"If you eat properly, I'll take you to see Annie."
I jerked my head up, hope igniting in my eyes:
"Do you know where Annie is?"
Asa, nonchalantly helping me change, replied, "Yeah, near death."
Annie was near death.
Those words made me break down in tears, the drops falling onto Asa.
He straightened up as if scalded.
Asa left me sobbing and went outside.
Half an hour later, he returned and lifted me up.
I struggled desperately.
He held me down. "Don't move.
I'll take you to see Annie."
In Asa's car, I learned what had happened.
On that day, Annie managed to escape under my cover.
But it wasn't a successful escape.
Because Walker had Van taken away.
When Asa brought me to the seaside, Van was tied to a crane, hanging high above the sea.
If the crane released him, he would plunge into the raging sea.
Walker used this method to force Annie to show up.
Annie arrived.
At that moment, she stood on a high cliff, just one step away from falling into the sea.
Compared to Walker's madness, Annie appeared calm.
She said, "Throw him down. Once he falls, I'll jump after him."
Walker stood several dozen meters away from Annie.
He tried to approach Annie, but for every step he took, she retreated.
With the sea behind her, Walker dared not move.
He stood still, silent for a long time.
"Are you serious?
Do you love him that much?"
Walker was referring to Van.
Annie said nothing.
Walker was silent for a long time, as if he had much to say, but in the end, he only uttered one sentence:
"Maya is dead."
Annie's gaze was calm.
Actually, she and I had already known this.
After we left F City, Maya disappeared too.
It was Asa who had locked Maya up.
The Stout family used some common interrogation methods within the gang, and Maya couldn't handle them.
In less than half an hour, she confessed through tears that the kidnapping had been orchestrated by herself.
"He's the second lead, he should always faithfully protect me! Even if he marries another woman, his heart can only belong to me!"
Perhaps losing her mind in the end, Maya shouted.
Asa didn't fully understand and didn't bother listening.
He had the surrounding evidence collected, packaged together with Maya's confession, and made two copies.
One copy was sent to Walker, the other to the Petty family.
This act directly severed the relationship between the Lin and Petty families.
The Petty family, knowing that Walker had killed Annie for such a disreputable woman, immediately ended all cooperation with the Lin family.
However, Walker didn't even have time to think about that.
He hated himself more than the Petty family did.
Of all human emotions, regret is the most terrifying.
Regret can transform into any emotion, such as rage or hatred.
Asa, at this critical moment, handed Maya over to Walker.
I said, "Yes." He said, "I don't want to dirty my hands killing her. She's yours now."
Maya endured three months of torture at the hands of Walker before finally escaping.
She fled, hoping to find her leading man.
The Stout and Lin families, who had never been on good terms, unexpectedly aligned themselves.
The second lead and the antagonist formed an alliance in an instant, while the leading man and the leading lady were jointly eliminated by them.
