Timeless Love (When Bright Moon Encounter the Dark Clouds) Chapter 45: Tan Jiao 07 (4)

Soon, the Zhu family was in an uproar.

“No!”

“Don’t listen to that madman!”

“Dad, we must save Xiaohan!”

“No one will be stabbed!”

“Then what should we do?”

“Who are you? Why are you doing this to our family?”

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With a knife in hand, the man looked at them with a grin that seemed bitter and sad. Then out of nowhere, perhaps because of the noise, the man let out a violent roar, “Shut it!”

A deathly silence fell upon the Zhu family in the pit.

“Y-you won’t pick out t-three, right? F-fine. There is another way. P-pick one of you to...die! Then I will let...e-everyone else go! T-this will be the last chance… y-you have!” The man warned before pointing the knife at the child.

I felt my heart drop to my stomach.

This time, the Zhu family remained silent for a long time before Zhu Zhihan’s mother broke the silence with a sobbing voice. “Zhihan’s father, please think of something! What should we do? Please don’t kill our child, m-my child!”

“Please, we’ll give you all the money we have. Please, could you let the child go?”

Naturally, the man did not care.

“Do all of you not see the knife in his hand? He’ll kill the child first, then move on to us!” The old man Zhu Fengxian reminded the family.

“Must one of us die then?” Zhu Jirui said while sobbing.

“Everyone else will be saved if one person is willing to die! Or else, everyone will have to die!” exclaimed Zhu Fengxian.

The pit fell into a lull once more.

I could not see what was going on, yet I felt every hair on my skin prop up in fear. This was the most terrifying night I had ever experienced despite the lack of bloodshed.

Right then, Zhu Jirui’s fiance, who had remained silent, said, “What… what are you all looking at me for?”

As this happened, the man at the top of the pit stared at the Zhu family intently.

Yan Yuan burst out, “How can you all be so selfish? You all want me to die to save the child? If anyone should die, it should be one of you! He’s not even my child!”

Yan Yuan’s voice broke the silence of the night, even scaring several of the birds. I pictured Zhu Jirui standing in fron

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