Wang Fan was stunned when he entered, holding his phone but finding no one to take a picture of.

He asked, "Where is she?"

Lv Ya said, "The man ran away, I knocked out Tang Yue and put her in the bathroom."

Wang Fan leaned in to check, "Why is her head covered?"

Lv Ya rubbed her arm, "I was too heavy-handed." She pointed to the ashtray, "Her head might be cracked, I dare not look."

Wang Fan chuckled, "Is there anything you're afraid of? She's not dead, right?"

Lv Ya said, "No, I was waiting for you to take action."

Wang Fan tried to lift the head covering, but Lv Ya stopped him, "Don't, don't, it's disgusting. If we don't act decisively, when she wakes up, we'll both end up in jail."

"Are you suggesting we kill her?" Wang Fan hesitated slightly.

Lv Ya said, "Yes, in this remote place where no one will find her."

She said seriously, "In a couple of days, you report her missing, they won't find the body, no one can trace it back to you. Can her foster father even find his way to the city?"

Wang Fan laughed, "You always have a plan."

As Lv Ya nodded towards me with a knife in hand, I reached for the chainsaw, ready at any moment.

Following the instructions, Wang Fan made a single decisive cut, and his mother-in-law fell silent.

Everything unfolded as expected. Having spent time in purgatory, it felt like a lifetime. Coming here with a sense of impending death, I feared nothing now.

Lv Ya held her breath behind him, raising the syringe filled with tranquilizer in her hand, and plunged it down.

Wang Fan quickly blocked it, sending the syringe flying to the side.

He turned swiftly and lunged at Lv Ya with a knife.

Lv Ya's abdomen was cut, she staggered back two steps, almost falling.

Amidst Wang Fan's foul language and the sound of shattered mirrors, Lv Ya was lifted and thrown heavily against the wall by him.

I burst out of the cabinet, started the chainsaw, its loud buzzing filling the air.

I ran towards him with the saw, he stumbled back into the bathroom and slammed the door shut.

I hacked a hole in the door, inside Wang Fan had bloodshot eyes, holding the head covering, his mother-in-law lying on the floor.

He roared angrily, his eyes already killing me a thousand times over.

Today, he and I had to fight to the death.

I quickly broke open the door, the saw teeth flashing like lightning, he cowered in the corner, unable to dodge, and instantly lost three fingers.

Blood splattered over me, his expression akin to a pig awaiting slaughter.

Taking advantage of my distraction, Wang Fan bent down, slipping behind me from an opening.

I felt a chill at my back, followed by a tearing pain.

He tried to escape, I relentlessly pursued, striking left, chopping right, but the chainsaw was too heavy, my strength waning, unable to strike again.

Realizing he couldn't dodge, Wang Fan seized the opportunity, kicking me over, the chainsaw flying out of my hand, sliding to his feet.

Wang Fan smirked, intending to pick up the chainsaw, but his hand, missing three fingers, continued to bleed.

Looking around desperately, I needed to find another weapon.

After several failed attempts to lift the chainsaw, he kicked it aside, brandishing the knife towards me.

One strike, two strikes...

The blade seemed to dance around me.

He mocked me, enjoying my panicked dodges rather than swiftly ending it.

To him, I was at his mercy.

Just as the gleaming blade came at me once more, Wang Fan froze for half a second, then collapsed.

Behind him stood a finally awakened Lv Ya, shards of a vase scattered on the floor.

I rushed for the chainsaw, while Lv Ya went for the knife.

"Ah!"

A cut appeared on Lv Ya's fair face.

Wang Fan was far from unconscious, a sharp glass shard in his hand aimed at Lv Ya's face.

Wang Fan was extremely angry, his features contorted, his previous gentleness a facade, revealing his true nature.

I tried to restrain him by tightening my grip on his neck to prevent him from harming Lv Ya, but he threw me off forcefully.

My body crashed to the floor, darkness enveloping my vision, time seemingly frozen.

Pushing aside the bloodied Lv Ya, Wang Fan turned to me and said, "I will make you suffer more than Li Xiaoying."

The glass flew faster than I anticipated, narrowly missing me as it deeply embedded into my left shoulder.

Then the right shoulder...

The pain blurred my vision, the peacock fish in the fish tank swimming before my eyes.

Suddenly, a bright flash, I reached out to shield my left eye, the glass shard piercing straight through my palm.

At that moment, Lv Ya let out a loud scream, diverting Wang Fan's attention. He pushed her, causing her to lose her balance and fall onto the fish tank.

Water poured out, colorful fish flopping on the ground.

Lv Ya's widened eyes were fixed on me, a piece of glass deeply lodged in her throat.

Lv Ya was dead.