286 Getting Caught

*Flashback Continued*

"Zhiren, you didn't finish the task that I assigned you."

Xiao Zhiren was sitting alone in the middle of nowhere with his phone placed against his ear. He could hear Ling Qiaolian reprimanding him but honestly, his brain wasn't functioning properly to know what to say or what to do. 

Ru's sudden appearance shook his world. It was as if he lost the direction of his life. Or perhaps, he finally understood that he had been walking down the wrong direction all this while. Whichever one it was, he didn't feel okay with it.

"Mom, I don't think killing is the right answer," he finally said.

"What? What did you say?" Ling Qiaolian's voice turned sharp. "Are you forgetting what that family did to us? To you? To your brother? To me?"