn't happy at all; his lips were pressed into a thin line, and his chin was slightly tense. After several seconds, he nodded, the movement so small it was almost imperceptible.

The group of men in black seemed to have received a pardon, and they all headed towards the noodle stall in unison. Their movements were perfectly synchronized and as fast as a military exercise, but everyone deliberately kept their distance from Shi Luyu, at least one seat apart. No one dared to sit next to her, nor did anyone dare to sit opposite her.

That spot was empty; no one dared to touch it.

Xu Yuanjia walked over and sat down in the empty chair.

Bowls of noodles were served one by one, steaming hot. A dozen or so men in black crowded around the plastic tables and chairs at the noodle stall, each with a bowl of noodles in front of them, their posture upright and backs straight, as if they were attending a formal banquet.

No one touched their chopsticks, and no one spoke. Only the steam from the noodle soup drifted in the night breeze, and occasionally a very soft sound, as if someone was swallowing.

Shi Luyu took a bite of the noodles in her bowl, looked around, and asked in confusion, "Why aren't you eating? I'll order more if it's not enough."

The man in black next to her shook his head frantically, holding his chopsticks tightly in his hand, but daring not to put them into the bowl.

Xu Yuanjia picked up a mouthful of noodles, ate it slowly and deliberately, and glanced at his subordinates.

Upon receiving the eye signal, everyone simultaneously lowered their heads and put the noodles into their mouths.

Shi Luyu thought this group of people was really strange.

She turned to look at Xu Yuanjia and lowered her voice: "Brother, is there a lot of pressure doing volunteer work? Why does eating a meal feel like going to war?"

Xu Yuanjia put down his chopsticks, looked at Shi Luyu, and said with a hint of reluctance and grievance in his eyes: "Brother wants to eat alone with Guai Guai."

He was thinking something else entirely—that since I'd eaten the noodles he'd treated him to, he'd have to give me extra training when we got home that night, until I was exhausted to the point of throwing up.

Shi Luyu was a little embarrassed by his phrase "eating alone," and her ears turned red. She retorted, "My brother even sleeps in the same bed with me. What's wrong with treating everyone to a bowl of noodles?"

A muffled thud came from the side.

Chai almost choked and spat out his drink, dropping the soup spoon into the bowl and splashing soup onto his sleeve. The chopsticks of the surrounding men in black hung in mid-air, their eyes unsure where to look.

Xu Yuanjia slowly curved the corners of his mouth into a smile.

A joyful smile overflowed from his eyes, impossible to suppress.

Chai silently lowered his head, took the soup spoon out of the bowl, and put it in his mouth without wiping it.

A world where only one person is injured has been achieved—

Beneath the manhole cover, Zhou Ji lay prone in the dark sewer, his face covered in mud. His fingers groped through the slippery mud and found a thin chain. He carefully pulled it out and examined it with his phone's flashlight: the pink diamond pendant was covered in mud, and the chain was tangled up, but it was still intact and not broken.

He let out a long breath, leaned against the back wall, and looked up at the manhole cover blocking the exit above him. With his muddy hands, he took out his phone and sent a message to Xu Yuanjia: "Sir, the necklace has been found. I'm climbing to the manhole cover at the end of the street and waiting for you."

My phone vibrated on the table.

Xu Yuanjia glanced down at the screen and typed expressionlessly, "No, take it back and have someone redo it, make it even prettier."

send.

He placed his phone face down on the table and looked up at Shi Luyu. She was eating noodles with her head down, her cheeks bulging, her chopsticks holding a piece of char siu, putting it into her mouth, a little soup on the corner of her lips.

The warm yellow light shone on her face, turning her eyelashes gold.

He reached out from under the table and pinched her fingertips.

……

After finishing their late-night snack, the crowd dispersed. Shi Luyu and Xu Yuanjia walked side by side back to their apartment. The night breeze carried the humid, sultry heat typical of a tropical night.

"Brother," Shi Luyu hesitated for a moment, "is your house all tidied up? Once your leg injury is almost healed, you should go back to your own home."

Xu Yuanjia paused for a moment.

Shi Luyu lowered her head, looking at her toes: "We two can't live together every day."

As she said this, she was thinking about many things: First, she couldn't let Jiajia get involved in any more danger. Jiaye had already taken him away last time; what about next time? She didn't dare think about it.

The second worry was more secretive and harder to express. Jia Ye's condition was that she provide her body. She didn't know when that madman would reappear, and she didn't want Jia Jia to see her like that.

How can she continue to stand by his side after being defiled and tainted?

She gripped the hem of her clothes tightly.

Xu Yuanjia stopped, suddenly bent over, clutched his right leg, and frowned. "Sweetie, my leg hurts. The doctor said it will take a long time to recover. Can you really bear to send an injured person out to sleep on the streets?"

Shi Luyu looked at his furrowed brows and swallowed back the words she was about to say.

-

The next day, Shi Luyu thought about it and, taking advantage of the time when they weren't seeing each other at school during the day, she made the difficult decision to send Xu Yuanjia a message: "Brother, you should leave in a couple of days."

In the evening, Shi Luyu returned from school and opened the door to find two boxes of fresh fruit and a bunch of white chamomile in the living room.

Xu Yuanjia poked her head out of the kitchen, holding a spatula and wearing an apron similar to hers. "I'm learning to cook at home today, so I'll cook dinner for you every day from now on. If you kick your brother out, who will cook for you?"

Shi Luyu stared at the half-burnt fried egg in the pan, remained silent for a few seconds, then turned and went to the balcony to collect the laundry.

……

On the third night, after Shi Luyu finished taking a bath, she brought up the matter again: "Brother, I... I can only let you stay for three more days at most."

Xu Yuanjia didn't reply. She looked over curiously and found Xu Yuanjia sitting on the sofa with a stack of documents spread out in front of him, his expression serious.

She went over and took a look; it was all legal documents in Thai, with densely packed clauses that she couldn't quite understand.

"Brother, what are you looking at?"

"The apartment transfer agreement." Xu Yuanjia turned a page. "I've already bought this building. If you kick me out, all the residents in the building will have to move."

Shi Luyu opened her mouth, closed it, then opened it again: "...Why would you buy the whole building?"

"It's convenient." Xu Yuanjia didn't even look up. "As long as you're comfortable here."

Seeing his calm and composed expression, Shi Luyu decided to go back to her room to sleep first.

……

late at night.

Shi Luyu lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. Her phone screen lit up; a message had come from an unknown number.

"Tonight at midnight. Old Chao Phraya Wharf, Warehouse No. 7. I will fulfill my promise."

"I want your body, and I will have it. If you try to run away, you know what I can do."

Her hand holding the phone began to tremble. The words on the screen glowed coldly in the darkness, each word like a snake, burrowing into her body from her eyes, coiling around her insides, and slowly tightening.

She glanced at the other side of the bed, where Xu Yuanjia was lying on his side, breathing evenly, asleep.

Moonlight filtered through the gaps in the curtains, falling gently and quietly on Jiajia's brow bone and bridge of his nose.

She had seen him keep the devil out of the door, but she didn't know that the devil was sleeping right next to her.

Shi Luyu turned off her phone screen and closed her eyes. Darkness enveloped her again, and her eyelashes trembled gently in the moonlight, like a butterfly trapped in a spider web.